[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Fear The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 6, “All I See Is Red.”]
Apparently, it takes greater than a number of hammer blows to the top and a flooded dam to maintain a sociopathic antihero down.
Assuming that was who we predict it was, Fear The Walking Dead has dropped an explosive twist for the second half of its ultimate season. In the previous few minutes earlier than the credit rolled, we noticed a faceless survivor in possession of some very particular trinkets. Some of these objects present key clues to the particular person’s identification, and we really feel comfy claiming that the present’s ultimate antagonist would possibly simply be none apart from… Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman).
Here’s why we predict that mysterious survivor is Troy — and a short reminder of who Troy is, in case you’ve forgotten.
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Wait, How Do You Know That’s Him?
Sure, it’d be simpler to assert that’s Troy if we’d truly seen Daniel Sharman. As it stands, although, there’s one key piece of proof that factors definitively to the youthful Otto sibling: Madison’s (Kim Dickens) previous hammer. If you’ll recall, manner, manner again in Season 3, Madison used her hammer to bash Troy’s cranium in after studying he was chargeable for the destruction of Broke Jaw Ranch. After taking two unflinching hits to the top, Troy falls. Nick (Frank Dillane) seems on in wide-eyed horror at his mom’s violence. Maddie, unmoved, drops her bloodied hammer to the dam’s dusty floor. Yes, that’s the identical hammer that the mysterious particular person in Season 8 possesses.
This particular person is both Troy or the writers would like the followers to assume it’s Troy. But take into account, if you’ll, the opposite trinkets this particular person carries round; a map main from Mexico into the United States, Strand’s (Colman Domingo) sun shades, and — maybe most horrifyingly — Alicia’s (Alycia Debnam-Carey) arm. The map from Mexico into the United States gives a no-frills clarification for the way Troy would possibly’ve discovered his manner again to the group. The different objects are ominous, however they’re simply defined within the context of present relationships. Strand and Alicia each had contact with Troy in Season 3, and seeing him once more would’ve left them flabbergasted. (For all they knew, he died on the dam.) It’s not unthinkable that they’d’ve let their guard down round him… and perhaps suffered for it. That stated, we’re doubting they’re lifeless. There’s no manner Fear ends with out a minimum of reuniting Madison and Strand, and whether or not or not Debnam-Carey returns for the finale, we doubt the present would kill her character offscreen.
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Who Is Troy Otto?
It’s been some time—like, six years and a pandemic—so in the event you don’t bear in mind a lot about Troy, that’s comprehensible. Basically, Troy Otto served as a half-antagonist, and half-antihero for Fear’s third season. One of two brothers in Broke Jaw Ranch’s main Otto household, Troy was mentally unstable and liable to bouts of merciless violence. Somewhat unwillingly, Madison, Alicia, and Nick obtained to know him as they took refuge at Broke Jaw. As time handed, Troy developed a bizarre, semi-Oedipal reference to Madison and a barely much less bizarre, equally intense companionship with Nick. (Alicia by no means appreciated him.)
During the second half of the season Troy, angered by his father’s loss of life and the truce Madison made with Qaletaqa Walker (Michael Greyeyes), finally led a horde of walkers to Broke Jaw. His actions obtained his brother killed and decimated the ranch. Nick, recognizing a fellow stressed soul, nonetheless continued to ally with and lie to guard Troy… however when Madison found what he’d carried out, she killed him. Except it seems these hammer smacks simply weren’t onerous sufficient, as a result of Troy’s risen from his watery grave.
Does he need revenge? What situation is he in, in any case he’s been by? We’ll simply have to attend and see.
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