Walking Dead's Convoluted Stephanie Story & Identity Explained
The Walking Dead finally gets around to revealing Stephanie's true identity… but isn't exactly taking the straightest route there. Stephanie's The Walking Dead story began in season 9's finale, when her voice first echoed over Eugene's homemade radio system. Striking up a post-apocalyptic long-distance relationship, Eugene and Stephanie finally agreed to meet as representatives of Alexandria and the Commonwealth, respectively. While Eugene brought along a few friends to their first date, Stephanie didn't turn up at all. Eugene's group was instead greeted by a heavy-handed mob of Commonwealth soldiers, none of which were in a mood to share spaghetti.
Eugene and Stephanie finally met after a tough clearing process for the Alexandrians, but audiences immediately suspected she was an impostor. Eugene very much did not, and embarked on a whirlwind romance full of frozen treats and science fiction. Meanwhile, the character viewers believed to be Stephanie was serving as a personal assistant to the Commonwealth's governor, Pamela Milton, but was referred to as Max, so couldn't be Stephanie, right? Anyway, the theories held true. The Walking Dead season 11's «Rogue Element» reveals the «Stephanie» Eugene had been sleeping next to was a fake, and Pamela's assistant was the real deal all along.
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That's a fairly convoluted way to reach a conclusion everyone saw coming, and still leaves many unanswered questions and quibbles. Who was talking to who? When did the ruse begin? How much did both Stephanies know? Since the real Stephanie approaches Eugene using the call signs «Blue Beetle» and «Tater Bug,» we can be certain she was the person Eugene spent so long
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