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!!Due to the AnyoneCanDie nature of the show and quickly moving plots, only spoilers from the current/most recent season will be spoiled out to prevent entire pages of whited out text. These spoiler tags will be removed upon the debut of the following season, and the character bios will be updated then as well. Additionally, character portraits will be updated each half-season with the release of an official, complete set from AMC. If you have not seen the first ten seasons read at your own risk!

!Atlanta Camp Survivors

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[[folder:In General]]

A survivor camp just outside of Atlanta populated by stranded refugees and people who managed to escape the city. They fell in under Shane Walsh's leadership, and held out hope that the military or government would eventually come to their rescue. However, upon the arrival of Rick Grimes, it became clear that this rescue would never come, and the camp unofficially declared Rick as their new leader.
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* AdaptationExpansion: There are a number of {{Canon Foreigner}}s present in the group, which is much larger than in the comics.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: They initially follow Shane, the most combat-proficient and authoritative member of the group.
* DevouredByTheHorde: The ultimate fate of all the redshirts.
* DwindlingParty: The running tally, by season:
** Season 1: Many of them are killed during the fish fry attack, including Ed, Amy, and Jim, who though he survives the walker assault dies afterwards of an infection when one of them decides to take a bite out of him. The Morales family leaves. Jacqui commits suicide at the CDC.
** Season 2: Sophia is killed by a walker when she flees to the forest. Dale is mercy-killed by Daryl after being disemboweled by a walker. Shane is stabbed in the heart by Rick once he becomes a traitor.
** Season 3: T-Dog is devoured by walkers while saving Carol. Lori dies in childbirth, since the crew didn't have access to a hospital. Merle is shot in the chest by the Governor. Andrea shoots herself in the head after being bitten by a walker.
** Season 7: Glenn's head is bashed in by Negan with Lucille, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
** Season 8: Morales is shot in the head with an arrow by none other than Daryl shortly after his return. He also reveals his family did not survive. Carl is bitten by a walker and shoots himself before reanimation.
** Season 9: Rick is spirited away to parts unknown in a helicopter by Anne. This leaves Daryl and Carol as the only remaining founding members of the group.
* NonActionGuy: Almost none of the background survivors were remotely combat-capable.
* RedShirt: There are a number of background survivors who get killed (mostly [[KilledOffscreen offscreen]]) by walkers in "Vatos."
* TheRemnant: The Atlanta group we know (most prominently the main cast of Season 2) is a small remnant of a much larger group, most of whom got wiped out by walkers during the fish fry attack.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Or rather, we remain complacent. The group seemed to mostly treat their situation as an extended camping trip, and had very few combat-capable members. Thus, when a group of walkers surprises them, they are completely taken off guard and are almost completely wiped out.
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!!The Dixon Brothers

[[folder:In General]]

Two redneck brothers who joined the group with the original intention of robbing them, but go on to become vital members of the group and in the series.
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* AbusiveParents: Their father was a drunk who used to beat them.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The two are very open on how they love one another despite being seemingly hostile to each other.
* BadassBiker: While we only see Daryl ride a bike, the bike he rides in the first four seasons originally belonged to Merle.
* BadassFamily: It's heavily implied that they were this even before the ZombieApocalypse.
* BashBrothers: They're a very effective SiblingTeam.
* TheBigGuy: They're mainly the group's muscles.
* CanonForeigner: Fans of the show may be surprised to find that the brothers are nowhere to be seen in the comics.
* CoveredInScars: Because of the aforementioned father, both brothers are badly scarred; Daryl's are seen whilst Merle's are implied.
* DysfunctionalFamily: They were raised by their [[AbusiveParents abusive father]].
* FreudianExcuse: The stories they mention about their childhood make it fairly clear where both brothers' emotional issues (a source of a lot of their harsher moments) come from.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: The brothers can be really abrasive and rough, though Daryl is clearly the [[ALighterShadeOfGrey lesser grey]].
* HeelFaceTurn: The brothers joined the Atlanta camp in order to rob them, but ultimately Merle's disappearance led to Daryl becoming a loyal member of the group and eventually to Merle's RedemptionEqualsDeath as well.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The brothers are the protagonists of ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSurvivalInstinct Survival Instinct]]'', which details some of their misadventures before they joined the Atlanta camp.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The brothers are ''really'' good at grilling people up.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More obvious in Daryl's case, though Merle had his moments.
* MissingMom: Their mother died in a fire when Daryl was little and Merle was a teenager.
* RatedMForManly: Their masculinity is often highlighted, though Merle borders on TestosteronePoisoning more.
* RedOniBlueOni: Merle is the HotBlooded BloodKnight, while Daryl is the relatively rational loner who loves to keep to himself.
* SiblingTeam: They've had each other's backs since they were young.
* SirSwearsALot: Both brothers are very foul-mouthed.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Both of them are ''a lot'' smarter than the redneck stereotypes they look. Especially Daryl who is actually very clever, even more so than his erratic brother. Merle is secretly a bookworm.
* ThickerThanWater: They love each other even despite all the shit they, or more accurately, ''Merle'' puts them through.
* ToughLove: Their relationship can be very physically and emotionally violent, but they ultimately care about each other.
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See [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowDarylDixon Daryl Dixon]]
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!!''Merle Dixon''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You’ve got to play the hand you’re dealt. I only got one."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelRooker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1, 2 [[note]]Hallucination[[/note]], 3)

->''"Now, how's about a big hug for your ol' pal Merle? Huh?"''

Merle is Daryl's much more racist and jerkass older brother. He put the scavenging group sent to Atlanta at risk, and attacks other members of the group. This forces the others to leave him behind, and he ends up forced to cut his own hand off to escape, disappearing into Atlanta. He was rescued by the Governor and became his right hand man in Woodbury. When Woodbury came into conflict with the group, Merle quickly deserted the Governor to join his brother Daryl, although he was stunned by how much he had changed and was disliked by the rest of the group. Eventually coming to regret his misdeeds and wanting to give his baby brother a fighting chance, he attempts to assassinate the Governor on his own, killing several of Woodbury's top soldiers before being killed by the Governor himself.

