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| “ | Ooh, a piece of candy. | „ |
| ~ James Woods' famous catchphrase when he finds candy. |
James Howard Woods is a supporting antagonist in the adult animated series Family Guy. He is the man for whom Quahog's high school used to be named. He also serves as one of the main antagonists in season 6 and 8 and a sporadic supporting character from season 9 to 15.
He is voiced by himself, who also played Hades in Disney's Hercules, Falcon in Stuart Little 2, Lex Luthor in Justice League Action, Owlman in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Dr. Phillium Benedict in Recess: School's Out!, Gloomius Maximus in Rolie Polie Olie, Captain Ahab in The Adventures of Moby Dick, Ned Trent in The Specialist, George Sheffield in Scarface: The World is Yours, Martin Walker in White House Down, Lester Diamond in Casino, Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi, and Maximilian "Max" Bercovicz in Once Upon a Time in America.
History[]
He becomes friends with Peter Griffin because his former best friend, Peter's dog Brian, started dating Shauna Parks and Peter felt left out. Peter and Woods remain friends until Brian breaks up with Parks and starts hanging out with Peter again. Woods becomes jealous and becomes very grumpy towards Peter and Brian.
In the end, Peter and Brian successfully trap Woods in a box using Reese's Pieces as bait. His box is then sent to an unknown warehouse containing a large amount of crates to be studied by "top men," parodying the final moments of the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
James Woods hanging out with Meg.
He returns in "Back to the Woods", where he steals Peter's wallet when he leaves from the Barry Manilow concert to get revenge. He spends a lot of money with Peter's credit card. When Peter and Brian figure out it was him, he enters Peter's house and calls the police, using Peter driver's license, social security number, passport, and the title to the house to convince Joe to let him take Peter's house, family, and title; in other words, Woods commits identity theft, leaving Peter homeless. He also ties Brian to a pole outside the house and tries to shoot Peter with a rifle whenever he's on his own property. In retaliation, Brian tells Peter identity theft works both ways and encourages him to become Woods' himself to get revenge on him by ruining his reputation to the general public. He does this by claiming he is starring in an offensive comedy movie about the September 11 Attacks on David Letterman. After doing so, James instantly goes from being a beloved actor to a pariah.
James confronts Peter.
James gets furious and confronts Peter but, exactly as before, Peter and Brian trick him into being trapped in another crate, when Peter remarks they should remember it immediately for next time. In the end, the box is sent once again in the same warehouse by "top men".
He returns again in "Brian Griffin's House of Payne" when he auditions for the lead role in Brian's pilot. Despite Brian's objections and stating the reasons as to why he wants James blacklisted from the show, the latter only convinces the executives to have Brian let James audition even further. When James goes against the script in favor of comedy, this leads to him getting the role and changing the age of the main character against Brian's wishes. And despite the executives promising this being the only change, James has the executives turn the pilot from a serious drama into a sitcom, all without letting Brian have a say in anything. His changes include making the father and daughter college roommates, adding a chimp sidekick, bringing a live studio audience, making the father live on Boner Street, changing the name of the show from What I Learned on Jefferson Street to Class Holes!, and completely rewriting the entire script. He also shows no concern when the chimp rips one of the actress's boobs off, even asking if they got it on tape. When the pilot flops, instead of following the idea of making the show more grounded and relatable, he instead convinces the executives to make the show even more cheap and ridiculous, which the executives claim to be more relatable than the original script. This causes Brian to call it quits, cancelling his own show in the process. After Brian leaves, James implies that he might face a lawsuit for having sex with his co-star whom he thinks is under 18. It could be assume that James made Brian's pilot terrible intentionally to get revenge on him.
James Woods also appeared in "And Then There Were Fewer". During the plot of the episode, it's implied that he terrorized several Quahog residents of his sociopathic ways besides the Griffin family such as:
- Convincing Tom Tucker to turn down the role of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, ruining his career of becoming an actor.
- Hitting Bonnie Swanson on the throat because of her voice.
- Eating Seamus' arms and legs while high on acid forcing him to have peg legs, which contradicts Seamus' father being a tree.
- Stealing Mayor Adam West's Twitter account name.
- Switching around the bones of the skeleton in Dr. Hartman's office.
- Taking a Penthouse into the bathroom of Goldman's pharmacy and left his little handiwork in the sink.
- Replacing Herbert's Cialis with methamphetamines.
- Molesting Consuela's 14-year-old nephew who then committed suicide.
- Blackmailing Muriel Goldman into selling his favorite medicine (specifically oxycodone or it's brand name OxyContin) from Mort's pharmacy.
- Dumping Diane Simmons on her fortieth birthday during their secret date and introducing her to Danny Bonaduce instead of Dan Rather.
- Stealing Cheryl Tiegs from Quagmire.
It wasn't until a news intern named Priscilla seduced him and converted him into a born-again Christian, to which Woods finally starts to express genuine remorse for his crimes against the Quahog residents. It was then he invited them to dinner in his mansion in order to make amends with them, but he falls victim along with Priscilla, Stephanie, Muriel, and Derek Wilcox to a plot of murder planned by Diane Simmons, who then reveals that she employed Priscilla to seduce Woods and convert him into a born-again Christian, which led to the dinner party so that Diane can get her revenge. This reveals all along James did indeed want to atone for his past sins and become a better person, redeeming himself spiritually. James is brought back to life in Tom Tucker: The Man And His Dream through the forceful sacrifice of a 17 year old ingenue.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Priscilla - Deceased Wife
Allies[]
- Peter Griffin - Enemy Turned Ally
- Lois Griffin
- Stewie Griffin
- Brian Griffin - Enemy Turned Ally
- Chris Griffin
- Meg Griffin
- Tom Tucker - Enemy Turned Ally
- Glenn Quagmire - Enemy Turned Ally
- Joe Swanson
- Bonnie Swanson - Enemy Turned Ally
- Mort Goldman
- Seamus Levine
- John Herbert
- Carl
- Elmer Hartman
- Jillian Russel-Wilcox
- Derek Wilcox
- Mort Goldman
- Muriel Goldman - Enemy Turned Ally
- Stephanie
Enemies[]
- Diane Simmons - Love Interest Turned Killer
Gallery[]
- James at The Drunken Clam.
