Ranked: Every Death On The Walking Dead

well into the show’s ninth season, and past the 100-episode mark, there have been plenty of character deaths.

It can be tough for the writers to keep these scenes interesting, since the viewers need closure on the characters’ story arcs and yet also need to be shocked when they go. It’s a fine line to walk, so the show has naturally had mixed results with it. Here is every death on The Walking Dead, ranked.

Nicholas

While it was great to see this idiot go, he almost brought down Glenn with him. And that led to the dumpster fake-out, one of the most controversial gimmicks in the show’s history.

Milton

The Governor’s assistant came and went without making much of an impact. His zombification was more a part of Andrea’s death than an event of its own.

Glenn

This was the death that made a lot of viewers tune out after the season 7 premiere. It was so unnecessarily gory and drawn-out, as the poor guy’s eye popped out and he continued talking to Maggie before being delivered the final death blow.

It’s horrifying without also being entertaining.

Ed

This guy’s death wasn’t particularly surprising, because his relentless abuse towards his wife Carol marked him as one who had to go, but it was still satisfying to watch such a monster get eaten alive.

Andrea

If anything, viewers were glad to see Andrea go after her romance with the Governor had made her unbearable. Still, it was a surprise to see that a character with one of the longest arcs in the comics died so early – and that after somehow escaping a zombified Milton, she still died from a bite.

Jessie

What a shame. Just as her romance with Rick was finally starting to blossom, Jessie disappeared into a horde of walkers, because she just couldn’t let her kids go. All she did wrong was love her kids too much.

Deanna

The fierce leader of Alexandria had kind of a quiet end, which was a little disappointing. Plus, even though she’d been bitten, for whatever reason, she was allowed to be in a room alone with the baby. Are they nuts?

Dale

It’s hard to care about a character dying when the events leading up to their death highlight their foolishness.

Dale went out for a walk in the pitch black in the middle of the night and ended up getting bitten by a walker, surprising no one.

Otis

This poor guy was just shot and left for dead by Shane on a supply run. He was a casualty of Shane’s downward spiral into insanity. Before then, he hadn’t made much of an impact, so Shane’s actions were surprising without the character loss being that tragic.

Tyreese

After all the things Tyreese went through, including fending off a crowd of walkers with his bare hands in order to save Judith from a Termite, it was a shame that he had such a low-key death. Plus, it was weird that a whole episode was dedicated to the hallucinations he had as he slowly slipped into the light.