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Meg Thompson-Griffin

Megan Thompson-Griffin
Name Megatron Semanstein Griffin (originally)
Megan Thompson-Griffin (as of Season 22)
Meg Griffin
Ron Griffin (Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure),
Age 16 (debut)
17 (as of Peter's Two Dads)
18 (as of Quagmire and Meg)
19 (as of Better Off Meg)
Job(s) Student at James Woods Regional High School
Relatives Stan Thompson (biological father)
Lois Griffin (biological mother)
Peter Griffin (adoptive stepfather)
Chris Griffin (younger half-brother)
Stewie Griffin (youngest half-brother)
Brian Griffin (pet dog)
Babs Pewterschmidt (maternal grandmother)
Carter Pewterschmidt (maternal grandfather)
Carol West (maternal aunt)
Patrick Pewterschmidt (maternal uncle)
Thelma Griffin (paternal adoptive grandmother; deceased)
Francis Griffin (paternal double-adoptive grandfather; deceased)
Mickey McFinnigan (biological adoptive grandfather)
Mayor Adam West (uncle; deceased)
Voice Rachael MacFarlane (Death Has a Shadow, archival recordings in “Back to the Pilot”, and singing voice)
Lacey Chabert (I Never Met Mr. Deaddy-"Employee for Fire" (partly), "Yug Ylimaf" and "Griffin Winter Games")
Mila Kunis (Employee for Fire (partly)-Present)
Tara Strong (Singing voice in "Don't Make Me Over")
Lisa Wilhoit (when played by Other Meg on The Real Live Griffins in "15 Minutes of Shame")
Ali Hillis singing "If I Could Turn Back Time" in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
John Viener (as male named Ron Griffin post-sex change surgery in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story segment "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure")

"If I had one wish in the world, it would be to go back and stop you from being born"


— Peter Griffin to Meg, "Cash Meg Ousside"

Megan "Meg" Thompson-Griffin (formerly Megatron Semanstein Griffin) (born March 23rd, 1983) is biological daughter of Stan Thompson, the oldest child of Lois and Peter Griffin, the latter is her adoptive father, and the half-sister of Chris and Stewie Griffin. She is currently attending James Woods Regional High School.

Biography

Conception and Birth

Megan Semanstein Griffin was accidentally born in Quahog, Rhode Island as the unwanted, first-born child of Lois Griffin, the involuntary mother, and Peter Griffin, the non-biological father. Lois and Peter both agreed to never have children, but their plans were ruined when Meg was born. It's generally believed that Lois and Peter were having sex, but their condom broke, resulting in Meg. But that was a lie they made up, or at else partly true. In actuality, as revealed in "The Truth About Meg", she was on a girls night out with her friends at a nightclub, and had gotten a bit tipsy. She met a guy named Stan Thompson, who she had sex with, and although he used a condom, it broke and Lois got pregnant with a fetus that would one day be known as Meg.

After the pregnancy scare, Peter and Lois thought that this baby came from him, not knowing about Stan. The two of them went through a huge argument over getting rid of the baby. Peter wanted Lois to get an abortion, but Lois was against this. Being put under the pressure, Lois made an attempt at committing suicide, but luckily failed. After 7 months of pregnancy, Stan Thompson had to make a call to Lois, saying that he got her pregnant. When Lois knew that the baby wasn't the child of both her and Peter, she had another freak out and was actually for getting an abortion this time.

Unfortunately, the baby was already in there for 7 months, so it was far too late. After giving birth to Meg, Peter and Lois were disappointed with the results for many reasons. Peter wanted the baby to be a boy, so this was a let-down. (I Never Met Mr. Deaddy) Also, due to a weird bodily dysfunction, Meg's heart was on her head. The doctor advised them to have her wear a hat all the time, in order to cover that thing up, which is where her pink, squishy hat comes from. (Friends Without Benefits) When asked to name her, Peter said that she looked like a maggot, so they should name her something along the lines of "Maggie". Lois, however, wanted to go with something more along the lines of "Margot", because they sound prettier and maybe her pretty name would balance out her ugliness. Peter, however, thought it would be funnier to give her a disgustingly punny name. Peter and Lois did some name searching and eventually settled on the name "Megan". Lois liked it because it sounded pretty and Peter liked it because the meaning of the name, as given in the book, was "Pearl", and this made him think of a disgusting form of genital mutilation, known as "pearling". They also made her middle name "Semanstein" which is phonetically pronounces "Semen stain", which, as they both decided, was exactly what Meg should have been (this means that Lois wished the sperm that became Meg would have never fertilized her egg and just been a semen stain on the inside of a condom).

