Characters / The Walking Dead (2010): Greene Family and Friends

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Rick's Group | The Grimes Family (Rick Grimes) | Georgia (Morgan Jones, Gabriel Stokes) | Atlanta | Atlanta Survivor Camp (Daryl Dixon, Carol Peletier) | Greene Family & Friends (Maggie Greene) | Prison Newcomers (Michonne Hawthorne) | Woodbury (The Governor) | Tyreese's Group | The Chambler Family | Abraham's Group | Terminus | The Coalition & Other Allies | Alexandria Safe-Zone | The Hilltop Colony (Gregory) | The Kingdom | Oceanside | The Saviors (Negan Smith, Savior Outposts, Former Saviors) | Magna's Group | The Whisperers (Alpha) | The Commonwealth | The Reapers | Other Antagonists | Other Survivors

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Greene Family Farm

The Greene Family

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 The Mentor 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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• Adaptational Badass: Their comic counterparts weren't presented as a Badass Family. The trope also applies to them individually.
• Adapted Out: Out of Hershel's seven children in the comics, only Shawn, Arnold and Maggie showed up. Beth is a Canon Foreigner.
• Badass Family: Rick and co., along with the Zombie Apocalypse, forced them to be.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: 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.
• Can't Refuse the Call Anymore: The destruction of the farm leads them to accept the new state of the world and follow Rick's group to survive.
• Death by Adaptation: Arnold Greene was killed in the comics' version of the barn massacre. Here, he's one of the walkers in said barn.
• Decomposite Character: Hershel only had one dead wife in the comics.
• The Family That Slays Together: After they become a Badass Family. Most notably in the Season 3 premiere, where they all work together to clear the prison.
• Farm Boy: If owning a farm is not obvious enough.
• Farmer's Daughter: Maggie and Beth, the former more so.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: They were first introduced with three males (Hershel, Jimmy and Otis) and three females (Maggie, Beth and Patricia).
• The Heart: The Greenes are widely considered as the family of the show more than the Grimeses.
• Honorary Uncle: The Greenes eventually become more of a family to the Grimeses and to most of their eventual True Companions. In fact, the Greenes may well be considered the second most prominent family next to the Grimeses.
• Iconic Sequel Character: 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 actually show up until the second season.
• Missing Mom: Maggie and Beth's respective mothers were dead before the series began.
• Named by the Adaptation: Hershel's late wife in the comics is unnamed. The show's Decomposite Character are respectively named Josephine (1st) and Annette (2nd).
• The One Guy: Of the surviving members of the family, Hershel is the last remaining male.
• Only One Name: Otis, Patricia and Jimmy. In short, anyone who is not a Greene.
• Related in the Adaptation: Zig-Zagged. The family relationship in the comics got shuffled a bit. Hershel's late wife is split 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.
• Religious Bruiser: They're very religious, and by Season 3, they're a very Badass Family.
• Second Episode Introduction: They, along with the surviving farm residents, are all introduced in "Bloodletting", the second episode of the second season.
• Token Religious Teammate: They're often seen praying together.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Unfortunately, the family starts dropping like flies.
• Took a Level in Badass: While Hershel may have always been tough, his daughters eventually become combat proficient fighters by Season 3.
• True Companions: With the other farm residents below. Eventually to the main group itself.
• Zombie Advocate: They keep walkers in a barn until mid-Season 2, thinking they are sick people.

Original Family

Hershel

Hershel Greene

"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: Scott Wilson

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: The Walking Dead (Seasons 2-4, 9 ^note Hallucination)

Debut: "Bloodletting"

