How is Michonne better in the comics, compared to the show?
I've seen people comment a few times that Michonne is better in the comics rather than the show, but no one's quite explained how. I myself have only read a few of the comics--mostly the Neegan arc and some of the newer issues--though I've read through the entire summary of what happens to Michonne on the wiki (and I mean the entire summary looking at each issue she appears in.) I've also seen all the tv episodes at least a few times, and it seems to me Michonne's character is pretty similar in both. To those who've seen all the tv show episodes and read all the comics, how is the comic version of her better, if that's what you think?
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I think she is more dark and gritty in the comic and has a more survivalist personality
Michonne's Pre-Apocalypse Backstory
Michonne was one of four children that included a brother and two sisters. She practiced fencing when she was a child, and briefly picked the hobby up again when she was in college to study law. After graduating and getting her degree, she became a successful attorney and married a man with whom she had two daughters. They lived an average middle-class life in a suburban neighborhood, and often dealt with a troublesome teenager next door who she swore had once killed their cat and destroyed their fence with his katana. She spent much of her free time weightlifting and avidly following televised football.
She eventually divorced her husband and at some point started dating another man named Mike. She was out of town when the outbreak began, she lost contact with her two daughters whom she had left in the care of a nanny. Michonne does not know the whereabouts of her children, or whether they remain alive.
Michonne's Post-Apocalypse Backstory
In the early stages of the outbreak, Michonne runs on foot to her house. This attracts a street full of zombies to follow her. While she arrives home, she meets her boyfriend, Mike and his brave, but, idiotic best friend, Terry. A zombie tries to break in, but, Mike kills it. In the process, Mike gets bitten. At that time, Michonne bandages Mike, who is unaware that he is infected. That night, Michonne searches a neighbor's house for supplies and discovers her trademark sword. She gets pinned down in the house during the night and returns home the next day, finding that both Mike and Terry have become zombies. She manages to survive their attack and lock them away. Her noisy encounter causes her street to become overrun. Michonne becomes trapped and runs out of food. She notices zombies don't attack one another and hacks off the arms and lower jaws of Mike and Terry. She chains them up by their necks to use them as escorts for an escape that was successful. Michonne says her final words to the zombified Mike and Terry, to help remember who they are, and because she has no one to talk to.
This is her pre & post apocalypse backstory to tell u alittle more info on her
Michonne's 1st appearance in the comics
Michonne first appeared on the road at an unknown distance away from the prison. Clothed under a hood, she pulled the shackled zombies of her boyfriend and his best friend along by chain to act as a deterrent to the undead. She cut off their arms and lower jaws so they wouldn't attack her. While traveling, she witnessed Otis attempting to ride back to The Prison, and saved him from a large group of zombies outside the prison's walls who had followed him. Once Otis spoke for her, Rick Grimes let her join the group in exchange for handing over her katana. Michonne mostly kept to herself within the first few days of integrating with the established group, but, quickly showed a keen interest in Tyreese, who was already involved with Carol. She bonded with him in their mutual interest in weight-lifting, and her recognition of him being an National Football League player back in the 1990s.
Michonne seduced Tyreese and gave him oral sex. Carol witnessed this act and broke up with Tyreese. Rick forcibly stepped in when Carol attempted to commit suicide by cutting her wrists. Confronting Tyreese, the two good friends ended up beating each other to the point where Rick passed out. Michonne expressed guilt at her involvement, but, ultimately continued to pursue Tyreese. Sometimes, Michonne would converse with her deceased boyfriend, as first noticed by Andrea in the prison. Michonne later went on to tell Rick that she talked to her dead boyfriend as a coping mechanism to deal with the horror of the real world, and Rick showed her a rotary telephone which he used to "call" his dead wife, Lori.
Interesting. Can you give examples?