They also decided that even though Stan Thompson was her real father, that they'd give her "Griffin" as her last name. They wrote that on her birth certificate, but as Peter went to give it to the doctor, he got the mischievous idea to change "Megan" to "Megatron", naming her after Megatron from Transformers. (A Fistful of Meg) Lois accidentally mistook the bucket of her own afterbirth for Meg and drove halfway home with it, before they realized their mistake and came back for Meg, who was about to be thrown in the garbage disposal, by a doctor who mistook her for medical waste. (Blue Harvest) Peter and Lois did not like how Meg put a burden on their lives, forcing them into the joyless epitome that is parenthood, and did not show any respect toward her.

Infancy & Childhood

One of the less abusive moments during Meg's childhood, happened around her third birthday as seen from a flashback in "Chitty Chitty Death Bang". Lois missed a lot of firsts for Meg, including her first steps, her first word, which was "Dada", and her first drum solo, while Peter witnessed all of it.

In a flashback seen in "And Then There Were Fewer", when Meg was a child, The Griffins were going on vacation and Meg wanted to take her stuffed bunny rabbit toy with her. Her parents told her that she couldn't take any toys along because they didn't have room. When Meg started to cry, Peter told her that they could make some arrangements. The next thing you know, Peter and Lois were taking the toy on vacation with them and leaving Meg at home.

Around her elementary years, Meg met Neil Goldman, as revealed in "Power Over Peter", and wanted nothing to do with him, seeing him as the ugly boy in school (quite ironic, huh). Neil, however, fell in love at first sight, and kept asking her out, only to be met with multiple rejections. Which didn't stop Neil from trying again, and again, and again...

Current Life

When Family Guy debuted in 1999, she was sixteen years old, as she got her driver's license in "I Never Met Mr. Deaddy" and was confirmed by Lois in "Love Your Trophy", with Meg remaining that age throughout the show's first six seasons. She officially turned seventeen in Season 6's "Peter's Two Dads", eighteen in Season 9's "Quagmire and Meg" and nineteen Season 18's "Better Off Meg".

Meg currently attends James Woods Regional High School. She is constantly seen trying desperately to be part of the "cool crowd," but is always being shut out of the crowd, mainly by Connie D'amico, who's the most popular girl in the school and she is always bullying Meg in order to increase her own, already superior, popularity. Meg has constantly been mentioned to be the most unpopular student in the entire school, being hated by everyone for being ugly, gross, boring, unattractive, etc. She's so unpopular that on the James Woods popularity chart one of her friends made in "My Little Brother", she ranked at the lowest, with her own brother Chris being barely higher than her. She does however, manage to have a friendship with a few other girls at her school, who are almost equally as ugly and unattractive as her. These friends would be Patty Patterson, Ruth Rutherford, Esther Esthederm, and to a lesser extent, Beth Bethany. All of them are ugly girl with curly hair, glasses, pimples, and abusive families, just like her. Though she was able to manage friendships with girls that are not so ugly and unattractive like Jennifer Vicarious and Roberta Tubbs.

In court in "Screwed the Pooch", Brian said that her real father Stan Thompson. Who was mentioned throughout the series and later appeared when Meg found him in "How I Met Your Real Father", multiple times in the series afterwards. Around the end of "Battle of the Dads", Stan gave Meg a legal name change. He dropped the "Semanstein" middle name out of disgust for it, had her full name reverted from "Megatron" to "Megan", and added his legal last name "Thompson" next to "Griffin". This new name is something she now currently goes under to this day.

Abuse in Family

Meg was originally depicted as an average socially struggling yet somewhat well-liked teenage girl who was frequently embarrassed by her family's stupidity and immature tendencies and, at least twice, took the blame for the terrible things done by the other members of her family. However, around the third and fourth seasons, Meg became meeker and less popular among others to the point of being constantly disrespected and hardly being taken into consideration even by her family.

This aspect worsens in later episodes, particularly around the fifth season, where the family, especially Peter, regard with much less care or even love as part of the family, often even harming her physically and emotionally. For example, shoving her face into his butt and then farting in it in "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou". This gag is revisited in "Bango Was His Name, Oh!" when Peter is teaching Meg how to endure a boyfriend's farts and traps her in the car with his fart.

