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!Hershel's Farm Survivors

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!!The Greene Family

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A family living in Georgia introduced in the second season. They own the Greene farm and welcome Rick's group onto the property, as their farmhand Otis accidentally shoots Carl. Hershel initially stresses that the group must leave the farm when Carl has fully recovered, but to his dismay finds that Rick begins to plead for the group to stay - and that Glenn and his daughter Maggie have fallen in love. The Greenes are revealed to have been keeping a dark secret for months - that they are keeping their undead friends and family in their barn, Hershel having convinced his family that they are sick people who can be cured. Livid, Shane forces the family to learn the horrible truth when he forces his group to massacre the walkers, breaking Hershel and Beth in particular.

However, Hershel is roused from his depression when Rick convinces him there is still hope, and comes to trust the group as his own extended family after realizing they are good, loyal people. Hershel agrees to allow the group to move onto the farm permanently as the winter approaches, but they are forced to flee when a herd of walkers overruns the property. The Greenes are forced to join the group on the road, proving to be vital assets and leaders in the battle-worn group.

While Hershel becomes TheMentor to Rick and a second-in-command, Maggie becomes one of the group's main fighters, and Beth becomes one of Judith's primary caregivers and secondary defenders. The family is able to pull through the Woodbury War unscathed - with Maggie marrying Glenn shortly before its' climax - and grow comfortable at the prison until The Governor returns with a vengeance. Hershel is captured and executed, to the horror of his daughters, who are separated when the prison finally falls. Maggie goes with Sasha and Bob to find Glenn, and eventually rejoin the main group.

Meanwhile, Beth is abducted by the cops of Grady Memorial Hospital, and gets herself killed after a hostage exchange. Tragically, Maggie is, as of Season 5, the last surviving member of the Greene family, who still hold sway in the group's hearts to this day long after their deaths.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Their comic counterparts weren't presented as a BadassFamily. The trope also applies to them individually.
* AdaptedOut: Out of Hershel's ''seven'' children in the comics, only [[PosthumousCharacter Shawn, Arnold]] and Maggie showed up. Beth is a CanonForeigner.
* BadassFamily: Rick and co., along with the ZombieApocalypse, forced them to be.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Played with. Beth is obviously the blonde. Maggie's auburn hair is more evident in her first appearances (it was her actress' natural hair color), while Hershel's actor has brown hair in his youth.
* CantRefuseTheCallAnymore: The destruction of the farm leads them to accept the new state of the world and follow Rick's group to survive.
* DeathByAdaptation: Arnold Greene was killed in the comics' version of the barn massacre. Here, he's one of the walkers in said barn.
* DecompositeCharacter: Hershel only had one dead wife in the comics.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: After they become a BadassFamily. Most notably in the Season 3 premiere, where they all work together to clear the prison.
* FarmBoy: If owning a farm is not obvious enough.
* FarmersDaughter: Maggie and Beth, the former more so.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: They were first introduced with three males (Hershel, Jimmy and Otis) and three females (Maggie, Beth and Patricia).
* TheHeart: The Greenes are widely considered as ''the'' family of the show more than the Grimeses.
* HonoraryUncle: The Greenes eventually become more of a family to the Grimeses and to most of their eventual TrueCompanions. In fact, the Greenes may well be considered the second most prominent family next to the Grimeses.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Well, a whole family of them. The Greene family is so prominent in the show that some people would think they've been around since the beginning. They didn't even actually show up until the second season.
* MissingMom: Maggie and Beth's respective mothers were dead before the series began.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Hershel's late wife in the comics is unnamed. The show's DecompositeCharacter are respectively named Josephine (1st) and Annette (2nd).
* TheOneGuy: Of the surviving members of the family, Hershel is the last remaining male.
* OnlyOneName: Otis, Patricia and Jimmy. In short, anyone who is not a Greene.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ZigZagged. The family relationship in the comics got shuffled a bit. Hershel's late wife is split [[DecompositeCharacter into two characters]], Shawn was only Hershel's step-son, where he's his biological son in the comics. Likewise, Arnold, one his sons in the comics, became the nephew of his first wife instead.
* ReligiousBruiser: They're very religious, and by Season 3, they're a very BadassFamily.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: They, along with the surviving farm residents, are all introduced in "Bloodletting", the second episode of the second season.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: They're often seen praying together.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Unfortunately, the family starts dropping like flies.
* TookALevelInBadass: While Hershel may have always been tough, his daughters eventually become combat proficient fighters by Season 3.
* TrueCompanions: With the other farm residents below. Eventually to the main group itself.
* ZombieAdvocate: They keep walkers in a barn until mid-Season 2, thinking they are sick people.
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[[folder:Hershel]]
!!''Hershel Greene''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I can't profess to understand God's plan, but when Christ promised a resurrection of the dead, I just thought he had something a little different in mind."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottWilson
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Víctor Agramunt (Spanish dub), Yasuo Muramatsu (Japanese dub), Eberhard Mellies (German dub), Michel Ruhl (French dub), Dario Penne (Italian dub), Jan Vlasák (Czech dub), Géza Tordy (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-4, 9 [[note]]Hallucination[[/note]])

->''"You step outside, you risk your life. Take a drink of water, you risk your life. Nowadays you breathe, you risk your life. Every moment now, you don't have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for!"''

Hershel is the owner of a farm that was mostly spared by the zombie apocalypse. He allowed the survivors to stay on the farm during their search for Sophia, but secretly kept a barn full of walkers, including his wife and step-son, believing they were simply sick. After the group is forced to leave the farm, his medical knowledge is vital to their survival and makes him one of their main assets and leaders.

When the group occupies the prison, Hershel tries to keep Rick on a moral path during the conflict with Woodbury and encounters with other survivors. After the end of the battle against Woodbury and the growth of the group in the prison, Hershel begins growing crops in the prison yard to provide food for the group. He becomes the head of the council leading prison (and by extension the leader of the entire community), and finds himself forced to step up to the plate when most measures to contain the plague fail. He is killed by The Governor in the mid-season finale of the fourth season as part of a bid to take over the prison, but dies happy that Rick has embraced his last lessons - that you ''can'' come back from the things you do to survive.
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* AbusiveParents: His father beat him badly, causing Hershel to leave the farm until he died. He himself averts this trope: he's a loving father and patriarch to his family.
* ActionDad: When he needs to be.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: He is more emotionally stable than his comic counterpart ever was.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. Having his children reduced to mainly two [[note]] Hershel has several children in the comics, all of whom sans Maggie were {{Mauve Shirt}}s. [[/note]] and him [[AdaptationalNiceGuy being much more likable]] might have helped. The only time he came close to this was when he fell OffTheWagon after the mid-Season 2 finale, which he also quickly recovered from.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's more combat proficient than his comic counterpart as evidenced in the Season 2 finale. Also, losing his leg doesn't stop him from [[HandicappedBadass kicking]] walkers' ass. He even conceals a gun on his leg stump.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is more doting and compassionate than his comic counterpart.
* TheAlcoholic: He was a heavy drinker in his youth but made the choice to get sober the day Maggie was born. He briefly falls off the wagon when he is forced to face the reality that the walkers are dead.
* AnArmAndALeg: Due to getting his right leg bit while searching for Maggie and Glenn in the prison, Rick promptly makes a tourniquet then uses a hatchet to cut off part of the leg below the knee to stop the spread of the infection.
* AndStarring: He's this for the "also starring" list in Seasons 2 and 3. When he finally gets PromotedToOpeningTitles in Season 4, he is mostly credited last but without the "And" citation. This is so that Creator/DavidMorrissey (The Governor) can reclaim his "And" billing from Season 3.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: His decapitated head reanimates not long after his death, and Michonne tearfully puts it down.
* ArtificialLimbs: Has a peg-leg in Season 4.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He quotes from Literature/TheBible in several episodes.
* BackForTheFinale: He appears in several flashback scenes in the Season 4 finale, eight episodes after his death.
* BadassBookworm: He is well-versed in Literature/TheBible, being a devoted Christian and all.
* BigGood: During the first half of Season 4 when he is the head of the prison council.
* BreakoutCharacter: Originally Hershel was to be killed off before the end of the second season (and again in the third), but Scott Wilson's warmth in his performance convinced the show runners to keep him on. After taking his level in kindness, Hershel became one of the most beloved characters on the show and eventually one of the show's major characters, to the point that his death became the emotional climax of the climactic prison war and is now regarded as one of the most tragic and powerful moments of the entire series. Robert Kirkman even noted how hard it was to kill off Hershel, expressing sadness that Wilson wouldn't be on set the following year. Prior to the mid-Season 4 finale, an entire video tribute was put together by the cast and crew, bidding farewell to Wilson and referring to him as a "legend". Two years after his character's death, Wilson was even the first induction into the ''Walking Dead'' Hall of Fame at the Season 6 fan premiere event. It's very easy to say that of all the characters killed off in the show, Hershel is one of the few characters that ''everyone'' misses.
* CartwrightCurse: Both of his wives died.
* CharacterDeath: Decapitated by The Governor in "Too Far Gone".
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a slightly gruff, pushy old man to a loving, nurturing TeamDad with the wisdom to lead an entire community of survivors.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Despite being a veterinarian, Hershel mostly treats the various scrapes, bullet wounds, and arrow wounds that the survivors tend to accumulate. He's also the prison group's main doctor during the flu epidemic, as Dr. Caleb quickly succumbs.
* CombatMedic: He's the team's main medic for his entire tenure on the show, and also great in a fight.
* CompositeCharacter: His characterization for the prison arc (specifically the leg amputation and also becoming the TeamDad of the group) was fused with comic-Dale's, due to the latter's [[DeathByAdaptation early exit]] from the show. The circumstance before and after the bit are more similar to Allen, being bitten by a hidden walker while clearing out the prison and being bedridden for a time afterwards. He also takes Tyreese's death from the comics.
* CoolOldGuy: He's approaching seventy, but is an excellent shot and medic, dispenses good advice to the group, has a little seen but witty sense of humor, and is extremely calm under pressure. [[BigBad The Governor]] even admits to admiring him for being a good man when he's captured him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Similar to Tyreese's fate in the comics, Hershel's neck is slashed in a botched decapitation attempt, and then after he desperately crawls away a few feet, it's followed up by the Governor hacking brutally away at the neck to behead Hershel completely.
* CrusadingWidower: The loss of both of his wives isn't enough to stop him from kicking ass.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Internment" mostly revolves around his attempts to manage the illness spreading through the prison while waiting for the others to return with medication.
* DeadPersonConversation: A heavily wounded Rick speaks with a hallucination of Hershel in Season 9.
* DeadStarWalking: Gets promoted to the main cast of Season 4, but only appears in six episodes and with one being in a flashback.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Season 4 heavily emphasized his role as the group's TeamDad. His ADayInTheLimelight episode was also [[VillainEpisode the last episode centered around the group]] before the mid-season finale where he eventually met his end. Scott Wilson remarked that even he started getting vibes that this trope was in effect, noting his speech about risking your life and "Internment" focusing on him were clear signs that Hershel's time was running out.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Something must be said for Hershel’s last actions in life after The Governor mortally wounds him. Despite literally dying, he still makes an admirable, if vain, effort to crawl away to safety. The Governor literally has to finish decapitating him for him to finally stop trying to survive, a clear sign of what a strong person Hershel was right to the end.
* DespairEventHorizon: When he sees his walker neighbor shot and then put down by Shane. Then Shane forces his own group to massacre the walkers in the barn, including Hershel's zombified family and neighbors. He manages to recover quickly, thanks to Rick.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: While his comic counterpart is also killed by The Governor, it's via BoomHeadshot after he had passed the DespairEventHorizon.
* DoesntLikeGuns: But he sure knows how to use them.
* DrowningMySorrows: After the walker barn massacre and realizing that the walkers can't be helped.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: The fact that he was able to crawl away with ''his head still barely attached to his body'' is nothing short of amazing and shows how much willpower Hershel had even in his last moments on Earth.
* EasilyForgiven: He has an astounding amount of forgiveness in his old body, to the point of calmly advocating a peaceful merge with The Governor's militia.
* FarmBoy: He grew up on his farm and inherited it after his parents died.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Completely averted. His absence is still very much felt long after his death, both in-universe and among the fandom. Maggie even names her and Glenn's son after him.
* GoodParents: He cares deeply for his children, and everything he does is because he has their best interests in mind.
* HandicappedBadass: After losing a leg, Hershel does not usually exit the prison since he can no longer run (an inevitability on supply runs, as Daryl notes in Season 4). However, he quickly proves that he is still perfectly capable in close-combat with walkers, as evident when after a few minutes on his crutches, he ''uses them as weapons to kick walker ass''. Rick even brings him to the sit-down with The Governor that could potentially become a firefight, crutches and all.
* TheHeart: Takes this job from Dale upon his death, and becomes perhaps the greatest example of this trope on the show. Dale was unwilling to accept killing a living man, deeming that they couldn't come back from doing such a thing. Tyreese later also avoided killing as best as he could. Hershel, on the other hand, believes that you can come back from the horrific things you do to survive, and thus accepts the violent, dangerous world full of horrible people he lives in. He even shows empathy for The Governor at times, though it's clear he'd kill him if it really came to it. After his death, Rick is disturbed to find that the people of Terminus basically became what he could've become if he hadn't had Hershel around to guide him, proving just how vital Hershel's position as TheHeart was to the group.
* HeroicBSOD: He goes into one when Shane proves that the walkers aren't alive and kills all of them in the barn, including Hershel's wife and stepson, and he is forced to face the full reality of the zombie outbreak and the death of his loved ones.
* InformedJudaism: Inverted. He is Jewish by ethnicity and has a Jewish name, but is a deeply religious Christian.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Hershel is initially very mistrustful of Rick's group during their stay on the farm, and does not appreciate their desire to stay permanently. While he is indeed quite a bit of a {{Jerkass}}, events in the latter half of the season prove that his fear of hostile groups invading his farm is perfectly justified when he, Rick, and Glenn encounter Dave and Tony's group.
* KillTheCutie: The lovable, sweet old TeamDad has his head brutally, slowly hacked off by The Governor after being a hostage.
* KindlyVet: He was a veterinarian before the apocalypse.
* LastStand: Tries for one in the Season 2 finale but gets rescued at the last moment by Rick.
* TheLeader: He's a part of the council running the prison in the fourth season, and thanks to his wisdom and warm heart, is clearly the one with the most authority, making him the true leader of the prison community until he's captured and executed by the Governor.
* LittleBrotherIsWatching: In Season 4, when the prison has a block full of sick people, he takes extra precautions to make sure none of the patients witness him taking dead bodies from the block. Later during a walker outbreak he draws the walkers away from a cell with two children so they don't see him killing them with a shotgun.
* TheMedic: As a veterinarian, he's the closest thing the group has to a doctor. Also serves as the CombatMedic in Season 3, until he loses his leg.
* MoralityPet: To Rick. Hershel is a sort of father figure to Rick, who he looks to for advice to do the right thing. Hershel even smiles proudly when Rick pleads to settle things peacefully with the Governor and his group, claiming that people aren't too far gone and can change from the bad things they have done.
* NiceGuy: After [[TookALevelInKindness warming up to Rick's group]] he essentially becomes Dale's replacement as the moral compass who is compassionate and friendly.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Hershel saving Rick's son and letting the survivors stay on his farm ends up being something he later regrets. His oldest daughter gets into a relationship with Glenn, much to his disappointment. Rick and the survivors refuse to leave the farm and guilt trip him about it. Finally, he watches in disbelief as his family and friends (whom are walkers) in the barn are slaughtered by Shane and the survivors after they find out about it.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Hershel reveals to Lori that he's a veterinarian, not a practicing surgeon. This does not comfort Lori at all considering that he's about to attempt a complicated surgical procedure on a critically injured Carl.
* NumberTwo: Along with Daryl to Rick during Season 3. He is Rick's closest confidante, [[TheMentor his mentor]], and is let in on things the rest of the group isn't; plus, he and/or Daryl are put in charge several times during Rick's absence. We get a number of scenes where Rick confers with just Daryl and Hershel regarding their next move. Carl even suggests Rick take a break from leadership at one point and hand the reins to Hershel and Daryl. Merle refers to him and Daryl as Rick's "inner circle".
* ObiWanMoment: He gives Rick a warm, knowing smile before his decapitation.
* OddFriendship: With Merle in Season 3. They share two mutual things: they are amputees and they like quoting Literature/TheBible.
* OffTheWagon: Following the barn massacre of the walkers. Luckily, he gets better quickly.
* OffWithHisHead: His ultimate demise, courtesy of the Governor using Michonne's sword, in "Too Far Gone".
* OpenHeartDentistry: After Carl is shot, Hershel has to operate to remove the bullet fragments, but he has only done the procedure on animals before, since he is a veterinarian.
* PapaWolf: Both to his blood relatives and his step-kids.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Rick. Upon Lori's death in childbirth and Rick's subsequent SanitySlippage, he nobly takes it upon himself to more or less raise Judith for Rick while he recovers from his latest loss and arguably becomes the honorary grandfather for both Judith and Carl. In Season 9, Rick tearfully hugs his hallucination of Hershel like a child hugging his parent.
* ThePatriarch: Both of his family and somewhat for the group.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Downplayed. Hershel wouldn't harm a fly if it came down to it, but before his CharacterDevelopment, he initially only refers to Glenn as the "Asian boy", although he never treats him poorly. He later tells Glenn the country was built on immigrants, however. In the same conversation this is averted, as he gives Glenn his father's watch after realizing that Glenn and Maggie are attracted to one another, saying, "No man's good enough for your little girl until one is."
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 4.
* ProperlyParanoid: "Nebraska" shows that Hershel is very right to fear hostile survivors invading his farm when he, Rick, and Glenn run afoul of Dave and Tony.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When he returns to his farm after recovering from his HeroicBSOD, the first thing he says to Shane when he raises his voice? A scathing attack in which Hershel makes clear in no uncertain terms that Shane is only allowed to be on his property because of Rick's request, and that he thinks he's a selfish prick who needs to go.
* ReligiousBruiser: He is the TokenReligiousTeammate of the group as well as the resident tough old guy.
* SacrificialLion: In Season 4, his death takes place alongside the destruction of the prison, the show's setting for a season and a half, and ultimately leads to Rick being forced to retake command of the group.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Towards the fact that walkers are no longer people. Shane shooting one without it dying convinces him he is wrong.
* ShipperOnDeck: He ultimately comes to love and respect Glenn as a worthy man for his daughter, and later happily gives his blessing for Glenn to marry Maggie.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He wields a pump action shotgun on occasion, most notably one with [[BottomlessMagazines unlimited ammo]] in "Beside the Dying Fire."
* SoProudOfYou: He doesn't actually say anything, but he smiles when Rick gives his speech about how you aren't too far gone to come back from the terrible things you do. Rick's hallucination of him in Season 9 also expresses nothing but pride and gratitude to Rick for everything, even after Rick apologizes for being unable to prevent his own death, as well as the deaths of Beth and Glenn.
* StepfordSmiler: At the end of "Internment", he puts on a brave, smiling face after finally containing the plague, but the trauma of losing so many friends on his watch causes him to break down and cry once he's alone, and he can't even find solace in the Bible.
* TeamDad: Takes the role over from Dale after he dies, and much more effectively. It helps that he's actually the dad to two members of the group. By Season 3, he advises on how to care for Judith, advises the rest of the group on relationships, is Rick's main source of advice, and is the one who tries hardest to help Rick with his loosening grip on sanity. He ends up being the TeamDad to the entire prison community in the fourth season, and his death at the hands of the Governor immediately launches everyone into action.
* TechnicalPacifist: He knows how to use a gun, but just doesn't like to.
* TheTeetotaler: He hasn't had a drop of alcohol since Maggie was born. He briefly relapses in the aftermath of the barn massacre, but gets better thanks to Rick.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: One of the few group members to keep any faith in God after the apocalypse started.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: By Season 4, Hershel has basically become the embodiment of everything that is still good in the world. So of course he has to die a horrific death in front of his family and friends.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts as a very untrusting prick before mellowing into the compassionate TeamDad that everyone loves.
* TragicKeepsake: His watch, which he passes on to Glenn, is still in the group's possession long after his death.
* UndyingLoyalty: After he realizes what the walkers really are he becomes a very loyal supporter to Rick. At the end of Season 2 he is one of only two members in the group, besides Daryl, to still trust Rick's leadership, and by Season 3 he has taken up the role of TeamDad, giving Rick advice and trying to help him come back from the dark path he is taking. Maggie even mentions in the Season 5 finale how he was loyal to Rick and believed in him, and that is the main reason why Maggie herself chooses to believe in Rick as well.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** He is prone to giving these to Rick and his group during their early days on his farm, until he mellows out. However, during Season 3, at the end of his patience with Rick, he yells at him to get his shit together and do something about the threat of Woodbury, raising his voice for the first time in a season. Even Merle looks surprised at his outburst.
** He later rightfully gives Rick hell about considering handing over Michonne to the Governor, and expresses immense disgust at Carl's execution of an ambiguously surrendering Woodbury soldier.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: He is wearing his IconicOutfit when he dies.
* ZombieAdvocate: He originally considers them merely sick people who can one day be cured until Shane finally demonstrates otherwise by shooting one through various vital organs to no effect. After this, he has no trouble helping to kill walkers.
* ZombieInfectee: Briefly, though Rick manages to amputate his leg. He is one of the few people in the series to survive being bitten by a walker.
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[[folder:Maggie]]
!!''Maggie Rhee (née Greene)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've been fighting since the farm. Can't stop now."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenCohan
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Olga Velasco (Spanish dub), Ayaka Shimoyamada (Japanese dub), Nana Spier, Ranja Bonalana ["The Other Side" and "Something They Need"], Sonja Spuhl ["A New Beginning" to "What Comes After"] (German dub), Marie Giraudon (French dub), Chiara Gioncardi (Italian dub), Zsanett Andrádi (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-11)

