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Magna's Group

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L-R: Luke, Yumiko, Connie, Kelly, Magna

"It's funny, but before all this, if you saw us all sitting at the same table at, like, a restaurant, a bar, or something... you'd say to yourself, 'Well, hey, I don't know. Maybe these people work together?' Because we certainly don't have anything in common, except for the fact that we're breathing. And that's a lot nowadays, right?"

— Luke, "Who Are You Now?"

A group of five people rescued by a pre-teen Judith Grimes six years after the apparent death of her father, Rick. They end up being taken to live at Hilltop and are quickly accepted into the community with the threat of the Whisperers lingering on the horizon.

Action Girl: All four women are combat-proficient.
Adaptation Expansion: They get a lot more to do than in the comics. Downplayed with Magna and Yumiko, who became fairly prominent in later issues, but definitely played straight with Connie, Kelly, and Luke, who were reduced to background characters almost immediately after their introduction. While Luke is this by default due to being Spared by the Adaptation, Connie and Kelly played no pivotal role in the comic series until its end and were completely absent from the last issue's Distant Finale.
Artifact Name: The group is nominally referred to by viewers as "Magna's group" due to it being their title in the comics, despite Yumiko filling the leader slot better. Magna is, however, the first of them to be seen during their introduction in "What Comes After" and is the most prominent member of the crew in their first spotlight episode, while Yumiko is sidelined due to a head injury, so the name has stuck.
Badass Crew: Best seen in "Silence the Whisperers" as they work through the night to fend off a horde from Hilltop while its denizens deal with a collapsed wall.
Crazy-Prepared: Almost to Rick Grimes levels. Magna hides a small knife in her belt buckle, and even after settling into Hilltop, she and Kelly hide a stash of supplies in the woods in case things go south during the conflict with the Whisperers. In "Chokepoint", Connie chooses a specific building to take shelter from Beta in because the group had already stayed there and hoarded a cache of supplies just in case they ever returned.
Dwindling Party: According to Luke, there were others who perished before Bernie (their most recent loss). Otherwise averted, which is unique for this show: all five are still alive as of the Season 11B finale, making them the group with the lowest mortality rate in the entire series. Their luck sadly runs out in the series finale, where one of them finally dies and it's Luke.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Besides Luke, the other four end the series on a cheerful note. They now reside in the rebuilt Commonwealth, where Connie continues her job as a reporter and presumably Yumiko as a lawyer. Magna and Yumiko have also rekindled their relationship and gotten married.
Five-Man Band:
- The Leader: Yumiko. While the group claims not to have a leader, Yumiko is far and away the most vocal in a crisis and is the most insistent at having to step up when there's no one else who is willing to.
- The Lancer: Magna. She's the rougher, gruffer, more cynical Foil to Yumiko, and the clear leader of the group in her absence.
- The Smart Guy: Luke. He's a music teacher and self-admittedly the least capable survivor of the group. He also has some technological know-how, as evidenced by his role in disposing of the walker horde in "A Certain Doom".
- The Big Guy: Kelly. While not the most physically imposing of the group, she has the impulsiveness and gung-ho attitude typical of the trope, and can handle herself pretty well in combat.
- The Heart: Connie. She keeps an eye on her friends and is a calming and level-headed presence in times of need. She also has shades of The Smart Guy due to her common sense and journalistic background.
Fire-Forged Friends: The group proves themselves as loyal additions to the communities when Yumiko and Magna help Michonne come to the aid of the rescue mission for Eugene in mid-Season 9.
Five-Token Band: The group is fairly diverse, consisting of one white man (played by a Jewish actor), two lesbian women (one of whom is half-Japanese), and two African-American women who are both on the deaf spectrum (one of whom is implied to be queer as well; see Kelly's entry below).
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Luke is Sanguine, Yumiko is Choleric, Magna is Melancholic, Connie is Phlegmatic, and Kelly is Eclectic.
Good All Along: A deeply distrustful Michonne hates them from the get-go due to her refusal to consider letting in any outside survivors. The other members of Alexandria become convinced more quickly of the group’s trustworthiness, but it takes several episodes for Michonne to finally see that they are indeed good.
Good Is Not Soft: Like Rick's group, they're decent but pragmatic people who have established a familial bond and have no problems killing human threats if they have to.
Last Episode, New Character: They make their debut at the very end of Rick Grimes' final episode.
Not Using the "Z" Word: They call zombies "sickos".
True Companions: The group is tight-knit and fiercely protective of one another. Though Magna and Yumiko and Connie and Kelly (who are sisters) already knew each other before the apocalypse, it's clear from their introduction that the group as a whole have been surviving together for quite some time.