"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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• Abusive Parents: 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.
• Action Dad: When he needs to be.
• Adaptation Personality Change: He is more emotionally stable than his comic counterpart ever was.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. Having his children reduced to mainly two ^note  Hershel has several children in the comics, all of whom sans Maggie were Mauve Shirts. and him being much more likable might have helped. The only time he came close to this was when he fell Off the Wagon after the mid-Season 2 finale, which he also quickly recovered from.
• Adaptational Badass: 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 kicking walkers' ass. He even conceals a gun on his leg stump.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He is more doting and compassionate than his comic counterpart.
• The Alcoholic: 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.
• An Arm and a Leg: 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.
• And Starring: He's this for the "also starring" list in Seasons 2 and 3. When he finally gets Promoted to Opening Titles in Season 4, he is mostly credited last but without the "And" citation. This is so that David Morrissey (The Governor) can reclaim his "And" billing from Season 3.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: His decapitated head reanimates not long after his death, and Michonne tearfully puts it down.
• Artificial Limbs: Has a peg-leg in Season 4.
• As the Good Book Says...: He quotes from The Bible in several episodes.
• Back for the Finale: He appears in several flashback scenes in the Season 4 finale, eight episodes after his death.
• Badass Bookworm: He is well-versed in The Bible, being a devoted Christian and all.
• Big Good: Head of the Greene farm and its additional company. He is also this during the first half of Season 4 when he is the head of the prison council.
• Breakout Character: 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.
• Cartwright Curse: Both of his wives died.
• Character Death: Decapitated by The Governor in "Too Far Gone".
• Character Development: Goes from a slightly gruff, pushy old man to a loving, nurturing Team Dad with the wisdom to lead an entire community of survivors.
• Closest Thing We Got: 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.
• Combat Medic: He's the team's main medic for his entire tenure on the show, and also great in a fight.
• Composite Character: His characterization for the prison arc (specifically the leg amputation and also becoming the Team Dad of the group) was fused with comic-Dale's, due to the latter's 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.
• Cool Old Guy: 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. The Governor even admits to admiring him for being a good man when he's captured him.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: 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.
• Crusading Widower: The loss of both of his wives isn't enough to stop him from kicking ass.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Internment" mostly revolves around his attempts to manage the illness spreading through the prison while waiting for the others to return with medication.
• Dead Person Conversation: A heavily wounded Rick speaks with a hallucination of Hershel in Season 9.
• Dead Star Walking: Gets promoted to the main cast of Season 4, but only appears in six episodes and with one being in a flashback.
• A Death in the Limelight: Season 4 heavily emphasized his role as the group's Team Dad. His A Day in the Limelight episode was also 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.
• Defiant to the End: 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.
• Despair Event Horizon: 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.
• The Determinator: Hershel is one to always stick to his guns to the point of stubbornness. Before the apocalypse, when a drought hit the farm and sent him into debt, Hershel refused to accept any aid from a company trying to buy out the farm and ran his land like a tight general until finally the drought ended. Post-apocalypse, when Hershel sets out to do something, his character demands that he stick to it despite any risks to his own life.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: While his comic counterpart is also killed by The Governor, it's via Boom, Headshot! after he had passed the Despair Event Horizon.
• Doesn't Like Guns: But he sure knows how to use them.
• Doomed Moral Victor: Zigzagged. Hershel and Rick fail to convince The Governor to stand down and Hershel pays for it with his life, but Hershel dies happy that Rick has truly embraced his teachings. The prison falls in the subsequent battle, but his friends and family manage to escape and eventually regroup while The Governor dies, ensuring that Hershel’s lesson lives on.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After the walker barn massacre and realizing that the walkers can't be helped.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: 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.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • 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.
  • Played With in Season 9. Rick’s hallucination of him has absolutely no resentment towards him for the deaths of Beth, Glenn, and his own. Since this is Rick’s hallucination, and provided it’s not actually Hershel reaching out from the afterlife, it may be Rick knowing deep down that their deaths weren’t truly his fault, but he just hasn’t been able to accept it until now.
• Farm Boy: He grew up on his farm and inherited it after his parents died.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: 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 in his honor.
• Good Parents: He cares deeply for his children, and everything he does is because he has their best interests in mind.
• Handicapped Badass: 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.
• The Heart: 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 The Heart was to the group.
• Heroic BSoD: 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.
• He's Back!: Realizing Rick is the real deal and regaining his will to live brings Hershel back from the brink. He refuses to accept Shane’s attitude and outright warns him he’s only allowed on his property due to Rick’s request, and accepts Rick as the leader of the group and what must be done to survive.
• Informed Judaism: Inverted. He is Jewish by ethnicity and has a Jewish name, but is a deeply religious Christian.
• Jerkass Has a Point: 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.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He was a bossy, arrogant, and hot-tempered control freak during the second season. However, as the series progresses, he improves and later becomes the Nice Guy.
