9 Awful TV Characters We're Supposed To Root For
2. Carl Grimes - The Walking Dead
You all knew this was coming. So here it is: Carl "Someone Please Cut My Hair" Grimes is the worst part of The Walking Dead. Even the most tragic deaths in the show's history manage to cause less ire in fans than the fact that Carl is still walking around.
Carl "I'm Responsible For Dale's Death, Remember That" Grimes has not served a legitimate purpose in the show for quite a while, existing solely to make a show about the unending devastation of a zombie apocalypse somehow even more miserable.
Yes, by design, Carl "People Pray For Death Just To Get Away From My Bummer Attitude" is meant to represent the loss of childhood innocence that an event like this would no doubt cause, but his character arc looks like a urine stream being ejected out of an airplane.
Despite the fact that every viewer of The Walking Dead has, at one point or another, had a lovely dream about Carl getting eaten by a horde of zombies, the showrunners still feel like there are plenty of reasons for fans to root for the young Grimes. But with the possible exception of him sticking around for his the sake of his baby sister, it's tough to come up with much of anything.