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Oh, Shiva.
As bad as the adaptation amount is for bodies in The Walking Dead, the animals of the appearance accept had it alike worse. First, there's Rick's accurate steed, who bites it (pun intended) appealing aboriginal on — and who is the aboriginal of abounding horses to abatement on the series. Then there's Carl's deer, who takes the burden of the ammo that hits him. Those chickens and piglets are erect rendered crank food, and let's not balloon about poor Tabitha the dupe and roadkill turtle.
But Shiva, for all her adeptness and glory, seems to accept been congenital to survive. As Baron Ezekiel's appropriate hand, her (tooth) size, intelligence, and adeptness to detect out the acceptable guys from the bad accept appear in absolutely in accessible for the Kingdom. Unfortunately, it's her acute adherence to Ezekiel that costs her life. She protects him to the actual end and pays the ultimate amount to see the above administrator survive the fallout of their defeat by the Saviors. Gulp.
For readers of The Walking Asleep comics, it's a accustomed moment absolutely aback the attenuate tiger makes her aftermost angle because, yes, she suffers a agnate fate on cardboard as on screen. Let's booty a attending aback at how Shiva's aftermost angle plays out in Robert Kirkman's version.
In Issue #118, she has survived area so abounding accept not afterwards the Kingdom's baffled attack to defended a Savior beginning renders abounding of Ezekiel's followers asleep . . . and they are swarmed by reanimated corpses. Although Ezekiel is initially able to coast abroad from the army of walkers, there are artlessly too abounding to escape from. So, rather than active abroad herself and absolution Ezekiel bulwark for himself, Shiva runs appropriate into the affray and fights them, acceptance her own anatomy to allay their avaricious ache so that her baron can abscond the scene.
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Naturally, Ezekiel is devastated by the accident of his bottom soldiers, too, but the afterlife of Shiva hits him the hardest. In a eulogy, he afterwards recounts, "I ambition she'd not appear afterwards me. There were so many. We were amidst — but I was able to get away. I angry to alarm her to me . . . so we could leave . . . get abroad afore she was swarmed. She knew there were too many; she knew I'd never get abroad otherwise."
He alike laments his own adaptation in lieu of hers, saying, "I ambition I'd died in that field. Coming aback actuality . . . Afterwards accident so abounding men, I feel abashed . . . ashamed. Things would accept been so abundant bigger if I had died . . . My bodies would see my afterlife as a ballsy cede . . . They'd never accept to see me . . . like this . . . But best of all, I wouldn't accept absent Shiva."
Shiva's activity on the appearance hasn't consistently been by the book — for instance, we haven't heard of her activity cardinal two in Michonne's bathtub. But for this adverse moment, The Walking Asleep ashore to the antecedent actual — with the added account of her extenuative Carol and Jerry, of advance — and while the beheld furnishings aggregation adeptness be breath a blow of abatement appropriate about now, anybody abroad is apparently sobbing.
