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The Clark-Manawa Family | California | Mexico | Texas | Southeast USA

Due to the Anyone Can Die 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 six seasons read at your own risk!

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Salazar Family

    Daniel 

Daniel Salazar

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"Good people are the first ones to die."

Portrayed By: Rubén Blades

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 1-3, 5-8)

"The man with the blade and the man in the chair, they're not different. They both suffer. Their lives are changed forever."

A refugee from El Salvador, Daniel moved to the United States with his wife Griselda, where they had their daughter Ofelia. He started a successful barbershop, but still mostly keeps to himself in their community. He joins the group and his past as a torturer allows him to acclimate very quickly to the apocalypse, perhaps too quickly.

  • Anti-Hero: Of the Pragmatic Variety. Though understandable, given his background. Daniel's a good person, but he understands that in order to protect his family he has to get blood on his hands.
  • Anti-Villain: Wants to protect his family, and will do anything to do so, and has done rather awful things in the past.
  • Badass Old Guy: Unlike the other characters, Daniel has absolutely no qualms with blowing a walker's head off to protect his family.
  • The Bus Came Back: Returns in Season 5.
  • The Cynic: Points out to Ofelia that "the good people always die".
  • Dark and Troubled Past: He had a horrible life in El Salvador; it's why he's so savvy when civilization starts to crumble in the U.S. Episode 5 further reveals that Daniel worked as a torturer for the military dictatorship during the Salvadoran Civil War, and is very good at what he does.
  • Demoted to Extra: Only appears briefly in the first part of Season 7.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: He ultimately forms a family with Luciana like he’d wanted for years, and makes peace with Strand.
  • Establishing Character Moment: When Daniel shoots an infected Mr. Dawson with a shotgun, the shot only manages to destroy the right half of his face. Daniel's response? Step closer and shoot Mr. Dawson in the head point blank, with zero hesitation.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His love for his wife and daughter are his only redeeming traits.
  • Freudian Excuse: Exploited. He tells whoever he talks to about the awful things that happened to him in El Salvador to try and justify his actions and why he became the way he is.
  • Get Out!: After Ofelia dies shortly after Madison arrives and before the father-daughter duo could reunite, he tells Madison to get out, as she had failed to bring his daughter to him alive.
  • Happily Married: To Griselda.
  • I Hate Past Me: Implied when he talks about his past with Madison while he's washing his hands.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a bit of a jerk to Travis, but it's clear he'll do anything to protect his family. It's also implied that his trust issues come from past experiences he's had.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being the harshest character on the show, he is very savvy.
  • Kick the Dog: Tortures the most friendly of the soldiers for information.
  • Kill It with Fire: He burns down a whole mansion to kill its inhabitants and walkers. Luckily, he gets out safe, as seen by season 3's fourth episode.
  • La Résistance: In Season 8 he now leads a growing army of parents rearing to fight PADRE to regain their children.
  • Made of Iron: In late Season 7 he somehow survives a bullet to the chest.
  • Never Found the Body: We never see him escape the Abigail Estate after he sets it alight until the fourth episode of season 3. This happens again at the end of season 3, as his fate post-Gonzalez dam explosion is unknown.
  • One-Man Army: When properly riled up, he will mow down enemies all on his own.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Ofelia is killed in Season 3. In Season 8, his adoptive daughter Charlie kills herself to resolve a hostage crisis.
  • Papa Wolf: His number one priority is protecting his family at all costs. When he thinks that Ofelia is still alive in Season 7, anybody on the wrong end of a rampaging Daniel is in for it. Luci actually counts on this and lies that Strand is holding Ofelia captive at the Tower to point him at Strand for the group's benefit.
  • Parental Substitute: Eventually grows into something like this for Luci and Charlie.
  • Properly Paranoid: Mistrustful of pretty much anyone who isn't his family, but this is the Zombie Apocalypse after all.
    • Averted with his suspicions towards Strand, who turns out to have no real ulterior motives. This suspicions result in the group getting abducted by pirates when Strand discovers too late that Daniel has stolen the ammunition from his assault rifle. Played straight in season 3, when his view of Strand is proven right after Strand betrays Daniel and the Clarks in exchange for a seat of power next to The Bishops.
  • Retired Monster: Used to torture people as an occupation, but ran away with his wife to America and became a barber. When the zombie apocalypse comes, he continues his old trade.
  • Sanity Slippage: Starts having PTSD flashbacks in Season 2. Possibly due to the concussion he received in "Things Left to Do", the slippage gets worse in Season 6, and is full-blown delusion during Season 7, believing that his daughter Ofelia is alive and missing, despite the fact that he buried her several seasons ago. He recovers again by the end of the season, and is back in prime form by Season 8.
  • Second Episode Introduction: Played straight.
  • Sole Survivor: The only surviving member of the Salazar family.
  • Torture Technician: Used to be one for the Salvadoran dictatorship.
  • Uncertain Doom: He's last seen collapsed under a wine cellar with torched walkers unconscious. It is revealed early in Season 3 that he managed to escape. Unfortunately, his fate is left unknown after season 3, when the Gonzalez dam blew up while he was still up there. It's revealed later in season 3 that he survived, and is still alive as of Season 7.
  • Villain Killer: In Season 7 he kills Arno, a surviving member of Teddy's doomsday cult.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Suffering a concussion as the result of a pretty nasty blow on the head from a Ranger means that he's unable to do anything to stop his and Grace's abduction in "Things Left to Do".

    Ofelia 

Ofelia Salazar

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"I'm starting to understand this world better."

Portrayed By: Mercedes Mason

Portrayed By: Julie Cavanna (European French)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 1-3)

Daughter of Daniel and Griselda, Ofelia was born in America after her parents fled El Salvador. She is more cynical than her parents and disagrees with her father on the best course of action once the Zombie Apocalypse begins.

  • Action Girl: Proves capable of killing walkers in the Season 1 finale.
  • Femme Fatale: Began sleeping with Adams in order to retrieve meds for her mother.
  • Heroic BSoD: Has one when she realizes Daniel is torturing Adams.
  • Lovely Angels: Pairs up with Liza when taking out a walker in "A Good Man".
  • Missed Him by That Much: After trying to survive the end of the season with a walker bite, her last request is to reunite with her father. Despite managing to get to the rendezvous point, she dies before Madison can bring Daniel to her.
  • Morality Pet: For Daniel.
  • New Old Flame: Apparently, Ofelia had a fiancé this whole time and departs during the second season to search for him.
  • Nice Girl: A compassionate, decent woman.
  • Not Quite Dead: Gets shot by Adams in the finale, but luckily the wound isn't fatal.
  • Only Sane Man: The only member of her family who feels it is necessary to stay with Travis and his group.
    • This is a little bit ironic, given her name.
  • Put on a Bus: In season 2, she abandons the group to go searching for her fiancé. She doesn't show up again until the season 3 mid-season finale.
  • Second Episode Introduction: Played straight.
  • Ship Tease: With Nick.
  • Trauma Conga Line: First she finds out that her father has been torturing Adams, then her mother dies, and then in the finale she is shot by said boyfriend.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: She is very disappointed to learn that her father tortured her boyfriend for information. Then, she gives another one to Adams when he holds the group at gunpoint to get revenge on her father.

