Walking Dead Creator’s Space Spore Origin Theory Was Only A Joke – Screen Rant

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman reveals that his space spore origin theory was just a joke. Ever since the zombie drama first arrived on AMC in 2010, fans have been asking questions about just how the shows apocalyptic outbreak happened in the first place, and have received few concrete answers.

Naturally, all these open questions about the origins of the shows worldwide zombie plague have led to loads of fan theorizing. Creative fans have proposed numerous zombie-creating culprits over the years, ranging from a fast-spreading virus to poisoned water to bio-terrorism to, most bizarrely of all, Walter Whites meth. Thus far, the show itself has provided very few clues about what caused the population of earth to begin turning into zombies, choosing instead to focus on the day-to-day drama of survival in a radically altered world. But recently, show creator Kirkman seemed to clear up the mystery by saying space spores were to blame for the outbreak, an explanation that many found disappointing.

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Now however, Kirkman has gone on record to clarify that his original space spore comment was in fact nothing but a joke. Kirkman set the record straight on Twitter in response to a recent story about his original joking remarks. See the tweet in the space below:

Indeed, Kirkmans now deleted tweet was posted months ago, which makes it slightly odd that folks were still writing articles about it. Kirkman himself clearly never thought there was any need prior to this to point out that he was only joking, allowing fans to run with his explanation and consider it part of Walking Dead canon. But it seems Kirkman finally reached his breaking point when it came to his joke being taken as a serious statement and decided to hit up Twitter and shut down the space spore theory for good.

Frankly, it comes as a relief that Kirkman did not really mean it when he proposed space spores as the reason for the zombie outbreak on The Walking Dead, as the explanation seemed rather weak (and was really just a rip-off of the satellite-related explanation for the zombies in George Romeros Night of the Living Dead). Thanks to Kirkmans clarification, fans can now go back to freely theorizing about how they think the zombies came to be on the show. Or they can simply let the mystery stand, realizing that at the end of the day, it doesnt really matter how the outbreak started because the show is really about survival after the apocalypse and not about such scientificpuzzles as how to create zombies. Sadly, the real biggest mystery surrounding The Walking Dead these days concerns when the show will return after the season 10 finale was delayed due to the very real coronavirus outbreak.

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Source: Robert Kirkman/Twitter

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