How Nick Got Trapped In The Fence
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So most of us initially thought that Nick was running, got stuck, and then bit when trying to get himself free. This however I believe is not the case, I'm pretty sure if Nick was attacked when already stuck in the fence the walker wouldn't have just bit him on the neck and then left him, he would have devoured him completely. Here's where my theory comes in, Nick was running and got bit, he knew he was going to die and he remembered what happened when they let the bite victim in and it killed his mom, he remembered how awful that felt and he didn't want to go get help because he didn't want to risk turning and biting another group member and putting their loved ones in the same position he was once in, so he got himself stuck in the fence to make sure that when he re-animated he couldn't harm anyone.
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Interesting, good theory.
I'm not too sure but I think he also had a bite mark on his leg.
I didn't notice.
Thanks
Maybe Mark wanted his leg, and that's where the bite Mark is from.
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Get it..?
Well, that would make slightly more sense than the initial impression I had of him literally dying because he got caught in a fence and bled out like a loser.
I get it.
Nice theory.
Nick was a good guy... He will never be forgotten and I'll always love him.....
That's makes Nick's death a lot less lamer
I know Nick was and still is my favorite character of any game ever. He was so dynamic and was such a good hearted guy.
R.I.P. NICK
A good theory but not one I think happened. It seems like a hella lot of effort to get himself tangled in a fence and just seems a weird thing to do "oh no I'm going to turn, no lets not kill myself but jump in this fence and let the wire tangle me." Not to mention how hard it would be with his injuries.
I think I've seen this theory on the forum somewhere. Though I don't think he could think rationally in condition when walker bit off a good piece of his neck. Very likely that he injured the artery and bled out quickly. And walkers are not smart, so it's not a surprise he could be easily trapped in the fence after turning.
We love you, Nick.
Rest in peace.
Forcing his hand through a fence wouldn't be that hard, but it would be hard for a brain dead walker to. also how could Nick have killed himself? He had nothing to do it with, and even so, this may just be me but it seems way more preferable to slowly die a nice peaceful death and think about life than spend my last hours devising a way to kill myself
He might have been able to kill himself if a certain someone had spared one of the weapons he was carrying. Cough Luke Cough
Finding Nick dead with Luke's machete jammed in his head would have raised...questions.
Nick was the prototypical twenty-something. He was cool, but I wasn't surprised or angered by his death as I was Sarah's death.
Yes it would.
You are very welcome.
Luke also had his AK and a pistol, that wouldn't have raised as many questions.
Ah yes nice peaceful death with a gunshot and bite wounds. Just how I want to go. But jamming his hand through a fence does not seem like him trying to get himself stuck.
We'll miss him.
This should be played at his funeral.
(At 1:47 I started to cry, thinking about how I failed to keep him safe as I promised Pete)
Better than trying to kill myself without a quick easy way, It would probably be 100x more painful to let a walker eat the rest of me or bash my own head in with a rock. but hey, that's just me. and what else could he have done? he had to improvise quick, some people turn very quickly, such as Rebecca, she turned about one minute later, Nick couldn't really count on being like Lee and having a whole day
Good theory! This doesn't support your theory and I wasn't meaning to prove it wrong, but I was also thinking that if he got bitten even when he was already stuck in the fence, then maybe Luke's and Sarah's yells would've drawn the walkers back that way, and that's why he wasn't devoured completely? There were no other immediate walkers around Nick at all when Clem and Jane found him. The one in the green track suit that Clem stabbed that supposedly bit Nick was about a stone's throw away.
Idk just something else to think about.
Goodbye, big guy.
Yeah that's pretty reasonable too. But I'm still going to assume my way because it makes his death better
Ah man he's so cute in that picture. He looks like a happy lil baby deer. Don't go breaking my heart with this.
Hehe agreed; I like your way better too!
I believe Nick was bitten in the neck by the old one in the playground, since it has a fresh blood trail when you find it with Nick as a zombie, and then pushed it off to attempt a futile escape out of pure panic. Then he was bitten in the leg by one that was crawling around which caused him to eventually fall into the fence to bleed out from a torn out throat.
The leg bite doesn't really matter since it was the throat bite that cost Nick his life, so it could've happened a number of exact ways like; He was bit by a crawling walker on the ground while holding off the old one at the playground which caused him to lose balance and get his throat ripped out before falling into the fence before he turned; He was just bitten in the throat by that playground walker and manage to escape before ultimately choking on his blood from the attack and fell into the fence. Either way his death is by a zombie bite to the neck like his Episode 2 death.
I really wish the writers handled it better than what they did.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened, I thought it was something like that.
Another thing that might make Nick's death better but doesn't really support your theory either way: maybe by Clem giving Nick back his watch (he would've worn it on his right wrist as evidenced by the scene when you talk to him after the bridge, and that's the same wrist that was stuck in the fence) it would've made it easier for Nick to keep his wrist stuck in the fence, and thus not escape and bite others? The thing is, we never see Nick's watch on him at all, in the fence or when he's living, and I think he's stuck whether you give him his watch or not. But hopefully by giving it back to him, we made his last wishes easier to fulfill. ;_;
Nick was shot in the shoulder as he was escaping Howe's so he likely slowly bled to death from it. Don't need a walker bite to become a walker. What's strange is that Nick suggested to Luke that he go out to get help and yet he failed to get very far. If Nick was that close to death, Luke would/should have noticed. So either Nick was trying to go around the walkers without being noticed which took a LOT of time causing him to bleed out and die by the time he hit the fence or Luke was oblivious to his own friend dying. Given Luke was trying to get Sarah up and moving, chances are he may have been oblivious to Nick's condition.
It's also possible while Nick was trying to skirt the walkers, he did get bit and died quickly due to the bite and blood loss from the gunshot. Then when he reanimated, he wandered over to the break in the fence where he got stuck as he tried to get at something (perhaps Arvo or one of the Russians?). He then just went into lurker mode when his target was out of sight because he couldn't get loose, and Clem and Jane found him shortly after.
Given that Nick wasn't devoured, seems there might not have been very many walkers at the trailer initially when Luke, Nick, and Sarah arrived. Seems the majority arrived afterward. And if you do recall, there were two walkers outside the fence that were dead. Maybe Nick got out of the fence through the hole, ran into the two walkers, got bit and barely killed them before they got him, and then realized he wasn't going to get far so tried to get back to the trailer to at least tell Luke he couldn't make it only to die before he could make it. He would have lost a lot of blood by that point between a bite and gunshot. Then after reanimating, he might have gotten attracted back to the hole in the fence by someone wandering by (such as Arvo or the Russians) where he got caught. Perhaps Arvo and his group had a small walker herd following them and as the herd passed the trailers, they heard Luke yelling at Sarah so were attracted to that rather than continuing to chase the Russians.
Or he ran away after he got bit, then when he turned got himself stuck.
I believe he died because of Tavia. Since Tavia shot him in the shoulder he wasn't able to defend himself adequately from the green-shirted walker that attacked him. He was bitten on the neck and stumbled away, he ran but since he was bleeding from the jugular and losing consciousness he failed; he tried to escape through the fence but bled out and turned.
He reanimated and was still caught in the fence, since walkers lack the intelligence and fine motor skills to remove themselves from situations like that, he became a lurker until Clementine and Jane arrived and finished him off.
Clever theory, I like it.