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| “ | God, who do you have to probe around here to get a Chardonnay? | „ |
| ~ Roger Smith. |
Roger Smith, also known as Roger the Alien or just known by his first name Roger, is the deuteragonist of the adult animated comedy series American Dad!.
He is voiced by the show's co-creator Seth MacFarlane, who also voices Stan Smith in the same series, as well as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Carter Pewterschmidt, Brian Griffin, and Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy; Mike in Sing; and Max Chilblain in Logan Lucky.
Background[]
The episode "Fellow Traveler" gives Roger his backstory on how he reached Earth. In 1947, while being pursued by a vengeful shapeshifting creature, Roger escapes to Earth. He crash lands in Roswell, New Mexico, which parodies the famous Roswell incident. While Roger is alone in the desert, he comes across a Bible salesman and is taken to his home, full of other characters with questionable and shady backstories.
Meanwhile, he is still being pursued by the other shapeshifting alien, that is seeking revenge for Roger presumably killing its young. At the same time, a younger Avery Bullock also tracks Roger down, but is distracted by Roger's first disguise. This is the moment that Roger discovered his ability to fool others with this disguises. After Roger collects a component needed to power his ship, he is captured by Bullock, but the group of people Roger first met saves him.
Roger originally felt that Earth and its inhabitants had low potential, but after eating a chili pepper and being saved by humans themselves, Roger discovers an interesting and positive side to humans. Roger persuades the other alien to forgive him, and it shapeshifts into Roger's form, hoping to form some sort of loving connection with him. Roger uses this as an advantage to run away and let Avery capture the other alien instead, thinking that it's actually Roger.
Many decades later, through many strange events and applying many disguises throughout his life, he is captured by the CIA, with one of the employees being the show's main protagonist, Stan Smith. Roger ends up saving Stan's life, and as a reward, Roger is allowed to live at the Smith's residence. However, he must always wear a disguise before leaving the house so that no one can know he is an actual alien, despite many characters of the show already knowing.
Appearance[]
He resembles a stereotypical gray alien with big oval-shaped eyes, short stubby feet and a chubby waist.
Personality[]
Roger describes himself as a "fey pansexual alcoholic non-human". Speculation exists regarding Roger's sexuality, but the discussion might be moot as he is an alien (his name may come from the word "androgynous" which means having both male and female traits).
Roger is sarcastic, irritable, argumentative, disrespectful, impolite, obnoxious, destructive, childish, petty and cruel. He is also a violent and homicidal sociopath with a love for character role-play. He once convinced Steve Smith he was adopted as his revenge for Steve eating the last cookie.
Roger also has a history of holding grudges as he tried to kill the rest of the Smith Family for insulting him at a comedy roast by starting a gas leak causing an explosion, hiring a hitman to kill them and removing the brakes from Stan's vehicle and writing death threats to Merlin Olsen for seven years after Father Murphy was canceled. Roger is also shown to be a dangerous and scatterbrained sociopath committing many offenses in his various personas. However, there is justification for his behavior as it was revealed his species need to be jerks or their tendencies otherwise build up as bile and kill them.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Roger is an alien and despite his human tendencies he does display a variety of superhuman abilities, such as;
- Memory Synchronization: In Roger n' Me, Stan and Roger conducted a sex-like probing friendship ritual which allowed Roger's mind to have a copy of all of Stan's memories. Roger later used this knowledge to compete at Best Buddiez! with Stan in order to win $200,000.
- Superhuman Survivability: While not resilient to ballistic damage or knife wounds, Roger has displayed inhuman durability and resistance to physical trauma. He has survived falling from great heights, drowning and a variety of vehicular accidents. It was shown that Roger can sleep in a state of suicidal hanging. Roger has even shown to be flame retardant, although he does feel the pain of being burnt. Roger can easily survive in the vacuum of space and being shocked by electricity.
- When Roger and Stan were trapped on a deserted island, Stan tried to drown Roger only to realize that Roger's physiology immunizes him to drowning. Stan and Roger took advantage of this to use Roger's body as a paddleboat to escape the small island.
- Roger's physiology is also immune to the psychological effects of the Collector's technology.
- Roger's physiology has only four fingers and no bones, making them 100% cartilage.
