Yahoo News Riverdale season 3 stuns fans with apparent game-changing death
Note: This article contains spoilers for the Riverdale episode 'No Exit'.
In typical Riverdale fashion, the latest episode of the fantastical teen drama has left fans utterly bemused by yet another morbid cliffhanger.
This time, however, it looks like the series may have killed off its main character, Archie Andrews – and no-one really knows what to think.
Related: Netflix announces Riverdale season 3 date for the UK
Despite surviving everything that's been thrown his way 'til now, 'No Exit' concluded in Canada, with a bloody and (at least) unconscious Archie after suffering a bear attack.
Yep, you heard us. A bear attack.
Unsurprisingly, fans wasted no time in letting their feelings known, with one writing on Twitter that there was "no way" Archie would be killed off by a grizzly.
So Archie survived the black hood, Hiram lodge, juvenile detention, and the crazy farm girl.... JUST TO GET TAKEN OUT BY A BEAR #riverdale
- 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚑 𝚓 (@hannah_nycole) January 17, 2019
No way after all of Archie’s death scares is he going to get killed off by a bear attack #Riverdale pic.twitter.com/0ehOfZGWRA
- 🦋 (@BTSParaElMundo) January 17, 2019
You can’t have ARCHIE COMICS or ARCHIES MYSTERIES without ARCHIE FREAKIN ANDREWS!!! he’s not a main character, he’s THE character then comes the rest but everyone has been blinded by #bughead 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ #Riverdale
- ✨Karli Jones✨ (@IamKarli_J) January 17, 2019
So did they really kill Archie Andrews! #Riverdale pic.twitter.com/oy3Lk19nwj
- Moms2Cool (@Moms2C) January 17, 2019
Archie cant be dead
- why would they waste almost an entire episode on archie getting rid of his guilt and his old self just to have him die in the end? He had to get rid of his old self and his guilt so he could become the new archie and a stronger archie. #Riverdale #archie- rach (@cheergal201) January 17, 2019
My #Riverdale theory
Someone rushed up on Archie in the woods, not a grizzly. They staged the whole thing in order to get Archie smuggled back into Riverdale without Hiram sniffing anything out. We never see the bear, and we never hear it, and Vegas is completely unscathed.- Anthony Taylor-Bouis (@AnthonySoCal) January 17, 2019
It’s hard to say if Archie is really dead. On the one hand he’s the star of the of the show but other shows have killed off the main character and the show survive without them so theoretical Riverdale could go on without Archie. #Riverdale
- Kevin C. (@Kdude146) January 17, 2019
"So Archie survived the black hood, Hiram lodge, juvenile detention, and the crazy farm girl.... JUST TO GET TAKEN OUT BY A BEAR," another shouted.
Not everyone is convinced they've seen the last of the Red Paladin, though, with one fan arguing that Archie's latest brush with death is needed for him to "get rid of his old self".
A resurrection is, of course, a likely conclusion. After all, Riverdale boss Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has promised fans that season three will be "practically biblical".
Another time jump, anyone?
Riverdale airs on The CW in the US and Netflix in the UK.
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