Throughout its run,The Walking Dead was ripe with surprising and emotional losses of core characters that were thought to be in it for the long haul. Negan's barbaric execution of Glenn Rhee in season seven is arguably the most gruesome, even softening the memory of the Governor's similar killing of Hershel Greene in season four, which comes to seem humane in comparison. Daryl and Maggie grieved Beth's accidental death in season five, and in season three, Carl shot his own mother in the head after getting bitten by a walker while giving birth to his half sister. Yet perhaps no death in the series was as unexpected as the passing of Carl himself.