In a cutaway that showed Meg's 16th birthday cutaway showed her with her friends, Patty, Ruth, Esther, and Beth, standing around Lois, while she played her Sixteen Going on Seventeen. Lois, being as neglectful and uncaring of Meg as she is, actually didn't know Meg's age as of this birthday, so she awkwardly played the song and mumbles the numbers whenever they came up in song. By doing so, her singing sounded like this. "You are huh-huh going on heh-heh. Fellows will fall in line." Luckily for Lois, Meg was actually 16, going on 17 for the next birthday, so the song sounded completely normal to her and she didn't even notice. As of her 17th birthday, however, Meg did find out that Peter and Lois didn't know her actual age. The two of them went up into her room and tried to make a conversation that would get her to tell them her age, but by doing so, they got her to figure out.

Meg is also frequently the butt of jokes and various bits of bad luck in episodes, seemingly more so than the rest of the family. The Griffins are shown avoiding her company in "Jungle Love", disparaging her in person and gathering in her bedroom to read her diary for laughs in "Stuck Together, Torn Apart".

There apparently also exists a double standard against Meg which further underscores the mistreatment she suffers at the hands of the people around her. In "Model Misbehavior", when Lois starts a modeling career, Meg claims that she will pleasure herself to Lois' pictures; even though Chris said the exact same thing, Peter only snaps at Meg and forces her out of the house. In "Airpor '07", Peter then hypocritically threatens to have sex with her that she won't remember until she's forty.

In "Big Man on Hippocampus", Peter loses his memory and has reacquainted himself with the pleasures of sex, Lois tells him that it is inappropriate to have sex with his own children; in response, Meg attempts an incest joke for which she is lambasted by her family then kicked and pushed out of the room by Chris. Later that year in "Partial Terms of Endearment", Lois tells a joke that implies that it was Meg that gave birth to Stewie, and apart from a shocked reaction from the latter, Lois receives no such violent reaction.

Initially, the neighbors have also been shown to openly dislike Meg. Joe encourages Lois to keep him from falling down a giant sewer pipe by telling her "pretend I'm your child"; when Lois' grip slips a little, Joe yells "Not Meg! Not Meg!" This may have more to do with Joe's perception that Lois doesn't like Meg than with Joe's feelings about her, since as seen in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", Joe said that he liked Meg. In fact, the neighbors' mistreatment of Meg is to a much lesser extent than most people and some of them, particularly Quagmire, have even offered to help her.

In "Dial Meg for Murder" after returning from prison Meg finally took out her pent up anger for all of the abuse she's took over the years out the family, namely Peter by severely beating him up and proverbially taking his place as head of the household and abusing him in the shower, she also used bits of Lois's shirts as toilet paper for her 'poop bucket', everyone soon became terrified of her, and when she heard Brian calling her a freak, they all passed the blame to Stewie who she made himself and Peter punch him.

In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg stands up to the abuse she receives from her family, and harshly criticizes Chris for being a bad brother, and Lois and Peter for being bad parents. This leads to them turning their abusive criticisms on each other. Meg comes to the conclusion that she serves as a "lightning rod" that absorbs the family's dysfunction, and apologizes for her comments (but more likely says this to prevent further fighting). The situation then returns back to normal. This leads to Brain showing respect to Meg and he tells her that she's more mature than anyone in this family.

Future

After being mistaken for a male, time and time again, Meg finally caved in and got a sex-change surgery, officially becoming a man, named Ronald, or "Ron" for short. In "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure", her adult life as Ron was seen, and she would constantly bug her family about being a male. In the same episode, it was shown her reason for choosing that specific name is because she met a boy at the pool, during her teenage years, who had that name and she took a liking to it.

Meg would live alone in a crummy old house, with no spouse and no children. She'd spend years trying to land a boyfriend, but would have no luck, whatsoever. As predicted by her father in "Long John Peter", she would become an avid writer of Ugly Betty fanfictions, and would make numerous stories every day. No one would read them and if they did, they'd hate them, as they'd be chock-full of all fanfiction writing sings, such as Mary Sues, self-inserts, blatant SJW propaganda, bulleted personality lists, usage of character bases, generic plots/characters, unoriginality, Brian's writing advice, etc.

In "Meg Stinks!", Meg would die from choking on a hot dog. She determined this via internal narration and her death would result in an anti-hot dog eating contest movement, to prevent others from suffering the same fate. The movement left a huge impact on society, and hot dog competitions would quickly go obsolete. Meg's life was surely not forgotten as this was her first ever achievement as a person. To this day, the famous motto "Remember How Gross it was when Meg did it?" still lives on as a common phrase, used by people to warn others of the dangers of eating too much hot dogs too quickly.