Merle and Daryl are also the protagonists of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSurvivalInstinct'', a FirstPersonShooter by Activision that tells some of their story before they arrived at the Atlanta camp.
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* AbusiveParents: He ran away from home to escape his father's physical abuse, stating that he would have killed him had he stayed any longer.
* AffablyEvil: Seems to have become this by Season 3, at least to some people. To others (like Glenn and Maggie while taking them hostage), he's FauxAffablyEvil.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Played straight in Season 1, subverted in Season 3.
* AlasPoorVillain: Of a sort, considering he'd had a definitive HeelFaceTurn over the course of the episode, but the finale of "This Sorrowful Life", with Daryl's BrokenTears, can make many people feel sorry for Merle, who previously was reviled by many for his racism and sexism.
* AloofBigBrother: While he's a BigBrotherBully to Daryl, he does have his BigBrotherInstinct moments, such as when the Governor orders him to kill Daryl or be killed and Merle chooses to escape with him instead. In "The Suicide King", he is seen to be horrified when he notices scars on Daryl's back from beatings that he received as a child from their father. Their brotherhood relationship is pretty much a ToughLove at its worst, where Merle has no qualms in beating Daryl when he has to, but he still cares about Daryl nonetheless.
* AnArmAndALeg:
** He loses his right hand after having to use a hacksaw to cut it off so he can get out of handcuffs that were keeping him from escaping the horde of walkers looking to invite him for dinner.
** He has two of his fingers bitten off by The Governor just before being killed by him.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: After being shot by the Governor in "This Sorrowful Life". Daryl reluctantly puts him down by the end of the episode.
* ArtificialLimbs: Merle ended up with a "replacement" after creating it. He replaced his missing hand with a contraption of things he found together inside a medical warehouse.
* AscendedExtra: He's a recurring character in Season 1 and makes a cameo as a hallucination in Season 2. In Season 3, he makes an official return, now as a member of the main cast.
* AssholeVictim: When he's left handcuffed to a rooftop in Season 1. Averted when he actually dies in Season 3, as by that point he had redeemed himself and was in the process of helping out the group.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He apparently believes in this, attempting to take over the scavenging group in Atlanta after beating up T-Dog. Luckily, Rick has something to say about that.
* TheAtoner: When he lets Michonne go free and decides to take down as much of Woodbury that he can.
* BackToBackBadasses: With Daryl in "The Suicide King".
* BadassBookworm: The only thing he misses about Woodbury is the library, since he's gotten to become rather literate in at least Literature/TheBible by Season 3.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: By "This Sorrowful Life", he takes this approach as a TokenEvilTeammate, and even very nearly says the trope name verbatim.
-->'''Merle:''' Maybe these people need someone like me around. To do their dirty work. The bad guy.
* BaldOfEvil: Though less evil (and bald, coincidentally) by Season 3.
* BashBrothers: With Daryl. Although not much is shown, they've already played these tropes since the apocalypse started.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He tells the Governor that he's eager to find his baby brother Daryl when he finds out the group is nearby. In the mid-season finale, the Governor uses the connection between Merle and Daryl to publicly accuse Merle of treason, and he and Daryl finally meet again at last -- in Woodbury's gladiator ring.
* BigBrotherBully: Both physically and emotionally. While he ''does'' genuinely care for Daryl underneath it all, he has no qualms beating him up, for show or for real. Daryl's hallucinations of Merle in Season 2 reveal a major inferiority complex, and Merle's no nicer to his brother in person in Season 3.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Once Merle finds out Daryl is alive, he'll do anything he has to to find him again. And when Daryl threatens to leave him behind, he follows him back to the prison. ''And'' when he's at the prison, he says he's only there for his brother.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His "replacement" version ends up becoming something akin to [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]] when Merle creates a blade attachment. His knife once attached works like a bayonet, making it very effective in walker killings and hostage taking, as Glenn and Maggie figure out.
* BloodKnight: While not as crazy as Shane, Merle does love combat, especially the staged walker fights in Woodbury.
* BoisterousBruiser: He ''really'' loves to fight.
* BringIt: He always tries to provoke people into fights with him using taunts. He even practices his taunts while he is alone!
* TheBusCameBack: After being unseen since the third episode of Season 1 (save for appearing to his brother via hallucination in Season 2's "Chupacabra"), he finally turns up again in Season 3.
* CatchPhrase: Probably the closest to one the series will get: "I ain't begging/I ain't gonna beg you."
* CompositeCharacter: He's TheDragon to the Governor like Bruce but his lying about killing Michonne is taken from Gabe in the comics.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially in Season 3.
-->'''Merle:''' You ain't told any of the others?
-->'''Rick:''' Just Hershel, Daryl and you.
-->'''Merle:''' Huh. The inner circle. I'm honored.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: "This Sorrowful Life", which packs in a lot of CharacterDevelopment and ends with his death, [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie twice]].
* DeathSeeker: His alcohol-fueled assault on the Woodbury militia has shades of this, and does in fact result in his death. As Daryl once stated, nobody can kill Merle but Merle.
* DefectorFromDecadence: After the Governor pits him and his brother Daryl against one another in a death match, he breaks away from Woodbury.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[LastWords "I ain't beggin' you... I ain't beggin'...."]]
* {{Determinator}}: He sliced through his own hand, slowed the blood loss, climbed down the staircase of a skyscraper, killed several walkers, cauterized the stump and then escaped with the heroes' truck. He did all of this bleeding heavily and quietly to avoid attracting more walkers. If Merle has one defining characteristic, it's his absolute refusal to die.
* DidntSeeThatComing: He's surprised, to say the least, when being accused as a traitor by the Governor in the aftermath of the Woodbury attack.
* DirtyBusiness:
--> "Maybe these people need somebody like me around, someone to do their dirty work; a bad guy."
* TheDragon: To the Governor in Season 3. Until he defects. Martinez picks up the slack instead.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: His assault on the Woodbury militia in "This Sorrowful Life", which takes out some of the Governor's best soldiers.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Recklessly shooting walkers which draws attention to the survivors (since walkers are attracted to gunshots, not frightened by them), beating up T-Dog and calling him a nigger, and attempting to take control of the scavenger group through violence. Plus, he was hyped up on drugs at the time.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Don't mess with his brother. Ever.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: His [[LargeHam usual demeanor]] is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely absent]] when the Governor smugly fondles a half-naked Maggie in front of Glenn. When Glenn angrily tries to retaliate, Merle [[PetTheDog quietly tells him to back off]].
* {{Fingore}}: Has his ring and middle fingers bitten off by the Governor before being killed by him.
* FlatCharacter: In Season 1, he is the most stereotypical, over the top, one dimensional bigot in the show, being on the scene for all of fifteen seconds before throwing out racial slurs and trying to kill T-Dog at the drop of a hat while making sexist and homophobic comments to anyone in the vicinity. It makes you wonder why they even ''let'' this guy come with them for this long. Averted in Season 3; while still somewhat of a racist, his bigotry is toned down to a much more believable level. Not once does he call Michonne the N word, even when he has much more reason to hate her than he would with T-Dog. It helps that practically the first thing he asks Andrea about in Season 3 is Daryl, and reuniting with his brother is the character's motivation for the rest of the season.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: In "Guts" and in Season 3 when he rejoins the group. He's a bigoted, confrontational asshole who loves to rub people the wrong way. Rick and the gang are forced to accept him into the group in Season 3, and while he's mellowed out a bit since Season 1 (notably he doesn't jump at the chance to shout racist slurs at the people of color in the group), he's still not liked and even treated as a weapon by Rick. It reaches a point that even Daryl starts to get fed up with him. However, the group comes to respect him posthumously when they learn that he gave his life taking down many of the Woodbury militia in an attempt to kill The Governor and save Daryl and the prison.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He served in the military in his youth. The Merle of the present era is an outlaw who spent some time in prison before the apocalypse.
* GlassCannon: Merle mostly focuses on attacking, and is one of the best on the offensive in the series. However, his lack of defensive skills leads him to trouble several times such as when Rick neutralizes him resulting in him being handcuffed then losing his hand, and not noticing a walker beside him during his solo attack on Woodbury that leads to his death. It should be noted, however, that during the first fight, he was hopped up on drugs, and for the second he had drunk half a bottle of liquor, so he had one hand tied behind his back for both of those encounters.
* HandicappedBadass: Even losing his hand doesn't stop him from kicking ass.
* HateSink: In Season 1, he is the most intensely unlikable character on the show aside from [[DomesticAbuser Ed]]. Averted when he comes back for Season 3, where he becomes much more sympathetic.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Mostly a heel but is still capable of doing good if it is in his best interest.
* HeelRealization: Michonne exposes Merle's guilt about all the people he's killed and all the horrible things he's done for the sake of Woodbury. This results in him sparing Michonne's life and becoming a DeathSeeker.
* HeroicSacrifice: He decides to take down as much of Woodbury as he can to protect Daryl and the prison.
* HiddenDepths: Merle is very knowledgeable about the Bible, and he admits to Hershel that Woodbury's library is the only thing he misses about the town. He's kept count on how many people he's killed and doesn't seem proud of it.
* HotBlooded: Whether it's a racist rant or beating the crap out of someone, he does everything with gusto and a big grin on his face.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A victim of this, often with disastrous results.
** In Season 1, shooting walkers at random leads Rick to handcuff him to stop attracting attention, and his screaming at T-Dog to release him probably contributes a bit to T-Dog's falling and dropping the key.
** In Season 3, he lies to the Governor about successfully killing Michonne, thinking she has no reason to come back to Woodbury anyway. Not knowing that Michonne is still nearby, he kidnaps and takes Glenn and Maggie back to Woodbury. Michonne seeks out Rick's group to inform them of Woodbury's location and they provide her with enough distraction for her to sneak into the Governor's office and kill the walker-daughter of the Governor. This leads the Governor to publicly brand him a traitor in front of all of Woodbury.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Fairly often to survive or for whoever he is affiliated with. {{Deconstructed}} in "This Sorrowful Life". It's discussed that he's always making bad choices and what results those actions will have, and most importantly the weight of it all, for his conscience.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He employs this on Glenn in "When the Dead Come Knocking".
* {{Jerkass}}: Merle is racist, misogynistic, violent, and short-tempered. He seems to have become somewhat less of a {{Jerkass}} in Season 3... but is utterly sadistic toward anyone who isn't from Woodbury or named Daryl Dixon. Which isn't to say he isn't a jerk to Daryl, too. When he leaves Woodbury with Daryl, Rick, Glenn, Maggie, and Michonne, he wastes absolutely no time in taunting and insulting all of them until Rick gets fed up and just [[TapOnTheHead knocks him out]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Although it was his own damn fault he ended up chained up to a pipe on a rooftop in Atlanta, being high on drugs and antagonizing and outright ''assaulting'' his group-mates, it's hard to argue with him when he calls them out on leaving him to either be eaten alive by the walkers or starve to death just because they refuse to spare the ten seconds it would take to uncuff him during their escape.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His final characterization. His last act of courage before being killed gives his brother and the rest of the prison group a fighting chance.
* KickTheDog: He kills Gargulio for questioning his orders (even after he saved Merle's life) and takes Maggie and Glenn hostage in "Hounded".
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He takes Glenn and Maggie hostage in order to get back together with his brother Daryl.
* LargeHam: He loves hamming it up. Likely why he was such a huge hit with the fans despite being a racist asshole.
* LaughablyEvil: He is a ''massive'' {{Jerkass}}, but also very entertaining due to his boisterous demeanor and snarky lines.
* LeanAndMean: In Season 3. Michael Rooker states that he lost 20 pounds to play Merle again to invoke this.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When he is left on a rooftop in Season 1. He chooses life.
* LoveRedeems: It's his love for his brother that ultimately leads to his RedemptionEqualsDeath that helps give the group more of a fighting chance against Woodbury.
* NecessarilyEvil: He chooses to be the TokenEvilTeammate because he believes that only BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork and there are times that it is the best, or worse, only option.
* TheNicknamer: He has a number of nicknames that he uses to refer to other characters:
** Daryl: Little Baby Brother, Darlina
** Rick: The Sheriff, Officer Friendly
** Andrea: Blondie, Sugar Tits, Rug-Muncher, Whore
** Maggie: Bo-Peep
** Michonne: Mute, Nubian Queen
** T-Dog: Spear-Chucker, Mr. Yo
** Morales: Taco Vendor
** Caesar: Brownie
** Gargulio: Neil, although this is due to him not being able to pronounce Garguilo's name.
** Milton: Miltie
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ZigZagged. His ambush on the Woodbury militia is used as justification by the Governor to wage war on the prison. However, with most of the strongest Woodbury soldiers dead, the operation fails. This ultimately leads to a total collapse of the Governor's forces when the majority of his soldiers abandon the cause. So ultimately, Merle's actions exacerbated the situation, but also turned things in Rick's favor.
* OddFriendship: With Hershel in Season 3. They share two mutual things: they are amputees and they like quoting ''Literature/TheBible''. Also, in an unfortunate turn of events, they both end up being killed by the Governor.
* OneManArmy: He manages to take out eight of Woodbury's troops all by himself before his HeroicSacrifice.
* PetTheDog: When Andrea tells Merle that Amy is dead, he is genuinely saddened and comments that she was a "good kid."
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Merle is racist, sexist, and homophobic. In Season 3, however, he appears to have toned it down a great deal. It's possible having your hand cut off while in the midst of a methed-up racist beat-down changes your perspective.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 3.
* PromotionToParent: Never stated outright, but it's implied that Merle had more of a hand raising Daryl than their AbusiveParents did.
* PsychoPartyMember: When he is with the scouting group in Atlanta, shooting walkers without need and attacking other group members. In Woodbury, he kills Gargulio in order to make sure his lies about killing Michonne stay intact.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Dies while trying to protect his brother and the prison group, and very narrowly misses killing the Governor in the process.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Following an accusation of treason by the Governor.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Like with most of the Atlanta survivors, he's introduced in the second episode of the show.
* ShootTheDog: When he kills Gargulio.
* SixthRanger: His situation kinda enforces him to be this for Rick's group in the back half of Season 3.
* StupidEvil: It's repeatedly pointed out in the back half of the third season that Merle is quite reckless. At one point, Rick asks him straight out "Do you even know why you do what you do?" Merle eventually confesses that no, he doesn't know. This, and his long conversation with Michonne, leads to his eventual HeelRealization.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Mostly a cold, cantankerous asshole to everyone, but he has his kinder moments as well. When Michonne guilts him about killing people for the Governor it leads to his HeroicSacrifice and when he discovers Daryl's childhood scars (caused by their father) on his back he expresses remorse for leaving his little brother behind to fend for himself.
* SwordAndGun: His artificial hand has a BladeBelowTheShoulder attachment for melee combat, while he uses guns in his remaining hand.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When he's with his brother's group. He even brings it up in "This Sorrowful Life".
* TookALevelInKindness: Not too much kindness, of course, but he's grown more even-tempered in Season 3. He seems to be working on this after reuniting with Daryl and the Atlanta group.
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about him spoils his return in Season 3 as The Governor's [[TheDragon right-hand man]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Had he not been blindsided by Martinez and Allen's attack, he might have put up a better final fight against the Governor.
[[/folder]]

!!Peletier Family

[[folder:In General]]

A family who met Shane and Lori outside of Atlanta.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Their angst is highly utilized in the show.
* AdaptationExpansion: Their background is explored unlike in the comics.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Ed alone causes this.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Ed is a NoNameGiven character in the comics, while both Carol and Sophia have OnlyOneName.
* TheOneGuy: Ed was the only male of the family.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carol]]
See [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowCarolPeletier Carol Peletier]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ed]]
!!''Ed Peletier''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ed_peletier_twdtv_1816.jpg]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Adam Minarovich
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 1, 2 [[note]]Flashback[[/note]])

Ed is the abusive husband of Carol and the father of Sophia. He dies during the walker attack on the camp outside of Atlanta.
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* AbusiveParents: Not only is he a DomesticAbuser to Carol, he's also implied to have a history of abuse with his daughter, as Sophia seemed to be in fear of him, maintaining her distance from his side.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In Season 4, Carol tells Tyreese a joke that Ed told her which she admits to still finding funny.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While it was stated in the comics that the ZombieApocalypse strained his relationship with his wife and daughter, they were still able to [[SparedByTheAdaptation remember him]] fondly and sympathetically. That can't be the case here.
* TheAlcoholic: Par for the course in his DomesticAbuser background.
* AssholeVictim: Nobody gives a crap that walkers eat him, including his family, especially since he spent the majority of his screentime abusing his wife and was implied to lust after his daughter.
* BreakTheHaughty: His last day on Earth is spent getting his ass completely beaten to a pulp by Shane for beating Carol, and then his own family refuses to eat dinner with him, leading to him DyingAlone.
* CrazySurvivalist: Showed a few signs of this in a flashback, hoarding [[SurvivalistStash a bunch of military rations]] he refuses to share.
* DeathByPragmatism: A rare example of the pragmatic qualities being revealed after death, when he is shown hoarding military rations during the early stages of the ZombieApocalypse and refuses to socialize with other people. His refusal to socialize with others ultimately results in him getting eaten by a walker with no one around to help him.
* DirtyCoward: He'll beat on weaker women, yet can't pick on someone his own size. Despite towering over Shane, he attempts to flee while he's getting his ass handed to him by the man. When a walker gets into his tent, he doesn't even try to fight back.
* DomesticAbuser: Ed hits his wife Carol in the third episode. Comments between the characters indicate that he has a history of doing this. That and [[ParentalIncest "looking" at his daughter]].
* DyingAlone: His own fault, since he refuses to join the others for dinner after getting the crap kicked out of him by Shane for abusing Carol.
* EatenAlive: Gets eaten when walkers wander into the camp and several enter his tent.
* FatBastard: Overweight and a complete asshole.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Being a {{Jerkass}} DomesticAbuser and a PervertDad, it's not hard to see why the Atlanta group never liked him and didn't care that he died.
* HateSink: Much like Pete later on, he is presented as an abusive father and husband with no redeeming qualities.
* HeManWomanHater: He is extremely misogynistic.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's shown to be an abusive asshole to a lot of people, particularly Carol.
* KarmicDeath: Ed gets eaten by a walker just one episode after he slaps his wife. Notably, he gets killed because he's alone in his tent -- he refuses to eat with the others since Shane beat him for hitting his wife, and his wife and daughter don't want to spend time around him. Furthermore, he is incredibly misogynistic and the walker that kills him is female.
* LazyBum: Does absolutely nothing to contribute.
* TheLoad: He doesn't help at camp, apparently. It's implied Shane has to repeatedly order him to even do ''one'' little thing.
* MauveShirt: Along with Amy and Jim.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The name of Carol's husband wasn't mentioned in the comics.
* OhCrap: Has one moment of clarity when he realizes he's about to die when a walker arrives at his tent.
* PervertDad: According to Carol, he "looked at Sophia in [[ParentalIncest ways]] a father should never look at his daughter".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Most of his dialogue consists of sexist remarks.
* PosthumousCharacter: We learn a bit more about him after his death -- namely his CrazySurvivalist tendencies and hints that at one brief point in their marriage, there was a time that he and Carol may have been happy together (evidenced by his gifting her a watch and telling Carol cheesy jokes that she still finds funny).
* PragmaticVillainy: He hoards military rations at the onset of the apocalypse, and is wary of other survivors. While he’s a selfish asshole and was denying food to someone trustworthy, the rest of the show dealing with hostile human survivors will prove that he had something of a right idea.
* SacrificialLamb: His death kicks off the CharacterDevelopment of Carol, whose arcs of overcoming past trauma inflicted by Ed form her into a powerful survivor who becomes the show’s deuteragonist.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ed's comic counterpart is already dead before the events in the comics take place, although he doesn't last very long.
* StayInTheKitchen: He has decidedly conservative views about what the women of camp should be doing, [[LazyBum not that he's willing to engage in “men's work” either]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: Aside from Merle (who in the end turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold), he is the only member of the camp that doesn't have some positive traits and is a complete asshole.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Notable for being the very first (postapocalyptic) human casualty of the series, [[AssholeVictim not that anyone cares about his passing.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Partly because he hates women, and partly because he's too much of a coward to pick on somebody his own size.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sophia]]
!!''Sophia Peletier''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"No, no, don't leave me!"'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MadisonLintz
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-2)

