The Walking Dead: 10 Characters Who'll Survive Until The End

A certain fan theory known as the ‘Old Man Carl’ theory has been making its way around the internet in the past year that posits the entire show is actually being told in flashback by an older Carl (with great concept art from M.J. Hiblen), who has somehow managed to survive the zombie apocalypse even though the poor kid seems to attract bullets like moths to a flame.

It’s a nice theory though and the thought of an aging, one-eyed Carl as a post-apocalyptic raconteur relaying the earlier stages of the zombie outbreak to the next generation of walker slayers is certainly appealing.

Of course, Carl’s survival is complicated by the fact Chandler Riggs is growing up faster than his onscreen counterpart and is reportedly off to college in the near future which could be difficult to juggle with The Walking Dead. But then again Riggs has stated he’d be willing to work around his studies and in a fairly recent AMA on Reddit, Robert Kirkman confessed Carl was his favourite character so it’s likely we could see the Old Man Carl theory unfold.