Warning: Walking Dead spoilers through season 6. (Seriously, like, every spoiler.)

The Walking Dead has always had a lot of death in it. (I mean, the word "dead" is right there in the title.) But even for a show about corpses coming back to life and eating people, this season felt especially brutal: Denise, Owen, Jesse, the as-yet-unnamed mystery person who got their head bashed in by Negan at the end of last season! All of them met a savage end—even if we didn't always know who they were.

To commemorate the return of The Walking Dead on Sunday (and jog your memory as to who's still standing), we combed through the entire season in an attempt to find out which characters succumbed to the writer's wrath in the most gnarly fashion. And, to be honest, after binge-watching 16 episodes-worth of gory carnage, we really wish we hadn't.

Disclaimer:

In order to stop ourselves from going crazy, we're only counting characters with speaking parts and who actually had a name and/or a back story. So maybe next time, "Savior compound guard No. 2."

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Holly

Episode: 2

Who was she: Alexandria resident who may have had a fling with Noah before, er, that happened.

Cause of death: Stabbed in the stomach by a Wolf.

Gnarliness: 1/10

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Erin

Episode: 2

Who was she: Alexandria resident and book club nazi.

Cause of death: Stabbed by Carol after sustaining a mortal knife wound in the Wolf raid.

Gnarliness: 2/10

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Eastman

Episode: 4

Who was he: Morgan's stick-waving sensei.

Cause of death: Bitten by a walker while trying to save Morgan.

Gnarliness: 2/10

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Tabitha

Episode: 4

Who was she: Eastman's goat.

Cause of death: Walkers finally got 'er.

Gnarliness: 2/10

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Michelle

Episode: 13

Who was she: One of the Saviors who captures Maggie and Carol; wrongly thinks she's one of the good guys.

Cause of death: Shot in the head.

Gnarliness: 3/10

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Donnie

Episode: 13

Who was he: Another one of the Saviors and Paula's side piece.

Cause of death: Shot by Carol, later dies of blood loss—also of being a douche.

Gnarliness: 3/10

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Primo

Episode: 13

Who was he: The Savior who tries to escape from Rick and the gang on Daryl's stolen motorbike; notably not Negan.

Cause of death: Shot in the head by Rick.

Gnarliness: 3/10

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Owen

Episode: 9

Who was he: The murderous Wolf with the bad teeth who Morgan tries to rehabilitate.

Cause of death: Ironically shot by Carol the minute he decided not to be a bad guy any more.

Gnarliness: 4/10

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Nicholas

Episode: 3

Who was he: Up until this episode, Alexandria's resident fuccboi.

Cause of death: Generously shoots himself in the head so Glenn can escape the oncoming horde.

Gnarliness: 4/10

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Molly

Episode: 13

Who she was: Another of the Saviors who captures Maggie and Carol; chain smoker.

Cause of death: Has her head smashed in by Maggie, although she'd already been bitten by a zombified Donnie and was dying of lung cancer, so things weren't exactly looking great for her before that.

Gnarliness: 4.5/10

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Carter

Episode: 1

Who was he: One of the construction workers who helps Rick's lure the horde out of the quarry and away from Alexandria.

Cause of death: Stabbed in the head by Rick after taking a walker bite to the face.

Gnarliness: 5/10

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Shelly

Episode: 2

Who was she: Paprika-hating Alexandria resident and general food snob.

Cause of death: Unexpectedly attacked by a machete-wielding Wolf during her smoke break.

Gnarliness: 5/10

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Barnes

Episode: 3

Who was he: Another one of Alexandria's construction workers; not a fan of Rick's.

Cause of death: Walker bite to the throat.

Gnarliness: 5/10

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Deanna

Episode: 8

Who was she: Former congresswoman and Alexandria's chief matriarch.

Cause of death: Already bitten, she decided to go out swinging and basically threw herself into an onslaught of oncoming zombies. Metal.

Gnarliness: 5/10

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Tina

Episode: 6

Who was she: Dwight's wife's diabetic younger sister.

Cause of death: Devoured by the glass-encased remains of the children she used to babysit.

Gnarliness: 5/10

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Ethan

Episode: 11

Who was he: The Hilltop resident who tries to kill Gregory after Negan kidnaps his brother.

Cause of death: Stabbed in the neck by Rick.

Gnarliness: 5.5/10

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Sturgess

Episode: 3

Who was he: Alexandria's gardener; hat wearer.

Cause of death: Devoured by walkers after unwisely choosing to split off from the rest of the group. (Gardeners suck at killing zombies, FYI.)

Gnarliness: 6/10

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Annie

Episode: 3

Who was she: Part of Alexandria's crack supply run team...until she died.

Cause of death: Sprained her ankle while the group is trying to get out of the woods and was too slow to run away.

Gnarliness: 6/10

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David

Episode: 3

Who was he: Love sick Alexandria resident; married to Betsy.

Cause of death: Devoured by walkers after he was too slow to climb a fence.

Gnarliness: 6/10

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Betsy

Episode: 5

Who was she: David's heartbroken wife.

Cause of death: Slit her wrists after learning of David's untimely death.

Gnarliness: 6/10

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Richard

Episode: 2

Who was he: One of Alexandria's tower guards.

Cause of death: Molotov cocktail and/or falling off the wall.

Gnarliness: 6.5/10

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Sam

Episode: 9

Who was he: Alexandria's youngest resident (after Judith) but the compound's biggest Tiny Tim fan.

Cause of death: Eaten by the monsters.

Gnarliness: 6.5/10

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Jesse

Episode: 9 Who was she: Sam's mother, and Rick's brief pre-Michonne fling.

Cause of death: Devoured by walkers while trying to save Sam.

Gnarliness: 7/10

Ron

Episode: 9

Who was he: Sam's, let's face it, asshole of an older brother.

Cause of death: Stabbed through the back by Michonne—to the protests of nobody.

Gnarliness: 7/10

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Denise

Episode: 14

Who was she: Alexandria's lovable doctor and one half of the compound's best couple.

Cause of death: Shot by a crossbow in the back of the head while giving an inspirational speech about empowerment. Cold, Walking Dead. So cold.

Gnarliness: 7.5/10

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Bud

Episode: 9

Who was he: The wise-cracking Savior who sticks up Daryl, Abraham and Sasha on the side of the road.

Cause of death: Bazooka.

Gnarliness: 8/10

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Paula

Episode: 13

Who was she: Cold-hearted leader of the Saviors' reserve team.

Cause of death: Has her face chewed off by a walker while also being impaled on a spike.

Gnarliness: 9/10

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[Mystery Person]

Episode: 16

Cause of death: Had their head smashed in by Negan and his barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat "Lucille." Who were they: We don't know. I guess we'll find out during this weekend's season premiere... unless we don't.

Gnarliness: 10/10 (Even if the cliffhanger itself was kind of a bullshit.)