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* [[Abandoned Hospital Awakening]]: The first issue starts with Rick getting shot, then awakening weeks later to find thing have changed.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Michonne's blade. Starts as an [[Averted Trope|Aversion]] - it gets stuck in a skull once, when we [[Early Installment Weirdness|first]] meet her - but then cuts through anything like a hot knife through butter. Rick's hatchet, on the other hand, is as sharp as the plot needs it to be at any given time.
* [[Action Girl]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in the case of Michonne. The [[Zombie Apocalypse]] has honed her into a stone-cold badass, but at the cost of most of her sanity and compassion. {{spoiler|Instead of straight-up killing the Governor, she tortures him and leaves him alive, allowing him to mount an attack on the prison and kill the vast majority of the folks there. Following that, she leads Tyreese on a two-person counterattack that results in his beheading.}} [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].
* [[Affably Evil]]: The leader of the cannibal gang. There's really nothing personal about cutting off your leg. After all, a man's got to eat.
** The Governor is also pretty charismatic and well-liked by his people.
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|The battle between the Washington community and the raiders; the raiders are all killed moronically attacking the fortified community.}}
* [[Daylight Horror]]: Discussed in issue seven. Rick complains when it begins to get dark and cloudy. Glenn welcomes the clouds because he considered the previous bright, sunny weather to be "a contradiction" to the terror around them.
* [[
** In issue 61, {{spoiler|the group finds a van with mattresses in it,}} and Andrea comments on how it's like early Christmas time, then Carl asks nobody in particular if they skipped last Christmas... The question is ignored.
* [[Disaster Democracy]]
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* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Tyreese. A lot.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first bunch of issues are, for the most part, decidedly non-indicative of the overall feel of the series. Aside from the [[Art Evolution]], as noted above, the overall tone is more [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism|optimistic]], and the action more fast-paced, than later volumes. (Though, as in the case of Kirkman's other series ''[[Invincible (Comic Book)|Invincible]]'', the early optimism may be intentional.)
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* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Philip{{spoiler|,[[Dead Person Impersonation|or rather, Brian]]}}, better known as "The Governor".
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The Governor is arguably one of these for Rick.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Michonne scoops the Governor's eye out with a spoon while torturing him. {{spoiler|When we next see him he's donning an [[Eyepatch of Power]].}}
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* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|The potential cure for the plague waiting in DC? Eugene made up that story just so he could have a group protecting him. He's not even a scientist.}}
* [[How Much More Can He Take]]: Rick vs {{spoiler|Tyreese.}}
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: The residents of Woodbury, by and large, realize that the Governor is a [[Complete Monster]] but are willing to tolerate him because he keeps them "safe", and entertained. ([[What Do You Mean
** The inevitable [[Zombie Apocalypse]] "humans are the real threat" has been used a couple of times; the Governor does far more damage to the cast than the zombies have, Thomas {{spoiler|decapitates two children,}} and then there's [[Rape As Drama|Abraham's back story.]]
** When Tyreese is first introduced, he tells Rick that a man he knew attempted to rape his daughter when his back was turned for a second.
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* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|The Governor.}}
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Michonne. Somewhat inverted as she's shown to be skilled with them, but {{spoiler|guns still win out.}}
* [[Kill
** {{spoiler|Same thing seems to be happening with the new arc So far Morgan, Ron, Jessie, Douglas and possibly Carl have died.}}
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Its more of a revolving door of characters, usually a couple of characters dies or leaves, later the main group may discover some new survivors.
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** In the comics, the kitchen knife isn't driven into a zombie's head by muscle power -- the procedure is "poke blade through hole in the fence until the tip rests against the skull, then slam the base of the knife's hilt with a hammer". It's the same sort of general physics that make a chisel a viable method of cutting or piercing stone.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: It's hard to care for some of the characters when you know that they ''will'' inevitably pick up the [[Idiot Ball]] and get themselves eaten or shot somewhere down the line.
* [[May
* [[Meaningful Titles]]: See [[Zombie Infectee]].
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Martinez}}, at least until {{spoiler|he tries to return to Woodbury and Rick kills him}}.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Rick verbatim.
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* [[Nice Hat]]: Rick's sheriff's hat, which he gives to Carl; Dale's fishing hat.
* [[Nominal Importance]]: Averted constantly.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Rick to Thomas.
* [[Off
* [[Off With His Head]]: Done to quite a few of the zombies. Also {{spoiler|to Rachel and Susie Greene by Thomas}} and {{spoiler|to Tyreese by the Governor}}.
** The Governor also does this to {{spoiler|Martinez}} after he's already dead, in order to impress the Woodbury people with a subsequent [[Decapitation Presentation]].
* [[Oh Crap]]
** {{spoiler|Rick seeing the ALL DEAD INSIDE sign outside the 'safe' gated community.}}
** {{spoiler|After months of quiet the inhabitants of the prison look up to see the Governor advancing towards them on a Bradley IFV screaming [[Kill
** {{spoiler|Driving over a hill straight into a 'herd' of hundreds of zombies.}}
** {{spoiler|Finding that 'herd' of hundreds of zombies just outside the walls of the community.}}
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* [[What Happened to Mommy]]: Hershel, when we first meet him. {{spoiler|Harboring his zombie son eventually results in the deaths of two more of his kids. [[It Got Worse|And then...]]}}
** {{spoiler|Morgan}} has taken this path as well.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: After their introduction in issue #1, it's a ''long'' time before we see Morgan and Duane again.
* [[What Year Is This?]]: none of the protagonists know what the exact date is after a year of events. {{spoiler|The date is never mentioned by the residents of Woodbury, Christmas is approximated, and even the residents of the Alexandria Safe Zone have lost precise track of the date fourteen months after Z-Day. Digital watches did not survive the apocalypse.}}
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* [[Word of Gay]]: According to Kirkman, Martinez from the Woodbury arc was gay, but he never found a good moment to reveal it before {{spoiler|he died.}}
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Duh.
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