The Walking Dead: 15 Most Shocking Comics Moments

Rick Grimes strayed the line between hero and villain many times throughout the series. Most of the time he had just enough shreds of morality and justifiable violence to keep him on the heroic side of that line. His vengeance for the murder and cannibalisation of Dale, however, might have been the first time we saw Rick stray just too far across that line.

After Dale had his leg eaten and is left for dead, Rick swears bloody vengeance. He finds the pathetic rag tag group known as The Hunters and after words are exchanged and bullets are fired, our hero Rick Grimes tortures The Hunters all night.

Rick enjoyed his violent, medieval retribution. The panels in the comic became genuinely disturbing at points.

There was no moral justification for this act. They should have just killed The Hunters and made their environment just a little bit safer. The act of torturing them put Rick in the exact same category as Negan and The Governor.