Sophia is the daughter of Carol and Ed, and is a friend of Carl. She went missing in a forest after running away from walkers, and was eventually found in the barn of Hershel's farm, having become a walker. She was put down by Rick.
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* AgeLift: Similar to Carl's.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: TheReveal at the end of "Pretty Much Dead Already" shows that she ultimately became a walker.
* BoomHeadshot: Ultimately put out of her misery this way, by Rick.
* BusCrash: She disappears after the first episode of Season 2, then returns in the mid-season finale (un)dead.
* CreepyChild: After becoming a walker.
* DamselInDistress: Gradually deconstructed as initially the entire group was together in looking for her but the longer she was missing the more members of the group differed on whether they should bother still searching.
* DeadAllAlong: For the first half of Season 2 the group searches for her without effect. It's eventually discovered that she's one of the walkers captured by Otis and kept in Hershel's barn.
* DeathByAdaptation: Sophia survived the entirety of the comic’s run, since the writer didn’t have to worry about her actress growing up like the characters on the TV show.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Carl.
* DyingAlone: After getting lost in the woods and bitten by a walker.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her shirt has an overlapping blue and violet scheme.
* KillTheCutie: Twice, if you count her getting bitten, and then her walker self getting shot by Rick.
* TheLoad: While she was never much of a hindrance in the first season, the [[LivingMacGuffin entire set up for the second season's arc was because she went missing]].
* MoralityPet: To Daryl in the second season. Interestingly, the two never actually share a scene together, but her disappearance serves to integrate Daryl into the group by revealing his JerkWithAHeartOfGold qualities.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Like her mom, her comic counterpart has OnlyOneName.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One of the reasons she got killed off was because Madison Lintz was [[ShesAllGrownUp growing too fast]] for the timeframe the show is supposed to take place in. Just look at the zombified Sophia and compare her to her earlier appearances.
* SacrificialLamb: Her death proves that not even [[DeathOfAChild children]] or [[DeathByAdaptation characters who are still alive in the comics]] are safe from death on this show.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Gets lost in the woods, and a long search for her ends at the farm's barn where Otis had put her walker form but died before telling anyone.
* TagalongKid: From Season 1 to the first episode of Season 2.
* TragicMonster: After becoming a walker.
* TraumaCongaLine: The poor kid has to grow up with Ed for a father, barely survives multiple attacks by walkers while also watching people die around her, and then get lost in the woods and becomes a walker herself.
* UndeadChild: Her tragic fate.
* YouthfulFreckles: Madison Lintz's own freckles.
[[/folder]]

!!Harrison Family

[[folder:In General]]

Sisters from Atlanta who were just coming off from a vacation/trip when the ZombieApocalypse began.
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* AlliterativeFamily: '''A'''ndrea and '''A'''my.
* HereditaryHairstyle: The sisters are both blonde.
* KillEmAll: They're both dead by the end of Season 3.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Subverted. Their last names are never stated in the show, but supplementary material reveals their surname to be Harrison.
* {{Outdoorsy Gal}}s: Again, they were just coming off from a vacation/trip when the ZombieApocalypse began.
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: The sisters' 12 years age difference is also separated by the different generations they belonged in (Andrea was from Generation X, while Amy was a Millennial), though they still have a healthy relationship.
* RedemptionQuest: The aforementioned vacation/trip they were having was actually a chance for the sisters to reconnect as Andrea, being 12 years older, was not present in much of Amy's childhood due to being in college.
* RedOniBlueOni: Andrea is assertive while Amy is usually reserved and passive.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: They are established as {{Outdoorsy Gal}}s, but Andrea is seen looking for a feminine-looking necklace to give to Amy in her introduction episode. Likewise, Andrea herself appears to be in-touch with her own femininity.
* TrueCompanions: With most of the Atlanta Camp Survivors. Dale, in particular, was the one who rescued them when the ZombieApocalypse began and became a father figure of sorts to them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Andrea]]
!!''Andrea Harrison''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurieHolden
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-3, 10 [[note]]Hallucination (archive footage)[[/note]])

->''"What part of "everything is gone" do you not understand?"''

Andrea was a civil rights lawyer before the outbreak, but was on a road trip with her sister Amy when the apocalypse began. She and her sister were doing fine at the camp until her sister got bitten. Andrea had to put her own sister down rather than let her continue as a walker. This experience led her to having a death wish. Dale guilt tripped her into not going through with it; she holds something of a grudge against him for that, but is beginning to shake the death wish off. She does, and by the end of the second season has become one of the group's protectors before she gets separated from the rest in the finale and forced to fend for herself.

Andrea is found and rescued in the forest by Michonne, and the two of them spend several months surviving on their own before encountering Woodbury. Andrea stays there and enters into a relationship with the Governor, but is caught in the middle of the conflict between Woodbury and her old group at the prison. She eventually tries to return to the prison but is caught by the Governor and locked her in a room with a dying Milton, who turns into a walker and bites Andrea before she can free herself. She is later discovered by Rick, Daryl, and Michonne, who stays with Andrea as she commits suicide to avoid becoming a walker.
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* ActionGirl: The first seen in the show and was the most competent and action-oriented women of the original group during two seasons. Andrea is the female survivor who carries a gun the most. Once she gets some training she's mowing down walkers with the best of them. Best shown in "By The Dying Fire", as she is on the run through the forest for hours while being hounded by walkers and carrying an entire bag of weapons. She takes down a ton of them, but running out of ammo and exhaustion allowed one to finally jump her. Thankfully, [[BigDamnHeroes Michonne chose that moment to make her debut]].
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Her depression was highly increased over the comic version.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed. While she didn't work with The Governor in the comics, but here she followed him because he's pretty much a VillainWithGoodPublicity.
* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed. While she's a credible ActionGirl here, she's ''nowhere'' near the competence of her comic counterpart.
* AgeLift: In order to further increase the differences between her and Amy. Whereas Comics!Andrea was fresh out of college, TV!Andrea is in her mid-thirties
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Has a fling with Shane and falls for the Governor. There's also a moment when she takes to Merle's flirting in early season 3.
* BadassBookworm: She was a lawyer before the apocalypse, and can fight alongside people like Rick, Daryl, T-Dog, and Shane without breaking a sweat.
* BloodKnight: After getting gun training, she seems to enjoy cutting down walkers a little too much.
* BoundAndGagged: Towards the end of the third season she's captured by the Governor and is secured to an old dentist's chair.
* BrokenBird: While Amy's death initially sends her into a depressed suicidal state, she eventually bounces back and resolves to survive by becoming as badass as possible.
* TheCameo: She briefly reappears in "What We Become" as part of Michonne's drug-induced hallucination wherein she imagines how her life might have turned out if she hadn't saved Andrea at the end of Season 2.
* CaptainObvious: A lot of the things she says, especially in her introduction, are self-explanatory.
* {{Chickification}}: She seems to undergo a bit of this during her time at Woodbury, though she tries to keep from [[StayInTheKitchen being forced away from battle]].
* ChillyReception: Due to being separated from Rick's group for several months, she's unaware of their CharacterDevelopment or the fact they TookALevelInBadass since she last saw them, especially with Glenn, Carol, Carl, and Maggie. She's completely shocked to find them hardened up from a harsh winter and an attack from the Governor, as well as their hostile reception of her, particularly for trying to claim the Governor's a good man.
* CompositeCharacter: Her character arc in Season 3 is more in-line with Alice from the comicbook.
* ConflictingLoyalty: In Season 3, big time, between the Governor and Rick's group at the prison.
* CradlingTheirKill: Her sister Amy, after she turned into a walker.
* DeathSeeker: She becomes one at the end of the first season, following Amy's death. She really, really doesn't appreciate having her gun taken away, either.
* DeathByAdaptation: She dies nearly in the same way in the comics, but much later in the timeline than she did here on the show.
* DecompositeCharacter: Since she dies early, all her roles in the comics were distributed to several characters; Her role as the most badass female from the original Atlanta group, as well as being the one in charge of Lizzie and Mika (just like her comic counterpart adopts Ben and Billy) were given to Carol. Her (and Dale's) tragic love story in the show's Fear the Hunters arc, role as the group's resident sniper and interactions with Spencer Monroe were all given to Sasha (and Bob). Her role as Rick's female [[TheLancer Lancer]], [[TheConfidant Confidant]] and SecondLove was given to Michonne.
* DespairEventHorizon: First her sister Amy gets killed by a walker, then Andrea has to put her down.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: See CradlingTheirKill above. In Season 3, she dies in Michonne's, shooting herself in the head after being bitten.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Subverted. While her comic counterpart is also bitten by a walker, the circumstances are completely different, being bitten saving Eugene from a herd.
* DistressedDamsel: Near the end of Season 3, she gets kidnapped and brutally tortured by the Governor.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: The woman with the most active sex life in the early seasons of the show.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Solemnly asks for Rick's [[RevolversAreJustBetter Colt Python]] in order to shoot herself so she won't reanimate.
* ForWantOfANail: Michonne's hallucinations in "What We Become" emphasize that in choosing to save Andrea, Michonne ultimately recovered from her catatonic state and became a good person again. She joined the Atlanta group, found the love of her life and a new family, and helped build the foundation of what may be a true shot at restoring civilization to the world - all because she decided to save a stranger at the last second.
* TheGunslinger: Andrea has a natural aptitude for firearms despite having little experience prior to the apocalypse, her proficiency far outstripping that of the other civilians in the group when Shane gives them gun training in Season 2.
* HelloAttorney: She's attractive and was a lawyer prior to the ZombieApocalypse. The judgment one would expect of a lawyer, however, doesn't seem to be in evidence given her on-screen record.
* HeroicSuicide: To prevent herself from becoming a walker.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Michonne at the beginning of the third season. Michonne tenderly cares for Andrea when she's ill at the start of the season, and Andrea begs her to just go on without her.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter:
** She was one of Shane's greatest supporters, so she has a track record of taking a liking to the series' villains.
** She still listens to the Governor after seeing his ''collection of severed heads'' and the staged fights.
** Trusts Milton, who she knows is completely loyal to the Governor, to aid her escape from Woodbury. He predictably tells the Governor of all Andrea's plans. However, Andrea is later proven right about him when he realizes how far off the deep end the Governor is and starts helping her.
* {{Hypocrite}}: While it's strongly implied that Dale only threatened to stay in the CDC with her as a means of making Andrea leave, her position about him forcing her to go is a bit undercut by the fact that for all her talk of the importance of "choices" (which comes up again when it becomes a problem with Beth), staying with her was Dale's choice, and she left because she didn't want him making it.
* IdiotBall:
** Trying to [[IJustWantToBeBadass prove she's a badass]] made her do some idiotic things in Season 2, including shooting a gun despite knowing the shot could attract other walkers and nearly shooting Daryl's head off as a result.
** Choosing to side with the Governor over Michonne, who kept her alive for seven months! Even after learning about the Governor's severed head collection, and after he threatens her.
** The group flat out tells her that the Governor fired first during his assault on the prison, tried to kill them all, and managed to kill Axel. She responds by more or less ignoring it and claiming the Governor wants peace. Naturally, the group doesn't buy it.
** Her firm grip on the IdiotBall leads to her death at the end of Season 3. She stops working to get off her handcuffs several times to talk with a dying Milton. It gets even worse when you consider the fact that even he tells her that she needs to hurry. She easily talks to him for a few minutes in a situation where a mere ten seconds may have been enough to keep her from getting bitten.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: She wanted gun training in order to defend the camp, but her desire to prove herself led to her accidentally shooting and wounding Daryl.
* IronicEcho: "I know how the safety works."[[note]]The first time she says it she is pointing her gun at Rick, the second time she is asking Rick to let her point the gun at herself.[[/note]]
* JackOfAllStats: She's a well-balanced ActionGirl, effective in handguns and melee weapons.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: For Dale, who has come to see her as a daughter. When she attempts suicide at the CDC base, Dale tries to join her, claiming he has nothing else to live for.
* TheLoad: Her Season 2 character arc involves wanting to grow out of this.
* MartialPacifist: Tries ''so hard'' to be this in Season 3.
* MsFanservice: After Maggie, she's the second closest thing to one on the show. She dons thong underwear in "When the Dead Come Knocking" and gets completely nude in "I Ain't a Judas".
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Once she realizes what the Governor is really like, including what he did to Maggie and Glenn.
* OnlySaneWoman: In Woodbury as of the second half of Season 3.
* PluckyGirl: As of "Beside the Dying Fire". On her own against a horde of walkers, she runs and fights her way through the forest for the better part of eighteen hours. She only gets overwhelmed when she loses her knife, and luckily Michonne shows up to save her.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: The show made her a one night stand partner to Shane and put into a full-blown relationship with the Governor. Ironically, she didn't ended-up with any of her two canonical love interest due to DeathByAdaptation; Dale, who died early, and Rick, whom are supposed to be each other's SecondLove, thus leaving this very trope open to be filled by a different character (Michonne in Season 6.)
* RedemptionQuest: Andrea decides to go after the Governor herself to make up for not realizing he was a sociopath before.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She bears a remarkable resemblance to the Governor's late wife, seen only in a photograph.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In "Prey", she finally realized her mistake of siding with The Governor and flees Woodbury to warn Rick and the others [[SubvertedTrope only to be recaptured.]]
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Although she was still credited in the first.
* SurvivorGuilt: In Season 1, from having to put down her sister. It doesn't help that before the apocalypse she had a tendency to blow off most of her chances of bonding with said sister, and was only just starting to get to know her properly.
* TooDumbToLive: In the Season 3 finale. The Governor ties her in a chair and locks her in room with a dying Milton. There are pliers nearby she can use to free herself if she can grab them with her feet. Milton ''himself'' repeatedly tells her to hurry, but she wastes precious seconds talking to him and even pauses to ''stare reflectively at him when he stops moving''. Predictably, Milton reanimates and bites her, dooming her, half a second after she had freed herself. Had she not wasted time trying to talk to him, she would have been able to free herself in time.
* TookALevelInBadass: After Shane [[TrainingFromHell trained]] her on how to shoot, to the point that she can run all night carrying a bag of guns (but no ammo) killing walkers with a knife.
* WillNotBeAVictim: Once she gets over her suicidal tendencies in Season 2, she resolves to survive by becoming as badass as possible. Even once she eventually gets bitten, she insists on ending her own life while she still can rather than succumbing to the infection or allowing one of the others to put her down.
* ZombieInfectee: She is bitten in the Season 3 finale and kills herself with a headshot to avoid becoming a walker.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amy]]
!!''Amy Harrison''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EmmaBell
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1, 3 [[note]]Voice[[/note]])

Amy is Andrea's younger sister and was killed in a walker attack early in the series.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: For a few seconds, before [[MercyKill being put down by Andrea herself]].
* TheCutie: A kind-hearted young woman.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's one of the "nice" characters.
* {{Hallucinations}}: In "Hounded", she is one of the people who calls Rick during his hallucinations.
* TheHeart: Of the group.
* IronicBirthday: She passes away a day before her birthday and reanimates on it.
* KillTheCutie: After turning into a walker, her sister has to kill her off herself.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: She and Andrea were each other's entire world. After she dies, Andrea slips into a suicidal depression.
* MauveShirt: Gets established as a NiceGirl before becoming zombie chow.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Promotional artwork for the first season depicts her with the other survivors wielding a bat, seemingly painting her as a combat-ready survivor. The actual series makes it clear she's not a fighter and she's among the first casualties of the show.
* NiceGirl: She is one of the more cheerful and upbeat survivors.
* TragicMonster: When she comes back as a walker. Andrea quickly ends her suffering.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: One of the youngest, sweetest, and most cheerful survivors, and one of the first to die. Two seasons later, Merle is genuinely saddened to hear of her death, telling Andrea she was a good kid.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: She is wearing a white shirt when she dies.
* ZombieInfectee: For a very brief time before bleeding out from the bites.
[[/folder]]

!!Morales Family

[[folder:Morales]]
!!''Morales''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's over, Rick. I called the Saviors back. And they're coming."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Juan Gabriel Pareja
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1, 8)

->''"Hey, Helicopter Boy! Come say hello!"''