• Karmic Jackpot: Deciding to place his faith in Rick and welcoming his group as his own results in his daughter Maggie finding the man she marries and starts a family with (even if he doesn’t live to meet his grandson), and he and his family developing much of the skills they need to survive the everyday apocalypse.
• Kill the Cutie: The lovable, sweet old Team Dad has his head brutally, slowly hacked off by The Governor after being a hostage.
• Kindly Vet: He was a veterinarian before the apocalypse.
• Last Stand: Tries for one in the Season 2 finale but gets rescued at the last moment by Rick.
• The Leader: 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.
• Little Brother Is Watching: 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.
• The Medic: As a veterinarian, he's the closest thing the group has to a doctor. Also serves as the Combat Medic in Season 3, until he loses his leg.
• Morality Pet: 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.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He is in complete shock and horror upon realizing the walkers truly are dead. Not only has he been harboring an increasingly dangerous threat since the Fall, but he has not given himself or his family the chance to grieve and move on from the losses they’ve sustained due to his ignorance.
• Nice Guy: After warming up to Rick's group he essentially becomes Dale's replacement as the moral compass who is compassionate and friendly.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: 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. Eventually, however, Hershel comes to show nothing but gratitude and love for Rick, accepting him as a surrogate son and being grateful that he came to his farm despite all the hardships he brought with him.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: 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.
• Number Two: Along with Daryl to Rick during Season 3. He is Rick's closest confidante, 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".
• Obi-Wan Moment: He gives Rick a warm, knowing smile before his decapitation.
• Odd Friendship: With Merle in Season 3. They share two mutual things: they are amputees and they like quoting The Bible.
• Off the Wagon: Following the barn massacre of the walkers. Luckily, he gets better quickly.
• Off with His Head!: His ultimate demise, courtesy of the Governor using Michonne's katana.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Despite having mellowed out since Season 2, Hershel bitterly curses Andrew as an asshole who took a third of the group away from him.
  • When Rick is in despair after the loss of Lori, Hershel more or less takes over the group alongside Daryl. But when Rick suddenly goes on a deranged rant at a hallucination of Lori after being asked to take in Tyreese’s group, Hershel is completely stunned and doesn’t know what to do, leading to the situation spiraling out of control.
  • After The Governor’s attack and Rick doesn’t seem to have a plan of what to do, Hershel gets truly angry with Rick for the first time since he developed his Undying Loyalty to him and yells at him to get his act together.
• Open Heart Dentistry: 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.
• Papa Wolf: To his blood relatives, step-kids, and adoptive family in Rick’s group. The only time he grows legitimately angry with Rick after Season 2 is when Rick appears to be dithering his duty as the group’s leader, reminding him that he entrusted his family’s safety to him.
• Parental Substitute: To Rick. Upon Lori's death in childbirth and Rick's subsequent Sanity Slippage, 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.
• The Patriarch: Both of his family and somewhat for the group.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Downplayed. Hershel wouldn't harm a fly if it came down to it, but before his Character Development, 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."
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In Season 4.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • "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.
  • Before the apocalypse, Hershel refused to give in to a company seeking to buy out the farm even when they tripled their offer during a devastating drought that sent him into debt. He refused to risk the cost of giving into a more powerful entity promising him the world, knowing his buyers wouldn’t be all they seemed. This experience left an impact on Maggie and influences her unwillingness to accept aid from the Commonwealth nearly a decade after Hershel’s death, and as “Warlords” reveals, Maggie was right to not trust someone like Lance Hornsby.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When he returns to his farm after recovering from his Heroic BSoD, 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.
• Religious Bruiser: He is the Token Religious Teammate of the group as well as the resident tough old guy.
• Sacrificial Lion: 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.
• Selective Obliviousness: Towards the fact that walkers are no longer people. Shane shooting one without it dying convinces him he is wrong.
• Shipper on Deck: 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.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: He wields a pump action shotgun on occasion, most notably one with unlimited ammo in "Beside the Dying Fire."
• So Proud of You: 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.
• Stepford Smiler: 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.
• Team Dad: 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 Team Dad to the entire prison community in the fourth season, and his death at the hands of the Governor immediately launches everyone into action.
• Technical Pacifist: He knows how to use a gun, but just doesn't like to.
• The Teetotaler: 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.
• Token Religious Teammate: One of the few group members to keep any faith in God after the apocalypse started.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: 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.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He starts as a very untrusting prick before mellowing into the compassionate Team Dad that everyone loves. In Season 3 he even becomes more open to the possibility of taking other survivors into the group at a time when Rick and several others do not.
• Tragic Keepsake: His watch, which he passes on to Glenn, is still in the group's possession long after his death.
• Undying Loyalty: 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 Team Dad, 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.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • 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.
• White Shirt of Death: He is wearing his Iconic Outfit when he dies.
• Zombie Advocate: 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.
• Zombie Infectee: 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.

