The Walking Dead: Carol & Daryl Should NEVER Get Together Romantically – CBR – Comic Book Resources

A Carol and Daryl spinoff will continue the characters' story from the original The Walking Dead series, but hopefully, not in a romantic way.

At the same time AMC announced it was ending the flagship The Walking Dead series after Season 11, the network also announced a new spinoff featuring Carol and Daryl would launch following the end of the original series. At that moment, it was open season for shippers who have dreamed of seeing Melissa McBride's Carol and Norman Reedus' Daryl finally get together. However, it would be a big mistake for the spinoff to go in that direction, .

Carol first appeared in a minor role in Season 1 of The Walking Dead. An abused wife who learned to stand on her own, Carol eventually became one of the deadliest, most ice-cold survivors in the group. Daryl was a significant player from the show's beginning, the younger brother of racist redneck Merle Dixon. When his brother disappeared, Daryl followed Rick Grimes, growing into a leader and a hero in his own right. Through it all, Daryl and Carol maintained a very strong, yet platonic, relationship.

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The pair are two of the most unpredictable characters on The Walking Dead. This is because there is no one in the show's comics source material to which they bear any real similarity. Carol was a character in the comics, but she was nothing like the Carol on the AMC zombie series.In the comics, Carol wasan insecure woman who could never overcome her abusive past and ended up taking her own life. As a result, the show's version of Carol has fighting skills that are more reminiscent of the comics' Andrea, although the show's Carol and the comics' Andrea are unlike one another in most other ways. As for Daryl, the character never existed in the comics, and there is no other character in the books like him.

This means the AMC series could do whatever it wants with the two characters and fans would never see it coming. Yet, the show has steered clear of hooking the two up romantically, instead maintaining their status as friends and confidants who keep each other on the right path. Meanwhile they've had romantic relationships with others. On The Walking Dead's most recent season there have been hints of a romance between Daryl and Connie, even though Daryl's rejected the possibility. And Carol has had a few relationships on the show, including with King Ezekiel, who she married, although they split up after the Whisperers killed their adopted son, Henry.

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