In the show she's seen with a more friendly demeanor with characters like Daryl, Carl, Merle and Rick while in the comic she's way more reserved and emotionless kinda like Jane but not complete garbage of a character
Lol I appreciate your post, but I know all this already. Like I said, I've read the entire wiki on comic-Michonne. My question is not exactly "how is comic-Michonne different from tv-show-Michonne" but rather "why is comic-Michonne better than tv-show-Michonne", as both have gone through some situations that are almost exactly the same, apart from any sexual situations/romance basically. But any situation the tv-show-Michonne hasn't gone through yet could still come up for her in the show, as the tv-show is farther back in terms of years into the apocalypse compared to the comic.
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Holy crap. O_O What issue is this? I've gotta read it.
Um i forget but its after they find the prison im pretty sure and then they discover woodbury and they get captured by the comic governor and michonne gets raped and then later on shes revenge shes a pretty dang good character
Oh ok pal
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Issue 33
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Oh hi arthur we have not talked in awhile dude so hows the project doing buddy
Michonne is more epic in the comics.
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Er...here ya go. x.x The panels not here are just the two saying stuff like, "Mmmph!" etc.
She's better in the show
In Season 3, sure, and she was already changing towards the end. She hasn't been an "emotionless drone" in any sense of the phrase for two seasons now.
What makes you say that? I'm curious. For me, I feel I can't form an opinion yet on which is better because I haven't read nearly all of the comics lol. I really like where Michonne is in the show's season 5 though. Compared to Rick and Carol, she really really wanted to make living at Alexandria work, and she recognized that Rick's group needed to stop being "out there" (in the wild with the walkers) because the group was starting to lose themselves in terms of their humanity. So I appreciate she wanted to reel the others back in, because she had already been at a point where she had almost lost herself like that in the past. Also, she put Rick in his place lol when he was screaming at everyone with a bloody face and looking like a crazy man.
Meh, subjective criticism so I won't argue it. I'll just say that I've seen season 1 of the "The Strain", so I know what true passionless acting is like, and Danai Gurira doesn't have that level of suck by any means.
To be honest, I'm not 100 percent sure on this. They both have their merits, but the one in the show is less of a guy stealing jerk. On the other hand, the one in the comics has a really good chracter arc, but she also appears to be a racist, as she has only been with men of her ethnic persuasion in the comics. I just realized that this comment does not answer your question at all. I apologize.
How so?
Her acting is great.
because Michonne loves her black man she racist?
Issue 33. Volume 6 if you buy in volumes like me.
I recommend you give it a read.
Personally, I'd just say more bad things have happened to her in the comics that has molded her character for the better.
About the acting in "The Strain", do you mean the main character's son because really hated that kid's acting and his character?
Everyone else seemed okay to me.
True love is colorblind.
She's not as one-dimensional and cheap as the AMC excuse for a Walking Dead TV show :P
Ugh. Jane. No offense, but being reserved and emotionless for half of 203 doesn't mean she is. The rest of the season she probably gets more boring dialogue than any other character.
Like all comic character counterparts, she is just better written, feels more realistic, and has better character arcs/moments in general.
First of all, it was mostly a joke, second of all, she has done some iffy things. For example, one of the first things she did was steal Tyreese, who is black, from his white girlfriend, and I believe she said, "What are you doing with that skinny little white ***** anyway?" Just saying, she seems to be a lot better now, but that wasn't cool.
Hmm. That's a difference between the two Michonnes. I don't remember Michonne making any comments of that sort at all in the show, during any season. After all, from the get-go she was introduced in the show as Andrea's savior and eventual friend, and Andrea was white.
Can you give some scenarios or actual scenes to back this up please.
How is she better written, why does she feel more realistic, and how are her arcs/moments better in the comic?
She's terrible in the comic, but great in the show
Now that's a fair answer with some actual reasoning. Besides the Governor's rape and Michonne's later vengeful torturing of him, what else happened to her in the comics that didn't happen in the show that you felt changed her character?
Exactly, show Michonne was a lot cooler right off the bat, but again, the comic one has gotten better over the years, but officially, I go with the show.
I personally can't find a way to compare the two since they're both better than the other in different aspects, however, Michonne from the comics has progressed more and has been in more situations than TV Show Michonne.
Read the other comments, no point in repeating it. The show is just incomparable in my opinion.