The Walking Dead is undoubtedly TV's darkest, grittiest, goriest show about boring people arguing over trivial bullshit while zombies peek through the windows in the background. Still, for every 20 frank discussions about morality, there's at least one horrible on-screen death. It's pretty brutal. But even the show's most disturbing scenes don't so much as hold a candle to the searing genitals of the comic book ...

4 There's A Weird Fixation With Having Little Girls Murdered In Front Of Their Dads (Including Rick)

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The Walking Dead shows us Lori, the wife of protagonist Rick Grimes, dying giving birth to a baby girl, Judith. If that's not tragic enough, her young son Carl then has to shoot her in the head before she turns into a zombie. It was a highly emotional moment -- which was, of course, instantly turned into a humorous meme by the internet.

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"CORAL. WHADDAYA CALL A ZOMBIE MOM? CORAL!"

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Luckily, baby Judith made it out OK, and survives as an adorable plot annoyance to this day. Come on, the writers of this show aren't monsters. But we can't say the same thing about the comic's author, Robert Kirkman. In the print version, Lori also dies, but none of that "new beginnings mixed with bitter ends" stuff -- she gets blasted with a shotgun while holding Judith in her arms. And unlike on TV, Rick gets a front-row seat:

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In fairness, he was given a warning about wearing a poncho in the front rows.

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So this is when Rick turns over Lori's body and sees that the baby is miraculously still alive, right? Nope! She's completely dead, though it's unclear if she died from the shot or from her mother's body falling on her. These are the important questions which we sincerely hope never get answered.