Of all the characters to survive in the entire “The Walking Dead”, Judith Grimes is the most surprising. Designed during season 1, the hope of survival of Fetus-Judith throughout season 2 rests entirely on her mother Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) who does not die from clumsiness. There are a lot of close calls: at one point, Lori pregnant steals a car without saying it, forgets to pay attention to the road while driving, and ends up turning the car in the middle of the night, with nearby walkers heading towards noise. Some people are simply not supposed to live in such difficult times.

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Fortunately for Judith, Lori lives in a way for a long time to give birth to him in the middle of an ambush of walker in season 3 prison. Baby Judith was then transported from one place to another during the following five seasons by various people, including a psychopathic child who suffocates her almost to death in season 4. Although it is. People around Bébé Judith continue to fall like fliesIt remains strong through all of this. Then in season 9, after a surprise jump, Judith is old enough to be an appropriate character with lines and a personality. Played by Cailey Fleming, Judith, 10, has all the tenacity and the courage for which his father Rick was known.

There is only one problem: East Rick Judith’s father? Or could Judith’s real father be this vile Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal), who had an adventure with Lori for a few weeks before understanding that she was pregnant? Mathematically, it seems that Shane is the most likely parent, but the fans can certainly plead for Rick …

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The case for Shane being Judith’s father is simple: Rick spent several weeks in the hospital in a coma. During these weeks, the apocalypse occurred, and at one point, Lori and Shane started to connect. The exact calendar is intentionally left vague by the series, but the scenes we get from Lori and Shane in the first episodes imply that they have had unprotected sex regularly.

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After Rick and Lori gathered, they have sex at least once before Lori discovers that she is pregnant, but they quickly start to have marital problems because Rick discovers everything that happened. To put it simply: there were many more opportunities for Shane to impregnate Lori than for Rick, although it is technically possible that it was Rick who did the act.

Because DNA tests are difficult to find in the Apocalypse, Lori and Rick seem to assume that Rick’s father and would not really dwell on it. Shane, however, fully believes that the baby is his, and his possessiveness towards Lori and his unborn child is a large part of what makes him more and more vindictive and unstable throughout season 2 “The Walking Dead”. If Rick hadn’t done it The killed in “Better Angels” ,, It is clear that Shane would have continued to think of the baby like hers and would have continued to quarrel with Rick because of this.

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After time jumping, fans were watching Judith closely for any sign of Shane’s behavior. Everything she needed was rub the back of his head And the template would be standing, but instead, it acts more as you expect that Rick Grimes’ daughter behaves. Physically, she does not seem to share many similarities with one or the other father. (Honestly, it does not even look like Lori either.) It seems that in terms of the question of the biological father of Judith, the answer depends entirely on the fans to decide.

A notable evidence in the camp of “Shane’s the Father”, and I think fans put too much stock, is a scene from season 7 where Rick Straight up says: “I know that Judith is not mine. I know it. I love her, she is my daughter but she is not mine. I had to accept it.”

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Some fans consider this to be a confirmation of Judith’s parenting, but others interpret it as Rick simply explaining his decision -making process. He “accepts” that Judith is Shane’s biological girl so that he does not have to ask herself constant what the truth is. If he can accept the worst case and always love Judith, then he knows that his relationship with her will go well. This is linked to the argument that Rick makes in Michonne throughout the scene: that they (the Alexandrians at war with Negan) must accept the worst possible result of a situation from the start, so that it does not prevent them and not be wrapped their judgment in the future.

But even if you take Rick’s words at its nominal value here, the point to remember for Judith is always the same. In any case that matters, she is Rick’s daughter. It was he who raised it (For these first years at least), And it is her values ​​and Michonne that she grew up by learning. Even if Judith had her DNA tested and found conclusive evidence that she was not Rick’s daughter, I hope she could not give her mind.

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