Seth MacFarlane is well known for creating recognizable shows such as Family Guy and
American Dad, but he’s also well known for his wide range of voices.
Seth voices a wide array of characters, and today we’re looking at how those characters
stack up when it comes to morality.
I’m Brad with WickedBinge and this is Seth MacFarlane Voiced Characters: Good to Evil
Before we start, we need to talk about a few exclusions from this list.
We are excluding any characters who only make bit appearances in Robot Chicken or only appear
in cutaway gags in Family Guy since they don’t appear long enough or often enough to earn
a spot on this list, even though Seth voices a vast majority of them.
As usual, we’ll be starting with the most noble of the batch and moving our way down.
These characters are The Good.
Taking our Gold medal of good is Ida Davis from Family Guy.
Ida the parent of Glenn Quagmire who underwent gender reassignment.
Ida was a soldier during the Vietnam war and is seen as a war hero because of her actions
during that time.
After her transition, she is shown to be proud of herself and has no problems talking about
it, much to Glenn’s dismay.
She makes a multitude of appearances throughout the show, being invited to the Griffin’s
thanksgiving alongside Glenn, where she states that she doesn’t agree with Kevin deserting
the army.
Her other major action was being part of the search party to find Glenn when he was kidnapped.
Ida is a loving parent to Glenn and will even give up body parts for her son, earning her
the Gold Medal of Good.
Earning our silver medal of good is none other than Greg Corbin from American Dad!.
He is the resident newscaster of Langley Falls, as well as The Smith’s neighbor.
Greg is one of the only out and about gay people in the neighborhood and is also a member
of the Log Cabin Republicans, which surprised his ex-partner Terry at the time.
Greg may be a bit overbearing at times when it comes to his daughter and is not one to
shy away from gossip; but he is overall seen to be a good person.
Greg is shown to be a good partner and is one of the people raptured up into Heaven.
Greg may be gossipy but this negative trait pales in comparison to some people further
down this list.
Grabbing the bronze medal is Johann Krauss from Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Krauss is made up of a gaseous creature within a mechanical suit sent to take over field
operations for the BPRD.
He was against Hellboy’s violent tendencies from early on, trying to help cull these tendencies
and warning him that his temper tends to get the best of him.
Krauss then helped the BPRD defeat the Golden Army and after the deaths of their leaders,
retired from the BPRD and paranormal work in general.
Our next spot goes to Phineas and Ferb’s Jeff McGarland.
Jeff appears for only one episode and was kidnapped by Doof to watch his television
pilot; and annoyed Doof enough to make him leave with his incessant meddling.
The only major thing he did afterwards was steal Doof’s idea and rebrand it as his
own show, but this plagiarism does not go unnoticed, causing him to fall outside of
the top three.
Next, we can’t forget about Ted, from the movie of the same name.
Ted is a teddy bear who came to life thanks to a wish from his best friend and surrogate
brother John.
After coming to life he became a hollywood celebrity and child star, and after the burnout
that follows, just kind of crashes at his Thunder Buddy’s apartment.
Ted throws wild parties in the apartment and breaks into Tom Brady’s house.
But even though Ted has his problems, he cares about John, his wife and his son.
He loses everything he loves from his bank accounts to his job and even his wife thanks
to a court ruling, but even after losing all of this he tries his best to get it back by
trying to hire the right lawyer.
But even though he was ruled as property by the state of Massachusetts at first, he’s
just as much of a person as anyone else, and you can’t not love him.
With that we’ve finished up the good category and we now delve deep and reach the Gray Area.
Opening up our Grey Area, we have Wayne “The Brian” McClain from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Wayne only appears in one episode and is the main antagonist, and is shown to be a competitor
of Frylock and his mind powers.
Wayne has the ability to form anything with his mind, from real people to buildings, and
seemingly has complete control over them after they’ve formed.
He uses these powers to consistently win in Bar Trivia, even going as far as to make the
host give Frylock an Impossible Question.
He is shown to be somewhat malicious, but only to the point of wanting to feel adequate
for women.
When Frylock tells him that he can just form a girlfriend, Wayne thanks him and does so,
the two flying off and never being seen from again.
Wayne isn’t really a bad guy, and could barely classify as an antagonist, which is
why he ranks here.
Next, we have Tom Tucker from Family Guy.
Tom Tucker is the other newscaster that Seth MacFarlane voices and is definitely the worst
of the two.
Tom is the anchorman for Quahog 5 news and has been for a long time, having already gone
through two co-anchors at the very least and multiple bad events.
