{"id":145169,"date":"2019-07-21T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=145169"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:39:44","slug":"danai-gurira-leaving-the-walking-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/danai-gurira-leaving-the-walking-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Danai Gurira is leaving &#8216;The Walking Dead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-145170\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/700_Michonne_c5sncd.jpg\" alt=\"Michonne\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dania Gurira is taking her Marvel money and running away from &#8220;The Walking Dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At today&#8217;s &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221; panel at Comic-Con, Dania Gurira announced that <strong>she and her character Michonne are leaving the show<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Her character will be leaving one way or another in the next season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gurira has been on the show since its third season in 2012. Since then,<strong> she has been in more than 100 episodes.\u00a0<\/strong>For those of us who still watch the show, we&#8217;re sad to see her go.<\/p>\n<h2>First look at the movie!<\/h2>\n<p>At the panel for &#8220;The Walking Dead,&#8221; the first teaser trailer for the first of three Walking Dead movies was released:<\/p>\n<p>Although the trailer doesn&#8217;t tell us much, it does promise that<strong> Rick Grimes will finally be making his return<\/strong>; We just have to pay the cost of a movie ticket in order to see him.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t quite tell much from the trailer, but it appears as though Rick is heading back to the city to presumably join a new resistance in the fight against the dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/zombie-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">The 5 best apps to survive a zombie apocalypse<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-5-best-apps-to-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Read Now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-5-best-apps-to-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<h2>Is it faithful to the comics?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>SPOILERS AHEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/walking-dead-comic-series-ending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The comic series recently ended<\/a>. In the end, Michonne is still alive. She becomes a leader in the new civilization that is built after the zombie apocalypse. Rick isn&#8217;t as lucky. If Michonne is being written out of the show, <strong>the writers will have to come up with something other than what is in the comics.\u00a0<\/strong>Then again, the show already did that with Rick:<\/p>\n<h2>Wrapping up<\/h2>\n<p>Most fans of the show agree that the show hit its stride a few seasons ago, and now <strong>it is struggling to maintain relevancy.\u00a0<\/strong>Michonne&#8217;s swan song might just be what finally gives &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221; the baseball bat to the head it needs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-related-articles-white\">\r\n<p class=\"sc-related-articles-white__title\">More from Softonic<\/p>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"10 things you didn\u2019t know about A Quiet Place \u25ba\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/a-quiet-place-facts\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__image\">\r\n        <div 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