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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Isn't very talkative before his true colors are revealed. Turns out to be a serial killer who enjoys beheading women and even young girls.


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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Rick beats the absolute living shit out of him upon seeing him attack Andrea and realizing that he killed Rachel and Susie. By the time he's eventually stopped Thomas's face is a bloody pulp, and it's made clear that Rick would have beaten him to death if he wasn't interrupted.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: After leaving the showers and seeing Lori and Carol. He quickly returns to his cell "before I lose this mental image".


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* IllBeInMyBunk: After leaving the showers and seeing Lori and Carol. He quickly returns to his cell "before I lose this mental image".

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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Ends up being the first person killed during the Governor's attack on the prison after being found having sex with Patricia shortly before.]]


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* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:Ends up being the first person killed during the Governor's attack on the prison after being found having sex with Patricia shortly before.]]
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* KnifeNut: Uses knives as his main weapon.
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* BaldOfAwesome[=/=]BaldOfEvil: Starts off as the former, ends up as the latter.

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* BaldOfAwesome[=/=]BaldOfEvil: Starts off as the former, ends %%* BaldOfEvil: Ends up as the latter.this.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: In the intro of [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead the game]], the officer remembers Thomas as one of the people he drove to the prison. He especially remember that Thomas, in spite of being apprehended by the police as he was in the middle of cutting his wife's body to pieces, spend the whole trip to the prison crying and snotting, insisting over and over again that he didn't do it.

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* ImplausibleDeniability: In the intro of [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead the game]], the old officer remembers Thomas as one of the people he drove to the prison. He especially remember that Thomas, remember Thomas as "one of the worst" people he ever transported, as, in spite of being apprehended by the police as he was in the middle of cutting his wife's body to pieces, he spend the whole trip to the prison crying and snotting, insisting over and over again that he didn't do it.
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* BadassBeard: He has a massive white beard and is a very capable survivor.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He threatens Carl and Lori when rick tries to convince him to listen to reason. If not for the hordes of that show up immediately after he might have actually gone through with it.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He threatens Carl and Lori when rick Rick tries to convince him to listen to reason. If not for the hordes of that show up immediately after he might have actually gone through with it.]]
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* AmbigouslyGay: When we first meet him, he's in a relationship with Andrew, although he had a wife that he's in prison for killing. Andrew believes they're in love, but Axel believes he's just using him and will ditch him for one of the women in Rick's group. To his credit, he never betrayed Andrew during their coup. Whether their relationship was real or not never gets a chance to be explored, however.

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* AmbigouslyGay: AmbiguouslyGay: When we first meet him, he's in a relationship with Andrew, although he had a wife that he's in prison for killing. Andrew believes they're in love, but Axel believes he's just using him and will ditch him for one of the women in Rick's group. To his credit, he never betrayed Andrew during their coup. Whether their relationship was real or not never gets a chance to be explored, however.
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* DirtyCoward: He only targets women (his wife, Andrea) and children (the twins) likely knowing full well that he'd be no match for a man like Rick or Tyreese.

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* DirtyCoward: He only targets women (his wife, Andrea) and children (the twins) likely knowing full well full-well that he'd be no match for a man like Rick or Tyreese.Tyreese. And according to a cop in the video game, he also faked ignorance and cried for his mommy during the whole ride over to prison.
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*AmbigouslyGay: When we first meet him, he's in a relationship with Andrew, although he had a wife that he's in prison for killing. Andrew believes they're in love, but Axel believes he's just using him and will ditch him for one of the women in Rick's group. To his credit, he never betrayed Andrew during their coup. Whether their relationship was real or not never gets a chance to be explored, however.
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* MaskOfSanity: Comes across as a soft-spoken, polite man in prison for a minor crime until he tries to kill Andrea, whereupon the mask slips as he chases her through the yard with a knife while screaming a misogynistic ClusterFBomb at her.


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* StupidEvil: He makes no attempt to control his [[AxCrazy bloodlust]] and [[TooDumbToLive chases Andrea out into the open, in broad daylight, surrounded by the rest of the group]]. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Rick promptly smashes his face in]] before sending him back into a cell. [[spoiler: He falls victim to this ''again'' when Patricia lets him out, as instead of capitalising on her pity to make her help him escape the prison he ''immediately'' tries to kill her.]]
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* WhatAreYouInFor: When asked this, he ''says'' he's in for [[JusticeByOtherLegalMeans tax fraud.]] This is because he's in denial about the fact that he's a SerialKiller.