->''"We all know the plan doesn't end this morning. That we may have to live in uncertainty for days, maybe more. That we have to keep our faith in each other. If we can hold on to that with everything we have, the future is ours. The world is ours."''

The oldest daughter of Hershel, Maggie Greene is the most welcoming member of her family to the group. Quickly establishing herself as smart, pragmatic, and dependable, she finds herself quickly falling in love with Glenn Rhee, entering a passionate relationship with him as the Atlanta group and the Greene family integrate. After the fall of the farm, Maggie becomes one of the group's main defenders and scavengers, regularly seen on the frontline, and marries Glenn after the end of the Woodbury War.

Months later, Maggie loses her father to The Governor, and also believes that her sister has perished as well. After a lengthy quest to reunite with her husband, Maggie is elated to find that her sister is alive, but is broken when on the same day, she discovers Beth's death. For weeks, Maggie is despondent, developing a close friendship with Sasha when both of them lose their loved ones, until the group arrives at the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Realizing the community is safe enough for a sustainable future, Glenn and Maggie agree to conceive a child together.

Maggie also begins to step up as a key leader of Alexandria, serving as Deanna's right-hand woman and later as the liaison between Alexandria and Hilltop Colony. When Maggie needs treatment from Hilltop's Dr. Carson, the group tries to get her there, only to be captured by the Saviors. Maggie is then forced to watch Abraham die next to her, and then Glenn is killed after Daryl lashes out. Glenn is able to tell Maggie that he'll find her some day before perishing, and Maggie is the first of the group to get up after their ordeal and demands they fight back. After being taken to Hilltop, Maggie is asked to stay there indefinitely by Dr. Carson, and begins to win the hearts of the locals when she leads the charge in fending off a Savior attack.

By the end of Season 7, Maggie has usurped Gregory's position as the leader of Hilltop Colony, and leads her community into war with the Saviors. Maggie finds herself often overwhelmed by the strains of leadership, particularly when the other communities are forced to evacuate to Hilltop, but strives to see the war through to avenge Glenn's death. As such, Maggie is devastated and enraged when Rick and Michonne ultimately end the war by sparing Negan's life. Feeling betrayed by her friends, Maggie begins building up Hilltop to shift the balance of power in the rebuilding communities so she can go behind Rick's back one day and kill Negan. She nearly goes through with it, but relents after seeing how far into despair Negan has fallen suffering in his imprisonment. After Rick's apparent death, Maggie leaves the region to build a community out west with Georgie, leaving Jesus in charge of Hilltop.