- Regenerative Abilities: When Roger faked his death to detach himself from the Smith family he stated that the explosion injured him badly and his arms had blown off. By the next year he had already regenerated new arms. However, he did mention that his arms did not fully regenerate yet. When Francine served his body parts to wild animals, he mentioned his body will grow back eventually. When Roger's organs were removed, they willingly returned to their body and healed him.
- Superhuman Longevity: Roger has an extended lifespan and is more than 1600 years old. He has even had his 1600th birthday in the Smith household. Roger believes that he has a life expectancy of about 9000 years left in Little Bonnie Ramirez. This means Roger's species can live for more then 12,000 years.
- Asexual Reproduction: He can also reproduce asexually in a variety of ways. Some of the ways shown are;
- In Deacon Stan, Jesus Man, Roger was going through his reproductive cycle and was implied to have impregnated themselves. This egg sack was transferred to Steve when he was giving Roger CPR via mouth to mouth, who then accidentally transferred the egg sack to Betsy White. It was never revealed what became of this egg sack.
- During the events of Roger's Baby, Roger managed to impregnate himself by absorbing Jeff's brain and rebirthing him back into human form. It was also shown that Roger bleeds from his eyes when they go into labor.
- In Persona Assistant, Roger developed a massive tumour on their head which was eventually surgically removed. This tumor became sentient and developed into a little homunculus who considered Roger his father.
- Superhuman Legs: Roger also has superhumanly strong legs and his legs can generate enough muscle power to easily push an entire tree with his legs alone. He can also use it to hang from the ceiling.
- Superhuman Speed: Roger has even on occasion displayed his power to move at incredibly high speeds and can appear to be a blur to the naked eye. This has been noted to be the main reason why he can swap personas mid-sentence without difficulties.
- Dream Walking: Roger can use his powers to enter the dreams of sleeping individuals as well as interact with entities within the dream realm. Roger's abilities to access the dreams of individuals can even be used by entities in the dream realm as a conduit to exit the dream realm and enter the earth.
- Book Immersion: In Flush After Reading, Roger used his power to enter stories in books as himself and even take others along with him.
- Limited Electrokinesis: According to Roger, his species is 60% electricity, and can generate concentrated electrical blasts through his finger tips. He can even use this power to resuscitate people as well as stop their hearts.
- Miscellaneous Characteristics: If Roger and his species stops being a jerk completely and start acting too nicely, his "bitchiness" starts to bile in his body and poisons him to the point of slowly and painfully killing him. If Roger eats okra it causes him to fart highly toxic gases. Roger is capable of crapping out gold and jewel-encrusted turds, which have the power to corrupt the human mind.
Abilities[]
- Combat Skills: When under the influence of cocaine he becomes incredibly focused and displays Matrix-like fighting moves and while under the influence of marijuana he has been known to become as light as air; the former's effects are very brief.
- Mastery of Disguises: Roger is a master of disguises and manages to convince anyone, except the Smith household, into believing he is a legitimate human being. He has many personas.
- Criminal Intuition: Roger even displays knowledge of many illegal activities, such as gang activity, drugs and other forms of criminal violence. Many of his personas have also shown him being heavily involved in organized crime.
- Inexhaustible Wealth: Some of Roger's personas are known for being extremely wealthy and hold a great deal of influence. One of his most notable examples is that he is the billionaire CEO of Octaduel.
Biography[]
Roger's flamboyant speech pattern is a parody of Paul Lynde, although many thought it was akin to Family Guy's Cleveland Brown. He can speak Spanish (though not very well). On his home planet, he was a greeter at a Walmart analogue store called Philaxido. His favorite baseball team is the San Diego Padres. His favorite movie is Miller's Crossing.
