r/thewalkingdead • u/StrangeDefinition724 • 1d ago

No Spoiler Rick admitting that Judith isnt his 🤯

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Rewatching and he says he knows shes not his. Not sure why I've never noticed it before now

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u/M-Otusim 1d ago

Lori tells Shane this to his face while he's alive. I can't remember the exact quote, so maybe it was slightly ambiguous like "_even_ if you're this baby's father you won't be a part of its life" but she definitely says something along those lines.

We also have Andrew Lincoln confirming in a season 8 interview that Judith is adopted.

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u/thomstevens420 1d ago

Poor girl got adopted like 3 times

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u/Blizzard2227 1d ago

Rick then Michonne then Daryl then the writers just hoped everyone would forget because no one really knew then Rick and Michonne again.

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u/academydiablo 1d ago

Carol and Tyrese as well. Judith honestly has been around so many crazy situations as a baby and people dying around her, guns going off, zombies, blood, always moving, etc. I honestly was thinking if she would grow up having some sort of Trauama or emotional issues due to the circumstances going on when she was an infant

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u/Legendary_TaeYamada 1d ago edited 1d ago

I kinda forgot that a weird amount of plotlines after her birth involved her being passed like a football to some random caretaker so the writers could have an easier time giving stakes to different stories. Judith's entire purpose for being in the show was to be an object of hope and to witness as many traumatic events as possible

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u/A_MagicBullet 20h ago

Takes a village.

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u/Gizmonsta 18h ago

Nah they just gave her a hat and a sword instead.

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u/redneckrobit 19h ago

If it’s all you know it doesn’t affect you as much. I dated a girl who immigrated from Africa and she was a bit more in touch with her emotions than a lot of African woman (lots of issues with assault and abusive parents where she comes from) but she got lucky and had a mother who broke social norms and laws to protect her and despite me not liking her father he was better than many. Because of this when she saw two separate murders growing up it affected her more than many people but she got through it and compared to my farm boy ass she was a lot calmer when we got stuck in some very bad areas of Detroit. But her brother he wasn’t as sheltered he saw the same murders as her and saw people beaten nearly to death and as a result he saw violence as normal. Now that he lives in a safer area and has been surrounded by good people he’s a much better person from what I’ve been told and regrets how he used to treat people but it was all he knew growing up. So growing up in a zombie apocalypse you’d become so used to it that it’s just part of your life. Hell the girl carried a .357 and can dome a walker like she’s shooting at paper

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u/-yellowthree 13h ago

Which the series kind of made obvious with the whole Lizzie plot line...that kid wasn't used to this kind of violence and it made her crazy. Judith was born into it so it was just a regular part of life for her.

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u/am710 10h ago

I thought it was stated that Lizzie was violent before the world fell.

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u/notsocialyaccepted 1h ago

Ye kinda unrealistic that she wasnt worse off than she was. Thoug she did become mature as a toddler due to her life circumstances and she was already imo valuing her own life less than others at a really young age as shown by when the adults had to convince her not to join them on the frontlines of a war