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The Walking Dead typically just kills someone it no longer sees in its future, such as Sasha Williams, who is a mainstay in Rick Grimes’ group until she decides to pick a fight with Negan that ends with her turning into a walker and having to be put down by her friends. But she’s not the only one to suffer this fate. In fact, one character finds themselves in a similar situation after The Walking Dead does right by them by picking up their loose thread.
One of The Walking Dead’s Best Characters Gets an Extended Vacation
Rick can’t catch a break after waking up from his coma in The Walking Dead Season 1. His family is gone, the world is full of monsters, and he’s got little to no resources. Fortunately, with some help from Morgan Jones, he’s able to make it to Atlanta and runs into another group of survivors. They help Rick navigate the undead city, and everything is going swimmingly until a herd blocks the path out. As the group decides what to do, Michael Rooker’s Merle Dixon starts making trouble, forcing Rick to make a tough choice. He leaves Merle handcuffed to a roof, which doesn’t sit right with the man’s brother, Daryl Dixon, who is back at the group’s camp. Rick agrees to go search for Merle, but when he and Daryl get back to the roof, he’s gone, having sawed off his hand to escape.
The situation doesn’t sit right with Daryl, but everyone else moves on, since Merle wasn’t exactly a nice person. The group makes it to a farm in Season 2 and lives there until a herd overruns it. Andrea isn’t able to regroup with her friends and finds herself surviving alongside Michonne Hawthorne at the start of Season 3. The world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, though, and Andrea and Michonne soon find themselves captured by a group of people from a place called Woodbury. Leading the charge is none other than Merle, who isn’t sporting a bandage on his injured arm but a bayonet prosthetic.
