The Walking Dead
Summary
From Rick killing an undead child in the very first episode to Negan create his controversial , long - awaited entry , there are a long ton of truly shocking moments that definedThe Walking Deadin its former seasons . Within its first couple of years , The Walking Deadbecame one of the most popular shows on telecasting . It earned rave reviews , a shelf - load of awards , and million of looker around the macrocosm . It brought zombies back into the mainstream , the same wayThe Twilight Sagadid with vampires . But it took a few fundamental moments to get the show to that legendary status .
There are a few long sequences that give the show ’s unrelentingly dour tone and premise of trying to bring civilization back to a broken society . Throughout the first time of year , Rick step by step realise the corporate trust of the Atlanta survivor and assume leaders of their radical . When Negan showed up with his trusty barb - wire - wrap baseball bat Lucille , he dispatch not one , but two major persona in the most gratuitously gruesome way imaginable . But these were extended sequences and write up arcs . There were some moments that lasted just a few arcsecond that contributed to the series ’ iconic legacy .
8Rick Shoots The Zombie Girl In The Walking Dead Season 1
This moment established the show’s signature darkness early on
The pilot episode ofThe Walking Dead – time of year 1 , sequence 1 , “ Days Gone Bye ” – opens in media res with Sheriff ’s Deputy Rick Grimes searching for supplies in an abandoned gizmo shop at the side of a main road in the Georgia countryside . While he ’s scavenging in the gismo store , Rick spots a young girl and approaches to help her . However , she turns out to be a walker . As she ruffle towards him with purport to bite and taint him , Rick reluctantly take out out his gunman and hit her in the head . And that ’s just the first scene of the first episode .
This moment establish very betimes on just how uncompromisingly dark this show would be . It jump off with the shot of an undead baby and then boldly sets out to top that with even sorry , even more horrible minute . Even other prestigiousness TV dramas that killed off a child to blow out of the water their audience , likeThe WireorBreaking Bad , took a few episodes to build up to it . ButThe Walking Deaddid it rectify off the squash racket in the very first scene of the pilot . It would spend the ease of the series live up to that darkness .
7Dr. Edwin Jenner Reveals The Extent Of The Zombie Apocalypse
The season 1 finale removed any semblance of hope
InThe Walking Dead ’s first - season finale – season 1 , installment 6 , “ TS-19 ” – Rick and the other survivor go far at the headquarters of the CDC , where they hope to find both a secure harbour and a possible cure for the automaton computer virus . However , they ’re surprised to come up that there ’s only one scientist left in the building , Dr. Edwin Jenner , and he ’s become unhinged in the closing off . He tests all their blood to make certain they ’re not infected , then explains there ’s no hope for a remedy . He ’s been in touch with scientist across the world and human civilization is well and unfeignedly dead .
And Jenner is n’t just the bearer of bad intelligence ; he ’s so sure that the world is doom that he plans to trap Rick ’s group in the building when it self - destructs due to lack of superpower . Rick and his group manage to elude the building before the explosion , but the macrocosm they ’ve escaped to is much bleaker than it was before . Before pass to the CDC , Rick and his group were hoping that the zombie Revelation would eventually blow over and society would go back to normal . But Jenner make it exonerated that there is no normal to go back to .
6Zombified Sophia Emerges From Hershel’s Barn
A shocking twist several episodes in the making
The walk Deadshocked viewers with the Apocalypse of a zombified Sophia in Hershel ’s barn in season 2 ’s midseason finale : installment 7 , “ Pretty Much Dead Already . ” The show demonstrated that it would construct up a storyline for several episodes , only to tear the carpet out from under the audience with a surprising twist reveal . All throughout the first half of the show ’s second season , Rick and his grouping were function out in switch to judge to site Carol ’s missing daughter . Some were more hopeful than others that she was still alive , but they never give up their search for Sophia .
But when it ’s revealed that Hershel is continue walkers locked in his barn and Rick ’s chemical group frees the walkers so they can bolt down them , Sophia emerges . This continue one ofThe Walking Dead ’s most shocking death . They ’d been searching for Sophia in the region surrounding the farm for several instalment when it was revealed that she ’d been wandering around the barn as a sanguinary zombi spirit the total time . This here and now evidence thatThe Walking Deadwould gladly throw a multi - episode taradiddle arc out the window for the sake of a jaw - dropping plot pull .
5Rick Kills Shane (Then Carl Kills Zombified Shane)
No character is safe in The Walking Dead
Throughout the first two seasons ofThe walk Dead , Shane went from being Rick ’s loyal sidekick to his deadly enemy . When the zombie Revelation first broke out , Shane was the one who barricaded Rick ’s infirmary way so the walker would n’t get in before he awoke from his comatoseness . But in the meantime , Shane had been having an affair with Rick ’s wife Lori , as well as bit by bit losing his intellect and becoming a violent psychopath . finally , Shane became a full - blown scoundrel , and in time of year 2 , sequence 12 , “ Better Angels , ” Rick had to kill his best friend to keep more cold - full-blood murders .
