Hands down, Madison has to be the dumbest character that ever existed in The Walking Dead universe. Spoilers below.
Madison's Dumb Moments:
1. In season 1, when Nick escapes from the hospital, she tells the nurse to find him and bring him back or something along those lines. You would think a highschool guidance counselor would have enough sense to know that locating missing people is beyond the purview of healthcare workers. That's what the police are for.
2. At the onset of the ZA, she and Travis witness Nick repeatedly strike his drug dealer with Travis' truck which eventually immobilizes him but only after he made several attempts to eat them. She and a student are later attacked by their principal who she smashes in the head with a fire extinguisher. At this point, she should've filled her daughter in on what's going on but she doesn't. When they're barricaded in their house, Alicia keeps trying to go outside to help the neighbor who was being eaten by her husband; however, Madison just blocks the door and says they can't leave the house, refusing to let Alicia know the extent of the danger. Being tight-lipped could've gotten Alicia killed.
3. On Strand's yacht, they encounter a vessel with a group of people in distress. Madison starts moralizing and demands that Strand allow the people aboard. Firstly, that wasn't her yacht, so it wasn't her place to make such demands. Secondly, some people on the vessel could've been bitten or dying from other causes which would put everyone on the yacht in jeopardy. Thirdly, even if the vessel people weren't bitten or dying, some could've been murderers, rapists, and thieves who would've screwed them one way or another. Fourthly, even if they were none of the above, they would've drastically drained the limited resources on the yacht. Who in the right mind would take food from their family's mouth to feed strangers, especially in such an extreme situation?!
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3 months ago
4. In season 4, she takes strangers into her new home at the baseball stadium which should've been a haven for her family and Strand, not every ragamuffin she encountered on the street. She risked her inner circle's safety by taking those people in. In the end, one of them actually killed her son. Even if they had no ill intentions, they definitely strained the limited resources, resources that could've sustained her small group for an extended amount of time.
Lastly, she takes in Charlie which she shouldn't have done in the first place; jeopardizes the safety of her family and friends, by expecting them to go out and search for the child's family; when they find out Charlie double crossed them, she's still intent on bring the child back into the fold. I could go on and on because the list of her dumb moments is extensive.
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