History Characters / TheWalkingDeadTVShowGradySurvivors

* FamousLastWords: "Don't let go."

* HeroicSacrifice: He tries to make one, choosing to stay behind at the hospital so Beth can leave. However, it becomes a moot point when Beth is killed moments later.
** Tyler James Williams stated that Noah intentionally let go of Glenn's hand in the revolving door to keep the latter from getting taken down with him. His FamousLastWords ("don't let go") were actually his way of reminding Glenn to not lose his humanity.

Grady Memorial Hospital has been occupied by a group of Atlanta Police officers that keep the hospital running, which a single doctor, and rescue injured survivors, only to then keep them performing menial labor to keep the place running.

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** While definitely not a nice person, she can be considered downright ''pleasant'' compared to all the other [[BigBad Big Bads]] Rick's group has faced over the course of the series (i.e. The Governor and Gareth).

[[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRicksGroup Rick's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGrimesFamily The Grimes Family]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRickGrimes Rick Grimes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowKingCountySurvivors King County Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMorganJones Morgan Jones]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaCampSurvivors Atlanta Camp Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowDarylDixon Daryl Dixon]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowCarolPeletier Carol Peletier]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaSurvivors Atlanta Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowHershelsFarmSurvivors Hershel's Farm Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowDaveAndTonysGroup Dave and Tony's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowPrisonNewcomers Prison Newcomers]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMichonne Michonne Hawthorne]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowWoodburySurvivors Woodbury Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheGovernor The Governor]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTyreesesGroup Tyreese's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheChamblerFamily The Chambler Family]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMartinezsGroup Martinez's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheClaimers The Claimers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | '''Grady Memorial Survivors''' | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWolves The Wolves]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAlexandriaSurvivors Alexandria Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheSaviors The Saviors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowNegan Negan Smith]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowFormerSaviors Former Saviors]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheHilltop The Hilltop Colony]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheKingdom The Kingdom]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOceansideSurvivors Oceanside Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheScavengers The Scavengers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheHighwaymen The Highwaymen]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowJocelynsGroup Jocelyn's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowBloodsworthIsland Bloodsworth Island]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]])]]]]-]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Christine Woods

!!Characters first introduced at Grady Memorial Hospital in the [[LiveActionAdaptation television show]] ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':

* AmbiguousDisorder: Confirmed by WordOfGod she suffers from [[SuperOCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder]].

* FakeGuestStar: Appears in 10 of the season's 16 episodes until his death in the fourteenth episode.

* WorkOffTheDebt: The society she has set up is basically IndenturedServitude. They rescue/abduct people from the wilderness, use their supplies to treat them, then force the abductees to work off the value of the medicine used. However these workers then still need to eat while working, so the cost of food keeps the debt high. According to Noah, who had been at the hospital for about a year, he had never seen someone successfully work off their debt.

* ADeathInTheLimelight: In "Spend", he gets more lines than normal and forms a friendship with Reg, who gives him a journal to chronicle the events in Alexandria, and offers to teach him how to reinforce the walls. Noah ends up dying midway through the episode, leaving only one line written in the journal.

** WordOfGod states that he intentionally let go of Glenn's hand in the revolving door to keep the latter from getting taken down with him. His FamousLastWords ("don't let go") were actually his way of reminding Glenn to not lose his humanity.

* WorkOffTheDebt: The society she has set up is basically IndenturedServitude. They rescue/abduct people from the wilderness, use their supplies to treat them, then force the abductees to work off the value of the medicine used. However these workers then still need to eat while working, so the cost of food keeps the debt high.

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[[folder: Joan]]

[[folder: Percy]]

!!!Police

!!!Wards

->'''Portrayed by:''' Christine Woods

-->''"Beth, in this job you don't need their love. But you have to have their respect. Otherwise, the day's gonna come when you need backup and you don't have it. And what comes next? Everybody goes down."''

->'''Portrayed By:''' Erik Jensen

-->''"Art isn't about survival. It's about transcendence. Being more than animals. Rising above."''

->'''Portrayed By:''' Cullen Moss

-->''"When someone does you a favor, it’s a courtesy to show some appreciation."''

->'''Portrayed By:''' Maximiliano Hernandez

->'''Portrayed By:''' Teri Wyble

->'''Portrayed By:''' Ricky Wayne

->'''Portrayed By:''' Christopher Matthew Cook

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TylerJamesWilliams

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KeishaCastleHughes

->'''Portrayed By:''' Marc Gowan

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Tyler James Williams

* BlackBestFriend: He is the only genuine friend Beth makes during her time in Grady.

* GrayAndBlackMorality: The cops are either {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s or downright pricks.