    Griselda 

Griselda Salazar

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Portrayed By: Patricia Reyes Spindola

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 1, 2 note )

Daniel's wife, she fled alongside him from El Salvador to the United States. Highly religious, Griselda finds comfort in prayer.

  • An Arm and a Leg: Her injured foot is amputated in the hospital to keep her from turning, but she goes into septic shock and dies anyway.
  • Damsel in Distress: Is carted off to the hospital along with the other injured and sick by the military. The fact that Daniel isn't allowed to accompany her implies more sinister intentions on the part of the soldiers.
  • Game-Breaking Injury: Badly injures her leg while escaping from the riot in the third episode.
  • Happily Married: To Daniel.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: The first member of the three main families to die.
  • Satellite Character: Mainly exists to be Daniel's wife.
  • Second Episode Introduction: Played straight.
  • Token Religious Teammate: Appears to be the most religious of the main cast.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Out of all the major characters Griselda gets the least amount of screen time and dialogue, and is the first to die.

National Guard

    Moyers 

Lieutenant Moyers

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"So relax, count your blessings. Be nice. So I don't have to shoot you."
Portrayed by: Jamie McShane

The leader of the National Guard unit that is assigned to protect/occupy Travis' neighborhood.

  • Armies Are Evil: He and his men are not represented in a sympathetic way, making false promises and showing little interest in the people he is supposed to protect. It's also shown that he and the rest of the National Guard are executing non-infected people outside of the safe zone. Episode 5 takes it even further by revealing that the plan was to "humanely terminate" everyone in the safe zone before evacuating.
  • Asshole Victim: He ends up killed by his own men. Nobody will miss him.
  • Bad Boss: He even treats his own men like crap.
  • Big Bad: Seems to be getting set up as this for the first season. He ends up dying in the penultimate episode, making him little more than a Disc-One Final Boss.
  • Gallows Humor: Cracks a joke about massacring the town while giving his speech.
  • Jerkass: Comes off as rude and dismissive of the people he is being assigned to protect.
  • Karmic Death: His callous attitude towards his soldiers comes back to bite him where they (details were vague) either shot him or left him to the Walkers.
  • Kick the Dog: Tries to get Travis to kill the walker of a person he once knew, then mocks him for not being able to do it.
  • Killed Offscreen: His death isn't shown, only mentioned by the other soldiers. It's implied that he either got eaten, was abandoned or even killed by his own disgruntled men.
  • The Leader: Of the National Guard unit assigned to Travis' neighborhood.
  • The Neidermeyer: His leadership isn't admired at all by his own troops.It's even implied that his own men caused his death. He is also far too old to be a lieutenant, which implies that he was incompetent pre-outbreak as well.

    Allen 

Sergeant Melvin Allen

Portrayed by: Toby Levins

A sergeant in the National Guard. He's in charge of the quarantine in the National Guard command center.

  • Armies Are Evil: He seems even more sinister than Moyers.
  • Asshole Victim: Since he conned Strand out of his favorite cufflinks, nobody feels sad when we see him getting eaten alive by the walkers while Strand takes his cufflinks back from his corpse.
  • Jerkass: Just as bad, if not worse, than Moyers.
  • Eaten Alive: Legs first, by a single walker during the attack on the base.
  • Mercy Kill: Tries to get one from Strand, who refuses it.

    Castro 

Sergeant Castro

Portrayed by: Bobby Naderi

A sergeant in the National Guard.

    Adams 

Corporal Andrew Adams

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Portrayed by: Shawn Hatosy

A member of the military who is also in a relationship with Ofelia.

  • Being Tortured Makes You Evil: He was the Token Good Teammate before Daniel interrogated him. After being tortured, Adams goes after Daniel and his daughter for their blood.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He shoots and nearly kills Ofelia in the finale just to get back at her father for torturing him.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Subjected to this by Daniel, who flays one of his arms to find out the true intentions of the military.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of one from Travis Manawa.
  • Face–Heel Turn: In "The Good Man", he tries to kill Ofelia to get revenge on her father for torturing him.
  • Love Interest: For Ofelia. Too bad he tries killing her.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: On the receiving end of a possibly fatal one from Travis.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He is only following orders and is not a bad person by any means. Though the finale shows that he's really not much better than his fellow soldiers.
  • Revenge Before Reason: He could have easily made it out alive and well after Travis set him free, but instead he chooses to follow the group and shoot Ofelia just to get revenge on Daniel. This does not end well for him.
  • Ship Sinking: His relationship with Ofelia quickly crumbles after he shoots her to get back at Daniel.
  • Token Good Teammate: Appears to be the only decent member of the military unit assigned to Travis' neighborhood. Until his Face–Heel Turn, where he quickly loses all likeability.
  • Uncertain Doom: The last we see him, Travis brutally beat him on the ground and he was left a barely conscious, bleeding mess. With the walkers swarming the base, it's probably safe to say we'll never see him again.
  • Underestimating Badassery: See Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Travis releases him after he promises to never meet them again out of the goodness of his heart. However, Adams follows Travis and his group to get revenge on Daniel for torturing him and nearly kills his daughter.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: The last we see of him he's gasping for breath after his brutal beating from Travis, possibly dying. Since he gets left behind in the parking lot his fate is up in the air, though he's most likely dead.

    Cole 

Corporal Cole

Portrayed by: Jared Abrahamson

Another corporal in the National Guard

    Richards 

Private First Class Richards

Portrayed by: Shane Dean

A private in the National Guard

    Exner 

Dr. Bethany Exner

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"You can get out. But there's nowhere to go."
Portrayed by: Sandrine Holt

"You're trying to save 6 people, I'm trying to save 600,000. And that means one slip up, one what if, and we all start finding out how the neighbors taste."

A doctor working closely with the government.