Members

Magna

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"I've done things. Terrible things. If I had all this, I wouldn't trust me, either."

Portrayed By: Nadia Hilker

Voiced By: Nieves "Nikki" García (Spanish dub), Suzuka Kimura (Japanese dub), Audrey Sablé (French dub), Barbara Pitotti (Italian dub), Týna Průchová (Czech dub), Laura Györfi (Hungarian dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 9-11)

Debut: "What Comes After"

"Society threw you away. You were desperate and mad. I've been there."

A woman who, along with her group, made their way to the Washington region. She is Yumiko's girlfriend and a former convict, something that earns Michonne's ire when the group is interviewed by Alexandria. Magna is able to prove herself a loyal ally when she and Yumiko help rescue Eugene from the Whisperer ambush in the graveyard. She and her group become permanent residents of Hilltop, and she and Yumiko join the governing council after the death of Tara.

When Yumiko begins taking more direct leadership of Hilltop, Magna becomes angry and unwilling to accept her girlfriend as her boss, causing them to have a bad argument. Magna goes missing due to a cave-in at Alpha’s cave, but turns up alive during the Battle of Hilltop. She and Yumiko mutually agree to end their relationship due to being unable to come to terms with their differences.

Adaptational Jerkass: Her comic counterpart quickly became the group's most vocal supporter of the communities after settling in and had to talk Connie and Kelly into fighting for people other than themselves. Here, she is more hostile and guarded, possessing a foul temper even after being accepted into Hilltop. She is also revealed to be stealing from Hilltop and outright tells Daryl that she doesn't trust him. Though she does cool down a lot after nearly dying in "Squeeze", putting her more closely in line with her comic counterpart.
Age Lift: She's in her thirties here (matching her actress' age) while her comic counterpart was in her twenties.
Ambiguously Brown: Magna is Greek in the comics and her actress Nadia Hilker is half-German, half-Tunisian Arab. For what it's worth, Magna's ethnicity doesn't come up in the show and she could just about pass for a tan white person.
Amicable Exes: Her split with Yumiko is mutual and they part on good terms. Despite some friction caused by the Commonwealth class system, they're shown chatting amicably in "Lockdown", proving that their friendship is still as strong as ever. They ultimately rekindle their relationship in the series finale.
Badass Longcoat: She takes to wearing one in the second half of Season 9.
Battle Couple: With Yumiko if the situation calls for it.
Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Her main weapon is a warhammer.
Cruel to Be Kind: By Season 11, Magna has lost faith in Connie being alive after several weeks of her being gone. She gently asks Carol not to give Kelly false hope in order to spare her any more pain.
Dark and Troubled Past: Michonne deduces that she did time after noticing a prison tattoo on her hand. It's later revealed Magna murdered the man who raped her young cousin after he walked away from the crime without any punishment.
Demoted to Extra: She goes from being the front-runner of the group to having the least screen time and development of any of them besides Luke (which is mostly due to his actor being written out of the series to pursue other obligations).
Happily Married: She and Yumiko are shown wearing matching rings following the time skip in the series finale, indicating they've gotten married.
Hidden Weapons: She hid a small knife in her belt buckle. It turns out that she also had a second on her somewhere. Both were not caught by her pat down.
Hide Your Lesbians: Actors Nadia Hilker (Magna) and Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko) approached the show creators requesting more on screen intimacy between their characters as it was not explicitly clear they were in a relationship. Their first on screen kiss is shown 10 episodes after their introduction. So little of their relationship was shown before the kiss, that many viewers thought they had only just gotten together despite them actually being in a long term relationship.
Hot-Blooded: In contrast to the rest of the group, Magna is very feisty and quick to anger. She scales it back after the events of "Squeeze".
Informed Attribute: "Look at the Flowers" has Jerry give a big reaction to her return apparently implying they have a strong friendship, but they had never interacted onscreen before, let alone in any way that suggested they were good friends. They team up for the Whisperer horde mission, but the supposed strong friendship is never touched on again.
Intimate Marks: She has a large tattoo on her chest which extends down over and between her breasts.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Magna is not the nicest person around. She can be surly, selfish, and uncooperative, and even steals from Hilltop after the community has been nothing but accommodating to her since she arrived. She also needlessly antagonizes Yumiko when she feels that the latter is being too controlling in their relationship. However, she truly does care a lot about other people deep down, and only steals because she wants to protect her own group first and foremost. Ultimately, Magna is a lot like Daryl — she takes a while to warm up to people, but once she does, she is their friend for life.