She does not return for several years until the end of Season 10, in which she learns of the conflict with the Whisperers and decides to return. She arrives during the FinalBattle against the horde, with an entire group, the Wardens, in tow - and is enraged to find Negan a free man and living amongst the community…
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* ActionGirl: [[CharacterDevelopment Develops]] [[TookALevelInBadass into one]]. Starting in Season 3 she's able to hold her own alongside the toughest and most competent fighters in the group such as Daryl and Rick. By the time the season ends, she's the most skilled gun user of all the women.
* ActionMom: To her son, Hershel.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Compared to her initially fragile comicbook counterpart, she's more assertive and emotionally strong from the get-go. She doesn't suffer from DrivenToSuicide like her comics counterpart does following the destruction of the prison and the death of her family.
* AdaptationalBadass: She's a credible ActionGirl here compared to the comics. In fact, she is the most competent female member of the group in Season 3 until Michonne joins them.
* AdaptationalCurves: She's notably [[StatuesqueStunner taller]] and more [[MaleGaze well-endowed]] than her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: She’s generally much kinder and emotionally warm and stable than her comic counterpart. In the comic she (in a fit of grief) blames Rick for not having the guts to stand up to Negan before he killed Glenn. In the show she completely understands the dire situation the group was in and doesn't even hold Daryl (who indirectly got Glenn killed) responsible.
* AgeLift: From 19 in the comic to 22 in the show.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark red hair, is tall, and usually composed.
* {{Ambadassador}}: In Season 6 she is the diplomat between Alexandria and the Hilltop, and takes little shit from resident asshole Gregory.
* BackToBackBadasses: With Sasha in "Alone" when they are surrounded by walkers near an ice cream truck.
* BadassBoast: When the Governor is about to rape her. It stops the Governor dead in his tracks.
-->'''Maggie''': Just do whatever you're gonna do and ''go to hell''.
* BadWithTheBone: When being held by Governor and Merle, she and Glenn use a walker's bone as a weapon to attack Merle and one other {{Mook}}. Said other {{Mook}} is killed by stabbing the bone into his neck, anyway.
* BatterUp: Though Season 3 sees her switch to MacheteMayhem alongside Glenn.
* BattleCouple: With Glenn until his death in Season 7.
* BigDamnHeroes: Along with Elijah, she arrives in the nick of time to save Gabriel from being killed by some Whisperers in "A Certain Doom".
* BigEater: In Season 7, since she's pregnant, her appetite really begins to pick up.
* BigGood: Of Hilltop Colony starting in Season 7, and then for the entire Resistance as of the mid-season finale of Season 8, when Hilltop is the only allied colony left and she plans to rally everyone there for a last stand. She ends up deferring to Rick in the twilight days of the war. She is also this to the Wardens, the group she began leading during his six years away from Virginia.
* BigShutUp: In Season 8, she aims a sharp "Shut your damn mouth!" at [[DirtyCoward Gregory]].
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Beth and Carl.
* BoobsOfSteel: A tough ActionGirl played by the very busty Lauren Cohan.
* BreakTheCutie: Starts off as a sweet, kindly farm girl who accepts Glenn and his group with open arms, but ends up nearly getting raped, loses her entire family, and also loses her faith by mid-Season 5. Defied after the Season 5 finale, as even after Glenn himself dies, she is able to rebound from these tragedies and keep it together, even if she's no longer the sweet girl she was when we met her.
* BrokenBird: What she has become as a result of the death of her father, her little sister, and her husband.
* BrutalHonesty: When she first had sex with Glenn, she admitted it was partly because she was lonely and her options weren't numerous these days. Afterwards, she claims it was a one time thing. Later she becomes more willing to tell it like it is, as seen when she rips into Gabriel during "Them".
* TheBusCameBack: After being absent for about a season and a half, she returns to the show in "A Certain Doom".
* ButNowIMustGo: Leaves the Washington area in Season 9 to help Georgie build up other settlements across the country. She admits to Daryl that it was partly because she still had Negan on her mind and didn't want her son growing up knowing the man who killed his father was still around.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Hershel wants to kick Rick's group off of the farm, she chastises him, partly because she doesn't want Glenn to leave.
* TheChainsOfCommanding:
** Taking leadership of a large community just at the onset of a war certainly is no easy task for Maggie. She has to contend with ever-dwindling food and supplies, a large amount of POW's brought in by Jesus (and against her will), and an overpopulation crisis when the other communities are sacked and their populations relocate to Hilltop. In "Do Not Send Us Astray", she is forced to bury dozens of her people after the Saviors' biological attack on Hilltop.
** She doesn’t have it much better when she rejoins Alexandria with her new group, the Wardens. Many of them are picked off by the Reapers and she also has to contend with the fact that her husband’s murderer is a free man.
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a flirty, feisty farm girl to a wise, powerful and forgiving young woman and the leader of the Hilltop Colony.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Downplayed in Season 11. While she’s still more or less the same woman who left in Season 9, she’s endured six years of hardship and raising a child alone and as she relates in “Acheron, Part II”, has seen some truly horrible things. She’s more capricious and pragmatic upon her return.
* CompositeCharacter: In the comics, Maggie has an older sister. Here, she takes the role of Hershel's eldest child. She also becomes the group's main (female) sniper in this continuity (until Season 5 when Carol and Sasha step up) instead of Andrea, due to the latter becoming an AdaptationalWimp and later [[DeathByAdaptation dying]]. She also takes aspects from Michonne during the Woodbury arc as she was almost raped by the Governor (though Michonne ''was'' raped) and had a loved one decapitated by him.
* ContraltoOfDanger: She has a fairly deep voice and is an ActionGirl.
* CoolBigSis: To Beth and later a surrogate one to Enid.
* CruelMercy: She ends up choosing to spare Negan after seeing how much he really wants to die and realizing that keeping him alive is a FateWorseThanDeath.
* CrusadingWidow: When she's under the impression that Glenn is dead. Later, when he actually does die and the rest of the group is too demoralized to move, she starts making plans to kill the man who did it while grieving over his body and so ill she can barely stand. Negan learns the hard way that you don't want to be on the wrong end of ''this'' CrusadingWidow in the Season 7 finale.
-->'''Negan''': That widow is alive, guns a-blazing!
* DaddysGirl: Maggie was very close to her father. She is seen crying and screaming when the Governor kills him.
* DamselInDistress: Kidnapped by Merle alongside Glenn, but gets rescued, even killing one of the guards holding them captive.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In addition to escaping Merle, she is also taken hostage alongside Carol at the end of "Not Tomorrow Yet", and manages to break free and kill her captives, as well as their reinforcements.
* DeathGlare: She shoots some nasty ones at Negan in the last few episodes of Season 10. Understandable, since she still hates him for killing Glenn and wasn't around to witness his HeelFaceTurn. It's little wonder Carol tried sending Negan away for his own safety.
* DeathWail: She lets out an agonizing one as her father is slowly, brutally executed that also doubles as an aggressive roar of war, since at the same time she's unleashing hell on The Governor's militia. She gives another agonizing one after seeing Daryl carrying a lifeless Beth out of the hospital. She lets out another one when Glenn's head is smashed twice with Lucille, and once the Saviors leave, is a sobbing, wailing wreck once she finally breaks down.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After having sex with Glenn she tries to claim it was just a one-time thing, but she slowly warms to Glenn and admits she likes him, and later is the first of the two to profess her love for him. Then this trope is flipped when ''Glenn'' has to come around to the idea that he loves her. It paid off, to say the least.
* {{Determinator}}: One of her defining traits. Maggie has suffered more than almost anyone on the show, but she ''always'' keeps on moving and never gives into her grief or undergoes any SanitySlippage.
* DeterminedWidow: While she has always been a determined PluckyGirl, after Glenn's death she's still determined and competent. She is nicknamed "The Widow" by Negan.
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Maggie gets right to the point when she wants Glenn.
-->'''Maggie''': (''grinning'') [[RefugeInAudacity I'll have sex with you]].
* EleventhHourRanger: Arrives at the Tower near the end of "A Certain Doom" to save Gabriel from being butchered by some attackers.
* EtTuBrute:
** Maggie feels betrayed when Rick spares Negan and when Michonne supports it at the end of the Savior War.
** She's shocked to learn that Carol was the one who let Negan out of his cell, though she later admits to Daryl that she also understands Carol's reasons for doing what she did.
* EvilStoleMyFaith: Midway through Season 5, so many bad things have happened that Maggie admits she's lost her faith, but eventually she regains it after the group proves that they're there for her. This is something that sticks around in Season 7, as even after Glenn dies, she is still able to find comfort in saying grace with her friends Sasha and Enid.
* FakingTheDead: While she's away at Hilltop in Season 7, Alexandria digs a grave for her and tells Negan she has died of her illness. This is so Maggie can be at Hilltop for treatment from Dr. Carson without drawing Negan's suspicion about her whereabouts, and so Negan also does not learn of Alexandria's alliance with Hilltop. The ruse is cast off as Maggie personally leads the Hilltop Colony into battle against Negan himself in the season finale, and Negan is shocked to learn of her survival.
* FanservicePack: Helps that she's played by former model Lauren Cohan.
* FarmersDaughter: {{Lampshaded}} by Glenn.
* FieryRedhead: She's never afraid to voice her opinion or back down in an argument.
* ForcedToWatch: She's made to watch the execution of her father, along with the rest of the main cast. It happens again in Season 7, as Abraham and her husband Glenn are killed right in front of her.
* FriendlySniper: By Season 3, she's easily the best marksman among the female cast and by the end of the season she appears to have become the group's primary sharpshooter. In the Season 2 finale, she indicates that her upbringing on the farm may have had a hand in her proficiency with firearms. By Season 5, she shares this role with Sasha and Carol as the latter [[TookALevelInBadass radically steps up her game]].
-->'''Maggie:''' You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two.
* GiveGeeksAChance: In a deleted scene, Glenn asks if she would have noticed him if not for the apocalypse, seeing as he was "a huge geek" in high school. Maggie tells him not to be sure she wouldn't have noticed him: "I like geeks."
* GoodIsNotSoft: She's one of the most moralistic characters on the show, but isn't afraid to kill if she has to, with her first victim being a Woodbury guard who she stabs in the throat with a walker bone. Notably, the only other unambiguously "heroic" characters to have taken human lives at that point in the series -- not including [[MercyKill Mercy Kills]] -- are Rick and Michonne. And while most of those kills are in some way self-defense, she's one of the few people to flat-out murder someone, since she's [[FriendlySniper a good enough shot]] that she ''intentionally'' kills a militia girl in Woodbury.
* HappilyMarried: Maintains a loving, happy, and healthy marriage to Glenn for several seasons until his death in Season 7.
* HeroAntagonist: In early Season 9, she and Daryl plot to kill Negan behind Rick's back despite knowing Rick is keeping him alive to honor the late Carl's wishes. They take preventive measures to keep Rick from reaching Alexandria to stop Maggie and further defy Rick's vision of a peaceful society by letting Oceanside kill Arat, the last of the Saviors responsible for the massacre that claimed the lives of their men and sent them into hiding. Maggie's reasons for wanting Negan dead are extremely justified, however, given Glenn's death and how Rick basically pulled a MyWayOrTheHighway in his decision to spare Negan's life while ignoring how Maggie really felt about the situation.
* HonoraryAunt: To Judith. They share a big hug after reuniting for the first time in almost a decade, and are also shown bonding at the start of the next episode. It's even more heartwarming when you remember Maggie was the one who delivered Judith when she was born at the prison all those years ago.
* HorsebackHeroism: When she saves Andrea at the beginning of Season 2.
* IllGirl: Starting at the end of Season 6, she has complications with her pregnancy, and is more or less rendered helpless until the group can get her to Hilltop.
* ImportantHaircut: Goes to have BoyishShortHair around the time she's expecting her first child.
* JackOfAllStats: After becoming a well-rounded ActionGirl in Season 3. She's good with firearms, but not as great as Rick, Daryl, Hershel, or Carl. She's effective in melee combat, but not as competent as Rick, T-Dog, Glenn, or Michonne. By Season 5, her marksmanship is only matched by Carol, Sasha, and Rick.
* KickTheDog: When Gabriel tries to make small talk with her and let her know [[YouAreNotAlone she can talk to him about her family if she needs to]], she snaps at him and chastises him for leaving his flock to die. Gabriel may have needed it, but he ''was'' going out of his way to try to do ''something'' beneficial to the group since he's TheLoad, which is about the nicest thing he does in Season 5.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Leaving her husband's murderer to rot in a cell for the rest of his life instead of granting him an easy MercyKill.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Tearfully puts down the reanimated Sasha.
* TheLeader: She becomes the leader of Hilltop Colony in Season 7 after proving herself to be a much more competent, compassionate leader than Gregory ever was. In Season 8, with Alexandria and the Kingdom destroyed and everyone forced to flee to Hilltop she becomes the leader of the entire resistance, though she shares command with Rick towards the end of the war. As of Season 10, she's the leader of a small group from Meridian consisting of her, Hershel Rhee, Cole, Elijah, and a few other survivors.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: There's no indication that she changes her last name after marrying Glenn. She finally does so in Season 7 after his death.
* TheMourningAfter: She still wears the wedding ring Glenn gave to her nearly a decade after his death, as her reappearance in "A Certain Doom" shows.
* MsFanservice: She takes off her shirt and bra on more than one occasion, although the ShamefulStrip by the Governor in Season 3 is most definitely [[FanDisservice not fanservice]]. In Season 6, she and Glenn have a nude ShowerOfLove scene and the camera takes a [[MaleGaze long look]] at her from behind. This trope ends up going away after Season 6, however. While she is still beautiful and often dresses well, she no longer gets any sort of fanservicey scenes or outfits.
* MyGreatestFailure: The fall of Hilltop in her absence is implied to be this for her. Despite already hating Negan on principle, she begins blaming him for the fall of her community, despite the situation having been explained to her, and the fact that Negan was forced to partake in the sacking as part of his assassination of Alpha, the woman truly responsible. In “Hunted” she tearfully blames Negan for it, suggesting she regrets having left and being unable to help protect the community she was formerly in charge of. Negan also seems to realize this is the case as he does not argue with her, since they both know what really happened.
* NiceGirl: After warming up to Glenn she becomes one of the friendliest and most kind-hearted characters on the show. [[GoodIsNotSoft It doesn't mean she's soft, though.]] [[CrusadingWidower Not one bit.]]
* NiceHat: She's wearing a fedora when she returns in "A Certain Doom".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Ripping into Father Gabriel in "Them" makes Gabriel realize he's TheFriendNobodyLikes and plays a major part in him betraying them to Deanna and begging for them to be kicked out, which Deanna comes dangerously close to considering.
** She falls into this territory again in Season 9, when she and Daryl discover that a group of Oceansiders are responsible for the disappearances and murders of a number of Saviors, exacerbating tensions between the Saviors and the rest of the Militia. Instead of turning them in, she and Daryl turn their backs and let the Oceansiders continue their vigilante killings, ultimately resulting in Jed leading a group of Saviors to ambush the bridge camp in an attempt to secure guns and go after the Oceansiders themselves. The ensuing conflict draws a herd of Walkers which results in the destruction of the bridge and the disappearance of Rick, which in turn leads to the eventual dissolution of the Militia.
* OfficialCouple: With Glenn officially starting towards the end of Season 2 and lasting until the start of Season 7, when Glenn is killed by Negan.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In [[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS04E15Us "Us"]], she reveals that she deliberately caused the cave-in encountered by Glenn and Tara by unloading her last clip of bullets into the ceiling to cut off a horde of walkers.
* ParentalAbandonment: She has two {{Missing Mom}}s (Hershel remarried). She later witnesses her father being brutally killed in front of her.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Daryl. He's the only one to have had her back in every dispute or argument, and approves of her plan to go ahead and kill Negan. Their friendship is not soured by Daryl being the one to inadvertently cause Glenn's death, as Maggie tells him she doesn't hold it against him, and implies that neither would Glenn.
* PluckyGirl: She makes it clear she will stop at absolutely nothing in her quest to find Glenn following the fall of the prison. She's at it again in Season 6 when Glenn goes missing.
* PregnantBadass: She starts trying to sideline herself a bit in Season 6 due to her pregnancy, but will definitely take up arms if the situation calls for it. "The Same Boat" secures her status as a PregnantBadass (see DamselOutOfDistress above), and in "Go Getters" she refuses to be kept out of the fight at Hilltop and drives over a bunch of walkers with a tractor. In the Season 7 finale, she leads the people of Hilltop into a massive gun batte against the Saviors. In the Season 8 premiere, she jokes that she can keep fighting well into her second trimester and later takes part in the initial attack on the Sanctuary as well as leading the charge in the battle at Hilltop.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Beginning in Season 3. She's been removed from the titles as of "Who Are You Now?", but is re-added in "Home Sweet Home" following her surprise return in "A Certain Doom".
* PromotionToParent: Helps take care of Lori's baby after her death in Season 3.
* PutOnABus: During the six-year TimeSkip in Season 9, Maggie leaves with Hershel to help Georgie build up a distant community. She doesn't return until the back half of Season 10.
* RapeAsDrama: Fortunately [[AvertedTrope averted]]. In Season 3, the Governor tells her to take her shirt off or he'll cut off Glenn's hand. She does so and the Governor is seen fondling her half-naked body, but when the two of them escape Woodbury and Glenn asks if she was raped, she confirms that wasn't the case.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's a kind, compassionate and protective leader once she takes up command of Hilltop.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** Tends to generate this kind of dynamic when interacting with either Glenn or Beth, acting as the passionate, impulsive Red to her husband's or sister's Blue.
** In Season 11, she ends up becoming the Red to [[spoiler:''Negan'']] of all people, being much more hotheaded and stubborn compared to his calmer and more reasonable Blue.
* RelationshipUpgrade: She and Glenn officially enter their relationship at the end of Season 2 when they have both professed their love for each other.
* RelativeButton: Negan invokes this on Maggie in Season 9, outright taunting her about how much he enjoyed killing Glenn and bringing up his horrific EyeScream. A enraged Maggie almost bashes Negan's head in with a crowbar, only to then realize what it is he [[SuicideByCop really wants]].
* ReligiousBruiser: Not as much as her dad, but she's a bonafide devoted Christian and ass kicker. She loses the religious side of this in Season 5 after the loss of her entire family, but regains it in the season finale.
* RestrainedRevenge: After spending 18 months wanting nothing more than to see Glenn's murderer pay for the crime with his life, she instead chooses a form of CruelMercy by sparing Negan's life after seeing how much he ''really'' wants to die.
-->'''Maggie:''' I came here to kill Negan, and you're already worse than dead.
* SexySecretary: Becomes Deanna Monroe's assistant in Alexandria.
* ShamefulStrip: Forced to do this in Season 3 by the Governor.
* ShowerOfLove: With Glenn at the start of "East". It turns out to be the last time they make love, as Glenn leaves Alexandria shortly afterwards in search of Daryl and is killed early the following morning.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Maggie ultimately falls in love with Glenn because of his kind heart and big brain.
* SoleSurvivor: She is the last remaining member of the Greene family as of Season 5.
* TheStarscream: A heroic version towards Gregory. She steadily builds up more power and influence at Hilltop as Season 7 progresses, then takes over as their new leader in Season 8 and has Gregory locked in a pen with a bunch of enemy hostages.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's a tall, beautiful girl... which Glenn absolutely notices.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In Season 11 she is forced to work alongside Negan who has earned a place, tentative though it may be, in the community. She is able to address him by name and turn her back to him, but she makes it very clear she still wants to kill him. It gets even worse when they are forced to travel alone together for a time.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: After her father dies, her sister gets abducted and killed and Gabriel undergoes a SanitySlippage induced FaceHeelTurn, Maggie becomes the true religious voice of the group until she moves to Hilltop.
* TokenWhite: In the trio with Bob and Sasha in the latter half of Season 4.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Beth's girly girl.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: When she takes off her shirt to have sex with Glenn in "Cherokee Rose".
* TraumaCongaLine: Where to begin? The only people who even come close to having it as bad as Maggie has are, arguably, Rick and Carol. It's a wonder she holds up at all.
** First, she loses her mother and brother early on to the walker virus, and later has to see them gunned down in front of her when Shane releases the walkers from the barn.
** Next, family friends Otis, Patricia, and Jimmy all die within quick succession and Maggie is forced to flee the farm from a walker herd.
** Then her sister Beth and father Hershel die within ''ten days'' of each other. She never gets to say a proper goodbye to either of them.
** A few months later, her husband Glenn is brutally murdered in front of her, her best friend Sasha dies in the conflict with the Saviors, and to add insult to injury, Rick and Michonne choose to spare Negan, the man who killed Glenn, which Maggie views as a major betrayal from two of her closest friends. While Maggie does get some closure regarding Glenn's death, as well as give birth to her and Glenn's child, due to being PutOnABus she is not able to say a final farewell to the late Jesus, Enid, and Tara, all of whom were close friends of hers.
* VengefulWidow: She admits after a skirmish at Hilltop that she wanted Glenn's grave to be the last thing Negan saw before he died. She finally gets the chance to exact her revenge in Season 9, only to end up choosing a more restrained version by letting the now tortured, death-seeking Negan live.
* WalkingTheEarth: This is pretty much what her adventures during the six-year TimeSkip amounted to, since she left the Washington region to help Georgie build up other settlements across the country.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** By the look on her face in "Spend", she is hurt when Gabriel tells Deanna to not trust Rick's group and kick them out of Alexandria.
** "What Comes After" sees Maggie scathingly dress down Michonne for disregarding her feelings about Negan and her loss of Glenn, and points out how hypocritical Michonne is being because of the fact that Michonne would've killed Negan if Negan had killed Rick.
* WhenSheSmiles: Even after losing so many of her loved ones, Maggie has a radiant, beautiful smile that when seen ''will'' help give people hope for the future again.
* WidowWoman: As of Glenn's death in the Season 7 premiere.
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly cruel example. After the prison fell, Maggie operated under the mindset that Beth was dead during the second half of Season 4. In the episode from Season 5 "Coda" as she, Glenn and Abe return from their failed trip to DC, she is informed that they have a lead on where Beth is to her shock and delight. It is taken away from her when she arrives at the hospital where Beth is at to see Daryl carrying Beth's dead body in his arms. At which point Maggie [[DeathWail drops to the ground and starts crying.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: Jesus grooms her to become the new leader of Hilltop to replace the cowardly, incompetent Gregory in Season 7, and she officially takes the mantle in the season finale.
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[[folder:Beth]]
!!''Beth Greene''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"We don't get to be upset. We all got jobs to do."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EmilyKinney
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Celia De Diego [Seasons 2-3], Inma Gallego [Seasons 4-5] (Spanish dub), Aki Nakajima (Japanese dub), Julia Stoepel (German dub), Lucille Boudonnat (French dub), Veronica Puccio (Italian dub), Viktorie Taberyová (Czech dub), Lilla Hermann (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-5, 9 [[note]]Hallucination, played by a stand-in[[/note]])

->''"I know [[AudienceMonologue you]] look at me and you just see another [[NonActionGuy dead girl]]. I'm not [[LadyofWar Michonne]]. I'm not [[TookALevelInBadass Carol]]. I'm not [[GoodIsNotSoft Maggie]]. I've survived and you don't get it 'cause I'm not like you or them. But I made it."''