  • Better to Die than Be Killed: In the Season 1 finale, after realizing what fresh hell has fallen upon everyone, she puts her remaining patients out of their misery and eventually turns the gun on herself.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Seems professional and reasonable at first, but clearly is involved with the shady actions of the government and military.
  • Dr. Jerk: She's a doctor and definitely not a good person.
  • Despair Event Horizon: When she realizes the evac is not coming.
  • Driven to Suicide: It's heavily implied in "The Good Man" that she will kill herself after pulling a Mercy Kill on her patients.
  • Heel–Face Turn: In a way. She was revealed to be involved with the shady actions of the government and military, and carried a rather callous attitude towards the patients, but in "A Good Man", she actually pulls a Mercy Kill on each of her patients before turning the gun on herself.
  • Ice Queen: Has a cold and unflappable demeanor.
  • The Medic: She's a doctor, after all.
  • Redemption Equals Death: She tells Liza and her friends how to escape the base, but refuses to come with them out of guilt for assisting the corrupt military. It's heavily implied she kills herself after the group departs safely.
  • Truth in Television: A lot of health care providers become at least desensitized, if not outright callous, after seeing so much blood, pain, and death.

El Sereno (a.k.a. Safe Zone India) residents

     Patrick 

Patrick Tran

Portrayed by: Jim Lau

A friend of the Clarks who lives in their neighborhood with his wife, Susan.

  • Happily Married: Seems to have had a good relationship with his wife, as shown by his utter devastation when he arrives at his house to find her dead.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: There's no way he could have known this would happen, but returning home just when the Clarks were about to leave LA forced them to go back and save him from his zombified wife, which then left them with no time to escape as the military arrived and quarantined the area. Though this could have all been avoided if Travis had let Madison "kill" Susan in the first place.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Hasn't been seen since he was detained by the military.

     Susan 

Susan Tran

Portrayed by: Cici Lau

Patrick's wife, who is friends with Madison and occasionally babysits for her.

    Peter 

Peter Dawson

Portrayed by: Noah Beggs

The Clarks' next door neighbor.

  • And Then John Was a Zombie: Peter has turned into a walker the next time we see him.
  • Boom, Headshot!: How Daniel takes care of his reanimated self.
  • Facial Horror: Daniel's first shot ends up taking off the right half of his face and pissing him off even more. It takes a second shot to drop him.
  • Incurable Cough of Death: The last shot we see of him alive is a close-up of him coughing, implying he contracted the mysterious illness.
  • Red Shirt: Had exactly one moment of screen-time before he dies and turns into a walker.
  • Zombie Infectee: In the one scene he had, he's sick with the plague, and eventually succumbs to it.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Dead in the same episode he's introduced in, just like Calvin. He is killed again, this time as a walker, in the next episode.
  • Your Head Asplode: The headshot that kills him the second and final time ends up taking off the entire top half of his head.

    Doug 

Douglas Thompson

Portrayed by: John Stewart

A neighbor of the Clarks undergoing a nervous breakdown due to the zombie apocalypse.

Paul R. Williams High School

    Tobias 

Tobias

Portrayed by: Lincoln A Castellanos

A student at Paul R. Williams High School, Tobias is seemingly the only person to take the reports of the strange virus seriously.

  • Audience Surrogate: The only character in-series who is as savvy about the zombie apocalypse as the audience.
  • But Now I Must Go: Parts ways with Madison after dealing with the zombified Art Costa in the school, choosing to stay with his family.
  • Cassandra Truth: Nobody listens to him when he brings a knife into school and insists that the collapse of society is coming. Turns out he was right.
  • Hero of Another Story: Word of God has confirmed that he is still alive, but will not be seen again on the show.
  • No-Sell: He tries to stab the reanimated Art in the head, but the knife simply bounces off. Thankfully, Madison is able to save him.
  • Put on a Bus: After the second episode.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: No word on his fate after he is returned to his family by Madison, though Word of God confirms that he's still alive and well.

     Art 

Art Costa

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Portrayed by: Scott Lawrence

The principal of Paul R. Williams High School.

     Matt 

Matt Sale

Portrayed by: Maestro Harrell

Alicia's boyfriend.

  • And Then John Was a Zombie: Presumably his fate after dying from the infection.
  • Dying Alone: Tells Alicia to leave him in his house alone, where he dies of infection and reanimates.
  • Love Interest: For Alicia. This being The Walking Dead, he doesn't last long.
  • Mauve Shirt: Gets a few scenes with Alicia to flesh out his character before dying.
  • Nice Guy: He's a caring and loving boyfriend to Alicia.
  • Self-Made Orphan: There's a brief shot at the end of the second episode of his house, with the door ajar and two empty suitcases outside, implying that when his parents came home, Zombie Matt killed them.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Dead by the second episode.
  • Zombie Infectee: Is bitten offscreen, and dies from the infection.

     Cal 

Calvin

Portrayed by: Keith Powers

Nick's drug dealer.

  • Affably Evil: For a drug dealer, he's remarkably pleasant and friendly.
  • And Then John Was a Zombie: The first character shown to die and reanimate onscreen, after he is shot by Nick.
  • Asshole Victim: He was trying to kill Nick.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Introduced as a polite young man who seems concerned for his "friend" Nick's safety. Then it's revealed that he's actually Nick's drug dealer, and attempts to execute him to cover his own ass.
  • Black Dude Dies First: The very first named character to die in the series.
  • He Knows Too Much: Why he attempts to kill Nick, fearing that he'll mention his name during questioning.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: His death and subsequent reanimation gives the Clarks their first encounter with a walker.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Dead by the end of the pilot episode.

TruWest Airlines Flight 462

    Jake Powell 

Jake Powell

Portrayed By: Brendan Meyer

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 | Fear the Walking Dead (Season 2)

  • Bus Crash: See Put on a Bus to Hell. It turns out he died afterwards.
  • Butt-Monkey: Nothing really goes right for him as soon as the apocalypse begins.
  • Decoy Protagonist: Is set up as the lead for the Flight 462 webseries, but Alex soon assumes the active role by virtue of knowing more than anyone else about what's happening. He gets relegated to The Lancer position.
  • Demoted to Extra: He's pretty much downgraded to a less important character in the main show.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets seriously wounded in the plane crash and eventually bleeds to death, forcing Alex to put him down off-screen.
  • Holding Hands: With Alex in the final part as the plane descends into California.
  • Killed Offscreen: Dies in between when Strand abandoned him and Alex and during their confrontation with Connor's group.
  • The Lancer: To Alex. He isn't as active as Anthony though.
  • The Load: After the plane crash, Jake is left seriously burned and in need of medical attention.
  • Mercy Kill: After going through days without seeking medical treatment for his severe injuries, Jake sadly dies, forcing Alex to put him down.
  • Non-Action Guy: He never fights in the miniseries and with his serious burns he won't be able to fight for a long time.
  • Parental Abandonment: Gets separated from his mom at the airport and his dad was supposed to pick him up on the other end, with her driving over. It never happens.
  • Put on a Bus to Hell: Jake and Alex are left stranded in the middle of the ocean to fend for themselves.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He doesn't exactly get much character development before his death.

    Alex 

Alex

Portrayed By: Michelle Ang

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 | Fear the Walking Dead (Season 2)

  • Action Girl
  • All for Nothing: Her attempts to save Jake in order to atone for her past mistakes, including killing other survivors of the plane crash to keep them from euthanizing Jake, ultimately end in failure as he bleeds out from his grievous injuries and has to be mercy killed.
  • The Bus Came Back: Two episodes later, she shows up as one of the people taken by Connor. Unfortunately, Jake wasn't.
  • Death Glare: She gives a pretty menacing look at Travis when they reunite in Connor's safe zone.
  • Driven to Villainy: Thanks to Strand and his group abandoning her and Jake in the middle of the ocean, she joins up with Connor's pirates and provides them with information about the group to get back at them.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: In the "Flight 462" minisodes and "Ouroboros", her hair is tied up in a ponytail. After she is abandoned by the main group and rescued by Connor, her hair becomes longer and curlier to signify her villany.
  • Face–Heel Turn: She joins Connor's pirates after they rescued her while Strand left her and Jake for dead.
  • Holding Hands: With Jake in the final part as the plane descends into California.
  • It's All My Fault: As the plane begins to crash-land, she confesses to Jake that she took the seat where his mother would've sat in if she got on the plane in time and believes that it's all her fault that Jake won't be accompanied by his family in what may be his death. He tells her it's okay, because in all likelihood, his mom has already died and they'll be Together in Death. Alex's guilt is why she's so determined to keep Jake alive and is very bitter about it after her efforts fail after the plane crash.
  • Oh, Crap!: When it turns out that one of Anthony's stray bullets cracked a window.
  • Poor Communication Kills: She refuses to tell the other passengers information about walkers until the need arises (telling them her background could've helped with the trust issues), which ends up getting things like Anthony using up an entire clip of ammo on walker!Marcus's chest and only after that does she tell him to shoot him in the head after he's pinned down on the ground by said walker and is out of ammo.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: She joins Connor's pirates as a prison guard.
  • Put on a Bus to Hell: Jake and Alex are left stranded in the middle of the ocean to fend for themselves.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Jake is obviously beyond saving, and when she returns in "Captive", he is dead.
  • Took a Level in Cynic: She was initially a moral person. However, after Strand left her stranded in the ocean she joined up with a pirate group and became a cynical Punch-Clock Villain in order to survive on her own.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Madison's whole group for debating on whether to save or leave her and Jake. She later confronts Travis in his prison cell about what he did to them.

    Anthony 

Anthony

Portrayed By: Kevin Sizemore

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462

  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: He dies in the plane crash.
  • The Lancer: He shares this role with Jake to Alex, since she knows more about what's going on while he tries to keep everyone calm and safe.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure
  • Too Dumb to Live: After firing a few shots at a "man" coming at him multiple times, it never occurred to him to shoot his attacker in the head after the first three shots.

    Deidre 

Deidre

Portrayed By: Kathleen Gati

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462

  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: She dies in the plane crash.
  • Face Death with Dignity: When the plane starts to descend, she calmly removes her oxygen mask and looks straight ahead, since even if she survives the crash, she's still dead anyway because of the infection.
  • Oh, Crap!: When she gets bitten/scratched, she realizes she's next to turn. And then when Alex mercy kills Suzanne right in front of her to prevent her from turning, she also realizes that this will happen to her very soon.

    Marcus 

Marcus

Portrayed By: Brett Rickaby

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462

  • And Then John Was a Zombie: He eventually dies of his bite, turns and tries to set his teeth upon the rest of the passengers. He succeeds with his wife and the stewardess, the rest however are quick to respond to his rampage.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Via metal knitting needle to the back of the head.
  • Incurable Cough of Death: One of the signs that he has more than "indigestion".
  • Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Another of the signs that he's not at all well.
  • Walking Spoiler: The only real unspoilered thing about him is that he's the husband of Suzanne and he's sick on the plane.
  • Zombie Infectee: It doesn't look like it at first, but he was hiding a walker bite to his torso, which is only discovered when they try to defibrillate him.

    Suzanne 

Suzanne

Portrayed By: Lisa Waltz

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462

  • Mercy Kill: Receives one courtesy of Alex by a stab to the face.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Despite multiple warnings, she opens the lavatory door knowing full well what's inside.

Others

    Strand 

Victor Strand

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"The game has changed. We return to the old rules. And the people who won the last round with their grande lattes and their frequent flyer miles are about to become the buffet."

Portrayed By: Colman Domingo

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 1-8)

"I'm a man who has thrown men to the wolves when necessary. Who has not been afraid to cut the cord if I had to. I'm a backroom dealer, a grifter, a shark. Hell, I've cheated at chess when a back was turned. Again, and again, and again. Without fail."

A mysterious, intelligent man who Nick meets in the holding center. He helps the group escape Los Angeles and becomes close to Madison and Alicia, but it becomes clear that he holds his own survival as his top priority and usually comes into conflict with other, more peaceful survivors.

