Family Guy Creator Reveals Reason Behind Fortnite's Buff Peter Griffin

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Fortnite finally welcomed Family Guy's Peter Griffin to the island last month, following a bunch of leaks and rumors. His arrival was extremely well-received by fans, though Peter Griffin was a lot buffer than what fans of the show were expecting, rocking a body that would make your average gym-goer blush. Fortnite explained this away in a cute video near release that featured Peter Griffin downing some expired Slurp Juice after asking Meowscles how to get swole before his introduction.

Epic was perfectly happy for that to be the reason for Peter Griffin's chiseled abs, but Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane may have recently let slip the real reason as to why Epic chose not to use his usual body. Speaking with IGN regarding his role in the recently released Ted TV show, McFarlane claims he was told that Epic "didn't have the budget" to create his normal body, before accidentally setting up a real life cutaway gag.

We all know that Epic is an extremely wealthy company at this point, making money from not only Fortnite, but several other projects and the Epic Game Store. It seems unlikely that Epic doesn't have enough money to somehow find a way to give us a lore accurate Peter Griffin, but it does suggest that Fortnite crossovers have their own budgets on which they have to work.

Using Peter Griffin's usual body would have been a bit of a challenge for Epic to overcome, what with him being larger than most other characters in the game. Many fans had assumed that Peter Griffin's normal width could've potentially made the skin unviable due to it having a larger hitbox, and it's possible Epic would've gone over budget trying to solve the problem. Thus, buff Peter Griffin was born.

As for how the whole collaboration came