Kick the Dog: She becomes more hotheaded towards Yumiko when she begins taking over Hilltop and is more verbally hostile to her during their argument that ultimately ends their relationship. Afterwards, though, she mellows out.
The Lancer: While the group doesn't really have a leader in theory, Yumiko is the closest thing they have to a shot-caller, making the more pragmatic, ruthless, and ill-tempered Magna this by default. When Yumiko begins stepping into a leadership role at Hilltop, it eats away at their relationship as Magna is seemingly hostile to the idea of Yumiko being able to order her around.
Lipstick Lesbian: While she has a few masculine traits, her appearance is decidedly feminine.
Mama Bear: She possesses a strong motherly instinct towards Kelly, more so than any of the other group members sans Kelly's sister Connie. She has a freak-out when the Warden holds Kelly at gunpoint and has to be restrained from attacking by Princess.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The surly and aggressive Masculine Girl to Luke's artistic and diplomatic Feminine Boy.
Ms. Fanservice: "Silence the Whisperers" gives us a scene of her in a bra as she prepares to make love with Yumiko.
No Full Name Given: Her last name is never revealed.
"Not So Different" Remark: In "Family", she relates to Tyler Davis' anger and desperation from being ostracized by society.
Out of Focus: In Season 11. She notably drops out of focus when the group ventures to the Commonwealth, going from "Rogue Element" to "Trust" without a single appearance, and even then only having a brief cameo in "Acts of God".
Parting-Words Regret: In "Squeeze", she's eager to get back to Hilltop as soon as possible because she left things on a bad note with Yumiko.
Perpetual Frowner: She's a very sullen person and rarely smiles.
Pet the Dog: An early sign that Magna's actually a big softie is when she approaches Enid and comforts her about her missing boyfriend, Alden, assuring her that he's in good hands with Luke.
Platonic Life-Partners:
- She seemed to have this kind of relationship with Bernie, according to Yumiko. She's so distraught upon encountering his zombified form.
- Like the rest of the group, she is this with Luke, and is the one to stab him in the head when he dies in the series finale.
Promotion to Opening Titles: In the last third of Season 11.
Queer Establishing Moment: While it's easy to catch if you were paying close attention to their interactions, it's not until "The Calm Before" that Magna and Yumiko are shown kissing, definitively establishing to the audience that the two are in a relationship.
Rape and Revenge: Magna says she served prison time for murdering a man who'd raped her cousin but got off without punishment.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to pretty much her entire group, all of whom are more level-headed and reasonable than she.
Reformed Criminal: Of the Sympathetic Murderer variety. It's unknown if Magna was a criminal outside of this one instance, however.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Hot-tempered and even hostile at times, but she genuinely does care about the people in her group and seems to have a solid friendship with Jerry. She starts being more openly friendly to other people after "Squeeze".
Sympathetic Murderer: She took it upon herself to make sure her cousin's rapist got exactly what he deserved.
Tattooed Crook: She has several tattoos and did time in prison prior to the apocalypse. One is a prison tattoo, and identifies her as having served time to those in the know.
Token Evil Teammate: While not evil, Magna is the most disagreeable member of the group and is the worst team player, possessing a serious self-destructive streak that even drives a wedge between her and Yumiko. She's also revealed to be one of the only heroic characters who killed someone before the apocalypse.
Took a Level in Kindness: She mellows out a lot after her Near-Death Experience in "Squeeze". For one thing, she doesn't get angry at Carol (who caused the cave-in that nearly got her and Connie killed), and becomes a heck of a lot friendlier in general.
Uncertain Doom: In "Squeeze", she and Connie are trapped in a cave-in brought about by Carol's ill-advised attempt at destroying Alpha's horde with a stick of dynamite; their fates are not revealed before the end of the episode. Magna finally returns three episodes later in "Walk With Us", having escaped the cave along with Connie by covering themselves in walker guts and blending in with the horde.
What the Hell, Hero?: Daryl is furious when he learns that she has been stealing valuable resources from Hilltop when the community is also a refugee camp for the people of the Kingdom and have been nothing but gracious to them since they arrived.

