It's getting tougher and tougher to avoid spoilers nowadays. Faced with endless blogs, Twitter updates and overzealous talk show hosts , it's easy to have major parts of a movie or TV show ruined before you get to watch it. Hell, it's basically expected -- but what's surprising is when the network, studio or publisher itself is the one doing everything possible to give away the ending of the same thing they're trying to get people to watch. This happens more often than you think, like when ...

5 AMC Gives Away a Major Character Death in The Walking Dead

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One of the biggest draws of AMC's apocalyptic zombie drama The Walking Dead is that no one is safe. Any character could die at any moment from causes ranging from "zombie bite" to "hillbilly with a crossbow," to the point where the show might as well be called The Walking De- oh, wait, we see what they did there.



Good one. Now kill Carl, please.

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Anyway, there's no better example of that than the next to last episode of Season 2, where a major character bites the dust, and then bites the dust underneath that dust, making the drastic transition from living to undead to just plain dead within the span of a few minutes. Shane, a disgruntled ex-police officer played by Jon Bernthal, attempts to kill his former partner and "best friend," Rick (Andrew Lincoln), for reasons you would know if you'd just give in to your friends and watch the damn show already.

Rick is forced to stab Shane, who even in death continues being a douchebag and goes after his buddy again as a zombie. Finally, Rick's son, Carl, shows up and shoots Zombie Shane with a gun in the one instance in this show where the gross parental neglect actually helped anyone.



"Carl, if you shoot me, I'm going to significantly reduce your allowance!"

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Shane was maybe the second most important character on the show -- his death was the equivalent of Jerry being forced to brutally kill Kramer, which is why it was saved for one of the final episodes of the season. As such, it came as a shock to many viewers ... unless, of course, they'd seen the following ad on AMC's site a couple of weeks before: