Lois Griffin (seasons 8-present)

Lois Patrice Pewterschmidt-Griffin (born February 18, 1975) is the deuteragonist in the Fox animated TV series Family Guy. Originally, she was a protagonist, but as she became darker, despite being one of the protagonists, she does have several episodes where she has an antagonistic role.

She is voiced by Alex Borstein, who is well-known for her portrayal of Ms. Bonnie Swann on the hit satirical comedy show MADtv.

In the first 7 seasons, she was a good character, but ever since season 8, she has been flanderized badly and hasn't redeemed ever since.

Why She Doesn't Kindle Joy Anymore

 * 1) She has been badly flanderized to the point where her character is pretty much hopeless now, and she, along with Peter, arguably suffered one of the worst flanderizations in any piece of media; she originally started out as a nice and compassionate wife of Peter and a loving mother that always supports and gives good advice to her children, but nowadays, she is shown to be a short-tempered, immature, egotistical, annoying, wrathful, and psychotic dominatrix wannabe who acts like she has control over her family's life, never defends Meg and Chris from their father's abuse and only talks down to her, is a massive hypocrite who calls her family out on things she's guilty of doing herself and is very loud and obnoxious, and has shown a great deal of disrespect towards Peter, abusing him on several occasions, and even cheating on him on several occasions as well.
 * 2) * What's even more jarring is the fact that just like Mr. Krabs (from season 6 to 10 of SpongeBob SquarePants) where she is meant to be the wise one to Peter and yet does more bad things than him and gets away with them.
 * 3) Alex Borstein's voice becomes nasal and extremely annoying. While it does sometimes occur in the earlier seasons, it was not too much as her voice is still mostly tolerable most of the time.
 * 4) She's purely dominant over Peter's life.
 * 5) She has done just about as much (if not, more) stupid things as Peter. Like turning down ten million dollars from her father that could have really helped the family, and once tried to make the town give up vaccinations.
 * 6) She can also be very thick-headed, clueless and idiotic, like when she once stated that it's impossible for men to be sexually harassed by women, gay and transgender are the exact same thing, and she when she blamed Peter when she cheated on him.
 * 7) With Peter, it's expected for him to be a bad parent, but with Lois, she is meant to be the wise and kind one. But ironically, she is much worse.
 * 8) She sometimes completely neglects and insults her children, especially Meg.
 * 9) She falls right under MacFarlane's Unfair Sex trope, where she has little to no exposed flaws that are supposed to cause conflict that will help her grow as a character.
 * 10) She constantly insults and puts down other people, acting as if she's better than they are, and even mocking people for things she is equally guilty of.
 * 11) * She keeps calling Peter names, even when he doesn't deserve it.
 * 12) She is at her worst in "Throw it Away", where she made the rest of her family leave the house and wants to ensure the house was empty and cluttered.
 * 13) Her mean girl personality makes her unlikable.
 * 14) * She used to be a mean girl back when she was in high school, and bullied Joyce Kinney to the point where she holds a grudge against her.
 * 15) She once abused Peter by beating him with a magazine in "A Shot in the Dark". Whilst Peter was trying to do something that was outright offensive and wrong, it is still not right.
 * 16) Her musical talents are almost never heard of in newer episodes, which is strange since that was one of her most well-known traits.
 * 17) She is sometimes seen having sexual affairs with other guys. Worse still, some of them are underaged, such as Meg's boyfriend in "Go, Stewie, Go!" and a young Justin Bieber in "Lois Comes Out Of Her Shell". And in "The New Adventures of Old Tom" she abandons Peter to meet up and with a stranger who claims he's rich and left with him on his helicopter and presumably have sex with him afterwards as the episode ends. She even blamed Peter for cheating on him when it clearly was her fault.

Redeeming Qualites

 * 1) In seasons 1-7, Lois was a loving mother who despite her annoying moments she cared about her children and was compassionate towards her husband Peter, always being there for her family, which makes the viewers miss old Lois.
 * 2) * Her original persona can still be present, and she can be likable in a few episodes such as in "Connie's Celica" and even "Better Off Meg".
 * 3) Her design is still good (if attractive) and she can look pretty neat in different outfits.
 * 4) She still cares about her family nowadays and is there for them to help them albeit much rarer.
 * 5) From time to time, she has made some good points towards her family, along with her voice being tolerable at times, like PeTerminator, Back to the Pilot, and even when she is not yelling or screaming.
 * 6) Much like with Peter, she does occasionally show remorse for her actions. (Like when she attempted to apologize to Joyce Kinney for her mean prank back at high school)

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