'The Walking Dead': Fans Pay Tribute to Michonne Following Danai Gurira’s Final Episode

By Dino-Ray Ramos, Dominic Patten

The show had been dropping hints for a while.

It happened during the actress's final episode of the show during season 10

"Fear the Walking Dead" star Danay Garcia likened the coronavirus pandemic to the world's very own present-day apocalypse. The growing coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 480,000 globally as of Thursday.

The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira has penned an emotional farewell to the show and said the decision to leave was “one of the hardest things I have ever done”.

Michonne has hung up her katana. Now Danai Gurira is bidding her farewell.

Michonne has hung up her katana. Now Danai Gurira is bidding her farewell.

Danai Gurira left The Walking Dead in the Sunday, March 22 episode of the long-running AMC zombie apocalypse drama, and to mark the occasion, Andrew Lincoln, who played her former on-screen love interest Rick Grimes, recorded an especially sweet serenade for the departing actress.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Sunday’s milestone episode of “The Walking Dead” featured another major departure of a beloved character, and fans are paying tribute.

Major spoilers for The Walking Dead within

The moment we all knew was coming this season on The Walking Dead --Danai Gurira's final episode as Michonne — has finally arrived. "What We Become," in the tradition of last Walking Dead episodes "What Happened and What's Going On" and "What Comes After" before it, had hallucinations as its emotional power source, as Michonne imagined what her life would have been like if she had never met Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his crew. Call it It's a Miserable Life.

Danai Gurira may have left The Walking Dead, but her time in the universe is not over. On Talking Dead after her final episode of the mothership show as Michonne, Walking Dead Universe chief creative officer Scott Gimple stopped short of announcing that Gurira will be joining Andrew Lincoln in the upcoming Walking Dead movie(s), but he hinted that this was not the last we'll see of the sword-swinging survivor Michonne. "Her story isn't done," he said.

Sunday's milestone episode of featured another major departure of a beloved character, and fans are paying tribute.

Sunday’s milestone episode of “The Walking Dead” featured another major departure of a beloved character, and fans are paying tribute.

*Major spoilers*

Danai Gurira may have left The Walking Dead, but her time in the universe is not over. On Talking Dead after her final episode of the mothership show as Michonne, Walking Dead Universe chief creative officer Scott Gimple stopped short of announcing that Gurira will be joining Andrew Lincoln in the upcoming Walking Dead movie(s), but he hinted that this was not the last we'll see of the sword-swinging survivor Michonne. "Her story isn't done," he said.