* BigBad: From the fourth episode of Season 5 until her death in the midseason finale.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The rest of the Grady Memorial cops neither like nor respect her.

* LesserOfTwoEvils: What many in the hospital consider her leadership, when compared with living outside with the walkers.
** While definitely not a nice person, she can be considered downright ''pleasant'' compared to all the other [[BigBad Big Bads]] Rick's group has faced over the course of the series.

* TheNeidermeyer: She neglects to discipline her subordinates, thus enabling abuse in the mistaken assumption this will gain her their admiration and respect. In reality, she has neither.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He tricks Beth into poisoning Trevitt, a fellow doctor he's treating, so that he remains valuable to Dawn as the group's only remaining doctor. This leads to Noah being beaten, when it could have easily been Beth.
* DirtyCoward: At heart he's this. And worst of all, he's aware of it.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He resorts to this to justify tricking Beth into killing the newly arrived Dr. Gavin Trevitt, whom Edwards considers a threat, since some of the officers might kick him out or kill him if they got a more compliant doctor.

* PutOnABus: Stevens chooses to stay behind at the hospital after Dawn's death, along with most of his companions.

* {{Jerkass}}: Beneath his cocky jerkass exterior lies a rapist. Most of the time he's on screen he's harassing Beth or threatening Edwards.

* KickTheDog: Shoves Percy (an elderly man) to the ground.

* DrivenToSuicide: After her arm is amputated, she opens up the stitches as a form of suicide.

* TheDogBitesBack: She deliberately kills herself in Dawn's office (after scratching "Fuck You" onto the floor) so that she can turn and attack her for allowing Gorman to rape her. By a happy coincidence she instead kills Gorman.

* SpearCarrier: A rather small but well characterized role for a somewhat well known actress like Keisha Castle-Hughes.

!!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 eight seasons read at your own risk!

* AintTooProudToBeg: Immediately after shooting and killing Beth, she begs for her life. Daryl instantly shoots her in the head.

* AssholeVictim: Absolutely no one cares after Daryl shoots her in the head.

** While definitely not a nice person, she can be considered downright ''pleasant'' when compared to all the other [[BigBad BigBads]] Rick's group has faced over the course of the series.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Her officers consider her a terrible leader and want her out of power. This is driven home when no one mourns for Dawn or tries to avenge her death.

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* {{Foil}}: Yet another to Rick, as a cop who became a leader of survivors. To further contrast herself from Rick, she's (judging from her uniform), an urban city cop as opposed to Rick, who is a small town cop. Since she's the big bad for several episodes in the Fifth Season, she also counts as something of an EvilCounterpart to Rick.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: When she and Beth kill O'Donnell, who was pretty much TheStarscream of the team.

* DefeatMeansRespect: After Rick's group bests them, they let them live and even offer to allow them to join their community, though they don't let Beth live.

* FillerVillain: Their story arc is inserted between storylines actually adapted from the comics, and, compared to other villains, their impact on the series as a whole is comparatively minimal.

* IndenturedServitude: Summed up in their motto of "you consumed resources, now you have to give back something in return."
* MightMakesRight: It is heavily implied that they run through this. Seems to be the case when Dawn starts warming up to Beth when she realized that the latter is not weak like she initially thought. Their DefeatMeansRespect attitude towards Rick and co. after they defeated them and after Dawn's death supports this.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: It's not only Gorman but also Shepherd and others who consider her a terrible leader and want her out of power. And to show this, no one grieved or tried to avenge her death.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Immediately after shooting and killing Beth, she begs for her life. Daryl immediately shoots her in head.

* AssholeVictim: ''Nobody cared'' when she died.

* BigBad: From the fourth episode of the fifth season until her death in the midseason finale.

* DarkActionGirl: Demonstrated in her fight with O'Donnell.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Dies in the midseason finale of Season 5.

* DirtyCoward: Joan calls her this for allowing cops like Gorman to abuse them. Dawn purposefully neglects to reprimand her subordinates, falsely believing doing so earns their respect, but will lash out at weaker individuals like Beth.
* FairCop: Downgraded because of the uniform and neatly tied up hair.
** Which gives her shades of TheBaroness.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Berates O'Donnell for having become corrupted by power and abusing the wards, while Dawn herself has beaten them and turned a blind eye to the others' abuses until it threatened her position.

* KickTheDog: Repeatedly hits Beth when she's angry, for no reason. At least when she helped beat Noah she could use the flimsy excuse of discouraging further mistakes. And then she kills Beth, which gets Dawn herself killed by Daryl.

