Victor Strand these days serves as the primary antagonist in Season 7 of 'Fear the Walking Dead,' but does he die? Here's what we all know up to now.

The personality of Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) has been a staple of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead since Season 1. While he initially began the series as a protagonist, his advanced ethical compass has resulted in him becoming extra of an antagonist in Season 7. Throughout seven seasons, Strand has encountered his fair share of near-death incidents however has controlled to flee more than as soon as.

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So, does Strand die in Fear the Walking Dead? Here's everything we all know thus far.

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Does Strand die in 'Fear the Walking Dead'? He has escaped death a minimum of twice ahead of.

At the starting of Season 7, lovers be informed that Victor Strand has survived the previous season's nuclear blast in an outdated place of job development he dubbed The Tower. The Tower is a brand new agreement available to the residing as long as they are helpful to him in some capability. Strand appears to be embracing his darkest, maximum totalitarian impulses in Season 7, believing they stored him alive during Season 6.

Strand becomes a clear antagonist in the first episode of Season 7 when he kills a young survivor named Will. Will had previously been imprisoned with Alicia, and Strand is desperate to search out his best friend. However, alliances in Fear the Walking Dead can exchange in an speedy, regularly tossing different characters' lives in stability.

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In mid-season 7, Strand is poisoned by a character he up to now thought used to be an ally, Morgan Jones. Morgan has been operating with Alicia, who just lately rescued her group of survivors out of a bunker, where that they had been imprisoned by hellish cult chief Teddy. Morgan and Alicia are in the hunt for a government facility with resources to restore the world, however they end up at the Tower as a substitute. Upon their arrival at the Tower, Alicia realizes one of the undead in its "moat" is Will.

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Furious that Strand is answerable for Will's death, Alicia announces warfare on him, despite figuring out she would possibly no longer have sufficient time to see thru her act, as she could be inflamed. So some distance, she has been sick and unable to carry out her danger, and Strand recovered from being poisoned. His poisoning was no longer the first time someone attempted to kill Strand.

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During Season 2, Strand is stabbed but manages to make a complete restoration. So a ways throughout the sequence, he has evaded death twice, but with Alicia's threats against him, could his good fortune run out? Strand has made many enemies throughout his time on the display, and now that his arc is culminating as the antagonist, the rest is conceivable.

During an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2021, the Fear the Walking Dead showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg hinted at Strand and Alicia's advanced relationship.

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Andrew mentioned, "The journey he took in [S7E1] made him realize that the soft spot he has for Alicia, the validation that he's seeking from her, is the one weakness that he has and is the one thing that could endanger the tower. So in his twisted logic, he does what he thinks will protect him from that. He does something that he thinks will hurt Alicia so deeply that she will want to have nothing to do with him."

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Ian added, "I don't think Strand would see himself as a villain. But it's hard to take an action like he does in [S7E1] — throwing Will off the roof intentionally to hurt Alicia — without the audience and some of the other characters regarding him as villainous, if not a villain ... with Strand ... he's someone who is no longer apologizing for anything that he does."

Fans should see the place Strand's destiny lies in new episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

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