The most disgraceful moment in Shane ’s death prospect happens after Rick has stabbed Shane to death . Rick pick up Carl pointing his hit man at him and assume Carl is contrive to kill him to retaliate Shane . However , Carl fervor and take up down a revivify Shane before he can hit Rick . This moment is meaning for a few reasons . It show that everyone hail back as a zombie , no matter how they die ; it turned Carl into a sea wolf , which is woefully a requisite for everyone who wants to survive in this world ; and it proved that no character reference is safe .
4Revealing The Governor’s Zombie-Infested Man Cave
The Governor showed that the walkers aren’t the worst monsters in The Walking Dead
When Andrea and Michonne stumbled upon a bastioned township called Woodbury in season 3 , episode 3 , “ Walk with Me , ” it seemed too good to be true . And , of course , it was . At first , the headspring honcho of Woodbury , sleep together only as “ The Governor , ” seemed like a fair and fairish drawing card who had earned the respect of the townspeople . ab initio , Andrea nurse the mind of living in Woodbury with Rick and the rest of the survivor . However , it does n’t take long forThe Walking Deadto reveal that the Governor is actually a sick , twisted despot .
The introduction of Woodbury established a keyWalking Deadtrope : the territorial communities living under the myth of law and parliamentary procedure . Woodbury would later be joined by other apparently civil but secretly pitiless communities like Terminus , Oceanside , Hilltop , Alexandria , the Wolves , the Saviors , the Scavengers , the Kingdom , the Commonwealth – the list goes on . The shocking end - of - episode revelation that the Governor is actually a crazed grampus with a museum of severed Alice Malsenior Walker head in his man cave also evidence viewers that they could n’t believe anyone ( and other survivor are the substantial monsters in this world ) .
3The Fall Of The Prison
Splitting up the group gave the show a new format
Rick ’s grouping ’s arrest at an abandoned prison , which begin in time of year 3 , culminated in a climactic encounter in time of year 4 , episode 8 , “ Too Far Gone . ” The Governor arrived with an United States Army and planned to take the prison by force to use as his own hideout . There are a ton of great moments in this battle , like Michonne drive her katana through the Governor ’s chest of drawers , but the most of the essence bit in the sequence arrives at the very end . As Walker invade the conflict - ravaged prison house , Rick run with Carl and tells him , “ Do n’t look back , Carl . Just keep walk . ”
This battle rive up Rick ’s group into a gang of smaller group . Daryl stop up with Beth , Carol ended up with Tyreese , etc . The remaining episodes of season 4 followed each of these group as they slowly made their way to Terminus , which was opine to be a dependable haven . When the prison conflict break open up Rick ’s radical for a bunch of individual storylines , it impart the show a new story locomotive engine . It becameThe Walking Dead ’s novel format to have everyone spread out in unlike locations on their own solo adventures .
2Carol Kills Lizzie
Lizzie’s death brought The Walking Dead to new depths of darkness
When Rick ’s group got cleave up into small groups , Carol and Tyreese drew the brusque drinking straw as they ended up on babysitting duty . Not only did they have to seem after sister Lizzie and Mika ; they had to look after baby Judith , too . In season 4 , episode 14 , “ The Grove , ” Lizzie starts to show alarming signs that she ’s becoming fluid . She off her own sis , Mika , thinking that she ’s save her from being belt down by walkers . When Carol and Tyreese catch her plotting to shoot down Judith , they realize something needs to be done .
Carol reluctantly strike Lizzie out into the wilderness and kills her to keep Mika and Judith safe . This morbid plot crook tookThe walk Deadto all - young depth of darkness . It had always been a non-white show – Rick shot and killed an undead child in the very first installment – but Carol mercy - killing a little girl like the ending ofOf Mice and Menwas the darkest thing the series had done up to that point . “ The Grove ” is still order as one ofthe greatest episode ofThe Walking Dead .
1The First Appearance Of Jeffrey Dean Morgan As Negan
Negan completely changed the show
The Walking Deadbecame a completely different show when Jeffrey Dean Morgan made his long - wait launching as the expectant badness of the franchise , Negan , in the 6th - time of year finale : season 6 , episode 16 , “ Last Day on Earth . ” Negan ’s introduction had the biggest impact onThe walk Deadof any new character who joined the shape after season 1 ; it was a totally different show after he came along . Negan ’s institution drew motley revaluation from critic , who praised Morgan ’s performance but pick apart the episode ’s use of a cliffhanger ending .
Much like in the comic strip , Negan peck out one phallus of Rick ’s group to mercilessly beat to death . But the TV series showed this end from the perspective of the dupe , so viewers had to hold back months to find out who give way . Arriving just a few episodes after Glenn ’s fake - out demise , this cliffhanger solidifiedThe walk Dead ’s trust on cheap thingumabob ( and signalize the show ’s inauspicious fall from thanksgiving ) .
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