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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: This is essentially how [[HandicappedBadass Wendell]] is introduced. Morgan finds a convenience store that still has running water, and eagerly uses the big handicapped stall... and opens the stall door to find a man in a wheelchair pointing a gun at him, who then questions him about why able-bodied people love using the stall that isn't for them. Morgan's face through the following exchange is a mix of "awkward" and "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe"



** He is very familiar with pharmaceuticals, which proves useful when the group needs to find the right medication whilst searching the airplane wreckage in Season 2's [[Recap/FearTheWalkingDeadS02E03Ouroboros "Ouroborus"]].

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** He is very familiar with pharmaceuticals, which proves useful when the group needs to find the right medication whilst searching the airplane wreckage in Season 2's [[Recap/FearTheWalkingDeadS02E03Ouroboros "Ouroborus"]]."Ouroboros"]].



* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Alicia spends Season 7 seriously ill [[spoiler:after being bitten by a walker and, she believes, having the bitten area amputated too late]], and fully accepts that she's on the verge of death, but refuses to stop even for a moment until she's saved everyone, forcing herself to stay awake and scavenging medicine to keep her fever down. [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope And as it turns out, her pushing herself so hard is what's really killing her.]] When she finally just allows herself to ''rest'', her immune system is able to fight off the infection and she makes a full recovery. There's a ''reason'' people say things like "get plenty of rest" and "let the fever run its course."]]



** In Season 7, several characters [[spoiler:including Charlie and John Dorie Sr.]] begin suffering from radiation burns and poisoning in the aftermath of Teddy's nukes. Despite their efforts to be careful, many of their protective measures, especially their hazmat suits, had to essentially be improvised from limited resources and turned out to be imperfect.

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** In Season 7, several characters [[spoiler:including Charlie and John Dorie Sr.]] begin suffering from radiation burns and poisoning in the aftermath of Teddy's nukes. Despite their efforts to be careful, many of their protective measures, especially their hazmat suits, had to essentially be improvised from limited resources and turned out to be imperfect. Those who fare the best are the ones who reunite with Morgan early on, as he has access to military-grade hazmat protection and Prussian blue on the submarine, as well as Grace's expertise as a nuclear physicist.



* WorstWeddingEver: Doesn't get much worse than the wedding held at the Rosario Beach Hotel just as the outbreak began; the bride's father died from a heart attack during their dance, and reanimated when she tried to rescucitate him, attacking her and causing an outbreak in the hotel. Oscar, the groom, and the bride's mother were among the survivors, and kept the now-zombified bride locked up in the honeymoon suite, unable to put her down.

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* WorstWeddingEver: Doesn't get much worse than the wedding held at the Rosario Beach Hotel just as the outbreak began; the bride's father died from a heart attack during their dance, and reanimated when she tried to rescucitate resuscitate him, attacking her and causing an outbreak in the hotel. Oscar, the groom, and the bride's mother were among the survivors, and kept the now-zombified bride locked up in the honeymoon suite, unable to put her down.
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* {{Prequel}} This series starts during the two months that ''The Walking Dead'''s Rick Grimes was in a coma, when civilization had just begun to collapse. By Season 3 and 4, it becomes an {{Interquel}} until the show jumps to catch up to the main show’s ninth season by its fourth season. However, a large TimeSkip takes place in said ninth season, punting this show back to Interquel until Season 8, which sees ''Fear'' have its own massive time jump that catches it up to the final season of the main show (which had already concluded by the time of its airing).

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* {{Prequel}} {{Prequel}}: This series starts during the two months that ''The Walking Dead'''s Rick Grimes was in a coma, when civilization had just begun to collapse. By Season 3 and 4, it becomes an {{Interquel}} until the show jumps to catch up to the main show’s ninth season by its fourth season. However, a large TimeSkip takes place in said ninth season, punting this show back to Interquel until Season 8, which sees ''Fear'' have its own massive time jump that catches it up to the final season of the main show (which had already concluded by the time of its airing).

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''Fear the Walking Dead'' debuted on August 23, 2015 and has aired seven seasons so far in addition to a web series, ''Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462'', and a short film ''Dead in the Water''. Crossover characters from ''The Walking Dead'' began appearing on the show in Season 4 as it occasionally begins lining up with its timeline. The series concluded with its eighth season on November 20th 2023.

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''Fear the Walking Dead'' debuted on August 23, 2015 and has also aired seven seasons so far in addition to a web series, ''Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462'', and a short film film, ''Dead in the Water''. Crossover characters from ''The Walking Dead'' began appearing on the show in Season 4 as it occasionally begins lining up with its timeline. The series concluded with its eighth season on November 20th 20, 2023.



