Brian Griffin

**Brian Griffin** is an 8-year old talking white Labrador who has lived with the Griffin family since Peter picked him up as a stray.

## Backstory

Years before Judgment Day, Brian once served in the Air Force, during his time in training he earned the platoon and Drill Sergeant's respect, due to his late father serving the Air Force and was a drill sergeant too. Sometime later, he and Vinny became drill sergeant's like they're father before them. But he retired when his mother Biscuit had passed and was eventually discharged from the army. And his first job outside the Air Force was a train conductor for Amtrak until he decided to retire. Later, Brian became a pod racer and was really good at it too thanks to his training in his old career, but one day, his pod crashed but luckily survived the crash, and he quit.

But soon, he grew interest into gadgeteer and inventing. And he started to make his own inventions. And by this time, Judgment Day had begun. But strangely he never knew about it, since Quahog, Rhode Island was not targeted by it. But despite his discharge and retirement, he flies a crop duster plane for his families crops and has a Bachmann layout and plays with it sometimes whenever he's not inventing.

## Bio

One fateful day, Brian came across an old tank engine rusting inside an old movie theater. Thinking he could buy it and strip it for parts to save some good money, he jumped at the opportunity to purchase it....with his friends Stewie and Peter, and his brother Vinny's money. Upon closer inspection of the engine, it was discovered to be full of artillery shells. Brian had the engine, along with other broken theater equipment, brought back to his farm and puts it in his garage. Sylveon, Brian's wife, observed this while watching a crime show with Peter's wife Lois and criticized him for buying the heap of junk. While attempting to salvage the engine's good parts to sell, Brian realized it's actually a badly-damaged Trainsformer. After calling the rest of the family and Peter's three friends: Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe, he connected jumper cables to its engine, only for it to begin replaying a distress message to the Trainbots. The rest of the family, the guys, and Mort advocated calling the government, claiming that there was a huge reward for turning in Trainsformers. Brian convinced them not to call the authorities until he could spend more time working on the train, as he could stumble on a technological breakthrough if he could figure out how the Trainsformers work. When Brian removed a live missile from the engine's firebox, it transformed into Thomas. The badly damaged Trainbot roared in a fit of rage while waving a shotgun but Brian managed to calm the disoriented Trainsformer. Brian questioned why Thomas was so badly damaged, to which he replied that he was ambushed and that the Trainbots are being hunted and he must help them. Brian began to repair him and sent Vinny to buy the parts that would help him fix Thomas. Thomas wonders why Brian would help him, to which Brian responded because he trusts him too. The two began to bond as they discussed the similarities between a Trainsformer's Spark and a human's soul. Soon afterward Rooster Chicken Force, the group hunting the Trainbots, came to the farm looking for Thomas. Brian almost convinced them to leave until he referred to the engine as "He" rather than "it". Sideshow Bob, R2-Q5, Bobby Briggs, and Daphne Blake the violent leaders of the group, had the agents turn their guns on the Griffin family, Eeveelution family, and the guys and threatened to shoot Sylveon. Brian watch in horror as Sideshow Bob, R2-Q5, Bobby Briggs, and Daphne Blake threatened her until they were saved by Thomas, who burst from the barn and attacked the soldiers. The Griffin and Eeveelution families and the guys made their escape with the aid of John Connor, Sarah Connor, and a re-programmed T-800 named "Sean". During their escape, their house was destroyed by Shutdown, a bounty hunter Trainsformer who was after Thomas. The Griffin and Eeveelution families, the guys, the Connors, and Sean managed to escape in Thomas while Vinny was killed by turning into metal from one of Shutdown's grenades.

The newly formed team took shelter in an abandoned gas station, shaken by the recent events. While Thomas scouted, the Connors and Sean discussed the new heroes why they came, as they followed RCF and hacked into Lois' phone call, which Brian was outraged at Lois' antics, and because of her actions, Vinny is dead. After they spent the rest of the day and night there, Thomas returned to collect the group, and began to assemble the rest of the remaining Trainbots and most of of heroes. Before that could be done, Brian made a pit stop to see if he could access his credit card account using a modified RCF drone he had captured, only to find his account had been locked. As the scattered Trainbots forces reassembled, the Griffin's, the Eeveelutions, and the guys initially found themselves having guns drawn on them by Bull and Ghost Ring, before Thomas ordered them to stand down. Later that night, Brian took note of how disorganized and chaotic the Trainbots were without their leader. Afterwards, Brian was able to access the RCF drone's memory, revealing an attack on Socket, Greesegun, and five other Trainbot's deaths. Intending to gain more information on the fate of the Trainbots, the group traveled to Manehatten where Brian, Judy, and James infiltrated TBC. As soon as they made it safely inside the building, Brian found his way to where they were melting down severed Socket's head, and used the drone to transmit footage back to the Trainbots. Brian was discovered, captured and taken into custody by Ernie and Stan Smith, who began to question him. The three icily faced off as Brian realized that it was Stan who ordered the attack on his home and threatened his wife. The building soon came under attack by the enraged Trainbots, looking to avenge their friends, and Rosie rescued Brian.

