10 TV Deaths We All Saw Coming (That Still Left Us Stunned)
2. Glenn Rhee - The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead left the world on an irritatingly cheap cliff-hanger for a year and it's no surprise that frustrated viewers turned to the source material for some enlightenment. With the speed that information circulates across the internet these days it wasn't long before Glenn's death in the comic books was common knowledge. The writers had a choice whether to flout what was expected or conform.
In the end, they did both, killing off two main characters, Glenn being one of them. Even then, neither death was particularly jaw-dropping when even betting companies were producing odds on who was going to be killed. It's a lesson not to resort to cliff-hangers that last for half a year, it will only demean the impact of the scene.
That being said, Glenn's death was still shocking to us simply because of the graphic way in which they killed him off. In that sense they definitely stayed true to Robert Kirkman's comic books which didn't hold back.