How Family Guy's 'Death Pose' Went Viral (And The Weirdest Places It Showed Up)

Apparently, “Family Guy” is incredibly popular among gamers because the “Death Pose” meme gained notable traction within its ranks. As cataloged by Know Your Meme, there are multiple screenshots of characters from “Team Fortress 2,” a multiplayer first-person shooter, lying on the ground in a decent approximation of the pose. It’s unclear whether these images prove that the creative team behind TF2 likes “Family Guy,” if the users modded the game, or if the game’s physics engine is simply that versatile.

Speaking of modding, Game Banana modder Robro created a “Death Pose” patch for “Deltarune,” Toby Fox’s ongoing spiritual successor to “Undertale,” that changes Ralsei’s death animation to better match Peter Griffin’s infamous tumble. And the “Death Pose” is cropping up in fan art, too, with at least one artist combing Bow Kid from “A Hat in Time,” a cutesy puzzle-platformer, with the meme.

But nothing’s funnier than an official studio including the meme in its content. In 2023, Sega released “The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog,” a free-to-play point-and-click visual novel, that features the titular blue blur rocking the “Death Pose.” That’s right, the meme is still alive and well, even today. It was so important to Sega that fans saw the meme’s inclusion that it appears in the official launch trailer posted on Twitter. And that’s just kind of neat, isn’t it?

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