Portrayed by Jon Bernthal (The Punisher), Shane was the best friend of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), who was also a co-worker as Sherrif Deputies for King County. Shane's death was an important ...

The motivations of these characters vary drastically, but they all have intelligence and astute decision-making in common.

Rick Grimes was originally meant to die much earlier in The Walking Dead series according to Robert Kirkman. In the comics, ...

but that Shane was originally going to kill Rick and become the first - and arguably greatest - major villain of the series.

Rick's mother, he says ... which winds up getting him arrested. Shane (Jake Lacy)—a spoiled jerk, insufferable mommy's boy, and actual killer, albeit an accidental one—disparages the career ...