The Walking Dead star teases season 8 shock death
Warning: This article contains comics spoilers for The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead season 8's All-Out War will undoubtedly claim a number of victims, but has actor Ross Marquand teased one of them?
Marquand, who plays Aaron on the hit AMC drama, was talking to Entertainment Weekly about how he would like to see his character evolve, and he pointed to one particularly key moment in the source material.
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"I want him to find his darkness, because one of the great things that I remember reading in the comics was that Aaron has this switch," he said.
"There's a really pivotal thing that happens in the comics, and after that, he really goes to this dark place and becomes sort of this kind of berserker-mode warrior, and that's what I want for him.
"While I don't condone random violence and I don't think he does either, these Saviors have proven that they are not to be reasoned with and they are not people that you can ever hope to have any sort of polite, intelligent discussion with.
"And that's something that Aaron has always prided himself on."
Marquand continued: "For Aaron, I would really love to see there be a switch that flips, and he just goes real dark and real mental for a while. That would be great.
"He's been nice for too long. He needs to stop getting beat up, and he needs to start throwing down."
That switch?
That switch in the comics is the death of Aaron's boyfriend Eric, who is one of the casualties as Rick's militia attempt to take over a number of the Saviors' outposts.
Could it happen on TV, too? Well, season seven did feel like it was foreshadowing Eric's death in places...
The Walking Dead launches its eighth season on October 22 on AMC in the US and October 23 on FOX in the UK.
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