Yumiko

Yumiko Okumura

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"Look, when shit hits the fan, somebody's got to step up."

Portrayed By: Eleanor Matsuura, Courtney Chen^noteOn-set double in "Splinter"

Voiced By: Inés Blázquez (Spanish dub), Hodaka Mieno (Japanese dub), Jennifer Bischof (German dub), Claire Beaudoin (French dub), Eleonora Reti (Italian dub), Martina Šťastná (Czech dub), Ilona Molnár (Hungarian dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 9-11)

Debut: "What Comes After"

"I was a lawyer. I like rules. They bring order to the chaos - which means you need me."

A former lawyer, Magna's girlfriend, and de facto leader of the group. She is briefly injured when the group is brought to Alexandria by Judith, but recovers by the time they join Hilltop and helps Michonne rescue Eugene, Aaron, and Daryl from the Whisperers. Yumiko quickly becomes a leading figure in Hilltop, particularly after the death of Tara and leadership of the community is up in the air. However, this drives a wedge between her and Magna, who is hostile to the idea of Yumiko becoming her boss, and ultimately leads to the end of their relationship. Yumiko helps lead the survivors during the Battle of Hilltop, and afterwards agrees to join Eugene’s mission to meet Stephanie, eager to meet new people after breaking up with her girlfriend.

