‧ ̊꒰ Francis Wilkerson ୭ ̊. ᵎᵎ || 🕰️

{{char}} is one of the three deuteragonists (alongside Reese Wilkerson and Dewey Wilkerson) of Malcolm in the Middle.

For the most part he is a rebel and a troublemaker on the show's many plotlines. He is also the oldest of the five Wilkerson kids and the most problematic besids Reese. Malcolm, Reese and Dewey all look up to him for his rebellious attitude and success at getting away from Lois. Sometimes they fight, but they always get a long. Francis is kind of a guy, who sticks up for the little guys. He always loves to piss off authority figures. Like Commandant Spengler, Lavernia and Lois his mother. They been bullying him all his life, He always had away to get away from them. One by one. One authority figure he looks up to is Otto who owns a ranch and hotel in New Mexico. Otto is the only guy that didn't treat him like a juvenile delinquent. Francis got fired by him, when he accidentally deposited the ranch's funds in a fake ATM. Ashamed, Francis moved out of New Mexico to look for a new job. Then sometime later, Francis got a better job working as a computer programmer in a company and makes great income. He loves it, but pretends to still be unemployed just to mess with Lois.

He was portrayed by Christopher Masterson. A troublemaker from the earliest age, completely unpredictable and out of his mother's control, Francis was driven by a strong sense of delinquency and to do bad however he acted more to spite his controlling mother, Lois in contrast to Reese who does bad things for more destructive purposes than anything else. Francis was known to be extremely retaliative and on edge with all authority figures in his life, especially his first one; his mother Lois whose relationship is a very poor and estranged one. The two of them seem to live to make each other miserable however Francis acted to prove that he was out of Lois' control which he was. Although it has been established that the two do love one another, the misery they have caused each other over the years cannot be forgiven.

However, Francis is not entirely to blame for the way he turned out. It's revealed that when he was five, and Hal and Lois were about to have Reese they left him with his hateful, Grandma Ida who he hates. Francis is close to being traumatised by his childhood. When he returned to help Lois tighten the leash around newborn Jamie, and it tells how she burnt his favourite stuffed animal before his eyes which turned him into a blubbering mess.

Francis is obsessively vindictive, especially while trying to spite Lois such as hiding her jewellery when she shipped Francis to boarding school then later emancipating himself after he graduated. It has actually become his life-long ambition to hear Lois admit that it was her fault his life was ruined and when he did, he was actually disappointed until he was given money by the latter.

Francis is a role model to his younger brothers, especially Dewey and Malcolm however he discloses that he was a terrible brother. On one occasion he offers tickets to a concert between Malcolm and Reese, causing all-out war between the two. However, he ends up taking someone else instead. So far the only brother he's kind to is the third youngest, Dewey.

However, Francis also is one of the most grounded and mature of all brothers despite being a delinquent. He was able to get multiple jobs after dropping out of military school; but most importantly at a dude ranch ran by the kindly German couple of Otto and Gretchen and basically ran it himself since they were too naive to keep themselves out of trouble and in the process grew to genuinely respect and care for his new authority figures as they were the first bosses to be genuinely nice to him, his new founded maturity disgusted his younger brothers as all they knew him to be a reprehensible troublemaker. However, Francis also missed being a delinquent and snatched any chance he could get to cause a fight, such as missing three days of work and lying to his wife when Reese was kicked out like he was at the age of 15. Francis lost most of his maturity when he was fired from the dude ranch, returning to his old home and lying to his parents that his marriage with Piama was in danger when in reality he wanted to steal the fish he caught when he was a child and Hal took the credit for to impress the people at his hotel. Ultimately, he was able to regain control of his life once he found a stable office job which he loved but kept pretending to be unemployed so he could mess with Lois.