Once out of TBC, the Trainbots were pursued by the TBC-built Trainsformers Galvatrain and ????, along with Shutdown. When Sylveon was scooped up by Shutdown's ship along with Thomas, Brian was unable to rescue her. He joined the Trainbots in stowing away on Shutdown's ship to search for Thomas and Sylveon and ended up roaming the ship with Belle. The group came across a large armory, from which Brian took an extremely powerful gun, which allowed him to take out a number of Shutdown's minions. After some searching, they finally found Sylveon. Unfortunately, the only way off the ship for them was the tow cables launched by the Trainbots, which were connected to nearby skyscrapers. The group then began to make their way down the cables to the tops of the buildings, until Shutdowns Steelraptor beasts began to pursue them, destroyed all but one cable. Dynamo came to the rescue, killing much of the enemy forces and saving the group when the cables released. They were soon picked up by Ghost Ring who had commandeered an Orbital Assault Carrier, and they soon took flight with the enemy close behind them. After a lengthy aerial battle with Brian and Peter operating the rear-mounted guns, Dynamo lost control of the ship and crashed. The group miraculously survived, though Brian had to deal with the issue of automotive insurance.

After meeting up with the Trainbots and the group and learning about the Pod and Galvatrain's true nature, Brian contacted Rick Sanchez to plead with the man to keep an eye on his creation. Before he and the Trainbots departed to Tokyo to prevent the detonation of the Pod, Sparkshot declared that the Trainbots would leave Earth forever. During the flight, the two debated the matter, with Brian attempting to reignite the Medical Officer's faith in humanity, with mixed success. Arriving in Tokyo, Cade joined Rick who was trying to keep the Pod from Galvatrain, leading to a chase through the city. Sideshow Bob found the the Griffin's, Eeveelutions, the guys, Rick, and our heroes on the rooftop and opened fire on them, but Brian led him away from the others. The two jumped across rooftops, eventually crashing into a house and getting into a fist fight which ended with Brian pushing Sideshow Bob through a window to his death. Brian reunited with the other Trainbots and joined the battle, despite overwhelming odds, but thankfully, Thomas arrived with the invaluable aid of the Kaiju Bots and turned the tide. As Thomas went to face Shutdown, Brian followed him to help, but ended up held at gunpoint by Ernie, who berated Brian for choosing to side with the Trainbots. Thomas killed Ernie before Ernie could shoot Brian, though it resulted in Shutdown impaling Thomas. Brian, Percy, Rosie, and Stepney kept Shutdown distracted while Sylveon and the rest of others freed Thomas, allowing him to finally kill Shutdown. Once the remainder of Galvatran's forces were dealt with, the everyone regrouped on a waterfront. Brian and Sylveon happily reconciled, and he finally forgave Lois. Twilight also promised to help them with rebuilding their home with some friends she knows. Thomas then chose to leave Earth with the Pod, instructing the Trainbots to defend Quahog, Rhode Island. Brian asked if they will ever meet again, to which Thomas was unsure, but informed them to consider one of the stars above to be his soul. Brian, saddened by Thomas' choice to leave, watched with the others as the Prime blasts off into space to confront the mysterious Empress Train Prime.

Then in "Crimes in Springfield", after The Battle of Tokyo Brian's reputation soon spread all over Quahog. And he was widely recognized and popular among the Resistance and Rebel Alliance for saving Thomas and the Trainbots. And Emperor Rukai rewarded him, his family, and neighbors for saving the Trainbots, the Resistance, the Rebellion, and putting an end to Rooster Chicken Force.

### Personality

Brian is

Upon finding Thomas, Brian slowly developed his character which would lead him to

## Main Weaponry

* Ithaca 37 Shotgun
* Sword Gun
* Blue Lightsaber

## Skills and Abilities

**Lightsaber Combat:** Brian is very skilled in Lightsaber combat, using **Form I: Shii Cho**. In fact, most of the council regard Brian as *the* Master of Shii Cho.

**Force Skills:**

**Marksmanship:** Due to Brian once being a former member of the Air Force, he knows good marksmanship. And he keeps a Ithaca 37 Shotgun in his barn to defend his property from home buyers.

## Trivia

* Brian Griffin makes his first appearance in *Trainbots: Gauge of Extinction*.