Lois Griffin

"Not only are you not the perfect mother, you're the farthest thing from! From the moment you gave birth to me, I had to trust you. I had no choice. I needed you to protect me from the world to, to be my guide, to help me navigate the difficult, confusing, and vulnerable journey to becoming a person. You have done NONE of those things! You're my mother and you took a child's trust and smashed it into bits in a seventeen-year long mission to destroy something that you killed a long time ago! And honestly, when I turn eighteen, I...I don't know that I ever want to see you again!"

- Meg Griffin telling Lois off.

Lois Patrice Pewterschmidt-Griffin is the deuteragonist in the FOX animated TV series Family Guy. Originally she was a protagonist, but as the show became darker in the later seasons, despite being one of the protagonists, she does have several episodes where she has an antagonistic role, some of which are so evil fans believe Lois has crossed the Moral Event Horizon.

From the end of Season 9,Lois has improved compared to previous seasons.

She is voiced by Alex Borstein.

Villainous acts

 * In "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do", Lois became addicted to stealing. When she was about purchase a ham, but found out that she didn't have enough money, she stole the ham. And after she stole the ham, Lois developed kleptomania. Even though Brian convinced Lois to quit her addiction and return everything she stole, she attempted to escape from Joe when he found out but was caught and sentenced to three years in prison.
 * Despite her being a loving mother, Lois has show several signs of being a poor/ horrible parent to which her actions are often based around child abuse (which is may be the cause of Stewie's bad nature and his wish to kill her).
 * In "Brian Griffin's House of Payne"; when Stewie was both injured and comatose, both Chris and Meg, and eventually Peter, tried to hide the fact the he's injured by putting a hat on his head and telling everyone he's asleep. When Peter tosses an injured Stewie while Lois was backing up she accidentily runs over Stewie. When she thought that she "injured" Stewie, instead of him taking to a hospital, she tried to hide the fact the Stewie was injured by doing the exact same thing that Peter, Meg, and Chris did.
 * Another episode examining her poor parenting is "Stewie Loves Lois", wherein Stewie became affectionate towards Lois. When this became too much for Lois to bear, she started to have dreams about killing Stewie. So to prevent that, Lois completely ignores Stewie. But as a result, Stewie pretended that he's dying by pretending that he ate a large ammount of pills. When Stewie was trying to get Lois' attention again, Stewie falls down the stairs and broke one of his arms. When Lois saw Stewie fall down the stairs, she tries to give as much attention to Stewie as she could, but Stewie didn't want any more attention from Lois and plans to sue her.
 * In "Jungle Love", Lois reassures a worried Chris that his first day of high school will be alright. After dropping him off, she honks the horn and yells "Freshman!", exposing her son to be victimized through hazing by students and Adam West.
 * In "Stew-Roids", when Chris and Meg look through their lunch bags, all Meg got was food waste and a picture of Lois eating a turkey leg. Also in the same episode, after failing to console Meg after not being invited to Chris' party, she gives her a bottle of Ambien and decides to look the other way.
 * Lois has on some occasions shown she doesn't care if Meg lives or dies such as when Stewie gets a splinter from their old wooden stairs, she ignores Brian's comment of Meg spending two days trapped under a roof beam due to the house falling apart to deal with the problem regarding the stairs. This trait is also shared with Peter.
 * There were one episode, when she and Peter were smoking weed and they got crazy. They lost their mind, and later, they were licking Chris, sitting as dogs on the sofa and naked.
 * Another episode is when Lois decides that Meg and her should have their own Spring Break. Even though she tries to give Meg a time of her life, Lois starts to party, and as a result, she ignores Meg, gets drunk, forgetting Meg, overshadowing Meg, and causes both Meg and Lois to get arrested by the police. When Lois and Meg were in the police car, Lois uncuffs both of them escape from the police car.
 * In a flashback of Meg's first trip to the fire station, Peter and Lois were actually attempting to abandon Meg by leaving her there.
 * Lois has mentioned to Bonnie Swanson over the phone that she has left Stewie in the oven numerous times.
 * In "Hannah Banana", when Chris was trying to prove the Evil Monkey existed, he set up a camera to see that happened that night. When he saw the video, Lois was caught stealing money out of Chris' wallet.
 * In "Chap Stewie" when Stewie traveled back into time before he was conceived, it was revealed by Lois that Meg isn't allowed upstairs which they have handled by leaving Meg locked up in the basement to which she is scratching on the door like a dog trying to get out.