Adaptational Badass: Takes more of an active leadership role than in the comics. Comic Magna was unambiguously the leader of the group, but Yumiko seems to fill that spot better in the show.
Adaptational Intelligence: Comes with being a lawyer in this adaptation. She's more analytical than her comic counterpart.
Adaptational Nationality: She seems to be half-British, judging from her accent and her actress being half-British. Her comic counterpart is Japanese-American.
Affectionate Nickname: Magna sometimes calls her "Miko". As does Yumiko's long-lost brother, Tomi.
Amicable Exes: Her split with Magna is mutual and they part on good terms. They get back together in the series finale.
Awesomeness by Analysis: She impresses the Commonwealth auditors with how well she's pieced together the way things work at their community without actually setting foot in the door.
Badass Bookworm: As a former lawyer, natch.
Battle Couple: With Magna if the situation calls for it until mid-Season 10.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's normally cool and collected, but doesn't hesitate to punch Carol in the face when she thinks the latter is being callous about nearly killing Magna and Connie by getting them trapped inside a cave.
Control Freak: Both her girlfriend Magna and Yumiko's brother Tomi bring up her tendency to run other people's lives by looking for things to "fix". It causes the already foul-tempered Magna to grow angry with her and leads to the dissolution of their relationship, and results in Tomi losing the job that made him happy and being forcibly conscripted to return to practicing surgery.
The Cynic:
- In the group consisting of her, Eugene, and Ezekiel, she initially plays this role in their interactions with Princess. Yumiko is distrustful of the colorful, curiously upbeat stranger and firmly believes Princess is leading them all into a trap. While this attitude is understandable considering they're trying to meet a deadline (not to mention Princess straight-up walks them into a minefield at one point), Yumiko does exacerbate the situation a bit with her sour demeanor and has to be dissuaded from barking at Princess by Ezekiel.
- Otherwise averted, as Yumiko is much more accepting of Hilltop and its people than Magna is. She's also a friendly and supportive traveling companion to Eugene, Ezekiel and, once they're sure she's not dangerous, Princess.
Decomposite Character: Kind of. With Michonne being Put on a Bus in Season 10, Yumiko takes her place as the former attorney who joins Eugene's expedition to meet Stephanie. Yumiko is a part of the journey in the comics, however; she's just filling a different role and narrative purpose in the show. She also gets Michonne's "long-lost family member" storyline where she discovers a relative thought to be dead residing at the Commonwealth.
Fire-Forged Friends: After starting off on the wrong foot with Princess, Yumiko softens when Princess confesses how lonely she is and leads the group to transportation as promised. Yumiko then makes amends by inviting Princess to travel with them, an offer she happily accepts.
Happily Married: She and Magna are shown wearing matching rings following the time skip in the series finale, indicating they've gotten married.
Hello, Attorney!: A former lawyer played by the lovely Eleanor Matsuura. She can really rock a suit as shown in "Promises Broken", and looks downright gorgeous in her dress to the masquerade ball in "New Haunts". She later becomes Pamela's top lawyer and a member of her inner circle.
Hide Your Lesbians: Actors Nadia Hilker (Magna) and Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko) approached the show creators requesting more on screen intimacy between their characters as it was not explicitly clear they were in a relationship. Their first on screen kiss is shown 10 episodes after their introduction. So little of their relationship was shown before the kiss, that many viewers thought they had only just gotten together despite them actually being in a long term relationship.
Ivy League for Everyone: She studied law at both Oxford and Harvard Law School.
Jerkass Ball: Only in "The Tower" (as noted under The Cynic). She initially has zero tolerance for Princess or her Cloudcuckoolander antics, outright calling her "selfish and crazy" despite her having done them no wrong except accidentally scaring away their horses and being understandably reluctant to hand over her gun.
Lady in a Power Suit: In her lawyer attires.
The Leader: Although the group doesn't really have one, they all quickly defer to Yumiko when it comes to making decisions, especially in combat situations. In Season 10, with Maggie Put on a Bus, Jesus and Tara dead, and Ezekiel stepping down due to several recent personal traumas, Yumiko begins to take charge of Hilltop until towards the end of the Whisperer War, when she joins Eugene's mission to the Commonwealth.
Lipstick Lesbian: She has a feminine appearance and no stereotypically "butch" traits personality-wise.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: A downplayed version with her brother Tomi. While still a very feminine woman, Yumiko is also a seasoned and experienced badass who is comfortable surviving in the harsh zombie-infested world. This compared to Tomi, who admits he's happy living in the Commonwealth as a baker and doesn't appear to have any combat experience due to arriving there relatively early after the outbreak started.
Meaningful Name: Her name means "arrow child" in Japanese. Three guesses what her favored weapon is.
Named by the Adaptation: Robert Kirkman never gave Yumiko a surname in the comics, but in the show it can be seen on a letter given to her by the Commonwealth in "Out of the Ashes".
Nice Girl: Yumiko is a kindhearted woman who cares deeply for her friends.
Out of Focus: In Season 11, Part 2, she only makes a small appearance in “New Haunts” compared to her regular role in Part 1. She returns to the spotlight in the third part of the season, even getting her own Day in the Limelight episode in "What's Been Lost".
Promotion to Opening Titles: In the last third of Season 11.
Rags to Riches: Goes from your average survivor to a privileged, wealthy attorney in the Commonwealth’s upper class. She’s even seen stuffing people’s hands with wads of hush money to not disclose Tyler’s hostage taking. That said, she makes it clear she hasn't forgotten about her friends and is making arrangements for them to have an exit plan in case things go south.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is much more reasonable and level-headed than her girlfriend.
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Once she recovers from her injury in her debut appearance, she quickly becomes one of the most heavily focused on members of her group. She is the only new character who is among the first witnesses to the pike massacre, one of the most pivotal scenes of the series; she quickly begins stepping up as a leader; and she joins the mission to Commonwealth and ends up taking over a subplot from the departed Michonne.
The Straight and Arrow Path: Her weapons are a bow and arrows.
To Absent Friends: In the finale, she leads a toast honoring her deceased friend, Luke.
To Be Lawful or Good: In "What's Been Lost", she is tasked with prosecuting Eugene for the accidental death of Sebastian, and can't refuse since Pamela has her friends kidnapped and sent to work at a secret labor camp outside the Commonwealth. Yumiko decides to do what's right and represent her friend, Pamela be damned.
Twofer Token Minority: Yumiko is female, Japanese, and a lesbian, making her a minority threefer.
Uptown Girl: Yumiko was a lawyer who had a higher-class upbringing compared to the more working-class Magna, who was a waitress at a truck stop. This is briefly highlighted in "New Haunts", when Yumiko attends the masquerade ball in a nice dress and is given privileged treatment because of her profession, while Magna is in a waiter's uniform serving drinks to all the upper-class citizens.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: Yumiko punches Carol after she does not apologize for the pain and trauma she caused Magna by getting her and Connie trapped in a cave.

