Worst2First: Top Ten The Walking Dead Characters I Miss
Worst2First:
Top Ten The Walking Dead Characters I Miss
Here is my personal top ten "The Walking Dead" characters I miss, worst2first...
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#10
Deanna Monroe
"I didn't run out to help you because I like you. Or because you're a good man, a good father. Or because you can grow one hell of a beard. It's because you're one of us. That's the right answer."
Deanna Monroe was the leader of the Alexandria Safe Zone when Rick's group was brought in. Before the apocalypse she was a Congresswoman from Ohio, and located in Alexandria with her husband Reg and her sons Aiden and Spencer. She led a community of people enclosed by walls on all sides to keep the terrors out, but also gave the community a false sense of security. When Rick's group arrived, they showed the citizens of Alexandria that there's some real dangers out there, and they were knocking on the walls.
After the Walkers collapsed a loose end of the wall, the townspeople ran for safety, Deanna rescued Rick from a group of Walkers, only to be bitten by one of them. Holed up in Rick's house, she gives Rick and Michonne a final speech about them leading the community now, and dies after they escape. Before she goes, she takes out a few Walkers with her gun and lets out a defiant yell, which showcases her true fighting spirit.
#9
Sophia Peletier
"No, no! Don't leave me!"
When Shane opened Hershel's barn to release all the Walkers inside, the last Walker to leave was Sophia. She had been killed by a Walker and reanimated, and Hershel had placed her in the barn in hopes of finding a cure, although he didn't know who she was. In front of the grieving and shocked group, Rick tearfully puts the Walker Sophia down, and a loss of innocence resonated through the group. Her death helped Carol face her own struggles and she transformed herself from a timid mother and wife to a butt-kicking vigilante who single-handedly took down an entire community of cannibals, so her death wasn't totally in vain.
#8
Beth Greene
"You keep telling yourself you have to do whatever it takes just until this is all over, but it isn't over, this is it. This is who you are and what this place is until the end."
Hershel's youngest daughter and Maggie's sister, Beth was another light in the dark world. She was optimistic, funny, sincere and sweet - if not also a bit naive. When she became distraught at the world, she almost committed suicide, but Maggie got to her in time. She was the songstress of the group, always ready to sing a song, and she was Judith's caretaker after Lori died. After the prison fell, she went on an adventure with Daryl and ended up being kidnapped by the crooked cops at Grady Memorial.
At the hospital, she befriended Noah and helped him escape, earning her the ire of the group's leader, Dawn. After Beth saw an unconscious Carol being carted in, she planned another escape, and Rick's group arrived just in time. They organized a hostage negotiation with Dawn, letting her men go for Beth. It seemed to go well until Dawn demanded Noah come back too, which angered Beth, and she stabbed Dawn with a pair of scissors. Dawn then reflexively shot Beth in the head, and Maggie - who thought her sister was long dead - was now faced with the awful truth that her entire family had been wiped out. Her death also had a deep effect on Daryl, who saw her as a younger sister and someone he wanted to protect.
#7
Dale Horvath
"Don't you see that if we do this, the people that we were, the world that we knew is dead? And this new world is ugly, it's harsh, it's survival of the fittest! And that's a world I don't want to live in."
Serving as the first grandfatherly figure for the group, Dale had a wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and heart. He convinced Andrea not to kill herself at the CDC, and maintained an optimistic attitude for the group. At Hershel's farm, an argument arose over whether or not to kill a man who could pose a threat to the group, and Dale wanted his life spared, but he was overruled. While out on patrol, he's attacked by a Walker and disemboweled, and Daryl shot him in the head to prevent him from reanimation. He was the first moral compass for the group, and his death left a huge impact on the group, especially Carl, who encountered the Walker that killed Dale previously.
#6
Tyreese Williams
"I'm not giving up, you hear me? I'm not giving up! People like me, people like me, they can live. Ain't nobody got to die today."
Tyreese was the gentle giant of the group, a burly husky man who donned his trademark hammer and fought his way through hordes of Walkers with ease, but also keeping a timid heart and loving personality, especially to his sister Sasha. When his girlfriend was killed by Carol after contracting a possibly infectious disease, he found it within himself to forgive her, thus earning her respect. He worked close with Rick and was the muscle of the group, but through it all he never lost his sense of humanity.
While on the road to Washington D.C., the group stops at Noah's hometown, only to find it completely destroyed. At Noah's old house, Tyreese was distracted long enough to be bitten by Noah's brother, who became a Walker. As he slowly bled out, Tyreese had visions of those who died before him, and he got one of the most heroic, poetic, sympathetic deaths on the show - fitting for such a man.
#5
Sasha Williams
"One way or another, he's going to use me to hurt my friends. Our friends. And there is nothing I can do about it except make sure I'm not alive to give him the chance. If he has me, he will hurt them. I have to die. It's the only way. I know you won't do anything to stop them, I know that. But please, Eugene, don't let them use me to hurt our people."
Tyreese's younger sister, Sasha was a no-nonsense woman who was fluent with a firearm, and served as a sniper for Rick's group. She forged a strong friendship with Maggie, and also a relationship with Bob. However, after Bob died - and then Tyreese - Sasha slipped into a depression where she almost took her own life, but found new hope in Abraham and serving as a sniper for Alexandria.
