In cartoons, especially ones with genius-level babies who have their own time machines, death is not forever.
Or, as Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane more colourfully put it in a recent tweet:
I mean, you didn’t really think we’d kill off Brian, did you? Jesus, we’d have to be fucking high.
— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) December 16, 2013
However, in reality, tattoos are a little more permanent. I wonder what the guy with this tattoo is thinking now that Brian is alive again:
This is probably a good time to revisit screenwriter Max Landis’ celebrity- and curse-word laden video essay, The Death and Return of Superman, his (mostly accurate) take on that time in the 1990s when they killed off Superman: