The Walking Dead: World Beyond dropped a intimate about the zombie virus’ origin, and it precipitates in line with what franchise creator Robert Kirkman has said in the past. Ever since The Walking Dead comics and Tv serials released, fans have wondered how it all began. No one in The Walking Dead’s world is familiar with the expression zombie and even when the characters inspected the CDC in The Walking Dead season 1, the only response they went was how people reanimated into the undead.

The one question that has outrun reputations in the universe and followers alike is how the zombie virus started. At one point it seemed like Fear the Walking Dead would solve that riddle when season 1 took place during the initial outbreak, but while spectators were able to see the world crumble in ways The Walking Dead never proved, it still didn’t offer any evidences about the virus’ origin. And then in summer 2020, Kirkman divulged what really started Walking Dead’s zombie eruption – though, in all fairness, he was most likely joking as it was a stupid answer.

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Kirkman intimated a gap spore compelled The Walking Dead’s zombie virus. And now in The Walking Dead: World Beyond season 1, escapade 7, “Truth or Dare”, a U.S. Marine says he heard that the virus came from space and did beings sick. What the specific characteristics says in World Beyond is far from confirmation of the zombie virus’ origin, but it’s at least a probable conjecture and one of the only ones ever mentioned in the Walking Dead franchise thus far.

Another reason for the Marine mentioning the virus coming from space could be in reference to Night of the Living Dead. George A. Romero’s movie is ascribed with launching the zombie category in amusement – and for good reason; it’s one of the many cornerstones of fright and it’s often cited as an inspiration for zombie movies, evidences, and works, including The Walking Dead. In that cinema, an emergency broadcast shows the zombie outbreak was caused by radiation from a returning probe from Venus, which exploded in Earth’s atmosphere.

So it’s possible that both Kirkman and World Beyond were invoking Night of the Living Dead, but it’s still the only workable hypothesi devotees have to go on. The reality that it was mentioned in The Walking: Dead World Beyond could be important later down the line, as the Civic Republic’s scientists appear to be working on a zombie medication – or, at least, trying to understand the fundamentals of the zombie virus. It’s possible that season 2 could bring more reactions about the virus’ origin and how to eventually demolish the walkers.

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