The Walking Dead: 10 Best Antagonists
9. Dawn
Introduced immediately after the conclusion of the Hunters arc, Dawn and her band of cops at Grady Memorial Hospital proved to be quite a contrast to their antagonistic predecessors, forcing those they deemed weak into a form of indentured servitude - rather than eating them, obviously - in an environment of instability and abuse.
Dawn herself was frequently hard to get a read on, slapping the kidnapped Beth one minute and trying to be genuine with her another, though her desperate obsession with maintaining her power in the face of dissent led to her attempting to manipulate Beth to take her side.
When Rick and the gang showed up to trade her people back for the release of Beth and Carol, her arrogance brought about her own downfall, as she shot Beth instinctively after being stabbed before Daryl put her down in return. She only appeared in a handful of episodes, but her final action undeniably robbed the group of much-needed hope at a time when they needed it most.