Family Guy: 10 TV Deaths More Shocking Than Brian Griffin

Often, the most shocking and impactful deaths on a serialized TV series aren’t the ones that are promoted to the hilt, but the ones where the fans are left saying, “…Wait, did they just kill him?!”Audiences got one of those on Sunday in the form of Brian Griffin, the dog from Family Guy, whose death represents a fundemental change to the show’s structure since he was so key to so much of the series’ humor.And while most fans don’t believe he’ll stay dead very long (it’s Family Guy, after all, and there are already a few ways built into the story to bring him back), it was pretty shocking not just to watch a beloved character die on such a normally-lighthearted show, but to be sitting there for ten minutes expecting the time machien to pop back up and save him, and to just have the episode kind of…end.What were some of the more shocking TV deaths we’ve seen over the years? It certainly got us to thinking. Here were the ones we were even more taken aback by than Brian’s.