Beth is Hershel's youngest daughter, and the girlfriend of Jimmy. She develops a friendship with Carl and helps keep the groups spirits up through her singing. In Season 4, she has begun a relationship with Zach, a new member of the prison community. She tries to maintain a positive attitude despite all the horrors the group faces, and becomes close to Daryl when they flee the destroyed prison together. Beth ends up being injured and "rescued" by the police officers of Grady Memorial Hospital. She works to escape alongside Noah, but is captured during the attempt and is forced to stay after Carol also injured and captured. Beth is killed by Dawn after stabbing her during a prisoner exchange.
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* AccidentalMurder: On the receiving end of this trope when she's accidentally shot in the head by Dawn in a prisoner exchange gone wrong.
* ActionSurvivor: Though she's definitely not among the most competent fighters in the group, by the beginning of Season 3, she's capable of defending herself if necessary and able to take out walkers without flinching. In "Too Far Gone", her father's death motivates her to take an active role in the ensuing battle and she later hits the road with Daryl after the prison is lost and the group is forced to scatter.
* ActionGirl: Her episodes in Season 5 finally show her graduating from an exclusive ActionSurvivor to this. Her appearance in "Slabtown" has her killing an officer by herself via feeding him to a walker, and helping the injured Noah to escape Grady Memorial Hospital, killing all the walkers in the pitch-black lower-levels of the hospital all herself.
* AngstComa: Following the barn walkers being shot and being attacked by her own undead mom. She snaps out of it, but starts thinking about suicide.
* AscendedExtra: One of the best examples in the entire show. In the first half of Season 2, she has a grand total of ''one'' line, even less than [[RedShirt Redshirts]] Jimmy and Patricia. In the second half, she has a storyline largely revolving around more important characters reacting to her being in a catatonic state, eventually recovering and becoming a secondary character, which she remains for all of the next season. In Season 4, she is promoted to a series regular under "Also Starring," and becomes more plot-relevant. In the first half of Season 5, she is added to the main credits and gets [[ADayInTheLimelight her very own major story arc]], which culminates in her death.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Very much averted in Season 5. She has two visible facial wounds ([[MythologyGag Which matches the ones Andrea's comic counterpart has]]) and to make matters worse, she dies via BoomHeadshot.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Easily one of the sweetest members of the group, and she doesn't tend to say too much, but when a fight breaks out between [[TokenEvilTeammate Merle]] and several of the others she responds by storming into the room and firing a pistol into the air to get their attention.
* BoomHeadshot: How she dies in Season 5, courtesy of Dawn.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Behaves this way for a short time after escaping the prison with Daryl.
* BreakoutCharacter: She was largely ignored until Season 4 rolled around and she got her own separate arc with Daryl that made her so popular with fans that her first name is synonymous with the show. After that, she became one-half of the show's most popular straight ship, and is the second-most popular female character on Archive of Our Own's ''Walking Dead'' subpage, and the sixth-most popular overall, even ahead of Maggie. Just like her father, her death serves as the emotional climax of the Season 5 midseason finale, though unlike her father, her death was almost universally disliked because of its massively anticlimactic nature.
* BrokenBird: In Season 2. She outgrows it in Season 3.
* BreakTheCutie: The loss of her mom and brother plus the barn massacre traumatizes her pretty heavily. Her emotional state after Jimmy's death isn't really shown due to the TimeSkip between Season 2 and 3, but she seems to have recovered pretty well.
* TheBusCameBack: After being abducted near the end of the fourth season, she returns in the fourth episode of Season 5.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: In a way, she ''does'' ended up filling Maggie's dead siblings role in the comics since most of them were either {{Posthumous Character}}s or AdaptedOut.
* CanonForeigner: She never appeared in the comics.
* CartwrightCurse: Both of her romantic interests (Jimmy and Zach) end up as zombie food.
* CelebrityParadox[=/=]ProductPlacement: She sings an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EMxAI018Ks unplugged version]] of her actress' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVudemQmgYM own song]] in Season 4.
* CompositeCharacter: Despite being a CanonForeigner, she absorbs traits from comic characters. Like Lacey Greene, she also is distraught during the events at the barn and rushes over in tears, though Beth is saved from being killed. She contemplates suicide around the same point in time as Comic!Tyreese's daughter Julie, though she survives this one too. Due to the injuries she receives from the Grady Memorial Hospital group, her face is scarred identical to Comic!Andrea's.
* CoolBigSis: It's implied that she's aware of Carl's PrecociousCrush on her, but since she's much older, the least she can do is act like a big sister to him. Also, after Lori's death, she is the one [[TheLancer Daryl]] asks to keep an eye on Carl since Rick [[SanitySlippage isn't in his best condition]] to be a good father. In a deleted scene that takes place after Lori's death, she comforts Carl and assures him that Lori is in Heaven.
* TheChick: Compared to all the women in the group (and cast), Beth fills every aspect of the trope in spades.
* CuteBruiser: Heavy on the cute, low on the bruiser, but the principle is there.
* TheCutie: Of the prison group.
* DaddysGirl: She has a normal, loving relationship with her father, and Hershel can be quite protective of her. Like Maggie, she is devastated by his death.
* DamselInDistress: She ends up kidnapped in "Alone".
* ADayInTheLimelight: "18 Miles Out". Season 4 also brings us "Still", which serves as a dual spotlight episode for both Beth and Daryl. Her first appearance in Season 5 qualifies as this as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments once she starts getting more screentime. She is a teenager, after all.
* DeadStarWalking: Gets promoted to the main cast of Season 5, but only appears in three episodes and dies in the third, the mid-season finale.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: The entire second quarter of Season 5.
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses it following the barn massacre of the walkers. She eventually recovers.
* DoomedMoralVictor: Her final act of defiance in stabbing Dawn gets her killed, but it's also the catalyst that frees the Grady Memorial residents from Dawn's oppression when Daryl kills Dawn in retaliation.
* DrivenToSuicide: Halfway through Season 2, she comes to believe there is no hope left in the world, and tries to convince Maggie that they should kill themselves together. When she tries, she only makes a shallow cut on one wrist and can't go through with it. Ultimately, it's InterruptedSuicide.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Her death is ''very'' sudden and anticlimactic; she's instantly killed via a bullet to the brain when Dawn fires her gun by accident, ''after'' the group have already succeeded in rescuing her from the hospital.
* DueToTheDead: A big fan of this, much like her father: she insists on covering up a desecrated corpse even when no-one is around to see it, yells at Daryl for having a little too much fun killing walkers, and finds it "beautiful" that someone would still take the time to embalm corpses during the zombie apocalypse.
* EmotionlessGirl: By Season 4, Beth starts to edge into this territory; when Daryl tells her that Zach is dead, she responds with a simple "okay" and tells him that she doesn't cry anymore. Ultimately shown not to be entirely true when she breaks down crying at a couple points later in the season, namely during Hershel's execution and after the fall of the prison.
* FanservicePack: Thanks to her wardrobe.
* FarmersDaughter: Not so obvious as with Maggie.
* FlippingTheBird: She gives Daryl the finger when she gets fed up living by his rules, and does it again when the two set a cabin on fire.
* ForcedToWatch: Along with the rest of the prison group in "Too Far Gone", when the Governor executes her father.
* GirlyBruiser: While still more feminine than her older sister, she's a competent-enough ActionGirl in her own right. This is more evident in Season 4 and especially Season 5.
* GlassCannon: Like Carl, her lack of physical strength puts her at a great disadvantage in situations where she has been taken by surprise, shown most effectively in "Inmates", where Daryl has to save her from a relatively low number of walkers after she wanders off into the forest alone.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has light blonde hair, and is by far the most innocent and sweetest character on the show. Which makes [[KillTheCutie her death]] all the more heartbreaking.
* {{Hallucinations}}: An episode after her death, she sings to and comforts the dying Tyreese.
* TheHeart: The nicest person in both Rick's group and the Grady Memorial Hospital.
* HeroicSacrifice: A possible interpretation of Beth's last act. Beth stabs Dawn, knowing Dawn will kill her for it, to get Dawn killed in order to save Noah.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In [[WordOfGod Emily Kinney's own words]], Beth died because of her overconfidence.
* HiddenDepths: She has quite a pleasant singing voice.
* TheIdealist: After the prison group is scattered in the second half of Season 4, she is the most convinced that there's a chance they might be able to find each other again. Though there are a few hints that her positive attitude is at least partly an act to keep herself motivated.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Her great quest for her first drink. It's implied to also be an attempt to [[DrowningMySorrows drown her sorrows]].
* TheIngenue: She's by far the sweetest and most innocent person in Rick's group.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In her game of "I Never" with Daryl, she accidentally brings up a lot of painful memories for him.
* KillTheCutie: In "Coda", the mid-Season 5 finale.
* MoralityPet: To Daryl after traveling together.
* MundaneLuxury: In "Still", she makes time to be a normal teenage girl, trying on nice clothes and spending a lot of effort trying to get her first alcoholic drink.
* NeutralFemale: Initially, but she eventually learns to handle herself in a fight.
* NeverSayGoodbye: Beth refuses to say goodbye to Zach before he goes on the supply run, despite him telling her that it could be dangerous. She later tells Daryl that she's glad she didn't say it even though he doesn't return. She also never got to say goodbye to Hershel before his tragic fate, and to Maggie before Beth's ''own'' tragic fate.
* NiceGirl: She's shown to be a soft-spoken and caring girl for the most part.
* OddFriendship: With Daryl in Season 4, bordering on ShipTease at times.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her mom has been dead since before the apocalypse, while her father is brutally killed in front of her in Season 4.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Until "Arrow on the Doorpost", where she switches to wearing a white blouse. She dons a pink jacket in the Season 3 finale "Welcome to the Tombs", though.
* PromotionToParent: She's the main caretaker for Judith until the prison is overrun, at which point the role is taken over by Tyreese.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 5.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Flees the prison with Daryl once it becomes clear that sticking around is a losing proposition.
* SacrificialLion: The second of Rick's group to die in Season 5, and her death (along with Tyreese's in the next episode) greatly lowers the group's morale.
* ShipTease: With Daryl in Season 4 and Noah in Season 5. Carl also has a PrecociousCrush on her in Season 3. Sadly, she dies before all of it can go anywhere.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Picks up an assault rifle alongside her sister in "Too Far Gone".
* StepfordSmiler: Shades of it in Season 4. Although on the surface she still appears cheerful and upbeat, her total lack of reaction to her boyfriend's death implies that she has become emotionally numb to trauma. Later, in "Still" she admits that she really just wants to lay down and cry but "[they] don't get to do that".
* TechnicalPacifist: If firing a pistol just to stop three of her teammates from arguing is any indication.
* TemptingFate: In "Still", she tells Daryl that she knows she will die one day and claims he would badly miss her should she. In "Coda", Beth is killed and Daryl is absolutely heartbroken.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Like others in her family, Beth is a devout Christian and believes that her mother, Lori, and good people in general go to Heaven after death.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Maggie's tomboy.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: A genuinely good-hearted person who dies a tragic and senseless death before she can reunite with her sister.
* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much everyone in the group did (to varying degrees) during the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3, Beth included. She doesn't take part in much on-screen action and is presumably still pretty low tier in her group, but the sole fact that she even ''can'' fight is a huge step up in and of itself.
** During the Season 3 premiere, she's briefly seen standing watch with a gun. Later that episode, we see her stabbing walker-heads through a chain link fence and then joining in with the rest of the group as they open fire on the horde.
** After a fight breaks out between Maggie, Glenn, and Merle, she promptly storms into the room and fires a pistol into the air to stop them.
** The death of her father in "Too Far Gone" angers her so badly that she even picks up a rifle and joins in the battle to defend the prison against the Governor.
** She takes another one in "Slabtown" by helping Noah escape Grady Memorial Hospital.
* UnableToCry: By Season 4, she has gone through so much grief that she tells Daryl that she doesn't cry anymore, even after learning that her new boyfriend Zach has died. She gets over it in "Isolation", after learning Hershel is treating the sick inhabitants of the prison and risking his own life in doing so. However, watching the Governor behead her father shows that she's still got some tears in those ducts.
[[/folder]]

!!Other Farm Survivors

[[folder:Otis]]
!!''Otis''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm responsible. I ain't gonna sit here while this fella takes this on alone."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PruittTaylorVince
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Zúñiga (Spanish dub), Torsten Münchow (German dub), Paul Borne (French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

Otis is a farmhand on Hershel's farm. After accidentally shooting Carl, he accompanies Shane to recover medical supplies. Shane shot him and left him to be eaten by walkers so he could escape with the supplies.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: His comic counterpart is a racist {{Jerkass}} and is TheFriendNobodyLikes.
* AdaptationalUgliness: In the show, he's bald and overweight. His comic counterpart wasn't.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He had red hair in the comics.
* AgeLift: From the comic version, going from his being in his late 20's to somewhere in his 40's or 50's.
* TheAtoner: He volunteers to get medical supplies to help Carl, who he accidentally shot.
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He gets DevouredByTheHorde after Shane shoots him in the leg. He spends a good minute screaming in pain and anger, especially as the camera shows the walkers biting off his ear.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the comics, he survives until the prison arc.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: The reason why he leaves with Shane is that he accidentally shoots Carl while hunting a buck and wants to redeem himself to Rick's family. Otis doesn't survive the trip because Shane sacrifices him to a walker horde so he can save Carl. Otis did redeem himself in the end, no matter how avoidable his death was.
* DevouredByTheHorde: After Shane shoots him in the knee to serve as bait.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: His comic counterpart is KilledOffscreen by walkers and later put down by Rick.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Otis goes with Shane to retrieve medical supplies and refuses to abandon Shane while the horde was pursuing them. Shane resorts to shooting Otis so he can survive and escape with the supplies.
* TheLancer: He is Hershel's right-hand man.
* NiceGuy: Unlike in the books, where he's a racist. Otis is torn up over accidentally shooting Carl, and immediately volunteers to help get the medical supplies needed to save him. He also refuses to abandon Shane to the walkers, but this gets him killed, as explained below.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: He absolutely refuses to leave Shane behind to be eaten by walkers, but this ends up getting Otis killed as Shane decides that he can't risk them both dying and being unable to get the medical equipment to Hershel, leading him to shoot Otis in the knee and leave him as a distraction for the walkers.
* SacrificialLamb: Shane makes the decision for him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Patricia]]
!!''Patricia''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jane [=McNeill=]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Isabel Donate (Spanish dub), Helga Sasse (German dub), Isabelle Perilhou (French dub), Jana Postlerová (Czech dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

Otis' wife, she aids Hershel in maintaining the farmhouse. She was eaten by walkers when Hershel's farm was attacked.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Since she dies early, she was not able to betray the group during the prison arc like in the comics.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Not necessarily intelligence, but levelheadedness and common sense. Saying that her comic counterpart is extremely TooDumbToLive is a ''huge'' understatement.
* AgeLift: From the comic version, going from being in her mid-20's to her mid-40's.
* BitCharacter: No pun intended.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the comics, she died when the Governor attacked the prison.
* DemotedToExtra: None of the characterization given to her in the comics made it into the show.
* DevouredByTheHorde: As the group flees the farm, a walker comes out of nowhere to grab her and proceeds to munch down as a few other walkers join in.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Her comic counterpart is shot in the head by a Woodbury soldier during the final prison battle.
* HappilyMarried: She and Otis appeared to have a very loving relationship.
* RedShirt: Gets very little screen time or characterization before dying.
* WidowWoman: After Otis dies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jimmy]]
!!''Jimmy''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hershel! It's happened again."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' James Allen [=McCune=]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' David Robles (Spanish dub), Niclas Lutz (German dub), Nathanel Alimi (French dub), Robert Hájek (Czech dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

A young farmhand on Hershel's farm, and the boyfriend of Beth. He was eaten by walkers when Hershel's farm was attacked.
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* BitCharacter: He's such a minor character that most reviewers didn't even bother to learn his name.
* CanonForeigner: He never appeared in the comics.
* DevouredByTheHorde: While driving the RV, walkers manage to burst in while it's parked during his rescue of Rick and Carl and eat Jimmy before he can escape.[[note]]According to Glen Mazzara, James [=McCune=] was terrified during this scene because his greatest fear in real life is this trope.[[/note]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: To Beth, though this might be partially excusable due to the following episode taking place months later. Daryl does mention him and Zach in "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS04E12Still Still]]", albeit not by name.
* GangstaStyle: He holds his gun like this during training. After T-Dog tells him not to, he becomes much more accurate and is later able to kill a few walkers when the farm is attacked.
* TheGenericGuy: He has pretty much zero discernible character traits.
* HesNotMyBoyfriend: A weird variation on this trope occurs when Beth decides to take her own life and Maggie, attempting to talk her out of it, cites Jimmy as a reason she has to keep living. While Beth doesn't actually deny that they're a couple, she points out that they were only casually dating for a couple of months prior to the ZombieApocalypse, and that despite the apparent opinions of the rest of the group they're not actually in any sort of committed relationship now.
* HeroicFireRescue: During the second season finale, Jimmy takes the RV and rescues Rick and Carl from the burning barn as the walkers attack. Unfortunately, he gets eaten when walkers break into the RV.
* NiceHat: He is often seen wearing a straw cowboy hat.
* RedShirt: So much so that the cow Dale finds mutilated in the field was originally meant to be Jimmy's body.
[[/folder]]

!!Others

[[folder:Well Walker]]
!!''Well Walker''
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[[caption-width-right:300:]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brian Hillard
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

A bloated walker that becomes trapped in a well on Hershel's farm.
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* BoomHeadshot: Courtesy of T-Dog.
* CanonForeigner: Never appeared in the comics.
* {{Gonk}}: Even for a walker he's gross and disgusting.
* LudicrousGibs: The walker splits in half as the group tries to pull it up, resulting in its intestines spilling into the water below.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The water was already undrinkable from the Well Walker just sitting in it, so there was really no point in trying to pull it out (to say nothing of risking Glenn's life trying to do so). Especially since, as Maggie reveals, there are already ''multiple other wells on the property''. T-Dog put it best when he finally does the logical thing and just caps the walker in the head.
-->'''T-Dog:''' Good thing we didn't do something stupid like shoot it.
[[/folder]]
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[[WMG:[[center: [- ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' '''[[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShow Main Character Index]]'''\\
[[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRicksGroup Rick's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGrimesFamily The Grimes Family]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRickGrimes Rick Grimes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaCampSurvivors Atlanta Camp Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowDarylDixon Daryl Dixon]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowCarolPeletier Carol Peletier]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaSurvivors Atlanta Survivors]] | '''Hershel's Farm Survivors''' | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAlexandriaSurvivors Alexandria Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheSaviors The Saviors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowNegan Negan Smith]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowSaviorOutposts Savior Outposts]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowFormerSaviors Former Saviors]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheHilltop The Hilltop Colony]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheKingdom The Kingdom]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOceansideSurvivors Oceanside Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheReapers The Reapers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons1Through6 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 1-6]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons7Through11 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 7-11]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMorganJones Morgan Jones]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]])]]]]-]

!!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!

!Hershel's Farm Survivors

[[foldercontrol]]

!!The Greene Family

[[folder:In General]]

A family living in Georgia introduced in the second season. They own the Greene farm and welcome Rick's group onto the property, as their farmhand Otis accidentally shoots Carl. Hershel initially stresses that the group must leave the farm when Carl has fully recovered, but to his dismay finds that Rick begins to plead for the group to stay - and that Glenn and his daughter Maggie have fallen in love. The Greenes are revealed to have been keeping a dark secret for months - that they are keeping their undead friends and family in their barn, Hershel having convinced his family that they are sick people who can be cured. Livid, Shane forces the family to learn the horrible truth when he forces his group to massacre the walkers, breaking Hershel and Beth in particular.

However, Hershel is roused from his depression when Rick convinces him there is still hope, and comes to trust the group as his own extended family after realizing they are good, loyal people. Hershel agrees to allow the group to move onto the farm permanently as the winter approaches, but they are forced to flee when a herd of walkers overruns the property. The Greenes are forced to join the group on the road, proving to be vital assets and leaders in the battle-worn group.

While Hershel becomes TheMentor to Rick and a second-in-command, Maggie becomes one of the group's main fighters, and Beth becomes one of Judith's primary caregivers and secondary defenders. The family is able to pull through the Woodbury War unscathed - with Maggie marrying Glenn shortly before its' climax - and grow comfortable at the prison until The Governor returns with a vengeance. Hershel is captured and executed, to the horror of his daughters, who are separated when the prison finally falls. Maggie goes with Sasha and Bob to find Glenn, and eventually rejoin the main group.

