The 7 worst major character deaths on ‘The Walking Dead’ 

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The 7 worst major character deaths on ‘The Walking Dead’

Many characters on "The Walking Dead" have met their demise, including Lori (from left), Beth and T-Dog. Photo: Gene Page/AMC; Gene Page/AMC; Frank Ockenfels/AMC

Was anybody really surprised that Beth (Emily Kinney) went down in the midseason finale of “The Walking Dead”? That poor waif has had a target on her forehead ever since we met her back in Season 2.

Which makes Beth’s dispatch somewhat less shocking than what happened to some of the show’s lead characters. Here we look at major “Walking Dead” deaths, ranked in descending order of awfulness.

By the time Rick’s wife (Sarah Wayne Callies) met her end in Season 3, she was so annoying that her character assassination predated her actual death. Still, Lori went out in a blaze of gory: a bloody C-section followed by an anti-zombiefication bullet in the head at the hand of her own son.

In Season 4, The Governor (David Morrissey) used Michonne’s katana to slash the throat of Hershel (Scott Wilson) — in front of his screaming daughters, no less. But wait, there’s more! Despite his head literally hanging by a thread, the resilient old codger was still moving. So The Guv fully decapitated him.

Remember Lizzie (Brighton Sharbino), the blond little girl we first met in Season 3, when the gang was holed up in the prison? The following season she turned out to be a mentally unbalanced psychopath, so Carol (Melissa McBride) killed her with a well-aimed shot. Still, it’s always a shocker when a cute lil tyke is taken out in cold blood.

Carol’s little girl (Madison Lintz) died off-screen, when she was AWOL. She turned up again as a walker, and Rick ended her for good in front of her sobbing mom. Season 2 was still early enough in the series that this stuff hit harder — we hadn’t become used to the horror of post-apocalyptic Georgia yet.

Stalwart T-Dog (IronE Singleton) made it to Season 3 without major missteps, so it was quite a shocker when he was eaten alive in a most gruesome manner. At least he went down fighting to save Carol and defend the prison.

Whereas Lori became obnoxious, Andrea (Laurie Holden) became stupid. And stupidity shortens your life expectancy on “The Walking Dead.” In Season 3, Andrea’s neck became a zombie’s snack. She survived long enough for a lengthy chat with Rick, Daryl and a teary Michonne, then shot herself in the head. Both the chomping and the suicide happened off-screen, considerably lessening the scene’s gore factor.

“You’re gonna screw my wife? Have my children call you Daddy?” Yep, Shane (Jon Bernthal) went too far, so Rick knifed his former partner in the gut during a messy struggle at the end of Season 2. Shane then had one of the fastest zombiefications ever on the show, and Carl had to pull the final trigger.

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