10 TV Character Deaths That Pissed Off Fans

10. Glenn Rhee - The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead alone has enough maddening character deaths to fill an entire list, but none stoked the fanbase's ire more aggressively - or traumatically - than beloved hero Glenn Rhee's (Steven Yeun) brutal exit in the season seven premiere.

Poor Glenn ended up having his head smashed to a pulp by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) with his trusty Lucille - a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

As you can probably guess, Glenn didn't die quickly, and the scene left even seasoned gorehounds thoroughly nauseated by the focus on both the extreme grisliness - Glenn's eye is popped out of his head, for one - and Glenn's prolonged suffering.

Though Glenn's death was inevitable given that it also happened in the comics in much the same way, the unflinching, arguably over-the-top nature of its depiction incited a debate among fans and critics over the acceptability of ultra-violence in storytelling.

For a character as beloved and just damn good as Glenn, it was painfully ironic that he suffered one of the series' most horrifying and unforgettable deaths to date.