The Walking Dead: 10 Characters Who Were Changed From The Comics

5) Hershel

Speaking of Dale, after his sad death on the show, his role as the group’s father figure was taken up by Hershel. Unfortunately, he later met a similarly nasty end in season 4, when the Governor decapitated him. In the comics, Hershel’s journey takes a very different, tragic turn and ends with him as a broken man begging for death. A far cry from the TV character, who put on a brave face.

Hershel’s brood is also much larger in the comics. On the TV series, his only daughters are Maggie and Beth (a creation for the screen). On the page, however, the Greene family expands to include Shawn (his biological son here), Lacey, Arnold, Billy, Rachael and Susie. Completely committed to the safety of his children, Hershel becomes more and more despondent as all but Maggie meet terrible fates. After Billy is killed in the battle with the Governor’s forces, Hershel abandons all hope and pleads with the Governor to kill him. Naturally, the villain obliges.