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Cannibalism updated

Cannibalism is a recurring theme in The Walking Dead. It is when a living person eats another person, usually done in an act to survive.

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Comic Universe and Comic-Adapted

Comic Series

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  • Tyreese half-jokingly states that Rick's group could have been traveling cannibals when explaining why he, Chris and Julie chose not to sleep in the RV with the others. (Issue 7)
  • The Governor mentioned that he doesn't understand how his niece Penny can eat human flesh uncooked and said he tried it once but couldn't stomach it. (Issue 29)
  • The Hunters inform Rick Grimes that they are cannibals and that they have eaten many people, including their own children, as well as Dale's leg. (Volume 11: Fear The Hunters)
  • Lydia denies that the Whisperers practice cannibalism when Carl asks her. (Issue 137)

Telltale Series

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Clementine Series

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  • Tim mentions that a bad winter hit Georgia and Olivia's community. Olivia later explains that everything went wrong with the community facing sickness, fighting and hunger. Georgia implies that the community resorted to cannibalism when the food ran out and that she had protected her sister from it. (Book One)

Road to Survival

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Saints & Sinners

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  • Gerik Benoit and several other Tower residents were executed for passing off human flesh as food in order to meet hunting and scavenging quotas imposed by the Tower leadership, although Gerik's wife May claims that her husband was framed by Georgia.

TV Universe and TV-Adapted

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Dead City

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