His attention span is also incredibly short.
His mental shortcomings have resulted in various accidents to other people most notably the death of his step-father Francis Griffin, and injuries on multiple occasions to his wife Lois Griffin.
test confirms that his low intellect places him in a category below mentally retarded. Additionally, Peter is an avid Star Trek fan and at the annual Quahog Star Trek Convention, mistook a person with the mumps as being in costume as an alien.Īn I.Q. Peter also mentioned that he enjoys the following breakfast cereals: Total, Trix, and Boo Berry. Peter also mentions that he wears the male deodorant Speed Stick to his wife Lois, saying "Smell my Speed Stick?" while he is standing behind her in the office. Peter is also an ardent fan of Barry Manilow, though this is a fact he has been known to deny in public (to a certain extent, anyway). He is also a huge KISS fan and followed them during the KissStock shows and even got a copy of Kiss Saves Santa for Christmas. A running gag on the show is Peter's preference for Pauly Shore movies over classic films such as The Godfather and Citizen Kane. He enjoys activities such as going to up-market tailors and farting inside the suits. Similarly to Archie Bunker from All in the Family, Peter appears to be unintelligent and is consistently depicted as crude and lowbrow (though sometimes to a greater extent) and is uninterested in things that are high class (with exceptions). He is 6 feet tall when compared to his wife Lois who is 5'8" according to her ID in Stewie's nightmare in the episode A Lot Going On Upstairs. He wears a white dress shirt with green pants, a black belt with a yellow buckle, white socks, brown shoes and glasses, which Peter claims to have come from a doctor Halloween costume in the episode Roasted Guy. Peter is an obese man with peach skin, short red-brown hair, green eyes (blue in at least one episode) and a large cleft chin. He even gained a vast increase in muscle mass & a vast loss in fat mass, He was also capable of flight at high speeds. He gained high levels of superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, stamina, healing, endurance, durability & senses. Yet despite his experience in Fighting, Peter can get defeated by People who know basic or trained fighters such as Joe Swanson, Liam Neeson or Military Soldiers.ĭuring the episode " The Simpsons Guy", he gained radioactive powers during his fight with Homer Simpson after falling into the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He has shown to be an incredible fighter, as he had fought Ernie The Giant Chicken in a sequence of action styled fights, showing that Peter always seemed to kill Ernie and win but reveals that he is still alive. (He even did this by creating his own gravitational field) He also defies the laws of physics so as to perform certain degree of abilities which would appear to be low-level reality manipulation. (Also his severed hand can form into an evil clone known as Retep) He has also shown to have the ability of regeneration, such as instantaneously growing back his hand at a fast pace. He has shown a degree of physical strength (at least above peak human) & a very high amount of adrenaline, especially if he is focused in a fight. He is voiced by the creator Seth MacFarlane, who also voices Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker on Family Guy, Stan Smith on American Dad!, and Tim the Bear from The Cleveland Show.
However, as the series went on including bad flanderization, he became darker, which can qualify him as more of a villainous protagonist than an actual hero.
In The Real Live Griffins he was portrayed by Tom Arnold. Out of pity he also adopted an intellectual talking dog named Brian Griffin who formerly lived on the street as a stray, an accepted fact in Brian's two adoption stories. In addition, he and Lois had a child named Peter Griffin Jr. After a mix up at a sperm bank, Peter also became the biological father of Bertram. They have three children, Chris, Meg, and baby Stewie. However, he was born in Mexico, where his mother had tried unsuccessfully to abort him. He is an obnoxious, boisterous man of Irish descent currently residing in Quahog, Rhode Island with his wife Lois Griffin. "Justin" Peter Löwenbräu Griffin Sr., best known as just Peter Griffin is the titular main protagonist of the show Family Guy. ~ Peter's speech about Brian's death at the funeral. And, I'm gonna spend the rest of my life missing him. I guess what I'm trying to say is, he was like a brother to me. Um, the truth is, Brian wasn't just my dog, he was my best friend in the whole world. this is probably the worst pain I've never had to go through. ~ Peter Griffin to Lois in Baby Not On Board. My friends like me, 'cause I'm the real article. Oh, I can be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings.
You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better.