* AndTheAdventureContinues: The series ends with the surviving cast splitting up but most of them remaining part of a large, dedicated network of traders and do-gooders, ready to continue helping people survive across the country.



* BackForTheFinale: After the show shifted focus to Morgan, the final season brings back [[spoiler:Madison and Troy Otto to take the reins as the main protagonist and antagonist, respectively.]]

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* BackForTheFinale: After the show shifted focus to Morgan, the final season brings back [[spoiler:Madison and Troy Otto to take the reins as the main protagonist and antagonist, respectively. Alicia also returns in the final episode after leaving the show at the end of the previous season.]]



** Season 7 ends with the cast about to fall into the clutches of PADRE, the new antagonistic group.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: The series ends with the surviving group members all finding a sense of closure to move on with their lives, with most of them remaining part of Luciana's large network of suppliers across the American South. [[spoiler:Daniel remains with her as her official adopted father, Dwight and Sherry return to the Sanctuary to rebuild it into a proper safe-zone for the group, June and Odessa become a family unit and head for John's home, and Strand leaves the group on good terms, having atoned for his past misdeeds, with his new family - and he gets to see that Madison survived the FinalBattle and has reunited with a very much alive Alicia. The Clark's adopt Tracy and decide to return to Los Angeles to build a community there to honor Nick.]]



** [[spoiler:Alicia]] is more like “refuses to get on the bus”. She refuses to join the others in evacuating a soon to be inhospitable zone due to believing she’s going to die, but she eventually apparently recovers and decides to stake out a life there regardless of the danger. It would be confirmed this is her last episode for the indefinite future as her actress wanted to leave the show.
** Season 8's first half sees the following characters fail to put in an appearance: [[spoiler:Victor Strand, Luciana, Charlie, Sarah and Wendell, Jacob, and Josiah, all of whom evacuated into rafts in the Gulf of Mexico with the others. Only Victor, Luciana and Charlie are mentioned but their whereabouts are unconfirmed, and PADRE mentions that there were less people on the rafts than they were expecting to presumably cover why so many characters haven’t returned yet. In "Anton", Strand returns and claims all the other members of the evacuees died, though Luciana and Charlie both return.]]

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** [[spoiler:Alicia]] is more like “refuses to get on the bus”. She refuses to join the others in evacuating a soon to be inhospitable zone due to believing she’s going to die, but she eventually apparently recovers and decides to stake out a life there regardless of the danger. It would be confirmed this is her last episode for the indefinite future as her actress wanted to leave the show.
show. [[spoiler:She returns [[BackForTheFinale in the show's final episode]].]]
** Season 8's first half sees the following characters fail to put in an appearance: [[spoiler:Victor Strand, Luciana, Charlie, Sarah and Wendell, Jacob, and Josiah, all of whom evacuated into rafts in the Gulf of Mexico with the others. Only Victor, Luciana and Charlie are mentioned but their whereabouts are unconfirmed, and PADRE mentions that there were less people on the rafts than they were expecting to presumably cover why so many characters haven’t returned yet. In "Anton", Strand returns and claims all the other members of the evacuees died, though Luciana and Charlie both return. After the series concluded, the Rabinowitz twins, Jacob, and Josiah all failed to appear, but the showrunners later commented that they didn't intend to kill off the former three, and imagine they're part of Luciana's network of survivors offscreen.]]
** [[spoiler:Morgan]] leaves the show at the mid-season finale of Season 8, intending on reuniting with [[spoiler:Rick and the Coalition, and takes his daughter Mo with him.
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''Fear the Walking Dead'' debuted on August 23, 2015 and has aired seven seasons so far in addition to a web series, ''Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462'', and a short film ''Dead in the Water''. Crossover characters from ''The Walking Dead'' began appearing on the show in Season 4 as it occasionally begins lining up with its timeline. The series concluded with its eighth season in 2023.

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''Fear the Walking Dead'' debuted on August 23, 2015 and has aired seven seasons so far in addition to a web series, ''Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462'', and a short film ''Dead in the Water''. Crossover characters from ''The Walking Dead'' began appearing on the show in Season 4 as it occasionally begins lining up with its timeline. The series concluded with its eighth season in on November 20th 2023.
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** Season 8: [[spoiler:Adrian, Grace, Shrike, Finch, Charlie, Marty]].

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** Season 8: [[spoiler:Adrian, Grace, Shrike, Finch, Charlie, Marty]].Marty, Ben, Troy, Russell]].



** Season 8: [[spoiler:PADRE, led by Ben and Sam Krennick. Sam dies and Ben reforms to the side of good, but Troy returns in the back half as the main antagonist.]]