  • Affably Evil: Even as one of the primary antagonists of Season 7, he maintains his usual cordiality and rarely ever loses his cool.
  • Always Someone Better: He comes to feel this way about Morgan, envying him for staying to a more idealistic, moral path. He becomes motivated to outdo Morgan with his new community in Season 7 to try to prove his way, not Morgan’s, is the right way.
  • Ambiguously Evil: During the first season he comes across as a very shady and mysterious character.
  • Arch-Enemy: For Morgan in Season 7. He puts all the blame for the destruction inflicted on Texas on him due to believing his lucky survival was vindication of his actions and ways, and specifically wants to prove Morgan wrong.
  • Arc Villain: One of the main antagonists of Season 7. Morgan doesn't really regard him the same way; while he is still stung over Strand throwing him to walkers, he's more angry with Strand for denying any responsibility for Teddy's success and is alarmed at the prospect of Strand hurting his people just to spite him.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: When he first met his boyfriend Abigail, it was initially fiery due to Strand stealing Abigail's wallet and spending a load of money on a secret project, but the two eventually became an item.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Takes this spot in Season 7, along with the mysterious Stalkers, who serve as more of an overarching threat.
  • Big Bad Slippage: Spends most of the show as a morally shady Anti-Hero before descending into outright villainy in Season 7.
  • Break Them by Talking: Though Doug was plenty broken already, Strand gave him a damn good shove over the edge.
  • Breakout Character: One of the show's most popular characters who quickly becomes one of its' leads and is usually front and center in promotional material. He also ends up becoming the Big Bad of Season 7 due to how much people enjoyed his darker side.
  • The Captain/ The Leader: He makes sure that the others know he's running the show.
  • The Chains of Commanding: In Season 7, as much as he loves being in charge of a prosperous community, he quickly begins cracking under the strains of running it. He has to deal with people constantly asking to be let in, outside enemies trying to force themselves in or conquer the place, and also has to deal with his own paranoia causing him to become mistrustful of his own people. The season proves that a ruthless pragmatist like Strand who values his own survival ultimately is a poor fit for a leader.
  • Child Hater: When the group tries rescuing a little boy, he immediately forces his group to get rid of him.
  • Control Freak: Strand absolutely demands leadership over his fellow survivors and will almost immediately shoot down any suggestions they propose that he doesn't agree with.
  • Crazy-Prepared: It just so happens that he owns a seaside mansion with its own independent power supply, as well as a luxury yacht docked just off the coast.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He can quickly talk his way out of things and he won't hesitate to make snarks while he's at it.
  • Dirty Coward: Averted Trope. He was clearly willing for fight for boat and crew, but once he discovered Daniel unloaded his hidden assault rifle, escape was the only recourse. Proven later when he and Luis kill the Mexican border guards while entering the country.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: He and his new husband and son survive the final collapse of PADRE and set out as a family, and he has regained the trust of the group after his past atrocities. He also learns that Alicia is indeed alive and has reunited with her mother, giving him the peace to move on with his life.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
    • Even though he's amoral at best, he genuinely cares for his lover, Thomas Abigail.
    • He admits by Season 7 he loves Alicia like his own.
  • Evil Is Petty: In Season 7 he takes special delight in gloating to Morgan and anyone aligned with him how much life sucks for them outside the Tower. He also orders Howard to try and recruit Grace for the Tower and deny Morgan to his face.
  • The Exile: Celia kicks him off her land.
  • Face Death with Dignity: When he looks to be about to die at the hands of Teddy’s nukes, he sadly braces himself for the end and closes his eyes. When he survives, however, he is reinvigorated.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: In full force in Season 8 for nearly everyone in the group, since nobody trusts him due to having been the Big Bad of the previous season.
  • Heartbroken Badass: The death of Thomas hits him really hard and even though he's just as pragmatic as ever, it's clear that Strand's in deep mourning over him.
  • Heel–Face Turn: By the end of Season 2, he becomes somewhat of a "friend" to Madison, and now that we know what is motives are, his actions are seen as more Brutal Honesty/Pragmatic Hero (and shade of Nominal Hero) than just straight-up jerkasssery or evil.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: His alliances and friendships constantly change throughout the series. He initially starts out as a jerkass only willing to help the group for his own benefit, and will refuse to help others he sees as "deadweight" or just abandon the group if he feels he can save himself. He eventually comes to see the others in the group as his friends but still worries about his own survival. It culminates in him performing a Face–Heel Turn and becoming one of the main antagonists of Season 7 and Arch-Enemy to Morgan. However, by the end of the season, he rejoins the group at Alicia's insistence when they flee Texas. Season 8 has him fully rejoin the heroes’ side and he ironically becomes one of their kindest members.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He buys Madison and her group time to escape the hotel while he stays to slow the guards down.
  • I Choose to Stay:
    • Volunteers to stay back at the hotel instead of following Madison's group in their escape. Though it didn't take too long before he eventually struck out on his own.
    • He tries to do this in "Amina", refusing to flee with the group when the Tower burns and is about to be overrun by the irradiated horde. However, Alicia is able to convince him to leave.
  • It's All About Me:
    • He throws Morgan to walkers at the end of Season 6 largely because he wanted to be the one to stop Teddy and prove himself a hero to Alicia. It backfires since not only does Morgan survive, the ensuing bickering and delays give Teddy enough time to launch a nuke.
    • Even when he and Alicia have a chance to save the group from the incoming heavily irradiated horde, he stops and rants to Alicia that he's worried she'll never truly forgive and love him.
  • I've Come Too Far: He believes that he must keep Alicia away from him, knowing she's his one weakness, so he murders Will to hopefully convince her to no longer want to have anything to do with him.
  • Jerkass Has a Point:
    • He coldly tells off his group for their lack of survival skills multiple times.
    • He has a hidden assault rifle up in the deck for emergencies. Daniel finds it and assumes he'll use it to turn on them, so he unloads it for safe measure. Once Jack and his group shows up, it looks as if he would be willing to hurt people in need again, as already demonstrated with Alex and Jake... until it turns out that this time, this group is actually a threat, and without a weapon, Strand is forced to flee.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a ruthless pragmatist, but ultimately he is definitely not a villain. Even after he becomes the main antagonist of Season 7, he shows he still has some decency to him.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • His treatment of Doug.
    • He openly tells his group that children are liabilities.
    • He coldly leaves Jake and Alex stranded in the ocean with no hope of them ever making it to safety.
    • His modus operandi for potential candidates for his community in the Tower is to clean them up, give them a hot, fresh meal, and a tour around his facility and luxuries while asking them what they did before the apocalypse to vet if they'd be useful to him. If he deems that they are not useful, he has them thrown out to fend for themselves in the nuclear wasteland. Will even asks why bother with the good treatment and tour if he's still liable to be thrown out, and Strand outright invokes this trope since he wants to defy Morgan's merciful ways.
    • He has Howard go to specifically try to recruit Grace for the Tower, not just because of her background and experience in the nuclear field, but to spite Morgan by offering his lover a place and deny him one without a chance.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • He abandoned Alex and Jake in the middle of the ocean on a raft to fend for themselves. Strand finds himself in the exact same position as he left them, only for him it's much worse.
