10 Walking Dead Character Deaths That Made Us Secretly Happy

10. Hershel

Although The Walking Dead has a reputation for offing major characters, we were still pretty shocked when old, dependable Hershel was brutally slaughtered in the middle of season four.

It was surprising for several reasons, the main one being that Hershel was the moral compass of the group. He was the guy who enabled the audience to witness the madness of the Walking Dead world. He was the guy who the audience identified with the most - a rational thinker and the overall good guy. Killing him off was like slapping a real-life viewer.

Yet that's exactly why it needed it to happen. Sure Hershel was the most "normal" of the bunch but in a show about flesh-eating zombies, normal just didn't quite cut the mustard. Plus, the death of Hershel allowed the rest of the characters to move forward. It allowed his daughterMaggie to grow and progress into a proper personality, and that would not have transpired with her Dad hanging around.

Sorry Hershel but your death was a wonderful thing that really needed to happen.