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Aaron explicitly states they weren't able to legally marry; the dialogue never implies that gay marriage was legal pre-Fall. No alternate history is evident here.
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* AlternateHistory: Aaron notes that he and Eric were married unofficially. In the show's universe, the Fall took place in 2010, five years before the United States legalized gay marriage in the real world.
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* AbortedArc: Aaron is in a foul mood through most of the episode but it's never expanded on.
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* AssholeVictim: Daryl tells Eugene what we all knew about Sebastian - that he was a prick who had it coming.
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* AssholeVictim: AlternateHistory: Aaron notes that he and Eric were married unofficially. In the show's universe, the Fall took place in 2010, five years before the United States legalized gay marriage in the real world.
* AssholeVictim:
** Daryl tells Eugene what we all knew about Sebastian - that he was a prick who had itcoming.coming.
** Roman was a thug who killed several innocent people as part of Lance's scheming and also deserved his fate at the hands of Pamela's loyal forces.
* AssholeVictim:
** Daryl tells Eugene what we all knew about Sebastian - that he was a prick who had it
** Roman was a thug who killed several innocent people as part of Lance's scheming and also deserved his fate at the hands of Pamela's loyal forces.
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** Eugene recalls the conversation he had with Rosita during “The Lucky Ones”.
** Eugene ends up in a Commonwealth jail cell for the fourth time this season.
** Eugene ends up in a Commonwealth jail cell for the fourth time this season.
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** Eugene recalls the conversation he had with Rosita during “The Lucky Ones”.
Ones” when she told him he would eventually find his person after claiming that "Stephanie" broke up with him.
** Eugene ends up in a Commonwealth jail cell for thefourth ''fourth'' time this season.season, after "Acheron", "Promises Broken", and "Rogue Element".
** Eugene ends up in a Commonwealth jail cell for the
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** A walker in the first horde encountered by Aaron’s group stops and looks in their direction, much like the Whisperer who did the same in Season 9’s “Evolution”.
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** A variant walker in the first horde encountered by Aaron’s group stops and looks in their direction, much like the Whisperer who did the same in Season 9’s “Evolution”.
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Pamela subtly threatens Max in front of Mercer, imploring him to cooperate with the manhunt for Eugene.
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Pamela subtly threatens Max in front of Mercer, imploring him to cooperate with the manhunt for Eugene.Eugene as she wonders if Max can be "saved" after turning on her.
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* RealMenCanCook: Jerry offers to treat his group to his famous “fettuccine con cannellini beans à la Jerry”, but doesn't get the chance since Aaron is in a poor mood and wants to hurry to Oceanside.
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* SoProudOfYou: Rosita can't stop herself from crying into Eugene's arms after he announces he will surrender himself if it means saving Max. Later, you can ''just'' tell that Mercer is quietly impressed and grateful to Eugene for surrendering since he has proven himself a brave man worthy of his sister's affections.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The introduction of the variant walker was the key selling point of the episode's promotional material and was the final scene of the show's final San Diego Comic-Con trailer as well, meaning the reveal of the variant was no surprise to anybody who had been paying attention to ads.
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** Eugene recalls the conversation he had with Rosita during “The Lucky Ones”.
** Eugene ends up in a Commonwealth jail cell for the fourth time this season.
** Eugene ends up in a Commonwealth jail cell for the fourth time this season.
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* SmugSnake: When Pamela visits the captive Lance, he smirks and starts up a speech about how his operatives' actions prove how much Pamela needs him... until she mentions that Sebastian died partly as a result of those actions, at which point the smirk slides off of Lance's face as he realizes how screwed he is.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A woman in the intro was still loyal to the Milton’s, to the point that she becomes hostile when she confronts Eugene and accuses him of murdering Sebastian.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A woman in the intro was still loyal to the Milton’s, Miltons, to the point that she becomes hostile when she confronts Eugene and accuses him of murdering Sebastian.
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* ItCanThink: The variant walkers retain enough human intellect to climb over walls, open doors, and use rocks as crude weapons.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Eugene turns himself in and claims that he alone was responsible for the tape recording that caused the chaos at Founder’s Day.
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* KangarooCourt: Despite the fact that dozens of people stood around and refused to help Sebastian escape the walker, Pamela has decided Eugene is responsible for her son’s death and orders him captured and made an example of. Her later broadcast that anyone who aids and abets Eugene will meet his “final” fate as well makes it clear that Eugene is going to die regardless of Mercer’s insistence he will receive a trial.
