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The story of the extremely dimwitted and abusive Peter Griffin from Family Guy.

Biography

Peter was born in Mexico, where his mother, Thelma, tried to abort him, to no avail. As a child, Peter was abandoned by his biological father, Mickey McFinnigan, and he was strictly raised Catholic by Francis Griffin throughout his childhood after moving to Quahog.

According to the episode "Petarded", his low intelligence is due to a mental retardation. He is known for acting impulsively and doing things out of the ordinary, leaving him in awkward situations. Although Peter was seemingly an only child, the episode "Peter's Sister" reveals that he had an older sister growing up named Karen Griffin, whom delighted herself at abusing him, beating him up and even farting on his face. This led Peter to grow up estranged from Karen, possibly even acting like she didn't exist sometimes.

He had met Lois at the age of 18 at the Newport Country Club while working as a towel boy for Marguerite Pewterschmidt. The two began dating, and later got married. Lois then becomes pregnant and gives birth to her first daughter, Meg Griffin. Some time later, her second child Chris Griffin is born, and then the third child, Stewie Griffin. Peter also adopted an intellectual talking dog named Brian Griffin, who used to live on the streets.

Peter primarily worked at the "Happy-Go-Lucky toy factory" as a safety inspector for the bizarre Jonathan Weed, until his boss died after choking on a piece of bread while dining with Peter and his family, leading the company to its dissolution. After spending a time unemployed, Peter finds a job as a fisherman. However, he is left without a job once again after his ship was practically destroyed into a ship (from which he was left for dead). Peter currently works at the Pawtucket Patriot Brewery in the shipping department. Aside from these professions, Peter has held many jobs of all kinds, as shown throughout the show.

Villainous Acts/Antagonistic Moments

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• Peter proclaimed an independent micronation that involved the ownership of his home when he learned it was not formally and officially part of the United States calling it "Petoria". He abused his newfound diplomatic immunity, became anti-American and proceeded to invite the leaders of countries hostile to the US including Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jong-il, Fidel Castro and Ali Khamenei over for a pool party and BBQ using the pool stolen from Joe's backyard after annexing it.
• He attempted to get a promotion by blowing up a billboard advertising a rival brewery. Unfortunately, he placed the explosives in the wrong building which happened to be a children's hospital. When Peter had watch the explosion he caused the destruction of the hospital instead. Though Peter was initially shocked he quickly got over it when the fire burned the billboard. When he passed the third grade and was eligible so he could use the executive bathroom Angela refused to give it to him. Her reason was that nobody had forgotten the burning of the hospital which resulted in over fourteen deaths. The FBI learned it was Peter but he was sentenced to only a week in prison presumably to the outrage of the dead people's families.
  • This was not the last hospital Peter destroyed as he blew up another one while mimicking Heath Ledger's Joker as part of an anti-vaccine campaign by him and Lois; earlier he made a faux medical advertisement protesting vaccines which he paid for with Meg's college money.
• While Peter has said and done sexist things out of ignorance and stupidity, there have been many cases in where he was willingly a misogynistic asshole.
• Speaking of which Peter constantly abuses his daughter Meg by talking down to her, neglecting and ignoring her, insulting her, farting on her, beating her, telling her to "Shut up!", nearly drowning her, shooting her in a cutaway simply because she said "Hi" to him, hog-tying her and trying to brand her with a branding iron, and generally assaulting her in general.
  • He went to Meg's school James Woods High to create a story that Luke Perry was gay and burned her story about Mayor Adam West. However, this was to get more readers as he believed the Mayor West story would put people to sleep.
  • There have been occasions where Peter forgets Meg; he once made Brian bring up a man named Stan Thompson who they claimed was Meg's real father.
  • In "8 Simple Rules For Buying My Teenage Daughter", he sold her to Neil Goldman just to pay his pharmacy bill. It is heavily implied that he also sold her because he hates her.
  • In "Road to Rupert", after losing his driver's license, he forced her to become his personal chauffeur. Later on, he and his friends pranked her several times while drunk to the point where she beat up another driver that she got in a car accident with. Upon witnessing the beating, Peter praised her for it instead of realizing what a jerk he was to her.
  • In a deleted scene for "Chap Stewie", Stewie's British counterpart attempts to kill Stewie with a gun which wings him, but it hits Meg in the head instead, killing her instantly. Furthermore, while the rest of the family is worried about Stewie, no one other than Stewie himself notices that Meg is dead (which Peter believes that Stewie is delirious when he brings it up which they decide to rush him to the hospital), which demonstrates how they don't really care about Meg or her safety.
  • He and sometimes Lois were seen in cutaways trying to abandon or actually get rid of Meg, such as in Ratings Guy and Quagmire's Mom.
  • In "3 Acts of God", he asked God to wipe her from existence.
  • However, this was due to him being abused by Karen; Meg realized what actually transformed Peter into the man he was known for being with the direction of Peter's ill antics due to his daughter's resemblance to his sister. At the same time, Peter's abuse is shown to be as bad if not worse throughout the show which means he is most likely using Karen's treatment of him as an excuse. However, Peter was not fully aware of this until Meg pointed it out to him. Even after this episode, he continues to treat her horribly, not learning his lesson or acknowledging that he can be better than Karen.
  • In "White Meg Can't Jump", he brutally heckled her when she joined the school basketball team. While it somehow improved her performance greatly, it was still verbal abuse.
• Another person Peter abuses is his wife Lois. He sometimes shows little to no respect for her, ignores her and makes her do things against her will. Depending on the episode, he is also willing to harm her.
  • After a boxing match that he got Lois in, he tricked her into fighting more until she broke her nose. At that point, Lois told him that she imagined herself fighting him. He then felt bad and relented, although Lois eventually fought Deirdre Jackson after she publicly humiliated him.
  • Lois started to feel insecure about getting older but during a surprise birthday party with everyone they knew Peter compared her to old machinery and referred to her as a work animal whose only use was menial labor and sexual intercourse which sent her into a midlife crisis.
  • Peter insulted Lois for becoming as fat as he himself was until he discovered fat sex. He then forced her to gain weight which was even worse insisting she get fatter and literally stuffing her face with cake. She gained so much weight she had a heart attack and almost died but that didn't stop Peter anyway. He even tried to have sex with her body fat after it was surgically removed by Doctor Elmer Hartman.
  • Peter learned about Stewie's interest in tormenting Lois and the fact they both found her pain and suffering amusing; to bond with his youngest son they pulled pranks such as hitting her on the head with a box of rice (although it was an accident, but Stewie started laughing), and later throwing a can of beans on her forehead, smashing a jar of pickles on the back of her head, spraying her with a garden hose causing her to fall into the bathtub and down the stairs while going to the bathroom and pushing the family car with her unconscious body locked inside into a lake nearly drowning her.
  • He convinced Lois to keep a job as a flight attendant which she hated due to uptight passengers because he got free flights.
  • Peter once wrote hate letters to his family although he did not realize what he was doing was wrong.
  • Peter attended a golf game during their anniversary but to prevent Lois from knowing he set up a fake scavenger hunt so he could play with his friends. This moment nearly ruined their marriage but with help from Death he managed to save it.
  • In "Play It Again, Brian", he acted extremely disrespectful and selfish towards her throughout the episode by choosing to hang with his friends and get drunk over spending any time with her.
  • He attempted to shoot her and Mort Goldman while imitating Amon Goeth when he learned she was Jewish after seeing the ghost of his deceased stepfather, Francis Griffin, warning him that he will go to hell for not being catholic.
  • He crossed the Moral Event Horizon when he threw an unconscious and severely injured Stewie with infected head wounds underneath the car after weeks of no medical treatment just so she wouldn't ask how he got hurt by making her think she was the one who severely injured him.
  • After Peter buys a farm without consulting Lois, she mentions this isn't the first time Peter made a "big family decision", without consulting her, the scene then cuts away to Peter pushing Lois while she's still in their bed sleeping to a Planned Parenthood clinic, while asking the receptionist for the clinic's "quietest" doctor, heavily implying that Lois became pregnant yet again and Peter forced her to get an abortion against her will.
