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** In my friend JackDavid's defense, it could be that the zombie Rick was part of a final test the Devil planned for Carl to see if he was as tough as his father. Carl more or less passed the test. Rick's second layer of Hell will be a cop movie a'la Dirty Harry and Bad Boys.
** Adding to that, The Devil came up with these layers of Hell based on Rick's favorite movies.
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[[WMG: Walker bites don't infect humans with with the zombie plague.]]
Seeing that it's revealed that everyone is infect with the plague that turns living people into Walkers after they die, it makes no sense that the bites would somehow accelerate the process by infecting humans with more of the plague (think of it like this: if you have the flu and you run into someone else who also has the flu, you can't get more of the flu). So, why do people who get bitten slowly die and then become walkers? Simple: when it comes to human bites that penetrate the skin, it's often recommended seeking treatment because a human mouth has a variety of bacteria in them. Normal human mouths contain bacteria and even possible viruses too, which can infect other people if not treated. Now, take that into account in addition to Walkers, who are basically dead. A dead body produces a variety of bacteria when it breaks down. Essentially, when a walker bites a human being, it's not infecting them with the walker plague, but is infecting them with some nasty forms of bacteria.
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* Kelly and/or Connie could die due to the DeathBySex trope.

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* Kelly and/or Connie could die due to the DeathBySex SexSignalsDeath trope.
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** Jossed. The series ends on a hopeful note with Civilization re-established and gradually taking the world back from the dead.




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* Jossed, though a group of survivors do learn to live amongst the undead.




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* Jossed.




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* Jossed. Dwight sabotaged the bolt.




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* Confirmed, though he didn't put her down himself, and feels tremendous guilt.




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* [[spoiler; Jossed. Rick dies at the very end of the series, and the last issues follow Carl.]]




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* Jossed.




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* [[spoiler: Confirmed]]




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* [[spoiler: Confirmed.]]
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* Jossed. Negan ends the series alive and in exile.




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*** Jossed as of the finale. Though Maggie does consider killing Negan with his replacement bat, she decides against it.
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For the [[Series/TheWalkingDead TV show]], see '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadTVShow here]]''' and the [[Series/FearTheWalkingDead spin-off]], see '''[[WMG/FearTheWalkingDead here]]'''.

For the [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead video game]], see '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadVideoGame here]]'''.

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For the [[Series/TheWalkingDead [[Series/TheWalkingDead2010 TV show]], see '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadTVShow '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDead2010 here]]''' and the [[Series/FearTheWalkingDead spin-off]], see '''[[WMG/FearTheWalkingDead here]]'''.

For the [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale video game]], see '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadVideoGame '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadTelltale here]]'''.
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**Confirmed on this being the original ending by Robert Kirkman. Apparently, he was going to end it during the "No Way Out" arc, with a HopeSpot of a Rick Grimes statue, implying he rebuilt civilization...only for it to pull back to reveal Alexandria infested with hordes of zombies.
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**Interesting theory, but how does the final issue factor into it?




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*Confirmed, in a way. While the main comic ended with Issue 193, the series has three confirmed spin offs: The oneshot Negan Lives focusing on Negan's life after Issue 174, The Walking Dead Deluxe which is the series reprinted in color and featuring behind the scenes details, and Rick Grimes Series 2000 which follows up on Issue 75's bonus ending.
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[[WMG: Rick is the avatar of Survival and Life.]]
The zombies are avatars of Death and Despair, Rick was supposed to die, but was chosen by ThePowersThatBe to be their walking beacon of hope, and woke him from his coma, while yes, Ricks group was a walking disaster zone, that's because he was settling, his end goal, unbeknownst to him, was to unite all that remained of humanity against the zombies, something he did eventually do the key was his phrase "we are NOT the walking dead" once he did that, it was a signal, that he had achieved his goal, he was no longer needed, [[spoiler: and the death he was supposed to have in the hospital caught up with him, he dies just as he woke up, in bed, from a gunshot wound.]]
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* It is rumoured that was actually the original ending, the dead win because the living can't stop fighting each other.
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** It was[[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace Plan 9]] if the aliens weren't incompetent.

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* Alternatively, it's his personal hell.

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Alternatively, it's Rick's personal hell.]]

[[WMG: Alternatively, it's Rick's personal hell, but since he died in the penultimate issue of the comic, he's going into the second layer of
his personal hell.
hell.]]
* The Devil trapped Rick's family in hell with Rick in order to hurt Rick through them, and they too will eventually have to go through the second layer Rick will experience.
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[[WMG: The Comic isn't really ending.]]
[[TrollingCreator Kirkman]] is taking time off, then we'll get issue 194 or a re-branded sequel issue 1 to continue Carl's story.
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*Jossed. The comics ended in 2019 unfortunately.
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[[WMG: The comics will use [[spoiler:Take Us Back's bite cauterization revelation to save characters.]]]]
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* Alternatively, it's his personal hell.

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It has already been shown that things aren't as stable as it seems, with most communities being a barter system, the commonwealth being an "old world" style place won't truck well with them, and members of the commonwealth seeing that the alliance do things in a system that values how hard you work rather than "i was in a position of power so im on top" system, along with the obvious problems of a population of 50 thousand people in one place. it will fall.

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It has already been shown that things aren't as stable as it seems, with most communities being a barter system, the commonwealth being an "old world" style place won't truck well with them, and members of the commonwealth seeing that the alliance do things in a system that values how hard you work rather than "i was in a position of power so im "I'm on top" system, along with the obvious problems of a population of 50 thousand people in one place. it will fall.fall.

