This article lists characters from the animated series American
Dad!.The voice actors are not assembled as a group when performing the
lines of their characters; rather, each of the voice actors perform
their lines privately. The voice actors have stated that because of
their personalities and tendency to goof off when together as a group,
they would never get anything completed if they performed their lines
collectively.Stanford Leonard "Stan" Smith (voiced by Seth MacFarlane)
is the title character on American Dad! who has an exaggeratedly
masculine voice and manner about him. Stan is Francine's husband and
Hayley and Steve's father. Hayley may or may not be Stan's biological
daughter since Francine revealed to have cheated on Stan at a
bachelorette party in the episode "The Kidney Stays in the Picture",
but Stan regards Hayley as his daughter. As the Smith family
breadwinner, Stan is a CIA agent. Early on in the series, Stan was
exaggeratedly patriotic and Conservative. His character, however, has
progressed over the course of the series from the ultra right-wing it
had been. All the same however, Stan has proven to be drastic and
extreme in numerous other ways beyond politics. He is often shown
rashly taking extreme measures in ways that are conspicuously
destructive, disastrous, and life-threatening to others. Making his
extreme-measure taking worse, Stan is utterly inconsiderate and
insensitive, thus he does not stop to think of how others are
negatively impacted, nor does he care. As examples of this: in the
episode "Dope & Faith" when Stan found out one of his friends was an
atheist, he tried getting him to pray by blowing up his home,
spreading the bird flu at his restaurant, brainwashing his wife into
thinking she was a lesbian, and taking his kids away; in the episode
"I Can't Stan You," Stan evicted his entire neighborhood and his own
family just for overhearing some of his neighbors gossiping about him
behind his back; in the episode "Four Little Words," Stan framed his
wife as a murderer all so as not to hear her say the words "I told you
so"; etc. Not a stranger to going to any and all lengths to achieve
his desired endsâ€"even to the point of shamelessly harming
othersâ€"Stan is characterized as very dog-eat-dog. Aside from his
thoughtlessly drastic and endangering behaviors, he has an endearing
and sensitive side as well. It has been revealed that he very much
desires fatherly love and attention but has always lacked this. Stan's
parents separated when he was very young (later learned because of
Stan himself in the episode "Blood Crieth Unto Heaven"); thus he has a
father (Jack Smith) who was not around much and mistreated
him.Francine Lee Smith (née Ling, voiced by Wendy Schaal) is Stan's
wife and the mother of Steve and Hayley. Indignant, Francine can
usually be seen nagging and scolding her family (particularly Stan)
over their wrongdoings. Francine often nags at her family to uphold
certain virtues and over any unwholesome or reprehensible behaviors
they engage in. Ironically, it is mostly in the midst of all her
moralizing and urging others to do the right thing that she
demonstrates blatant inappropriateness, indecorum, and inelegance.
Sporadically while engaged in moralizing others, Francine will
randomly throw in remarks and behaviors that are in bad taste and lack
all propriety. Adding to her paradoxical nature, Francine's behaviors
have been known to become downright immoral and sometimes even
fiendish, all the while trying to get others to live more wholesomely
and do what is right. For example, in the episode "The Boring
Identity," Francine made efforts to get Stan to be a more civilized
and respectable husband. In the process, she deceived him into
thinking he was an entirely different person after he got struck with
amnesia. Another example, in the episode "Can I Be Frank With You,"
Francine was disgruntled by the fact that she and Stan were not a
closer couple. To achieve this, she encroached in on Stan's guys'
night using a male disguise that could fart for extended periods of
time. Francine has also been shown to have a randomly wacky and
peculiar side. For example, in the episode "The Scarlett Getter,"
while Francine was engaged in an angry rant about Stan, she stated
"Those two are stuck on each other like gum on a hot summer sidewalk
on a summer afternoon. I'm sorry, I'm taking a creative writing
class." List of American Dad! characters Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter