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The Walking Expressionless'southward eighth season hasn't exactly been a joy ride. But it has offered some amazing twists and huge battles between Rick and Negan. On Apr 13, the season finale will air. And co-ordinate to the cast and crew, fans can look an explosive end cap to a season that's already been mind-blowing.

Here's everything nosotros know most the insane Walking Expressionless Season 8 finale.

1. The All Out War will come to an cease

Rick and Negan on The Walking Dead

Rick and Negan will come to blows. | AMC

Information technology seems similar Rick and Negan'south fight has been going on for years (well, technically, it has). And so it might come as a relief to fans that nosotros will finally see a resolution to the seasons-long carnage in the Season 8 finale.

According to former showrunner Scott Gimple, "We will run across a resolution of the war. It might not be what people are expecting. It might non exist what some of the characters fifty-fifty want. But it is a conclusion, and they accept to bargain with its backwash."

Only before the grit settles, information technology seems, we're going to have to endure a scrap more than tragedy.

Next: Fans who want to know more shouldn't look to the comics.

2. The All Out War'due south conclusion will play out differently than in the comics

The All Out War in The Walking Dead comics

The Tv set serial oft strays from the comics, and this will exist no exception. | Image Comics

In the past, fans have frequently turned to The Walking Dead comics when they want some insight nearly how things will play out on Television receiver. But equally far as the last confrontation between Negan and Rick is concerned, we'll all be in the nighttime.

Gimple spoke to Entertainment Weekly about what fans tin can wait. And he said the comic and TV versions of the end of the All Out War will play out "very differently."

He explained that the changes accept a lot to do with how the serial has evolved away from the comics over the years.

Gimple said:

"From the butterfly effect and dissimilar characters around that weren't and vice versa, and even just the thrust of the story, how things play out are quite different in a lot of ways. There are some big changes that change the very effect of certain aspects of the story — notwithstanding trying to exist true to the emotions of the story, just changing some big parts of it."

Adjacent: Will TWD fans have to live with another big cliffhanger?

iii. Twists and turns will abound

Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier on The Walking Dead

McBride (as Ballad) gave fans a fiddling tease. | AMC

Even if yous're non a Walking Dead comic reader, you tin can expect a few surprises in the finale. In an interview with ComicBook.com, Melissa McBride, who plays Ballad, hinted that even she was shocked with how the finale pans out.

She said, "It's a little unexpected… when I read it I was like, 'Well, that's a turn, that's a twist.'" McBride also hinted that fans might be left with some unanswered questions when the credits roll on Season 8.

In other words, they're doing everything they can to make sure we melody in for Season 9.

Next: Get prepare to say goodbye to more characters.

4. More characters are probably gonna dice

The Walking Dead

A significant amount of death is in the allies' future. | AMC

It wouldn't exist a Walking Dead finale without some bloodshed. And since the characters are in the midst of a vicious battle, it only makes sense that a few more than will perish before information technology's all said and done.

According to Gimple, these losses might be especially painful. When TVLine asked if fans that long for vengeance for Glenn and Abraham will be happy with the end of the state of war, he didn't mince words. He said, "I pray to God that they are satisfied. I actually hope they are."

But he also had this ominous warning nearly what's still to come. "It is a war. In that location are casualties along the way, and it is incredibly tough business. But information technology only shows just how deeply connected these characters are and how their fates are tied together, even if some of them don't want them to be."

Next: There will exist more than one big event to scout for in the finale.

5. There's going to exist a lot going on all at in one case

Zombies on The Walking Dead

Get ready for zombies anda lotmore. | AMC

Certain, some of the cast and crew accept made information technology sound like the Season eight finale could pack an emotional wallop. But Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl, swears that it will all be satisfying.

He also thinks fans will be shocked by just how much they manage to pack into the finale. He told Amusement Weekly, "There are iv things that happen that could be the finale, and they all get off at once at the same time. They head in different directions, and they're all individually equally good as the adjacent."

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half dozen. One character's departure has offered an ominous clue nearly the finale

Morgan Jones

Morgan will exist leaving on a tearing note. | AMC

The Season 8 finale won't just mark the cease of a volatile year for The Walking Dead. It also signals the end of Morgan'south tenure on the serial, as he jumps into a starring role on the spinoff, Fright the Walking Expressionless.

Fans got their first glimpse of Morgan in his new part when FTWD dropped a Season 4 trailer. And we also learned why he may have parted ways with Rick'south crew. In the trailer, nosotros hear Morgan in a voiceover. And he says, "Back east, in that location was a fight — a big fight. I didn't know how to make information technology terminate. Skilful people died. I lose people, and so I lose myself."

Morgan's description isn't definitively about the All Out War. But if it is, his description what could be the terminal battle should strike a sense of foreboding for fans. From the sounds of it, regardless of who wins, information technology won't be pretty.

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seven. The finale is going to be huge — in more ways than i

Rick, looking sweaty and disheveled, looks directly into the camera

Just how large will information technology be? | AMC

When the cast or crew of The Walking Dead talk near the finale, the word "big" tends to pitter-patter into the conversation. Gimple says, in fact, that in terms of what they're trying to accomplish, the terminal Season viii episode might be "also big."

Merely if that's the example, they're doing everything they can to friction match the story's telescopic. First off, the Season 8 finale will pb into the Fear the Walking Expressionless premiere, which marks the showtime official crossover between the two series. If that super-sized dose of Walking Dead drama isn't enough, fans will get a adventure to run into it all play out in the biggest way imaginable. That'due south because AMC will exist screening the finale and premiere at 750 movie theaters beyond the U.s.a..

The "Survival Sunday" double characteristic gives fans the chance to enjoy The Walking Expressionless in a supersized format, plus 30 minutes of bonus content And if aught else, they'll also take the opportunity to collectively throw their popcorn if it ends with a tragic character expiry or another agonizing cliffhanger.

The Walking Dead Season viii finale arrogance Dominicus., April 15, 2018, at 9 p.m.

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