9 Main Cast Members Who Left Fear The Walking Dead: During the eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, many cast members have left. Fans have been shocked when big actors have left The Walking Dead, like Andrew Lincoln (who plays Rick Grimes) in season 9 or Jeffrey DeMunn (who played Dale) in season 2 of the main show. Reasons change often, whether it’s because the character asked for it or not.
9 Main Cast Members Who Left Fear The Walking Dead
Still, based on the plot, the way characters are written out to fit these exits can be very harsh or very open-ended. For example, Daniel Sharman’s Fear the Walking Dead journey seemed to end when Troy Otto died in season 3, but he came back as a main bad guy in season 8. But not every character in Fear the Walking Dead gets a second chance, and some character arcs are more sad than others.
1. Lorenzo James Henrie As Chris Manawa
The sad ending to Chris’s two-season run was that his character was shot by people in his new survivor group after hurting his leg badly. All of this was shown in flashbacks as Chris’s dad, Travis, learned about it. People on Fear the Walking Dead killed Chris to move Travis’s moral fight forward, since he felt bad about killing Chris.
Travis wanted his story to go in a new way after he lost his son, who had been going downhill so fast that he was interested in killing. He would no longer just follow his morals when making decisions. Instead, he would focus on life and being cruel when necessary. It seemed like Chris’ death was more heartbreaking when you thought about how Travis died only three episodes later, lessening the impact of the death.
2. Cliff Curtis As Travis Manawa
Fear the Walking Dead seemed to have big plans for Travis’ character after Chris died, but his story ended too soon. Travis passed away in season 3, episode 2; he was bitten, shot, and threw himself out of the chopper so as not to hurt the other people inside. Even though Curtis had booked James Cameron’s Avatar sequels for early 2017, which was also the year that season 3 aired, Travis’s ending was said to have been planned anyway.
3. Frank Dillane As Nick Clark
Charlie shot Nick Clark after he killed Ennis, a member of the survivor group she was with. This may have been one of the most important deaths in Fear the Walking. Nick died in season 4 of Fear the Walking Dead. He had asked to leave just before Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss took over as showrunners from Frank Darabont.
There were also a lot of cast changes. For example, Morgan Jones, played by Lennie James, moved from the main show to Fear the Walking Dead. Dillane also missed his home country after three seasons on the show because he was born and raised in Europe.
4. Garret Dillahunt As John Dorie
Isolating himself and thinking about committing suicide, John Dorie’s exit was also sad. He made the choice to help Dakota and live, only to be shot by her. Even though it was a fan choice that happened too soon, John’s exit was Dillahunt’s idea. Dillahunt was “antsy” and ready to move on, which was different from what Dillane said. In a talk with EW, he said:
5. Kim Dickens As Madison Clark
Characters on The Walking Dead have been dying fake deaths a lot lately. Madison Clark’s exit in season 4 was one of the bigger ones. Madison led a group of walkers deeper into the stadium with a flare, but she was stuck inside with them when an explosion happened. It was a terrible act of selflessness. According to Goldberg, Madison stood for hope, and the main idea of season 4 was “taking people from hopelessness toward that hope.”
6. Maggie Grace As Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki
Althea joined the show when there were a lot of cast changes at the beginning of season 4. Through her documentary-style films, she gave us a new way to look at stories because she stood up for truth and protecting it. Al’s strange Fear The Walking Dead exit showed many scenes from her camera’s point of view as she reconnected with Isabelle and stayed on the run to keep the Civic Republic Military from finding them, which was similar to how she told stories in her documentaries.
7. Mo Collins As Sarah Rabinowitz
Sarah’s exit was probably one of the more depressing ones. Sarah became a main character after she changed from a thief to a resourceful part of Morgan’s group. In season 7, her past and how much she cared about her brother Wendell were explored even more. That’s why it’s even worse that her last show, season 7, episode 15, didn’t even say that it was her goodbye.
8. Daryl Mitchell As Wendell Rabinowitz
In the same interview where Chambliss and Goldberg talked about why they thought Sarah had to leave quickly, Wendell was also brought up. Wendell was the only character in the series who used a wheelchair. He was smart and brave, just like his foster sister. This was clear from the weapons he attached to his chair and used to fight off walkers. In his last showing, he was in a life raft with Sarah and Rabbi Jacob, running away from a radioactive Texas.
9. Alycia Debnam-Carey As Alicia Clark
When Sarah and Wendell mysteriously disappeared, it was not at Debnam-Carey’s request that Alicia leave the show in season 7. The actress talked about Alicia’s exit from Fear the Walking Dead when she said she wanted to find new opportunities and challenges in her work. In her farewell Instagram post, Debnam-Carey also talked about how, like Dillane’s exit, she was part of the idea that Alicia’s ending would be “beautiful, hopeful, and elusive.”
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