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* NeverMyFault: Pamela takes no ownership of the corruption that was exposed by Max, instead focusing on avenging her son. She has decreed the chaos at Founder’s Day was a riot incited by Eugene and Max, showing she has no sympathy for the rightfully disgusted populace.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Pamela tells Mercer that hopefully Max can be “saved” despite her turning on her, and it’s enough to scare Mercer into line.
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-->'''Princess:''' '''Fuck''' that thinking.
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-->'''Princess:''' '''Fuck''' ''Fuck'' that thinking.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Princess gets 11C's ''third'' F-bomb in a row.
-->'''Princess:''' '''Fuck''' that thinking.
-->'''Princess:''' '''Fuck''' that thinking.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Rosita is a badass who has proven herself as a fighter time and time again. However, when she gets blindsided by a surprise attack from two much physically stronger guys, she can only get in a couple of punches and kicks before being overwhelmed and kidnapped.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Rosita is a badass who has proven herself as a fighter time and time again. However, when she gets blindsided by a surprise an attack from two much physically stronger guys, she can only get in a couple of punches and kicks before being overwhelmed and kidnapped.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Rosita is a badass who has proven herself as a fighter time and time again. However, when she gets blindsided by a surprise attack from two much physically stronger guys, she can only get in a couple of punches and kicks before being overwhelmed and kidnapped.
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* ActorAllusion: The walker variant, when Aaron removed its face, resembles Marvel villain [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]. Aaron’s actor, Creator/RossMarquand, began playing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse incarnation of [[Characters/MCUJohannSchmidt Red Skull]] starting in 2018’s ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.
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** The walker variant is seen climbing, opening doors, and picking up a rock with which to attack Jerry with - exactly what the walkers in the first episodes of the first season were seen doing. Their activity had previously been chalked up to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, now retconned into variant behavior.
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* DramaticUnmask: PlayedWith. Aaron and Jerry believe the walker that climbs to the roof and picks up a rock is a Whisperer, and Aaron curses them as such, but when he
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* DramaticUnmask: PlayedWith. Aaron and Jerry believe the walker that climbs to the roof and picks up a rock is a Whisperer, and Aaron curses them as such, but when he pulls off the face, expecting to see a human underneath, he only sees a nearly bare skull of an actual walker.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: None of the Commonwealth troops think to check Gabriel’s church despite him being a longtime ally of Eugene’s, let alone the significant other of someone who Mercer recognizes as his best friend.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: None of the Commonwealth troops think to check Gabriel’s church despite him being a longtime ally of Eugene’s, let alone the significant other of someone who Mercer recognizes as his best friend.
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* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group including Aaron encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved threats; one of them also suffers a leg injury.
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* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group including Aaron encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved threats; a new threat; one of them also suffers a leg injury.injury, and a DramaticUnmask reveals the threat is the opposite of what they thought (actual intelligent walkers compared to people wearing walker masks).
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* WhamShot: A series of them as the episode establishes the more intelligent and active walker variant, culminating in Aaron finding nothing but a skinless skull when he pulls the face off a walker, confirming that this is no Whisperer.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Pamela orders her men to hold off on putting down Sebastian
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Pamela orders her men to hold off on putting not put down Sebastian Sebastian, seeking to keep him alive for Lance to feed.
* CallBack:
** Princess and Ezekiel meet in the latter’s secret clinic he established in “Trust”.
** Ezekiel says he and Mercer haven’t seen eye to eye, recalling their trading of barbs in the season premiere.
* CharacterDeath: Roman Calhoun was shot and killed offscreen, Pamela having discovered his part in the walker invasion.
** Princess and Ezekiel meet in the latter’s secret clinic he established in “Trust”.
** Ezekiel says he and Mercer haven’t seen eye to eye, recalling their trading of barbs in the season premiere.
* CharacterDeath: Roman Calhoun was shot and killed offscreen, Pamela having discovered his part in the walker invasion.
* DramaticUnmask: PlayedWith. Aaron and Jerry believe the walker that climbs to the roof and picks up a rock is a Whisperer, and Aaron curses them as such, but when he
* ManlyTears: Mercer is on the verge of these after learning of Princess’s backstory and just how deeply her trauma runs - and how he is unwittingly contributing to it.
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* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group including Aaron encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved threats; one of them also suffers a leg injuryinjury.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Pamela orders her men to hold off on putting down Sebastian
* TheComicallySerious: Daryl is, to say the least, amused when Eugene threatens to fight him. Badass though he may be in his own right, he’s not at Daryl’s level, and he knows it.
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** Aaron brings up Eric, his late husband who he lost in Season 8’s “Some Guy”.
** Eugene says the only reason he survived the Fall is because of his lying to Abraham, as seen in Season 5’s “Self-Help”.
