10 Family Guy Characters Killed Off For Good

A death of a long-running Family Guy character is never more permanent than when the voice behind them leaves the real world. And in the case of Adam West, a fictionalised version of the classic 1960s Batman TV star, there was absolutely no justifiable way to let this character survive after the death of his legendary voice actor.

Introduced in season two, Adam West is the mayor of Quahog, a position he holds onto right up until his untimely off-screen death. Wacky and eccentric to the extreme, almost everything he comes out with is pure gold, and his regular bouts of absurdity often create quite a bit of inconvenience for his townspeople.

He even goes on to marry Lois's sister, Carol, making him an extended member of the Griffin family - something that gives that much more weight to his departure from the show.

From seasons two all the way to 16, we bust our gusts laughing at this incorrigible mayor's outrageous remarks, mad misadventures and total abuse of his mayoral powers. In 'No Giggity, No Doubt', he, along with Angela and Muriel Goldman, appears one last time as a "show ghost", forever immortalising him as a key figure in the Family Guy pantheon that was taken from us way too soon.