There’s been no complaints from fans.Īnother theory that seems the most plausible is that Riggs simply wasn’t a strong enough actor to carry the role as it expanded in future seasons. Katelyn Nacon, who plays Enid, is the same age as Riggs and aged 7 years in the time jump and looks virtually the same. The time jump might have presented a small problem for Chandler Riggs - he’d have had to age up 7 years - but Riggs was a 19 year old playing basically a 14 year old on the show, so playing older would not have presented much of a challenge for viewers who have been willing to suspend disbelief surrounding the age of characters. There’s no reason an orphaned Carl couldn’t have continued in the same role that’s basically being filled by Henry now. There have been some suggestion that the network knew about Andrew Lincoln’s departure from the series, and killing off Carl may have made sense in light of his father’s exit. In fact, he was shocked and saddened by his own exit, and his father has spent the better part of a year ripping AMC over the decision to essentially fire Riggs. Ten seasons in, and we’re starting to see that some of the show’s actors want to leave and do other things ( Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira), but Carl Grimes is a major comic-book character and Chandler Riggs wanted very badly to stay. There has been considerable mystery surrounding why Chandler Riggs’ character, Carl Grimes, was killed off of The Walking Dead midway through season eight last year.