Meanwhile, Beth is abducted by the cops of Grady Memorial Hospital, and gets herself killed after a hostage exchange. Tragically, Maggie is, as of Season 5, the last surviving member of the Greene family, who still hold sway in the group's hearts to this day long after their deaths.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Their comic counterparts weren't presented as a BadassFamily. The trope also applies to them individually.
* AdaptedOut: Out of Hershel's ''seven'' children in the comics, only [[PosthumousCharacter Shawn, Arnold]] and Maggie showed up. Beth is a CanonForeigner.
* BadassFamily: Rick and co., along with the ZombieApocalypse, forced them to be.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Played with. Beth is obviously the blonde. Maggie's auburn hair is more evident in her first appearances (it was her actress' natural hair color), while Hershel's actor has brown hair in his youth.
* CantRefuseTheCallAnymore: The destruction of the farm leads them to accept the new state of the world and follow Rick's group to survive.
* DeathByAdaptation: Arnold Greene was killed in the comics' version of the barn massacre. Here, he's one of the walkers in said barn.
* DecompositeCharacter: Hershel only had one dead wife in the comics.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: After they become a BadassFamily. Most notably in the Season 3 premiere, where they all work together to clear the prison.
* FarmBoy: If owning a farm is not obvious enough.
* FarmersDaughter: Maggie and Beth, the former more so.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: They were first introduced with three males (Hershel, Jimmy and Otis) and three females (Maggie, Beth and Patricia).
* TheHeart: The Greenes are widely considered as ''the'' family of the show more than the Grimeses.
* HonoraryUncle: The Greenes eventually become more of a family to the Grimeses and to most of their eventual TrueCompanions. In fact, the Greenes may well be considered the second most prominent family next to the Grimeses.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Well, a whole family of them. The Greene family is so prominent in the show that some people would think they've been around since the beginning. They didn't even actually show up until the second season.
* MissingMom: Maggie and Beth's respective mothers were dead before the series began.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Hershel's late wife in the comics is unnamed. The show's DecompositeCharacter are respectively named Josephine (1st) and Annette (2nd).
* TheOneGuy: Of the surviving members of the family, Hershel is the last remaining male.
* OnlyOneName: Otis, Patricia and Jimmy. In short, anyone who is not a Greene.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ZigZagged. The family relationship in the comics got shuffled a bit. Hershel's late wife is split [[DecompositeCharacter into two characters]], Shawn was only Hershel's step-son, where he's his biological son in the comics. Likewise, Arnold, one his sons in the comics, became the nephew of his first wife instead.
* ReligiousBruiser: They're very religious, and by Season 3, they're a very BadassFamily.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: They, along with the surviving farm residents, are all introduced in "Bloodletting", the second episode of the second season.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: They're often seen praying together.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Unfortunately, the family starts dropping like flies.
* TookALevelInBadass: While Hershel may have always been tough, his daughters eventually become combat proficient fighters by Season 3.
* TrueCompanions: With the other farm residents below. Eventually to the main group itself.
* ZombieAdvocate: They keep walkers in a barn until mid-Season 2, thinking they are sick people.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hershel]]
!!''Hershel Greene''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I can't profess to understand God's plan, but when Christ promised a resurrection of the dead, I just thought he had something a little different in mind."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottWilson
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Víctor Agramunt (Spanish dub), Yasuo Muramatsu (Japanese dub), Eberhard Mellies (German dub), Michel Ruhl (French dub), Dario Penne (Italian dub), Jan Vlasák (Czech dub), Géza Tordy (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-4, 9 [[note]]Hallucination[[/note]])

->''"You step outside, you risk your life. Take a drink of water, you risk your life. Nowadays you breathe, you risk your life. Every moment now, you don't have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for!"''

Hershel is the owner of a farm that was mostly spared by the zombie apocalypse. He allowed the survivors to stay on the farm during their search for Sophia, but secretly kept a barn full of walkers, including his wife and step-son, believing they were simply sick. After the group is forced to leave the farm, his medical knowledge is vital to their survival and makes him one of their main assets and leaders.

When the group occupies the prison, Hershel tries to keep Rick on a moral path during the conflict with Woodbury and encounters with other survivors. After the end of the battle against Woodbury and the growth of the group in the prison, Hershel begins growing crops in the prison yard to provide food for the group. He becomes the head of the council leading prison (and by extension the leader of the entire community), and finds himself forced to step up to the plate when most measures to contain the plague fail. He is killed by The Governor in the mid-season finale of the fourth season as part of a bid to take over the prison, but dies happy that Rick has embraced his last lessons - that you ''can'' come back from the things you do to survive.
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* AbusiveParents: His father beat him badly, causing Hershel to leave the farm until he died. He himself averts this trope: he's a loving father and patriarch to his family.
* ActionDad: When he needs to be.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: He is more emotionally stable than his comic counterpart ever was.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. Having his children reduced to mainly two [[note]] Hershel has several children in the comics, all of whom sans Maggie were {{Mauve Shirt}}s. [[/note]] and him [[AdaptationalNiceGuy being much more likable]] might have helped. The only time he came close to this was when he fell OffTheWagon after the mid-Season 2 finale, which he also quickly recovered from.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's more combat proficient than his comic counterpart as evidenced in the Season 2 finale. Also, losing his leg doesn't stop him from [[HandicappedBadass kicking]] walkers' ass. He even conceals a gun on his leg stump.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is more doting and compassionate than his comic counterpart.
* TheAlcoholic: He was a heavy drinker in his youth but made the choice to get sober the day Maggie was born. He briefly falls off the wagon when he is forced to face the reality that the walkers are dead.
* AnArmAndALeg: Due to getting his right leg bit while searching for Maggie and Glenn in the prison, Rick promptly makes a tourniquet then uses a hatchet to cut off part of the leg below the knee to stop the spread of the infection.
* AndStarring: He's this for the "also starring" list in Seasons 2 and 3. When he finally gets PromotedToOpeningTitles in Season 4, he is mostly credited last but without the "And" citation. This is so that Creator/DavidMorrissey (The Governor) can reclaim his "And" billing from Season 3.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: His decapitated head reanimates not long after his death, and Michonne tearfully puts it down.
* ArtificialLimbs: Has a peg-leg in Season 4.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He quotes from Literature/TheBible in several episodes.
* BackForTheFinale: He appears in several flashback scenes in the Season 4 finale, eight episodes after his death.
* BadassBookworm: He is well-versed in Literature/TheBible, being a devoted Christian and all.
* BigGood: During the first half of Season 4 when he is the head of the prison council.
* BreakoutCharacter: Originally Hershel was to be killed off before the end of the second season (and again in the third), but Scott Wilson's warmth in his performance convinced the show runners to keep him on. After taking his level in kindness, Hershel became one of the most beloved characters on the show and eventually one of the show's major characters, to the point that his death became the emotional climax of the climactic prison war and is now regarded as one of the most tragic and powerful moments of the entire series. Robert Kirkman even noted how hard it was to kill off Hershel, expressing sadness that Wilson wouldn't be on set the following year. Prior to the mid-Season 4 finale, an entire video tribute was put together by the cast and crew, bidding farewell to Wilson and referring to him as a "legend". Two years after his character's death, Wilson was even the first induction into the ''Walking Dead'' Hall of Fame at the Season 6 fan premiere event. It's very easy to say that of all the characters killed off in the show, Hershel is one of the few characters that ''everyone'' misses.
* CartwrightCurse: Both of his wives died.
* CharacterDeath: Decapitated by The Governor in "Too Far Gone".
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a slightly gruff, pushy old man to a loving, nurturing TeamDad with the wisdom to lead an entire community of survivors.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Despite being a veterinarian, Hershel mostly treats the various scrapes, bullet wounds, and arrow wounds that the survivors tend to accumulate. He's also the prison group's main doctor during the flu epidemic, as Dr. Caleb quickly succumbs.
* CombatMedic: He's the team's main medic for his entire tenure on the show, and also great in a fight.
* CompositeCharacter: His characterization for the prison arc (specifically the leg amputation and also becoming the TeamDad of the group) was fused with comic-Dale's, due to the latter's [[DeathByAdaptation early exit]] from the show. The circumstance before and after the bit are more similar to Allen, being bitten by a hidden walker while clearing out the prison and being bedridden for a time afterwards. He also takes Tyreese's death from the comics.
* CoolOldGuy: He's approaching seventy, but is an excellent shot and medic, dispenses good advice to the group, has a little seen but witty sense of humor, and is extremely calm under pressure. [[BigBad The Governor]] even admits to admiring him for being a good man when he's captured him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Similar to Tyreese's fate in the comics, Hershel's neck is slashed in a botched decapitation attempt, and then after he desperately crawls away a few feet, it's followed up by the Governor hacking brutally away at the neck to behead Hershel completely.
* CrusadingWidower: The loss of both of his wives isn't enough to stop him from kicking ass.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Internment" mostly revolves around his attempts to manage the illness spreading through the prison while waiting for the others to return with medication.
* DeadPersonConversation: A heavily wounded Rick speaks with a hallucination of Hershel in Season 9.
* DeadStarWalking: Gets promoted to the main cast of Season 4, but only appears in six episodes and with one being in a flashback.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Season 4 heavily emphasized his role as the group's TeamDad. His ADayInTheLimelight episode was also [[VillainEpisode the last episode centered around the group]] before the mid-season finale where he eventually met his end. Scott Wilson remarked that even he started getting vibes that this trope was in effect, noting his speech about risking your life and "Internment" focusing on him were clear signs that Hershel's time was running out.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Something must be said for Hershel’s last actions in life after The Governor mortally wounds him. Despite literally dying, he still makes an admirable, if vain, effort to crawl away to safety. The Governor literally has to finish decapitating him for him to finally stop trying to survive, a clear sign of what a strong person Hershel was right to the end.
* DespairEventHorizon: When he sees his walker neighbor shot and then put down by Shane. Then Shane forces his own group to massacre the walkers in the barn, including Hershel's zombified family and neighbors. He manages to recover quickly, thanks to Rick.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: While his comic counterpart is also killed by The Governor, it's via BoomHeadshot after he had passed the DespairEventHorizon.
* DoesntLikeGuns: But he sure knows how to use them.
* DrowningMySorrows: After the walker barn massacre and realizing that the walkers can't be helped.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: The fact that he was able to crawl away with ''his head still barely attached to his body'' is nothing short of amazing and shows how much willpower Hershel had even in his last moments on Earth.
* EasilyForgiven: He has an astounding amount of forgiveness in his old body, to the point of calmly advocating a peaceful merge with The Governor's militia.
* FarmBoy: He grew up on his farm and inherited it after his parents died.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Completely averted. His absence is still very much felt long after his death, both in-universe and among the fandom. Maggie even names her and Glenn's son after him.
* GoodParents: He cares deeply for his children, and everything he does is because he has their best interests in mind.
* HandicappedBadass: After losing a leg, Hershel does not usually exit the prison since he can no longer run (an inevitability on supply runs, as Daryl notes in Season 4). However, he quickly proves that he is still perfectly capable in close-combat with walkers, as evident when after a few minutes on his crutches, he ''uses them as weapons to kick walker ass''. Rick even brings him to the sit-down with The Governor that could potentially become a firefight, crutches and all.
* TheHeart: Takes this job from Dale upon his death, and becomes perhaps the greatest example of this trope on the show. Dale was unwilling to accept killing a living man, deeming that they couldn't come back from doing such a thing. Tyreese later also avoided killing as best as he could. Hershel, on the other hand, believes that you can come back from the horrific things you do to survive, and thus accepts the violent, dangerous world full of horrible people he lives in. He even shows empathy for The Governor at times, though it's clear he'd kill him if it really came to it. After his death, Rick is disturbed to find that the people of Terminus basically became what he could've become if he hadn't had Hershel around to guide him, proving just how vital Hershel's position as TheHeart was to the group.
* HeroicBSOD: He goes into one when Shane proves that the walkers aren't alive and kills all of them in the barn, including Hershel's wife and stepson, and he is forced to face the full reality of the zombie outbreak and the death of his loved ones.
* InformedJudaism: Inverted. He is Jewish by ethnicity and has a Jewish name, but is a deeply religious Christian.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Hershel is initially very mistrustful of Rick's group during their stay on the farm, and does not appreciate their desire to stay permanently. While he is indeed quite a bit of a {{Jerkass}}, events in the latter half of the season prove that his fear of hostile groups invading his farm is perfectly justified when he, Rick, and Glenn encounter Dave and Tony's group.
* KillTheCutie: The lovable, sweet old TeamDad has his head brutally, slowly hacked off by The Governor after being a hostage.
* KindlyVet: He was a veterinarian before the apocalypse.
* LastStand: Tries for one in the Season 2 finale but gets rescued at the last moment by Rick.
* TheLeader: He's a part of the council running the prison in the fourth season, and thanks to his wisdom and warm heart, is clearly the one with the most authority, making him the true leader of the prison community until he's captured and executed by the Governor.
* LittleBrotherIsWatching: In Season 4, when the prison has a block full of sick people, he takes extra precautions to make sure none of the patients witness him taking dead bodies from the block. Later during a walker outbreak he draws the walkers away from a cell with two children so they don't see him killing them with a shotgun.
* TheMedic: As a veterinarian, he's the closest thing the group has to a doctor. Also serves as the CombatMedic in Season 3, until he loses his leg.
* MoralityPet: To Rick. Hershel is a sort of father figure to Rick, who he looks to for advice to do the right thing. Hershel even smiles proudly when Rick pleads to settle things peacefully with the Governor and his group, claiming that people aren't too far gone and can change from the bad things they have done.
* NiceGuy: After [[TookALevelInKindness warming up to Rick's group]] he essentially becomes Dale's replacement as the moral compass who is compassionate and friendly.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Hershel saving Rick's son and letting the survivors stay on his farm ends up being something he later regrets. His oldest daughter gets into a relationship with Glenn, much to his disappointment. Rick and the survivors refuse to leave the farm and guilt trip him about it. Finally, he watches in disbelief as his family and friends (whom are walkers) in the barn are slaughtered by Shane and the survivors after they find out about it.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Hershel reveals to Lori that he's a veterinarian, not a practicing surgeon. This does not comfort Lori at all considering that he's about to attempt a complicated surgical procedure on a critically injured Carl.
* NumberTwo: Along with Daryl to Rick during Season 3. He is Rick's closest confidante, [[TheMentor his mentor]], and is let in on things the rest of the group isn't; plus, he and/or Daryl are put in charge several times during Rick's absence. We get a number of scenes where Rick confers with just Daryl and Hershel regarding their next move. Carl even suggests Rick take a break from leadership at one point and hand the reins to Hershel and Daryl. Merle refers to him and Daryl as Rick's "inner circle".
* ObiWanMoment: He gives Rick a warm, knowing smile before his decapitation.
* OddFriendship: With Merle in Season 3. They share two mutual things: they are amputees and they like quoting Literature/TheBible.
* OffTheWagon: Following the barn massacre of the walkers. Luckily, he gets better quickly.
* OffWithHisHead: His ultimate demise, courtesy of the Governor using Michonne's sword, in "Too Far Gone".
* OpenHeartDentistry: After Carl is shot, Hershel has to operate to remove the bullet fragments, but he has only done the procedure on animals before, since he is a veterinarian.
* PapaWolf: Both to his blood relatives and his step-kids.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Rick. Upon Lori's death in childbirth and Rick's subsequent SanitySlippage, he nobly takes it upon himself to more or less raise Judith for Rick while he recovers from his latest loss and arguably becomes the honorary grandfather for both Judith and Carl. In Season 9, Rick tearfully hugs his hallucination of Hershel like a child hugging his parent.
* ThePatriarch: Both of his family and somewhat for the group.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Downplayed. Hershel wouldn't harm a fly if it came down to it, but before his CharacterDevelopment, he initially only refers to Glenn as the "Asian boy", although he never treats him poorly. He later tells Glenn the country was built on immigrants, however. In the same conversation this is averted, as he gives Glenn his father's watch after realizing that Glenn and Maggie are attracted to one another, saying, "No man's good enough for your little girl until one is."
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 4.
* ProperlyParanoid: "Nebraska" shows that Hershel is very right to fear hostile survivors invading his farm when he, Rick, and Glenn run afoul of Dave and Tony.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When he returns to his farm after recovering from his HeroicBSOD, the first thing he says to Shane when he raises his voice? A scathing attack in which Hershel makes clear in no uncertain terms that Shane is only allowed to be on his property because of Rick's request, and that he thinks he's a selfish prick who needs to go.
* ReligiousBruiser: He is the TokenReligiousTeammate of the group as well as the resident tough old guy.
* SacrificialLion: In Season 4, his death takes place alongside the destruction of the prison, the show's setting for a season and a half, and ultimately leads to Rick being forced to retake command of the group.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Towards the fact that walkers are no longer people. Shane shooting one without it dying convinces him he is wrong.
* ShipperOnDeck: He ultimately comes to love and respect Glenn as a worthy man for his daughter, and later happily gives his blessing for Glenn to marry Maggie.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He wields a pump action shotgun on occasion, most notably one with [[BottomlessMagazines unlimited ammo]] in "Beside the Dying Fire."
* SoProudOfYou: He doesn't actually say anything, but he smiles when Rick gives his speech about how you aren't too far gone to come back from the terrible things you do. Rick's hallucination of him in Season 9 also expresses nothing but pride and gratitude to Rick for everything, even after Rick apologizes for being unable to prevent his own death, as well as the deaths of Beth and Glenn.
* StepfordSmiler: At the end of "Internment", he puts on a brave, smiling face after finally containing the plague, but the trauma of losing so many friends on his watch causes him to break down and cry once he's alone, and he can't even find solace in the Bible.
* TeamDad: Takes the role over from Dale after he dies, and much more effectively. It helps that he's actually the dad to two members of the group. By Season 3, he advises on how to care for Judith, advises the rest of the group on relationships, is Rick's main source of advice, and is the one who tries hardest to help Rick with his loosening grip on sanity. He ends up being the TeamDad to the entire prison community in the fourth season, and his death at the hands of the Governor immediately launches everyone into action.
* TechnicalPacifist: He knows how to use a gun, but just doesn't like to.
* TheTeetotaler: He hasn't had a drop of alcohol since Maggie was born. He briefly relapses in the aftermath of the barn massacre, but gets better thanks to Rick.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: One of the few group members to keep any faith in God after the apocalypse started.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: By Season 4, Hershel has basically become the embodiment of everything that is still good in the world. So of course he has to die a horrific death in front of his family and friends.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts as a very untrusting prick before mellowing into the compassionate TeamDad that everyone loves.
* TragicKeepsake: His watch, which he passes on to Glenn, is still in the group's possession long after his death.
* UndyingLoyalty: After he realizes what the walkers really are he becomes a very loyal supporter to Rick. At the end of Season 2 he is one of only two members in the group, besides Daryl, to still trust Rick's leadership, and by Season 3 he has taken up the role of TeamDad, giving Rick advice and trying to help him come back from the dark path he is taking. Maggie even mentions in the Season 5 finale how he was loyal to Rick and believed in him, and that is the main reason why Maggie herself chooses to believe in Rick as well.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** He is prone to giving these to Rick and his group during their early days on his farm, until he mellows out. However, during Season 3, at the end of his patience with Rick, he yells at him to get his shit together and do something about the threat of Woodbury, raising his voice for the first time in a season. Even Merle looks surprised at his outburst.
** He later rightfully gives Rick hell about considering handing over Michonne to the Governor, and expresses immense disgust at Carl's execution of an ambiguously surrendering Woodbury soldier.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: He is wearing his IconicOutfit when he dies.
* ZombieAdvocate: He originally considers them merely sick people who can one day be cured until Shane finally demonstrates otherwise by shooting one through various vital organs to no effect. After this, he has no trouble helping to kill walkers.
* ZombieInfectee: Briefly, though Rick manages to amputate his leg. He is one of the few people in the series to survive being bitten by a walker.
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[[folder:Maggie]]
!!''Maggie Rhee (née Greene)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've been fighting since the farm. Can't stop now."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenCohan
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Olga Velasco (Spanish dub), Ayaka Shimoyamada (Japanese dub), Nana Spier, Ranja Bonalana ["The Other Side" and "Something They Need"], Sonja Spuhl ["A New Beginning" to "What Comes After"] (German dub), Marie Giraudon (French dub), Chiara Gioncardi (Italian dub), Zsanett Andrádi (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-11)

