The Walking Dead: 8 Characters Who Died Too Soon

2. Andrea

The Walking Dead Merle zombie
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Much has been said over the years about the show's mishandling of adapting Andrea from page to screen. She's a fan favorite in the comics, and it was hard to watch the character get butchered over the course of three seasons to the point of being unrecognizable from the character comic fans love.

Her "sleeping with the enemy" arc over the third season drew the frustrated ire of many who wanted to see the character break free from The Governor and become something more, but by the end of the season hopes had long since been dashed, the character coming to an end that was both relatively unsatisfying for how it played out and satisfying for those in the audience who were tired of her being on the show.

As a result, it's easy to see why some are happy that she's gone despite the fact she was such a huge part of the show, but it's also incredibly frustrating in that it wouldn't have taken much to "fix" her. Look at characters like Carol or Father Gabriel, for instance, who went from being characters many thought useless or wanted to see dead to ones hailed as badasses, and you can see how Andrea could've easily been retooled and course corrected to become the character fans deserved.

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