  • Also Peter tries to blame Lois for the consequences of his own issues. While on a picnic, Peter gives Lois his beer bottle to hold on to so Peter can try to kick the cap off. Peter isn't even able to get his leg high enough to meet the bottle and ends up kicking Lois' leg before he falsely accuses Lois of moving the bottle instead of acknowledging his own failure that resulted in hurting his wife.
  • Peter also for his own personal entertainment and to impress his friends drove through their lawn with Lois in front of them causing Lois to be plastered with dirt and mud and expresses shock and anger to which Peter responds with a condescending look saying "Clean that up you idiot!", before driving off, subjecting his wife to abuse for no reason other to make himself look tough in front of his friends.
  • In "Running Mates" after Lois refuses to have Peter's favorite High School teacher Mr. Fargus rehired after he was fired for causing problems after going off his medication (which Peter was responsible for), he runs against her for the position of School Board President and wins through a dirty campaign by portraying Lois as a slut. Later when Chris was caught with one of Peter's old pornographic magazines, Peter was inspired by James Carville to pin the blame on Lois to protect his reputation, but backs off at the last second and decides to resign instead. This was his earliest truly villainous act towards Lois, as this was done during the period when he was still a more sympathetic character.
  • In "Peter's Lost Youth", he breaks Lois' leg all because she ended up upstaging him at a Red Sox fantasy baseball camp.
  • When Chris shows dislike for the NES version of Donkey Kong, his and Peter's attempt to build an actual version of the game outside of their house, their simulation accidentally causes Lois to suffer a foot injury from a water cooler serving as a barrel, which confines her to their bedroom for a week to recover, nor does Peter show any remorse for his wife's injury when it happens, instead acting like they need to move on to the second level.
  • In "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter", Peter, tired of Lois' nagging, creates a small hand puppet of her and does a negative portrayal of Lois on his children's show "Petey's Playhouse", which indirectly caused for a group of children (including Stewie) to attack her while shopping upon recognizing her.
  • In "Take My Wife", he brutally called Lois out on signing everyone up for a marriage counseling program. He later constantly attempted to cheat on her with Quagmire's partner, Kimi.
  • In "The Stewaway", when Lois falls off a cliff and seriously injures herself Peter rather than focusing on comforting Lois and making sure she's ok, attempts to gaslight her into thinking she made and lost a sports bet for $1,100 which he "forgives" her, trying to use the physical trauma from her fall as a false pretense that she simply lost her short-term memory. Lois quickly realizes that Peter made the bet, seemingly aware that he has a gambling issue and is only shocked that he's specifically betting on Lacrosse. Later when Lois comes out of surgery Peter is revealed to have made another bet on the verge of failing and once again attempts to gaslight Lois, this time implying he made said bet based on her advice in a post-surgery haze.
  • In "Deep Throats", he forced Brian to ram his car into Lois' car while showing absolutely no remorse.
• Peter also abuses his son Chris by insulting his low intelligence and overweight stature despite possessing these traits himself.
  • In "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'", Peter pretended Chris was dying so he could save their favorite TV show from getting cancelled and when confronted claimed he cured him causing everyone to call him a God which aroused the anger of the real God who plagued the Griffin house. Despite everyone demanding he tell the truth, Peter refused until Chris almost died for real, and even then, he stupidly told Chris to go towards the light in the belief that 'light is good'.
  • Peter made Chris lose a girlfriend by giving him bad advice about how to act while on a date.
  • Peter always thought he was better in every way but when he found out Chris had a bigger "junk" he got jealous and tried to prove he had the bigger "junk" even unintentionally telling Lois that their "junk" was the reason for trying to be the bigger man. This also led to him stuffing Stewie down his pants to give him a prominent bulge, trying to justify this by saying he was on the outside of his underwear.
  • Peter and Chris tried to lose weight and found out about liposuction. Chris refused to take the procedure but Peter took it to be skinnier. At first he was still interacting with and helping his son lose weight but when he added muscle he began to forget about Chris, especially when joining the Handsome Guys Club.
  • He and others often made fun of Chris whenever he brought up the Evil Monkey living in his closet much to Chris's fear and dismay.
    • Peter attempted to ruin Chris by disguising himself and saying he was gay because the Evil Monkey seemed to be more of a father figure than him. Before learning the Evil Monkey was real a video recording showed Peter and Quagmire placing one of Chris' hands in a bowl of water causing him to urinate while Quagmire punched him in the face before leaving.
  • In "Space Cadet", Peter brutally insulted Chris' intelligence upon discovering that he's not doing well in school. After finding out that he overheard his insults, he claims that he was insulting Meg while calling her Chris.
  • In "Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)", when a stunt involving killing off Arthur Valentine leaves Chris in a catatonic state, Peter throws baseballs at his face and breaks his nose in an effort to get him out of his state. He also ate Stewie.
• During dinner, Chris sets up a cutaway of how the dinner is crazy of his dinner he had at the Sullivan's house, it cuts to the Sullivan's house where Chris compliments on liking Mrs. Sullivan's mac & cheese. Lois Griffin and Peter both criticize Chris on his terrible cutaway, as Peter says Chris isn't ready for flashbacks.
• In "Fast Times at Buddy Clanci, Jr. High" he has another moment of sadistic violence by throwing objects at other men for fun.
• When Peter found out he was mentally disabled and no charges would be held if he did anything wrong he decided to take full advantage of this: He started a bible fight at church, went into ladies' bathrooms and kicked the doors open, destroyed plates after finishing dinner and grabbed a fryolator accidentally burning Lois, nearly killing her. Because there was no adult officially marked as legally-sane his children had to live at Cleveland's house as enforced by Child Protective Services; Peter put seven prostitutes there so he could get his kids back only to be put on trial for their custody which he lost.
• In "Patriot Games", it is revealed in a cutaway that he goes to the library once a week to watch internet porn while naked. When he later gets a spot on the Patriots, he constantly shows off and annoys the team to the point of getting kicked out of the team. The only team that took him afterwards was a British team called the "London Sillinannies". Upon discovering that they're "softies", he gives all of the teammates steroids to improve their performance. The moment the game begins, the Sillinannies run away, leaving Peter to get overwhelmed and defeated.
• In "Hell Comes to Quahog", he bought a tank with Meg's money and used it to fire at Lois and Cleveland's house as a demonstration and run over Joe's legs without a shred of remorse.
• In "Baby Not On Board", he somehow enters the car next to them to watch a movie, causing the Griffins' car with his whole family in it to crash. He calls Lois "Crashy" without a shred of care or remorse right after they crashed. He later squandered the rest of their money on helium shower curtain rings, causing Lois to rightfully lose her temper towards him and blame all of their misfortunes on Peter's stupidity and selfishness. Afterwards, he calls her a cold-hearted cynic by stating a quote from the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles just to make her feel bad for calling him out and avoid punishment for everything he's done throughout the episode. Basically, Peter got away with his behavior once again.
• In "Big Man On Hippocampus", after losing on Family Feud, Peter angrily shook Richard Dawson over losing, causing him to rightfully push him away and give him amnesia from hitting his head on the podium. While amnesiac, Peter cheats on Lois with a woman named Tiffani Thiessen, causing her and the rest of her family to leave him. Later on, he invited a lot of people over for a party just to enjoy being the bachelor life.
• After Quagmire got a cat, Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Brian decided to sneak into his house and shave it. Peter accidentally killed the cat though he was unconcerned adding further insult by stealing beer from the fridge and driving while intoxicated with it. Peter even tried to play off killing the cat by stupidly following the saying 'cats have nine lives', and simply counting down each 'life' he had taken from the cat by further mutilating its corpse. In the end Quagmire asked where his cat was and before Peter slammed the door he took the money offered to him and apathetically said "I killed your cat." Earlier he did a cutaway showing he lured people to their deaths with siren songs while dressed as a mermaid.