** TheStinger of the GrandFinale of ''Series/TheWalkingDeadWorldBeyond'' revealed that variants of the walker plague have developed around the world, even though most walkers encountered in the franchise to date have been the slow, unintelligent ones we’re used to.
* DespairEventHorizon: Pamela does not take the death of Sebastian well, slipping fully into authoritarianism and outright stating Eugene will die for causing his death despite the Commonwealth ostensibly being for fair trials.
** Eugene says the only reason he survived the Fall is because of his lying to Abraham, as seen in Season 5’s “Self-Help”.
** TheStinger of the GrandFinale of ''Series/TheWalkingDeadWorldBeyond'' revealed that variants of the walker plague have developed around the world, even though most walkers encountered in the franchise to date have been the slow, unintelligent ones we’re used to.
* DespairEventHorizon: Pamela does not take the death of Sebastian well, slipping fully into authoritarianism and outright stating Eugene will die for causing his death despite the Commonwealth ostensibly being for fair trials.
* {{Irony}}: Aaron’s group believes the variant walkers are actually Whisperers, much like how in Season 9’s “Evolution” he and his group pondered the possibility of the walkers evolving into more intelligent, dangerous threats. This time, it really is the latter.
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* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved threats.
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* TheMourningAfter: A non-marital example. Lydia tells Aaron she doesn’t know that she can try for love again after the death of Henry, but Aaron (who uses this trope in a technically non-marital way himself) asks her to be open to trying again.
* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group including Aaron encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolvedthreats.threats; one of them suffers a leg injury
* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group including Aaron encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A woman in the intro was still loyal to the Milton’s, to the point that she becomes hostile when she confronts Eugene and accuses him of murdering Sebastian.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A woman in the intro was still loyal to the Milton’s, to the point that she becomes hostile when she confronts Eugene and accuses him of murdering Sebastian.Sebastian.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Daryl manages to do this for Eugene with limited words, assuring him that he’s not a coward and not a liability like he claims.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Daryl manages to do this for Eugene with limited words, assuring him that he’s not a coward and not a liability like he claims.
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!Season 11, Episode 19
-->'''While the group contends with the fallout of Sebastian’s death, Aaron, Lydia, Elijah, and Jerry encounter a strange new threat.'''
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* AssholeVictim: Daryl tells Eugene what we all knew about Sebastian - that he was a prick who had it coming.
* AvengingTheVillain: Pamela wants Eugene - and anyone who helps him escape capture - dead to avenge Sebastian.
* ContinuityNod:
** Judith’s intro speech covers most of Eugene’s arc up to the end of Season 8.
** A walker in the first horde encountered by Aaron’s group stops and looks in their direction, much like the Whisperer who did the same in Season 9’s “Evolution”.
* DespairEventHorizon:
* ImmediateSequel: The episode proper begins right after Sebastian’s death in the previous episode.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Pamela subtly threatens Max in front of Mercer, imploring him to cooperate with the manhunt for Eugene.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Pamela wants Eugene captured for inadvertently causing the death of Sebastian.
* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved threats.
* ThickerThanWater: Pamela still grieves for her son despite what an atrocious piece of shit he was.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A woman in the intro was still loyal to the Milton’s, to the point that she becomes hostile when she confronts Eugene and accuses him of murdering Sebastian.
-->'''While the group contends with the fallout of Sebastian’s death, Aaron, Lydia, Elijah, and Jerry encounter a strange new threat.'''
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* AssholeVictim: Daryl tells Eugene what we all knew about Sebastian - that he was a prick who had it coming.
* AvengingTheVillain: Pamela wants Eugene - and anyone who helps him escape capture - dead to avenge Sebastian.
* ContinuityNod:
** Judith’s intro speech covers most of Eugene’s arc up to the end of Season 8.
** A walker in the first horde encountered by Aaron’s group stops and looks in their direction, much like the Whisperer who did the same in Season 9’s “Evolution”.
* DespairEventHorizon:
* ImmediateSequel: The episode proper begins right after Sebastian’s death in the previous episode.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Pamela subtly threatens Max in front of Mercer, imploring him to cooperate with the manhunt for Eugene.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Pamela wants Eugene captured for inadvertently causing the death of Sebastian.
* SequelEpisode: The side of the episode revolving around Aaron’s group is a quasi-sequel to Season 9’s “Evolution”. A group encounters more dangerous walkers who are evolved threats.
* ThickerThanWater: Pamela still grieves for her son despite what an atrocious piece of shit he was.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A woman in the intro was still loyal to the Milton’s, to the point that she becomes hostile when she confronts Eugene and accuses him of murdering Sebastian.
