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For seven seasons, AMC's The Walking Dead has featured one of the most nightmarish landscapes on television: a world where decaying corpses roam through the derelict streets, mercenary sociopaths rule their quivering subjects with an iron fist, and nobody, even the most hard-core, sharp-shooting survivor, is safe.

Uh, except Rick Grimes, of course. Because without him (and to a lesser degree, various assorted cohorts like Judith and Carl), there would be no The Walking Dead.

For the uninitiated, this phenomenon is known as plot armor, and it's a persistent problem in any show with an extended run and a high death toll. People die constantly on The Walking Dead—it's one of the show's central sources of tension and drama—but we know going in that Rick (played by Andrew Lincoln) will never be one of them. And after seven seasons of shootings, beheadings, bites, and beatings with a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat, the inevitable survival of the show's central character is becoming a drag on the narrative.

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