Luke

Luke Abrams

"These people need hope. They demand it. No, no, no — they deserve it!"

Portrayed By: Dan Fogler

Voiced By: Rafa Romero (Spanish dub), Alexander Ziegenbein (German dub), Jérémie Bédrune (French dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 9-11)

Debut: "What Comes After"

"Sharing with each other... that's part of what makes us stronger."

A friendly former music teacher. He becomes a permanent resident of Hilltop with his group, and becomes fast friends with Alden after quickly stepping up to help the community in any way he can. The pair are captured by Alpha in a bid to retrieve her captured daughter Lydia, and the deal goes through successfully.

As the months pass, Luke becomes a more capable fighter and even finds a chance at romance with an Oceansider named Jules. Their relationship blossoms until they make it official in the aftermath of the defeat of the Whisperers.

Action Survivor: By his own admission, he hasn't done anything special for his group to survive and was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time with the right people. He struggles a bit in fighting walkers, but isn't exactly helpless to kill them, either. Averted in Season 10; he's grown considerably more efficient in combat and fully participates in the battle against the Whisperer horde in "Morning Star".
Adaptation Dye-Job: Has black hair in the comics instead of brown.
Age Lift: He's in his twenties in the comics but is pushing forty here (matching his actor's age).
An Arm and a Leg: The group cuts his leg off in an effort to save his life from a walker bite.
Back for the Dead: He returns in "Faith" only to perish two episodes later in the series finale.
Badass Teacher: He is, in his own words, "still a music teacher", and proves to be quite handy with his new walker-killing weapon in Season 10.
Big Fun: He's rather heavyset and very friendly. Averted in Season 10, as Dan Fogler has noticeably lost a substantial amount of weight.
Big "NO!": When Michonne, thinking he's up to something shady, accidentally destroys the rare Stradivarius violin he had salvaged and was hoping to preserve.
Born Lucky: Describes himself as such, and it actually does have some merit. While fairly capable, he noticeably stumbles more than many of the other characters in combat and has a few Failed a Spot Check moments where he's not the most observant of his surroundings. This eventually causes his luck to run out, as when Jules gets bitten in the finale he lets his guard down long enough for a variant to tackle him to the ground and bite into Luke's own leg, causing his death.
Break the Cutie: In his last moments, he gets a chunk of his leg ripped out and has to watch the love of his life die a horrific death while being dragged away kicking and screaming. According to Dan Fogler, despite the efforts of his group to save him, Luke "gave up", a heartbreaking end for such an idealistic character.
The Bus Came Back: After being absent for a season and a half, he finally returns to the fold and reunites with Aaron's group in "Faith". Doubles as Back for the Finale given there are only two episodes left to go before the end of the series.
Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Downplayed. Oceanside looks to be massacred by Lance at the end of “Acts of God”, but Luke and Jules later turn up as the only Oceanside residents who escaped capture and report that Lance chose to spare them. Luke and Jules end up perishing anyway in the finale.
Death by Despair: Dan Fogler mentioned that Luke died of a broken heart from watching Jules get torn to pieces by the walker horde.
Demoted to Extra: His role in the series lessens with each season.
11th-Hour Ranger: He and Jules are among the last heroes to rejoin the main group before the series finale, literally joining their small militia in the ending of the penultimate episode.
Everyone Can See It: Yumiko and Judith point out his incredibly obvious crush on Jules.
Foil: He's similar to Eugene in that they're both heavyset, somewhat eccentric action survivors with a lot of expertise in one specific field (Eugene with science, Luke with music). However, Luke is much more of a people person, and is never shown to be a coward like Eugene was initially. Also, unlike Eugene, Luke doesn't get to live happily ever after with the woman he fell in love with.
Formerly Fat: Like his actor, he's shown to have shed much of his girth during the Time Skip between Seasons 9 and 10.
Friend to All Children: One of his main arguments to Magna to prevent her from threatening/challenging Michonne is that there are kids in Alexandria and he doesn't want to bring violence upon them. He also gives Judith an Affectionate Gesture to the Head when he and his group are about to leave Alexandria.
Heroic Sacrifice: He and Jules ultimately die fighting the horde while the group is trying to help clear a path for Daryl to get the shot Judith to a hospital, meaning that while their deaths are tragic and horrible, they still died for a good cause.
