Rick Grimes was a posh character in The Strolling Lifeless. He went from being a delicate and morally simply chief to a vicious killer who was keen to do no matter it took to avoid wasting his folks and trusted nobody.
Given this, it’s robust to sum Rick Grimes up with one single description. Fortunately, there are many intelligent memes that, notably when put collectively, fantastically encapsulate what Rick was all about. From a loyal father to a robust chief, a bitter rival, and typically even a tyrant, Rick was slightly little bit of every thing.
10/10 Dad Jokes
This strip of three pictures is arguably essentially the most meme’d from the present, and probably even essentially the most meme’d ever on-line from a primetime TV present. There are such a lot of completely different iterations, however in nearly each case, it options Rick telling his son Carl a foolish dad joke.
The meme focuses on the truth that Rick was a devoted father, however given the circumstances, he didn’t get the prospect to be the foolish, dad joke-telling type of dad. In the meantime, the meme pokes enjoyable at how Rick pronounced Carl’s title as “Coral” utilizing his pretend southern accent (the actor Andrew Lincoln, as followers know, is British).
9/10 Paternity Check
One of many defining issues about Rick proper from the start was his child daughter Judith and the controversy round her. When Rick was in a coma and his spouse Lori joined a gaggle of survivors, she started a romantic relationship with Rick’s former companion and greatest pal Shane. It was very seemingly that Judith was Shane’s organic baby, not Rick’s. Certainly one of Rick’s dumbest selections on The Strolling Lifeless was blaming Lori for his fallout with Shane as an alternative of placing the onus on his former greatest pal as effectively.
Nonetheless, even earlier than Lori died, Rick had supposed to lift Judith as his personal. Whereas this meme makes mild of a scenario that weighed closely on Rick, it was a giant a part of his life and his journey on the present. It demonstrated his character that he beloved Judith unconditionally, whether or not she was blood-related or not. All the things he did was for each her and Carl.
8/10 No F**ks To Give
Rick’s transformation from season 1 to the tip was drastic. He began as a fresh-faced chief of police who by no means actually handled main threats. He went by way of tons of strife as he fought off enemies, each residing and lifeless. Every time, he received extra ferocious, angrier, and fewer forgiving of others.
By season 5, Rick was scruffy, soiled, and long-haired, and even the expression on his face had hardened. Additional, he cared much less and fewer concerning the repercussions of his actions as time went on. Whereas he nonetheless maintained an ethical compass, there’s no denying that Rick at the beginning was a really completely different particular person from the Rick on the finish.
7/10 Saved By Tiger
A hilarious meme designed to seem like a neighborhood information report, it takes a picture of a bearded, soiled, and matted Rick standing in the midst of the highway wanting misplaced. The caption pretends that he’s being interviewed in a breaking information report a few native man who was saved by a tiger. The concept is that Rick, within the scene, appeared like a person who had simply endured a horrible battle and spent days, even weeks, within the wilderness.
On the present, that tiger would have been Shiva, Ezekiel’s pet tiger who did certainly save Rick, and Carl, on a number of events. Including to the humor is the “arising” tag beneath that discusses how junkyard staff, a.ok.a. The Scavengers, demand higher well being circumstances.
6/10 Rivalry With Negan
One of many cutest memes, this one highlights the extraordinary rivalry between Rick and Negan – considered one of The Strolling Lifeless villains who deserved redemption arcs – however turns it into one thing laughable. In a single scene, Negan certainly calls Rick out, telling him he failed miserably at being a frontrunner and defending his folks.
In retaliation, all Rick can say is “no, you!” as if whining like a baby. Negan, within the third picture, merely relents, closing his eyes and bowing his head. In actuality, Rick seemingly would have replied with a risk of some variety, then proceeded to assemble a workforce to take Negan down. Certainly, that’s what he did. However because the meme implies, some would say that each events, at occasions, acted like kids.
5/10 I Don’t Know What Occurred
The gist of Rick’s story, at first, is completely captured on this meme: he wakened in the future in a hospital mattress to seek out every thing in disarray. He ambled out of the hospital, working his method by way of lifeless our bodies and particles, to seek out the world had turned to ruins whereas he was out.
The joke is that Rick could possibly be questioned by authorities, inform them this story, and it might sound utterly unfaithful. But it surely’s actually what occurred and the way every thing started for him. Humorous sufficient, one of many hilariously dangerous theories about The Strolling Lifeless is that all the story is only a dream and Rick remained in a coma all the time.
4/10 Worry Rick
There have been many sides to Rick, together with the killer who would rip a person’s neck off along with his naked tooth to the doting father who would sacrifice himself for his son or daughter. This meme touches on that, poking enjoyable on the polarizing picture of Rick wanting soiled and sweaty with messy hair and an unkempt beard whereas additionally feeding child Judith as he holds her in his arms.
Seems to be might be deceiving, and that was the case with Rick. However he was additionally each forms of folks: the one who would homicide somebody in chilly blood in the midst of a church and the one who would spare his bitter rival’s life out of mercy.
3/10 Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
One other meme that appears at Rick Grimes from season one in comparison with Rick Grimes from season 5, this one calls the primary Rick “scared” and the second “scary.” Certainly, when Rick first entered the world after the strolling lifeless took over, he was terrified, as anybody could be.
However a number of years later, having handled a lot to outlive, it was all only a lifestyle for him. He was now not the one who feared every thing round him, he turned the one to concern. A lot so, that one of many issues Rick did on The Strolling Lifeless that followers can’t recover from was attacking the Saviors so viciously and cowardly.
2/10 We Are All Rick Grimes
Negan’s group The Saviors was so devoted to him and utterly beneath his spell that all of them referred to themselves as Negan. If anybody tried to confer with themselves by their very own title, Negan would punish or banish them till they acknowledged that everybody was Negan.
This meme means that Rick had an analogous management fashion, comforting Carol by telling her that if the Saviors are all Negan, then the Alexandrians and residents of The Kingdom and different allies have been all Rick Grimes. Rick, in fact, would by no means lead in such a method, however that’s what makes the meme so humorous.
1/10 Watch For The Head Tilt
It’s true that any time Rick was critical about one thing or engaged in a deep dialog with somebody along with his guard up, his head would tilt to the facet. This often meant the gun faucet was shortly to comply with, after which he would draw and level on the enemy in query.
It was a predictable sequence of occasions for Rick Grimes, however one which followers got here to know and love. Die-hard followers know that when Rick didn’t belief somebody and was about to make a transfer to try to take them out, or at the least coerce the reality out of them, he would do that.