• Peter's comment before the supposed end of the world expressing shame and disgust for his children ("I just hate being around the kids...") was deliberately uttered thinking he would have no price to pay. How mistaken he was once the hoax passed without incident and even Peter's heartfelt apology was fruitless as his children were still mad; when Lois confronted him he asked her if she ever felt like they should've run away or been kidnapped to be taken to the Temple of Doom. In an attempt to interact with his children he asked Meg about her "period" and used crystal meth in front of Chris and Stewie.
• In "No Meals on Wheels", the Griffin Family opened a restaurant but Peter refused to allow Joe and his handicapped friends in again because they were "gross cripples" to which they responded by forming a giant robot that attacked and destroyed the restaurant causing the sign to fall on Peter breaking his legs. In a cutaway he said Ben Stiller's movies were awful behind his back which the actor heard anyway thanks to his elephant-like ears.
  • In another cutaway gag from that episode, it was revealed that the Griffin's previous attempt at opening a restaurant was shut down due to Peter's exploding cupcakes which killed a customer when he ate it, which caused his head to violently explode and Peter then remorselessly claimed "The secret is in the frosting".
• In "Stew-Roids", he put Stewie on steroids after he was beaten up by Joe's daughter Susie Swanson.
• When he found out Chris was being bullied by Kyle he went to Kyle's house to talk to him but beat him up after losing his temper. Though Peter only hit him out of anger and was never willing to do so this was still a crime because Kyle was 13 while Peter was 43; being an adult he should've known better than to get angry at all. Upon realizing how good it felt to bully people he started bullying his family and friends. When he realized he was like his high-school bully Randy Fulcher he went with Chris to pay him back. However, it turned out that growing up Fulcher suffered multiple sclerosis which led to him being physically disabled; instead of feeling sorry Peter attempted to beat him up anyway only to be beaten up by Chris in turn. His justification for still trying to beat up Fulcher was stupidly believing that 'MS' meant he had a 'Monkey Scrotum.
• In "Welcome Back, Carter", he blackmailed Carter into giving into his demands in exchange for keeping Carter's affair a secret between the two of them. Eventually, Peter accidentally lets it slip about Carter's affair in front of Barbara and Lois, causing Barbara to be devastated.
• In Friends of Peter G, he and Brian made a drunken scene at a movie theater. As a result, they were sentenced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He and Brian then convince the members to drink alcohol during one of the meetings.
• In "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.", he notes that he wishes he could kill someone else and decides to do it to Mort Goldman.
• In "Thanksgiving", it is revealed that he once faked his own death just to avoid his dentist appointment.
• In "Grumpy Old Man", he accuses a resident at the Oceanside Retirement Community of being "Old Man Withers who runs the haunted amusement park" and violently tears the resident's face off.
• In "Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream", when Lois asked him to drop Stewie off at daycare and shred a stack of papers, he killed Stewie by putting him in a shredder while bringing the stack of papers to daycare.
• In "Livin' On a Prayer", he killed Thelma and Louise by pushing them in their car off a cliff while proclaiming them to be terrible women.
• In "No Country Club For Old Men", he sat on Stewie's harmonica and ended up with the harmonica stuck in his rectum. He used the opportunity to push a kid behind Lois' car while she was backing out just so he could play music to everything she did afterwards.
• In "A Fistful of Meg", he continuously tormented Brian with his nude body and stopped when Brian shaved to reveal his bald appearance which he used to scare Peter and convince him into putting his clothes back on. He even went as far as cutting his own crotch off, putting them in a box, and making sure Brian opened them.
• In "Baking Bad", Peter murdered Connie Britton's bodyguard just to lick Connie Britton's hair.
• In "Dr. C & The Women", when Cleveland becomes a therapist and starts giving Peter and Lois relationship advice, Peter quickly becomes frustrated and threatens to tell Donna a big secret about Cleveland sleeping with a stripper at his bachelor party just to stop Cleveland from giving him and Lois helpful advice on strengthening their relationship.
• In "Pilling Them Softly", he smacked Cleveland's butt on several occasions for his own amusement.
• In "Papa Has A Rollin' Son", after stepping in to pretend being Joe upon discovering that Joe's dad is intolerant of people with disabilities, he eventually joins him in mocking Joe dressed up like Peter.
• In "Peternormal Activity", he, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe beat a Korean war veteran (who is actually an imposter) named Albert to death after thinking he was a ghost with a hook hand. They try to cover it up by burying his body and his car. In a bizarre move, they also vandalize the car by striking it repeatedly with shovels to “kill” it. Back at home, each time he thought Lois suspected him of what he did that night, Peter was preparing to stab and kill her with a knife to keep his act of murder safe. Later on close to the end of the episode, the man is revealed to be a KKK leader and a veteran imposter so his death is pretty much well-deserved.
• In "Brokeback Swanson", he, Quagmire, and Cleveland put Joe in a state-run home after Joe becomes quadriplegic and requiring care around the clock. The episode ends with Peter getting into a fight with two boys in a Stand By Me parody.
• In "The New Adventures of Tom Tucker", he attempts to improve Tom's image as a “young guy,” causing him to give himself a tattoo near his eye during the broadcast and get fired all because he got jealous of Lois being attracted to Dallas Portland, the new reporter at Quahog 5 News.
• Admitted (during a prayer, no less) that he and the rest of his family cyber bullied a girl until she committed suicide, and that they still wanted God to either provide them with a Jet Ski or enough money in their bank account.
• In "Road to India", he replaces Joe as the popular guy at bingo at a retirement home. After Lois tries to convince him to give Joe back his popularity, he refuses and cruelly shoves his dauber down Joe's throat.
• In "Inside Family Guy", he becomes extremely difficult for the entire cast to the point where he gets fired. When he begs for a second chance and the producers give it to him, he blows it by saying "F*** you!" to them.
• During Chris's soccer game, Peter punches a woman thinking she's a man after she insults him and his son Chris, putting him under house arrest. While Peter had believed he was punching a man, he still assaulted another person and tried to justify it. Later, when Lois is performing in his basement bar and is attracting the attention of other men, Peter immediately punches one leering man who made a sexual comment about Lois towards him after asking him if he was a woman, only punching him once the man confirmed he was not a woman.
• He was responsible for regularly destroying his friend Cleveland Brown's house while he's taking a bath, even doing it one too many times that Cleveland had enough and moved back to his hometown. He later caused the same thing to happen on Cleveland's vacant house by causing a car to crash into the house after throwing Brian from the house into the middle of the road, and expressing disappointment when he remembered Cleveland had moved.
• A cutaway revealed he accidentally killed Peter Griffin Jr. who was a baby by shaking him to make him stop crying. However, this was more of a misdeed since Peter did not mean it.
• In "Internal Affairs" he and Quagmire nearly destroyed Joe's marriage with Bonnie by convincing him to cheat on her with another cop.
• He killed and eviscerated a beached whale with a forklift trying to get it back into the ocean. To add insult to injury he then carefully and gently picked up a seashell with the same forklift and said "You're whale-come" to a horrified crowd.
• It was shown Peter held a hairless twin hostage in his storm shed feeding him garbage: when he thought his hairless twin had escaped, he grabbed a shotgun and rushed out to try and kill him. He also murdered who he thought was a bully of Chris and presented his head but it turned out to be a deaf student. The main plot involved Peter attempting to marry his eldest son who was made the heir of Carter's will.
• He ordered a drone so he could spy on people; in a cutaway he tailgated a fire engine after calling 911 so he could get to the local golf course faster and in another one had "breakfast in bread" even though Lois said their family was behind on mortgage payments.
• When the plane that him, Joe and Cleveland were on that Quagmire was piloting was hijacked, Peter woke up a passenger who had slept through the entire hijacking and point blank told him, scaring the man witless. His justification was that he didn't want him to die in his sleep, not caring about the terror he caused this man.