A member of the original survivor group, Morales was one of the group's main supply runners and leaders. He met Rick when he first arrived in Atlanta, and despite Rick causing trouble for them, Morales accepted him when he orchestrated a plan to get them safely out of the city. After the fish fry attack, however, Morales decided that he and his family would go to look for family in Birmingham, Alabama, and left the group.

However, the worst came to pass, as long before they ever made it to Birmingham, his wife and children all perished. Morales, distraught, pushed on until he finally decided to give up and let himself starve to death. He made it to the Saviors' territory on the East Coast, where the Saviors found and rescued him. Feeling loyal to the people who saved him, Morales joined the Saviors. When war erupted between the Saviors and their rebelling slave states, Morales was surprised that the "Rick from Alexandria" was in fact Rick Grimes. However, Morales felt no loyalty to Rick and prepared to deliver him to Negan for execution. Despite Rick's pleas to stand down, Morales refused, his heart set, and this cost him his life as Daryl snuck up on him and killed him. Though Daryl showed no regrets, both men were saddened that a former ally lost his soul to Negan.
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* ActionSurvivor: He has no martial training, but he manages to take down quite a few walkers with his baseball bat.
* BackForTheDead: He returns to the narrative after a years-long absence, only to die after seven minutes of screentime.
* BatterUp: His main melee weapon in Season 1.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in Season 8, a whopping two-and-a-half years InUniverse and six years out-of-universe later.
* CanonForeigner: Never appeared in the comics, though some fans speculated that he was a replacement for Allen and his family (who don't debut until Season 3 and are basically InNameOnly characters).
* CharacterDeath: He is killed by Daryl in Season 8's "Monsters".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Surviving the past two years of the apocalypse has hardened and acclimated him to conflict just as it did the other members of the group. When he returns in Season 8, he's basically a new character.
* DeathSeeker: After making it to the Saviors' territory on the east coast, Morales gave up and was simply allowing himself to starve to death before the Saviors found and rescued him.
* DespairEventHorizon: After the deaths of his family.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After a seven-season absence, he's come a long way since Atlanta, just like Rick, but the second he lets his guard down and doesn't think to ask whether Rick is alone Daryl puts an arrow through his skull in the following episode without so much as a second thought.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even as a Savior, he clearly mourns for his family.
* EvilCounterpart: His Season 8 self is basically what Rick could have become had he lost his entire family and fallen in with the Saviors. He's also not far off from what happened to Morgan, who similarly lost his mind after losing his family, only he never had the positive influence of either Rick or Eastman to help him recover, let alone stop him from joining the Saviors.
* EvilFormerFriend: Despite being a founding member of the original Atlanta group, Morales has joined the Saviors since leaving them, and isn't pleased to see Rick again.
* FaceHeelTurn: In Season 8. He has joined up with the Saviors during his absence and shows Rick very little mercy.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: He still holds onto a photo of his family, long after their deaths.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife, Miranda.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Dale, who is old enough to be his father, and with Glenn, young enough to be his adult son. For a few precious moments, Morales pauses when he learns that his leader Negan killed Glenn and in front of his pregnant wife, who is now a high-priority target.
* {{Irony}}: He is the very first person on the show to mention Daryl and how Rick will likely be facing his wrath once he learns that Rick left his brother handcuffed to a roof. Come Morales' reappearance in Season 8, and Rick and Daryl have long since become honorary BashBrothers, while Daryl kills Morales with absolutely zero hesitation after finding him holding Rick at gunpoint.
* KillEmAll: With his death in Season 8, all members of his family are now dead.
* LastNameBasis: His wife and kids get first names, but his is never revealed. Even when he returns in Season 8, Rick still refers to him as simply "Morales".
* MauveShirt: Although he is only PutOnABus instead of being killed off. Until Season 8, that is.
* NiceGuy: In Season 1. He treats Rick well despite his actions having endangered Morales and the rest of the scouting group and gives him advanced warning that Daryl will likely be out for Rick's blood once learning about how Merle got left behind.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both his children were killed.
* PapaWolf: Rips the walkers a new one while protecting his family during the attack on the camp.
* PermaStubble: Bordering on ManlyFacialHair, which it ends up becoming by Season 8.
* PetTheDog: While it doesn't last, he does lower his guard for a moment when he learns that Glenn managed to find a wife in the apocalypse.
* PutOnABus: He and his family leave the group to look for relatives in Birmingham, Alabama.
* RedemptionRejection: He steadfastly refuses to help Rick and turn his back on the Saviors. This costs him his life.
* SanitySlippage: He tells Rick that he lost his mind after losing his family.
* SoleSurvivor: Of his family for quite some time.
* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: When he returns in Season 8 he has become a villainous member of the Saviors.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Daryl nonchalantly kills him by shooting an arrow into his head, which is enough to leave even Rick rattled.
* ThatManIsDead: Claims that the man Rick knew died along with his family and that he has wholeheartedly embraced being a Savior.
* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed as we never see Morales fight on-screen after Season 1, but he must've developed ''some'' real fighting chops if he's survived as long as Rick has.
* TookALevelInCynic: Losing his family left with him a pretty sour outlook on life. He's taken aback that Glenn managed to find love at all in the apocalypse, clearly deeming it to be impossible.
* TookALevelInJerkass: When he returns in Season 8, he is far from the NiceGuy he used to be, showing very little sympathy for his fallen Atlanta comrades.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Saviors. Morales is so grateful for them having rescued him that he opts to turn Rick over to Negan despite knowing full well what's in store for him when he does.
* VillainHasAPoint: He points out that he and Rick only knew each other for a few days at the start of the apocalypse, thus Morales doesn’t feel like his FaceHeelTurn is a major betrayal of Rick in any way. The group members he did become close to (Glenn, Dale, T-Dog, etc.) are all dead by this point.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to talk about him without revealing his return in Season 8 as a loyal Savior.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: A former ally of the group turned a loyal Savior.

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[[folder:Miranda, Eliza, and Louis]]
!!''Miranda, Eliza, and Louis Morales''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Viviana Chavez-Vega, Maddie Lomax, Noah Lomax
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 1)

The wife, daughter, and son of Morales who leave with him to look for family in Birmingham. However, they never made it to Birmingham, and they all perished, leaving Morales alone.
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* BusCrash: According to Morales, they all perished before they even made it to Birmingham.
* FlatCharacter: None of them receive characterization beyond being Morales' family.
* HappilyMarried: Miranda is to her husband.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: For Morales. Without them he ends up losing his mind and then joining the Saviors.
* NiceGuy: They all seem to be pleasant people.
* NonActionGuy: Miranda is never seen fighting, and Eliza and Louis are too young to fight assailants.
* PutOnABus: Along with Morales.
* SatelliteCharacter: They only exist in relation to Morales.
* TragicKeepsake: Eliza's doll becomes this in hindsight, since she gave it to Sophia before she left with her family and suffered a BusCrash.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their fates are left ambiguous until Season 8, when Morales reveals they all died.

[[/folder]]

!!Other Atlanta Camp Survivors

[[folder:Glenn]]
!!''Glenn Rhee''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You honor the dead by going on. Even when you're scared. You live because they don't get to."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/StevenYeun
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-7, 10 [[note]]Hallucination (archive footage)[[/note]])

->''"We can make it together. But we can only make it '''''together'''''."''

Glenn is more than he seems. He's quick, clever, and brave, and these traits helped him save Rick when they met in zombie-overrun Atlanta. He is kind of laid back personality-wise, though, and has a tendency to let youthful exuberance override common sense. This causes the group to underestimate him and sometimes take advantage of him, while also causing him to sometimes not think out all his plans clearly. While staying on Hershel's farm, he began a relationship with Maggie, who he became engaged to in Season 3, and by Season 6 they are expecting their first child.

After arriving at Alexandria, Glenn is assigned as a supply runner and works hard with Maggie to make sure the group integrates into the community. He comes into conflict with fellow runner Nicholas, who nearly kills him, but Glenn defeats him and spares his life, still being unwilling to take a human life when he does not need to. He is forced to abandon this rule when the threat of the Saviors raises its' head.

During some of the toughest times for the group, Glenn has more than risen to the occasion. He eventually matures to become a highly competent warrior and a leader in his own right, and Rick even entrusts him with a lofty place in his command staff. Despite becoming a hardened, seasoned leader, Glenn nevertheless is one of the most consistently optimistic and hopeful survivors, but tragically, he proves too good to last when Negan arrives. After Daryl tries to retaliate at Negan for the death of Abraham, Negan chooses to kill Glenn instead, to the rest of the group's horror. Glenn suffers a horrific, brutal and slow death, but before expiring, manages to get out his last words to the woman he loves - "Maggie, I'll find you."
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* ActionSurvivor: Originally, though he becomes more capable in Season 3. By Season 5, he has become a full-fledged badass on par with Rick and Daryl.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** He is more combat-proficient from the get-go than his comic counterpart.
** He's also got more NervesOfSteel when it comes to Woodbury and not breaking under Merle's torture. For comparison in the comics he's never questioned but says he would have cracked immediately and is remembered by Bruce as a "sniveling coward".
* AlmightyJanitor: He knows his way around Atlanta better than anyone else in the group because of his former job delivering pizza.
* AlwaysWithYou: After being struck with Lucille twice, he's suffered immense brain trauma and has the clarity to realize that he is dying and that his time is up. He turns to Maggie, despite being unlikely to even be able to ''see'' her, and tells her "Maggie, I'll find you."
* ArchEnemy: Nicholas becomes his in Season 5. However, after Glenn spares his life when he could have easily killed him, their animosity fades, and Nicholas begins trying to redeem himself.
* AsianAndNerdy: References playing ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and other video games.
* BadLiar: His utter inability to lie ultimately results in revealing Hershel's barn is full of walkers in the second season. Seemingly gets better at lying by Season 3, as he was able to tell Merle that most of the initial camp group would come to rescue him and Maggie without a problem. Too bad Merle already knew the truth of what happened to the group beforehand (namely that several of the group members Glenn threatens will come for him were already confirmed to him to have died by Andrea).
* BadWithTheBone: When being held by Governor and Merle, he and Maggie used a walker's bone as weapon to attack Merle and one other {{Mook}}. Said other {{Mook}} is killed by stabbing the bone into his neck, anyway.
* BattleCouple: With Maggie, being two of the group's fiercest and most dedicated fighters.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' threaten his friends or especially his wife. In the Season 6 finale, despite the group being held at gunpoint, he lunges for Negan when he considers killing Maggie and it takes a crossbow to the face to subdue him.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He starts to snap a bit in Season 3. Near the end of Season 5, he no longer holds back at beating the fuck out of people if they piss him off.
* BookEnds: The first time Glenn speaks to Rick is over the radio calling him a "dumbass". The last time Glenn speaks to Rick on-camera is in Season 6's "Thank You", which ends with him affectionately referring to Rick as a dumbass, and they never speak on-camera for the rest of the season before Glenn dies at the start of Season 7.
* ButtMonkey: A frequent victim of this.
** Glenn is able to come up with a decent plan to get to the guns in Season 1, only to be kidnapped.
** Being TheHeart, he is the natural choice to go find and comfort Rick in the prison after Lori's death. Rick, not finished grieving, snaps and shoves Glenn up against the wall, giving him the most jarring DeathGlare in the series so far.
** He's tortured at Woodbury by Merle, who takes out his collective rage at Rick's group on Glenn by beating him. Glenn doesn't divulge the group's location even after the heavy beating, but Maggie, unable to take the sight of Glenn dying, does.
** He's almost killed by Nicholas in "Conquer" despite [[UngratefulBastard saving his life.]]
** He ultimately is cruelly picked to die by Negan, who had already killed Abraham and only decided to take a second victim after Daryl lashed out in anger.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: He's the most hungover after the group indulges in Jenner's alcohol at the CDC.
* CharacterDeath: He is Negan's second victim in the seventh season premiere.
* CharacterDevelopment: Glenn begins the series as a clever smart-aleck with little confidence to lead. He eventually becomes a focused leader in his own right, as well as a courageous warrior and loving husband.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Glenn's introduction is him casually calling Rick a dumbass. Later episodes would establish Glenn as extremely mild-mannered who only uses profanity during danger and/or tragedy.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: He's introduced rescuing Rick, who he doesn't even know, and agrees to go back into Atlanta to rescue Merle even though he hates him.
* CombatDiplomacyStealth: Handles Stealth, with Daryl specializing in Combat, and Rick handling Diplomacy.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: His introduction to Rick, saving him from the walker herd.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Beaten to death with Lucille, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, while his wife and surrogate family are forced to watch. Worse, after two strikes to the head, Negan allows him to writhe in agony for a few moments while he taunts him and the others.
* DeadpanSnarker: His first line is snark, though as the seasons go on, this begins to be tempered out as he becomes a more mature man as opposed to the smart-aleck kid in Seasons 1 and 2.
* DeadStarWalking: He is the second one to be killed off midway through the Season 7 premiere, after only a single scene.
* DeathByDisfigurement: There's almost nothing left of his head by the time Negan is done bludgeoning him with Lucille.
* TheDeterminator: Becomes this in his search to reunite with Maggie.
* DevouredByTheHorde: His apparent fate at the end of "Thank You", when he is knocked off of a dumpster into a herd of walkers, though it's later revealed that he survived by crawling under the dumpster while the horde ate Nicholas.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Subverted. While his comic counterpart also has his head smashed to pieces by Negan, the circumstances are different. Rather, he is Negan's chosen (and only) victim, while in the show Abraham is the one initially selected to die and Glenn is only killed after Daryl punches Negan for taunting Rosita.
* DisappearedDad: He does not live to witness the birth of his and Maggie's son, Hershel.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Dies very unceremoniously by having his skull beaten and cracked open by Lucille. Negan even beats him until nothing resembling his head remains.
* DueToTheDead: He is a great believer in this.
-->'''Glenn:''' You honor the dead by going on. Even when you're scared. You live because they don't get to.
* EndearinglyDorky: He's initially very shy and awkward in social situations, but he's also the nicest group member, which endears him to everyone else.
* EyeScream: After the first two strikes with Lucille, his left eye is about to pop right out of his skull.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: A possible interpretation of his last words, "Maggie... I'll find you...". Glenn is content with the fact that he's about to die and he uses what little life juice he has left to tell his wife that he'll see her again someday in the afterlife.
* FacialHorror: His eye protruding from his skull after being hit with Lucille. It is ''not'' pleasant to look at.
* ForcedToWatch: Watches Noah's CruelAndUnusualDeath by DevouredByTheHorde while trapped on the other side of a revolving door. He later has to watch Negan mull over killing the ailing Maggie, and then with the rest of the group witnesses Abraham's brutal death.
* ForWantOfANail: Though nobody knew it at the time, he made the most important decision in the show's history when he chose to save Rick, a complete stranger at the time, when they first met in Atlanta. That one decision influences many members of Rick's group to save each other and other survivors through the different locations they have been to. Maggie highlights the importance of this decision in the Season 7 finale, saying she chose to lead Hilltop to Alexandria and support Rick because she followed Glenn's lead, and now because of it they have three different communities united as a single family, ready to fight against the Saviors in war together. Glenn's one selfless act to save a stranger was what changed everything, and gave everyone hope to survive together.
* GainingTheWillToKill: After surviving the first six and a half seasons without having to take a life, he is extremely distressed when Rick orders a total annihilation of all the Saviors at the satellite outpost. He is clearly torn up when he is forced to jam a knife into the skull of a sleeping, totally defenseless man, and almost breaks down crying.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Initially subverted, though he and Maggie have gotten better at it by Season 3.
* HappilyMarried: Has a stable and long-lasting relationship with Maggie. Even as he is dying from sudden brain trauma, his last words are to call out to his wife.
* TheHeart: Easily the most "pure" and nicest member of the group, he's one of the few people that gets along with everyone else without many issues. Maggie outlines why he is TheHeart of the entire series, long after his death.
-->'''Maggie''': The decision was made a long time ago. Before any of us knew each other. When we were all strangers who would just pass each other on the street before the world ended. And now we mean everything to each other. You were in trouble, you were trapped. Glenn didn't know you, but he helped you. He put himself in danger for you. And that started it all. From Atlanta, to my daddy's farm, to the prison, to here, to this moment now. Not as strangers, as family. Because Glenn chose to be there for you that day a long time ago - that was the decision that changed everything. It started with both of you and it just grew, all of us. To sacrifice for each other, to suffer, to stand, to grieve, to give, to love, to live, to fight for each other. Glenn made the decision, Rick. I was just following his lead.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers a brief one after witnessing Noah being DevouredByTheHorde while trapped inside a revolving door.
* HiddenDepths: Who would expect a pizza delivery guy to be so good at strategy? Maggie even lampshades that Glenn is more useful than the others give him credit for and shouldn't always be sent out on supply runs or be used as bait for the walkers.
* HollywoodNerd: References playing ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
* HopeSpot: Meta-example. After all of his [[NearDeathExperience close calls]], most notably the dumpster incident, Glenn seems safe especially when Negan picks Abraham to die instead of him. Unfortunately, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Daryl had to lash out...]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Somewhat justified as the group hadn't encountered too many hostile humans at this point, but in "Nebraska", Glenn completely fails at picking up on the bad vibes that Dave and Tony are giving off, and comes close to inviting them back to Hershel's farm. He gets better at judging character as the series progresses.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Feels this way when he has [[UngratefulBastard Nicholas]] at his mercy.
* IllBoy: In Season 4, he's hit with an illness making its way around the prison. He gets better.
* ImprovisedWeapon: At one point he saves Maggie's life by hitting a walker with a shelf.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: He's the only Atlanta survivor not to have any human kills until "Not Tomorrow Yet", where he kills two Saviors in their sleep and guns down at least five more alongside Heath.
* InSeriesNickname: Maggie semi-affectionately refers to him as "walker bait" for a brief time before they get together.
* IWorkAlone: Glenn as much as said this to Maggie, since he implicitly blames his love for her for causing him to freeze up during the shootout with Dave's group. This changes when Glenn and Maggie become the OfficialCouple of the group and comes back to bite him in the ass when he and Maggie are interrogated at Woodbury, and the Governor manipulates their concern for each other into telling him the group's current location at the prison.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Finally does the kicking against DirtyCoward Nicholas after he gets Noah killed and left him for dead to save his own ass. He does it again in "Conquer," when Nicholas tries to kill him.
* KillTheCutie: Glenn is one of the most kind-hearted characters in the show, but is harshly and brutally killed by Negan to send a message to the group.
* TheLancer: Briefly acts as this for Rick in Season 3 after Daryl leaves with Merle.
* MacheteMayhem: In Season 3, alongside Maggie.
* MadeOfIron: He is shot in the shoulder by Nicholas, yet still manages to fight off three walkers and beat his attempted murderer into submission. When Negan bashes him on the head twice with Lucille, he still has enough strength to sit up and say some final words to Maggie.
* TheMentor: Becomes one to Nicholas as he teaches him to fend for himself. While Nicholas does become a more capable survivor, it ends up being all for naught as he commits suicide two episodes later and nearly gets Glenn killed as well.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Although Glenn's surname wasn't mentioned in the comics, Season 3 showrunner Glen Mazarra said on Twitter that his last name is "Rhee." A bit of a subversion in that it's not actually spoken on the show until after his death, when Maggie declares herself to be "Maggie Rhee" in honor of her late husband.
* NearDeathExperience: Experiences them so often it's practically a RunningGag. To recap:
** In Season 3, he's beaten to a pulp, locked in a room with a walker while being taped to a chair and is nearly executed upon his escape.
** In Season 4, he's caught whatever flu has been killing the rest of the inmates and nearly chokes to death on his own blood. While trapped in a tunnel with Tara, he's surrounded by a horde and is out of ammo.
** In Season 5, he's the first of Rick's group to be drained but it was delayed when Gareth came in to check up on them. He then gets trapped in a revolving door with Noah. He then gets shot by Nicholas and rolls down a cliff.
** Most notable was his narrow escape from a horde of walkers by crawling under a dumpster in Season 6, after he fell into the horde thanks to Nicholas' suicide. He returns after the walls fall in Alexandria to try and draw the walkers away from Maggie and gets swarmed, saved only by [[BigDamnHeroes the timely arrival of Sasha and Abraham]].
** His luck finally runs out in the Season 7 premiere when he is murdered by Negan for Daryl's outburst.
* NervesOfSteel: He's very brave and doesn't break under pressure easily. Lampshaded by Merle before he tortures Glenn for information on the prison; he never once looks willing to crack and betray his friends.
* NiceGuy: Glenn is ''the'' nice guy of the series. This is why [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Maggie falls in love with him]] after witnessing how smart, brave, and sweet he is.
* NiceHat: His baseball cap. Not seen after Season 3, presumably to mark his CharacterDevelopment into a more mature man.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Choosing to spare Nicholas at the end of Season 5 comes back to bite him when the two of them are surrounded by walkers and Nicholas [[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself in the head]]; his corpse knocks Glenn into the herd and nearly gets him ripped apart.
* NotQuiteDead: He is seemingly eaten by a herd of walkers in "Thank You", but a couple episodes later it's revealed that he survived by using Nicholas' body as a shield and crawling under a dumpster.
* OfficialCouple: With Maggie, and they get married in "This Sorrowful Life". It meets a tragic end with Glenn's death at the hands of Negan.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He somehow manages to survive having three walkers pile onto him in the Season 5 finale.
* OneManArmy: Grows into this over time. In "No Way Out", he tears through the herd to create a distraction in order to save Maggie, and manages to hold his own pretty well until Sasha and Abraham appear in the nick of time to save him.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: In the first two seasons. He's certainly not a NaiveNewcomer, but he's only the GuileHero when he's dealing with walkers. Get him around normal people and he's the EndearinglyDorky HollywoodNerd. His naivete in dealing with Dave and Tony serves to counterpoint Rick's and Dave's escalating tension.
* OutOfFocus: In the first half of Season 5, he's mostly just ''there'' without a character arc or development. This changes in the second half that deals with his growing rivalry with Nicholas. He also doesn't get a terribly large amount of focus in the second half of Season 6, despite some prominent scenes in "No Way Out" and "Not Tomorrow Yet", and barely appears in the last two episodes of the season, just before his out-of-nowhere death at the start of Season 7.
* PluckyComicRelief: As much as someone in a zombie apocalypse can be, anyway. [[BreakTheCutie He's become pretty much dead serious by Season 3, however]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Downplayed, seeing as how this is the only time he expresses any sentiment of this particular kind, and he said it when he was younger and more immature before his CharacterDevelopment, but in Season 2, when several survivors who all happen to be female are acting strangely, he automatically assumes that they're [[HystericalWoman on their]] [[MenstrualMenace periods]]. Dale wisely tells him to shut up.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a great one to Nicholas in "Try".
* SacrificialLion: The second victim of Negan in the Season 7 premiere, and his death helps redefine the entire show.
* SaveTheVillain: Despite his repeated attempts to kill him, Glenn spares Nicholas and carries him back to Alexandria.
* TheScrounger: He's often sent out on supply runs for the group. Maggie shows frustration with how the group regards him as little more than an errand boy when he has great potential.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: While the viewers heard his voice at the end of the pilot, Glenn made his proper introduction in the second episode.
* SecretKeeper: Forced into this role during Season 2, though he admits that he is a ''terrible'' one and spills the beans the first time anyone even vaguely questions him.
* TheSmartGuy: Glenn can make effective and safe strategies for dealing with walkers, and is the best in the group at maneuvering around Atlanta.
* TheSneakyGuy: Even after being away from the group for so long, Merle states that he remembers Glenn as this.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Perhaps the shortest-lived example in all of fiction. Abraham takes his comic role as Negan's initial victim. However, Negan chooses to kill Glenn after Daryl punches him, so he only outlived his comic counterpart by a few minutes.
* TheStoic: Puts up this front when things get serious in Season 3, especially while being tortured by Merle.
* TheStrategist: He's excellent at crafting plans when there's a specific goal in mind. He's quick thinking and considers all possibilities when strategizing.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Negan looks set to murder Daryl after the latter punches him for killing Abraham... before he suddenly turns around and ''bashes Glenn's head in instead.'' The sheer casualness and brutality of the moment is nothing short of horrific, and also averts ADeathInTheLimelight, as Glenn had been OutOfFocus in the second half of Season 6.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: To the point that ''his hand is still twitching'' well after his head has been reduced to mush.
* TokenMinority: Most of the original Atlanta crew are Caucasian, whereas he's Korean. In Season 3, another Asian character appears, though he is not a part of Rick's group and is killed shortly after his debut. After T-Dog's death in the same season, Glenn is the only non-white survivor in the group until Michonne joins. Gets better in Season 4, when a lot more non-white characters join the group. He is still the only prominent Asian character in the entire show, up until the first episode of Season 7.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: One of the kindest characters among the team who gets brutally executed.
* TooHappyToLive: Glenn finally has a safe haven to raise a family with his wife Maggie, only to die a cruel death before his child is even born.
* TookALevelInBadass: Several actually, during the eight month time jump between Seasons 2 and 3. He even kills a Walker while tied to a chair and then scavenges its bones to use as weapons in his and Maggie's breakout from Woodbury. By Season 4 he's a OneManArmy.
-->'''Merle:''' Being out there all winter must have put some hair on his balls!
* TookALevelInJerkass: Briefly in Season 3, when he's forced to step into a leadership role at the prison, fueled mostly by his anger at The Governor and Woodbury.
* TragicKeepsake: Hershel's watch. He still has it in his pocket when he dies.
* UncertainDoom: He is seemingly devoured by walkers in "Thank You", though the camera angle makes it slightly ambiguous. He's finally revealed to have survived four episodes later.
* UndignifiedDeath: Unlike Abraham who "[takes] it like a champ," Glenn gets beaten desperately calling out for his wife while twitching in severe pain on the ground like a dying animal.
* TheVoice: In the pilot episode, where he's only heard over the tank radio at the very end.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Pretty literally so in "Conquer". The scene is very dimly lit, and Glenn is ripping Nicholas a new one for letting Noah die and trying to kill him. As Nicholas pathetically weeps for his life and tries to brace himself for the end, Glenn heavily contemplates killing him right there, but ultimately can't bring himself to do it and helps him back to Alexandria.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Maggie outlines to him that he is a smart, loyal and dedicated leader and is worth more than just being bait for a walker or a supply runner.
* YourHeadASplode: His head gushes out a geyser of blood as Negan strikes him again and again with Lucille.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:T-Dog]]
!!''Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm the one black guy. [[GenreSavvy You realize how precarious that makes my situation?]]"'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' [=IronE=] Singleton
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-3)

->''"C'mon, man, don't give me that gangsta shit."''

T-Dog is a member of the original survivor group and [[WordOfGod former football player]]. He feels that that he doesn't really have a place in the group, and seeks to find a way to prove himself to the others. By the third season, he has become one of the group's main fighters, working alongside Rick and Daryl. He is killed early in Season 3, when he gets bitten and then DevouredByTheHorde holding two walkers back so Carol can escape.
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* ActionSurvivor: T-Dog's not an ex-cop like Rick or a badass survivalist like Daryl, but he'll still step up to the plate and do his part if necessary. He [[TookALevelInBadass ups his credentials]] in Season 3.
* AdaptationNameChange: The group's original main TokenMinority in the comics is Tyreese. It is then revealed that they're a DecompositeCharacter in the show.
* BaldOfAwesome: Mostly in Season 3.
* BatterUp: Wields a baseball bat several times in the first season.
* TheBigGuy: He really steps into this role during the third season.
* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Has a HeroicSacrifice holding off a horde of walkers to save Carol in Season 3.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Lampshades this early in Season 2, after he becomes delirious due to a fever. He comments to Dale that both of them would be the first ones to go if their situation ever got bad enough, and thinks that he'll be "lynched". Averted in that he'd outlived several members of the group by that point. He sadly falls victim to this in Season 3's "Killer Within" where he is the first of the group to die in the season, although he is quickly followed by Lori in the same episode.
* BladeOnAStick: His primary weapon in Season 3 is a fireplace poker.
* CarFu: How he takes out a walker in "Beside the Dying Fire".
* CloserToEarth: T-Dog consistently proves to be an empathetic and reasonable man. He hears out the prison inmates when the rest of the group wants them dead or gone.
* CostumeEvolution: He starts wearing fingerless gloves at the end of the second season.
* TheCynic: There are several instances where T-Dog is revealed to have a rather bleak outlook on life, but often catches himself and tries to hide it. WordOfGod is that he doesn't really trust Shane or even Rick until Season 3.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite a few times, but most notably after the disastrous attempt to remove the well walker on Hershel's farm results in it splitting in half and dumping its guts into the well.
-->'''T-Dog''': (bashes the walkers brains in) "Good thing we didn't do something stupid like shoot it."
* DeathByAdaptation: Technically, since he's a DecompositeCharacter of Tyreese, who's the first casualty at the finale of the prison arc in the comics. Tyreese's main and actual counterpart in the TV show is SparedByTheAdaptation until mid-Season 5.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Season 3 shows that T-Dog has stepped up his game to become one of Rick's right-hand men and a much more competent survivor. We also see his more compassionate side when dealing with the prisoners. He is killed four episodes into the season.
* DecompositeCharacter: Since Tyreese debuted much later than in the comics, T-Dog filled his role as TheBigGuy in the first two seasons. He even received Tyreese's former football player backstory from the comics.
* DevouredByTheHorde: Knowing he's going to die soon, T-Dog sacrifices himself to a pair of walkers to allow Carol to escape.
* DistressedDude: In "What Lies Ahead", he cuts his arm and begins bleeding profusely while there is a herd of walkers headed their way. One begins advancing on him and T-Dog is helpless to fight back, forcing Daryl to step in and rescue him.
* DropTheHammer: He dispatches a few walkers this way.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: After being bitten and bleeding heavily, he still has the strength to hold off two walkers to allow Carol to escape from them.
* FullNameBasis: Played with. His nickname is a shortened version of his full name.
* GenreSavvy: He is well aware about how dangerous it is to be the [[BlackDudeDiesFirst only black guy in a group]].
* HeroicSacrifice: He holds some walkers off (knowing he'll die in the process) to allow Carol the chance to escape.
* TheKlutz: Deconstructed and PlayedForDrama. His dropping of the keys to Merle's handcuffs is frequently referenced, and he slices up his arm when there is a herd of walkers nearby.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He gets a riot shield at the beginning of Season 3.
* MauveShirt: He lasts longer than most of the other Atlanta survivors, but is still killed off early in Season 3 before he can get any major character development.
* MustMakeAmends: He feels terrible about dropping the key to Merle's handcuffs, even if the guy was a racist asshole, figuring that no one deserved his fate. He decides to go with Rick, Daryl, and Glenn to help rescue him, but by the time they get to the roof, Merle has cut his hand off and disappeared.
* NiceGuy: His most defining characteristic is how willing he is to help others and give people second chances, as shown when he volunteers to go back for Merle and advocates giving Axel and Oscar a chance to join the group.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: When things started to get bad, he drove his church van to the home of every senior he knew just in case they needed a ride to a refugee center.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Heck, he only mentions his real name while ranting under the effects of drugs and a fever!
* OutOfFocus: During Season 2. He gets a subplot in which he receives treatment for a nasty wound on his arm, but then does little for the rest of the season, going several episodes with barely any lines.
* RealMenLoveJesus: A manly man who's loyal to his faith, even during the apocalypse.
* SacrificialLion: Alongside Lori for Season 3. He's one of the group's most loyal founding members who dies a hero's death to save Carol.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the farm falls to the walkers, T-Dog escapes with Lori and Beth. He wants to head to the east coast, and is only convinced not to when Lori and Beth both threaten to leave unless he tries to find the others.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Along with the rest of the Atlanta scouting group.
* TokenMinority: In Season 2, he is the only black member of the group.
* TookALevelInBadass: He's earned his place as one of Rick's toughest fighters come Season 3.
* TwoFirstNames: Theodore and Douglas are commonly used as first names.
* ZombieInfectee: Receives an untreatable bite on his shoulder, close to his neck, when Andrew attacks the prison.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shane]]
!!''Shane Walsh''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You can't just be the good guy and expect to live. Not anymore."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JonBernthal
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-2, 3&9 [[note]]Hallucination[[/note]])

->''"Hell, man, if you think about it in the cold light of day, you are pretty much dead already."''

Rick's best friend and fellow police officer. He saw Rick in the hospital, then went back in to serve and protect. Before the hospital was given up for lost, Shane checked one last time on Rick. He heard no heartbeat but tried to leave things in a way that his friend would be safe if he did wake up. Believing Rick dead, he broke the news to Lori, which [[ComfortingTheWidow led to a full romance]], which was broken off abruptly when Rick returned.

