But now the universe has given us the best alternative: children playing the parts of the adult Walking Dead survivors.
This and several other slices of awesomeness were put together by the New Jersey-based business Mother Hubbard Photography, which shared the results from a recent Walking Dead cosplay shoot where the photographers children and their friends recreated some of the most memorable moments from the zombie dramas recent seasons.
Over its first six seasons, The Walking Dead has offered up a number of young characters that have run the gamut from tolerable to abysmally annoying.
The anger isnt directed so much at the images above, but for others that depict more violent scenes.