Michonne's First & Last Moments Show What The Walking Dead Is Really About

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With the conclusion of Image Comics' The Walking Dead epic, a larger retrospective on how all the surviving characters grew throughout the series reveals that it was the dual-katana-wielding Michonne who best embodied what the comic book series was about. As someone who was unhappy with her life before the entire world went to hell, it took facing down the scourge of zombie hordes to discover that she was cut out for something more. Her story, more than anyone else's, established the resiliency of humanity and what was needed to move forward during the crisis. Equally as important, she proves to be an expert at determining what instincts must be let go of or kept after the zombies are gone.

It is this judgment that allows her to ascend to the top of her pre-apocalypse profession once things return to normal, becoming a revered judge who shows mercy when Carl Grimes repeatedly fails to fit into the better world that his father enabled. In an incident where he kills the zombies that Maggie and Glenn’s son Hershel is using as a sideshow, readers see that some of Michonne’s peers are never able to leave their traumatic experiences behind like she has. This is no easy feat for her, as she suffers plenty both before and during the zombie takeover. Prior to the walking dead’s rise, Michonne Hawthorne was a lawyer with a personal life largely in shambles, including a divorce and lost custody of her children. In the zombie-infested world, she is repeatedly traumatized, beginning with the death of her boyfriend, and also encompassing the death of Tyreese and her own torture and rape and the hands of the Governor. Michonne's tragic history and grim survivorship mirrors the increasingly violent world that everyone is thrust into.

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