#oh and the dolphin’s name was rosita

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Twenty years after TWD has gone off the air...lasting impressions of characters.

What do you think they're going to be?  Hmm.  I've mulled this over and with the way all the characters have basically devolved into caricatures of themselves, I think it's going to be something like this: 

  Rick Grimes

 Officer Friendly. 

"Coral!  Coral!" 

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"I'm going to kill you."  Only he usually didn't kill them.  Except that one time he ripped that dude's throat out with his teeth. 

 Lori Grimes

 "Has anybody seen Carl? I can't find Carl." 

The one that had her baby cut out of her belly.   

 Shane Walsh

 Aggressive and trigger happy partner to Officer Friendly

Wanted his best friend's family to himself

  Daryl Dixon

 The dude with the crossbow and the greasy hair in his face. 

Always had a motorcycle even when gas was surely in short supply. 

Dirty mumbler that leaned into that Pixie Lady's touch like a cat getting pets. 

Abuse survivor. 

Liked blowing shit up.    

Pookie.

  Merle Dixon

 Redneck asshole that cut his own hand off. 

Got the clap on occasion. 

Always had a nickname on the tip of his tongue. 

 Carol Peletier

 Scared Pixie lady that lost her little girl but gained her confidence and became a badass. 

Best friends with the dude with the crossbow and always gave him nonplatonic heart eyes. 

Had every child she loved cruelly stripped away from her. 

"Look at the flowers."

Abuse survivor that wore many figurative masks. 

Liked blowing shit up. 

No matter what she couldn't lose her Pookie. 

 Glenn Rhee

 Baseball cap wearing pizza boy that can't keep a secret. 

Awkward Korean cutie that fell for the farmer's daughter. 

Oh man.  He didn't deserve THAT. 

  T-Dog

 Dropped the key to that redneck asshole's cuffs. 

Saved the Pixie Lady at the Prison by sacrificing himself to Walkers and nobody ever really talked about him again.  So sad. 

 Hershel Greene

 Farmer and father of two daughters that lost his leg and later his head.

Oh.  And he was also the de facto doc for them all, even though he was a country veterinarian.   

  Maggie Greene

 Farmer's daughter that fell in love with the pizza boy. 

Leader of Hilltop until she went poof. 

  Beth Greene

 Farmer's daughter that was always singing at the weirdest times.

In fact, you could say timing wasn't her strong suit--i.e. the alcohol and the scissors. 

  Michonne

 Mysterious lady with the dreads and the katana that arrived on the scene with pet walkers. 

Best friend of first Andrea Harrison then Carl Grimes. 

Rick Grimes right hand(wo)man and second chance at love. 

 Abraham Ford

 Big redheaded Army dude. 

Always had something colorful and bawdy to say. 

"Dolphin smooth."  "Who's Deanna?"

Was all about Rosita until he was suddenly into Sasha. 

  Tara Chambler

 Fist bump cutie that liked girls. 

Lost everybody she cared about but nobody else seemed to/showed that they cared.

 Jesus

 Kung fu Jesus looking dude that never got anything else to do except be Maggie's de facto BFF until they killed him off. 

  Ezekiel

 Had a pet Tiger. 

The pontificating day player calling himself King that the Pixie Lady married instead of her beloved Pookie. 

 Jerry

 Big smiling teddy bear of a man that loved himself some cobbler. 

  Negan

 Foul-mouthed cartoon contortionist that had an unhealthy fixation on a bat he named Lucille and dick size. 

Obsessed with dicks in general.  

Gave more monologues than the man who called himself King. 

 So.  Just a few of my observations.  Feel free to add your own.