10 Craziest Fan Theories About The Walking Dead
Do comatose cops dream of zombie apocalypses?
Take a deeper look at any wildly popular TV show or film or book and beyond the average fan ravings and wailings, you’ll find a whole host of more – how shall we say it? – dedicated fans who read a little more than usual into their favourite show/film/book.
The kind of fan that overanalyses scene by scene, finding hidden meanings and subtext in the most seemingly innocuous of places. In other words, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of fan theories.
The Walking Dead, with its several million US viewers and many more worldwide, is of course not immune to the fan theory trend. Since its inception back in 2010, fans the world over have taken to the internet to wildly hypothesise about what the hell is exactly going on in the world of TWD.
Some vaguely make sense as long as your TV show conspiracist tinfoil hat is donned securely enough. Others, however, edge more towards the batsh*t insane, and these are some of the craziest.
Read on for the 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?