Maggie

See Maggie Greene

Beth

Beth Greene

"We don't get to be upset. We all got jobs to do."

Portrayed By: Emily Kinney

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: The Walking Dead (Seasons 2-5, 9 ^note Hallucination, played by a stand-in)

Debut: "Bloodletting"

"I know you look at me and you just see another dead girl. I'm not Michonne. I'm not Carol. I'm not 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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• Accidental Murder: On the receiving end of this trope when she's accidentally shot in the head by Dawn in a prisoner exchange gone wrong.
• Action Survivor: 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.
• Action Girl: Her episodes in Season 5 finally show her graduating from an exclusive Action Survivor 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.
• Angst Coma: Following the barn walkers being shot and being attacked by her own undead mom. She snaps out of it, but starts thinking about suicide.
• Ascended Extra: 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 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 her very own major story arc, which culminates in her death.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Very much averted in Season 5. She has two visible facial wounds (Which matches the ones Andrea's comic counterpart has) and to make matters worse, she dies via Boom, Headshot!.
• Beware the Nice Ones: 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 Merle and several of the others she responds by storming into the room and firing a pistol into the air to get their attention.
• Boom, Headshot!: How she dies in Season 5, courtesy of Dawn.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Behaves this way for a short time after escaping the prison with Daryl.
• Breakout Character: 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.
• Broken Bird: In Season 2. She outgrows it in Season 3.
• Break the Cutie: 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 Time Skip between Season 2 and 3, but she seems to have recovered pretty well.
• The Bus Came Back: After being abducted near the end of the fourth season, she returns in the fourth episode of Season 5.
• Canon Character All Along: In a way, she does ended up filling Maggie's dead siblings role in the comics since most of them were either Posthumous Characters or Adapted Out.
• Canon Foreigner: She never appeared in the comics.
• Cartwright Curse: Both of her romantic interests (Jimmy and Zach) end up as zombie food.
• Celebrity Paradox/Product Placement: She sings an unplugged version of her actress' own song in Season 4.
• Composite Character: Despite being a Canon Foreigner, 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.
• Cool Big Sis: It's implied that she's aware of Carl's Precocious Crush 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 Daryl asks to keep an eye on Carl since Rick 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.
• Cute Bruiser: Heavy on the cute, low on the bruiser, but the principle is there.
• The Cutie: Of the prison group.
• Daddy's Girl: 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.
• Damsel in Distress: She ends up kidnapped in "Alone".
• A Day in the Limelight: "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.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments once she starts getting more screentime. She is a teenager, after all.
• Dead Star Walking: Gets promoted to the main cast of Season 5, but only appears in three episodes and dies in the third, the mid-season finale.
• A Death in the Limelight: The entire second quarter of Season 5.
• Despair Event Horizon: Crosses it following the barn massacre of the walkers. She eventually recovers.
• Doomed Moral Victor: 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.
• Driven to Suicide: 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 Interrupted Suicide.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: 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.
• Due to the Dead: 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.
• Emotionless Girl: 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.
• Fanservice Pack: Thanks to her wardrobe.
• Farmer's Daughter: Not so obvious as with Maggie.
• Flipping the Bird: 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.
• Forced to Watch: Along with the rest of the prison group in "Too Far Gone", when the Governor executes her father.
• Girly Bruiser: While still more feminine than her older sister, she's a competent-enough Action Girl in her own right. This is more evident in Season 4 and especially Season 5.
• Glass Cannon: 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.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has light blonde hair, and is by far the most innocent and sweetest character on the show. Which makes her death all the more heartbreaking.
• Hallucinations: An episode after her death, she sings to and comforts the dying Tyreese.
• The Heart: The nicest person in both Rick's group and the Grady Memorial Hospital.
• Heroic Sacrifice: 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.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Emily Kinney's own words, Beth died because of her overconfidence.
• Hidden Depths: She has quite a pleasant singing voice.
• The Idealist: 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.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Her great quest for her first drink. It's implied to also be an attempt to drown her sorrows.
• The Ingenue: She's by far the sweetest and most innocent person in Rick's group.
• Innocently Insensitive: In her game of "I Never" with Daryl, she accidentally brings up a lot of painful memories for him.
• Kill the Cutie: In "Coda", the mid-Season 5 finale.
• Morality Pet: To Daryl after traveling together.
• Mundane Luxury: 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.
• Neutral Female: Initially, but she eventually learns to handle herself in a fight.
• Never Say Goodbye: 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.
• Nice Girl: She's shown to be a soft-spoken and caring girl for the most part.
• Odd Friendship: With Daryl in Season 4, bordering on Ship Tease at times.
• Parental Abandonment: Her mom has been dead since before the apocalypse, while her father is brutally killed in front of her in Season 4.
• Pink Means Feminine: 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.
• Promotion to Parent: She's the main caretaker for Judith until the prison is overrun, at which point the role is taken over by Tyreese.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In Season 5.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Flees the prison with Daryl once it becomes clear that sticking around is a losing proposition.
• Sacrificial Lion: 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.
• Ship Tease: With Daryl in Season 4 and Noah in Season 5. Carl also has a Precocious Crush on her in Season 3. Sadly, she dies before all of it can go anywhere.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: From what little we see of them, both Jimmy and Zach seemed to be well-meaning nice guys.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: Picks up an assault rifle alongside her sister in "Too Far Gone".
• Stepford Smiler: 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".
• Technical Pacifist: If firing a pistol just to stop three of her teammates from arguing is any indication.
• Tempting Fate: 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.
• Token Religious Teammate: 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.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Maggie's tomboy.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: A genuinely good-hearted person who dies a tragic and senseless death before she can reunite with her sister.
• Took a Level in Badass: Pretty much everyone in the group did (to varying degrees) during the Time Skip 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.
• Unable to Cry: 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.

