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is founded upon the principle of its characters being in constant danger and at any moment a key player could be killed off.

Though the series has slightly gone off track with it\'s "Nobody\'s safe" rule in its fake-out death of season six, the show\'s writer and creator claims that it is something the series has to hold on to. "Coming from the comic, I wrote the comic for like 8 years before the show existed. Like I always said, \'People gotsta die.\' You never want to lose that," Robert Kirkman said on

"If you go too long a period with characters surviving and being safe you lose that element of \'Oh my god, these characters could go at any moment,\'" Kirkman continued. "That\'s a tremendously powerful engine that drives this thing and it\'s very emotional but in comics it\'s me and the artist going, \'I guess those lines in the paper don\'t exist anymore. Oh, well.\' It\'s very emotional for us because we do love these characters but it doesn\'t have that added element that the TV show has where these are our friends that we see everyday but it doesn\'t stop us. We don\'t care."

cast will appear on Inside the Actors Studio on February 11 at 8 PM ET just days prior to

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Of course key players are always going to be on the table for a possible \'killing off\' scenario,after all,they \'gotsta\' keep those ratings up.I still got this feeling that Morgan or Carol will bite it by the end of this season,just a hunch.

no one is safe is bs. Daryl, Rick, Carl and maybe Michonne are always going to be safe. ( unless the actors want to leave the show) While I LOVE Carol and Glenn, I don\'t consider either of them as "safe".

It\'s getting to the point where I\'m not even excited for the return of the show. People need to die, and the story needs to go forward.