Shane has not coped well since losing both his position as leader and his position in the hearts of Lori and Carl. He has a increasing ruthless streak which we get to see more and more of as the show progresses. He was killed by Rick in the penultimate episode of Season 2 after attempting to murder him to regain leadership of the group and Lori.
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* ActionDad: He is a surrogate sort to Lori and Carl when they all think Rick is dead. Likely one to Judith as well.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Due to being SparedByTheAdaptation, the show was able to emphasize his {{Deuteragonist}} [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain Journey To Villain]] via LoveMakesYouCrazy and [[LovemakesYouEvil Evil]].
* AgeLift: Shane is 25 at the start of the comics. He's in his mid-thirties in this one.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: For about ten seconds, after dying from a knife wound in the gut.
* AntiHero: He goes from being an UnscrupulousHero to a {{Nominal|Hero}} one over the course of two seasons.
* ApologeticAttacker: He tells Otis he is sorry before shooting him in the leg and leaving him as bait for the walkers.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: When he was the Atlanta group's leader.
* AttemptedRape: He tries to rape Lori at the CDC, though stops and leaves after she scratches his face. [[NeverMyFault Later he attempts to hint to her over breakfast the next day that he was just drunk.]]
* AxCrazy: Shane seems to think that MurderIsTheBestSolution and is very unstable as he shows to have a killer instinct in this world of survival of the fittest.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Subverted. For all his CowboyCop, "do what must be done" and "take over the farm" crap, Rick's the one that has to shoot Sophia after Shane doesn't have the nerve to do it. He also doesn't have the nerve to step in and deliver a MercyKill to the fatally wounded Dale, which is especially ironic considering their mutual antipathy.
* BaldOfEvil: After his ImportantHaircut.
* BigBadSlippage: He starts out as a genuine friend and helpful teammate to the group but as the struggles of the apocalyptic world continue, the more his ruthlessness and hostility grow which ultimately ends up with him becoming the BigBad.
* BloodKnight: He's far too eager to settle things with violence. His kill streak is nothing shy of him absolutely taking bloodshed UpToEleven.
* BloodFromTheMouth: After Rick fatally stabs him in the chest.
* TheCameo: Makes a brief appearance in Season 3 when the by that point [[SanitySlippage very unstable Rick]] hallucinates that a Woodbury guard is him. He makes another one in Season 9's "What Comes After", once again to an unstable Rick, who is on the verge of death.
* TheCasanova: Shane in his younger days had a really impressive streak of women he slept with, including a 30 year old married woman.
* CatchPhrase: "Let me ask/tell you something..."
* CharacterTic: He has a tendency to rub his head when stressed.
* ComfortingTheWidow: When he and Lori believe Rick is dead. It unfortunately leads him down the road to how he ends up. When he tries to kill Rick so he can do this again, he's killed for it.
* CompositeCharacter: Since his comic counterpart dies very early and Tyreese debuted in a later timeline than in the source material, Shane filled, if not took, pivotal elements of the former's CharacterDevelopment (specifically being TheLancer and the LoveTriangle gone bad storyline) and fused it with his own.
* CowboyCop: More so than Rick, though the cop part gets increasingly consumed by CrazySurvivalist
* CrazyJealousGuy: Begins developing into this after Rick finds the survivors and Lori & Carl go back to him.
* CrazySurvivalist: Increasingly throughout the second season.
* DeadPersonConversation: Rick sees a hallucination of him in Season 9 when he's at death's door.
* DeathByIrony: His reanimated self is shot and killed by Carl, the boy ''he taught'' to shoot.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: "Better Angels" depicts Shane's full descent into villainy, and ends with his death at the hands of Rick.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Subverted. Shane's death leaves Rick and Lori free to reconcile and raise Lori's child without his interference. For Rick, however, the damage has already been done, and he remains aloof and distant from Lori until shortly before her death in the fourth episode of Season 3.
* DeathSeeker: Has shades of this in his last scene as he gives Rick a chance to kill him and mocks Lori and Carl, as well as Rick's parenting and leadership choices, to his face. It works.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He's the second most prominent character of the first two seasons after [[TheHero Rick]].
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: His comic counterpart is shot through the throat by Carl and put down by Rick after reanimation, the inverse of the show in which Rick kills him and Carl offs his zombified form.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's the {{Big Bad}} and {{Villain Protagonist}} of Season 2, but is killed by Rick just one episode before the finale, where the remaining threat becomes the massive horde of walkers heading towards Hershel's farm.
* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: His overall mindset, especially in Season 2.
* DrillSergeantNasty: When training Andrea to shoot. He realizes that he's gone straight into {{Jerkass}} territory when he brings up "the walker that bit Amy".
* EntitledToHaveYou: Has this mindset towards Lori, partly due to the way she left him without turning back when Rick turned up alive and all the unresolved drama from her sudden departure. He spends an entire scene rubbing it in Lori's face all about how he saved her during the outbreak, clearly believing that she owes him. He also believes that when he's killed Rick, Lori will come running back into his arms, showing a severe case of self-delusion.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He does genuinely love Lori and Carl dearly. Unfortunately, it's this that sends him spiraling down his path to villainy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He disapproves of Carl cussing, and tells him to never talk like that again.
** Despite his firm belief that Sophia is dead, he still can’t bring himself to take her down when she is revealed to be one of the walkers in Hershel's barn.
** Like everyone else, he despises Ed Peletier and almost kills him after he hits Carol.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Rick, and also notably to Dale. The two have an affable, working relationship until Shane nearly shoots Rick in the woods, and they are at each other's throats all the way to Dale's death.
* EvilMakeover: Gives himself an ImportantHaircut when he starts his ProtagonistJourneyToVillain.
* FallenHero: He starts out as genuine friend to Rick and fine leader of the group. But when Rick returns from his coma, reunites with Lori and takes over as the group's leader, Shane gradually changes and things ultimately go FromBadToWorse from there.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: When he literally goes UnstoppableRage on Ed for abusing Carol in front of the other survivors and says if he touches them again he won't stop beating him.
* FatalFlaw: Several.
** His undying obsessive love for Lori. Also the need to keep everyone safe.
** His bad temper is another one because Shane ''really'' can't control his anger and emotions.
** Also his survival instinct as he feels the need to make the hard choices and do what's necessary for him and his group. This leads him into conflict with everyone as he may sound heartless but is really trying to do the right thing.
* {{Foil}}:
** He is naturally Rick's, being his second-in-command with a radically different approach to problems.
** To Otis. While Otis is not willing to leave him at the mercy of a walker horde, Shane has no intention of doing the same for Otis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shane's fate is foreshadowed at least twice by showing him looking and acting in walker-like ways. In "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS02E1018MilesOut 18 Miles Out]]", after fighting with Rick, Shane's reflection in a broken window is easily mistaken for a walker. And in "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS02E12BetterAngels Better Angels]]", when Shane kidnaps Randall, Jon Bernthal adds subtly terrifying walker body language to his portrayal.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted. When Carl brings him up in the middle of Season 4, Rick admits he remembers Shane ''every day''. It's revealed in Season 7 that Rick deliberately ''chooses'' not to talk about Shane, especially not to people who joined the group after his death. When Rick is suffering from severe blood loss, Shane is the first dead friend he sees.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He starts out as TheLeader, but during Season 2 most people in the group (except maybe Lori, Carl, and Andrea) start turning on him and losing respect for him.
* HairTriggerTemper: He develops this in Season 2, thanks in large part to his SanitySlippage. He has trouble keeping his anger under control and will go off on just about anybody.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: In "Better Angels", when he tries to murder Rick for the last time. Rick manages to talk him down, and for a moment Shane seems like he's listening. He lowers his gun, lets Rick close... and Rick stabs him in the heart. Justified in that Rick realizes Shane is beyond the pale of redemption and letting him live will only lead to him trying to kill Rick again down the line.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Especially poignant if you consider the title of the show.
* HisStoryRepeatsItself: Subverted. "Bloodletting" seems to imply that he's going to break the bad news about Carl getting shot to Lori the same way he told her that Rick got shot. Maggie ends up telling her instead.
* HotBlooded: He has a lot of trouble reigning in his emotions and is on the verge of yelling a lot of the time.
* IAmAMonster: Shane relishes what he has to live with and what he's done but knows what he did was for the good of the group.
* ICanLiveWithThat:
--> '''Rick:''' You gonna kill me in cold blood? Screw my wife, have my children, my children call you daddy?! Is that what you want? That life won't be worth a damn. I know you; you won't be able to live with this.
--> '''Shane:''' What you know what I can live with? You've got no idea what I can live with. With what I live with!!
* ImpliedDeathThreat: When Dale calls him out for considering shooting Rick, Shane insists he would never do such a thing to his best friend... but then asks aloud what he would do to an old man who can't keep his mouth shut.
* ImportantHaircut: After killing Otis he shaves his head. It also helps conceal the fact that he murdered Otis to escape rather than escaping because of a HeroicSacrifice on Otis' part, as Otis tore out a patch of his hair.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Refusing to take responsibility for the fish fry attack and blaming it on Rick. This holds no water whatsoever since Shane spent the last two months running the camp like a camping trip, making no effort to train anyone in combat, and allowed everyone to let their guard down. This resulted in well over half of the camp being killed and eaten by the horde.
* ItGetsEasier: Deconstructed.
--> '''Shane:''' There is nothing easy about taking a man’s life no matter how little value it may have. But when you get it done, you have to forget it. I guess I haven’t quite got that last part down.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The ultimate reason why Shane ends up a villain is that he believes that only he is strong enough to lead the group, and that he is the only one worthy of Lori’s love.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Shane pleas for Otis to leave him behind and take the medical supplies to the farm [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind Otis' refusal to do this]] has [[SadisticChoice unfortunate ramifications.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He grows into one after his ImportantHaircut. He casually threatens other group members' lives when they inconvenience him and handles most situations in the most aggressive way possible without giving much thought to how other people may think or feel about them.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Lampshaded by Andrea. He may be brutal, but most of his suggestions for the safety of the group are correct. He's just too ruthless, stubborn, and quick in trying to implement them. At least one suggestion from Shane that Rick does indeed heed is the very critical, pragmatic decision to train Carl to use a gun. In later seasons, Rick ultimately adopts much of his mentality to great effect. In Season 9, Rick's vision of Shane even expresses pride at Rick for taking a page out of his book, and making it work.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the first season. He tries to keep this up in the second season but fails due to all of the crap being laid upon him.
* KarmicDeath: Killed by his former best friend, after repeated attempts to murder him. Rick also stabs him in the heart, just to show how stung he was by the betrayal.
* KickTheDog: Oh yes.
** He shoots Otis and leaves him for the walkers to get time to run away. Although this was partly done to get medical supplies for Carl, he was saving his own skin, too.
** Threatening to kill Dale if he causes too much trouble.
** Ruthlessly massacring the walkers in the barn in front of Hershel, who, bear in mind, believed said walkers were his potentially curable friends and family.
* KickTheMoralityPet: He calls Lori "broken" and Carl "weak" in an effort to make Rick draw his gun.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Shane beating the crap out of Ed probably had a little more to do with his own frustrations than with doing the right thing, but damned if he didn't pick a deserving target.
** His murder of Randall might count, if you believe that Randall wasn't so innocent after all.
* TheLancer: Shane is Rick's right-hand man, and often offers completely contrasting advice, normally of a harsher nature.
* LawmanGoneBad: Was once a heroic officer, but the stress of the apocalypse led to selfish choices.
* TheLeader: When he was in charge of the group, Shane was a combination of Type III and IV.
* LikeASonToMe: He grows to truly love Carl in the time Rick is gone and his first truly ruthless course of action (sacrificing Otis) is partly to save the boy's life. However, in his final scene with Rick he calls Carl weak, despite being willing to kill his father to have Carl back as a surrogate son.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: His love for Lori partially fuels his SanitySlippage.
* ManipulativeBastard: He staged Randall's escape in order to lure Rick far out so he could murder him.
* MrFanservice: The writers seem determined to have him show as much skin as possible in Season 2.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Multiple times. If someone presents themselves as a threat, Shane's first instinct is to kill them. He ultimately follows through on it with Randall.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Shane nearly goes through with it. Twice. In "Better Angels", after trying it a third time and losing his nerve, Rick kills him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Or rather "My God, What Have I ''Almost'' Done?", if his expression of horror after considering to shoot Rick is anything to go by.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: His surname was added by the show.
* {{Narcissist}}: This is what he becomes after his SanitySlippage as he believes that he's the only one good enough to run the group and for Lori's love as he attempts to kill Rick multiple times and doesn't seem to care about him anymore.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: A strict believer of this philosophy.
* NeverMyFault: Rarely takes true responsibility for his actions. He blames Rick for the fish fry attack when it was his own fault for not having the group properly prepared for a possible attack and instead treating it like a long camping trip. He tries to pass off his AttemptedRape of Lori due to the fact he was drunk. Later, he starts rambling about his own problems when he initially tries to comfort Carol about the loss of her daughter.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He goes into UnstoppableRage mode when he sees Ed smack Carol hard enough to draw blood.
* PapaWolf: He is extremely overprotective of Carl and will go through extreme lengths to protect him from any threat. He also beats Ed to a pulp and warns him not to harm Sophia or Carol. In his DeadPersonConversation with Rick in Season 9, Shane voices his approval of Rick biting out Joe's throat (after Joe was about to allow Dan to rape Carl), and for his brutal slaughter of Gareth (after he threatened to eat Judith).
* PermaStubble: Grows a BeardOfEvil in [[SubvertedTrope at least in one of]] [[SanitySlippage Rick's]] [[{{Hallucinations}} visual hallucinations]], as the Woodbury soldier who kills Oscar.
* PetTheDog: Even as he slowly develops into an antagonist, Shane is capable of a few softer moments.
** He shows genuine concern for Rick after Carl is shot and is insistent that Rick remain behind while leaving the hard parts to him.
** He apologizes to Andrea when he tries to get her riled up to kill a walker and tastelessly brings up Amy's death.
** His scene with Carol after Sophia is found to be a walker and then shot. Even though [[BaitTheDog he does briefly begin to talk about his own problems]], he continues to show empathy and remorse for her afterwards.
** When Dale beseeches him one last time to join his argument to spare Randall, Shane decides that he will remain silent during the group discussion (everyone knows his position anyway), and claims that if Dale can successfully convince the group to spare Randall, he will not oppose them. While it's entirely possible he would've broken his word on the latter term, he does indeed remain largely silent during the group discussion. He later takes no visual pleasure from Dale's death and does seem slightly sympathetic when he sees his nemesis writhing in agony.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Over the course of Season 2. He goes from being TheLancer to Rick to the BigBad who causes many of the season's problems.
* RatedMForManly: He seems to have overdosed on testosterone.
* RedOniBlueOni: He is the Red to Rick's Blue. Shane has a bad temper and is prone to violence, while Rick is reasonable, even-tempered and always tries to find a peaceful solution. Even during their fight they both have contrasting colors as Shane wears a red shirt and Rick has a dark blue shirt.
* ReallyGetsAround: An entire scene in "Chupacabra" is devoted to he and Rick talking about his... ''escapades'' back in high school, including mention of the married 30-year-old PE teacher. He also gets with two of the three remaining original female group members as of Season 2 -- [[HelloAttorney Andrea]] and Lori.
* TheResenter: Of Rick.
--> '''Shane:''' You come back here and you just destroy everything!
* SanitySlippage: Mostly generated by guilt and rage.
** When Rick comes back from his coma, Shane loses his relationship with Lori and Carl. He takes it badly enough to contemplate shooting Rick to have his spot back as group leader and loved-by-Lori.
** When walkers close in on them, Shane shoots Otis, presumably so he can get away to bring the medical equipment to Carl, but also to save himself.
** Dale calls him out on pointing his gun at Rick. Shane asks Dale what he thinks Shane would do if he's the kind of man who'd shoot his own best friend.
* TheSheriff: Again, just a deputy, and junior to Rick. Also, no hat.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Repeatedly calls Rick out on thinking they can live like they used to, arguing that the rules of the old world don't apply anymore.
* SociopathicHero: He shows a distinct LackOfEmpathy towards most of the other group members and to all human threats, and routinely advocates the most ruthless or violent solution to every problem. Deconstructed in that such actions endanger the group by encouraging Hershel to kick them off the farm, and his behavior encourages Rick to kill him.
* SoProudOfYou: In Season 9, Rick's hallucination of Shane tells Rick that he is proud of how he hardened to protect his family.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: An excellent example until "Better Angels". For comparison, his comic counterpart died in Issue 6 which is covered in Season 1. This was actually one of the reasons Robert Kirkman wanted to do the show in the first place, so that he could more fully explore the character of Shane. And boy howdy did it have ramifications.
* StartOfDarkness: His murder of Otis is the first step into villainy.
* TheStarscream: Although Rick is not a BigBad, on at least one occasion Shane considers killing him and taking back leadership of the group. He also seems rather receptive towards Andrea's sarcastic suggestion that he kill Hershel to take over his farm.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Shane is ''literally'' half-an-inch short on fitting the trope to a T. [[note]]Jon Bernthal stands 5'10 1/2 [[/note]]
* TeamKiller: Kills Otis and threatens to kill Dale. Attempts to kill Rick three times.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He almost shoots Rick in cold blood and is very prone to KickTheDog moments.
* TragicBromance: With Rick. Before the whole thing, the two of them are practically brothers. But once Rick comes back, Shane's perfect life is over, which drives a major wedge between the two of them.
* TheUnfettered: He gradually loses his moral restrictions, including repeatedly considering killing Rick before ultimately being killed ''by'' him in the penultimate episode of Season 2.
* UnstoppableRage: Beats the ever living shit out of Ed for abusing Carol (and also to take out his anger about Lori telling him to stay away from Carl). He also goes into one when fighting Rick.
* WeJustNeedToWaitForRescue: Shane is proactive about finding the military, wanting to head to Fort Benning instead of waiting for the military to come to them. This is even after he has seen the military executing possibly infected civilians at the Harrison Memorial Hospital.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** He considers shooting Rick in "Wildfire" when they are alone, but ultimately can't go through with it.
** He ultimately fails this test in "Save the Last One" when he knee-caps Otis to save himself as well as bring the medical supplies a wounded Carl needs back to the camp, leaving him to be torn apart by walkers.
* WifeBasherBasher: He beats resident wife-basher Ed to a pulp, although it's also a way for him to take out his frustrations.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: He and Rick used to be really good friends, but the pressure of the ZombieApocalypse and the LoveTriangle with Lori drives a massive wedge between them, resulting in them arguing all the time and eventually trying to kill each other.
* {{Yandere}}: Of the obsessive flavor.
* YouWouldntShootMe: To Dale when he catches him trying to hide the group's guns. He's right.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dale]]
!!''Dale Horvath''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If I had known the world was ending, I would have brought better books."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JeffreyDeMunn
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-2)

->''"I may not have what it takes to last for long, but that’s okay. At least I can say that when the world goes to shit I didn’t let it take me down with it."''

