Did Fear The Walking Dead Just Introduce A Mutant Super Zombie?
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Speaking to Fear the Walking Dead's latest villainous actor, Dan Sharman, who plays Troy Otto on the series, ComicBook.com aimed to get to the bottom of this "super zombie" theory.
"It's not, but I like where your heads at," Sharman said. "I've always been quite fascinated by the idea that at some point they change, and I think Troy is fascinated by every little minutiae of what causes this and wants to know why and wants to know how. So there's a point in it where he, later in the season, where he has documented and taken this down. He hasn't been able to create anything yet, but you never know. You never know."
With Troy hanging around with his injured eye, Governor style, Sharman's tease of "yet" is an intriguing word choice for a character experimenting on the dead.
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Whether or not an explanation comes along within the show, this walker should change the way fans see the reanimated in the world of The Walking Dead. While walkers on the older sibling series have deteriorated into weak and easy-to-kill targets, Fear is proving that freshly turned walkers should be considered as major threats.
Of course, the possibility remains that this walker was, in some form, a product of one of Troy's experiments. The closest thing fans of the Dead universe have seen to scientific explanations for the walkers came in The Walking Dead's first season when Dr. Edwin Jenner explained how the brain works and doesn't work when people become zombies.
Fans will likely be a as hungry for answers as this creature was for flesh but, given the groups' fleeing of this military base, the possibility of seeing this particular walker again seems minimal.
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A wholly original companion series to The Walking Dead, the #1 show on television among adults 18-49 for the last five years, "Fear the Walking Dead" explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the eyes of a fractured family. The series is executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero, David Alpert and showrunner Dave Erickson and produced by AMC Studios.
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