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** Season 8: [[spoiler:PADRE, led by Ben and Sam Krennick. Sam dies and Ben seemingly reforms to the side of good, but Troy returns in the back half as the main antagonist.antagonist... before getting supplanted by Ben and Russell as the final antagonists for the season and the show in general.]]
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''Fear the Walking Dead'' debuted on August 23, 2015 and has aired seven seasons so far in addition to a web series, ''Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462'', and a short film ''Dead in the Water''. Crossover characters from ''The Walking Dead'' began appearing on the show in Season 4 as it occasionally begins lining up with its timeline. The series will conclude with its eighth season in 2023.

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''Fear the Walking Dead'' debuted on August 23, 2015 and has aired seven seasons so far in addition to a web series, ''Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462'', and a short film ''Dead in the Water''. Crossover characters from ''The Walking Dead'' began appearing on the show in Season 4 as it occasionally begins lining up with its timeline. The series will conclude concluded with its eighth season in 2023.

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* BewareTheLiving: The fall of civilization forced normal people into savagery just to survive, and gave the worst people free reign to indulge in their depraved fantasies, including right-wing survivalists murdering Mexican refugees, and a serial killer setting up a doomsday cult.



* DoomedByCanon: Society ''itself''.

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* DoomedByCanon: Society ''itself''.''itself'', as it had already collapsed by the time Rick Grimes woke up from his coma over on ''The Walking Dead'', meaning the survivors can do nothing but try to survive on their own.



* RichesToRags: Strand is obviously a high-class gentleman with a taste for fine fashion, watches, and liquor. [[Recap/FearTheWalkingDeadS02E04BloodInTheStreets A flashback in Season 2]] reveals that he was once a wealthy property owner.

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* RichesToRags: Strand is obviously a high-class gentleman with a taste for fine fashion, watches, and liquor. [[Recap/FearTheWalkingDeadS02E04BloodInTheStreets A flashback in Season 2]] reveals that he was once a wealthy property owner. Still is, technically, but money doesn't mean anything after the apocalypse.



* SafeZoneHopeSpot: The survivors have it just as bad as the characters on the parent show, if not more so; El Sereno is less of a "safe zone" and more an "internment camp", La Colonia is opressed by cartel gangsters, Abigail Estate is run by a madwoman who keeps Walkers in the basement, Broke Jaw Ranch is a CrazySurvivalist compound full of white supremacists, Texas is ''nuked by a serial killer'', and so on.



* SouthOfTheBorder: In Season 2, [[Recap/FearTheWalkingDeadS02E03Ouroboros Strand reveals that they are headed to Mexico, as he has a fortified house in the hills of Baja California]].

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* SouthOfTheBorder: In Season 2, [[Recap/FearTheWalkingDeadS02E03Ouroboros Strand reveals that they are headed to Mexico, as he has a fortified house in the hills of Baja California]]. Even after splitting up, the survivors spend most of the season there, only heading back to the border during the finale.


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* WorstWeddingEver: Doesn't get much worse than the wedding held at the Rosario Beach Hotel just as the outbreak began; the bride's father died from a heart attack during their dance, and reanimated when she tried to rescucitate him, attacking her and causing an outbreak in the hotel. Oscar, the groom, and the bride's mother were among the survivors, and kept the now-zombified bride locked up in the honeymoon suite, unable to put her down.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Strand in several senses. Ambiguous, possibly only platonic flirtation with Madison, the strange relationship with Thomas Abigail falling somewhere between InLoveWithTheMark, StraightGay, and IfItsYouItsOkay... WordOfSaintPaul from their actor might say it best: " Strand's complicated." In Season 8, he’s now in a committed relationship with another man.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Strand in several senses. Ambiguous, possibly only platonic flirtation with Madison, the strange relationship with Thomas Abigail falling somewhere between InLoveWithTheMark, StraightGay, and IfItsYouItsOkay... WordOfSaintPaul from their actor might say it best: " Strand's complicated." In Season 8, he’s now in a committed relationship with married to another man.



** Season 8: [[spoiler:Adrian, Grace, Shrike, Finch, Charlie]].

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** Season 8: [[spoiler:Adrian, Grace, Shrike, Finch, Charlie]].Charlie, Marty]].
* ApatheticCitizens: Zigzagged, while several citizens of L.A. react to police brutality and challenge them when they go into "move along" mode, they don't seem to notice how people are resisting direct gunshots to the heart or lungs and are still active. WordOfGod says that this reaction is due to the lack of modern zombie fiction in the Walking Dead universe- people are far more likely to think "guy who did bath salts" than an obscure variety of TheUndead.