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* WhatAreYouInFor: When asked this, he ''says'' he's in for [[JusticeByOtherLegalMeans tax fraud.]] This is because he's in denial about to hide the fact that he's really a SerialKiller.
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* HateSink: Though a minor antagonist in the grand scheme of things, Thomas acted as a dark harbinger of what was to come by showing [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters how much worse humans could be than zombies]]. He killed his own wife and [[WouldHurtAChild two little girls]], cut Andrea's cheek open, and tried to strangle Patricia [[UngratefulBastard after she set him free]]. [[spoiler:It is nothing short of satisfaction when Maggie unloads an entire pistol clip into his body.]]

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* HateSink: Though a minor antagonist in the grand scheme of things, Thomas acted as a dark harbinger of what was to come by showing [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters how much worse humans could be than zombies]]. He killed his own wife and [[WouldHurtAChild two little girls]], cut Andrea's cheek open, and tried to strangle Patricia [[UngratefulBastard after she set him free]]. [[spoiler:It is nothing short of satisfaction when [[spoiler:Admit it, you ''cheered'' for Maggie unloads when she avenged her sisters' deaths by unloading an entire pistol clip into his body.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seemingly a nerdy and softspoken man, he is actually a deranged serial killer who beheads women.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seemingly a nerdy and softspoken man, he is actually a deranged serial killer who beheads women.women and children.
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* WouldHurtAChild: He murders two - Hershel's twin daughters.

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* WouldHurtAChild: He murders two - Hershel's twin daughters.
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* TheCameo: The police officer who escorts [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne Lee Everett]] in ''A New Day'' mentions driving Thomas to the same prison a while back.

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* HateSink: Though a minor antagonist in the grand scheme of things, Thomas acted as a dark harbinger of what was to come by showing [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters how much worse humans could be than zombies]]. He killed his own wife and [[WouldHurtAChild two little girls]], cut Andrea's cheek open, and tried to strangle Patricia [[UngratefulBastard after she set him free]]. [[spoiler:It is nothing short of satisfaction when Maggie unloads an entire pistol clip into his body.]]



* WouldHitAGirl: He was sent to prison for stabbing and dismembering his wife.

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* WouldHitAGirl: He was sent to prison for stabbing and dismembering his wife. He also tries to kill Andrea and Patricia in the prison.
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* AssholeVictim: When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, Maggie goes to his cell with a gun and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging her sisters' deaths.]]

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* AssholeVictim: When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The [[spoiler:The following night, Maggie goes to his cell with a gun and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging her sisters' deaths.]]
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* AssholeVictim: When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' Maggie then comes out and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters.]]

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* AssholeVictim: When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' Maggie then comes out goes to his cell with a gun and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters.sisters' deaths.]]



* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He gets shot to death by Maggie, the sister of the two teenage girls he decapitated.]]

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He gets shot to death by Maggie, the sister of the two teenage girls he decapitated.murdered.]]



* WouldHurtAChild: He murders two - Hershel's twin daughters, Rachel and Susie.

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* WouldHurtAChild: He murders two - Hershel's twin daughters, Rachel and Susie.daughters.
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* AssholeVictim: When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' Maggie then comes out and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]]

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* AssholeVictim: When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' Maggie then comes out and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]]
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* AssholeVictim: After the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' When Tyreese witnesses this and holds Thomas at gunpoint, Maggie comes out and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]]

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* AssholeVictim: After When the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' When Tyreese witnesses this and holds Thomas at gunpoint, Maggie then comes out and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]]
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* AssholeVictim: After the group finds out that he was the one who killed Rachel and Susie, Rick beats him to a bloody pulp and plans to hang him after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he repays her altruism by ''trying to strangle her.'' When Tyreese witnesses this and holds Thomas at gunpoint, Maggie comes out and shoots him six times, thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters.]]

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* AssholeVictim: After the group finds out that he was the one who [[WouldHurtAChild killed Rachel and Susie, Hershel's twin daughters]], Rick beats him to a bloody pulp and plans to hang him after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his cell, and he [[UngratefulBastard repays her altruism altruism]] by ''trying to strangle her.'' When Tyreese witnesses this and holds Thomas at gunpoint, Maggie comes out and [[MultipleGunshotDeath shoots him six times, times]], thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters.sisters. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Saying he deserved his JustDesserts for butchering several people is a ''huge'' understatement.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Saying After the group finds out that he deserved was the one who killed Rachel and Susie, Rick beats him to a bloody pulp and plans to hang him after he cuts Andrea's cheek. The following night, [[spoiler:Patricia tries to save him by opening his JustDesserts for butchering several people is a ''huge'' understatement.cell, and he repays her altruism by ''trying to strangle her.'' When Tyreese witnesses this and holds Thomas at gunpoint, Maggie comes out and shoots him six times, thus avenging the deaths of her two younger sisters.]]

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