The Walking Dead's Variant Zombies: A HUGE Plot Hole Explained

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon's Variant Zombie Mystery – A Huge plot hole Needs Fixing!

The Walking Dead's Variant Zombies: A Messy Timeline

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 is giving us more info about those creepy zombie variants – those super-powered undead first appearing in season 11 of the main show. This is good! But it creates an even BIGGER problem, as this is further detailed and emphasized by events occurring in that current season of Daryl Dixon. It raises way more questions, than providing needed explanations and making a complicated problem worse.

The problem lies in those inconsistencies: every Walking Dead spinoff seems to explain variants differently. There's no unified lore regarding variants. The series creates another confusing aspect. We never really understand just why variants exist, what creates them, or just how far those unique capabilities go. This leaves those long-term fans who’ve been with this franchise since the beginning thoroughly frustrated. What happened? How could something this easily done simply not receive enough planning? There had to be enough opportunity for addressing the plot beforehand. It makes a unified Walking Dead universe pretty tough. Those conflicting storylines are irritating – they completely derail that crucial element and are one of the most obvious and easily fixed errors that completely undo the possibility of enjoying those thematic moments from other places involved in this story!

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Daryl Dixon's Explanation: Pouvoir du Vivant's Deadly Experiments

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Daryl Dixon season 2, “L’Invisible” (episode 3), hammers home Pouvoir du Vivant’s responsibility for creating the French variants— it really emphasized that a specific organization's contribution is emphasized; making that organization far more guilty and responsible. We literally SEE them turning regular zombies into those fast, super-powered versions using Dr. Lafleur’s serum! It was so clearly stated this is exactly who's responsible and they even highlight earlier instances from earlier in this particular show which emphasizes this point of creation – all this further develops these events leading up to its shocking climax in the previous episode. This creates an obvious comparison that would surely expose significant errors inherent within the plot. The obvious solution however would never come.

This explanation directly contradicts The Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2’s post-credit scene. This older series strongly suggested that the original Walking Dead virus scientists made variants, by pure accident; resulting in another very problematic contradiction which directly undoes many plot developments and emphasizes the obvious differences.

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The Explanation Exists, But The Walking Dead Still Needs To Use It

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It could easily be a solution: perhaps France has two different variant types; World Beyond’s might simply have vanished before Daryl Dixon’s timeline, so why would these details still even matter? There is also other reasoning provided by fans! That initial appearance may also represent this unlikely rare event that otherwise has no consequence, despite showing unexpected possibilities that otherwise would’ve been otherwise discarded. The narrative possibilities easily exist.

The show’s biggest failure remains how Daryl Dixon completely ignores World Beyond’s details; showing how a plot choice significantly harms and almost ruins the larger narrative surrounding zombie lore. This completely disconnects the whole Walking Dead universe.

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Beyond France: Another Major Walking Dead Variant Plot Hole

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Even if Daryl Dixon resolved the French variant issue, there's STILL a huge hole, and this one exists in the main show. Remember those “climber” and “roamer” variants – the super-smart undead opening doors, climbing, blocking attacks, even using tools. They existed way back in The Walking Dead's season 1; becoming far more significant during the Commonwealth arc (season 11) with that unexpected population boom! What happened?

A completely plausible explanation easily exists and would address this: Maybe those early instances simply were outliers? An early strain arriving before becoming a new strain; or that unexpected, very high increase in these kinds of zombies may represent another significant change – some mutation possibly caUSed by French variant contact.

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Conclusion: Fixing the Walking Dead's Zombie Problem

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These variant plots are fixable. It simply involves careful explanation and connecting the different plots within those shows! It starts by explicitly discussing and tying together those points in Daryl Dixon and World Beyond, then fully explain the massive jump in US variant numbers, demonstrating that an easily overlooked issue isn’t an excuse and should be dealt with immediately. Doing so not only eliminates those contradictions which make the timeline unreliable but will further add depth to those variant-themed moments – the overall lore involved.

Ignoring these obvious contradictions will leave long-time fans dissatisfied. Those key choices for resolving obvious storytelling mistakes will add so much more than a simple retcon or an added scene or line – the writers have enough opportunity for resolving these existing conflicts through several options; failure to address these issues leaves everyone seriously disappointed. Those writers need to use this to fix The Walking Dead’s variant lore NOW.