9 Scenes You Won’t Believe Were Cut From The Walking Dead

Who'd have thought Walking Dead fans would mourn the death of one of Negan's henchmen? Very few after what he did to Glenn and Abraham, but Fat Joey was no ordinary henchman.

As he said to Daryl right before he bashed his head in with a metal pipe, he was just trying to "get by", which is what made his demise all the more tragic.

When this harrowing scene plays out, the camera focuses rigidly on Daryl, never panning down to show off his handiwork, but that wasn't the original plan.

According to Joshua Hoover, the actor who plays Joey, the original cut was far bloodier with shots of his head opening up under the blunt-force trauma. He even shared an image of how that would have looked on Twitter.

Hoover told ComicBook.com...

"Yeah I took a hit. I took a hit on the head from Mr. Norman Reedus, and it was a good hit. Norman Reedus has swung a metal pipe before in his life I think.

"Yeah I got hit right square in the head. There was the special effects that they do with the blood packet. They had a blood packet on the pipe and it just went everywhere. Everybody said it looked so awesome, but also pretty graphic. So i’m assuming that’s why they didn’t show that angle, they probably had a little too much already with Spencer’s guts. But, yeah, there was definitely another shot, and I’d like to see that footage."

The Walking Dead came under fire for its overly gory season 7 premiere, so AMC's decision to tone down this sequence was likely a response to the backlash, a rare moment where the show chose to pull a punch.