Why does Madison need oxygen in Fear The Walking Dead? Unraveling her condition

The main character of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead is Madison Clark, a survivor of the zombie outbreak. She was known as Lark in PADRE, a community where she kidnapped children from the mainland to build a new civilization. She was also called Maddie by her loved ones. She was the main character from season 1 to season 4 and returned as the main character in season 8 after the episode, All I See Is Red.

Madison Clark was ready to survive the apocalypse because of the hard times she faced before it happened. She lost her baby and her husband, and she learned how to deal with death. With a bad father who probably hurt her, she learned how to protect herself.

She also had a son who was a drug addict, and she learned how to read people and plan her actions. She was assumed to be dead after the eighth episode of the fourth season.

Fans of Fear the Walking Dead were shocked by the seventh season finale when Madison Clark showed up alive. Her children Alicia and Nick thought she was dead.

She told Morgan Jones that she was in PADRE, a community where she was a collector. She had an oxygen tank on her body that she used to breathe, leaving fans with several questions.

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Fear The Walking Dead: How Madison's lungs were damaged

Madison needs oxygen in Fear the Walking Dead because her lungs were severely damaged by the smoke she inhaled in the stadium. (Image via AMC)

Madison needed oxygen in Fear the Walking Dead because her lungs were severely damaged by the smoke she inhaled in the stadium. PADRE gave her oxygen tanks in exchange for her services as a collector and agreed to do it as long as they did not pursue her children.

In the eighth episode of the fourth season, Madison Clark, along with Victor Strand and Luciana Galvez, rushed to a stadium where her children, Alicia and Nick, were stuck. She was worried about them and went inside the stadium with a flare to draw a huge crowd of walkers. This allowed Alicia, Nick, Victor, and Luciana to get away while Madison tried to kill the walkers.

Madison’s plan was to get out through the tunnels and meet the others outside. But she discovered that the tunnels were also full of walkers. She had no other choice but to light her flare near the walkers, who had been covered in oil by Ennis. The flare started a fire that burned the big Walker crowd, creating a lot of smoke.

Sadly, Madison got trapped in the stadium, and she had to breathe in the smoke, which hurt her lungs badly. As such, she required an oxygen tank.

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Brief recap of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 episode 7

The final season of Fear the Walking Dead, a show about the zombie outbreak, started on May 14, 2023. (Image via AMC)

The final season of Fear the Walking Dead, a show about a zombie outbreak, started on May 14, 2023, and will end on November 19, 2023, with twelve episodes. This show is based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. It is also a companion to The Walking Dead.

In Fear the Walking Dead season 8, episode 7, Madison runs away from a bad group. She finds a hotel community led by Victor Strand, who calls himself Anton. Victor was scared of his dark past coming out, so he tried to give Madison to the bad group. But Klaus, his adopted son, helped Madison get away and made his father help them too.

They hid from a walker crowd, and Strand told his story. He and some others left Texas and went to Georgia. But they didn't like his leadership because of his bad past, and they starved and died. Strand felt sorry and wanted to be a better person, so he became Anton, the person he wanted to be.

PADRE gave Madison oxygen tanks in exchange for her services as a collector. (Image via AMC)

Madison, Strand, and their group got caught by the bad group. They saw that their leader was Troy Otto, who was supposed to be dead years ago at the hands of Madison. Troy lived but lost one eye, and he wanted revenge on Madison and PADRE for his people.

Before Troy could hurt anyone, they were saved by Daniel, June, Sherry, and others. Madison decided to take Strand's people to PADRE. Before they left, Troy said he killed Alicia Clark and left her as a walker and showed Madison Alicia's fake arm as proof.

This twist shocked Madison and the group and made them struggle with this surprise in their journey.