** While definitely not a nice person, she can possibly be considered downright ''pleasant'' when compared to all the other big bads Rick's group has faced in the first seven seasons.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her reaction to killing Beth was one of immediate remorse. Daryl doesn't have it and shoots her dead anyways.
* TheNapoleon: Despite that she is short in stature, she has absolutely no qualms in who she picks a fight with, especially being downright abusive towards Noah.
* NecessarilyEvil: She justifies her acts as keeping Grady Hospital together until aid arrives. However she's deluded, as no help is coming, so all her cruelty is for nothing.
* TheNeidermeyer: Neglects to discipline her subordinates thus enabling abuse in the mistaken assumption this will gain her their admiration and respect. In reality she has neither.

* TheStarscream: Another man named Captain Hanson had been in charge of the hospital survivors, but according to Dawn and Dr. Edwards, he was a "good man," but he made some mistakes and got people killed. Edwards mentions that Dawn "dealt with" Hanson and took over. This precedent comes back to bite her when numerous other cops, including O'Donnell and Lamson, are willing to repay her in kind.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Believes her actions, which tantamount to running the hospital like a female prison from an exploitation film, are for the greater good while the government regains control of the city.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: See his threat to Gorman and manipulation of Beth into killing Trevitt.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Resorts to this to justify tricking Beth into killing the newly arrived Dr. Gavin Trevitt, whom Steven considers a threat to him being allowed to stay at the hospital, since some of the officers might kick him out or kill him if they got a more compliant doctor.
* KarmaHoudini: Survives "Coda" without any kind of punishment for using Beth to commit murder.
* ManipulativeBastard: Manipulates Beth into poisoning a potential rival so he can secure his position within Grady.

* NiceGuy: Subverted somewhat. He is one of the few people at Grady Memorial to treat Beth kindly, but he still endangers her and kills an innocent to protect himself.
* NonActionGuy: He considers himself one and invokes it to justify turning a blind eye to the abuses in the hospital and deceiving Beth into killing potential rival Gavin Trevitt.

* CorruptCop: A reprehensible human being, even for ''The Walking Dead'' and even after coming off of the grisly ''Fear the Hunters'' arc. He harasses and rapes the women under his care freely.

* KarmicDeath: Gets EatenAlive by the zombified version of the woman he was raping regularly.

* TheStarscream: Hinted when he comments that Dawn won't always be in charge.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Begs Rick to take him back to the hospital so he can get healed and promises that he can still help him. Rick disagrees.

* CompositeCharacter: In addition to being a CanonForeigner, he actually receives some aspects of comic book Martinez's storyline that the TV show Martinez didn't. Specifically, he pretends to be an ally to the group, only to betray them and try to escape. Similar to what happened with Martinez in the comics, Rick ends up hitting him with a car and murdering him after letting him beg for a minute. It is also ambiguous on whether or not he was actually going to betray the group or simply work to save the good people in his group.
* OhCrap: Literally says "oh shit" when he hears Rick speeding up to run him over after Lamson ignores his warnings to stop running.

* SherlockScan: He immediately figured out that Rick is a former cop after a few seconds of interaction with him by noting the way he talked and his body language.
* TokenGoodTeammate: According to Noah, he's one of the good cops. Maybe subverted after the events of "Crossed".
* TooDumbToLive: Practically invoked. Rick tells him several times to stop running. He doesn't stop running and gets hit by a car. Rick tells him he could've avoided all this if he stopped running.
* SurvivorGuilt: He tells Sasha he keeps thinking about a fellow police officer who traded jobs with during the start of the outbreak, causing Lamson to live at Grady while the other died in a napalm blast.
* WouldHitAGirl: Kicked Sasha into a window so he could escape.

* DragonAscendant: Steps up after and takes control of the situation after Dawn is killed. That the other officers follow her indicate their respect for her.

* MeaningfulName: A sheperd keeps the flock in order, much like what his group is doing to the ones they "rescued". This plays more straight after she takes command of Grady following Dawn's death.
* NiceGirl: Of all the cops, she's by far the friendliest, and even makes sure nothing happens to anyone in Rick's crew after Daryl kills Dawn. She even appears to be respected enough among her fellow officers to take command following Dawn's death.

* TheStarscream: She's one of the officers that want to remove Dawn from command, even offers Rick to take her down in exchange for freedom.
* YouAreInCommandNow: It is implied that she's the new leader of Grady after Dawn's death.

* AssholeVictim: Killed by Beth in "Coda".

