The Walking Dead: 10 Most Underused Characters

And the worst TV death of all time goes to...

Beth Greene is far from a fan favourite character, but there's no denying she was on the road to becoming one of the show's most interesting and complex characters. She'd formed a bond with Daryl, confronted her fears about the world, and was then held hostage at Grady Memorial Hospital, where she had to fend for herself.

The Grady episodes are lacklustre at best, but Beth's growth was actually quite good, and great to see considering how long she'd been on the show.

But then, just as Rick, Daryl et al arrived to save her, she stabbed her captor Dawn Lerner, who then accidentally shot her through the head. It was needlessly cruel and made literally no sense, and it rendered her recent development absolutely pointless.

It's hard to say Beth's death was anything more than a ploy to beat Daryl and Maggie down to new depths rather than effectively progress the narrative, and given how far she'd come and how much more she had left to show, it's infuriating that she wasn't allowed to stick around a little bit longer.