Appearance

Fancy New Meg

Meg typically wears glasses and a pink beanie even underneath other headgear. She also commonly wears a pink and white T-shirt, blue jeans, and tan (later white) shoes. She occasionally is seen wearing dresses or formal wear usually without her trademark cap. Despite being the oldest of the Griffin children and a high school upperclassman, she is shorter than her younger brother Chris, as well most other people around her age. Numerous characters on the show frequently regard her as flat-out grotesque though in reality, she is really just rather plain in appearance. She wears her cap under her yellow top hat in the show's opening dance number. She has been seen without her hat on in a handful of episodes for extremely small periods of time. However, in "Untitled Griffin Family History", she is seen without her hat on, as she is in pajamas for most of it. She appears to have inherited the shape of her nose and head from her mother, and her brown hair and myopia from her father.

In "A Picture's Worth a $1000", an employee at a carnival guesses her weight as being "a lot". There are several comments aimed at her weight in various episodes, though her girth may be due to her height, as she is the same weight as her mother, making her approximate weight 140 pounds. In "Don't Make Me Over", Stewie has a disturbing thought picturing Meg in low-rider jeans, which shows Meg striking a pose which her belly is exposed up to an inch or two above the belly button, which the fat in her stomach hangs over her waist, resembling a muffin top. Stewie proceeds to beat the thought bubble with a club. In "Barely Legal", she says she has to buy a new dress to go to the prom with Brian because all her dresses makes her look fat, implying that she is actually fat, not just because of the dresses.

Her plain look is often a topic of humor for the show; characters on the show act as though she were horrifically ugly. In "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington", a very ugly girl is hired to stand next to Meg so she will look better by comparison. In "Don't Make Me Over", two people drench themselves in gasoline, set themselves on fire, and throw themselves out a window screaming in horror after simply looking at Meg. In another episode, “8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter”, a young man fired a nail gun into his own stomach in order to avoid a date with her. Also, in the episode "Barely Legal", Meg's "backup" date, Jimmy, says he has to attend his little brother's funeral after briefly closing his front door and promptly shooting his little brother. Her "ugliness" may also be a source of her unpopularity. Meg is often mistaken for a boy such as when she asked Craig Hoffman to go out on a date with her in "Don't Make Me Over". She is mistaken for the star of Malcolm in the Middle in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do". There was also when Meg was held hostage by three burglars who mistook her for a boy in "Untitled Griffin Family History". Later in that episode she asked one of the robbers if they were going to "have their way" with her. They refused, disgusted by her appearance and she got angry, shouting at them to have sex with her and insisting she was 'pretty'. They then filed a sexual harassment suit against her, which went ignored by Peter, who thought she was going to a dance, leading to her arrest. Peter also passed her off as a boy named "Greg" in "Big Man on Hippocampus" to qualify for Family Feud. In "Quagmire's Dad", Ida Davis believed that Meg also got a sex change operation to become a girl like he did. In "Prick Up Your Ears", Meg took an abstinence vow with her new boyfriend up until the end of the episode, where after seeing her nude, he dumped her. Another brief boyfriend of hers, nudist Jeff Campbell had no objections to her looks at all. Also, her appearance is displayed as ugly in alternate dimensions, where even her sexy version was still considered ugly by the dimensions standards in "Road to the Multiverse". Meg once received a makeover, drastically increasing her sexual appeal in the eyes of characters in the show after several people in the episode covered themselves in petrol and burned themselves. It was during this brief period when Meg, a popular singer at the time, lost her virginity to Saturday Night Live comedian Jimmy Fallon as part of an elaborate cold open sketch. In "No Chris Left Behind", she participates with Lois in prostitution in order to pay for Chris's school, Lois gets picked up and Meg is left behind.