• In "Herpe, the Love Sore", he menaced numerous people including Meg, his infant son, Stewie, and even Cleveland with a whip that was supposed to go to Quagmire; it was implied he harassed Cleveland simply because he was black. He was also shown to have frequently stolen Quagmire's mail.
• In "Meg Stinks", it was revealed he paid off his shenanigans by frequently robbing a bank. After Meg accidentally killed the manager, Peter told her to kill everyone else.
• When Brian denied that kicking could solve problems, Peter beat him up and threw him out a window leaving him to almost get run over. While having dinner he and his family except Brian did things that would make Brian's date Rita say her age. After they failed he yelled at her and forced her to say it which caused her to run away crying after saying she was 50 to Brian's anger.
• When Lois and Cleveland's new wife Donna Tubbs-Brown had an argument on parenting methods, the two banned him and Cleveland from seeing each other again. To try to get Lois and Donna to be friends as well they performed various (and questionable) stunts to do so. One of them was showing naked babies and their private areas; Cleveland asked why Peter had pictures of them in suggestive positions and taken long before they made the plan which indicated he was a pedophile at one point. He also intentionally crashed his car by driving it into a pole with him and Cleveland still inside resulting in the latter ending up hospitalized and in critical condition due to Peter being protected by airbags alone; this attempt only further cemented hostilities between his and Cleveland's wives.
• When drinking became banned for people under 50 he manipulated Brian into buying alcohol because he was 56 in dog years. When a police officer caught them both drunk he told on Brian leaving him to do community service; Peter didn't care about what happened and still asked him to buy alcohol. Additionally, he drank a beer can in front of Brian, burped at him in his face, littered with the crumpled can and insulted a glaring policeman making Peter do community service as well.

• Peter vs Ernie
• Peter fighting Homer Simpson
• Peter fighting Liam Neeson
• Peter fighting with Donald Trump

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• He got into destructive brawls with Ernie the Giant Chicken, which all started when Peter assaulted Ernie over unknowingly giving him an expired coupon; he later got into several fights after being taken by surprise twice by Ernie, knocking him off a bicycle, and again by crashing into his car. Each fight in itself ended up causing massive chaos around Quahog that left the environment of the town in serious destruction and countless casualties dead in the crossfire while Peter and Ernie survived none worse for the wear.
  • He got into a similarly long and violent brawl with Homer Simpson that destroyed much of Springfield, as well as killing and injuring many of its residents. That said, both of them were equally at fault; however, it can also be said that Homer was the one who started it by attacking Peter, who told him his show is not good. Thankfully, the two made up later on.
  • He also fought Liam Neeson and claimed that he could easily beat him up. He was eventually mistaken when Liam easily beat him up instead, leaving Peter all bloodied and bruised.
  • He would later start a similar brawl with Donald Trump, where they ended up launching several missiles by accident, damaging some landmarks in Washington DC, and destroying both the Wright Brothers' plane and The Spirit of St. Louis at the Smithsonian. In Peter's defense, Trump seemed to have started it (throwing the first punch), and he also prevented Trump from destroying Barack Obama's portrait.
• In "Brian The Closer", Peter desperately tried to get Brian's old rope to the point of tying the rope to his car and driving off to get it away from Brian. This greatly injured Brian causing him to collide headfirst with a fire hydrant making him lose his teeth and break his nose. Peter later uncaringly gave Brian the rope back having grown bored of it and along with the rest of the family refused to help fix Brian's face. Brian also told Peter to go to hell.
• In "Turkey Guys", Peter got drunk again and ended up eating the Thanksgiving turkey supposedly with Brian; the two headed out to find a replacement turkey. Through Peter's stupidity the two encountered bad luck and misfortune which endangered Brian. When Brian could not take anymore, he yelled to which Peter revealed he was just framed so Peter didn't have to take all the blame. He furthered this by saying Brian was a dog, he could throw him off a bridge and unless he hit a person, he was fine.
• In "Finders Keepers", he presumably beat an innocent boy to death with a shovel because he thought he was after buried treasure. In the beginning of the episode, he disgusted his family with his putrid breath. He later punched Chris, giving him a black eye and causing Lois to bail on him with the rest of his kids; he briefly held her at gunpoint when they found the real treasure, not listening immediately when she said they should split the treasure and trying to backtrack when he realized what she had said.
• In "Lottery Fever", he tormented Quagmire and Joe for amusement after becoming rich forcing them to perform while criticizing and shooting them with two rounds blowing out Joe's eye and piercing Quagmire's throat forcing the former to get a glass replacement eye and the latter to presumably get vocal implants before doing the same thing to Mort. He also pooped on Angela's desk after resigning.
• In "A Shot In The Dark", he shot Cleveland's son Cleveland Brown Jr. in the arm and was arrested and charged with a hate crime by Joe. However, he did not mean to because while in a neighborhood watch organization it was dark and he thought Cleveland Jr. was someone else trying to rob the house as Cleveland has his family enter via the window to avoid letting air conditioning out making Cleveland inadvertently responsible for the shooting. However, in an effort to prove that he's not racist, he decided to pretend to be black by going to the middle of the town, getting naked, and painting himself brown. Thankfully, Lois put him in his place by repeatedly hitting him with a magazine and calling him out on his dimwitted shenanigans.
• Peter and Quagmire helped Mort burn down his pharmacy to collect the insurance money since it was already falling apart after the death of his wife Muriel Goldman and a few others at the hands of Diane Simmons. As part of a campaign to save the business, Peter and Quagmire flew a plane with an advertising banner which was pulled off by an antenna spire and fell to the ground where it blindsided a school bus causing it to fall off a bridge and into a river which killed everyone including the driver; they and Mort showed remorse and concern not for the deceased but instead Mort's livelihood which had taken a further nosedive.
• In "Ratings Guy", he stole Nielsen boxes and ruined television causing everybody to hate him. He initially believed he had done nothing wrong, thinking everyone else was wrong for not enjoying his stupid additions to various TV shows.
• In "Vestigial Peter", after he became annoyed with Chip, he attempted to get a dingo to eat him; this failed and Chip realized Peter wanted to kill him so he angrily left the house.
• He and Lois forced Stewie to do a commercial which tired him, gave him drugs to keep him active and pressured him to succeed as well as using the money they planned for his college fund for themselves instead. To make sure Stewie got the parts as well, Peter jammed an airhorn into the ears of Stewie's competitions and deafened them, possibly causing more serious damage and showed absolutely no remorse. Peter also was using a 3D printer to print Coyotes, which resulted in one of them attacking Chris, and Peter outright telling Brian he would keep printing them and seeing who they attacked.
• In "Padre De Familia", Peter became a patriot and convinced Angela to check if workers were legitimate citizens only to find out from his mother Thelma Griffin he himself was an immigrant after which he was fired. While working as a nanny he fell through a roof skylight dressed as Mary Poppins, killing two children, showing no remorse and only being disgusted as he puked; after that he pushed the corpses under a bed with his umbrella and left. In another scene while working as a maid and housekeeper he entered a motel room even though the person inside specifically told him not to.
• Once Peter returned from being lost on an island at sea he became distraught after learning Brian married Lois. He then seduced her into having intercourse with him; while this could be considered less villainous since they were previously married Peter still did not respect the marriage between Brian and Lois or Brian in general and when she attempted to explain it wasn't right Peter said he loved her more and Brian was simply a dog demeaning him as a pet instead of an actual deserving husband.
  • Peter was angry upon finding out Lois slept and was once in a relationship with Jerome who was supposed to be Cleveland's replacement; he flew into a jealous rage attempting to drive Jerome away by dressing up as a "ghost" and spent the rest of the evening drinking. Stopping by Jerome's house he threw his bottle through a window and hit a lamp causing a fire that nearly killed Jerome while Peter failed to notify emergency services.
  • He became equally furious when he learned through a pocket-dialed message that Quagmire also loved Lois. Unable to control his jealousy he ignored Brian's suggestions and got into a fight. Later, while still angry Peter flipped Quagmire off when he moved away. He even blamed Lois for Quagmire loving her. While it is justified for Peter to be mad at Quagmire for being in love with his wife, he took things too far.
