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The Walking Dead: Dead City

TV SERIES · 2023–present · USA

The Walking Dead: Dead City

Created by
Eli Jorné
Network
AMC
Seasons
3
Episodes
22
Studio
AMC Studios, Idiotbox, Skybound Entertainment

16 archived facts 4 topics 4 sources Last reviewed Oct 2026

Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

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16 Interesting Facts About The Walking Dead: Dead City

Interesting Facts (13)

  1. #001

    The poster art featuring a decapitated Statue of Liberty is a tribute to John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981).

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  2. #002

    Negan said the notorious whistle came from his bedridden wife Lucille, who was dying of cancer. Whistling was the way to get Negan's attention immediately. His wife was played by his off-screen partner Hilarie Burton Morgan in Here's Negan (2021).

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  3. #003

    "Doma Smo" means "We Are At Home" in Croatian.

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  4. #004

    Negan Smith's New Babylon wanted poster reads: "If you have any information about this man, report to any New Babylon Police Department office. Do not approach unless armed. Antisocial, prone to extreme violence. Above-average intelligence and charisma. Do not trust him… any action to evade justice."

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  5. #005

    Buraz means brother in Croatian, and burazi is the plural of that word.

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  6. #006

    It was filmed at Hoboken NJ Train Station during the busy morning rush hour. A record number of transit police were on hand for security.

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  7. #007

    Pasticada, as served by the Croatians, is the Croatian version of Beef Wellington.

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  8. #008

    Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan appeared in Supernatural (2005) but never shared a scene. Jeffrey played John Winchester, a former Marine, demon hunter and father of the heroes Sam and Dean Winchester. Lauren played Bella Talbot, a con artist and thief specializing in stealing occult artifacts. Moreover, the episode Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (2017) was a tribute to Jeffrey's role as Negan. Sam and Dean find a memento of their late father: a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire resembling "Lucille." After killing a monster with the bat, Dean says, "Dad loved this thing."

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  9. #009

    The New Babylon Federation's motto "Tranquillitas Ordinis" is the Latin for "Tranquility, Order."

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  10. #010

    Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan played Thomas and Martha Wayne in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). The Waynes lived in Gotham, and Gotham was modeled on New York City. Moreover, it is said that Gotham at night represents New York, particularly Lower Manhattan, an older part of New York City with its Art Nouveau and Art-Deco towers. Metropolis, Superman's hometown, is said to represent New York by day, particularly Midtown, marked by Modern and Post-Modern architecture.

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  11. #011

    As seen in the title sequence, deer foraging in the street seem to recall I Am Legend (2007), which is also set in New York City.

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  12. #012

    Survivors in New York City stay alive by living on the upper floors of buildings and using steel cables to cross over the rooftops, coming down to the streets only when conditions require it. This closely resembles the gameplay style of the popular zombie horror/survival game Dying Light (2015). In its sequel Dying Light 2: Stay Human (2022), steel cables, rooftop gardens and settlements are even more prominent.

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  13. #013

    Negan takes a torch from the wall and leaves Lucille behind. He enters a cell and, while talking to the historian, looks at Lucille leaning against the wall.

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Production Story (1)

  1. #014

    The opening title sequence pays tribute to various scenes from The Walking Dead (2010). The credits begin with a close-up of a walker's eye, as in the season three premiere Seed (2012). In the opening scene, when Rick and Carl enter a house and shoot several walkers with homemade silencers, everything begins with a close-up of a walker's eye before Rick shoots it. Later, a horse is shown running through a crowd walking down a city street with a tank on it. This closely resembles the scene in the pilot episode Days Gone Bye (2010) in which Rick rides a horse into downtown Atlanta, is surrounded by a group of walkers and is forced to take refuge in a Georgia Army National Guard tank. A walker missing the lower half of its body is shown crawling on the ground beside a fountain in a park, weakly grasping at a crow flying away. This recalls (chronologically) the first walker Rick sees in the pilot episode Days Gone Bye (2010); after leaving the hospital he encounters a walker, formerly a woman missing the lower half of her body, and rides away on his bicycle as she weakly tries to catch him, later finding her again before leaving the city and mercifully saying "I'm sorry this happened to you" before shooting her. This walker became known as the "Bicycle Girl" from The Walking Dead's first season: Webisodes (2011), which tells the origin story of the "Bicycle Girl," whose name is actually Hannah. Finally, a deer is shown being hunted in Times Square. This is probably a nod to the season two premiere What Lies Ahead (2011), particularly the end of the episode, when Carl is accidentally shot by Otis while hunting a deer he had stopped to admire.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #015

    Lauren Cohan, a co-star and executive producer of The Walking Dead: Dead City, directed episode 6 of the second season, though she was erroneously said to also direct episode 4.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #016

    In Show Me More (2021): Inside The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023), hosted by Clarke Wolfe, cast members said the following about the Croat: * Zeljko Ivanek (the Croat) - The Croat is Negan's creation… What he learned from Negan is that showmanship is a big part of leadership and that in such a world confidence is an incredible seduction for people because it signals power, creates a sense of belonging. And a sense of power * Gaius Charles (Armstrong) - He tries to get into your head… it's all about psychological warfare… He looks in his enemies for things he can use only emotionally * Lauren Cohan (Maggie) - The quietest way of being creepy.

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Reference databases

  • Wikipedia English Wikipedia article
  • IMDb IMDb title page (trivia)

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  1. Wikipedia The Walking Dead: Dead City — WikipediaEncyclopedia · accessed 17 Sep 2026

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