Personality

Meg is an unpopular, homely teenage girl who is all alone in the world and never does anything interesting. She has a very low opinion on herself because everyone else has treated her like a nobody, which causes her to feel the same way. She is always being abused and neglected by her family, classmates, neighbors, teachers, and even people who don't even know her. She is a very nice girl and she never does anything wrong, so she has absolutely no reason to be treated this way. She just somehow just manages to serve as a target for all of this abuse. People around her just get the urge to disrespect her for no reason. Being mistreated like this for such a long time had led Meg to dislike herself to an extremely large extent. Meg has no respect for herself or her body and does a lot of gross and humiliating things to herself, that a normal person would never do. She cuts herself, she eats like a dog, she dates inhuman creatures and objects, she keeps her babies in her locker, she gags herself and barfs, openly admits to having weird sexual fantasies, and basically has lost all respect for herself as a human being. Meg initially felt hurt by the things people do to her, but at this point, she rarely even cares anymore and just sees this as the norm.

Social Life

Meg is very unpopular in high school due to her plain appearance and personality. Meg often tries to be part of the cool crowd, but is usually coldly rebuffed. Because of her eagerness for acceptance, she has been recruited unknowingly into a suicidal religious cult, and later recruited again unwittingly into her school's Lesbian Alliance. However, Meg does have a moderate number of friends, the best of which being with a group of girls who are often seen with her during occasions such as her slumber parties and gossiping about boys. In later episodes, these girls, known by the names of Beth (a short-haired, blonde girl), Patty (a nerdy, red-headed girl who is surprisingly more physically attractive than she seems), Esther (a nerdy African-American girl), and Ruth (a puffy-haired brunette girl), are characterized as being unpopular and dateless like Meg.

Meg is a desperate teenager who is hardly noticed by her family. Everyone else in her family, especially Peter, doesn't care about her or even love her as a part of the family, often harming her or shoving her face in his butt when he farts. Meg is also frequently the butt of jokes and various bits of bad luck in episodes, seemingly more so than the rest of the family. Out of all the relationships with the rest of the family, Lois, Brian and Chris seem to treat her the most "normally" (at least normally in this show). However, even the three of them are quite often prone to bullying and scorning Meg, especially Chris taking after the example of his father. Meg is also frequently subjected to the cruelty and dismission of her mother Lois' arrogance and increasingly shallow parenting and domineering authority. In "Wasted Talent", Lois forced Meg to practice the piano through use an ankle bracelet attached to an iron ball and forcibly restrained her when she tried to ask Peter for help. In "Model Misbehavior", when Meg compares Lois's childhood bedroom to her own, Lois notes that they were the same except that hers contained many trophies and pictures of friends; Lois nearly dropped Joe to his death during a chase through the sewers in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do" when he asked her to pretend that he is her child, and then quickly directs her away from thinking of Meg after Lois loosens her grip; and after Meg told her mom she loved her during "Peter's Daughter", Lois pointedly did not say anything in response. This also shown when Meg was having a difficult time in "Stew-Roids", it is shown that Meg gets food waste for school lunch i.e peels, crusts and a taunting picture of Lois eating a turkey leg. in the same episode, Lois simply gave up on her, gave her a pill bottle, a Sylvia Plath book and told her "Whatever happens, happens".

Peter is usually the one who bears a great animosity towards her: berating her, hitting her while once on steroids in "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz", even shooting her in "Peter's Daughter". Peter reminds Lois in "Petergeist" that if they could only save two they would leave Meg. When the family tries an anger management technique of writing letters and not sending them, Meg finds Peter's letter to her in "Lethal Weapons" which says "Dear Meg, for the first four years of your life, I thought that you were a housecat." And in Peter's short story of her birth in "Blue Harvest", they had to go back to get her once they realized they grabbed the afterbirth, implying that they could not tell the difference. In "Road to Rupert", Peter is disgusted that Meg has to become his personal driver and he and his friends play several pranks on her like setting her hat on fire while she is driving. In "Stewie kills Lois" Peter tells guests on a cruise ship about how he and Lois had gone to get an abortion but decided against it when they arrived at the clinic. He then says "3 months later, our daughter Meg was born" indicating that they had not planned her birth. In "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Peter sold her just to pay off his tab at a pharmacy. But despite this, he also once was going to say 'I love you' in "Hell Comes to Quahog" and in "Road to Rupert" he stated they were 'secret best friends' before throwing lemonade in her face, saying he would have to continue to treat her badly in public in order to maintain his reputation. Peter also once tried to seduce Luke Perry in order to protect Meg from a libel suit, going so far as to state he "would take a bullet for Meg" in "The Story On Page One".

On Meg's 17th birthday in "Peter's Two Dads", her mother and father both try to hide from Meg that they don't remember her age. Peter openly states that Meg sucks in the episode "PTV", and Chris says the same thing about her in "Long John Peter".

