The Walking Dead Season 9: How Rick's Death Should Happen
4. The Herd And Whisperers Attack
The Season 9 trailer promised a couple of big events for at least the first half of the new season: another massive walker herd, and the arrival of The Whisperers (the big villains post-Negan in the comics).
There have previously been rumours regarding both, but what if they're not two separate things, but the Whisperers are actually part of the herd that attacks, moving along with the walkers themselves?
Rick, then, would be taking on the herd thinking they're just the regular walkers he's dealt with so many times before, until one of them is actually able to attack him with a weapon. It'd be a big twist and a surprising way of introducing the next big threat, and mean that Rick's death is in part attributed to the new villains (ensuring they're established as an immediate threat to be taken seriously) but not fully (so they don't seem all-powerful).
What's more, it'd also leave some room for Rick's death to come at the hands of the one constant enemy in his life, the one he has never and now will never be able to fully defeat, the walkers.