Daryl Dixon Finally Answers the Ancient Walking Dead Question: Where Do Zombie Variants Come From?
Ever since zombie variants started appearing in The Walking Dead, their origins were a mystery — but the Daryl Dixon spin-off finally revealed where they come from.
The world of The Walking Dead has always contained a great deal of mysteries, but the most significant ones always had to do with the origins of the zombies. How did they first appear? How do they operate? Is there any way to stop the virus? These and many other questions have been up in the air for many years now.
But among them all, the phenomenon of zombie variants has always been one of the most peculiar. Zombie variants first “officially” appeared in Season 11 of the original The Walking Dead, but they were around since Season 1 — just never talked about. Some spin-offs also featured unique variants, and their origins were never known.
The most recent addition to The Walking Dead franchise, Daryl Dixon’s spin-off, is seemingly on a quest to answer numerous ancient questions throughout its duration. In Episode 2, for instance, Daryl Dixon revealed what happens if an already-transformed woman gives birth to a child (and we regret learning that).
Now, the show addressed the Big Question: the origins of the zombie variants.
In Episode 3 of Daryl Dixon, we get to watch the artificial creation of one of those variants by Genet’s scientist. Judging from the dialogue between the two, Genet’s team has been working on the creation of zombie variants for quite some time, and the line "we're making progress" both hints at that…and sounds rather scary.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon ultimately confirmed that zombie variants have never been a result of the undead evolution of sorts: all the faster, stronger, and smarter zombies were created artificially by injecting regular undead with drugs and other substances. Now, the new question arises: what are the goals of those scientists?
Judging from how Daryl Dixon has been efficiently addressing these zombie-related questions so far, it won’t be a stretch to assume that we’ll learn the answer to that in the upcoming episodes of the mini-series. After all, we’ve never been this close to the truth about the zombie apocalypse and the people responsible for it.