* ApatheticCitizens: Zigzagged, while several citizens of L.A. react to police brutality and challenge them when they go into "move along" mode, they don't seem to notice how people are resisting direct gunshots to the heart or lungs and are still active. WordOfGod says that this reaction is due to the lack of modern zombie fiction in the Walking Dead universe- people are far more likely to think "guy who did bath salts" than an obscure variety of TheUndead.

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* ApatheticCitizens: Zigzagged, while several citizens of L.A. react to police brutality and challenge them when they go into "move along" mode, they don't seem to notice how people are resisting direct gunshots to ArcWords:
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the heart or lungs and are still active. WordOfGod says middle seasons, the catchphrase of the caravan that this reaction is due to Morgan eventually takes leadership of.
** "It's what Alicia would do" for
the lack final two seasons, as much of modern zombie fiction in the Walking Dead universe- people are far more likely cast comes to think "guy who did bath salts" than an obscure variety of TheUndead.respect and revere Alicia Clark and try to follow her example.



* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Cole, Doug, and Vivian]], a couple of [[MauveShirt Mauve Shirts]] from Season 4, return in the Season 6 episode "Mother" after presumably dying in Season 4. The episode wastes no time revealing that they all had a FaceHeelTurn, nor does it waste time having them all killed by Alicia or zombies.

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* BackForTheDead: BackForTheDead:
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[[spoiler:Cole, Doug, and Vivian]], a couple of [[MauveShirt Mauve Shirts]] from Season 4, return in the Season 6 episode "Mother" after presumably dying in Season 4. The episode wastes no time revealing that they all had a FaceHeelTurn, nor does it waste time having them all killed by Alicia or zombies.zombies.
** After being absent for half a season following getting a terminal diagnosis due to radiation burns, [[spoiler:Charlie]] returns for a single episode of Season 8 only to commit suicide by the end of it.



** Season 8's first half sees the following characters fail to put in an appearance: [[spoiler:Victor Strand, Luciana, Charlie, Sarah and Wendell, Jacob, and Josiah, all of whom evacuated into rafts in the Gulf of Mexico with the others. Only Victor, Luciana and Charlie are mentioned but their whereabouts are unconfirmed, and PADRE mentions that there were less people on the rafts than they were expecting to presumably cover why so many characters haven’t returned yet. In "Anton", Strand returns and claims all the other members of the evacuees died, though Luciana already being seen in promos for upcoming episodes casts his claim into some doubt.]]

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** Season 8's first half sees the following characters fail to put in an appearance: [[spoiler:Victor Strand, Luciana, Charlie, Sarah and Wendell, Jacob, and Josiah, all of whom evacuated into rafts in the Gulf of Mexico with the others. Only Victor, Luciana and Charlie are mentioned but their whereabouts are unconfirmed, and PADRE mentions that there were less people on the rafts than they were expecting to presumably cover why so many characters haven’t returned yet. In "Anton", Strand returns and claims all the other members of the evacuees died, though Luciana already being seen in promos for upcoming episodes casts his claim into some doubt.and Charlie both return.]]



** The first half of Season 8 sees a downplayed example since only a small portion of the group reunites with each other - [[spoiler:Morgan, Grace, Dwight, Sherry, Daniel, and June]], with all other members of the group completely absent.

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** The first half of Season 8 sees a downplayed example since only a small portion of the group reunites with each other - [[spoiler:Morgan, Grace, Dwight, Sherry, Daniel, and June]], with all other members of the group completely absent. The back half of the season sees [[spoiler:Luciana and Charlie return, though the latter ends up killing herself.]]



* StraightGay: It is revealed in Season 2 that [[spoiler: Victor Strand is in a relationship with a man, Thomas Abigail, for whom he named their boat]]. While a cultured man with a sophisticated taste in the finer things, he has no other stereotypical gay traits.

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* StraightGay: It is revealed in Season 2 that [[spoiler: Victor Strand is in a relationship with a man, Thomas Abigail, for whom he named their boat]].boat. While a cultured man with a sophisticated taste in the finer things, he has no other stereotypical gay traits. In Season 8, his new husband Frank similarly has no stereotypical gay traits.



** Numerous members of the group do not appear in the first half of Season 8 with their whereabouts unknown or even completely unmentioned.

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** Numerous members of the group do not appear in the first half of Season 8 with their whereabouts unknown or even completely unmentioned. "Anton" has Strand claim that [[spoiler:the group members who didn't make it to PADRE all perished - as of the penultimate episode of the series, this leaves the Rabinowitz twins, Josiah, and Jacob as seemingly among the casualties.]]
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** Season 8: [[spoiler:Adrian, Grace, Shrike, Finch]].

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** Season 8: [[spoiler:Adrian, Grace, Shrike, Finch]].Finch, Charlie]].

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