The Internet Agrees: One of the Hottest Moments in ‘Walking Dead’ History Just Dropped – The Mary Sue

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Rachel Leishman
Mar 25th, 2024, 5:17 pm

Every new episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live makes it clear that Rick Grimes and Michonne are an extremely hot couple. But in episode 5, “Become,” things really went into overdrive when Jadis comes to ruin their newly reunited bliss.

Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) have found a cabin in the woods to stay in as they are living in their “honeymoon” phase after escaping the CRM. They find “tasteful noods” (just some ramen noodles but that is arguably hilarious) and feel like they are on cloud 9 even after they are almost attacked in the woods. Just happy to be back together, that joy is ruined when Anne/Jadis (PollyAnna McIntosh) breaks into their cabin and makes them tie one another up.

Now, look … they are being tied up for a bad reason. However, they’re being tied up using zip ties and Rick uses his teeth.

The internet is reacting to this in a very normal way: By talking about how we’re going to be living with this moment in fanfiction for quite some time.

The couple that zip ties together?

Anytime that Rick and Michonne breathe the same air, I do thank my lucky stars that I am alive to see their hot energy working together. This zip tie scene was so unnecessarily hot, despite the context! They are being kidnapped and threatened by Jadis and yet we all watched it looking like the two-eyes emoji.

It didn’t help that they are both wearing boxer shorts and just woke up together. Everything about this has been designed to make my brain melt and only be filled with thoughts of Rick and Michonne in this cabin.

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Rachel Leishman

Rachel Leishman (She/Her) is an Assistant Editor at the Mary Sue. She’s been a writer professionally since 2016 but was always obsessed with movies and television and writing about them growing up. A lover of Spider-Man and Wanda Maximoff’s biggest defender, she has interests in all things nerdy and a cat named Benjamin Wyatt the cat. If you want to talk classic rock music or all things Harrison Ford, she’s your girl but her interests span far and wide. Yes, she knows she looks like Florence Pugh.