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* TheTeam: There's one every season, and they increasingly fit into their roles as the group becomes more effective overall.
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** Morally-conflicted GentleGiant Tyreese uses a [[DropTheHammer hammer]], which can be used both to destroy and to create.

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** Morally-conflicted GentleGiant Tyreese uses a [[DropTheHammer hammer]], hammer, which can be used both to destroy and to create.
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* SerialEscalation:
** The show focuses on the small group of survivors consisting of about a dozen people for Season 1-2, but in Season 3 they find themselves in a prolonged conflict with a town commanded by The Governor, an active villain who seeks to destroy them. Afterwards, the focus contracts down to Rick's group again as they face small bands of antagonists, the cast once again down to roughly a dozen or so people. Even when they join the Alexandria Safe-Zone in Season 5, the focus remains on them, which is something that gives Rick trouble when he takes command of the town since he now is forced to care for all the residents of the town in addition to his Atlanta veterans.
** Just as Rick finally accepts the townspeople as his own, Jesus arrives in Season 6's "The Next World" and "Knots Untie" to completely change the show. He reveals that there are other organized communities nearby and brings them into a trade relationship with his community, Hilltop Colony. From this point, the show shifts focus from Rick's small group from Atlanta to a larger world of communities each with their own political and social issues. By Season 9, even Daryl admits that the days of Rick's group are over as the members have gone their separate ways and integrated into the various communities, with the focus of the show now on the Coalition, the alliance of them that numbers in the hundreds.
** The show also shifts focus from just surviving to the CentralTheme of a genuine attempt at rebuilding a proper civilization. Seasons 9-11, the final three seasons of the show, have characters drafting legislature to govern themselves and groups of antagonists who want to either destroy any semblance of civilization, continue the corruption of the old world, or just want to kill anybody who's not one of them for bloodlust.

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