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Rick Grimes

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Rick Grimes is a character in the TV series The Walking Dead (2010), played by Andrew Lincoln.

8 Interesting Facts About Rick Grimes

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#001
Not long after he leaves the hospital, a young boy named Dwayne Jones strikes Rick on the head with a shovel, knocking him unconscious.
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#002
Tony and David, who tried to kill him and Hershel in a bar, are the first living people Rick kills in the series.
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#003
Addy Miller plays the little zombie girl again in Mercy (2017), a role she first took in the 2010 pilot, Days Gone Bye. Rick encounters her just after telling Carl off for nearly aiding a man who was muttering to himself and asking for food.
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#004
Rick puts his life on the line to save Merle Dixon, which the source cites as proof that Rick has a compulsive need to rescue people.
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#005
In Alexandria, Ron Anderson levels a loaded gun at Rick, whose killing of Ron's abusive father is the reason.
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#006
During Season 9, Andrew Lincoln's last run as a series regular, small visual motifs shaped like the letter "X" were tucked into sets, props and background locations as an easter egg paying tribute to Rick Grimes' long journey.
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#007
While Frank Darabont was negotiating with HBO to take on the series, Thomas Jane was attached to play Rick Grimes. The talks collapsed, and by the time AMC greenlit the show, Jane was tied up with Hung (2009) and could not take the part.
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#008
By season six, Rick forces his way into an unfamiliar compound and kills strangers without distinction as part of a deal with people he hardly knows; the source notes this is too murderous even for Carol.
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