Even though he gets into arguments with her from time to time, Chris usually goes to Meg for advice. Chris, however, seems to have more of a typical brother-sister relationship with Meg.

Stewie enjoys taunting Meg about several topics of her supposed "ugliness", her virginity, and inability to keep a boyfriend, but she rarely seems to notice his comments, which may be part of the show's canon, where all the main cast except Brian are not able to hear or interpret Stewie's speech unless at writer's discretion.

Brian does not seem to join in the others' frequent "Meg-bashing," although he is prone to ignoring her and coldly shot down her attempt to congratulate his recent writing award. He insults her quite brutally on occasion. However, in "Dial Meg for Murder", he showed that he really cared her when he wrote an a very sentimental article on her and helping her come to her senses when she was on wild streak after being released from prison. However, in "Quagmire's Dad", despite her being the only one to show genuine concern for his trip, he harshly brushes her off, even though only moments ago, he complained that no one cared about his trip.

Dating

Meg is a very unpopular student in high school. With most students rather fire a nail gun into their own stomach ("8 Simple Rules to Buying My Teenage Daughter") In one episode, a student in shop class fired a nail gun into his own stomach in order to avoid a date with her. And another murdering his own brother to have an excuse not to go to prom with her the following night. However, she is sought by pimply nerd Neil Goldman, and perverted neighbor Glenn Quagmire has shown an interest, mostly due to his very broad standards, asking if she has reached the age of consent. However, she had shown to have dated multiple people:

In the first three to four seasons of the show, she had a crush on Kevin Swanson, the Swanson Family's teenage son, who seemed to enjoy her company, but only as a friend, completely friend-zoning her. Meg tried over and over again with her advances to get Kevin to like her, yet he was oblivious to her advances. When Kevin returned from the Iraq War in "Thanksgiving With The Griffins", Kevin showed outright disgust for Meg, yet Meg still semi-pinned for him until she finally fell out of love for him in "Stand By Meg"

In "From Method to Madness", Meg did some realizing Kevin really didn't care for her that much, as Chris pointed out he never truly wanted to be her boyfriend. And so decided to settle with nudist Jeff Campbell, who showed interest in Meg. And after some hesitation from Peter and Lois, Meg and Jeff went steady. Aside from small moments where Meg went after a different boy (Neil in "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Mayor West in "Deep Throats" and one more attempt with Kevin in "Full Metal Jackass"), Jeff was Meg's long-lasting boyfriend of sorts. However, after "Full Metal Jackass", Jeff stopped appearing with Meg and the latter went after dating boys of the week. It's unknown what happened to their relationship, but it's assumed that they broke up off-screen in between seasons four and five.

In "Brian Sings and Swings", she befriended by a girl named Sarah who Meg later discovers is a lesbian. Meg pretends to be a lesbian & Sarah's girlfriend as she enjoys being accepted by Sarah. However her mother (who is hinted to being a bisexual) knows Meg is only pretending to be one in order to be accepted. She eventually is forced to admit to Sarah that she is not a lesbian.

In other episodes she is portrayed as chronically incapable of finding a boyfriend. For her Junior Prom she accepts a pity date from Brian, the family dog in "Barely Legal". Brian ends up making out with her at this party, but only because he was highly inebriated, and most likely high, as Lois slipped a bit of weed into is jacket pocket. Meg then becomes infatuated with Brian, going so far as to abduct him in order to have sex with him after he rejects her, but she does not seem to be interested in Brian after this episode. To make up for the lack of boyfriends she made one up, in "Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey".

In "Peter's Daughter" Meg falls in love with a med-student named Michael Milano after coming out of a short coma (caused by Peter). Meg soon then announces that she is pregnant by Michael and the two get engaged. After finding out that she isn't actually pregnant, Meg tells Michael the truth hoping that he'll stay; however, Michael leaves Meg at the altar.

In "Dial Meg for Murder", she's dating a prisoner named Luke. Luke later escapes, and Meg tries to hide him, but she gets caught and sent to prison too.

In "Go, Stewie, Go!" she dated Anthony Fargus, who is, to the surprise of everybody in Quahog, completely normal and actually liked Meg. Which was true, as Anthony actually loved Meg as far back as Season 3's "The Fat Man and the Sea". However, Lois tries seduces him because she feels bad about her aging but is caught by Meg. And a distrust Anthony runs off in tears feeling awful about what he did. As Lois goes to apologize to Meg, but it's clear her apology is a backhanded one, as she doesn't really care that she ruined her daughter's relationship with a boy Meg mentioned took years for him to ask her out, but more cared that she only got caught. And while Anthony and Meg did have a second chance with dating as seen in Season 20 when they become a private couple, the previous attempt still stuck in their heads and lead to some awkwardness.