  • It has been shown that Peter is always jealous of any man that shows an interest in Lois, or even ones that Lois seems to be interested in. He stupidly destroyed a mirror because she complemented his appearance, attacked and destroyed a movie screen when she complemented Hugh Grant, punched out anyone who showed the slightest bit of interest in her, and on one occasion engaged in a brawl with Brian after Brian rightly pointed out he doesn't deserve Lois and treats her horribly, although in Peter's defense, Brian sexually assaulted Lois.
• When he and the guys were lost at sea and drifting on a makeshift life raft made of Quagmire's sex dolls, Peter resorted to eating Joe's legs in secret to avoid starvation. When Joe discovered that his legs had been eaten and was outraged, Peter tried to justify his actions that he didn't want to anger Joe, ignoring the fact he had committed cannibalism and the fact that Joe had a right to be angry with him.
• In "High School English", he drove his car into a rich family's house and went into the library where he retold The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn and Of Mice and Men. He tried to escape the police by hiding in the attic but was apprehended and battered by them in the end; he even had his nose broken after insulting them.
• In "How the Griffin Stole Christmas", he uses his position as a mall Santa to get whatever he wants and get away with anything. Fortunately, the real Santa confronts him and threatens him with putting him on the top of his naughty list. Peter instantly brushes off the threat and the two engage in a war of pranks, but when Santa has had enough of such games, he slips his belt as a garrote around Peter's neck and gives him a final warning to give up the job.
• In "The Dating Game", he receives a black eye from someone for spanking their child.
• In "Emmy-Winning Episode", he throws Brian and then Stewie out the window.
• In "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas", he loses his Christmas spirit, as shown when he drives past the house with his whole family waiting in anticipation just to get their hopes up.
• In "Veteran Guy", he and his friends (except Quagmire who served as a U.S. Navy pilot before becoming a civilian one) impersonated military officials and he later beat an innocent boy to death just so he could ride a jet ski.
• In "The Woof of Wall Street", while he and the guys were in charge of the Drunken Clam he brought in a real bull which destroyed the bar and portrait of Jerome's mother who passed away resulting in Peter being rightfully attacked after failing to evacuate himself from the Clam's premises as a ploy to avoid being hurt by replacing himself and his friends with scarecrow replicas.
• In "HTTPete", he shorts out the entire internet by peeing on a server, plunging the world into chaos.
• In "The Unkindest Cut", when a gun tells him that he can use it to get free tacos, he does so without any care.
• It was implied in "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter" that he was interested in raping 3-year-old girls.
• In "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin", when Joe asks Peter how old is the girl in his laptop, Peter goes all the way to the harbor to throw his laptop to the sea because he didn't want people to see what was on it, implying that there was child pornography on his laptop.
• In "Family Gay", he put a brain-damaged horse he had purchased on his car after it died of a heart attack and drove only to slam the brakes and send the horse crashing into Mort's pharmacy; his family was made to pay the damages even though he alone was responsible.
• In "Are You There God? It's Me, Peter", after realizing he's dead while stuck in an elevator with God, Peter begged God to give him a second chance to prove that he could be a good father and husband. However, at a dinner outing to FuddRuckers, he loses it just because Chris got a plain burger, Meg got a chicken burger, and Brian was cutting his burger. Later on the drive home, he yells at his entire family that he hates them all so much just because Chris asked him to crack his window open a little.
• In "Regarding Carter", upon discovering a gun that Carter gave Lois for her birthday and that she later hid, he uses it recklessly by nearly shooting Chris and forcing the judges from The Voice to turn around while Chris sings "Alone" by Heart on the show.
• In "Stand By Meg", he sat on Meg without a shred of care.
• In "Con Heiress", when Herbert mistook Peter for a teenage friend of Chris, he goofs off with him while Chris works instead of helping him, resulting in the two fighting.
• In "Hefty Shades of Gray", he becomes a senior news analyst and spreads fake news, including blaming all the crime on immigrants, just to boost his own ego as Lois points out to him.
• In "Trans-Fat", after using the transgender bathroom at a Red Sox game and finding out the extra perks at work when it comes to being transgender, he goes along with it by insulting Quagmire's hero, getting Joe suspended by planting drugs in his work locker and rubbing what he did to Joe in his face while reminding them that he's a woman just to avoid being punished.
• In "You Can't Handle The Booth", he strangles a sea turtle in a cutaway.
• In "Throw It Away", in the cutaway which demonstrates Peter's "better method for killing spiders", he takes the spider to a room in a garage, and, right as the spider realizes he was set up, Peter kills him by shooting him in the back of the head in a parody of Tommy's death from GoodFellas.
• In "Girl, Internetted", he insults a man with a ponytail, causing the man to kidnap him and almost chainsaw Peter's arm completely off. He later insults his driver for his man bun.
• In "Connie's Celica", while trying to get Lois exonerated for the supposed murder of Connie D'Mico, Peter attempted to do this by "following Scooby Doo rules" in which he literally ripped peoples' faces off as if they were masks revealing the skulls of his victims. Then possibly out of narcissism and/or being delusional, printed a fake newspaper he made on his computer that said he helped stop the "Bloody Skull gang" when he had actually committed multiple acts of mutilation (and likely murder) and to further stroke his ego it had said he "Made a better song than Uptown Funk" while blushing saying that the newspaper was embarrassing him.
• During an appearance on The Cleveland Show, Peter denies giving Quagmire a show of his own due to Quagmire being a rapist, despite the fact that Peter has committed numerous acts of rape and pedophilia, making Peter a hypocrite.
• In "Undergrounded", he beats up a karate black belt girl named Kelsey and trash talks over her about strutting around Pizza Hut with her trophy when the audience boos at him.
• In "Start Me Up", when Peter has to start working from home, Lois tries to be supportive and kisses him on the cheek, which causes him to report Lois for sexual harassment even though they're married and have intimate relations. Peter due to his delusions and stupidity acts as if he was violated and when the HR agent tries to comfort Peter when he breaks down in tears by touching his hand, Peter once again over reacts and misinterpreted the gesture and reports her to "Super HR".
• In "Coma Guy", upon becoming obsessed with Van Halen's Panama, he causes mayhem by causing destruction and escaping the police.
• In "Holly Bibble", he left Brian chained up in their backyard before the family evacuated to a motel to get away from an oncoming hurricane, causing Brian to almost die from drowning when the house was bombarded by the floods caused by the hurricane.
  • Also to add insult to injury, in one of Peter's ripoffs of Bible stories Peter casts Brian as Judas Iscariot, the disciple that betrayed Jesus. Also due to the fact that Brian is an atheist, Peter casting him as a major villain in Christian religions can be seen as discrimination which Peter had done briefly alongside his family in "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", when they first learned of Brian's atheism.
• Peter has both recently and in the past tried to demean other animated comedies that are arguably doing much better due to the decline of his own show over the years. He also tries to use false information to make Family Guy look better by saying that it has been around since the 1950s when it didn't air until 1999. He has also denied/downplayed his accountability in his show's perpetuation of offensive stereotypes and jokes thinking that it shouldn't matter just because his show is a cartoon as if that gives him a pass to use forms of bigotry in his material.
