Caution: spoilers ahead for The Walking Dead season 11's «No Other Way»
Alden finally dies in The Walking Dead season 11, but it's not immediately clear how Callan McAuliffe's character kicks the post-apocalyptic bucket. Maggie's food-finding revenge mission against the Reapers has demanded a heavy price. Though most of the fallen faces are expendable background characters we never had the pleasure of meeting properly, other victims held higher status in The Walking Dead's hierarchy. Season 11 wisely took the opportunity to trim away most of Maggie's stragglers (barring Elijah, who's by far the coolest), but from The Walking Dead's main cast, Alden drew the short straw.
In the lop-sided battle between Maggie's party from Alexandria and Pope's Reapers from Meridian, Alden endured the worst injuries, but The Walking Dead played coy over whether these wounds were fatal. On one hand, Alden began giving his «just in case I don't make it back...» speech; on the other, Maggie promised she'd return for him when the mission was complete. Clinging onto consciousness, Alden waited in a local church while his friends (those in better condition) went to finish off the Reapers. Alden wasn't seen for the remainder of The Walking Dead season 11, part 1.
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Alden's tragic fate is confirmed when Maggie finally returns to the church in The Walking Dead season 11, part 2's «No Other Way.» Hoping she'd find her friend alive enough to cart back to Alexandria, Maggie is instead greeted by an Alden-esque reanimated corpse. There's also another zombie in the building, but how did Alden actually die? Was it his preexisting injuries? Or this second zombie loitering in the church?
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