10 Greatest 'I'm Dead And I Know It' Moments In TV History

Across The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Carl Grimes is one of the rare characters who is well aware that their inevitable death is well and truly on the horizon.

For Chandler Riggs' character, his death gave The Walking Dead an emotional shot in the arm at a time when the series and its characters needed it most. Having been bitten on his stomach by a walker, Carl knows that he has zero way of avoiding death; unlike certain other walker bites, there's no way to simply amputate a limb here.

Prior to this reveal, we see Carl stepping up to protect the residents of Alexandria from Negan and his Saviors, with the young man making the bold decision to interrupt a Negan who is about to bomb this one-time save haven.

After providing a distraction that allows the Alexandrians to be led to safety, it's only at the end of this whole ordeal - the closing moments of the How It's Gotta Be episode - that Carl reveals to Rick and Michonne that he had previously been bitten when helping Siddiq.

That moment is beautifully delivered, and it explains why Carl had what felt like a new sense of purpose for the prior 50 minutes of that episode. From there, the following outing, Honor, is a gut punch of an episode as we see Carl say his emotional goodbyes while death slowly circles in.