Little is known about Roger's past; his planet is never seen or described in-depth, though according to him, it sounds fairly similar to Earth, although Roger claims the climate of his home world is 400 degrees colder than most ecosystems of Earth, with the possible exception of Antarctica. In The Best Christmas Story Never, he says he landed on Earth 60 years ago at Roswell. In Of Ice and Men he mentions that snow reminds him of his home planet, and figure skating apparently exists there; he has also commented that the planet has stores like Walmart (he was once a greeter at one of these places) and colleges. Likewise why he came to Earth is never explained: he does state that the reason he came was to collect a sample of hepatitis, although since arriving he seems to mostly be mooching, and seems in no hurry to go back home (in the pilot he was supposed to try to contact his home world, but got distracted by an "I Love The 80s" marathon). This led to the possibility that Roger is marooned on Earth and his home world does not know of his whereabouts. Though it was finally revealed in The Weiner of Our Discontent that Roger believes he came to earth to be "The Decider," seeing if the planet is worth saving or destroying. This belief was crushed horribly when he discovered in his spaceship a note that stated that the ship was a test model and he was in it as a "crash test dummy," meaning Roger's own species abandon him on the planet. It is also known that Roger "invented" disco and became a millionaire in the 1970s after he discovered a cassette tape from the future, thereby creating a time paradox, but he lost his fortune after disco died.
Four years prior to the series, he was incarcerated by the CIA in Area 51, when Stan Smith, then an intelligence officer, was on duty at the base. Tired of living in a laboratory, he escaped his holding cell, thus triggering a lockdown investigation. Stan tracked him down in a kitchen and was about to kill him before Roger pleaded for mercy, but the security team riddled the room with gunfire, from which Roger pulled Stan to safety. They slid down a laundry chute into a waiting truck just as a thrown grenade blew up where they previously had been standing. Grateful to Roger for saving his life, Stan offered to repay him in any way at all, obviously leading to his being added to the family. As a means of convincing the family to let him stay, Stan presented him as a birthday present to Steve for his tenth birthday. Hayley and Francine were horrified of him at first sight, as was Klaus, but Steve was delighted to have his own alien. By the start of the series, however, the family seems to have come to terms with him.
In earlier episodes, Roger was unable to leave the house because he was an alien but after putting on a disguises in later episodes, he is able to leave the house anytime he wants. Roger loves disguises, but some disguises change his personality, creating various personas that Roger is sometime unable to control until he takes off the disguise. Some of these personas are sometimes the reason Roger acts as a villain in some episodes, a notable persona being Ricky Spanish.
In one episode, it was shown that Roger's species need to be mean to others or it would slowly kill them, though it doesn't always excuse what he does.
Villainous Acts[]
- In the episode Stannie Get Your Gun, Steve eats Roger's cookie, so he decides to take revenge on him by tricking him into believing Stan and Francine kidnapped Steve. He even goes so far as to take Steve to a family who actually lost their son. When Roger reveals the truth, the family is humiliated.
- In the episode Tears of a Clooney, he adopts several foster kids and forces them to do hard labor without caring about them at all. Haley eventually came with Child Protection Services and took the kids away from him.
- In the episode Four Little Words, Roger impersonates Kevin Bacon when out in public, abusing Kevin Bacon's identity and acting like a complete jerk to everyone. He eventually abandons the identity after he kills an elderly man by running him over. He ruins the real Kevin Bacon's name, and even frames him for murder without the slightest bit of remorse.
- In the episode I Can't Stan You, Steve and Roger decide to team up and scam people out of their money by threatening to file lawsuits. To do this, Roger injures Steve in many ways, even pushing him in front of a moving car.
- In Meter Made, Roger uses one of his personas to go to an art class to paint a nude portrait of Hayley, while implying it was because of perverse reasons. Then, to make things worse, he lends the painting to Steve for him to use to pleasure himself. In spite of knowing full well that Steve is literally using a portrait of his own sister for sexual gratification, Roger sees no issue with this. He then sells the painting to Francine to display at her party, much to Hayley's horror. When Francine panics upon learning that Stan had used funds he pocketed from his court mandated service as a meter maid for their own gain, she destroys the painting, causing Roger to exclaim in sorrow that his art was destroyed and accidentally reveal that it was a portrait of Hayley, causing a horrified Steve to realize the truth. Instead of apologizing to Steve for his actions, Roger instead tries to convince Steve to kill himself for what he did, even though it was Roger's fault to begin with. Roger downplays/denies his accountability and likely redirects his feelings towards Steve. This doesn't go unpunished, as Roger is then hit (apparently in the appendix as he says "This is how Houdini died") and knocked down by a vengeful Hayley.
- In the episode Widowmaker, Roger becomes a psychiatrist to help Stan open up more to Francine and Stan ends up telling Francine that he killed her friend's husband. When her friend learns the truth, she tries to run to the police but Francine knocks her unconscious. She then asks Roger to convince her to stay quiet, but Roger takes it too far and convinces her to kill herself. Turns out Stan lied, something Roger knew, yet still told the other woman to kill herself.
