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The Walking Dead’s 10 Most Devastating Deaths

Over seven seasons, The Walking Dead has picked off its cast of characters with reckless abandon. If you form an attachment to someone on the show, you should know that the chances are they're going to meet a terrible end at some point.
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Published: Nov 6, 2016 08:33 pm

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4) Hershel

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After Dale, Hershel became the second dad of the gang – and met a similarly terrible fate.

To prove a point to Rick that he’s not going to negotiate, The Governor attacks the peace-loving Hershel with Michonne’s Katana – partially decapitating him. When a fight breaks out, the Governor catches up with him and finishes the job. Later on, Michonne finds Hershel’s re-animated head and finally ends him by stabbing it with her katana.

Apart from being queasily graphic, Hershel’s death is particularly horrible as he was the moral centre of the group, always appealing to people’s better angels. He had such an important role in the show that we really didn’t expect him to get the chop (sorry, unfortunate choice of phrase there), yet the show defied our expectations once again.

Just as like Rick says to The Governor before his death, Hershel believed “we all can change.” Unfortunately, he was wrong – the Governor couldn’t.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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