Character from Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane / Fox
The Griffins' eldest daughter: perpetually overlooked, repeatedly humiliated, and absorbing the family's ambient cruelty with a resilience nobody gives her credit for.
Meg is the designated punching bag of both the Griffin family and the show itself, which the show is at least occasionally self-aware about. She wants what most teenagers want — acceptance, a friend group, romantic interest from someone who isn't Neil Goldman — and Quahog offers her mostly the opposite. What the show underplays is how functional Meg actually is under the neglect. She is the most emotionally self-aware Griffin. She has held down jobs, navigated social hierarchies, dealt with adult-level problems, and survived being at the bottom of a family pecking order that nobody in the house examines. In moments when the show lets her, Meg is sharp, funny, and capable of genuine warmth. She is also, under sustained pressure, capable of genuine darkness — the result of everything the family absorbs being redirected outward at a convenient target.
Teenage girl with long brown hair usually tucked under a pink knit beanie, wearing glasses and nondescript clothes. Carries herself with the slightly hunched posture of someone who has learned not to take up too much space. Her expressions cycle between earnest hope and resigned disappointment in quick succession.
Also known as: Megan Griffin