The Idealist: While he has no illusions about the kind of world he and his friends live in and is still willing to do whatever it takes to protect them, Luke believes it is possible for society to one day go back to its roots so long as they hold onto the things that make them human, such as culture and music.
Irony: Chances are, if he had stayed at Oceanside, he would have lived.
It's All My Fault: He feels guilty for having to abandon the rest of Oceanside on Rachel's orders.
Kill the Cutie: A good-natured man who only wanted to keep everyone bonded through music. He's the only casualty of his group in the series finale. Even before he dies he's forced to watch the woman he loves die a gruesome death being Devoured by the Horde.
Last Request: As he dies, he gives the group a harmonica he'd been holding onto, imploring them to "keep the music going."
Life-or-Limb Decision: Like Lydia, he is bit by a walker and has a limb hacked off to contain the infection. Unlike Lydia, it doesn't save him.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He is the artistic and diplomatic Feminine Boy to Magna's surly and aggressive Masculine Girl.
Named by the Adaptation: In the finale, a memorial honoring the fallen members of the group reveals his last name to be Abrams.
Nice Guy: He makes the most honest effort of the group to integrate himself into Hilltop, and is quick to befriend Siddiq (whom he affectionately calls "Doc") and Alden shortly after they meet.
Official Couple: With Jules as of "A Certain Doom". He moves to Oceanside after the Whisperer War to be with her.
The One Guy:
- The only surviving male of the group when they are introduced. Another man, Bernie, had perished only days before, and later turns up as a walker for all to see.
- As of late Season 10, he's the only prominent male member of Oceanside.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's a boy and prison resident named Luke in Season 4.
Out of Focus: He appears much less frequently in Season 10, only getting a small subplot revolving around his relationship with Jules.
Platonic Life-Partners: Has this relationship with the female members of the group, who absolutely adore him. They're appropriately distraught when they're unable to save him from blood loss caused by a walker bite in the series finale.
Plucky Comic Relief: Many of the scenes he's in are usually pretty light-hearted. He's become pretty serious by the latter part of Season 10, however.
Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted. His comic counterpart had some Ship Tease with Magna, but nothing ever came of it due to his death. Here, he has no such interest and Magna is already in a relationship with Yumiko.
Put on a Bus: He moves to Oceanside after "A Certain Doom" due to his actor being in the UK filming Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Even after Connie is found to be alive and the main storyline moves to the Commonwealth, there's not a mention of him. When Pamela and Lance visit Oceanside in "The Lucky Ones", Luke still isn't seen, nor is he (or Jules) shown being held prisoner with the other Oceansiders by Lance at the end of "Acts of God". He returns in "Faith".
Red Herring: The ending of "Silence the Whisperers" seems to be hinting at Luke maybe not returning from his trip to Oceanside with Judith and Michonne. Not only does Luke make it back to Hilltop in one piece, he ends up surviving the Whisperer War.
Sacrificial Lamb: He perishes in the first five minutes of the series finale, before the credits have even finished rolling.
Ship Tease: With an Oceanside resident named Jules. He offers to tag along with Judith and Michonne on a trip to the community for the chance to see her again. They're officially together as of "A Certain Doom".
The Smart Guy: In "A Certain Doom", where him piecing together a radio plays a key role in the Coalition's plan to dispose of Beta's walker horde.
Spared by the Adaptation: His comic counterpart was one of Alpha's decapitation victims. Downplayed as he ultimately doesn't survive the entire series, but he far outlives his comic counterpart.
Those Two Guys:
- He quickly forms one with Alden, despite only knowing him for a few days. The two get along very well, due to Alden having a nice voice and Luke being a music teacher.
- He forms another with Jules in Season 10, and starting with "The Tower", they are never seen apart. Tragically, the only scene they don't share together is after Jules' death and during Luke's own.
Took a Level in Badass: In Season 10, he can now kill walkers with the best of them if the situation calls for it. And with a cool looking axe/mace-like weapon to boot.
War Hawk: When Lance subjugated Oceanside, Luke wanted to stay and fight for his home. Instead, Rachel ordered him and Jules to escape so they could warn the other factions of the Coalition about what was coming.
Zombie Infectee: He is bit by a walker while trying to save Jules.