• In Movin' In (Principal Shepherd's Song), Peter again mistreats Chris. In addition to forgetting his name and believing it to be "Keith", Peter downplays and tries to make the best of Chris being fat shamed by Principal Shepherd saying he can win "Biggest Boy", (some kind of sideshow competition at the state fair) while Peter shows no issues with the fact that Chris felt humiliated. This is the second time Peter tries to support Chris being obese and unhealthy for the purpose of winning some trivial competition since the episode "Killer Queen", when Peter not only made Chris more unhealthy so he could win a local hot dog eating contest, but when Lois decided to send Chris to fat camp, Peter dresses like some popular jock character before fat-shaming Chris, when he was responsible for Chris' latest health issues. In this instance, Peter also allows Principal Shepherd to move in with their family out of pity, when he gets fired despite the fact that Principal Shepherd wasn't a fully competent and professional in his job (as there were implications of him inappropriately touching certain students, evident gambling issues, stealing food from the student cafeteria, shooting up heroin-*Note that is technically in a deleted scene, and having a public nervous breakdown during his divorce). After Shepherd turns the Griffin home into a copy of his former place of employment and begins treating Peter and his family like students who must be obedient towards his authority. When Peter finally retaliates and makes the logical choice to kick him out, Shepherd then tricks the Griffins into the basement locking them down their as a form of "detention", which the delusional former principal believes is right and just, showing how insane he really is. In spite of being imprisoned they bond (in a way that parodies The Breakfast Club), which they believe entitles Shepherd to be reinstated as principal. While Shepherd inadvertently helped them bond that doesn't excuse everything he did as imprisoning a family in their own home among other things he has done are criminal offenses and instead of reporting him the proper authorities, they allow him to get his former job back in spite of his disturbing nature. Peter later cheats on Lois by kissing another woman on the lips while tricking Lois into thinking that she and Peter were going to kiss.
• In "Brian's a Bad Father", during a lunch break on a hunting trip with Quagmire and Joe, Peter intentionally shoots Quagmire in his arm. When the three friends meet back at the bar, Quagmire tells Peter he is fed up with his short sighted and reckless behavior, and ends their friendship. Rather than apologize or fix the situation, Peter believes that Quagmire's at fault and attempts to vilify him. This causes a rift between the two and leads towards a contest for Joe's affection. In the end, Joe decides that Quagmire has helped him more through hard times and gets along better with the family and chooses Quagmire. Peter tries to bond with Joe's son Kevin only to leave stating after discovering him masturbating with a knife. With no more friends and even his own shadow abandoning him for Quagmire, Peter decides to commit suicide, which Lois talks him out of and persuades him to try and reconcile with Quagmire. Later on, Peter offers Quagmire the opportunity to shoot him to break even, thinking Quagmire would decline and consider the "thought" as being what counts. However, when Quagmire actually agrees, the two wrestle for the gun until Joe shoots Peter in an attempt to break even and stop the dispute. Peter (angry he was shot by Joe) and Quagmire (upset he was not the one who shot Peter) are dissatisfied. While Peter argues how everyone will settle their differences, Quagmire gives Peter a well-deserved shot to the head, making the score even and giving him brain-damage.
• In "Better Off Meg", when Meg is believed to be dead and the family mourns for her Peter, treats his family rather apathetically, as when Lois started crying, Peter told her to stop, seeming that he doesn't want to her to be sad, before his tone becomes unemotional and then antagonistic with him glaring showing that his family's despair actually annoys him despite the fact they are fully justified in mourning the supposed loss of Meg. He does the same to Brian as well.
• In Mom's The Word, Peter goes to visit his mother's grave and Evelyn meets him there, admitting that Peter had been the first man she had been close to since Walter had died and had let things get out of control. But when they hug, Peter snaps her back, accidentally killing her. Peter leaves her in the care of a cemetery groundskeeper as he slips away.
• In "Turban Cowboy", in a cutaway gag, Peter wins the Boston Marathon by driving his car during the event and killing dozens of people he runs over.
• In "Baby Stewie", when Brian attempts to reverse the effects of Stewie's invention that inadvertently made Stewie a regular baby and only causes Stewie to go through various genetic mutations, Brian tries to watch the movie Splice, thinking it might help (due to its use of genetic engineering in the plot), however to Brian's disgust and horror, it's revealed that Peter taped over Splice to make videos of him exposing his penis. When Brian looks away Peter appears behind him and begins inappropriately touching Brian's shoulders and asking Brian what he thought of it in a calm yet disturbing tone, essentially sexually harassing Brian.
• In "Saving Private Brian", Peter condones US army soldiers who abuse their military status to rape civilians in the middle east in a concluding statement he makes while speaking about the upsides of the army saying "And there's all the brown people you can rape", showing how depraved Peter truly is.
• In Save the Clam, after Jerome accidentally killed the original owner of the Drunken Clam Horace during a baseball game, when the bank decides to have the Clam demolished, Peter, Quagmire, and Joe hold the bulldozers off at gunpoint (though Joe at first had to leave due to his status as a cop, before having a change of heart). They were saved from being arrested, only because Jerome bought the Clam as a way of making amends for Horace's death.
• In Ocean's 3 1/2 to help Joe pay back the loan shark who helped cover Bonnie's medical bills, Peter opens a lemonade stand which he is able to sell it pretty well as he has put vodka in it, which intoxicates several children.
• In Stewie's First Word, Peter uses Stewie making a scene by saying a profanity in church as an excuse to leave for breakfast. Later while Lois goes on vacation Peter endangers Stewie's life by putting him in a baby seat he outgrew and then mowing the lawn while it was covered in rocks. Peter doesn't realize the stupidity of what he's doing as Stewie screamed off-screen in agony as the rocks were propelled at him. In a cutaway he and Chris sadistically kill many dolphins likely due to jealousy of people claiming dolphins have high intelligence, overcompensating for his and Chris' stupidity.
• In Boys & Squirrels, Peter buys a chainsaw and begins using it recklessly. First he saws through his front door for no reason before trying to use it like a set of utensils on Stewie's breakfast, cutting the top half of the backrest and nearly injuring Stewie. Peter leaves it on in his and Lois' bedroom as it airs out fumes, trying to justify it by saying it's difficult to start the chainsaw and doesn't stop using it until he gets whiplash from sawing a tree. This causes a family of squirrels to be killed and injures a baby squirrel. Later after Peter gets a chiropractic adjustment, he finds his true height. Teenagers begin mistaking him for the urban legend "Slenderman", which Peter uses to convince said teenagers to commit suicide. When Quagmire calls him out on this twice, he dismisses it as a "goof" when he was committing suicide enforcement.
• In La Famiglia Guy, Peter misinterprets Joe asking him to be the godfather and acts as if he's an Italian mobster. He then takes the role literally by using violence (albeit accidentally) to have his way and use the children's piñata. Peter takes a liking to it and decides to become an actual mobster and recruits his friends as his new lieutenants (even Joe, despite him being a cop), and they commit crimes together such as robbery, shakedowns, and theft of an airplane. He also slaps Chris for watching a PG-13 movie and then has him sent to Italy when Chris points out Peter has dirt in his nails from scratch offs which Peter stupidly calls the "family business". In a cutaway he tries to and then has Brian killed for eating his leftover food and cream soda. Peter even at one point regurgitates Stewie up, having shown his incredible stupidity by revealing that he had believed Stewie was a boiled egg that was 'shouty' and had eaten him. Eventually though after threats from the Rhode Island Mob Peter becomes an informant and retires from his short-lived mobster lifestyle.
• In Wild Wild West, Peter endorses the mayoral campaign of Wild West (Adam West's cousin) wanting him to be mayor instead of librarian Elle Hitler (no relation to Adolf Hitler) simply because she's woman (and not due to her being somewhat incompetent and inexperienced), and thinking men running things will be better, demonstrating his misogyny and then prevents all the pitfalls of an all male-dominated society from being mentioned by Lois when they argue. He also prefers to Call Elle "The Librarian" instead of her actual name. Although after initially supporting Wild West's campaign for mayor Peter changes his views after Lois accidentally reveals her attraction to him (due to her sexual frustration) and makes Peter feel inadequate. Peter then attempts to deter West's campaign, first by supporting his opponent even though she's implied to be somewhat incompetent and trying to remove his mustache (to take away his masculine visage), but this fails. He then tries to brand West's initials onto a library to frame him for vandalism which results in burning the library with Elle in it. Luckily West comes in and saves the day. Peter remains bitter still until he receives some anthropomorphic baby mustaches from him and apologizes.
