The 7 best (and 6 worst) characters in The Walking Dead

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan - The Walking Dead _ Season 7, Episode 8 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan - The Walking Dead _ Season 7, Episode 8 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC
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Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon – The Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 10 – Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC

AMC’s The Walking Dead Universe has plenty of characters but which ones are the best, and which ones fall a little short?

The world of The Walking Dead revolutionized television over the course of a decade. A once-little AMC show that could based on an acclaimed comic book series transformed into one of the biggest franchises in entertainment. Yes, The Walking Dead Universe lives.

Among the many reasons for the main show’s popularity are its central characters. Over the past 13 years, fans have fallen in love with the band of survivors destined to stick together and beat the horrors of the world around them. They are the driving force behind the show, and that has also found its way into spinoff shows such as Fear The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: Dead City.

That being said, not everyone in the TWD Universe is a character worth celebrating. Granted, we’re not supposed to like all of them, but sometimes we don’t even like those that we’re supposed to. Yes, The Walking Dead is familiar with bad characters. And even the new spinoffs, such as Dead City and Daryl Dixon aren’t completely immune to that.

With that in mind, let’s look at the very best and worst characters in the whole TWD Universe and discuss why some succeeded, and some did not.