Michonne Became ‘The Walking Dead’s Biggest Badass

The Walking Dead may be a show about zombies, but it's the characters that make the series so popular. You need great characters to care about and root for in order to make the walker attacks scary. You have to be a badass to survive the zombie apocalypse. Weaklings don't make it very long. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), as the group's leader, was a badass from day one. Others, like the meek Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride), had to learn to become a badass through heartbreak. Then there's Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), a character who doesn't exist in creator Robert Kirkman's comics, but who seemed to be created just to be the walking epitome of cool with a crossbow. No one is more of an unstoppable fighter, however, than Michonne (Danai Gurira), who we first meet when she's walking with her chained-up walkers in Season 2. One moment, though, more than any other, shows us the lengths Michonne will go to in her effort to destroy evil and protect the people she loves.