Marauders (The Walking Dead)

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“	You done fked up, asshole. This here's our road. You gotta pay up.	„
	~ Craig to Abraham Ford.

The Marauders are minor antagonists in Image Comics' The Walking Dead horror comic book series, serving as the main antagonists of "Volume 10: What We Become".

They were a small band of vicious bandits hiding out along an abandoned highway, who later encountered Rick Grimes and some of his fellow survivors, before proceeding to rob them at gunpoint.

Biography[]

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Nothing is known about the bandits before the apocalypse began. They might have been friends or brothers, given their similar appearances, but beyond that, there is no information about them.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Marauders consist of three ruthless and identical bandits named Craig, Andy and Jud, who are the self-proclaimed owners of the Interstate 75 highway and rob anyone they encounter within this highway. That said, three of these survivors (Rick Grimes, his son Carl Grimes, and Abraham Ford) who meant to search a shelter, adopt I-75 to camp there. As Abraham takes the first watch, he gets ambushed by the Marauders and pointed a gun by their leader Craig, while threatening him to not to move and pay them up for camping in their road. Meanwhile, a knife-handling Jud approaches to a sleeping Carl while eerily stating that him being helpless. As Rick wakes up and sees the bandits, Andy takes him hostage with his knife while Jud does the same thing to Carl by pulling his hair and dragging the child on the ground, making him cry for help. Rick takes a small advantage and starts a fight with Andy, only to be overpowered by him again. After Andy beats Rick up, he orders Jud to take Carl's pants off to rape him in front of the begging father and taunts Rick by forcing him to watch and threatening him with killing, while Craig also threatening to rape Abraham once Carl is done. On his attempt to rape Carl, Jud punches the child and takes his pants off while Rick watches in tears and gets beaten up by Andy.

As Rick struggling with Andy, he eventually takes advantage by fatally biting off his neck and killing him, while the dead man's fellows Craig and Jud watches in shock. Abraham, who also takes advantage of Craig's short time confusion, catches him off guard and shoots him in the head. With Jud remaining only alive marauder and now starting to get panicked after his fellows' demises, takes Carl hostage once more and threatens to kill him, only to attempt to cowardly escape after seeing Abraham's gun and Rick's wrath against him. Eventually, Rick takes the escaping Jud's knife and brutally disembowels him while the rapist cowardly begs for his own life.

Even if the Marauders died, their short-time action scarred Rick and Abraham, as Rick starts to overthink about his son's protection, and Abraham starts to cry upon remembering his own family. Moreover, the incident traumatized Carl, as he remembers the Marauders' rape attempt once he witnessed his group kill some Saviors while on the road in Issue 97.

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Trivia[]

Comic book artist Charlie Adlard according to series creator Robert Kirkman had a very difficult time drawing the scene where Jud was attempting to rape Carl, so Robert had to console Charlie by assuring that Jud would absolutely not succeed in the act.

External Links[]

The Marauders on The Walking Dead Wiki.

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