->''"We all know the plan doesn't end this morning. That we may have to live in uncertainty for days, maybe more. That we have to keep our faith in each other. If we can hold on to that with everything we have, the future is ours. The world is ours."''

The oldest daughter of Hershel, Maggie Greene is the most welcoming member of her family to the group. Quickly establishing herself as smart, pragmatic, and dependable, she finds herself quickly falling in love with Glenn Rhee, entering a passionate relationship with him as the Atlanta group and the Greene family integrate. After the fall of the farm, Maggie becomes one of the group's main defenders and scavengers, regularly seen on the frontline, and marries Glenn after the end of the Woodbury War.

Months later, Maggie loses her father to The Governor, and also believes that her sister has perished as well. After a lengthy quest to reunite with her husband, Maggie is elated to find that her sister is alive, but is broken when on the same day, she discovers Beth's death. For weeks, Maggie is despondent, developing a close friendship with Sasha when both of them lose their loved ones, until the group arrives at the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Realizing the community is safe enough for a sustainable future, Glenn and Maggie agree to conceive a child together.

Maggie also begins to step up as a key leader of Alexandria, serving as Deanna's right-hand woman and later as the liaison between Alexandria and Hilltop Colony. When Maggie needs treatment from Hilltop's Dr. Carson, the group tries to get her there, only to be captured by the Saviors. Maggie is then forced to watch Abraham die next to her, and then Glenn is killed after Daryl lashes out. Glenn is able to tell Maggie that he'll find her some day before perishing, and Maggie is the first of the group to get up after their ordeal and demands they fight back. After being taken to Hilltop, Maggie is asked to stay there indefinitely by Dr. Carson, and begins to win the hearts of the locals when she leads the charge in fending off a Savior attack.

By the end of Season 7, Maggie has usurped Gregory's position as the leader of Hilltop Colony, and leads her community into war with the Saviors. Maggie finds herself often overwhelmed by the strains of leadership, particularly when the other communities are forced to evacuate to Hilltop, but strives to see the war through to avenge Glenn's death. As such, Maggie is devastated and enraged when Rick and Michonne ultimately end the war by sparing Negan's life. Feeling betrayed by her friends, Maggie begins building up Hilltop to shift the balance of power in the rebuilding communities so she can go behind Rick's back one day and kill Negan. She nearly goes through with it, but relents after seeing how far into despair Negan has fallen suffering in his imprisonment. After Rick's apparent death, Maggie leaves the region to build a community out west with Georgie, leaving Jesus in charge of Hilltop.

She does not return for several years until the end of Season 10, in which she learns of the conflict with the Whisperers and decides to return. She arrives during the FinalBattle against the horde, with an entire group, the Wardens, in tow - and is enraged to find Negan a free man and living amongst the community…
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* ActionGirl: [[CharacterDevelopment Develops]] [[TookALevelInBadass into one]]. Starting in Season 3 she's able to hold her own alongside the toughest and most competent fighters in the group such as Daryl and Rick. By the time the season ends, she's the most skilled gun user of all the women.
* ActionMom: To her son, Hershel.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Compared to her initially fragile comicbook counterpart, she's more assertive and emotionally strong from the get-go. She doesn't suffer from DrivenToSuicide like her comics counterpart does following the destruction of the prison and the death of her family.
* AdaptationalBadass: She's a credible ActionGirl here compared to the comics. In fact, she is the most competent female member of the group in Season 3 until Michonne joins them.
* AdaptationalCurves: She's notably [[StatuesqueStunner taller]] and more [[MaleGaze well-endowed]] than her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: She’s generally much kinder and emotionally warm and stable than her comic counterpart. In the comic she (in a fit of grief) blames Rick for not having the guts to stand up to Negan before he killed Glenn. In the show she completely understands the dire situation the group was in and doesn't even hold Daryl (who indirectly got Glenn killed) responsible.
* AgeLift: From 19 in the comic to 22 in the show.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark red hair, is tall, and usually composed.
* {{Ambadassador}}: In Season 6 she is the diplomat between Alexandria and the Hilltop, and takes little shit from resident asshole Gregory.
* BackToBackBadasses: With Sasha in "Alone" when they are surrounded by walkers near an ice cream truck.
* BadassBoast: When the Governor is about to rape her. It stops the Governor dead in his tracks.
-->'''Maggie''': Just do whatever you're gonna do and ''go to hell''.
* BadWithTheBone: When being held by Governor and Merle, she and Glenn use a walker's bone as a weapon to attack Merle and one other {{Mook}}. Said other {{Mook}} is killed by stabbing the bone into his neck, anyway.
* BatterUp: Though Season 3 sees her switch to MacheteMayhem alongside Glenn.
* BattleCouple: With Glenn until his death in Season 7.
* BigDamnHeroes: Along with Elijah, she arrives in the nick of time to save Gabriel from being killed by some Whisperers in "A Certain Doom".
* BigEater: In Season 7, since she's pregnant, her appetite really begins to pick up.
* BigGood: Of Hilltop Colony starting in Season 7, and then for the entire Resistance as of the mid-season finale of Season 8, when Hilltop is the only allied colony left and she plans to rally everyone there for a last stand. She ends up deferring to Rick in the twilight days of the war. She is also this to the Wardens, the group she began leading during his six years away from Virginia.
* BigShutUp: In Season 8, she aims a sharp "Shut your damn mouth!" at [[DirtyCoward Gregory]].
* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Beth and Carl.
* BoobsOfSteel: A tough ActionGirl played by the very busty Lauren Cohan.
* BreakTheCutie: Starts off as a sweet, kindly farm girl who accepts Glenn and his group with open arms, but ends up nearly getting raped, loses her entire family, and also loses her faith by mid-Season 5. Defied after the Season 5 finale, as even after Glenn himself dies, she is able to rebound from these tragedies and keep it together, even if she's no longer the sweet girl she was when we met her.
* BrokenBird: What she has become as a result of the death of her father, her little sister, and her husband.
* BrutalHonesty: When she first had sex with Glenn, she admitted it was partly because she was lonely and her options weren't numerous these days. Afterwards, she claims it was a one time thing. Later she becomes more willing to tell it like it is, as seen when she rips into Gabriel during "Them".
* TheBusCameBack: After being absent for about a season and a half, she returns to the show in "A Certain Doom".
* ButNowIMustGo: Leaves the Washington area in Season 9 to help Georgie build up other settlements across the country. She admits to Daryl that it was partly because she still had Negan on her mind and didn't want her son growing up knowing the man who killed his father was still around.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Hershel wants to kick Rick's group off of the farm, she chastises him, partly because she doesn't want Glenn to leave.
* TheChainsOfCommanding:
** Taking leadership of a large community just at the onset of a war certainly is no easy task for Maggie. She has to contend with ever-dwindling food and supplies, a large amount of POW's brought in by Jesus (and against her will), and an overpopulation crisis when the other communities are sacked and their populations relocate to Hilltop. In "Do Not Send Us Astray", she is forced to bury dozens of her people after the Saviors' biological attack on Hilltop.
** She doesn’t have it much better when she rejoins Alexandria with her new group, the Wardens. Many of them are picked off by the Reapers and she also has to contend with the fact that her husband’s murderer is a free man.
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a flirty, feisty farm girl to a wise, powerful and forgiving young woman and the leader of the Hilltop Colony.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Downplayed in Season 11. While she’s still more or less the same woman who left in Season 9, she’s endured six years of hardship and raising a child alone and as she relates in “Acheron, Part II”, has seen some truly horrible things. She’s more capricious and pragmatic upon her return.
* CompositeCharacter: In the comics, Maggie has an older sister. Here, she takes the role of Hershel's eldest child. She also becomes the group's main (female) sniper in this continuity (until Season 5 when Carol and Sasha step up) instead of Andrea, due to the latter becoming an AdaptationalWimp and later [[DeathByAdaptation dying]]. She also takes aspects from Michonne during the Woodbury arc as she was almost raped by the Governor (though Michonne ''was'' raped) and had a loved one decapitated by him.
* ContraltoOfDanger: She has a fairly deep voice and is an ActionGirl.
* CoolBigSis: To Beth and later a surrogate one to Enid.
* CruelMercy: She ends up choosing to spare Negan after seeing how much he really wants to die and realizing that keeping him alive is a FateWorseThanDeath.
* CrusadingWidow: When she's under the impression that Glenn is dead. Later, when he actually does die and the rest of the group is too demoralized to move, she starts making plans to kill the man who did it while grieving over his body and so ill she can barely stand. Negan learns the hard way that you don't want to be on the wrong end of ''this'' CrusadingWidow in the Season 7 finale.
-->'''Negan''': That widow is alive, guns a-blazing!
* DaddysGirl: Maggie was very close to her father. She is seen crying and screaming when the Governor kills him.
* DamselInDistress: Kidnapped by Merle alongside Glenn, but gets rescued, even killing one of the guards holding them captive.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In addition to escaping Merle, she is also taken hostage alongside Carol at the end of "Not Tomorrow Yet", and manages to break free and kill her captives, as well as their reinforcements.
* DeathGlare: She shoots some nasty ones at Negan in the last few episodes of Season 10. Understandable, since she still hates him for killing Glenn and wasn't around to witness his HeelFaceTurn. It's little wonder Carol tried sending Negan away for his own safety.
* DeathWail: She lets out an agonizing one as her father is slowly, brutally executed that also doubles as an aggressive roar of war, since at the same time she's unleashing hell on The Governor's militia. She gives another agonizing one after seeing Daryl carrying a lifeless Beth out of the hospital. She lets out another one when Glenn's head is smashed twice with Lucille, and once the Saviors leave, is a sobbing, wailing wreck once she finally breaks down.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After having sex with Glenn she tries to claim it was just a one-time thing, but she slowly warms to Glenn and admits she likes him, and later is the first of the two to profess her love for him. Then this trope is flipped when ''Glenn'' has to come around to the idea that he loves her. It paid off, to say the least.
* {{Determinator}}: One of her defining traits. Maggie has suffered more than almost anyone on the show, but she ''always'' keeps on moving and never gives into her grief or undergoes any SanitySlippage.
* DeterminedWidow: While she has always been a determined PluckyGirl, after Glenn's death she's still determined and competent. She is nicknamed "The Widow" by Negan.
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Maggie gets right to the point when she wants Glenn.
-->'''Maggie''': (''grinning'') [[RefugeInAudacity I'll have sex with you]].
* EleventhHourRanger: Arrives at the Tower near the end of "A Certain Doom" to save Gabriel from being butchered by some attackers.
* EtTuBrute:
** Maggie feels betrayed when Rick spares Negan and when Michonne supports it at the end of the Savior War.
** She's shocked to learn that Carol was the one who let Negan out of his cell, though she later admits to Daryl that she also understands Carol's reasons for doing what she did.
* EvilStoleMyFaith: Midway through Season 5, so many bad things have happened that Maggie admits she's lost her faith, but eventually she regains it after the group proves that they're there for her. This is something that sticks around in Season 7, as even after Glenn dies, she is still able to find comfort in saying grace with her friends Sasha and Enid.
* FakingTheDead: While she's away at Hilltop in Season 7, Alexandria digs a grave for her and tells Negan she has died of her illness. This is so Maggie can be at Hilltop for treatment from Dr. Carson without drawing Negan's suspicion about her whereabouts, and so Negan also does not learn of Alexandria's alliance with Hilltop. The ruse is cast off as Maggie personally leads the Hilltop Colony into battle against Negan himself in the season finale, and Negan is shocked to learn of her survival.
* FanservicePack: Helps that she's played by former model Lauren Cohan.
* FarmersDaughter: {{Lampshaded}} by Glenn.
* FieryRedhead: She's never afraid to voice her opinion or back down in an argument.
* ForcedToWatch: She's made to watch the execution of her father, along with the rest of the main cast. It happens again in Season 7, as Abraham and her husband Glenn are killed right in front of her.
* FriendlySniper: By Season 3, she's easily the best marksman among the female cast and by the end of the season she appears to have become the group's primary sharpshooter. In the Season 2 finale, she indicates that her upbringing on the farm may have had a hand in her proficiency with firearms. By Season 5, she shares this role with Sasha and Carol as the latter [[TookALevelInBadass radically steps up her game]].
-->'''Maggie:''' You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two.
* GiveGeeksAChance: In a deleted scene, Glenn asks if she would have noticed him if not for the apocalypse, seeing as he was "a huge geek" in high school. Maggie tells him not to be sure she wouldn't have noticed him: "I like geeks."
* GoodIsNotSoft: She's one of the most moralistic characters on the show, but isn't afraid to kill if she has to, with her first victim being a Woodbury guard who she stabs in the throat with a walker bone. Notably, the only other unambiguously "heroic" characters to have taken human lives at that point in the series -- not including [[MercyKill Mercy Kills]] -- are Rick and Michonne. And while most of those kills are in some way self-defense, she's one of the few people to flat-out murder someone, since she's [[FriendlySniper a good enough shot]] that she ''intentionally'' kills a militia girl in Woodbury.