Annette

Annette Greene

Portrayed By: Amber Chaney

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 2)

Debut: "Save the Last One" (photograph), "Pretty Much Dead Already" (in person, as a walker)

Hershel's second wife. She was the mother of Beth and the stepmother of Maggie.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: Hershel placed her reanimated self in the barn while the family waited for a cure. She is later put down when Shane unleashes the walkers from the barn, forcing the group to open fire and kill them all.
• The Lost Lenore: For Hershel.
• Not Quite Dead: She is presumably killed during the free-fire on the walkers in Hershel's barn. However, in the following episode, she gets back up and tries to attack Beth, so Andrea puts her down for good with a scythe to the head.
• Posthumous Character: Already dead by the time Rick's group reaches the farm.
• Zombie Infectee: She was infected by a walker early in the outbreak.

Shawn

Shawn Greene

Portrayed By: Travis Charpentier

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 2)

Debut: "Save the Last One" (photograph), "Pretty Much Dead Already" (in person, as a walker)

The son of Hershel's second wife Annette. He is also the stepbrother of Maggie, and the half-brother of Beth.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: Hershel placed his reanimated self in the barn while the family waited for a cure. He is later put down when Shane unleashes the walkers from the barn, forcing the group to open fire and kill them all.
• Big Brother Instinct: Beth fondly remembers him as "annoying and overprotective."
• Posthumous Character: Already dead by the time Rick's group reaches the farm.
• Zombie Infectee: He was bitten by a walker early in the outbreak.

Later Additions

Hershel Rhee

Hershel Rhee

"Hey, mom."