- In the episode The Phantom of the Telethon, he sabotages Stan's telethon just because he stole his idea. However, this villainous act can be justified since Stan didn't give Roger credit for coming up with the telethon idea, and most of Roger's crimes are harmless. It's actually the man Roger released from his cage that does the true evil.
- In the episode Roy Rogers McFreely, he takes on this persona of the same name has himself elected president of the neighborhood society, introduces mass corruption and backroom deals to the council, and then abuses his position to institute proposals for no purpose other than angering Stan all to get back at Stan just for not picking up grenadine at the store for Roger's Roy Rogers drink.
- In the episode Moon Over Isla Island, Stan tricks Roger into disguising himself as the dictator of a small island. When Roger learns that Stan was just using him, he decides to stay on the island and ends up turning into a tyrant.
- In the episode Shallow Vows, one of his alter-egos, Valik, cuts Steve on the chest and even hunts Steve and Haley down to Argentina.
- In the episode Cops and Roger, Roger asks Stan to train him so he can join the police and be a cop. But after only two hours Roger becomes a crooked cop, like Chaz Migliaco and starts working for him, but Roger changes when he tries to save Stan and kills Chaz.
- In the episode Merlot Down Dirty Shame Roger ends up kissing Francine when they both had too much to drink during a tour of wine country. When Stan arrives, Francine attempts to tell him about the kiss, but a scared Roger keeps stopping her anyway he can, so Stan wouldn’t take his best friend necklace. He ties her to a hot air balloon that is just taking off, stages a robbery on the wine train and separates the coupling of the train's cart that she was on, and ends up knocking her unconscious and burying her alive to keep her from telling. As a last resort to save face, Roger cowardly throws her under the bus by saying she was the one who kissed him, managing to convince Stan. He then shows absolutely no sympathy or empathy to the heartbreak he has caused Stan by convincing him that his wife is a cheater, only showing shock when Stan mentions that he would no longer be living with them if the house is sold in a divorce. He resorts to knocking out Stan and burying him alive, before admitting he was the one to kiss Francine. He then left Stan to "cool off" when Stan justifiably made the threat to rip Roger's head off. Roger does get some karma, when a vengeful and dirt-covered Stan beats him up and takes his best friend necklace.
- In the episode One Little Word, he is asked to babysit Avery's child AJ, who unwittingly breaks one of Rogers Crystal Spiders. Roger is next seen trying to push AJ into the a lake to drown, in a clear overreaction to said spider..
- In the episode Bully For Steve, he decides to become a crime scene photographer and removes a stop sign to create a car crash so he can photograph it. He also tried to get both Steve and Francine to stick their hand down the garbage disposal, trying to switch it on the moment their hands went into it.
- In the episode Great Space Roaster, Roger goes on a killing spree after being roasted by the Smith family and eventually traps them in space. Roger then forces the family to roast each other but it was then revealed Roger felt that way because he didn't consider himself part of the family.
- In the episode Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls, Stan tries to make a better horror house than buckle, whose horror house is extremely realistic. So he brings in actual serial killers and puts them on display. Roger then releases the serial killers to make things more interesting.
- In the episode Stan's Food Restaurant, Roger helps Stan fulfill his dream of opening a restaurant but, it is later revealed that he was only using Stan to create his own restaurant. When Stan learns this he creates another restaurant and Roger tries to sabotage his restaurant. In the end, he burns down both restaurants in order to collect the insurance money.
- In the episode School Lies, Roger is asked by Stan to pretend to be Steve in order to get close to a U.S. Senator's daughter. The two of them go to get drugs from a drug dealer but, when Roger doesn't have the money to pay them, he sells the girl and doesn't feel any remorse for it. It is also heavily implied that the girl was forced or coerced into performing sexual favors on the dealers, meaning Roger inadvertently turned her into an underage prostitute.
- In the episode Hurricane!, Roger drowns an annoying and troublesome girl during a hurricane when she becomes overly romantically attached to him while she is already heavily wounded. This can be considered justified, as Roger did seem to put her out of her misery, and she was a bit obsessive, even stating that they were "gonna have lots of babies" before Roger drowned her.
