It’s hard to believe that The Walking Dead and its spinoff series have been around for 14 years now. Fans of The Walking Dead have noted just as much about the franchise that they hate as they love. One of the things they’ve noted the most is that there are some tropes that the franchise has formulated and then stuck with through thick and thin from the first year through year 14.

AMC's long-running series concluded in Nov. 2022, but the network has continued to create companion spinoffs which greatly expand The Walking Dead universe.