    • Strand spends an entire season killing and manipulating to keep his ironfisted rule over the Tower, particularly killing those he deems weak or a threat to his community. Ultimately it's his own vices and actions that result in the Tower's destruction.
  • Last-Name Basis: He is most frequently referred to by his last name.
  • Love Is a Weakness: In Season 7 he leaves the Tower to track down a lead on Alicia's whereabouts, and returns reflecting on how much he endangered himself. He decides the community he’s built is too valuable to risk, so he kills Will with the intention of driving away Alicia for good, since she’s the only loved one he has left and he sees his love for her as a weakness. Sure enough, by the end of the season the events that culminate in the destruction of the Tower result from Strand deciding to allow Alicia to live with him, and Wes calls him out for it.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: Thomas refers to him almost word for word as being this. At the end of Season 6 he’s in heaven when he finds Howard’s hideout with art, music, history, fresh food, and bourbon. By Season 7 he cultivates an image around this as leader of the Tower, wearing fancy clothes and wielding unique historical weapons.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Shown to be very good at getting what he wants by manipulating and bribing others. He obtains the key to break himself and Nick out almost effortlessly.
  • Mean Boss: He makes it clear that he's in charge and usually acts cold towards everyone.
  • Mr. Fanservice: He gets a Shirtless Scene to show off his muscles while doing manual labor.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: By the time he and Morgan reach Teddy, it’s too late to stop the first missile, and Strand seems to realize he helped waste valuable time since they were only moments too late to stop the launch. He spends almost the entire season finale scared and remorseful, and lies to Howard that he was Morgan, ashamed of his part in Teddy’s victory. But when he manages to survive the detonation, he doffs all responsibility for the devastation and instead decides to double down on his actions that led to the disaster.
  • Never My Fault:
    • By Season 7 he blames Morgan for the nuclear devastation of Texas, ignoring his own part in the events that ultimately let Teddy succeed in his goal with only moments to spare.
    • Completely averted by the end of Season 7, when he admits he deserves to die a horrible death for everything he did to Alicia and by extension his former allies. In Season 8 he still regrets his actions in Season 7.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • Throwing Morgan to walkers ends up giving Teddy the time he needs to nuke Texas.
    • Even though he's within range of saving the group from the approaching horde, Strand still stops and rants to Alicia about his fears she will never forgive him, wasting time and angering Alicia to the point that they get into another scuffle that results in the destruction of the Tower.
  • Not So Stoic: Giving up his cuff-links clearly pained him when Melvin Allen read the inscription. It turns out that they were a gift from his boyfriend, Thomas Abigail. And then he completely breaks down when he discovers that Thomas has been bitten by a walker, openly crying and not caring if anyone sees it.
  • Obfuscating Insanity: He was only pretending to act crazy because he claims it's the best way to survive in the new world.
  • Odd Friendship: The manipulative, suave business man bonds with broken, drug addict Nick. He later takes in the unassuming, scholarly Howard as his right-hand man.
  • Oh, Crap!: When Jack's group boards the ship, he rushes to grab his hidden assault rifle from the deck... and then it turns out it's unloaded, thanks to Daniel.
  • Only Sane Man: More often than not, Strand seems to be only person in the group who realizes that they're living in a zombie apocalypse where law and order no longer exists.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He cries when his boyfriend dies after they reunite, and is helpless to stand up for himself when his boyfriend's mother insults him and accuses him of not having done enough to prevent this.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • Saves Nick from being taken away by military soldiers at the cost of his precious cuff-links, despite the latter being a complete stranger
    • After Madison saved his life when she could've left him for dead, Strand agrees to rescue her family from Connor's group.
    • After taking over the Big Bad reins in Season 7, he still has a few moments to show he hasn't completely lost his humanity. Namely, he agrees not to tell Wendell that Sarah had come for him on the condition that Sarah stays out of his community.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: Despite starting out rocky, he and Madison come to see each other as friends or at least can trust each other by the end of Season 2 and into Season 3. This becomes clear at the end of Season 2 when she stands up for him & explicitly says that he is her friend when the mother of his boyfriend is kicking him while he's down when he's mourning his boyfriend's death, despite having spent the entire season up until that point being an Ambiguously Evil jerk. By the end of the series they are best friends, and he is the only one who Madison lets learn of her and Alicia's survival.
  • Properly Paranoid: Recognizes that other human beings are the biggest danger and acts accordingly.
  • Put on a Bus: Stays behind at the hotel to buy Madison's group enough time to escape.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
    • Gives a pretty brutal one to Doug Thompson in his introductory scene, taunting him for not being able to protect his family and then implying that his wife will soon find another man who will. This causes Doug to have another breakdown and be removed from the cell.
    • He gives one to Morgan in "Cindy Hawkins" to rub it in his face how he's living it up in a prosperous community and puts all the blame for the nukes on him.
  • Scary Black Man: He's not quite evil, but he definitely gives off a creepy vibe. In full effect by Season 7.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: With no weapon to fend off Jack's group once they board the Abigail, he flees on a raft.
  • Secret-Keeper: In the Grand Finale, he's the only member of the cast who learns that both Madison and Alicia are alive and have reunited. The Clark's allow him to see them from a distance, and he is ecstatic. It gives him the closure from his time with the group to move on.
  • Sociopathic Hero: He's trying to convince the others to follow his leadership, but he'll also dismiss the lives of other people they encounter.
  • The Sixth Ranger: He's this to the main group, though he's nominally in charge since he's captain of the ship. The others, however, don't respect him as such.
  • Straight Gay: He's gay/bisexual and lacks stereotypical effeminate traits.
  • They Called Me Mad!: His motivation in Season 7 is to build his own community and society and succeed where Morgan and others failed - and rub it in their faces how his oft-decried ways worked.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Becomes this for the group as of the Season 1 finale.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Losing the Tower and presumably Alicia did a number on him, as in Season 8 he’s the kindest he’s ever been.
  • Tragic Keepsake: The cuff-links that Thomas gave him as a gift. They say: "Love Always, A" and are the only thing Strand has left of him.
  • Undying Loyalty: To his boyfriend, Thomas Abigail. He goes through absolute hell to get back to him and also honors his final wish of a Mercy Kill, even if it brings Celia's wrath down on him.
  • Villain Protagonist: One of the show’s main characters who becomes of its main villains by Season 7.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He's held in good regard by the people in his community, despite Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. It deteriorates as he quickly begins executing people on a whim or threatening to do so for petty reasons like an artist not producing a painting of him that he likes.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: The first episode of Season 8 mentions that Strand was not with the other members of Morgan's group on the rafts when they were found by PADRE and he hasn't made an appearance four episodes into the season. He returns in the back half of the season.

