The Walking Dead's New Villains: The Whisperers

Rick and his group learned they could move through zombie hordes for short times by covering themselves in zombie guts.The Whisperers.The villains took this idea further. They skin the dead and wear the skin, letting them hide for long stretches.

Since they look like the dead, the Whisperers move with the dead. They travel throughhuge hordes of walkers.This lets them bypass bad survivors and scout enemies. The Whisperers usually move in big packs of the undead, so other humans do not find them.

As the apocalypse moves on,The Whisperers.they become more basic, picking code names instead of real ones.

The Whisperers whisper. While moving through zombie hordes, they talk to each other bywhispering to one another.they pass messages and speak just loud enough to be heard without waking the dead.

The Whisperers' leader uses the nameAlpha.She is cunning and cruel. Alpha tries to erase all feeling. She pushes the Whisperers to act more primitive. Alpha physically and emotionally hurts her own daughter, Lydia, and lets other members do the same. Despite her cold act, she shows a soft spot for her child.

Producers choseSamantha Morton.to play the character inThe Walking Dead.Season 9.

The.Walking Dead.Creators supposedly.plannedthe series ahead of time. They might have put Easter eggs in earlier episodes of the TV show. In the Season 3 episode "Clear," a crazed Morgan Jones (Lennie James) claimed he met "people wearing dead people's faces."

People thoughtMorgan is just raving like mad, but he might have met an early group of Whisperers.

Alpha's daughter.Lydia.Maggie captures Lydia at the Hilltop and keeps her prisoner. In the comic, as Carl moves to the Hilltop to be a blacksmith, the two characters grow close. They have a physical relationship later. It is shown Lydia was sometimes assaulted by other Whisperers.

Carl is dead in the TV series, so Lydia's character might have a different role.

Beta.is the Whisperers' second leader. Before the apocalypse, he was an NBA star who appeared in movies and ads. He gets very intense when the world ends. The Whisperers usually use walker masks to move through large hordes and stay unseen, but they take the masks off when they return to camp. Beta, however, refuses to remove his disguise, even killing a Whisperer who tries to unmask him.

Ryan Hurst.plays Beta in.The Walking Dead.Season 9.

The Whisperers gather a largenumber of deathsFrom the comic's start to the end of the Whisperer War, the Whisperers killed long-lasting characters like Andrea, King Ezekiel, Rosita, and Gabriel. They did not just eliminate random characters.

The villains use dead heads to mark territory.

The Whisperers.The Whisperers believe they are no better than animals. Thus, they drop their names. To climb the ranks, an ambitious Whisperer must challenge anyone higher in the command structure.

They also treat things like assault as social constructs.

After Maggie captures Lydia at Hilltop, the Whisperer reveals how much she misses the dead.The Whisperers miss the dead.The Whisperers use the dead for camouflage. They see walkers as comforting presences protecting them, unlike the rest of the world. Living people scare them.

The Whisperers do not just select random walker groups to hide in while moving across the land. They...They collect groups.They collect groups of dead walkers, eventually building a powerful army. The Whisperers keep hundreds of the undead at their camp like livestock, releasing them in different numbers depending on whether they are moving or attacking.