- In the episode Old Stan in the Mountain, Roger attends a funeral for one of his ex-wives. It is later revealed that he never loved her and only married her so that when she died he could steal her beautiful red hair and make it into his new wig.
- In the episode Virtual In-Sanity, Roger runs over and kills five disrespectful frat boys just because they don't pay him twenty dollars for his Limo service. It's also revealed that he killed six other people just for eighteen dollars. Roger even drove his limo through a plane to kill his last victim, killing an entire planeload of people in the process. When a flight attendant parachutes right beside him and Klaus, he unhooks her parachute and lets her fall to her death, claiming to Klaus that he has developed 'the bloodlust.' Many would say that Roger crossed the Moral Event Horizon because of this.
- In the episode The Unbrave One, Roger helps Steve become more brave by turning him into a superhero. Roger then screws Steve over by lying about being the superhero and taking all the glory for himself. He also tells Steve that he once shook newborns to sleep - an act which would have most certainly killed them.
- In the episode Stan's Best Friend, Roger showed no sympathy for Steve's dog "Kisses" and was even excited to see the dog dying. When Stan showed everyone the "new" Kisses, Roger laughed and even liked the now monstrous-like Kisses.
- In the episode Ricky Spanish, possibly his most evil alter-ego, Ricky Spanish, was seen for doing numerous of things. Nere the end of the episode, just as it appears he has redeemed himself, he frames Steve for a crime and even gets away from it while Steve goes to prison for it. It has been stated that even Roger hates Ricky Spanish.
- In the episode Love AD Style, Roger falls in love with Hayley, kidnaps her and crosses the Moral Event Horizon by trying to flay her in order to wear her skin. At the end, Roger unsuccessfully attempted to become like Jeff so Hayley would love him, by flaying Jeff and wearing his skin and acting like him.
- In the episode Why Can't We Be Friends?, Roger hires Jeff to clean his attic but, when he goes home, he mugs him and he continues to do this many more times. On the second mugging, he was even about to rape Jeff, but decided he didn't have enough time. Jeff also has no idea that Roger is mugging him. However, Roger does get his comeuppance when Jeff finally shoots him. Just before the mugging attempt that led to Jeff shooting him, Roger even decided he would go through with raping Jeff this time.
- In the episode Bahama Mama, Roger murders a lifeguard and steals his identity just so he can be like a lifeguard he saw on TV.
- In the episode Naked to the Limit, One More Time, Roger commits one of his most vile, repercussive acts of villainy when he throws Jeff into the tractor beam of an alien spaceship meant to take Roger back to his home planet, just so Roger wouldn't have to be the one to leave Earth. This is when the majority of American Dad! fans believe that Roger truly crossed the Moral Event Horizon, and this time, irredeemably so. His actions would lead to Jeff becoming a slave on alien ship and then lost in space from Lost in Space onwards, and then to Hayley wasting her entire life waiting for Jeff's return in an alternate timeline in The Longest Distance Relationship.
- In the episode Lost in Space, it is revealed that Roger slept with Emperor Zing's (his alien species' ruler) human lover in the past, which is what drove Zing to become a slave-driving tyrant who enslaved and captured aliens aboard his ship and had their genitals removed. It is also speculated by some fans that this, possibly among other vile things that he did to others of his race, led to Roger's eventual exile to Earth under the guise of being "The Decider," but in reality, being a sacrificial crash test dummy for his people, as seen in Weiner of Discontent.
- In the episode Permanent Record Wrecker, a hipster musician pisses off Roger so he challenges him to a contest. He decides to sell his soul to the Demon in exchange for a guitar that will make whoever plays it into an amazing guitarist. When he wins the contest he gives the hipster the guitar and tricks him into taking on the deal in his place.
- In the episode News Glance With Genevieve Vavance, Roger takes on the the persona of a news reporter, and Hayley works for him. Needing something to talk about she and Steve fake his kidnapping and when Roger finds out he is proud of her. But he takes it too far and frames Stan and Francine for murdering him, getting them falsely arrested for a crime they obviously did not commit.. Hayley is rightfully angry and tried to come clean, so he throws her under the bus and publically accusses her of kidnapping Steve..
