It was such a dramatic exit, the idea of Madison Clark coming back to Fear the Walking Dead has been in fans’ heads ever since. Even though there have been no updates on her return yet, this is still a topic that’s being talked about.
Madison Clark was a main character in the first season of Fear the Walking Dead. She was killed off in the first episode, but many fans are wondering if she will return as a villain.
Is Madison Clark doomed to become a Fear the Walking Dead villain? In the Season 4 midseason finale, “No One’s Gone,” the Clark matriarch seems to have perished, sacrificing herself inside a burning and walker-overrun stadium so that her children Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) may survive. Madison, on the other hand, made it through the season, and actress Kim Dickens will guest star in the second half of Season 7 before returning as a series regular in Season 8. Madison declared at the time of her claimed death, “No one is gone until they’re gone.” Fear believes that no narrative is complete until it is completed.
When co-creator Dave Erickson left the Walking Dead spin-off after three seasons in 2017, he said that he had planned a seven-season narrative that would culminate with Madison’s transformation into a “full-on evil.”
“There are parts of the program that I would have envisioned arcing out until perhaps even season seven,” Erickson said at the time, referring to the premiere episode. Erickson planned to “draw a line in the sand” between mother and son in Season 3 with a fight over the Otto family ranch linked with “the emergence of Alicia, and have her walk out from her mother’s shadow and become her own person and reach a degree of independence.”
Madison’s aggression eventually causes her to be at odds with Nick. Despite the fact that the season ends on a cliffhanger when Nick destroys the Gonzalez Dam, leaving the fates of the Clark children unclear, Erickson imagined a fourth season in which everyone joins forces against Proctor John (Ray McKinnon).
“I had a lot more plot planned for Nick, Madison, and Alicia. “I wanted to build this very distinct divide between Nick and Madison, because I believe the long-term arc of that tale would have resulted in a confrontation between mother and son,” Erickson told THR.”
Incoming showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg were expected by Erickson to take Fear in their own path, which they did: in Season 4, Chambliss and Goldberg opted to kill off Madison and create a separate tale inspired by her death. Nick was killed murdered by teenage buddy Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) not long after Madison’s apparent death at the stadium when Dillane decided to depart the series that same season.
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In the continuing Fear Season 7, which is situated in the heart of the nuclear-zombie apocalypse, there are echoes of Erickson’s abandoned ambitions. Alicia spent the first half of the season guiding a group of survivors to PADRE, a region ostensibly secure from the radioactive fallout, and will spend the second half of the season fighting with Victor Strand, a former friend (Colman Domingo).
Victor Strand, a crafty conman who rules over his own society, The Tower, and positions himself as an adversary to Morgan Jones’ group of survivors, has emerged as a villain in Fear Season 7. (Lennie James). It’s Alicia vs. Victor instead of Madison vs. Nick; Madison’s participation in this civil war won’t be known until after Fear returns on April 17.
Madison may discover of Nick’s death or lose her daughter as a result of Teddy Maddox’s (John Glover) detonation of nuclear bombs last season. The ill Alicia is succumbing to the infection of a walker’s bite. Though Chambliss and Goldberg aren’t bound by Erickson’s intentions, the co-creator indicated that he envisions Madison surviving the series end after becoming a villain on The Walking Dead like the Governor (David Morrissey) or Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
“The thing that interests me, and one of the things I asked myself and [Fear co-creator] Robert Kirkman early on, was who do you picture as the Governor within our group? Who among us has the potential to become a Negan?” In 2017, Erickson told THR. “Watching a character go from a hero to an anti-hero to a full-on villain is fascinating to me.”
Erickson stated, “It would have been fascinating.” “It would have been crucial in terms of the family’s last dispute. There’s still a lot left for Madison, in my opinion.”
Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 premieres on AMC on April 17th. Follow the author on Twitter @CameronBonomolo and @NewsOfTheDead for TWD Universe coverage throughout the season.
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