* HappilyMarried: Maintains a loving, happy, and healthy marriage to Glenn for several seasons until his death in Season 7.
* HeroAntagonist: In early Season 9, she and Daryl plot to kill Negan behind Rick's back despite knowing Rick is keeping him alive to honor the late Carl's wishes. They take preventive measures to keep Rick from reaching Alexandria to stop Maggie and further defy Rick's vision of a peaceful society by letting Oceanside kill Arat, the last of the Saviors responsible for the massacre that claimed the lives of their men and sent them into hiding. Maggie's reasons for wanting Negan dead are extremely justified, however, given Glenn's death and how Rick basically pulled a MyWayOrTheHighway in his decision to spare Negan's life while ignoring how Maggie really felt about the situation.
* HonoraryAunt: To Judith. They share a big hug after reuniting for the first time in almost a decade, and are also shown bonding at the start of the next episode. It's even more heartwarming when you remember Maggie was the one who delivered Judith when she was born at the prison all those years ago.
* HorsebackHeroism: When she saves Andrea at the beginning of Season 2.
* IllGirl: Starting at the end of Season 6, she has complications with her pregnancy, and is more or less rendered helpless until the group can get her to Hilltop.
* ImportantHaircut: Goes to have BoyishShortHair around the time she's expecting her first child.
* JackOfAllStats: After becoming a well-rounded ActionGirl in Season 3. She's good with firearms, but not as great as Rick, Daryl, Hershel, or Carl. She's effective in melee combat, but not as competent as Rick, T-Dog, Glenn, or Michonne. By Season 5, her marksmanship is only matched by Carol, Sasha, and Rick.
* KickTheDog: When Gabriel tries to make small talk with her and let her know [[YouAreNotAlone she can talk to him about her family if she needs to]], she snaps at him and chastises him for leaving his flock to die. Gabriel may have needed it, but he ''was'' going out of his way to try to do ''something'' beneficial to the group since he's TheLoad, which is about the nicest thing he does in Season 5.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Leaving her husband's murderer to rot in a cell for the rest of his life instead of granting him an easy MercyKill.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Tearfully puts down the reanimated Sasha.
* TheLeader: She becomes the leader of Hilltop Colony in Season 7 after proving herself to be a much more competent, compassionate leader than Gregory ever was. In Season 8, with Alexandria and the Kingdom destroyed and everyone forced to flee to Hilltop she becomes the leader of the entire resistance, though she shares command with Rick towards the end of the war. As of Season 10, she's the leader of a small group from Meridian consisting of her, Hershel Rhee, Cole, Elijah, and a few other survivors.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: There's no indication that she changes her last name after marrying Glenn. She finally does so in Season 7 after his death.
* TheMourningAfter: She still wears the wedding ring Glenn gave to her nearly a decade after his death, as her reappearance in "A Certain Doom" shows.
* MsFanservice: She takes off her shirt and bra on more than one occasion, although the ShamefulStrip by the Governor in Season 3 is most definitely [[FanDisservice not fanservice]]. In Season 6, she and Glenn have a nude ShowerOfLove scene and the camera takes a [[MaleGaze long look]] at her from behind. This trope ends up going away after Season 6, however. While she is still beautiful and often dresses well, she no longer gets any sort of fanservicey scenes or outfits.
* MyGreatestFailure: The fall of Hilltop in her absence is implied to be this for her. Despite already hating Negan on principle, she begins blaming him for the fall of her community, despite the situation having been explained to her, and the fact that Negan was forced to partake in the sacking as part of his assassination of Alpha, the woman truly responsible. In “Hunted” she tearfully blames Negan for it, suggesting she regrets having left and being unable to help protect the community she was formerly in charge of. Negan also seems to realize this is the case as he does not argue with her, since they both know what really happened.
* NiceGirl: After warming up to Glenn she becomes one of the friendliest and most kind-hearted characters on the show. [[GoodIsNotSoft It doesn't mean she's soft, though.]] [[CrusadingWidower Not one bit.]]
* NiceHat: She's wearing a fedora when she returns in "A Certain Doom".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Ripping into Father Gabriel in "Them" makes Gabriel realize he's TheFriendNobodyLikes and plays a major part in him betraying them to Deanna and begging for them to be kicked out, which Deanna comes dangerously close to considering.
** She falls into this territory again in Season 9, when she and Daryl discover that a group of Oceansiders are responsible for the disappearances and murders of a number of Saviors, exacerbating tensions between the Saviors and the rest of the Militia. Instead of turning them in, she and Daryl turn their backs and let the Oceansiders continue their vigilante killings, ultimately resulting in Jed leading a group of Saviors to ambush the bridge camp in an attempt to secure guns and go after the Oceansiders themselves. The ensuing conflict draws a herd of Walkers which results in the destruction of the bridge and the disappearance of Rick, which in turn leads to the eventual dissolution of the Militia.
* OfficialCouple: With Glenn officially starting towards the end of Season 2 and lasting until the start of Season 7, when Glenn is killed by Negan.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In [[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS04E15Us "Us"]], she reveals that she deliberately caused the cave-in encountered by Glenn and Tara by unloading her last clip of bullets into the ceiling to cut off a horde of walkers.
* ParentalAbandonment: She has two {{Missing Mom}}s (Hershel remarried). She later witnesses her father being brutally killed in front of her.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Daryl. He's the only one to have had her back in every dispute or argument, and approves of her plan to go ahead and kill Negan. Their friendship is not soured by Daryl being the one to inadvertently cause Glenn's death, as Maggie tells him she doesn't hold it against him, and implies that neither would Glenn.
* PluckyGirl: She makes it clear she will stop at absolutely nothing in her quest to find Glenn following the fall of the prison. She's at it again in Season 6 when Glenn goes missing.
* PregnantBadass: She starts trying to sideline herself a bit in Season 6 due to her pregnancy, but will definitely take up arms if the situation calls for it. "The Same Boat" secures her status as a PregnantBadass (see DamselOutOfDistress above), and in "Go Getters" she refuses to be kept out of the fight at Hilltop and drives over a bunch of walkers with a tractor. In the Season 7 finale, she leads the people of Hilltop into a massive gun batte against the Saviors. In the Season 8 premiere, she jokes that she can keep fighting well into her second trimester and later takes part in the initial attack on the Sanctuary as well as leading the charge in the battle at Hilltop.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Beginning in Season 3. She's been removed from the titles as of "Who Are You Now?", but is re-added in "Home Sweet Home" following her surprise return in "A Certain Doom".
* PromotionToParent: Helps take care of Lori's baby after her death in Season 3.
* PutOnABus: During the six-year TimeSkip in Season 9, Maggie leaves with Hershel to help Georgie build up a distant community. She doesn't return until the back half of Season 10.
* RapeAsDrama: Fortunately [[AvertedTrope averted]]. In Season 3, the Governor tells her to take her shirt off or he'll cut off Glenn's hand. She does so and the Governor is seen fondling her half-naked body, but when the two of them escape Woodbury and Glenn asks if she was raped, she confirms that wasn't the case.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's a kind, compassionate and protective leader once she takes up command of Hilltop.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** Tends to generate this kind of dynamic when interacting with either Glenn or Beth, acting as the passionate, impulsive Red to her husband's or sister's Blue.
** In Season 11, she ends up becoming the Red to [[spoiler:''Negan'']] of all people, being much more hotheaded and stubborn compared to his calmer and more reasonable Blue.
* RelationshipUpgrade: She and Glenn officially enter their relationship at the end of Season 2 when they have both professed their love for each other.
* RelativeButton: Negan invokes this on Maggie in Season 9, outright taunting her about how much he enjoyed killing Glenn and bringing up his horrific EyeScream. A enraged Maggie almost bashes Negan's head in with a crowbar, only to then realize what it is he [[SuicideByCop really wants]].
* ReligiousBruiser: Not as much as her dad, but she's a bonafide devoted Christian and ass kicker. She loses the religious side of this in Season 5 after the loss of her entire family, but regains it in the season finale.
* RestrainedRevenge: After spending 18 months wanting nothing more than to see Glenn's murderer pay for the crime with his life, she instead chooses a form of CruelMercy by sparing Negan's life after seeing how much he ''really'' wants to die.
-->'''Maggie:''' I came here to kill Negan, and you're already worse than dead.
* SexySecretary: Becomes Deanna Monroe's assistant in Alexandria.
* ShamefulStrip: Forced to do this in Season 3 by the Governor.
* ShowerOfLove: With Glenn at the start of "East". It turns out to be the last time they make love, as Glenn leaves Alexandria shortly afterwards in search of Daryl and is killed early the following morning.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Maggie ultimately falls in love with Glenn because of his kind heart and big brain.
* SoleSurvivor: She is the last remaining member of the Greene family as of Season 5.
* TheStarscream: A heroic version towards Gregory. She steadily builds up more power and influence at Hilltop as Season 7 progresses, then takes over as their new leader in Season 8 and has Gregory locked in a pen with a bunch of enemy hostages.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's a tall, beautiful girl... which Glenn absolutely notices.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In Season 11 she is forced to work alongside Negan who has earned a place, tentative though it may be, in the community. She is able to address him by name and turn her back to him, but she makes it very clear she still wants to kill him. It gets even worse when they are forced to travel alone together for a time.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: After her father dies, her sister gets abducted and killed and Gabriel undergoes a SanitySlippage induced FaceHeelTurn, Maggie becomes the true religious voice of the group until she moves to Hilltop.
* TokenWhite: In the trio with Bob and Sasha in the latter half of Season 4.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Beth's girly girl.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: When she takes off her shirt to have sex with Glenn in "Cherokee Rose".
* TraumaCongaLine: Where to begin? The only people who even come close to having it as bad as Maggie has are, arguably, Rick and Carol. It's a wonder she holds up at all.
** First, she loses her mother and brother early on to the walker virus, and later has to see them gunned down in front of her when Shane releases the walkers from the barn.
** Next, family friends Otis, Patricia, and Jimmy all die within quick succession and Maggie is forced to flee the farm from a walker herd.
** Then her sister Beth and father Hershel die within ''ten days'' of each other. She never gets to say a proper goodbye to either of them.
** A few months later, her husband Glenn is brutally murdered in front of her, her best friend Sasha dies in the conflict with the Saviors, and to add insult to injury, Rick and Michonne choose to spare Negan, the man who killed Glenn, which Maggie views as a major betrayal from two of her closest friends. While Maggie does get some closure regarding Glenn's death, as well as give birth to her and Glenn's child, due to being PutOnABus she is not able to say a final farewell to the late Jesus, Enid, and Tara, all of whom were close friends of hers.
* VengefulWidow: She admits after a skirmish at Hilltop that she wanted Glenn's grave to be the last thing Negan saw before he died. She finally gets the chance to exact her revenge in Season 9, only to end up choosing a more restrained version by letting the now tortured, death-seeking Negan live.
* WalkingTheEarth: This is pretty much what her adventures during the six-year TimeSkip amounted to, since she left the Washington region to help Georgie build up other settlements across the country.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** By the look on her face in "Spend", she is hurt when Gabriel tells Deanna to not trust Rick's group and kick them out of Alexandria.
** "What Comes After" sees Maggie scathingly dress down Michonne for disregarding her feelings about Negan and her loss of Glenn, and points out how hypocritical Michonne is being because of the fact that Michonne would've killed Negan if Negan had killed Rick.
* WhenSheSmiles: Even after losing so many of her loved ones, Maggie has a radiant, beautiful smile that when seen ''will'' help give people hope for the future again.
* WidowWoman: As of Glenn's death in the Season 7 premiere.
* YankTheDogsChain: A particularly cruel example. After the prison fell, Maggie operated under the mindset that Beth was dead during the second half of Season 4. In the episode from Season 5 "Coda" as she, Glenn and Abe return from their failed trip to DC, she is informed that they have a lead on where Beth is to her shock and delight. It is taken away from her when she arrives at the hospital where Beth is at to see Daryl carrying Beth's dead body in his arms. At which point Maggie [[DeathWail drops to the ground and starts crying.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: Jesus grooms her to become the new leader of Hilltop to replace the cowardly, incompetent Gregory in Season 7, and she officially takes the mantle in the season finale.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Beth]]
!!''Beth Greene''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"We don't get to be upset. We all got jobs to do."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EmilyKinney
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Celia De Diego [Seasons 2-3], Inma Gallego [Seasons 4-5] (Spanish dub), Aki Nakajima (Japanese dub), Julia Stoepel (German dub), Lucille Boudonnat (French dub), Veronica Puccio (Italian dub), Viktorie Taberyová (Czech dub), Lilla Hermann (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-5, 9 [[note]]Hallucination, played by a stand-in[[/note]])