- In the episode A Boy Named Michael, Roger moves into Greg and Terry's home by impersonating their newly-adopted Russian son Michael, whom he threw out of a plane. He later attempts to murder Terry when he becomes unsatisfied with his new lifestyle.
- In the episode Blagsnarst, a Love story, Roger meets another alien and has a one night stand with her. He then tries to get rid of her when she won't leave, so he turns her over to the CIA. But then he feels bad about it so he goes back to save her, he soon regrets this decision when she begins to annoy him again, so he jumps out of the car and lets the car go off a cliff.
- In the episode Dreaming of a White Porche Christmas, he deliberately killed two bikinied women by spraying Orange Soda on their windshield, allowing them to crash into a tree.
- In the episode My Affair Lady, Roger helps Hayley get a job at a company. When she falls for her new co-worker she starts flirting with him, but when she realizes he is married, she stops. Roger then tries to convince her to sleep with him. It is later revealed that everything, even getting Haley her new job was all apart of Roger's plan, because his wife is actually Roger and if he sleeps with another woman, Roger will receive a lot of money.
- In the episode A Star is Reborn, Steve and Hayley delete Roger's episodes of Bones, so he decides to put them in dog cages and train them to love Bones. Roger also ate his own father.
- Most of his actions in Hamerican Dad. It's bad enough he sabotages Stan because Stan never wanted Roger there to begin with, but when Stan confesses to poisoning the ham in jealously, Roger said he already poisoned it, as well as the water supply, and then poisons the ham that was suppose to cure everyone, simply cause he and Stan were finally getting along when everyone was sick.
- In Shark?!, Roger graphically bites off Steve's entire arm when his Shark persona was offended by Steve's overconfidence in thinking he defeated a shark. Not the worst he's ever done, but still pretty bad..
- Roger's puppet persona - Dudley Dingleberry - and Ricky Spanish are both characters that are worse than Roger himself. It is strongly implied Dingleberry actually possesses Roger, and takes control due to his makeup's side effects.
- In 300, Roger uses the Smith's family feud application to make a terrible origami caricature ruining the family's life long dream of being on Family Feud after being through years of rejection letters. With this and the fact that the Smiths were remembering fun family moments that Roger would always inadvertently ruin, the Smiths decide to kick Roger out for all the misery he's caused the family and acts as if he's innocent. While leaving he demands Francine leave with him (narcissistically believing she would abandon her family for him) which Francine refuses to do, causing him to cry in self-pity as he leaves. Afterwards Roger is tracked down by the Knights Turdlar, an order dedicated to destroying Roger's corruption inducing golden gem in-crested turd and succeed by shoving up his anus which releases a wave of energy that purifies the world of all conflict causing world peace. After the energy wave is released Roger's body cracks like a statue and falls apart into 300 pieces. Roger is still conscious and technically alive even with his body in pieces and is able to hear the Knights Turdlar plan, learning that the destruction of his body enabled a utopian society and still wants it to be restored knowing full well it would also recreate his golden turd and reverse the wave and restore the world to conflict once again. He succeeds with the help of the Smiths who grew bored with their new utopia. After restoring his body and turd the corruption inducement immediately effects the Smiths causing them over the course of 20 years to stalk and eventually kill each other, which Roger failed to have prevented due to making a stop to buy fries for himself. He then at first places blame for the Smiths death on them and them alone when Roger was the one responsible denying his accountability, before he accepts that this is his fault and sheds a tear in remorse, which lands on the turd. This activates the turd's latent chrono kinetic abilities allowing Roger to communicate with his past self when he first laid the turd. Roger tells his younger self to hide the turd to prevent the family's deaths and to never take up origami to avoid Roger destroying the family feud application and get kicked out. Roger's actions reset the timeline and bring the Smiths back somewhat redeeming himself, but Roger still ends up destroying the application anyway and as a result of the turd's continued existence the world remains with conflict and the utopian society never even gets created, making Roger responsible for denying the world true peace.
- Anchorfran featured a subplot about Roger becoming obsessed with a character from a board game, and searches for the male model used for the character's picture. Unfortunately, Roger discovers the model is nothing like the character and, upon this discovery, it suddenly cuts to Roger driving back home with Klaus, Hayley, and Steve. Roger is unnervingly calm and when asked what happened he merely says ''we ate pizza, cause that's what Dylan likes." Hayley nervously asks why the phone from the board game is covered in blood, and Steve nervously asks what is inside a jar Roger brought back with him. Roger calmly responds "Dylan was bad. And now we have the jar,'' before turning the radio to The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited. This behavior visibly scares the other three.