He often made fun of his co-anchor, so much so that she tried to frame him for a series
of murders.
Tom doesn’t have a lot of spotlight episodes, and the ones he does appear in show him to
be narcissistic and misogynistic, but these crimes don’t lower him enough to the gray
area, although he stands right outside it.
Moving on down the grey area, we have Doctor Elmer Hartman.
Doctor Hartman is the Griffin family’s doctor and is shown to be irresponsible throughout
his appearances.
Hartman is known to be the worst doctor in the hospital and consistently shows it, performing
a back adjustment while drunk or leaving his phone in Joe’s back which causes him to
become a quadrapeligic.
Hartman is idiotic, there’s no doubt about it, but he’s not malicious, which is why
he doesn’t rank lower on our list.
Next is the character with the closest voice to Seth MacFarlane himself, Brian Griffin.
Brian is the talking white labrador and family dog of the Griffins who has turned into a
bit of a pretentious alcoholic.
Brian is shown to be relatively smart, supposedly being a member of MENSA...
But still neglects his son and can’t hold down a steady job.
He has some racist tendencies such as not picking Cleaveland when working as a cab driver…
As well as a consistent need to blame things on others, such as blaming the aforementioned
racism on his father.
He also constantly shows that he’s not that great of a person, using people to further
himself, such as using his son’s fame to get ahead or Stewie’s genius to further
his own plans and ideals.
Brian isn’t completely terrible, but he definitely deserves this spot in the gray
area.
Right behind Brian is his good friend Stewie Griffin.
Stewie is the flamboyant infant son of Peter and Lois Griffin and a maniacal genius.
Stewie is well-spoken with an advanced vocabulary and while he’s calmed down a lot in recent
years, he wasn’t always this way.
In earlier episodes, Stewie’s maniacal side was in full force, wanting not only to kill
his mother but dominate the world, and while he never accomplishes either of these, his
attempts do certainly pull him down further.
He’s committed multiple atrocious acts ranging from beating and shooting Brian to creating
an evil clone of himself that causes plenty of problems.
The main reason he doesn’t rank any lower is because it’s shown the only person he
cares about is Brian and struggles to do anything wrong towards him, even going back in time
to save his life.
Stewie is only slightly worse than Brian, but honestly the two of them are sort of interchangeable
on the list.
Rounding out our Grey Area is American Dad’s Stan Smith.
Stan is a CIA agent who has been working with them since the 80s and is shown to always
be alert for terrorist activity, for better or worse.
He was unpopular in school, being bullied to the extent of having pigs dropped on top
of him.
As he grew more confident he also grew a bit crazier...
Some examples include locking up his neighbors in his backyard, sd well as stealing a baby
because it would go to a gay couple.
He also tends to kidnap people, ranging from Hillary Duff to The Weeknd…
Just to make a point to his family.
Stan doesn’t have any issue being violent when his job calls for it.
But not everything he does is bad, he is shown to love his family... and even Roger, allowing
the alien to live in his house because the extraterrestrial saved his life.
But even so, he ranks this low because he has committed many crimes against humanity.
With Stan all wrapped up, we’ve reached the end of the Gray Area and we now delve
into the depths of the Bad to Evil category.
Starting off the bad to evil category is Mike from Illumination’s Sing.
Mike is the greedy and self-centered classically trained jazz musician mouse who was part of
Buster Moon’s competition.
Mike is driven by power, money and the allure of feminine mice and often hangs around a
crowd that doesn’t like him.
He’s not very honest, managing to cheat at card games despite his size and swindling
a trio of bears out of their money.
His best trait however is the fact that he has no problems standing up for himself and
sincerely appreciates when his girlfriend saves him.
He only ranks at the top of the bad area because his good traits may not outrank his bad ones,
but definitely stops him from falling lower.
Eccentric alien and disguise aficionado Roger Smith from American Dad is next.
Roger is the sarcastic, surly, amoral and hedonistic alien who lives with the rest of
the Smith family in Langley Falls, Virginia.
Roger was caught cheating on Emperor Zing and was known for demanding extravagant and
vain services from the island he was dictator of.
He’s committed an unmentionable amount of crimes, from using his foster children for
slave labor, various drug offenses or killing a group of people over twenty dollars.
He’s also surprisingly petty, letting a wrecking ball hit Francine because she didn’t
cook his steak correctly, or trying to murder the Smiths because they roasted him.
However, he’s not all bad, he was willing to die for the Smiths and even saved the life
of Stan after just meeting him.