* DisneyVillainDeath: After Dawn incapacitates him by breaking his larynx, Beth pushes him down the elevator shaft.
* {{Jerkass}}[=/=]{{Hypocrite}}: He advocates putting Carol out of life support because of the waste of resources, but Beth points out he does exactly that by constantly recharging his portable dvd player.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Dawn started as rookies together and were good friends, with Dawn celebrating at the hospital with O'Donnel when his child was born. Post-ZombieApocalypse, the two now despise each other, with O'Donnel critical of what he considers Dawn's weaknesses and Dawn disgusted that he has become corrupt and abusive.

* WouldHitAGirl: Attacks Dawn after she pulls her gun on him. When Beth tried to intervene, he bitch-slapped her.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nearly kills Daryl in a fight, but in all fairness he ''was'' defending himself from what he believed to be a threat. In the following episode, he agrees to help Rick's crew get Beth and Carol back, and doesn't retaliate when Dawn dies.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Reanimates after committing suicide.

* CompositeCharacter: Several of the horrors of the Woodbury arc (which the Grady Memorial arc revisits in BroadStrokes) that were left out of Season 3 are inflicted on Joan. Like Michonne, she is kept as a SexSlave and repeatedly raped. She also attempts to escape and, like Rick, has her hand amputated (along with the rest of her lower arm). Her final (written) words are "Fuck you," same as Alice's last words.
* DespairEventHorizon: Getting raped by Gorman, which leads to her escape attempt and later suicide.

* SpearCarrier: Its a rather small but well characterized role for a somewhat well known actress like Keisha Castle-Hughes.

* ZombieInfectee: Gets bitten on her right arm by a walker while trying to escape, but Edwards amputates her arm just below her elbow to save her.

* CoolOldGuy: He helps out Beth in "Crossed", distracting several guards while she sneaks into Edward's office.

* NiceGuy: Is completely willing to help out Beth despite not even knowing her.
* OlderSidekick: Helped Beth in "Crossed".

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Due to her small stature, she's a lot stronger than she look.

* ActionSurvivor: He is far from being a NonActionGuy, but not exactly competent enough to qualify as a bonafide ActionHero.

* AintTooProudToBeg: He understandably starts begging for his life when Daryl considers leaving him under a bookcase to be eaten (Noah had recently tried to steal his and Carol's supplies). Thankfully, Daryl decides to save him.
* BlackBestFriend: To Beth.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Ends up being EatenAlive while pressed up against the glass of a revolving door, so that Glenn can witness every slow, gruesome detail. One of the walkers even tears out his right cheek as he screams in pain.

** WordOfGod states that he intentionally let go of Glenn's hand in the revolving door to keep him from getting taken down with him. His FamousLastWords ("don't let go") were actually his way of reminding Glenn to not lose his humanity.
* HopeSpot: Dies in the same episode Reg gives him a journal to chronicle the building of the Alexandria community. He writes a single line before his death.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: An aversion, which is worth mentioning on this show. He fails to headshot a walker with Daryl's crossbow, instead impaling it through the throat. However, he does get better with a gun by the second half of the season.
* {{Irony}}: His first and only entry in his journal says "This is only the beginning."
* TheLoad: He's a terrible shot with badly injured legs whom Rick and co. have had to save from Walkers many times in only a few episodes since meeting him. By "Spend", however, he's definitely gotten better with a gun. Doesn't save him.
* MadeOfIron: Drops down an elevator shaft onto a pile of bodies, and manages to walk away through walkers on what appears to be a broken leg. He later stalks Daryl and Carol through Atlanta. By the time he's running from Grady's cops he's limping badly, but it's impressive he's still going.
* MauveShirt: He is introduced fairly early on in season 5 and ends up joining the group, but dies two episodes before the finale.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The likely reason why Noah was killed off before the end of Season 5 is because Tyler James Williams was cast in ''Series/CriminalMindsBeyondBorders''.
* ShipTease: With Beth. Nothing will ever come out of it, though. In Alexandria, Tara teases him about being interested in local resident Holly, but he is killed shortly after the discussion.

* SixthRanger: Assists Rick's group in the Carol/Beth rescue mission and ultimately joins them for good at the end of "Coda", lasting six more episodes until his death in "Spend."
* SoleSurvivor: He's the lone survivor of Shirewilt Estates until the fourteenth episode of the fifth season.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "Spend" it's shown that his skill with a gun has improved drastically. Too bad he dies in the same episode thanks to Nicholas' cowardice.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While he means well, his actions have caused the deaths of both Beth and Tyreese.

* ActionSurvivor: He is far from being a NonActionGuy, but he's (still) not competent enough to qualify as a bonafide ActionHero.

!!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 seven seasons read at your own risk!

* FauxAffablyEvil: Beneath his cocky jerkass exterior lies a rapist.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the time he's on screen he's harassing Beth or threatening Edwards.