The Walking Dead: Is Rick Finally Going To Lose His Hand?
Spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 10 follow. The Walking Dead is teasing the dark [...]
The Machete
Early in Season 6, fans thought Rick's hand would suffer the same fate as Hershel's leg.
As Rick ran back to Alexandria to warn them of an impending herd of walkers, he encountered a couple of strays on the road. One of the walkers had a machete protruding from its collar bone. As Rick put the walker down, he cut his hand on the machete which was presumably covered with the zombie virus. By definition of The Walking Dead's mythology, Rick would have to lose his hand in order to avoid turning if this were the case.
Fortunately for Rick, it apparently was a clean machete. He wrapped his hand in a bandage and managed to recover.
prevnextNegan's Introduction
Killing Glenn and Abraham wasn't enough for Negan. Instead, the villain had to really break Rick Grimes by taking him on a joy ride in the RV.
Prior to yanking Rick from his place in the line-up, he asked Simon, Negan's right hand man, for Rick's hatchet. Inside the RV, Negan repetitively appeared to be preparing to cut off Rick's hand. In fact, he even slammed the hatchet into the table next to Rick's hand, prompting a collective gasp among fans of The Walking Dead.
Ultimately, the hatchet was only used to force Rick to accept cutting his own son's hand off and admit Negan owned him.
prevnextThe Governor
When the Governor was featured on the AMC series, Rick's hand was constantly under surveillance by fans.
There was never a moment where it truly appeared the Governor would remove Rick's hand from his body on the series but the indication that the show would follow the books by introducing David Morrissey as the popular comic book villain brought the possibility to light.
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