| Stan Thompson | |
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| Stan Thompson | |
| Name | Stanley Mitchell Thompson |
| Age | 47 (as of "How I Met Your Real Father") |
| Job(s) | Mafia member (formerly) Worker at Stop N' Shop ("Supermarket Stan"-"Mo' Jobs") Fisherman on the S.S. Thompson ("Return to the Seas"-Present) |
| Relatives | Gene Thompson (father; deceased) unnamed mother (possibly deceased) Janet Thompson (ex-wife) Meg Thompson-Griffin (biological daughter) |
| Nicknames | Thompson (by Peter) Stanley The Stan-Man Uncle Stanely |
| Voice | Jon Bernthal |
Stanley "Stan" Mitch Thompson (born August 13, 1961) is the biological father of Meg Griffin. He and Lois Pewterschmidt gave birth to her on accident, and, not wanting his ex-wife to find out, he left her with Lois, who raised her with the adoptive father, Peter Griffin. Until they met in "How I Met Your Real Father", Meg was unaware of the fact that she never knew her real father, although everyone else in the including family, including even Chris and Stewie, does.
Biography[]
Childhood[]
Stan was born in 1950. Stan had a particularly unhappy childhood from day one, when his parents were disappointed that he was a boy, and not a girl as they hoped for. And his childhood never got any better from there, with both of his parents abusing him. His father beat him frequently, calling him a failure who won't account for anything in life, and tried to led down Stan to the life of Mafia and violence that he was a part of, and his mother manipulated him with threatening her life if he did anything.
His parents thought he was such a waste of space they didn't even bother to get him educated, or let him even have any true friends. With them opting to show them their street smarts, in toxic ways from experiencing gun shootings and being involved in Mafia dealings with his dad. Stan had to go on his own and get his education with VHS tapes and books, and even then he still thinks he missed something.
Adulthood and "The Incident"[]
The day he turned 18, his parents instantly threw him out of the house, telling him he's old enough to forge his own path - despite the fact he had little education and lacked any real social skills - and locked him out. With nothing else, Stan decided to go out and get a small home. When he was 25, he met Janet while at a bar and strikes a relationship with her. After six months of dating, Stan decided to push for a marriage, leading to Stan and Janet getting married.
The relationship had cracks from the instant they got married. Janet acted like a total bitch towards Stan, and Stan mostly accepted this, thinking that it was how relationships worked due to his parents having the same type of awful relationship. They almost always seemed to argue and fight about the meaningless things, yet still ended with kissing. The breaking point of their relationship happened when Stan was 29, as seen in "The Truth About Meg", when one faithful night, Lois got drunk at a party with her friends and had sex with a drunken Stan Thompson, whose condom broke, impregnating her. At the time, Lois was married to Peter and they were not planning on having a child. Stan abandoned Lois, cowarding out of the responsibility and be found out by his wife. Unfortunately, his wife found out not too long after when she caught him making a call to Lois saying he pregnanted her, and kicked him out of their house without giving him so much of an explanation, effectively divorced him. Leaving him to go find somewhere else to live and survive on his own.
He would then move to Vermont to live at Mapleview Apartments for the next twenty years of his life. Wasting away, doing nothing good with it. During the time, he hit rock bottom and got involved with multiple gangs, including The Wild Jackasses and the Quahog Mafia for a certain amount of time. Stan's experiences there was very dangerous and deadly, as Stan was labeled as a wanted thug while being with the Wild Jackasses and the Quahog Mafia, he got an eye scar while on a mission in the Mafia and had major injuries near his stomach area during an accident being with the Wild Jackasses, needing close to hundreds of stitches needed to sew it up. He hadn't gone into full detail what happened, meaning that it must have been an almost life-threatening event and he doesn't feel comfortable mentioning it.
Mentions[]
Eventually, Lois had the baby, and that's how Meg was born. Lois and Peter raised Meg and decided it'd be best not to tell her about Stan. They did, however, tell all of their other kids about it, including Brian, but after all these years, until "The Truth About Meg", Meg was oblivious to this fact.
His first mention was in "Screwed the Pooch", where Brian was showing how much about The Griffin Family he knew, by finishing all of Peter's sentences. He mentioned Chris' favorite ice cream flavor, Stewie's favorite bedtime story, and Meg's real father. When mentioning Meg's real father, though, Meg was listening to music on her IPod, so she did not hear any of it.
In "Fore Father", Meg comes out to complain to Peter about the house being sprayed with water, due to Peter using a water hose to get out of doing spring cleaning, and while Meg yells and rants at Peter, Peter instead tunes her out and wonders in his thoughts what if he left Meg with Stan Thompson.
In "15 Minutes of Shame", Peter, upset with Meg getting him and the family on The Diane Simmons Show, says that maybe know he'll tell her the truth that he's not her real father and that her real father is Stan Thompson, while laugh manically. Meg, however, ignores what he's saying and views it more as Peter not being normal.
In "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", Brian was arguing with the rest of the family about religion. He said that one thing that would be different if there was a God was Meg would know about Stan Thompson. The rest of the family shushed him, not wanting her to know about it.
In "Peter's Two Dads", Peter learned that his biological father Mickey McFinnigan knocked up his mother and never called her again, leaving her with custody of himself and having him grow up with an adoptive father, who he thought was his real dad. He compared this concept to the completely identical situation that involved himself, Meg, Lois, and Stan Thompson. Though when he finds out he accidentally said it in front of Meg, he wipes out Meg's memory of it, Men in Black style.
In "Meg Stinks!", Peter was actually being nice to Meg and treating her like a friend. He told Lois a list of things he was going to do with her before she stopped him from the charade. One of those things was telling her about Stan Thompson.
