10 Family Guy Characters Killed Off For Good

10. Paddy Tanniger

The early seasons of Family Guy, while a bit sparser on the throwaway bit characters than more modern episodes, did still have the occasional unmemorable oddball running around on screen. One of these was Paddy Tanniger, a disgruntled Irish character who seemed to rub everyone the wrong way - including the writers.

An irritating pipsqueak who spits when he talks and follows up nearly everything he says with, "big whoop, wanna fight about it?", Paddy makes appearances in a handful of episodes, each time working in a different place.

The character was reportedly very unpopular among the show's writers, who chose to kill him off in the season five episode, 'Hell Comes To Quahog'. And not just in any old way, either, as Brian and Stewie, while on a crusade to blow up a monopolising Quahog supermarket, end up running him over with a tank.

For good measure, they even back over him a second time, just to be sure. You can really tell how much the writers wanted this guy gone.