She is also shown to be attracted to Connie D'amico. In "Stew-Roids", she asks Connie whether she can think about her in the tub. In "Dial Meg for Murder", she tongue-kisses Connie after knocking her unconscious. Though this act was more about dominance and humiliation than any form of romance.

Dangerous Behavior

Despite generally being emotionally fragile and meek, yet at the same time, passive and kind-hearted, and notably more well-behaved than her siblings and more thoughtful than the rest of her overall family, Meg has, from time to time, shown a surprisingly darker side from her generally well-natured character, often triggered by the family and other people's coldness and contempt for her. In "Untitled Griffin Family History", Meg is charged for forcing herself upon a group of would-be captors and grows violently obsessed with Brian after a drunken kiss at the Junior Prom in "Barely Legal". In the same episode, Meg threatens to commit suicide when nobody at school would be her date to the prom and she also tells her parents that she's going upstairs to eat a whole bag of peanuts. When her parents stare at her blankly, she cries, "I'm allergic to peanuts!" in "The Kiss Seen Around the World".

Meg also speaks of habitually cutting herself and throwing up after meals. Meg's dangerous behavior, however obvious, is rarely noticed by her parents even when stated. Such as in "Sibling Rivalry" after Lois had her fat removed she states to Meg, that eating to solve one's problems is the wrong thing to do, apparently referencing that she's somewhat fat, while complimenting Chris's hat despite him being the one who is overly obese. In this Meg replies, "I don't eat to solve my problems, I cut myself."

Peter also doesn't pay attention when she loses her temper and assaults a man who crashed into the back of the car while driving him, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire around when they have been drinking in "Road to Rupert". He exclaims that her actions were "awesome" and this leads to her engaging in other erratic behavior to impress him. In "Dial Meg for Murder", Meg was desperate enough to date a criminal. Meg later stated no one cares about her while robbing Mort's Pharmacy and knocking Peter's teeth out and rapidly beating him. In "Go, Stewie, Go!", she rips out one of her teeth to prove that she is tougher than Lois. In "April in Quahog", it's alluded that she strangles stray cats. In "Road to the North Pole" she wishes for "softer voices" in her head.

And in recent seasons, Meg has been shown to have offense records. From her needing to be under close supervision for some offense in "And Then There's Fraud", doxxing her online crush in "Bend or Blockbuster", and even committing arson in "LASIK Instinct" and "How I Met Your Real Father".

It is possible that Meg has a type of mental illness similar to Borderline Personality Disorder. Meg has exhibited behaviors that closely match the diagnostic criteria for BPD, as described by the Fourth Volume of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV):

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, as well as marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

  1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (excluding suicidal behaviors).
  2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
  3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self. - Claims to be a lesbian in "Brian Sings and Swings" to be accepted in their group, easily swayed by religious recruitment.
  4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging, excluding suicidal behaviors.
  5. Recurrent suicidal gestures, threats, or self-injuring behavior. Meg admits that she cuts herself in "Sibling Rivalry", threatens suicide in "Barely Legal" and "The Kiss Seen Around the World".
  6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood. Flattened affect (lamp scene) in "Barely Legal".
  7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
  8. Inappropriate anger and/or difficulty controlling anger. - Has frequent outbursts, particularly at her parents in "Peter's Two Dads".
  9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions, or severe dissociative symptoms. She became deluded into thinking that Brian in "Barely Legal" and Joe in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair" are in love with her.

Relationships

Family

  • Peter Griffin - Peter is always abusing Meg and treating her like crap. He beats her up and punches her and kicks her and beats her black and blue. Peter's most famous form of Meg abuse is saying "Shut up, Meg." Peter enjoys pulling pranks on Meg and making her life miserable because it provides him entertainment. Though has shown at times to care about her when Lois isn't around.
  • Lois Griffin - Lois is an abusive mother to Meg. She insults her and verbally and emotionally abuses her with cruel and manipulative mind games. Compared to Peter, who’s at least shown to somewhat care about Meg, in a more Lois has made it clear that she does not care or love Meg and would rather she not be her daughter.
  • Chris Griffin - Chris is always bullying Meg, from pulling immature pranks on her like wiping boogers on her face or calling her a bunch of dumb insults, to making fun of her in his artwork by drawing her face on pigs or drawing her as a man.
  • Stewie Griffin - Stewie's one of the most frequent Meg bashers and enjoys taunting Meg about several topics of her supposed "ugliness", her virginity, and inability to keep a boyfriend
  • Brian Griffin - Brian does not seem to join in the others' frequent "Meg-bashing," although he is prone to ignoring her and insults her quite brutally on occasion. It’s clear that he does not hold her in high regard. Rather, he sees her as a cockroach. A small, pesky, insignificant creature.
  • Stan Thompson -