- The Fast and the Spurious had Roger kidnap the Smith family (minus Jeff and Klaus) and took them to space in order to prove he can drive without getting into any accident. However, his plan began to fall apart due to unsuccessfully trying to use a gravitation slingshot move that send them further from earth and nearly depleted their fuel, which would lead them to return to earth in seven years in their certain speed. In the future (three days from now) Roger developed Sun Madness and tried to fly the ship into the sun, however his plan was almost thwarted by the Smiths but even with all four of them trying to regain the control, Roger opened the airlock and blast the family into space, killing them immediately but because of the struggle, the ship's fuel was almost empty, which led Roger to the idea to find a wormhole and travel into the past so he can take control of the past ship and drive into the sun. However, when his past self learns the truth, Future Roger destroyed his journal so his past self wouldn't have the evidence needed to stop him from complete his plan. After Future Roger revealed his plan, Past Roger revealed he sabotage the ship and after a quick banter of both Rogers explaining that they rewire the eject bottom, Past Roger revealed the real eject button. Future Roger attempts to stop him by cutting his own hands so he can't press the button but Francine (in one of her smart moments) revealed that since the Roger who cut his own hand is from the Future, he only lost his hands and not his past self, which followed by Roger getting sucked outside, but believing to finally get his dream and burning into the sun, only for a car in space to bump into him, causing him to instead enter perfect orbit around the sun, and to make matter worse for him, because he cut his hands, he is unable to pleasure himself.
- In the episode Little Bonnie Ramirez, Francine calls Roger's acting skills have lost their edge. To prove that he still has it, he dresses as the titular persona, a young beauty pageant girl which he abandoned years ago, who everyone thought was missing. Roger made it look like Francine had been the kidnapper all along with the intent of being both Bonnie and Francine's court appointed attorney, keeping up with his speed. This fails, so Roger just switches Francine with the reenactment actress, Isabella.
Trivia[]
- In All About Steve, it is shown that Roger can sleep in a state of suicidal hanging.
- The original idea for Roger was that he was like the T.V. character ALF, where he would spend all day in the Smith residence and comment on the world. However, the staff thought it would be funnier to have him wear disguises and have his own stories out in the real world.
- He is an accomplished drummer in American Dream Factory due to the fact that he has no bones in his arms.
- Roger is also shown to be fireproof, although he still feels the pain of being burned.
- He claims never to have eaten a vegetable but in Fartbreak Hotel he not only eats okra but knows eating it will cause him to fart toxic gases.
- He was a member of the 1980s US Olympic hockey team.
- When under the influence of cocaine in Dope & Faith, he becomes incredibly focused and displays Matrix-like fighting moves. While under the influence of marijuana in Joint Custody, he has been known to become as light as air. The former's effects are very brief.
- He is possibly based on Dr. Roger Adelson who was one of his voice actor's professors.
- He can survive in the vacuum of space.
- Roger is capable of crapping out gold and jewel encrusted turds.
- Roger's legs are powerful enough to push a tree out of the ground and clear it across the yard.
- While trying to fake his persona's death, he is shown being able to move at superhuman speed.
- When Roger faked his death, he was severely injured and his limbs were blown off. But a year later, he suggested to a bike store owner that his regenerative healing allowed him to recover and regrow his arms.
- While his personas are him there are two that seemingly even Roger despises Ricky Spanish for his psychopathic behavior and Dudley Dingleberry who even took over Roger entirely
- During the episode Stanny Tendergrass, Roger reveals to Steve that the four original members of the Smith Family can't recognize Roger in at least one persona.
- Stan doesn't recognize Roger as Mr. Vanderhill, the main persona of the episode
- Francine doesn't recognize Roger as a Korean pool player
- Hailey doesn't recognize Roger as her sandal repairman
- Steve didn't realize that Roger was a girl he dated several times, twice of which were because Roger roofied him.
External Links[]
- Roger Smith on the Heroes Wiki
- Roger Smith on Wikipedia
- Roger Smith on the American Dad Wiki
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