When Negan killed Abraham and Glenn, Sasha went on a vendetta against the man, invading his compound and getting captured, but earning his respect for her "beach ball sized lady nuts." She pleaded with Eugene for a weapon to kill him, but he gave her a suicide pill instead, thinking either way she was going to off herself. While on the road back to Alexandria as a prisoner, Sasha took the suicide pill so as to not be used as a pawn to get anyone on Rick's side killed. When Negan opened her coffin, she surprised him as a Walker and almost killed him, but took out another Savior instead. Later, Maggie finds the Walker Sasha in the woods and tearfully puts her down. Much like her brother, Sasha died a hero's death, a true warrior's sacrifice.
#4
Merle Dixon
"You need to grow up. Things are different now. Your people look at me like I'm the devil."
Daryl's racist, redneck brother, Merle was first seen as an enemy to Rick and his group, which is why Rick left him handcuffed to a roof in Atlanta. When they went back for him, he was nowhere to be found. Without his negative influence, Daryl became Rick's right hand man, and when Merle emerged alive in season three, everyone was shocked - especially to see him working with The Governor, an enemy to Rick's group.
After The Governor captured Daryl, Merle helped him escape, and the brothers reunited at the prison. Merle learned that The Governor would stop attacking Rick's group if they handed over Michonne (who killed his zombified daughter and also stabbed him in the eye), and Merle took Michonne prisoner and began heading back to Woodbury. However, he told her that it was all a ruse, and he was going to take The Governor out himself. Letting Michonne free, he finds The Governor and tries to snipe him, but misses. The Governor finds him and shoots him in the chest, causing his death, but he still reanimated. Daryl found his reanimated brother, and in a tearful moment, put him down. Merle might have begun his journey as a villain, but he died a hero.
#3
Abraham Ford
"Both of us know, if we're gonna kick, there sure as hell better be a point to it. So maybe we feel there was a point to all of this. Alpha to omega. Whether it's on the battlefield or the beach or somewhere out there today."
Sergeant Abraham Ford was always a man with a mission. For most of the apocalypse, it was getting Eugene safely to Washington, D.C., because Eugene told him he had a cure for the outbreak. After Abraham learned Eugene was lying, he lost his sense of mission until they landed at Alexandria, where he became a vital member of the community, serving as a construction foreman.
Never one to mince words, you could always count on him to supply some hilarious one-liners ("good gracious Ignatius!" "You about ready to spill the pintos?" "You had better luck picking up a turd by the clean end."), but he had his own demons as well. Even though he was in a relationship with Rosita, he became entangled with Sasha, causing a love triangle and rift between the three of them. Still, he was a hero even until the end. While lined up with the others when they met Negan, Abraham sat up tall in hopes Negan would pick him to kill, but Negan instead went for his eenie meenie miney moe method, which still landed on the lovable redhead. Giving Sasha a last sign of love, Negan brought Lucille - his barbed wire bat - down on Abraham's head. His last words were fitting for such a man as he was - "suck my nuts."
#2
Hershel Greene
"You step outside, you risk your life. You take a drink of water, you risk your life. And nowadays you breathe, and you risk your life. Every moment now, you don't have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for."
Hershel served as the grandfatherly voice of reason, compassion, and intelligence in a world that very much needed it. He and his family were holed up at his farm, keeping some of his reanimated family members in the barn with hopes of finding a cure, but after Rick's group arrives, he learns the harsh truth. Escaping the farm after it fell, he became a valued member of the group at the prison, even after losing his leg to a Walker bite. He was kind, compassionate, and forgiving - and unfortunately not long for this world.
While out of the prison walls with Michonne, they are ambushed by the Governor and brought out before Rick, demanding they get entry to the prison and Rick's group is forced to leave. Rick tries to reason with The Governor, and as Hershel looks on with a smile on his face, The Governor uses Michonne's katana to cut off his head in front of Rick's group - including Hershel's daughters Beth and Maggie. His death has left a lasting impact on the group to this day, and he is sorely missed.
#1
Glenn Rhee
"People you love, they made you who you are. They're still a part of you. If you stop being you, that last bit of them that's still around inside, who you are...it's gone."
Everyone's lovable former pizza delivery boy made his appearance at the end of the very first episode, and throughout the seasons we watched him develop from a carefree, jolly young man into a hardened warrior, yet never losing his sense of humanity. We watched him fall in love with farmer's daughter Maggie, and the two of them forming the most romantic relationship on the series. We saw his frantic search for Maggie after the prison was lost, and their tearful reunion. We saw how he learned he was going to be a father. We saw how he would never kill a human being, until they invaded the Savior's outpost and he is forced to finally kill. We saw how he cheated death time and time again, and we felt that he always would.
Then he is taken captive by Negan, and brought out with the rest of Rick's group before the man and his barbed wire bat, Lucille. Comic fans expected what would happen next, because it's in the comics where Negan bashes Glenn's face in. However, when Negan chose Abraham instead, we breathed a sigh of relief - Glenn had once again spared death.
Then Daryl instinctively went to strike Negan, earning his ire and promising to kill another of their group for that outburst. When he turned the bat and hit Glenn in the head, our hopes were shattered. The man we watched grow up the past seven seasons was now dead, and along with him a small piece of us, for he was always the heart of the group.
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