Top 10 Biggest Walking Dead Breakups: Lasting Heartbreaks
By Nir Regev
1) Shane and Lori
The one that messed Shane up forever, causing the end of a timeless friendship and an untimely haircut. All of your hair lying on the floor is always the first sign something is wrong. Flashback, there Shane was the indirect recipient of a ‘dead’ man’s success in life. Living large, new beautiful wife and newly adopted good son Carl. Self appointed patriarch, respected in the community as a leader. Taking on his old buddies’ responsibilities to protect his family. Then it happens.
The ‘dead’ man isn’t dead at all. He’s very much alive and has arrived to reclaim what is rightfully 100% his. Shane had previously told his buddies’ muse that her husband is definitely gone, luring her defenses down in an already shaky marriage before the apocalypse. Now the act is over, the diorama whisked away in the wind, truth front and center. Does Shane accept being relegated back to his prior position in life and see the whole thing as a misguided unaware fling? No.
He becomes a man possessed, hungry to do anything to get back what he once had. The man could have just gone no-contact but he wanted all contact. Despite an opportunity with new girl Andrea to build something he’s drunk with Lori. So he ends up taking one ‘fresh’ step too many and Rick is forced to put him down. His own best friend and pal. The Walking Dead’s greatest love triangle brought to its conclusion.