Pacific Coast

The Pirates

    Connor 

Connor

Portrayed By: Mark Kelly

The leader of a band of pirates that the Abigail comes across.

  • Affably Evil: He cooks a steak for Alicia while holding her captive and tries making small talk.
  • Beard of Evil: He sports a beard and appears to be a major antagonist in the second season.
  • Big Bad: As The Leader of his band of pirates, he appears to be the major antagonist of Season 2. Only reaches Disc-One Final Boss status as he seemingly dies in his second appearance.
  • Composite Character: His presumed death is the same as Denise Cloyd's in The Walking Dead comic, bitten by an ally with a bag over their face, secretly turned.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His brother is also his second-in-command. Once Reed is endangered, Connor agrees to Madison's terms to see through his safe return.
  • Generic Doomsday Villain: He plays such a minimal role as an antagonist that you'd barely know if he was even there.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Has Travis and Alicia taken prisoner in order to recruit them into his crew.
  • Uncertain Doom: The last time we see him, his zombie brother is taking a bite out of his arm.
  • Zombie Infectee: Gets bitten on the arm by his own zombified brother no less.

    Jack 

Jack Kipling

Portrayed By: Daniel Zovatto

A member of Connor's crew whose job is to contact vessels to extract information so Connor's crew can attack them.

  • Bait the Dog: Manipulates Alicia into giving up information about the Abigail over the radio.
  • Becoming the Mask: His closeness to Alicia begins to slowly grow more and more during their encounters, to the point where he allows her to escape his group's stronghold.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Jack likes to communicate with strangers through long-distance communication, gaining their trust and friendship, before jumping them by surprise and revealing his true colors when encountered face to face for the first time.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Shows up as a voice over the radio in the Season 2 premiere, a full three episodes before he appears in the flesh.
  • False Friend: He's supposedly a friend to Alicia, but he's only befriending her to gain information.
  • Pretty Boy: He's not bad looking.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He appears to be this to his group, as he takes no joy in killing other survivors.
  • Trapped in Villainy: According to his actor, Jack feels like he's stuck with Connor's team of Jerkass survivors in order to get through the harsh new world.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He preys upon others on the radio to gain their trust before betraying them.

    Reed 

Reed

Portrayed By: Jesse Mc Cartney

A member of Connor's crew.

  • And Then John Was a Zombie: He turns into a walker because Chris shot him on the side of the face, missing the brain. He is later used during Madison's hostage trade.
  • Asshole Victim: Chris kills him and leaves him to turn into a zombie.
  • The Bully: For no reason whatsoever, he just feels the urge to pick on Chris.
  • Distressed Dude: He ends up captured by Madison's group.
  • Evil Is Petty: He makes several snide comments towards Madison's group for a cheap laugh.
  • Jerkass: Completely hostile towards the captive Abigail crew.
  • Kick the Dog: He tells Chris he was stupid for easily trusting others.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: After turning into a zombie he attacks his brother and a few of his men.
  • The Sociopath: He makes it clear that the group's lives mean nothing to him and delights in the prospect of rape.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Feigns helplessness to trick other groups.

    Vida 

Vida

Portrayed By: Veronica Diaz

A pregnant member of Connor's crew.

  • Pregnant Badass: Her pregnancy doens't stop her from taking action in her group's raids
  • Jerkass: Every scene she's in, she acts cruel towards others.
  • Kick the Dog: She steals Alicia's steak out of spite.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She feigns injury in order to get Madison to lower her guard.

Geary Family

    George 

George Geary

Portrayed By: David Warshofsky

    Melissa 

Melissa Geary

Portrayed By: Catherine Dent

    Seth 

Seth Geary

Portrayed By: Jake Austin Walker

    Harry 

Harry Geary

Portrayed By: Jeremiah and Maverick Clayton

    Willa 

Willa Geary

Portrayed By: Aria Lyric Leabu

Broke Jaw Ranch

Otto Family

    Jeremiah 

Jeremiah Otto Sr.

Portrayed By: Dayton Callie

A patriotic border militiaman that railed against the region’s cartel violence and illegal immigration, Otto patrolled his cattle ranch and linked with other like-minded men and organizations throughout the Southwest. He built a network, became a leader, and planned contingencies for the inevitable fall of the American empire — not just a simple survival strategy but a DIY guide for resurrecting society. Otto always expected the fall of democracy – he didn’t plan on the rise of the Dead. Either way, there’s an opportunity to rebuild. The people of Broke Jaw Ranch are ready; tracks have been laid. Does this new society in the making offer Madison’s family hope?

  • Abusive Parents: He treated and continues to treat his sons very poorly.
  • The Alcoholic: He has a drinking problem.
  • Ambiguously Evil: The group is very suspicious of him since he does allow his sons to do very questionable things to the people they pick up.
  • Asshole Victim: Otto is a condescending, self-centered, abusive, alcoholic, Jerkass white supremacist, so no one is very upset when he dies.
  • Bald of Evil: He is bald and, as revealed in the midseason finale, unambiguously evil.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Shot in the head by Nick with the revolver he gave him.
  • Crazy Survivalist: He is a libertarian doomsday prepper and rancher.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: It is quickly revealed that he was an abusive alcoholic to his family. We later learn that he and his friends lynched three Native American teenagers and that he later murdered another one in cold blood, and this was long before the apocalypse.
  • Death by Racism: His past racist actions created the conflict with the local Native American tribe and even after the zombie apocalypse he is unwilling to change. He puts the entire settlement at risk and only his death can bring peace.
  • Driven to Suicide: After Nick kills him, Madison stages it to make it look like Otto killed himself.
  • Gun Nut: He is insistent that "every home needs a gun" to defend itself against threats. Fittingly, Nick ends up killing him with the gun Jeremiah gave him after he becomes a threat to the ranch's survival.
  • Last Episode, New Character: Makes his brief debut in the Season 2 finale.
  • The Leader: Of Broke Jaw Ranch. Though he is technically only one of the four "Founding Fathers," the ranch belongs to him and the other three defer to him.
  • Mighty Whitey: He sees himself as this, and views Native Americans and other "brown people" as "savages" who have no place at his ranch.
  • Off with His Head!: Decapitated after being killed and his head is presented to Walker.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: He does make valid points about common problems within Native American communities, but they are also totally intertwined with racist sentiment. He is also pretty sexist.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: He appears to be a rational leader so far since he allows Luciana to receive medical treatment despite Troy protesting and offers his condolences to Madison after Travis died. Later subverted when his personal hatred and pride are severely detrimental to avoiding war with the Black Hat Reservation.
  • Vigilante Execution: Many years before the apocalypse, he and the other "Founding Fathers" camped out and lynched three Native American juvenile delinquents. When the brother of one came asking questions, Otto murdered him on the spot.

    Jake 

Jeremiah "Jake" Otto, Jr.

Portrayed By: Sam Underwood, Tyler Sanders (Young Jake Otto)

The first born of a border militiaman who spent his life preparing for the fall of democracy, Jake is the scion of a prepper family with mixed feelings about his father’s militant philosophy. His father saw to it that Jake earned an education so that he could serve as an advisor to his nationalist father. While in school, Jake gained a larger worldview, and began to recognize the uglier side of his father’s ideology. Jake is ready to rebuild with his father, but they do not share the same vision of a better nation. While his father is willing to achieve his goals by any means necessary, Jake is more reluctant to shed blood. Jake’s the good son, obligated to carry out his father’s charge. Is he up for the task? And will his men, his father’s men, follow him?

  • Ambiguous Innocence: We don't know how much he knew about his brother's monstrous activities and the brutal executions that the soldiers working for them did.
  • Cain and Abel: Appears to be a more reasonable, nice guy as opposed to his more sinister brother Troy.
  • Co-Dragons: He and his brother Troy are both working for their father.
  • Nice Guy: Seems to be the more rational member of his group.