Portrayed By: Ethan Charles (Season 7), Peyton Lockridge (Season 9), Kien Michael Spiller (Seasons 10-11), Logan Kim (Dead City)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 7 ^note Dream, 9-11) | The Walking Dead: Dead City

Debut: "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" (dream), "A New Beginning" (in person)

The son of Maggie and the late Glenn. He is born during the Time Skip between Seasons 8 and 9. He leaves with his mother after the apparent death of Rick, and grows up on the road, learning various survival tricks and facing all kinds of dangers. In late Season 10 he and his mother return to Alexandria with the survivors of the Wardens, and unbeknownst to Hershel, his father’s murderer is now a free man.

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• Action Survivor: He hasn’t been seen in combat due to his young age, but he knows tricks and tips to make it outside Alexandria’s walls, has received some melee combat training from Judith, and later pulls a gun on Negan showing he knows how to operate a firearm despite their rarity outside the Commonwealth.
• Adaptation Expansion: As the comics never depicted Hershel outside of his early childhood and his adulthood, we spend much more time with young Hershel as an actual character.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: By virtue of the series not adapting most of the events of the final issue, Hershel is not seen as a spoiled brat like how his comic counterpart turned out. While he has some troubling dark tendencies, he still remains a good, helpful boy and nothing like the piece of shit he grew up to be.
• Angst? What Angst?: A weird case in Dead City. To put it simply, he has long since come to terms with Glenn’s death, since he never knew him in the first place. Consequently, he simply does not care about Negan anymore like he used to, and his angst is due to his mother not getting over Glenn's death.
• Archenemy: He has pure hate for the “bad man” who killed his father before he was born. After learning it was Negan and confronting him about it, he turns his hate squarely towards him. For his part, Negan acknowledges what he took from the boy and invites him to one day challenge him again when he’s old enough.
• Armor-Piercing Question: During his early childhood away from the Coalition, he asked Maggie if his father’s murderer paid for his act with his life.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Hershel tragically grew up in the shadow of his father’s murder and has a dark side that has festered in him due to his hate for the man responsible. While he can be a perfectly happy, fun child, his demeanor goes out the window if the subject of his father’s death comes up.
• The Bus Came Back: In "Home Sweet Home", alongside Maggie.
• Cheerful Child: He seems to be, greeting Maggie with an upbeat, "Hey, Mom" even after the two have been separated by the Reapers following a perilous ordeal.
• A Day in the Limelight: “The Rotten Core” has a significant subplot devoted to him as he finally properly meets Negan and learns he is responsible for his father’s murder.
• Dead Guy Junior: He is named for his late grandfather Hershel, who was killed by The Governor in Season 4 and about a year earlier In-Universe.
• Disappeared Dad: Glenn was killed by Negan several months before Hershel was born.
• Distressed Dude:
  • In "What's Been Lost", he's kidnapped along with the other children by the Commonwealth and held captive at Alexandria.
  • The plot of Dead City is kicked off by the Croat abducting Hershel, forcing Maggie to team up with Negan to get him back.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: His existence spoils the fact that his father is dead and his mother has had to raise him alone.
• Like Father, Like Son: Has been shown to take after his parents in different ways.
  • Like Glenn (and Maggie), he’s a loyal friend to his companions and proves to be a savvy, experienced survivor who has adapted quickly to the apocalypse. Hershel is able to adapt quicker since he actually grew up in it.
  • He inherits Maggie’s capricious nature as evidenced by developing a vendetta against the mysterious man who murdered his father before he was born.
• Living Macguffin: In Dead City, his entire purpose is so that Maggie and Negan will work together to rescue him from the Croat. Hershel himself has very little development outside of this.
• Put on a Bus: Maggie takes him with her when she leaves Hilltop to work with Georgie in Season 9.
• The Smart Guy: Serves as this to the group of friends he makes in Alexandria, being the most savvy at survival thanks to years of growing up outside Alexandria’s walls. He also correctly deduces that Negan is the one who killed Glenn based on the way Maggie acts around him and Negan describing himself as having once been a bad man.
• Someone to Remember Him By: For Maggie regarding Glenn.
• Street Smart: He grew up travelling all around the eastern US with his mom for years, and has picked up survival tricks from the different people he's met.
• Tagalong Kid: The only child traveling with Maggie and the Wardens.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: While he seems to be a Cheerful Child, Maggie also mentions that he asked if the man who killed his father paid for his crimes with his life. In Season 11, after coming face to face with Negan and realizing who he is, Hershel pulls a gun on him and is sorely tempted to avenge his father.
• You Killed My Father: He hates whoever murdered his father before he was born, and turns his attention squarely on Negan upon learning the truth.

