This is part of our Family Guy Series. This cache highlights
the
character Stewart Gilligan Griffin (Stewie). Where else would
you
expect to find Stewie when he is not trying to take over the
world.
Stewart Gilligan "Stewie" Griffin is a fictional character
in
the animated series Family Guy voiced by Seth MacFarlane.
Obsessed
with world domination and matricide, Stewie is the youngest
child
of Peter and Lois Griffin. In addition to siblings Chris and
Meg,
Stewie has a half-brother Bertram who is unknown to the other
Griffins.
Though he was originally an evil child-genius bent on
world
domination, the writers in more recent episodes usually ignore
that
aspect of his personality, instead focusing on a more
flamboyant
character. He retained an antagonistic role in the show,
especially
toward Brian in episodes like "Three Kings" and "Lois Kills
Stewie". Stewie is considered to be the show's breakout
character.
Wizard magazine rated him the 95th greatest villain of all
time.
Family Guy uses a "floating timeline", in which the
characters
do not age, and as such the show is always assumed to be set in
the
current year. In several episodes, events have been linked to
specific times, though sometimes this timeline has been
contradicted in subsequent episodes. It is unknown when Stewie
was
born or where he was conceived but it is known that Lois
smoked
"weed" when she was pregnant. He lives with his older brother
Chris, older sister Meg, their parents Lois and Peter Griffin
and
their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian, in Quahog, Rhode Island.
He
also has a half-brother, Bertram, of whom the rest of the
Griffin's
are not aware. Bertram is Stewie's rival on several
occasions,
though they have much in common.
Of the in-home Griffin children, Stewie is the only one
that
does not attend school. He instead stays home with his dog
Brian
whom he sometimes loathes, though most of the times they're
friends. Occasionally, Stewie and Brian go on adventures
together.
These include, Germany circa World War II, traveling back to
Quahog, and current Europe.
Stewie's hobbies include watching television, causing
mischief,
attempting to rule the world, creating weapons and playing with
his
teddy bear, Rupert. Throughout the series. Stewie has not gone
to
school, yet he is still supernaturally intelligent and while he
has
no job, he does make money in numerous ways including gambling.
He
is also an avid Star Trek fan, with one episode featuring he
and
the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation spending time
together,
though he ultimately becomes annoyed by all of them.
Though the Griffin's rarely acknowledge it, Stewie tends to
be
violent or rude when things do not go as he wishes. The only
character who is aware of Stewie's antics is Brian.
Stewie is a one-year-old with a very sophisticated psyche
who
talks with an upper-class British accent. He reached his
first
birthday in the season 1 episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang",
and
has remained the same age ever since. His nature and mannerisms
are
juxtaposed with typical childlike interests and actions.
While
highly literate and able to cite pop culture references that
date
much further back than his age would let on, he is also
entranced
by Raffi and the Teletubbies. Stewie succumbs to other
weaknesses
of children his age – he believes Peter has truly disappeared in
a
game of Peek-a-Boo, talks to his teddy bear (Rupert) as if he
were
alive, is overcome with laughter when Lois blows on his
stomach,
and has no idea how to use the toilet. MacFarlane has stated
that
Stewie is meant to represent the general helplessness of an
infant
through the eyes of an adult. Per cartoon physics, his ability
to
move objects of greater weight than himself is not surprising
to
other characters, nor is his ability to retrieve firearms
from
hammerspace. In "Lois Kills Stewie" it is also revealed that he
has
a secret chamber behind a wall in his room, containing weapons
of
all shapes and sizes (varying from simple revolvers to miniguns
and
deathrays).
Stewie's mastery of physics and mechanical engineering are at
a
level of science fiction. He has constructed advanced
fighter-jets,
a mind control device, a weather control device, robots, a
time
machine(though this was built on his free time out of boredom
with
another toy), a shrinking pod, and a teleportation device
that
brings people back to their respective timeline, as well as
an
assortment of guns including lasers, a rocket launcher, and
crossbow. Stewie employs these to cope with the stresses of
infant
life (such as teething pain, and eating hated broccoli) and
to
murder his mother Lois, with mixed success at best depending on
the
objective.
In other episodes, Stewie engages in other violent or
criminal
acts, including robbery, carjacking, loan sharking, forgery,
and
killing off many minor characters.
Stewie eventually realizes his dreams of matricide and
world
domination in the sixth season two-part episode "Stewie Kills
Lois"
and "Lois Kills Stewie". The events, however, are reverted in
a
deus ex machina ending, where most of the story turns out to be
a
computer simulation. Because of the rather disastrous ending
for
himself in the simulation, he decides to put aside his plans
of
matricide and world domination for the time being.
Despite his somewhat evil nature, Stewie does seem to have
a
softer side. For example, in "Chick Cancer", when Brian
unwittingly
makes a racist comment while the two of them are discussing
Stewie's "marriage" to Olivia Fuller, Stewie is openly disgusted
by
it. When Brian profusely apologizes, Stewie leaves, saying,
"You
gotta work on that. Bad dog." In one episode where Brian goes
to
find his mother and discovers that her dead body has been
stuffed,
Stewie says, "Someone must have said something funny, because
your
mother's in stitches!" After laughing for a few seconds, he
tells
Brian, "I'll leave you to grieve," before walking out of the
room
to give Brian some alone time with his mother.
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