As of today, only two weeks remain until the entertainment world descends upon California for San Diego Comic-Con. In preparation for the coming scramble, the schedules for panels from July 23 through 26 are being set, and each day is packed to the brim with activations that will shed light on the future of television and film, from Percy Jackson and the Olympians to open things up to the big Saturday evening Marvel Studios panel in Hall H. As always, AMC’s The Walking Dead universe will have a presence at the annual convention. Those expecting a release date, first look, or an overall big send-off for the fourth and final season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, however, may have to keep waiting.
AMC has three panels confirmed for SDCC this year, with one dedicated to The Walking Dead: Dead City featuring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Scott M. Gimple, and more as panelists. The other two, however, will be for The Vampire Lestat, which is currently in the middle of its hard-rocking third season, and Yaga, a new series reimagining the folklore of the Slavic Baba Yaga. There is no scheduled panel for the globe-trotting spin-off following Daryl and Carol, which means, barring any surprises, Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride aren’t expected to be in attendance. That comes as a bit of a shock considering the series is slated to take its final bow this fall, and the convention would’ve been the perfect platform to set up the veteran Walking Dead duo’s final ride.
No Daryl Dixon at SDCC creates further questions about when exactly the series will return. Although Reedus only recently gave his beloved survivor and his fans a heartfelt farewell, production was finished on the final season back in November. With Dead City set to wrap its third season on September 13, expectations were that its fellow spin-off would keep things rolling shortly thereafter. However, it’s possible, if unlikely, that the Spain-set show could be holding off a bit and will eventually get its moment to shine at New York Comic-Con, kicking off on October 8. Whatever the case, the wait for answers will extend a while longer.
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
What Is Known About ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ So Far?
Precious few exact details are known about Daryl Dixon‘s swan song, but it’ll pick up where Season 3’s cliffhanger left off. Daryl and Carol’s detour to Solaz del Mar in Spain turned into an extended stay in the prior finale, when Fede (Óscar Jaenada) set fire to the boat that would’ve been their ticket back to America at last. It’s not all bad news, though, as the flames rise high enough for their enemy-turned-ally Stéphane (Romain Levi) to see in the night, drawing him back towards the duo. If the heart-to-heart between Daryl and Carol is any indication, Season 4 is expected to be a more emotional, character-driven outing that will look to reckon with Daryl’s constant urge to leave and what ultimately awaits them if they can make it back home.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 4 will air on AMC this fall. Stay tuned here at Collider for further updates as they come out.