The main reason he can’t rank any lower is because acting nice literally poisons him,
so, this fey pansexual non-human is just naturally this way, hence not falling to the bottom
three despite his numerous crimes.
Next on our list is the main character of Family Guy Peter Griffin.
Peter is the near psychopathic, petty and patronizing patriarch of the Griffin family.
Peter is a terrible father, not only constantly making fun of Meg, but physically abusing
her, beating her and on one occasion shooting her.
He is also shown to be anger prone, getting into multiple fights over things as petty
as an expired coupon.
He’s shown to be incredibly jealous and fearful of his wife Lois leaving him, but
still finds time to gloat about being right when she is wrong about something.
He’s also a consistent drug user, everything from cocaine to crystal meth, and while this
is not bad on it’s own it leads to a lot of the problems he faces.
Even with his mental shortcomings which lead to the death of his stepfather, he is shown
to be smarter than some people, such as James Woods.
He also shows a lack of honor, abandoning the revolt that Carter’s workers were throwing
so that Carter could give him U.S. citizenship.
When it comes down to it, Peter doesn’t really have a lot when it comes down to redeeming
qualities.
He’s not the worst character in the show and still doesn’t land in the bottom three,
he is damn well close to falling towards the bottom.
Grabbing the bronze medal of Evil is Family Guy’s Glenn Quagmire.
Glenn is good friends with Peter, Cleveland and Joe, and is the perverted neighbor of
the Griffins.
Glenn is an airline pilot and a former ensign of the United States Navy, and while he shows
a lot of honor in these positions, doesn’t particularly do so outside of these jobs.
He’s done a lot of very promiscuous acts that are the main reason he ranks so low,
with certain words said within his house causing mechanical arms to strap down or throw a woman
out.
He’s well known to only like women for their bodies which shows his true colors more often
than not.
He’s committed plenty of crimes from violating a dead body to actual assault on multiple
women and murdering Jeffery Fecalman for abusing his sister.
He hates Brian to a sadistic level, running him over at one point and even telling him
to jump off a roof to see if he will land on his feet, and laughing sadistically when
he fails to do so.
Glenn handily lands here on this list and yet he is still not the worst character from
Family Guy.
Carter Pewterschmidt takes the silver medal of evil, and is definitely the worst character
from Family Guy.
Carter is Lois’ wealthy father who owns both U.S. Steel and Pewterschmidt Industries
and is shown to be a stereotypical greedy millionaire.
Carter is bigoted in a number of different ways, and is very open about it.
To Carter, Money equals happiness...
Well, money and causing Peter a great deal of pain, forcing Peter to fish at the bottom
of a glass filled with salt and barbed wire all for five dollars.
His money hungry tendencies cause a lot of problems for a lot of people, he creates a
smear campaign against Marijuana specifically to make all the money he can from that set
of problems.
He also has the cure for cancer stashed away at one of his businesses and doesn’t release
it to the public simply because he knows he can make more money from treating cancer than
curing it.
He says he loves his daughter Lois, but still refuses to pay her ransom when she’s kidnapped,
he even hates Peter so much that he was willing to pay his daughter millions of dollars not
to marry him.
He employs multiple forms of slight slave labor such as the rancor under his mansion
and the mexican immigrants he exploits as underpaid gardeners.
The reason he ranks so low but not at the bottom is simply because of the fact that
even though he absolutely despises Peter, he shows some sort of compassion to his grandchildren.
He’s one of the few characters in the show to not treat Meg horribly and helped Chris
get into a prestigious private school.
However, these good moments are dwarfed by his endless string of terrible deeds.
Finally, The gold medal of evil goes to Emperor Sheev Palpatine from Robot Chicken.
Emperor Palpatine was initially hard to rank on this list, but we can confirm that he’s
still done everything from the Original Star Wars Trilogy plus more.
A short list of crimes he’s committed in both continuities include the initiation of
Order 66 which killed hundreds of Jedi and the creation of the Death Star which has killed
millions not to mention the wars he started which killed billions.
He is also responsible for the creation of Darth Vader and assumed to also train Darth
Maul like the original continuity.
He is a manipulative self-centered sociopath who’s possibly committed multiple genocides.
In just the Robot Chicken continuity he’s shown massive anger issues and frustration
problems and a complete lack of confidence in his sith apprentice Darth Vader.
He’s also been shown to confidently brag about his murderous exploits to other powerful
people.
Palpatine is a violent maniacal genius who has killed so many people that he’s ahead
of Carter by many many miles and he deserves the worst spot on our list.
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