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In a dealership that literally take position during a zombie Revelation of Saint John the Divine , it should come as no surprisal thatThe Walking Deadhas a great number of deaths throughout the series , but some are decidedly more significant than others , especially when it come to the character development of one person : Rick Grimes . Rick is the main supporter ofThe Walking Dead , and has precede his chemical group through hell and back before his narration finally total to an end . And during that clock time , Rick break down through a number of changes , most of which correspond with a few fundamental deaths .
be through an apocalypse intend not only witnessing horror beyond inclusion , but also being storm to commit them . to survive , Rick Grimes and his group had to make one impossibly hard decision after another . Admittedly , some were leisurely than others , like killing Walkers that were once people they recognized , while others were horrifically ambitious , like ordering execution or set up a work stoppage against another chemical group of survivors - and everything in between . Out of them all , these are the10 deaths inThe Walking Deadthat for good changed Rick Grimes .
10Rick Shooting ‘Bicycle Girl’ Completed His Emergence into this New World
The Walking Dead#1 by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
Almost instantly after walking out into the world from his hospital room ( as he was in a comatoseness during the initial outbreak),Rick grunge come across a cycle , with a zombified daughter lying on the ground next to it . Rick takes the bike and uses it to quickly and safely get to his next location , which is a decisiveness that may have saved his life .
Before setting off to find his kinsperson , Rick paid a visit to the bicycle girl who unwittingly saved his life , and put her out of her misery . By doing so , Rick became fully immersed in this direful new public he woke up in , as this was his first Walker kill of the entireWalking Deadseries , and was just a preview of the serviceman he ’d have to become to survive .
9Shane’s Death Shook Rick to His Core, in More Ways than One
The Walking Dead#6 by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
When Shane started to begrudge Rick upon his homecoming , and even plotted to kill him in the woods , Rick was understandably confounded and heartbroken . And when Shane was spud in the cervix in front of him , Rick was stunned and dismay , as one of the first people he ’d see dice was his former good champion . However , what shook Rick more to his pith than Shane nearly kill him , and dying in front of him , was who wipe out Shane : Carl .
Carl is Rick ’s son , and he was just a son when he killed Shane , which is something that leave a permanent scrape on one ’s head . The fact thathis own son blend in through such repugnance , along with the blow of find out his former best protagonist give-up the ghost in front of him , absolutely shook Rick to his nub .
8Rick Killing Shane’s Zombie Gave Him the Closure He Needed
The Walking Dead#15 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
When he learns that people turn into zombie when they die , whether they ’ve been bitten by the infected or not , Rick grasp up Shane ’s eubstance to discover that he had , in fact , been wrick into a Walker . After saying some final Word to his one - time best friend , Rick does what he come there to do and puts a bullet train in Shane ’s zombified head , lay to rest their feud once and for all .
Rick vote down Shane ’s zombified var. was the stop he neededto truly move forward as a survivorof this post - apocalyptical domain . It was the final nail in the coffin of his past , and a hope to do whatever he needed to do to ensure a future tense for his household - the one Shane nearly killed him for .
7Rick Allowing Tyreese to Kill Chris was a Major Turning Point
During their time in the prison house , Rick aligned himself with Tyreese , and they worked together to plow the prison into a roaring community . However , mighty at the start , a boy named Charlie killed Tyreese ’s daughter during what was suppose to be a dual - assist suicide , where they ’d both kill the other simultaneously . When Tyreese saw what Charlie had done , he strangled him to death , and he did so right in front of Rick .
Rick could have stopped Tyreese , but he understood the passion he felt , and knew that Charlie ’s sprightliness was n’t deserving make a rift between them . Charlie ’s death was a turning breaker point in Rick ’s character , as his morals shifted from that of a duteous cop to a more complex leaderin an progressively barbaric world .
6Lori & Judith’s Deaths Utterly Destroyed Rick, Causing Hallucinations
The Walking Dead#48 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
When the Governor and his forces assail the prison house , Rick and his center fellowship - consist of his son Carl , his wife Lori , and his baby girl Judith - make a run for the gate . However , when the Governor ’s forces open up ardor on them , Lori and Judith are killedwhile Rick and Carl make it out of the prison house safely . While Rick outlast , a musical composition of him die with his wife and girl , and the grief he suffered led him to experience impermanent delusion of Lori calling him on the telephone set .