 * In "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", Lois went on a psychopathic rampage. She wanted everything to be perfect for Christmas dinner. But when everything went wrong, Lois tried to remain calm, until, Meg told them that there was no paper towels. This caused Lois to go on a rampage throughout Quahog. While she was on a rampage, in two cutaway gags, she shoved George Bailey off a bridge and burned Frosty the Snowman alive. She even attempted to destroy the star on the town's Christmas Tree.
 * Since Lois hasn't had sex with Peter for a while, Lois has developed a crush, as well as a perverted nature, towards one of Meg's boyfriend, Anthony. After being scolded and driven away by Meg, Lois confronts Peter, accusing him of making her feel bad about herself which drove her over the edge.
 * On another occasion where Peter starting wearing a chastity belt, Lois became frustrated and raped her husband.
 * Despite Lois being a bit of a pacifist, there were several episodes when she's a hypocrite. When Lois was taking taijutsu, she started to become a bit of a control freak. She forces Peter to drop "them". After a therapy session with Stewie and Peter, the doctor recommend to become a more peaceful family. So Lois forces the family to never argue, nor fight again, but as a result, the entire Griffin family fought each other and destroyed part of their house.
 * In "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", Lois becomes the Mayor of Quahog. However, despite her trying to do good as the mayor by shutting down companies that polluted the lake, she quickly becomes corrupt and embezzled $600 to buy an expensive purse. And when she wanted to buy a fur coat that cost $4,300 she nearly made a deal with Bob Grossbeard that if he paid for the fur coat Lois would allow him to reopen his company and continue polluting the lake. Lois realizes the error of her ways and closes the pipe of the drain and resigns her position as mayor.
 * In "And I'm Joyce Kinney"; it is revealed that, as a teenager, Lois pulled a truly cruel joke on a then overweight and unpopular Joyce Kinney (then Joyce Chevapravatdumrong) in high school. Tricking her into thinking she had become, Lois blindfolded her, walked her into the middle of the gym, pulled down her pants and put a hot dog in her mouth. This was done in front of the entire school and everyone laughed at Joyce. Lois probably only did this to simply be nasty and had an evil expression while she was laughing at Joyce.
 * Lois has cheated on Peter over the course of the show, most notably with Bill Clinton who Peter had made friends with, a friendship which nearly destroys Peter and Lois's marriage seduces Lois into having sex with him, only to be caught by Peter. It is possible that neither Meg, Chris, nor Stewie are Peter's children as revealed in one episode when Peter and Brian bring up Stan Thompson a man who may be Meg's real father. In another, it may be hinted that Peter may not be Stewie's real father as a man on the church screen appears in Lois's porn film appears to resemble Stewie.
 * In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Lois and Meg clash when Meg, having had enough abuse from her family turns on them, Lois being the second. Meg scorns Lois for being a shoplifter, drug addict, porn star, and because she cheated on Peter with numerous other men. Meg also informs Lois of what a terrible parent she is and when she turns eighteen, she isn't sure if she ever wants to see Lois again. Lois is reduced to tears and begs Meg for forgiveness.
 * In "Quagmire and Meg", Lois threatens to cut off Quagmire's penis and feed it to Brian should he ever again attempt to rape Meg and demands use of his cabin.
 * Lois ruthlessly nags her family, mostly Peter which, in "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter", drives Peter to create a children's show and a puppet version of Lois called "Saggy Naggy" to mimic her nagging, though it also caused a group of children to attack her at a store upon recognizing her.
 * When Lois confronts the mother of one of the children that stole Stewie's candy on Halloween, though she gets the candy back, she also threatens the mother to pay her money as well.
 * Lois is also prone to laugh inappropriately at people during serious moments or at other people's misery.
 * After Lois and Peter found out that Brian unknowingly had sex with Quamire's father who had a sex change they laughed at him without explaining why they were doing so.
 * When Stewie showed Lois and Peter a drawing he made they made some nice compliments towards it, but after he left the room he overheard them laughing and making some insulting comments towards his drawing.
 * When the tongue of Meg's friend Ruth was mentioned to have been torn out during the incident where she and Meg were kidnapped, Lois laughed about it and was glad this didn't happen to them.
 * In "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", during a mid-life crisis, teenage Lois (Really 43) ditches Peter because he is too, "old", to have fun.
 * In Brian the Closer, after Brian loses all his teeth and asks the family to take him to the dentist to get his mouth fixed, Lois laughs and says they're not going to waste human money on a deformed animal.
 * She viciously assulted Peter and Chris for doing grocery shopping because it is her thing to do and if they did it she could no longer complain about how lazy they are.
 * In an episode where Brain is arrested for smoking weed, Lois tells him off despite that Brian Revealed that she smokes it as well.