Dale is an old man who is kind of the father-figure to the group. He is quiet and observant, and often something of a trickster as he'll let the others believe incorrect information if he believes it's in the best interests of the group. As the eldest of the group, he is also their moral center and voice of reason. However, this puts him at odds with the increasingly violent and dark Shane, and the group itself as they begin to harden to the world they live in. After making a desperate plea for the group's humanity, he is killed when he gets gutted by a walker on Hershel’s farm and Daryl is forced to MercyKill him.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Dale goes from an {{Anti Hero}}ic GrumpyOldMan in the comics, to a NiceGuy TeamDad in the show.
* AnAxeToGrind: He decapitates a walker with an axe in "Tell It to The Frogs".
* {{Archenemy}}: He has it out for Shane after witnessing him heavily consider shooting Rick, and always stubbornly stands in the way of what he wants. Shane considers him a GoldfishPoopGang, though.
* BadassBookworm: He has a ton of books in his RV that he lends out the other group members. He does regret not having a better selection, and states that he would have brought better ones if he had known the world was going to end.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't afraid of standing up to Shane regarding the latter's controversial decisions.
* BigOlEyebrows: Which the internet became fans of.
* BoomHeadshot: Via Daryl, to prevent Dale from suffering after getting attacked and gutted by a walker.
* ChekhovsSkill: Him teaching Glenn how to fix the RV comes in handy when Glenn is able to bring it back to life after Dale's death. Several seasons later, Glenn has a bittersweet smile when Abraham asks how he knows where an extra RV battery was, obviously remembering his old friend.
* CoolCar: His RV.
* CoolOldGuy: He lends out books to the group, swings an axe with the best of them, stands up to Shane's aggressive tactics, and tries to steer the group along a moral path.
* TheConscience: Even more so than Rick. Partly deconstructed though in that he can come off at times as preachy, and his moral advice is not always useful in the harsh situations the group find themselves in. In a deleted scene, he is aware that he is not well-suited for this position, unable to serve as a convincing counter to Shane's corrosive influence. He implores Lori, who thinks he's right but won't admit it, to serve in this role instead.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Poor guy gets his ''stomach ripped open'' by a walker. And then he's left writhing in agony on the ground for a good minute before Daryl finally gives him a MercyKill.
* DeadpanSnarker: A couple of times. Most prominent in a deleted scene where he hears a fundamentalist preaching through a radio that the apocalypse is backlash from God.
-->'''Dale:''' (After turning the radio off) Douchebag. Pervert. God spoke to me too. He said, Dale, if you ever run into that shitface on the radio, shove that mic up his ass for me. His Will be done.
* DeathByAdaptation: Dale dies toward the end of Season 2, during the farm arc. In the comics, Dale died at the cannibals arc, which the show covers in Season 5.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: "Judge, Jury, Executioner" revolves almost entirely around his efforts to convince the group to spare Randall. He dies at the very end of it.
* DecompositeCharacter: Since he dies early, all his CharacterDevelopment in the comics is given to Hershel, specifically his role as the TeamDad and the LifeOrLimbDecision storyline. Later, his role in the "Fear the Hunters" adaptation as the victim of the Hunters' cannibalism despite having been bit is given to Bob.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: His comic counterpart succumbs to a walker bite after having had his leg eaten by cannibals. Here he gets his stomach ripped open by a walker and is writhing for at least a minute before Daryl shoots him in the head.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: His sudden death at the hands of a walker is somewhat anti-climactic. He wasn't originally planned to go this way; the writers had to throw it in after Jeffery [=DeMunn=] quit the show in response to Frank Darabont (the original showrunner) being fired.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: He immediately didn't trust Shane when Rick first arrived with the group and warns the group many times about Shane's increasingly unstable behavior. He also accurately pegs Daryl as a decent man after witnessing how devoted he is to finding Sophia.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When Daryl prepares to put him out of his misery, Dale realizes what's happening, and solemnly leans his head into the gun, knowing he cannot be saved and that his time is up.
* FeelingTheirAge: He is an aversion as this 64-years-old can swing an axe like a much younger man, and is, in fact, one of the few capable combatants of the group (at least originally). He's seen effortlessly mowing down walkers with his rifle during the fish fry attack, and just as effortlessly with a pistol in a deleted Season 2 scene.
* GoldfishPoopGang: Shane considers him this, as a harmless old man with a big mouth, despite Dale constantly being a thorn in his side.
* GoodIsOldFashioned: The big concept that Dale's character adamantly fights against.
* GuileHero: He's willing to deceive his companions if he thinks it will keep the group together and safe. The archetypal example comes at the start of Season 2, when he lies about his RV needing repairs so that the group will be less inclined to abandon the search for Sophia. He even jokes about Glenn not having any guile.
* GuttedLikeAFish: By a walker's hands.
* TheHeart: The group's fatherly, compassionate moral compass.
* HonorBeforeReason: He defends Randall from execution on the virtue that killing someone for ''potentially'' being a threat is inhumane. Shane argues that Dale's way of thinking is far too risky.
* TheLancer: To Shane back when he led the camp. Once Shane becomes TheLancer to Rick, he's still got a high position in the group's hierarchy and Rick mentions after Dale's death that he often looked to Dale for his input whenever he made a decision.
* LikeASonToMe: Dale considers much of the group to be his own children (or grandchildren in Carl and Sophia's cases). Especially Andrea and Glenn, who are the most devastated by his death.
* TheLoad: Shane fervently claims he is this. Dale admits that he probably won't be able to survive for long in the apocalypse. Though he does die relatively quickly into the show’s lifespan, he doesn’t quite qualify for this, as he shows competence in battle against walkers.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Serves as a mentor, in both practical skills such as maintenance and more abstract skills such as moralizing and group cohesion, to several members of the group.
* MercyKill: Daryl [[BoomHeadshot puts him out of his misery]] after he is mortally wounded.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: His surname, which appears on the side of his RV, was added by the show.
* NiceGuy: Aside from Glenn, he is the most openly caring person in the group and his main focus is keeping everyone from doing immoral things to survive.
* NiceHat: His omnipresent white bucket fishing hat.
* OlderSidekick: During Shane's tenure as leader of the group, Dale is his second-in-command and works with him to maintain the camp.
* PartingWordsRegret: The group is devastated that their last interactions with Dale were rejecting his plea to spare Randall, causing him to voice his disappointment in them and say that the group was "broken".
* ThePhilosopher: Unlike the others, believes that this is the time where philosophical reflection and rumination on what world one wants to shape is at its most relevant. The thought dies with him.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted. He instead becomes a genuine father-figure to Andrea in this version instead of entering into a MayDecemberRomance with her like in the comics.
* SacrificialLion: While he is far from the first character death on the show, he is the first main cast member to die. Though Hershel replaces him as the group's TeamDad and moral center, the loss of Dale reflects a loss of much of the humanity the cast had in the first two seasons.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Well, he's still polite, but he never hesitates to speak his mind, much to the ire of Shane.
* TeamDad: Dale is the member of the camp most dedicated to keeping it together, and who takes the most time to make sure its members are OK. [[OverprotectiveDad Whether they want him to or not.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He grows to hate Shane with a passion after his first attempt to kill Rick, but the both of them are still willing to work together for the survival of the group.
* TemptingFate: "I'm not going anywhere, and you're not going anywhere." By the end of the following episode, both he and Shane are dead.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Dale is one of the gentlest members of the camp, and a constant supporting figure to everyone, especially Andrea. His death is huge gut punch to the group (and, by extension, the viewer), reinforcing the idea that ''nobody'', no matter how good-natured, is safe.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: He is repeatedly exasperated that this seems to be humanity's response to the apocalypse.
* WarriorPoet: A downplayed example. He is capable in combat, and earnestly believes that philosophy and culture provide the path to salvation.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He had an affable working relationship with Shane, the camp's initial leader, but the moment he catches Shane pointing his rifle at Rick, any friendship between the two immediately evaporates.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: After taking the guns to prevent Shane from arming everyone to kill the walkers in the barn and take over Hershel's farm, he has the opportunity to kill Shane, who he knows is a threat to people in the group. However, he can't bring himself to actually pull the trigger and take a human life.
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[[folder:Jacqui]]
!!''Jacqui''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jeryl Prescott Sales
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1, 3 [[note]]Voice[[/note]])

Jacqui is a survivor who worked for the Atlanta city zoning department, and uses knowledge from her job to aid the survivors. She chose to commit suicide by staying in the CDC with Doctor Jenner when it exploded.
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* AnAxeToGrind: In "Vatos", when the walkers attack the camp, Jacqui is armed with an axe.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Chooses to die on her own terms, instead of eventually becoming a victim of the walkers.
* CanonForeigner: Never appeared in the comics.
* DrivenToSuicide: Dies by way of [[KillItWithFire thermobaric munitions]] in the CDC by her own choice.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Spends her last moments calmly holding hands with Dr. Jenner as the clock winds down.
* {{Hallucinations}}: In "Hounded", she is one of the people who calls Rick during his hallucinations.
* MauveShirt: Survives and makes it all the way to the CDC base, only to succumb to her despair and commit suicide when the base self-destructs.
* OnlyOneName: Her surname is never mentioned.
* SassyBlackWoman: She gets plenty of smart jabs out.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Introduced with the rest of the Atlanta scouting party in the second episode of Season 1.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's spelled Jacqui, not Jackie.
* TogetherInDeath: She's the only one who decides to stay behind with Dr. Jenner.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Aside from cracking a joke about how she misses her vibrator while doing laundry with the other ladies, she doesn't really say or do much of anything to make her stand out during the first season. This kind of diminishes the impact of her dramatic declaration of suicide that comes out of nowhere, as we watch her die alongside a scientist whom we also ''just'' met.
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[[folder:Jim]]
!!''Jim''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Do you hear that? That's the sound of God laughing while you make plans."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AndrewRothenberg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1, 3 [[note]]Voice[[/note]])

->''"You know, the only reason I got away was 'cause the dead were too busy eating my family."''

Jim is a survivor in the original group. He was infected during a zombie attack on the camp. He was left behind after asking to die from the infection, feeling he didn't deserve to live for failing his family.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: His ultimate fate, as he chooses to reanimate in the hopes of reuniting with his family.
* BatterUp: His primary weapon is a baseball bat.
* DespairEventHorizon: His family's death, although he manages to keep going until getting bitten.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In "Vatos", he mentions that he thinks he did this, having dug numerous graves before the walker attack on the camp.
* DyingAlone: His own choice, as he wants to be left alone so that when he comes back as a walker, he might be able to [[TogetherInDeath find his family.]]
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: When a group of walkers attack their camp, some of them find out the fatal way that he still remembers what happened to his family, and is still utterly pissed off about it.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Knowing there is no hope for him, he decides to be left alone by a tree to die.
* GreaseMonkey: He is the group's mechanic, having been an auto mechanic before the ZombieApocalypse.
* {{Hallucinations}}: In "Hounded", he is one of the people who calls Rick during his hallucinations.
* MauveShirt: He's a secondary character who is killed off to show the direness of the zombie apocalypse, establishing the group as a DwindlingParty.
* NiceHat: He is wearing a blue cap in almost all of his scenes.
* SanitySlippage: He may have dreamt the future, or just gone completely insane. Not even he is sure which.
* SurvivorsGuilt: He only managed to escape from walkers because they were so busy eating his family.
* UnstoppableRage: He goes berserk in the zombie attack on the camp, beating several of them to death while screaming in fury.
* ZombieInfectee: He tries to hide it and begs Jacqui not to give it away. However, she's smart enough to tell the rest of the group immediately. Jim is the first character to depict the suffering an infectee goes through all the way until he is just about killed by it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Summer]]
!!''Summer''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Addy Miller
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 1)

The very first walker to appear on-screen in the series.
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* AscendedExtra: Was a one-shot unnamed character in the TV series. It is only in ''The Walking Dead Social Game'' that you learn that she was a survivor in the Atlanta camp. While at the camp, her mother, father, and uncle are all killed. After losing her family, she runs away, and is eventually bitten by a walker.
* BoomHeadshot: Naturally, Rick kills her zombified form by shooting her in the head.
* CanonForeigner: She never appeared in the comics.
* DeathOfAChild: The very first walker we see in the series (and by extension, Franchise/TheWalkingDeadTelevisionUniverse) is this little girl.
* EmpathyDollShot: Her Teddy Bear doll was laying on the ground until she picked it up, before Rick learned she's already a walker.
* FacialHorror: Part of her face was mauled by walkers.
* ItCanThink: She seems to retain enough of herself post-reanimation to stop and pick up her discarded Teddy Bear before moving along.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Summer's name wasn't revealed until ''The Walking Dead Social Game'' was released, as she was left unnamed in the TV series and was previously known as the "Little Girl Walker".
* NotAZombie: In the intro for the pilot episode, while looking beneath a car Rick sees a little girl's feet shuffling along. However, once he sees her fully after standing up and she turns to his voice, he realizes she's a zombie, and promptly [[BoomHeadshot blows her head off]].
* UndeadChild: She's already zombified by the time we see her.
[[/folder]]
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* TheGenerationGap: The sisters' 12 years age difference is also separated by the different generations they belonged in (Andrea was from Generation X, while Amy was a Millennial), though they still have a healthy relationship.

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* DeathOfAChild: The very first walker we see in the series (and by extension, the ''Walking Dead'' television franchise) is this little girl.

!!Merle Dixon

!!Ed Peletier

!!Sophia Peletier

!!Andrea Harrison

!!Amy Harrison

!!Morales

!!Miranda, Eliza, and Louis Morales

!!Glenn Rhee

!!Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas

!!Shane Walsh

!!Dale Horvath

!!Jacqui

!!Jim

!!Summer

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A few of them are only seen in "Days Gone Bye" and "Guts" before disappearing and are KilledOffscreen.

A survivor camp just outside of Atlanta populated by stranded refugees and people who managed to escape the city. They fell in under Shane Walsh's leadership, and held out hope that the military or government would eventually come to their rescue. However, upon the arrival of Rick Grimes, it became clear that this rescue would never come, and the camp unofficially declared Rick as their new leader.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His children were both killed.

* PetTheDog: While it doesn't last, he is genuinely moved to hear that Glenn managed to find a wife in the apocalypse.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Emma Bell