The Walking Dead, Fans Hope restore on character in Season 6.

New life has been given to conspiracy theories that a major character on "The Walking Dead" wasn't killed off after all.

For the hordes of viewers who tuned into Sunday night's episode of the hit AMC drama only to see fan favorite Glenn (Stephen Yuen) seemingly eaten by
zombies after being cornered on a dumpster, there was still a semblance of hope.

During the broadcast of the cable network's talk show, "The Talking Dead," dedicated to dissecting that night's episode, there was no mention of the character during the popular "In Memoriam" segment. That, combined with the ambiguity of having Glenn seemingly lost in a tangle of zombies has led to enough social media hope to cause showrunner Scott M. Gimple to sound off


"Dear fans of 'The Walking Dead,' this is a hard story to tell and when we were planning to tell we knew our friends at the 'Talking Dead' would be talking to you about it and knowing you'd all be talking, and feeling and commiserating, I knew we should say something about it lest our silence say something we didn't mean to say or not say," Gimple said in a statement Monday.

"So I'll say this: In some way, we will see Glenn, some version of Glenn or parts of Glenn again, either in flashback or in the current story to help complete the story."

Fans on social media have also pointed out to the similarities between the fate of Glenn and that of Jon Snow on "Game of Thrones." In the season finale of that show, the popular hero was seemingly stabbed to death by his own men, and lay bleeding out in the snow. But actor Kit Harington, who plays the character, was photographed back on set, apparently filming scenes for this season.

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Steven Yeun’s Glenn Rhee was seemingly zombie food after being victimized once again by the stupidity of Michael Traynor’s Nicholas.
Before the start of the sixth season, though, Yuen himself seemed to hint to the Daily News that Glenn's days were numbered- particularly since the character suffers a grisly fate in Robert Kirkman's original comic series on which the show is based.

"How I see it, we've made something so incredibly big, and so well received, and something that probably will go down in history as something to be remembered," the actor told the News' Nicole Pesce. "So nah, I'm not scared to be killed off.

"It's been six years, and that wears off over time. I just want to tell the best story, whatever that might be, and that's what I'm in for."