• In "Pawtucket Pat", after it was revealed that Quahog's founder Pawtucket Pat stole his trademark beer recipe from Native Americans and killed them to keep the secret Peter defended Pat and insisted his statue remain along with the statue of a pedophilic priest that was already removed simply due his role in helping build Quahog, overlooking the fact Pat had been a racist murderer and even possessing the audacity to call him a hero. He criticized Brian for writing the story exposing the truth and even went as far as defecating in Brian's food without him knowing and when he admitted this to a shocked Brian he said "I know, politics, right", dismissing what he did as common political warfare when he was just being a petty brat throwing a temper tantrum.
• In "Fecal Matters", Peter is shown to be quite negligent when he is asked to be a nurse during a flu epidemic, as he refuses to do any actual nursing due to his own fears of needles and blood, as well as the fact he is not being paid, showing just how insensitive he is. He only takes the job as a nurse to goof off for the holidays. He almost lets the Giant Chicken die, due to their feud and feeling it will let him win. To celebrate, he recklessly and stupidly opens several bottles of champagne, hitting Meg, Chris and Stewie all in the eyes with the corks that flew off from the bottles. When Meg insults him over his obsession with the feud, Peter tried to deliberately hit her in the eye by shaking another bottle and opening it in her direction, only to get hit himself. While he does save Ernie in the end, it is only because he hates him and feels a rush from their feud, in addition to not wanting to be solely responsible financially for all the destruction their brawls have brought about.
• In "Boy's Best Friend", he crashes Joe's new sports car while being on his phone into a pile of trash cans, wrecking it and killing Oscar the Grouch.
• In "Who's Brian Now?" he breaks into the house of Brian's former owners the Hendersons and assaults them "Road House" style to get Brian back. There he was arrested for this, Peter is acquitted at his trial as the jury was made up of Patrick Swayze.
• In "Meg Goes to College", hoping he would still have plenty of money to have in his golden years, Peter and Lois conspire with Principal Shepherd to fake a college application for Meg to get her accepted into Brown University on a scholarship. Peter then proceeded to stay at college himself, adopting a hippie lifestyle and frequently cheating on Lois, as well as revealing his escapades to Meg, ignoring the fact that she is his daughter and would not want to know this. He also treated him going to college as a breakup with Lois, claiming to not be ready for a long-distance relationship, ignoring that Lois was simply asking him to pick Stewie up. This once again shows his disregard of his wife and his infidelity.
• In "Pawtucket Pete", after Brian becomes more popular than Peter as the Pawtucket Brewery's new mascot, a jealous Peter seeks revenge by puncturing Brian's Hops Balloon during a parade, causing destruction and helium to rain down on the townspeople and getting Brian fired. Afterwards, it was revealed that Peter took a hostage in an attempt to force a negotiation so he would not serve any jail time for his actions.
• In "Tales of Former Sports Glory", when the guys begin telling tales of alleged former sports career, Peter presumably due to wanting to be included makes a fabricated story about his "past" as professional boxer, simply ripping off Rocky and putting himself in the titular role. He has Lois portray his story's version of Adrian and introduces her in his narration as "The local autistic girl who worked in the pet shop". Doing this is directly insulting and degrading to Lois as Peter is projecting his own low intelligence onto her (which is evident in the story when Peter sat on turtles at one point). By telling this fake story he used up the remaining time, he also prevents Jerome from telling his own story about his past as a bronze medalist in the Olympics. This story is supported by Jerome's bronze medal, and as he is eager to tell what may the only true story as all of the stories including Peter's are contradictory to established in-show histories. But Peter wanting to be in the spotlight prevents Jerome by telling his rip-off story, thinking about himself.
• In "Must Love Dogs", he and Chris stole Stewie's Halloween candy.
• In "80s Guy", he killed the Caddyshack Gopher with a bazooka, in a misguided attempt to prove that the outdated humor of 80's films and the 80's was still appropriate. This mainly came about due to him introducing Chris to the films of the 80's to help him get girls, which led to Chris being arrested for 'felony stalking'.
• In "Rock Hard", while at the record store Peter makes a racist assertion that white people invented Rock n' Roll after telling a rip-off story of Jim Morrison and The Doors. This infuriates Jerome, who happened to be at the record store and then tells the secret origin of the "true father" of Rock N' Roll, Muddy Waters, a poor African-American musician living in the South during the pre-desegregation era Jerome reveals that Muddy faded into significance due to his driver, a young Elvis Presley stealing all of his music to start his own rock and roll career. After Jerome tells this, Peter then out of stupidity or just more racism, praises Elvis (irritating him further) even though he was the antagonist of the story and never actually made his own music (in Family Guy continuity). This can also be viewed as self-racism since Peter was descended from Nate Griffin, an African former slave, and his solely identifying with his Caucasian ancestry.
• In "HBO-NO", Peter ridicules award winning and critically acclaimed television shows by dedicating the episode to acting out crude parodies. When Lois desires to do the show Big Little Lies with female lead characters, Peter decides to gender-swap the characters so he and his male peers can play the roles of the main cast while Lois is dismayed at Peter's continued misogyny and favoring of a male-centered story.
• In "Girlfriend, Eh?", when Chris reveals that he got a Canadian girlfriend during his time at camp, Peter believes that Chris is lying and takes Chris all the way to Canada to call him out on what Peter perceives as a bluff. As Peter learns that she's also a billboard model he shows further disbelief since Chris' girlfriend is "Way out of his league". Chris then calls Peter out on how Lois is out of his league in terms of physical appearance, and they still maintain a relationship (even though they are flawed people), while Peter does nothing around the house. Peter in retaliation says he doesn't believe Chris because he thinks Chris is a "fat loser", causing great emotional pain to Chris. This is revealed to be Peter selfishly projecting his own past misfortunes whereas he actually did lie about having a Canadian girlfriend in high school and assumed that Chris was just as pitiful as he was. When Chris finds this out he actually feels bad enough for Peter to lie and say he made his girlfriend up since Chris knows Peter's insecurities will tear him up within. Chris then has to explain to his girlfriend that Peter is a "Fat Loser", meaning that Peter is very much still the pathetic human being he was in high school that feels bad when others in similar situations to his own experiences and actually ends up successful and seeing them through. Peter is incapable of accepting that Chris is a more stable and likable person than he is. Were he to, his son wouldn't have to lie and make his own life seem as sad as his was, or still is for that matter.
• In "Bend or Blockbuster", when Lois wishes to have a family fun day, Peter keeps interpreting it as a 'family free fun day' for himself, and before she is even aware of it, heads to the clam and tells her to have fun, disregarding her wishes. He did this moments before as well, as when she text the family to ask for help bringing in the groceries, he loudly and rudely demands that she does it herself after reading the text.
• In "A Wife-Changing Experience", after learning that Lois began working her charm to get Joe sexually excited so he could have sex with his own wife Bonnie, Peter punched out Joe in a fit of rage. He would also punch Joe a second time after deluding himself into thinking that Joe was in the army and they were moving because of him, completely losing touch with reality in this moment. He later attempts to get even by doing the same thing Lois was doing, which unfortunately grossed out people by him and got him arrested.
• In "The Munchurian Candidate", he, under hypnosis, had an affair with Lois' mother, Babs. However, this wasn’t quite his fault, as he had been activated by the trigger phrase, the theme to ''Extra'', that had accidentally been set as his trigger phrase. During the therapy session that led to the hypnosis, Peter angrily overreacted when the therapist mentioned his name immediately, thinking that she was taking Lois' side before the therapy had even begun and then trying to hide from her and Lois.
  • In the same episode, Lois and Peter suggested having sex on the couch in front of the kids, showing they have no moral sense of decency.
• In "Unzipped Code", when Cleveland gets a job at Peter's brewery, causing Peter to get humiliated at work and at home, Peter sets out to get his job back by getting Cleveland fired by putting a rat in the brewery tank, but it backfires and he almost gets fired instead.
