The Walking Dead: Every Main Character Ranked Worst To Best
5. Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson)
The wisest and most selfless man to ever grace the show, Hershel was a bright light of a character. From saving Carl in season two to helping Rick through the early days of the prison, he never disappointed.
His crowning achievement is certainly his stint in the prison during the flu epidemic, where he did everything in his power to keep his people alive and shield the kids from the horrors of the outside world. The whole sequence perfectly summarised him as a character, and made his iconic death at the hands of The Governor all the more tragic.
His return in Rick's Season 9 farewell episode was a welcome surprise, and only cemented the fact that Hershel really was something special and completely irreplaceable.