->''"I know [[AudienceMonologue you]] look at me and you just see another [[NonActionGuy dead girl]]. I'm not [[LadyofWar Michonne]]. I'm not [[TookALevelInBadass Carol]]. I'm not [[GoodIsNotSoft Maggie]]. I've survived and you don't get it 'cause I'm not like you or them. But I made it."''

Beth is Hershel's youngest daughter, and the girlfriend of Jimmy. She develops a friendship with Carl and helps keep the groups spirits up through her singing. In Season 4, she has begun a relationship with Zach, a new member of the prison community. She tries to maintain a positive attitude despite all the horrors the group faces, and becomes close to Daryl when they flee the destroyed prison together. Beth ends up being injured and "rescued" by the police officers of Grady Memorial Hospital. She works to escape alongside Noah, but is captured during the attempt and is forced to stay after Carol also injured and captured. Beth is killed by Dawn after stabbing her during a prisoner exchange.
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* AccidentalMurder: On the receiving end of this trope when she's accidentally shot in the head by Dawn in a prisoner exchange gone wrong.
* ActionSurvivor: Though she's definitely not among the most competent fighters in the group, by the beginning of Season 3, she's capable of defending herself if necessary and able to take out walkers without flinching. In "Too Far Gone", her father's death motivates her to take an active role in the ensuing battle and she later hits the road with Daryl after the prison is lost and the group is forced to scatter.
* ActionGirl: Her episodes in Season 5 finally show her graduating from an exclusive ActionSurvivor to this. Her appearance in "Slabtown" has her killing an officer by herself via feeding him to a walker, and helping the injured Noah to escape Grady Memorial Hospital, killing all the walkers in the pitch-black lower-levels of the hospital all herself.
* AngstComa: Following the barn walkers being shot and being attacked by her own undead mom. She snaps out of it, but starts thinking about suicide.
* AscendedExtra: One of the best examples in the entire show. In the first half of Season 2, she has a grand total of ''one'' line, even less than [[RedShirt Redshirts]] Jimmy and Patricia. In the second half, she has a storyline largely revolving around more important characters reacting to her being in a catatonic state, eventually recovering and becoming a secondary character, which she remains for all of the next season. In Season 4, she is promoted to a series regular under "Also Starring," and becomes more plot-relevant. In the first half of Season 5, she is added to the main credits and gets [[ADayInTheLimelight her very own major story arc]], which culminates in her death.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Very much averted in Season 5. She has two visible facial wounds ([[MythologyGag Which matches the ones Andrea's comic counterpart has]]) and to make matters worse, she dies via BoomHeadshot.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Easily one of the sweetest members of the group, and she doesn't tend to say too much, but when a fight breaks out between [[TokenEvilTeammate Merle]] and several of the others she responds by storming into the room and firing a pistol into the air to get their attention.
* BoomHeadshot: How she dies in Season 5, courtesy of Dawn.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Behaves this way for a short time after escaping the prison with Daryl.
* BreakoutCharacter: She was largely ignored until Season 4 rolled around and she got her own separate arc with Daryl that made her so popular with fans that her first name is synonymous with the show. After that, she became one-half of the show's most popular straight ship, and is the second-most popular female character on Archive of Our Own's ''Walking Dead'' subpage, and the sixth-most popular overall, even ahead of Maggie. Just like her father, her death serves as the emotional climax of the Season 5 midseason finale, though unlike her father, her death was almost universally disliked because of its massively anticlimactic nature.
* BrokenBird: In Season 2. She outgrows it in Season 3.
* BreakTheCutie: The loss of her mom and brother plus the barn massacre traumatizes her pretty heavily. Her emotional state after Jimmy's death isn't really shown due to the TimeSkip between Season 2 and 3, but she seems to have recovered pretty well.
* TheBusCameBack: After being abducted near the end of the fourth season, she returns in the fourth episode of Season 5.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: In a way, she ''does'' ended up filling Maggie's dead siblings role in the comics since most of them were either {{Posthumous Character}}s or AdaptedOut.
* CanonForeigner: She never appeared in the comics.
* CartwrightCurse: Both of her romantic interests (Jimmy and Zach) end up as zombie food.
* CelebrityParadox[=/=]ProductPlacement: She sings an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EMxAI018Ks unplugged version]] of her actress' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVudemQmgYM own song]] in Season 4.
* CompositeCharacter: Despite being a CanonForeigner, she absorbs traits from comic characters. Like Lacey Greene, she also is distraught during the events at the barn and rushes over in tears, though Beth is saved from being killed. She contemplates suicide around the same point in time as Comic!Tyreese's daughter Julie, though she survives this one too. Due to the injuries she receives from the Grady Memorial Hospital group, her face is scarred identical to Comic!Andrea's.
* CoolBigSis: It's implied that she's aware of Carl's PrecociousCrush on her, but since she's much older, the least she can do is act like a big sister to him. Also, after Lori's death, she is the one [[TheLancer Daryl]] asks to keep an eye on Carl since Rick [[SanitySlippage isn't in his best condition]] to be a good father. In a deleted scene that takes place after Lori's death, she comforts Carl and assures him that Lori is in Heaven.
* TheChick: Compared to all the women in the group (and cast), Beth fills every aspect of the trope in spades.
* CuteBruiser: Heavy on the cute, low on the bruiser, but the principle is there.
* TheCutie: Of the prison group.
* DaddysGirl: She has a normal, loving relationship with her father, and Hershel can be quite protective of her. Like Maggie, she is devastated by his death.
* DamselInDistress: She ends up kidnapped in "Alone".
* ADayInTheLimelight: "18 Miles Out". Season 4 also brings us "Still", which serves as a dual spotlight episode for both Beth and Daryl. Her first appearance in Season 5 qualifies as this as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments once she starts getting more screentime. She is a teenager, after all.
* DeadStarWalking: Gets promoted to the main cast of Season 5, but only appears in three episodes and dies in the third, the mid-season finale.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: The entire second quarter of Season 5.
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses it following the barn massacre of the walkers. She eventually recovers.
* DoomedMoralVictor: Her final act of defiance in stabbing Dawn gets her killed, but it's also the catalyst that frees the Grady Memorial residents from Dawn's oppression when Daryl kills Dawn in retaliation.
* DrivenToSuicide: Halfway through Season 2, she comes to believe there is no hope left in the world, and tries to convince Maggie that they should kill themselves together. When she tries, she only makes a shallow cut on one wrist and can't go through with it. Ultimately, it's InterruptedSuicide.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Her death is ''very'' sudden and anticlimactic; she's instantly killed via a bullet to the brain when Dawn fires her gun by accident, ''after'' the group have already succeeded in rescuing her from the hospital.
* DueToTheDead: A big fan of this, much like her father: she insists on covering up a desecrated corpse even when no-one is around to see it, yells at Daryl for having a little too much fun killing walkers, and finds it "beautiful" that someone would still take the time to embalm corpses during the zombie apocalypse.
* EmotionlessGirl: By Season 4, Beth starts to edge into this territory; when Daryl tells her that Zach is dead, she responds with a simple "okay" and tells him that she doesn't cry anymore. Ultimately shown not to be entirely true when she breaks down crying at a couple points later in the season, namely during Hershel's execution and after the fall of the prison.
* FanservicePack: Thanks to her wardrobe.
* FarmersDaughter: Not so obvious as with Maggie.
* FlippingTheBird: She gives Daryl the finger when she gets fed up living by his rules, and does it again when the two set a cabin on fire.
* ForcedToWatch: Along with the rest of the prison group in "Too Far Gone", when the Governor executes her father.
* GirlyBruiser: While still more feminine than her older sister, she's a competent-enough ActionGirl in her own right. This is more evident in Season 4 and especially Season 5.
* GlassCannon: Like Carl, her lack of physical strength puts her at a great disadvantage in situations where she has been taken by surprise, shown most effectively in "Inmates", where Daryl has to save her from a relatively low number of walkers after she wanders off into the forest alone.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has light blonde hair, and is by far the most innocent and sweetest character on the show. Which makes [[KillTheCutie her death]] all the more heartbreaking.
* {{Hallucinations}}: An episode after her death, she sings to and comforts the dying Tyreese.
* TheHeart: The nicest person in both Rick's group and the Grady Memorial Hospital.
* HeroicSacrifice: A possible interpretation of Beth's last act. Beth stabs Dawn, knowing Dawn will kill her for it, to get Dawn killed in order to save Noah.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In [[WordOfGod Emily Kinney's own words]], Beth died because of her overconfidence.
* HiddenDepths: She has quite a pleasant singing voice.
* TheIdealist: After the prison group is scattered in the second half of Season 4, she is the most convinced that there's a chance they might be able to find each other again. Though there are a few hints that her positive attitude is at least partly an act to keep herself motivated.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Her great quest for her first drink. It's implied to also be an attempt to [[DrowningMySorrows drown her sorrows]].
* TheIngenue: She's by far the sweetest and most innocent person in Rick's group.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In her game of "I Never" with Daryl, she accidentally brings up a lot of painful memories for him.
* KillTheCutie: In "Coda", the mid-Season 5 finale.
* MoralityPet: To Daryl after traveling together.
* MundaneLuxury: In "Still", she makes time to be a normal teenage girl, trying on nice clothes and spending a lot of effort trying to get her first alcoholic drink.
* NeutralFemale: Initially, but she eventually learns to handle herself in a fight.
* NeverSayGoodbye: Beth refuses to say goodbye to Zach before he goes on the supply run, despite him telling her that it could be dangerous. She later tells Daryl that she's glad she didn't say it even though he doesn't return. She also never got to say goodbye to Hershel before his tragic fate, and to Maggie before Beth's ''own'' tragic fate.
* NiceGirl: She's shown to be a soft-spoken and caring girl for the most part.
* OddFriendship: With Daryl in Season 4, bordering on ShipTease at times.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her mom has been dead since before the apocalypse, while her father is brutally killed in front of her in Season 4.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Until "Arrow on the Doorpost", where she switches to wearing a white blouse. She dons a pink jacket in the Season 3 finale "Welcome to the Tombs", though.
* PromotionToParent: She's the main caretaker for Judith until the prison is overrun, at which point the role is taken over by Tyreese.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 5.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Flees the prison with Daryl once it becomes clear that sticking around is a losing proposition.
* SacrificialLion: The second of Rick's group to die in Season 5, and her death (along with Tyreese's in the next episode) greatly lowers the group's morale.
* ShipTease: With Daryl in Season 4 and Noah in Season 5. Carl also has a PrecociousCrush on her in Season 3. Sadly, she dies before all of it can go anywhere.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Picks up an assault rifle alongside her sister in "Too Far Gone".
* StepfordSmiler: Shades of it in Season 4. Although on the surface she still appears cheerful and upbeat, her total lack of reaction to her boyfriend's death implies that she has become emotionally numb to trauma. Later, in "Still" she admits that she really just wants to lay down and cry but "[they] don't get to do that".
* TechnicalPacifist: If firing a pistol just to stop three of her teammates from arguing is any indication.
* TemptingFate: In "Still", she tells Daryl that she knows she will die one day and claims he would badly miss her should she. In "Coda", Beth is killed and Daryl is absolutely heartbroken.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Like others in her family, Beth is a devout Christian and believes that her mother, Lori, and good people in general go to Heaven after death.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Maggie's tomboy.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: A genuinely good-hearted person who dies a tragic and senseless death before she can reunite with her sister.
* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much everyone in the group did (to varying degrees) during the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3, Beth included. She doesn't take part in much on-screen action and is presumably still pretty low tier in her group, but the sole fact that she even ''can'' fight is a huge step up in and of itself.
** During the Season 3 premiere, she's briefly seen standing watch with a gun. Later that episode, we see her stabbing walker-heads through a chain link fence and then joining in with the rest of the group as they open fire on the horde.
** After a fight breaks out between Maggie, Glenn, and Merle, she promptly storms into the room and fires a pistol into the air to stop them.
** The death of her father in "Too Far Gone" angers her so badly that she even picks up a rifle and joins in the battle to defend the prison against the Governor.
** She takes another one in "Slabtown" by helping Noah escape Grady Memorial Hospital.
* UnableToCry: By Season 4, she has gone through so much grief that she tells Daryl that she doesn't cry anymore, even after learning that her new boyfriend Zach has died. She gets over it in "Isolation", after learning Hershel is treating the sick inhabitants of the prison and risking his own life in doing so. However, watching the Governor behead her father shows that she's still got some tears in those ducts.
[[/folder]]

!!Other Farm Survivors

[[folder:Otis]]
!!''Otis''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm responsible. I ain't gonna sit here while this fella takes this on alone."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PruittTaylorVince
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Miguel Zúñiga (Spanish dub), Torsten Münchow (German dub), Paul Borne (French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

Otis is a farmhand on Hershel's farm. After accidentally shooting Carl, he accompanies Shane to recover medical supplies. Shane shot him and left him to be eaten by walkers so he could escape with the supplies.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: His comic counterpart is a racist {{Jerkass}} and is TheFriendNobodyLikes.
* AdaptationalUgliness: In the show, he's bald and overweight. His comic counterpart wasn't.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He had red hair in the comics.
* AgeLift: From the comic version, going from his being in his late 20's to somewhere in his 40's or 50's.
* TheAtoner: He volunteers to get medical supplies to help Carl, who he accidentally shot.
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He gets DevouredByTheHorde after Shane shoots him in the leg. He spends a good minute screaming in pain and anger, especially as the camera shows the walkers biting off his ear.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the comics, he survives until the prison arc.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: The reason why he leaves with Shane is that he accidentally shoots Carl while hunting a buck and wants to redeem himself to Rick's family. Otis doesn't survive the trip because Shane sacrifices him to a walker horde so he can save Carl. Otis did redeem himself in the end, no matter how avoidable his death was.
* DevouredByTheHorde: After Shane shoots him in the knee to serve as bait.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: His comic counterpart is KilledOffscreen by walkers and later put down by Rick.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Otis goes with Shane to retrieve medical supplies and refuses to abandon Shane while the horde was pursuing them. Shane resorts to shooting Otis so he can survive and escape with the supplies.
* TheLancer: He is Hershel's right-hand man.
* NiceGuy: Unlike in the books, where he's a racist. Otis is torn up over accidentally shooting Carl, and immediately volunteers to help get the medical supplies needed to save him. He also refuses to abandon Shane to the walkers, but this gets him killed, as explained below.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: He absolutely refuses to leave Shane behind to be eaten by walkers, but this ends up getting Otis killed as Shane decides that he can't risk them both dying and being unable to get the medical equipment to Hershel, leading him to shoot Otis in the knee and leave him as a distraction for the walkers.
* SacrificialLamb: Shane makes the decision for him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Patricia]]
!!''Patricia''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jane [=McNeill=]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Isabel Donate (Spanish dub), Helga Sasse (German dub), Isabelle Perilhou (French dub), Jana Postlerová (Czech dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

Otis' wife, she aids Hershel in maintaining the farmhouse. She was eaten by walkers when Hershel's farm was attacked.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Since she dies early, she was not able to betray the group during the prison arc like in the comics.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Not necessarily intelligence, but levelheadedness and common sense. Saying that her comic counterpart is extremely TooDumbToLive is a ''huge'' understatement.
* AgeLift: From the comic version, going from being in her mid-20's to her mid-40's.
* BitCharacter: No pun intended.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the comics, she died when the Governor attacked the prison.
* DemotedToExtra: None of the characterization given to her in the comics made it into the show.
* DevouredByTheHorde: As the group flees the farm, a walker comes out of nowhere to grab her and proceeds to munch down as a few other walkers join in.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Her comic counterpart is shot in the head by a Woodbury soldier during the final prison battle.
* HappilyMarried: She and Otis appeared to have a very loving relationship.
* RedShirt: Gets very little screen time or characterization before dying.
* WidowWoman: After Otis dies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jimmy]]
!!''Jimmy''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hershel! It's happened again."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' James Allen [=McCune=]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' David Robles (Spanish dub), Niclas Lutz (German dub), Nathanel Alimi (French dub), Robert Hájek (Czech dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

A young farmhand on Hershel's farm, and the boyfriend of Beth. He was eaten by walkers when Hershel's farm was attacked.
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* BitCharacter: He's such a minor character that most reviewers didn't even bother to learn his name.
* CanonForeigner: He never appeared in the comics.
* DevouredByTheHorde: While driving the RV, walkers manage to burst in while it's parked during his rescue of Rick and Carl and eat Jimmy before he can escape.[[note]]According to Glen Mazzara, James [=McCune=] was terrified during this scene because his greatest fear in real life is this trope.[[/note]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: To Beth, though this might be partially excusable due to the following episode taking place months later. Daryl does mention him and Zach in "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS04E12Still Still]]", albeit not by name.
* GangstaStyle: He holds his gun like this during training. After T-Dog tells him not to, he becomes much more accurate and is later able to kill a few walkers when the farm is attacked.
* TheGenericGuy: He has pretty much zero discernible character traits.
* HesNotMyBoyfriend: A weird variation on this trope occurs when Beth decides to take her own life and Maggie, attempting to talk her out of it, cites Jimmy as a reason she has to keep living. While Beth doesn't actually deny that they're a couple, she points out that they were only casually dating for a couple of months prior to the ZombieApocalypse, and that despite the apparent opinions of the rest of the group they're not actually in any sort of committed relationship now.
* HeroicFireRescue: During the second season finale, Jimmy takes the RV and rescues Rick and Carl from the burning barn as the walkers attack. Unfortunately, he gets eaten when walkers break into the RV.
* NiceHat: He is often seen wearing a straw cowboy hat.
* RedShirt: So much so that the cow Dale finds mutilated in the field was originally meant to be Jimmy's body.
[[/folder]]

!!Others

[[folder:Well Walker]]
!!''Well Walker''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brian Hillard
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 2)

A bloated walker that becomes trapped in a well on Hershel's farm.
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* BoomHeadshot: Courtesy of T-Dog.
* CanonForeigner: Never appeared in the comics.
* {{Gonk}}: Even for a walker he's gross and disgusting.
* LudicrousGibs: The walker splits in half as the group tries to pull it up, resulting in its intestines spilling into the water below.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The water was already undrinkable from the Well Walker just sitting in it, so there was really no point in trying to pull it out (to say nothing of risking Glenn's life trying to do so). Especially since, as Maggie reveals, there are already ''multiple other wells on the property''. T-Dog put it best when he finally does the logical thing and just caps the walker in the head.
-->'''T-Dog:''' Good thing we didn't do something stupid like shoot it.
[[/folder]]
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 2-present)

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Completely averted. His absence is still very much felt long after his death, both in-universe and among the fandom.

->''"We've practiced. We've been through it over and over again. We all know the plan doesn't end this morning. That we may have to live in uncertainty for days, maybe more. That we have to keep our faith in each other. If we can hold on to that with everything we have, the future is ours. The world is ours."''

[[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRicksGroup Rick's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGrimesFamily The Grimes Family]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRickGrimes Rick Grimes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaCampSurvivors Atlanta Camp Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowDarylDixon Daryl Dixon]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowCarolPeletier Carol Peletier]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaSurvivors Atlanta Survivors]] | '''Hershel's Farm Survivors''' | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheReapers The Reapers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons1Through6 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 1-6]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons7Through11 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 7-11]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMorganJones Morgan Jones]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]])]]]]-]

!!Well Walker

!!Hershel Greene

!!Maggie Rhee (née Greene)

!!Beth Greene

!!Otis

!!Patricia

!!Jimmy

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:In General]]

* BadassBeard: He sports one beginning in Season 3.

* BoomHeadshot: How he's killed, courtesy of T-Dog.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The water was already undrinkable from the Well Walker just sitting in it, so there was really no point in trying to pull it out (to say nothing of risking Glenn's life trying to do so). Especially since, as Maggie reveals, there are already ''multiple other wells on the property''. T-Dog put it best when he finally does the logical thing and just shoots the walker in the head.

[[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRicksGroup Rick's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGrimesFamily The Grimes Family]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowRickGrimes Rick Grimes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaCampSurvivors Atlanta Camp Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowDarylDixon Daryl Dixon]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowCarolPeletier Carol Peletier]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaSurvivors Atlanta Survivors]] | '''Hershel's Farm Survivors''' | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheReapers The Reapers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons1Through6 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 1-6]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons7Through11 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 7-11]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMorganJones Morgan Jones]], [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowZombies Zombies]]]]]]-]

!!!'''Seasons:''' 2-4, 9[[note]]Hallucination[[/note]]

!!!'''Seasons:''' 2-present

!!!'''Seasons:''' 2-5

!!!'''Seasons:''' 2

!!!'''Seasons:''' 2

!!!'''Seasons:''' 2

[[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]] | '''Hershel's Farm Survivors''' | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheReapers The Reapers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons1Through6 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 1-6]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons7Through11 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 7-11]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowZombies Zombies]]]]]]-]

* PromotedToParent: She's the main caretaker for Judith until the prison is overrun, at which point the role is taken over by Tyreese.

[[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]] | '''Hershel's Farm Survivors''' | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWardens The Wardens]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheReapers The Reapers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons1Through6 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 1-6]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons7Through11 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 7-11]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowZombies Zombies]]]]]]-]

[[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]] | '''Hershel's Farm Survivors''' | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowAbrahamsGroup Abraham's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTerminusSurvivors Terminus Survivors]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGradySurvivors Grady Memorial Survivors]] | [[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/TheWalkingDeadTVShowMagnasGroup Magna's Group]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWhisperers The Whisperers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheCommonwealth The Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheWardens The Wardens]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowTheReapers The Reapers]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons1Through6 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 1-6]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadMinorGroupsOfSurvivorsSeasons7Through11 Minor survivor groups introduced during Seasons 7-11]] | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowOtherSurvivors Other Survivors]] ([[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowGabrielStokes Gabriel Stokes]]) | [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowZombies Zombies]]]]]]-]

* GiveGeeksAChance: In a deleted scene, Glenn asks if she would have noticed him if not for the apocalypse, seeing as he was "a huge geek" in high school. Maggie tells him not to be so sure she wouldn't have noticed him: "I like geeks."

* NiceGirl: After warming up to Glenn she becomes one of the friendliest and most kind-hearted characters on the show. [[GoodIsNotSoft Doesn't mean she's soft, though.]] [[CrusadingWidower Not one bit.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ripping into Father Gabriel in "Them" makes Gabriel realize he's TheFriendNobodyLikes and plays a major part in him betraying them to Deanna and begging for them to be kicked out, which Deanna comes dangerously close to considering.
** She falls into this territory again in Season 9, when she and Daryl discover that a group of Oceansiders are responsible for the disappearances and murders of a number of Saviors, exacerbating tensions between the Saviors and the rest of the Militia. Instead of turning them in, she and Daryl turn their backs and let the Oceansiders continue their vigilante killings, ultimately resulting in Jed leading a group of Saviors to ambush the bridge camp in an attempt to secure guns and go after the Oceansiders themselves. The ensuing conflict draws a herd of Walkers which results in the destruction of the bridge and the disappearance of Rick, which in turn will lead to the eventual dissolution of the Militia.

* MsFanservice: She takes off her shirt and bra on more than one occasion, although the ShamefulStrip by the Governor in Season 3 is most definitely [[FanDisservice not fanservice]]. In Season 6, she and Glenn have a nude ShowerOfLove scene and the camera takes a [[MaleGaze long look]] at her from behind.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In Season 11 she is forced to work alongside Negan who has earned a place, tentative though it may be, in the community. She is able to address him by name and turn her back to him, but she makes it very clear she still wants to kill him.