    Troy 

Troy Otto

Portrayed By: Daniel Sharman

The youngest son of Jeremiah Otto, Troy has embraced the violence of the apocalypse. He would kill to protect his father, his family, and his people – and often does. Despite growing up in the same environment as his brother, he developed a wilder personality without the tempering that his brother’s education has given him. He is intensely suspicious of outsiders and more militant than his older brother. Troy has a dark side to him, and while he presents as something of a psychopath and a sadist, he has an intense charisma that draws people to him. Troy’s isolationist viewpoint is more in line with his father’s beliefs, and that may make him better-suited for leading in this new post-apocalyptic world. It also may make him more popular among his father’s followers.

Though believed to have been killed at Madison's hands, he survived and resurfaces in Georgia nearly a decade later to take revenge on her.

  • Ax-Crazy: He caused the destruction of the Ranch and killed over 40 people and claimed he would do it all again if he could. In Season 8 he instigates a firefight at a gas station despite his men being greatly outnumbered, getting most of them killed in the process. Daniel even invokes this trope as to why he and Luciana cannot afford to stay neutral in the conflict with Troy, as he's just so evil and insane that he'd eventually come for them anyway.
  • Back for the Finale: He returns in the final six episodes of Season 8 and the series.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When we first meet him, Troy appears to be a somewhat nervous fellow who reasonably negotiates with Madison and forms a crush on her, but we later see that he has his men execute other people who he views as undesirable and was about to have Travis killed.
  • Blood Knight: He's proud of the fact that he kills people and wanted to fight Nick.
  • Cain and Abel: He's the more sinister sociopathic team member while his brother is more reasonable.
  • Character Death: Once Madison learns it is his fault the Ranch was destroyed, and he isn't sorry at all for it, she bludgeons him twice with a hammer and he falls to the ground dead. His body is later washed away when the dam is destroyed. However, he's revealed to be alive in the final season. He’s finally killed for good in the penultimate episode.
  • Co-Dragons: He and his brother Jake are both working for their father.
  • Crusading Widower: In Season 8, he says that Madison killed the woman he was in love with and had a daughter, Tracy, with. Madison is unable to remember it, but this only makes Troy angrier. The truth is that his wife was killed by a hostile survivor after trying to help him and following Alicia’s example, so he holds Alicia responsible for her death.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: He is killed by Madison at the end of the show’s penultimate episode, but Russell still leads an attack on PADRE that serves as the final threat of the series.
  • Eye Scream: Madison almost pops out his eye with a spoon, which has Troy wearing an eyepatch as a result.
  • Fantastic Racism: Seems to take pleasure in killing 'undesirables', mainly people of different ethnicities. When talking about Travis' Maori heritage he referred them as 'his people' and believed him to be from there.
  • Final Boss: He is the main antagonist of the final six episodes of the show. He ends up a Disc-One Final Boss since he dies in the penultimate episode.
  • Hero Killer: In Season 8, he claims to have killed Alicia offscreen. The truth is that his lieutenant Russell went looking for Alicia after she was wounded by Troy, and when he couldn’t find her, he lied to Troy that she died of her injury.
  • Kick the Dog: He attempts to shoot Luciana on the spot when he doesn't want to waste medical supplies on her, but Nick stands up to him.
  • Killed Off for Real: After surviving his apparent death the first time, he is definitively killed by Madison in the show’s penultimate episode with Tracy later putting down his walker and burying him.
  • Likes Older Women: He had a crush on Madison, who is obviously older than him.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: Madison asks him several times to bring Travis to her, but instead he has his men try to kill him so Troy will have her for himself.
  • No Sympathy: He's not sorry at all that his actions led to the destruction of the Ranch and the death of nearly everyone living there, believing it was better than living with the Indians.
  • Papa Wolf: In Season 8 he's as worried for his daughter Tracy's safety as any parent, willing to attack and raid settlements to provide for her.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: In Season 8 he's gained a touch more sincerity due to now being a father and having had a wife he genuinely loved that he misses dearly, but he's still a cruel antagonist. He also seems to either have repented from his previous racism, as his ranks are filled with people of all ethnicities and he doesn't make any racist taunts like he did in the past... though later being willing to sacrifice all his men in a fight suggests he doesn't care enough about any of them to even bother with his racism.
  • Villainous Crush: He seems to form an appreciation for Madison as he orders his soldiers to hold her and Alicia in a special office instead of the holding cells where Madison's family is being held for execution. Though she rejects him and all feelings he had for her are severed when she nearly gouges out his eye.

Broke Jaw Militia

    Charlene 

Charlene

Portrayed By: Lindsay Pulsipher

  • Faux Action Girl: She's a military soldier, but apparently she couldn't defend herself from a small group of walkers.
  • Killed Offscreen: We only see her corpse after walkers ate her.
  • Mercy Kill: Receives one from Jake so she won't turn.
  • Redshirt: She gets no character development before being killed by walkers.

    Blake 

Blake Sarno

Portrayed By: Michael William Freeman

  • For Science!: How he justifies the executions he carries out to study walkers.

    Vernon 

Vernon Trimbol

Portrayed By: Hugo Armstrong

    Willy 

Willy

Portrayed By: Noel Fisher

  • Asshole Victim: Gets Eaten Alive by the end of the episode by walkers inadvertently let in by Nick and attracted by Luciana's cries of pain.
  • Beard of Evil: A bearded racist psycho who gets off on murdering helpless prisoners
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Really tries to make himself look like a menace to be feared, but he's not as impressive as he thinks he is as evidenced by his brutal death by walkers.
  • Devoured by the Horde: He gets pulled through a wall by walkers before getting eaten by them.
  • Evil Redhead: A racist murderer with red hair.
  • Facial Horror: Gets his face ripped off by walkers bursting out of a vent shaft.
  • Hate Sink: This guy does absolutely nothing to make himself likable as he's racist, violent, monstrous, and all around a horrible human being.
  • Karmic Death: He loves killing people and leaving them to turn into walkers to use for his own personal zombie army. He gets eaten alive by an army walkers.
  • Neck Snap: Walkers actually rip his head off as they drag him into a vent to eat him.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: He frequently calls Travis a Mexican in the most Jerkass way possible.
  • Too Dumb to Live: While walking on his way out of an office building alone, he stops to hear something on the other side of a vent shaft, so he decides to check it out. After getting swarmed by rats clearly trying to get away from something in the vent, Willy still decides to take a look at what's inside. He gets pulled into the vent by walkers and devoured for his troubles.
  • Undignified Death: He gets the most cartoony death in the entire series by getting pulled into a vent like a ragdoll and munched on by zombies.

Broke Jaw Prisoners

    Steven 

Steven

Portrayed By: Ross McCall

Black Hat Reservation

    Walker 

Qaletaqa Walker

Portrayed By: Michael Greyeyes

A Native American in a war with Jeremiah Otto, whose ranch lies on land which originally belonged to Walker's people.

    Crazy Dog 

Lee "Crazy Dog"

Portrayed By: Justin Rain

The right-hand man of Qaletaqa.

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