12 Shocking TV Deaths You Never Saw Coming

10. Abraham Ford (The Walking Dead)

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When people recall Negan's murderous deeds at the beginning of The Walking Dead's seventh season, the death they claim really stands out as shocking is Glenn's, yet Abraham Ford's demise was equally so, for an entirely different reason.

Sure, his comrade's end was nasty and more graphic, but Abraham's is the one many of the viewers didn't see coming.

The comic fans were banking on the TV show following literature's lead and killing off Glenn, so the ginger giant's death was an unscripted twist. Granted, Abraham is also brown bread in the world of comics, but on the page it was Negan's henchman Dwight who put an end to him.

The former military man met his demise courtesy of an arrow through the eye, the same fate which wrote Merritt Wever's Denise out of The Walking Dead in season six.

Given that the show had already done the whole arrow through the eye thing, many of the smug gits who think they know it all because they're up to date with the source material predicated Abraham might live to see another series, having already significantly outlasted his Image Comics counterpart.

Glenn's death is the one which dominated the headlines and social media posts at the time due to its sickeningly visual nature and the fact he was around much longer, but seeing Abraham taking a barbed wire-covered bat to the noggin was no less shocking and perhaps more unpredictable.

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