• In "Happy Holo-ween", Peter constantly shows how much he doesn't care about doing family events and even buys a Hologram machine to make a semi-physical hologram to do the "boring family stuff". Even after the hologram gains self-awareness and almost succeeds in stealing Peter's life Peter makes another hologram to fill in for him, showing that he learned nothing. He also ogled Cleveland's underage teen step-daughter Roberta in a revealing costume.
• In "Get Stewie", after getting a drastic weight loss, Peter decides to spend more time away from his family, especially Chris, and enjoy his new lease on life.
• In "Carny Knowledge", while bonding with Chris, they brutally mocked Lois, as well as took pleasure in upstaging her, causing her to drive a wedge between the two. When they later found that out, Peter threatened to destroy Lois' piano, causing her to admit that her plan was formulated solely out of getting her feelings hurt by them. As payback, Peter forces her to get a Mark Davis haircut.
  • Furthermore, because Peter forgot to lower the rope which the piano was being raised from, it resulted in the piano falling and hitting Brian who lay unconscious in the remains.
• In "The Candidate", it is revealed that Peter has been trying to leave Stewie at the fire station consistently, trying to abandon his infant son more than once.
• In "Love Story Guy" when the guys are talking about the significance of "First Loves", Peter mentions how Chris went through a break-up that caused him to go through emotional turmoil. Peter says that while he understands how saddened Chris has become that didn't stop him from walking out of comforting him to drink with his friends, and mistakenly believes that his ex-girlfriend was his "first love", despite being around for Chris' past romances. During the main junction of the episode when the guys are discussing their first loves, Peter cuts off Cleveland as he begins to tell his own story. His "love story" is about how when he mixed his Ambien with alcohol he had an immersive hallucination where he interacted with his Hollywood Actress crush Meg Ryan, whom Peter perceived as his first love despite never really interacting with her. When Cleveland tries to use what little time is left in the episode to tell his own story (which is an actual story about "First Loves"), Peter denies him this saying that if it wasn't good enough for The Cleveland Show before it was cancelled, then its not good enough now. This is another example of how Cleveland has been denied any further character development and staying in a minor role.
• In "From Russia with Love", after Lois resolves some interpersonal issues and wants to take things further in being mentally healthy, she realizes that her relationship with Peter ran its course and that because it has devolved into being toxic and unhealthy that they should end it. When she tries to talk to Peter about this Peter cuts her off and threatens to kill himself if she leaves him, forcing her to stay with him before saying "I Love us" in a relaxed tone, satisfied at keeping Lois trapped in a relationship she hates under Peter's terms. This is profoundly hypocritical as Peter has voiced his own desire to leave Lois multiple times, showing that he's fine with ending the relationship if it's on his own terms, likely due to his misogynistic double standards and need for self-validation.
• In “Fertilized Megg”, after learning that Meg is Bruce and Jeffrey’s surrogate, he tried to get her to have an abortion. He also developed a severe meth addiction throughout the span of several months.
• In "Supermarket Pete", when Lois got a job at the Drunken Clam, he attempted to hit on her, thinking she is someone else, therefore attempting to cheat on her with the same person.
• In "Old World Harm", he beat Chris up by practicing wrestling moves on him in a cutaway.
• In "Baby, It's Cold Inside", he abandoned Lois behind during what was thought to be a shark attack, only for the shark to be revealed to be a dolphin. After she made it to shore, Peter humiliated her by taking a picture of her naked and washed ashore and posting it on Instagram.
• In "The Return of the King (of Queens)", it is revealed that Peter's first instinct upon getting angry is to beat up Brian. It is also revealed that the Griffins' house had hockey ice on the kitchen floor in a cutaway just so Peter could tackle Chris in order to steal his waffles. A running gag involves him throwing Meg, Joe, and Traylor Howard out of a castle window in a reference to Braveheart.
• In "Cabin Pressure", during an egg toss contest at the Brewery Company Picnic, Peter repeatedly tosses a hard-boiled egg at Lois, hurting her. During their five-night stay, after missing the bear show at Art's Trading Post, Peter angrily reveals that Lois' defecation clogged the toilet and lashes out at everyone before accidentally burning down the cabin from burning Quagmire's itinerary sheet. As a result, everyone, including his family, leaves him at the cabin by himself and decides on not helping to bail him out. The ending reveals that the whole scenario was a dream caused by Peter falling unconscious due to a stress heart attack at the egg toss.
• In "Fat Actor", he made Brad Pitt fat in order to get him to gain weight so he could play Chris Christie in a biopic about the former New Jersey Governor.
• In "Live, Laugh, Love", after noticing that Joe never found him funny, Peter confronts him about it and strives to make him laugh by any means necessary, including breaking into Joe's room while he's asleep and "Ha Ha"ing his text for him just to boost his own ego, only for Joe's excess cables to get in his way and land him in the hospital.
• In "Drunk with Power", after Peter and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh switch lives, he is expected to contribute to a ruling that could potentially repeal same-sex marriage, only for Peter to manage to convince everyone on the Supreme Court to ban marriage for everyone before Brett returns and demands his old life back.
• In "The Chicken or the Meg", when Peter discovers that Meg is dating the Giant Chicken's son, Nugget, he rudely refuses to tolerate Nugget's presence even after witnessing his caring side at dinner, prompting Meg to move out while Peter shows little care for Meg leaving him and instead happily brushes it off.
• In "Hard Times at Adam West High", when Quagmire, Joe, and Cleveland collectively win $123 from buying lottery scratchers, Peter instantly becomes jealous that he doesn't get a cut of the winnings to the point of breaking into the Quahog Min-Mart and stealing some lotto tickets in hopes of winning some money of his own, only to get arrested.
• In "The Elle Word", Peter envisions himself as a koala in a cutaway and sadistically mauls an Australian child by clawing his eyes out.
• In "A Real Who's Hulu", Peter pretentiously starts the episode by asserting that people primarily use Hulu to stream Family Guy. It then becomes apparent that the episode is used out of spite towards the critically acclaimed and Emmy award winning TV shows that it parodies while Family Guy's own popularity and viewership has continued to decline. The parodies also prove to be completely out of touch with the source material, with Chris pointing this out in the last parody. During the parody of The Dropout, Lois initially is in control as the main character Elizabeth Holmes. However Peter being a misogynistic control freak, as Holmes' business partner and lover (and as himself) change the creative direction of the parody and gives his own character more authority. He also laughs at his own bad material to stroke his ego.
• In "One Foot in Front of the Mother", Peter adopts a foster child named Rebecca as his ward to live with the Griffins until she gets back on her feet, before later declaring her his girlfriend and cheating on Lois with her as they move into a condo in Tucson to explore their feelings.
• In "Cool Hand Lois", Peter cheats on Lois with Joe as payback for dating Bonnie, not knowing that Lois and Bonnie backed out of having sex. The episode ends with Peter nervously acting as if he didn't cheat, before shooing away Joe, who set up a couples' trip of their own.

Other Media

Fortnite

• In Fortnite: Battle Royale Chapter 5: Season 1, after arriving on the Island with his new athletic appearance, Peter gained influence and wealth over time. He later joined The Society, an organization of the wealthiest individuals on the island that sought to empower the wealthy and that ruled the island for generations. Peter eventually became one of the five bosses alongside Valeria, Montague, Nisha and Oscar. Seeking more power, the bosses used a fragment of the gods' power to create medallions that would make them stronger, and began searching for Pandora's Box under Valeria's advice. Believing Jones had the answers about the Box, the Bosses kidnapped his best friend, Peely in order to blackmail him. Peely was constantly being moved around by The Society's bosses, with Peter temporarily imprisoning him in the basement of his mansion. At the same time, The Society was waging war against The Underground, a rebel organization created to defeat them and liberate the Island that Jones joined. While they were defeated by The Underground and that Peely was freed, Peter and the bosses still managed to find Pandora's Box and to open it, but they did not obtained the power they desired but instead doomed The Island, with the wrath of Zeus and the gods and the evil power of Pandora's Box. After the arrival of Zeus' Pantheon, Peter and bosses had no choice but to flee and hide, with them barely surviving their confrontation with the gods.