MOST MISSED

IN A WORLD where the dead outnumber the living, it’s no surprise that beloved characters have come and gone on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. Whether they were killed by the flesh-eating infected or the true threat—other desperate survivors—we’re still grieving these folks…for better or worse.

And though we miss leader Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and badass warrior Michonne (Danai Gurira), we’ll see more Rick in the upcoming feature films, and we can only hope that Michonne joins him. For these 20 characters, though, the adventure has ended.

SHANE WALSH

(JON BERNTHAL)

Hotheaded Shane was best friends with even-tempered Rick, his partner in the sheriff’s department. Postapocalypse, the tough guy, whose heroics kept the survivors from being zombie snacks, was obsessed with taking the lead in the group and his buddy’s place in the Grimes family. Survival, to him, depended on brutality, not Rick’s “weak” rule of law. In Season 2, Shane tried to murder Rick, who, devastated, killed him in self-defense. He rose, zombified; Rick’s young son, Carl (Chandler Riggs),