Family Friends and Other Farm Residents

Otis

Otis

"I'm responsible. I ain't gonna sit here while this fella takes this on alone."

Portrayed By: Pruitt Taylor Vince

Voiced By: Miguel Zúñiga (Spanish dub), Torsten Münchow (German dub), Paul Borne (French dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 2)

Debut: "Bloodletting"

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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• Adaptational Nice Guy: His comic counterpart is a racist Jerkass and is The Friend Nobody Likes.
• Adaptational Ugliness: In the show, he's bald and overweight. His comic counterpart wasn't.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He had red hair in the comics.
• Age Lift: From the comic version, going from his being in his late 20's to somewhere in his 40's or 50's.
• The Atoner: He volunteers to get medical supplies to help Carl, who he accidentally shot.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He gets Devoured by the Horde 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.
• Death by Adaptation: In the comics, he survives until the prison arc.
• Death Equals Redemption: 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.
• Devoured by the Horde: After Shane shoots him in the knee to serve as bait.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: His comic counterpart is Killed Offscreen by walkers and later put down by Rick.
• The Farmer and the Viper: 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.
• The Lancer: He is Hershel's right-hand man.
• Nice Guy: 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.
• No One Gets Left Behind: 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.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Shane makes the decision for him.

Patricia

Patricia

Portrayed By: Jane McNeill

Voiced By: Isabel Donate (Spanish dub), Helga Sasse (German dub), Isabelle Perilhou (French dub), Jana Postlerová (Czech dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 2)

Debut: "Bloodletting"

Otis' wife, she aids Hershel in maintaining the farmhouse. She was eaten by walkers when Hershel's farm was attacked.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Since she dies early, she was not able to betray the group during the prison arc like in the comics.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Not necessarily intelligence, but levelheadedness and common sense. Saying that her comic counterpart is extremely Too Dumb to Live is a huge understatement.
• Age Lift: From the comic version, going from being in her mid-20's to her mid-40's.
• Bit Character: No pun intended.
• Death by Adaptation: In the comics, she died when the Governor attacked the prison.
• Demoted to Extra: None of the characterization given to her in the comics made it into the show.
• Devoured by the Horde: 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.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Her comic counterpart is shot in the head by a Woodbury soldier during the final prison battle.
• Happily Married: She and Otis appeared to have a very loving relationship.
• Red Shirt: Gets very little screen time or characterization before dying.

Jimmy

Jimmy

"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: The Walking Dead (Season 2)

Debut: "Bloodletting"

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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• Bit Character: He's such a minor character that most reviewers didn't even bother to learn his name.
• Canon Foreigner: He never appeared in the comics.
• Devoured by the Horde: 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.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: To Beth, though this might be partially excusable due to the following episode taking place months later. Daryl does mention him and Zach in "Still", albeit not by name.
• Gangsta Style: 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.
• The Generic Guy: He has pretty much zero discernible character traits.
• He's Not My Boyfriend: 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 Zombie Apocalypse, and that despite the apparent opinions of the rest of the group they're not actually in any sort of committed relationship now.
• Heroic Fire Rescue: 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.
• Red Shirt: So much so that the cow Dale finds mutilated in the field was originally meant to be Jimmy's body.

Others

Well Walker

Well Walker

Portrayed By: Brian Hillard

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 2)

Debut: "Cherokee Rose"

A bloated walker that becomes trapped in a well on Hershel's farm.

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• Boom, Headshot!: Courtesy of T-Dog.
• Canon Foreigner: Never appeared in the comics.
• Gonk: Even for a walker he's gross and disgusting.
• Ludicrous Gibs: The walker splits in half as the group tries to pull it up, resulting in its intestines spilling into the water below.
• Stating the Simple Solution: 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.

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