Meeting Meg[]
In "How I Met Your Real Father", he finally meets Meg after the latter went on a search to find him upon finding out about him in "The Truth About Meg". Initially, he wants nothing to do with her like her family. He openly admits he looks at her as a burden and never wants to be associated with her, acting distant and unfriendly towards her. But over the course of their ride back to Quahog, he begins to notice how similar she is to him when she makes him feel better when he vents his frustrations with life form a bond over their similarities. Eventually when they arrive at the Griffin household, he trumps Peter's spot by tricking him and Lois to signing "divorce papers and papers to sign Lois over to Stan" to kick Peter out.
In "The Good Father", the family was still adjusting to Stan being the new "family guy" of sorts, though Stan found ways to get them to warm up to him. His tastes in music got him on Lois' good side as the two sing What Could Have Been, he helps Chris with his painting skills of realistic men, and got Brian's blank collar customized to have his name and address (Stewie was already pleased as he didn't care much about Peter and thought of Stan of a welcome addition in the mundane cycle the family was in).
In "Battle of the Dads", Stan and Peter fought in a Dad-Off. With the winner getting ownership of the family and loser never being able to show his face in Quahog again. Despite the two tieing, Stan decides to give Peter his family back, and reveals to them they didn't sign divorce papers, which were forged, but instead signed papers to give Stan partial ownership to Meg, and rename Meg. Stan also revealed that this in technical terms made Stan the family uncle in a sense.
Moving to Quahog[]
In "Fathers and Recreation", Stan moved to Quahog and settled at Spinazola Apartments, and in "Supermarket Stan", Stan gets a job at a local supermarket to pay the bills. From then on out, Stan would semi be seen stopping by the Griffins.
In "Mo' Jobs",
Appearance[]
Stan Thompson is an adult tall, pudgy, broad-shouldered man with a rugged appearance. He has thining, dark brown hair, a major bald area on his head (one he hides with his beanie hat) and a rough, stubbly beard. He has a scar above his right eyebrow, which he got from a Mafia incident. He is usually seen wearing a dark red t-shirt above a dark blue jacket, blue jeans, and black leather boots, alongside a blue beanie and a necklace having a silver thingy on it.
Personality[]
Stan Thompson is portrayed as an ex-Mafia rough guy with a sarcastic and dry sense of humor. Growing up having a sucky life of being abused, having little positive aspects of his life and getting the short end of sticks, he's grown to have a lot of negative tendencies. He often has a hard drinking problem, due to him usually spending most of his days drinking hard to make his pains go away, and has grown to stop caring about the opinions of others and others in general, and he's quick to lash out when he feels disrespected and even his closest allies have had rough start points (When he first met Meg, he almost immediately got angry and had plans to abandon her). Despite his gruff exterior, he has a soft spot as he gained new love for his daughter Meg and will do anything to protect her. Overall, Stan's a guy with a tough exterior but a caring heart.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Friends[]
- Peter Griffin - Peter and Stan have a complicated and often hostile relationship, often rivaling each other in various aspects of their lives. They frequently engage in humorous one-upmanship, trying to prove that they are the better man or father, and they often butt heads on various social and political issues. However, despite their bickering, they have been known to bond over common interests and are shown to have a grudging respect for each other. With Stan looking Peter as a sort of friend of his.
- Hennessey O'Callaghan -
Episode Appearances[]
Pre-Reveal[]
- Screwed the Pooch (Mentioned)
- Fore Father (Mentioned)
- 15 Minutes of Shame (Mentioned)
- Petarded (Indirectly Mentioned)
- Not All Dogs Go to Heaven (Mentioned)
- Peter's Two Dads (Mentioned)
- Quagmire and Meg (Mentioned)
- Meg Stinks! (Mentioned)
- Mort Almighty (Mentioned)
- Legends Never Die (Mentioned)
Post-Reveal[]
- The Truth About Meg (First Time Seen; Flashback)
- How I Met Your Real Father (First Time Seen in Present Time)
- The Good Father
- Battle of the Dads
- Fathers and Recreation
- Fattest in the West
- Fertilized Megg
- Supermarket Stan
- Peterschmidt Manor 2
- Single White Dad
- The Return of the King (of Queens)
- A 'Stache from the Past (Cameo)
- How Peter Lost His Masculinity
- Flip Your Biscuits?
- Mob Mentality
- Mo' Jobs
- Return to the Seas
- Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater (Cameo)
- A Real Who's Hulu
- Pitch Imperfect
- Lois C.K.
- The Dog's My Co-Pilot
- Martian Meg
- Fat Gun
- Tales from the Docks
- Lifeguard Meg
- The Mindless Dance Revolution
- Row v. Wade
- The Butterfly Erect
- Boston Guy
- What the Puck?
- Vacation Frustration
- Trilogy of Chaos
- Chris Griffin, Cum Laude
- Fast Seafood
- Shippnapped!
- From Russia, With Love (Mentioned)
- White Girl of Russia
- Russian Marriage
- Wild to the Bone
Trivia[]
- Stan and Meg both have shown similarities in their lives and abilities:
- Both can speak and sing fluent Russian.
- Both are social outcasts and called ugly by their peers despite them having average looks.
- Both are punching bags to their families, and both called pathetic failures and wished they never were born.
- Both have also shown to have dangerous sides to them.
- Stan's birthday is in on August 13th, AKA Friday the 13th. Which is labelled as the unluckiest month and unluckiest day for anyone to be born on.
- "Fathers and Recreation" reveals that Stan has eye problems like Meg, but instead chooses to wear contacts than glasses.