10 Craziest Fan Theories About The Walking Dead

10. Rick’s Coma Dream

Basically, this theory proposes that everything Rick and the group have been through – all seven seasons and 99 episodes of it – is all a coma-induced fever dream endured by everybody’s favourite cop turned zombie killer and the characters he conjures up are all various hospital staff.

The ‘it’s all a dream’ theory is one that often comes out of the woodwork the more out there a TV show is, and although in the world of The Walking Dead this would mean that some of fans’ favourite characters weren’t actually dead (I still miss you, Hershel), it’s also one of the cheapest and laziest plot devices in the book and a sure-fire way to royally piss off your legion of fans.

Thankfully Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has already debunked this theory, tweeting in 2014 that “Rick is NOT still in a coma. The events of TWD are definitely happening”. But then he wouldn’t be about to give away the biggest (if lame and already predicted) plot twist in AMC’s history, now would he?