Friends

Former Enemies

  • Roberta Tubbs - Roberta tends to look down on Meg as with every other popular kid. However, Meg wants to be friends with Roberta, but the latter always coldly rebuffs her offer of friendship every time because of her being lame. However, Meg proves herself to be cool to Roberta in "Accidents Crappen", when she and Jennifer Vicarious eggs her and her friends during one of their nights on the town and gained Roberta's respect, becoming her friend after nine seasons.

Enemies

  • Connie D'amico - Connie bullies Meg and school and makes her life a living Hell.
  • Neil Goldman - Neil is a disgusting, perverted creep who's in love with Meg and is always stalking her and creeping her out. Meg hates him back and is always telling him to leave her alone but he never listens. In all honesty, Meg should just go out with Neil because he's the only person who would ever love her.
  • Principal Shepherd - Principal Shepherd bullies Meg, despite being the principal and sometimes he just punishes her for no reason. In "McStroke", he made it a rule that she had to wear a brown paper bag over her head when she went to school.

Love Interests

  • Kevin Swanson - Meg was in love with Kevin but Kevin doesn't not love her back because he finds her unattractive. He's always ignorant to her attempts to hit on him, and she never really seems to get the message that he's not interested in him. In "Stand By Meg", Meg finally fell out of love with Kevin.
  • Jeff Campbell - Jeff
  • Anthony Fargus - Anthony is Meg's current love interest and dating partner. Though the two had their fair share of ups and downs, they've somehow made it work and continue to be a couple, albeit a private couple to avoid public shaming.

Episode Absences

Meg has appeared in all the episodes except for the following:

Trivia

  • One specific form of her abuse, has become a famous Family Guy quote and later catchphrase and even a wildly popular internet meme. "Shut up, Meg." First said to her by Peter in the episode Deep Throats, and later used as his catchphrase multiples times over and varied many times.
  • In "Death Has a Shadow", Meg wore a white shirt with blue lining and a blue beanie, alongside having thicker glasses.
  • Her name, "Meg" was actually short for "Megan". However, as seen in "A Fistful of Meg", Meg explains her father changed her birth certificate from "Megan" to "Megatron" like the character from Transformers after her mother had already selected Megan. Despite this, she is still commonly called Megan such as by Mr. Berler in "Let's All Go to the Hop" and Stewie in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas".
  • In "Let's All Go to the Hop", it is implied that Meg once had a younger sister but murdered her, possibly out of jealousy. However, it is also implied that this is just a dream Chris had, although he says "It seemed so real!".
  • In "Friends Without Benefits", Meg had a birth defect, where her heart was located on her head. Shortly after birth, Dr. Hartman suggested she wear a hat, to cover that up, explaining the origin of her iconic, squishy, pink beanie cap.
  • In "A Hero Sits Next Door", Meg says she can't taste salt.
  • Meg has a musical talent on many instruments.
  • She briefly dated Mayor Adam West in "Deep Throats". In "Tiegs for Two", it was showed that they still go out sometimes. Following Adam's marriage to Carol, (and needless to say, death), their relationship must now be over.
  • In the episode "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure", it was revealed that in the future, she will get a sex change surgery, not because she feels like a male on the inside, but because she is constantly being mistaken for a boy, and has just decided that she can't fight it anymore and has to go through with accepting it. Her new name as a boy is Ronald "Ron" Semangayzer Griffin.
  • In "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", Meg became a Christian.
  • In the episode "New Kidney in Town", Meg revealed that she is homophobic and believes that people choose to be gay.
  • In the uncensored version of "Chris Cross", Meg admits to being part of a group that "fucks up" Anne Frank's birth home on a yearly basis.
  • Meg is killed in "A House Full of Peters" and her place is taken by an undercover Russian look-alike. Though whether this was a one-off joke or part of the lore now remains to be seen.

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