Up until this point , Rick had yet to experience true release . He ’d ascertain friends and allies break down around him , but no one he truly like about or loved until Lori and Judith were rend from his sprightliness in a minute of horrific vehemence that stick with Rick until his net daytime .
5Rick Murdering Caesar Martinez was Perhaps His Darkest Kill
The Walking Dead#36 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
Caesar Martinez was from Woodbury , where the Governor was the undisputed drawing card . He sought sanctuary at the prison , and mean to go back to Woodbury to amass as many people as he could to bring them to the safety of the prison , aside from the roughshod tyranny of the Governor . However , Rick only insure Martinez as an agentive role of the Governor , who would have given away their locating and put them all in risk . So , Rick mutilate Martinez .
This is perhaps Rick ’s glum murder , as he not only killed a man hear to do what was best for his mass - not unlike himself - but he also denied all those citizenry Martinez would have saved the chance for redemption away from the Governor , cement Rick as a much darker , virtuously equivocal characterthan rooter in the beginning thought .
4Rick’s Most Brutal Kill Turns Him into “A Living Zombie”
The Walking Dead#57 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
When Rick and Carl are ambushed by a triplet of bandits , they are viciously beaten , and Carl is nearly sexually assaulted . At the moment Rick in full comprehends the dire risk that expect his boy , he goes berserk . Rick sting the jugular out of one of the bandits ' throat before unleashing his anger on the others , turning himself into a roughshod monster to protect himself and - more significantly - his son .
In the bonus material included inThe walk Dead Deluxe#57,Robert Kirkman himself accept that this moment is when Rick became " a live zombie " , noting the animalistic manner in which he killed those attackers . The murders were absolve , to be certain , but insanely brutal all the same , and put Rick in danger of losing what remained of his manhood for good , just like so many others he ’d encountered in this post - apocalyptic world .
3Glenn’s Death by the Hand of Negan Helped Pull Rick Back from Barbarism
The Walking Dead#100 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
Watching Glenn get beaten to death by Negan was n’t just one of the most traumatic murders Rick had ever witness , but it also cemented Negan as Rick ’s arch enemy for pretty much the rest of the series . What ’s interesting about that , however , is that Rick ’s hate of Negan was the only style to rise how committed he was to justice afterwards down the road .
When Rick has the hazard to kill Negan , he choose to imprison him for his crimes instead , which is only in force in setting an good example for much the rest of humanity because of how much Rick hated Negan . Therefore , whileGlenn ’s slaying itself was a horrifying moment for Rick to witness , the change it had on him was overwhelmingly positive , as Negan arguably pulled Rick back from the brink of full - gas barbarism .
2Andrea’s Death Causes Rick to Lose His Will to Live
The Walking Dead#167 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
Andrea is burn by a zombie spirit , and by the time she bring out as much to Rick when they were back in their domicile , she was in her last hours of life sentence . This return is one of the most heart - wring in the series , especially for Rick , who is so break by Andrea ’s death that he lose his own will to know , proven on-key when he lie next to Andrea after she perish , leave himself totally vulnerable to being bitten by her once she became a zombie .
Andrea ’s death come during a fourth dimension of actual change in the world , as the newfound society Rick was helping to forge was really start out to take hold . Rick believe he ’d be able-bodied to drop the ease of his life with Andrea , and then she died , utterly destroying Rick in the process - though make him a stronger loss leader as a result .
1Rick Grimes’ Death Changed the World of The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead#191-192 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
The final dying Rick Grimes faced - like everyone else - was always destined to be his own , and in Rick ’s caseful , his last absolutely rocked the intact world . On the control surface , Rick ’s death was a senseless one . Sebastian ( the bad son of a want - to - be dictator ) shot Rick in his room after he convinced the multitude of the Commonwealth to hug a more cultivated approach to elect a leader than the all - out warfare that would have kept Sebastian ’s house in power .
However , while his slaying was senseless , Rick ’s death was immensely impactful . Rick became the sufferer this young world urgently needed , and countenance the fraction of humanity that Rick helped cultivate to prosper , just as it was on the verge of utter collapse . Rick ’s demise may not have changed him , but it did change the Earth ofThe Walking Dead , stimulate it one of the 10 most impactful inRick grime ' life .
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