The Walking Dead Creator Kirkman: “No Character Is Too Popular To Die. Suck It, Reedus!”

creator Robert Kirkman has, once again, declared that the popularity of Norman Reedus won’t save Daryl Dixon if he feels it’s time to kill the character on the hit AMC series based on his comic books.While the show often diverges from the comics, most characters die roughly when and how they’re “supposed to.” The trick? One of the show’s most popular characters — Daryl — doesn’t appear in the comics, making his entire character arc difficult to predict.The fact that he’s become so wildly popular, and that Reedus has built up such a rabid base of vocal fans (“If Daryl dies, we riot”) has led Kirkman to say in the past that if the character were to die, it would be the fault of the fans.