[[WMG: Rick Grimes died during surgery, and The Walking Dead is a Valhalla-like afterlife where he must prove that he is worthy of entering an Asgard-like afterlife.]]
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[[WMG: The Commonwealth will completely fail]]
It has already been shown that things aren't as stable as it seems, with most communities being a barter system, the commonwealth being an "old world" style place won't truck well with them, and members of the commonwealth seeing that the alliance do things in a system that values how hard you work rather than "i was in a position of power so im on top" system, along with the obvious problems of a population of 50 thousand people in one place. it will fall.
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[[WMG: The Turn was caused by aliens.]]
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* [[spoiler: Confirmed]]

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[[WMG: Issue #175 to #180 is testing to see how fans would react with Rick being KilledOffForReal]]
It's been rumored for ages that Rick would die, and perhaps Carl or some new group would become the main focus
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** He says it doesn't "feel right" when he hides out with Annie in Eugene's house in Issue 164. He had an affair/one night stand with Rosita during the timeskip, and doesn't know that his unborn child was killed.
** [[spoiler:Possibly confirmed in issue 170, as Siddiq confirms to Eugene that she loved him]].




[[WMG: Siddiq was the father of Rosita's baby.]]
He says it doesn't "feel right" when he hides out with Annie in Eugene's house in Issue 164. He had an affair/one night stand with Rosita during the timeskip, and doesn't know that his unborn child was killed.
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* [[spoiler: Confirmed. The "Here's Negan" miniseries is currently exploring his backstory, and it's starting to come up in the comics as well.]]



* They retconned it so that Carl and Sophia are two years older than they were originally stated to be, as seen when Maggie first meets Brianna in ''March to War'', where she states that Sophia is ten. Also, Herhsel II is clearly half-asian, so it's definitely not Dante.

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* It's only been two years. They retconned it so that Carl and Sophia are two years older than they were originally stated to be, as seen when Maggie first meets Brianna in ''March to War'', where she states that Sophia is ten. Also, Herhsel Hershel II is clearly half-asian, so it's definitely not Dante.
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* Bites, scratches and Negan's zombie-bullets are lethal, but when they cover themselves with zombie or when the Governor kisses his undead daughter, there is no danger. My hypothesis is that is they're only lethal when they make contact an open wound.

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* Bites, scratches and Negan's zombie-bullets are lethal, but when they cover themselves with zombie or when the Governor kisses his undead daughter, there is no danger. My hypothesis is that is they're only lethal when they make contact an open wound.



* He says it doesn't "feel right" when he hides out with Annie in Eugene's house in Issue 164. He had an affair/one night stand with Rosita during the timeskip, and doesn't know that his unborn child was killed.

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* He says it doesn't "feel right" when he hides out with Annie in Eugene's house in Issue 164. He had an affair/one night stand with Rosita during the timeskip, and doesn't know that his unborn child was killed.
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*** And now that Lucille has been destroyed and buried, this probably isn't going to happen.

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* They retconned it so that Carl and Sophia are two years older than they were originally stated to be, as seen when Maggie first meets Brianna in ''March to War'', where she states that Sophia is ten. Also, Herhsel II is clearly half-asian, so it's definitely not Dante.



The dead instantly rise as cannibalistic undead. Undead that can withstand months, if not years, of rot and insects. Undead that cannot be stopped with anything less than a headshot, no matter how big a hole you put in their bodies? Undead that exist in numbers that simply cannot be accounted for, given their tendency to eat everything in their path and the numbers of Walkers that have been killed or otherwise neutralized. Undead that don't turn on each other when living flesh isn't around. Undead that exist in a world curiously free of predatory animals that should've thinned their numbers greatly. Someone planned for this to happen. Military experiment GoneHorriblyWrong? [[GoneHorriblyRight (Or too right)]]? Alien experimentation? GaiasVengeance? ''Someone'' is behind it. Nothing else could've stacked the deck against Humanity so thoroughly.

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* The dead instantly rise as cannibalistic undead. Undead that can withstand months, if not years, of rot and insects. Undead that cannot be stopped with anything less than a headshot, no matter how big a hole you put in their bodies? Undead that exist in numbers that simply cannot be accounted for, given their tendency to eat everything in their path and the numbers of Walkers that have been killed or otherwise neutralized. Undead that don't turn on each other when living flesh isn't around. Undead that exist in a world curiously free of predatory animals that should've thinned their numbers greatly. Someone planned for this to happen. Military experiment GoneHorriblyWrong? [[GoneHorriblyRight (Or too right)]]? Alien experimentation? GaiasVengeance? ''Someone'' is behind it. Nothing else could've stacked the deck against Humanity so thoroughly.thoroughly.

[[WMG: Walkers don't kill you unless they penetrate an open wound.]]
* Bites, scratches and Negan's zombie-bullets are lethal, but when they cover themselves with zombie or when the Governor kisses his undead daughter, there is no danger. My hypothesis is that is they're only lethal when they make contact an open wound.

[[WMG: Siddiq was the father of Rosita's baby.]]
* He says it doesn't "feel right" when he hides out with Annie in Eugene's house in Issue 164. He had an affair/one night stand with Rosita during the timeskip, and doesn't know that his unborn child was killed.
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[[WMG: The [[SoleSurvivor last person]] will join the walking dead.]]
The last living character will walk among the undead, dead inside enough to go unmolested.
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For the [[Series/TheWalkingDead TV show]], see '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadTVShow here]]''' and the upcoming spin-off, see '''[[WMG/FearTheWalkingDead here]]'''.

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For the [[Series/TheWalkingDead TV show]], see '''[[WMG/TheWalkingDeadTVShow here]]''' and the upcoming spin-off, [[Series/FearTheWalkingDead spin-off]], see '''[[WMG/FearTheWalkingDead here]]'''.

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