Connie

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"Anything for us."

Portrayed By: Lauren Ridloff

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 9-11)

Debut: "What Comes After"

"It's not a disability, it's a damn... superpower!"

Kelly's older sister, a woman who uses her enhanced other senses to make up for her lack of hearing. She and her group join Hilltop Colony just as the Whisperers arrive and threaten the community. Connie is trapped outside the walls when Alpha arrives for a hostage exchange, and goes to save the abandoned Whisperer baby to bring into Hilltop. When she learns that Henry has gone after Lydia, she joins Daryl in rescuing the pair of teens from the Whisperer camp. She forms a bond with Daryl as they fend off an attack from Beta and escort the children to the Kingdom.

Connie and Daryl continue to grow closer and find themselves getting teased about hitting it off by their friends and families. During a mission to Alpha’s cave, Connie and Magna become trapped inside due a cave-in caused by Carol. The pair snuck out of the cave disguised amongst Alpha’s horde, but they eventually get separated. Connie ends up malnourished and weak, and is found by Virgil some distance away from Oceanside.

Aborted Arc:
- "The Calm Before" implies that part of Connie's reasoning for saving baby Adam and going on the mission to save Henry and Lydia was fueled by having lost a child in the past. This is never followed up on.
- The show builds up a potential relationship between her and Daryl, but it gets left as Unresolved Sexual Tension in the finale.
Adaptational Attractiveness: Has softer features than her comic counterpart.
Adaptational Badass: TV!Connie is more resourceful and quick at thinking on her feet.
Adaptational Nice Guy: She's more caring and friendly than her comic counterpart, who is a bit mistrustful of the communities at first and has to be chastised by Magna on at least one occasion.
Badass and Child Duo: Carries a baby to safety after Alpha orders the mother to abandon it to the walkers.
Badass Bookworm: She was an investigative journalist prior to the outbreak, who even managed to take down a major corporation with her work.
Big Damn Reunion: With Kelly in "On the Inside" and Daryl in "No Other Way", their first time seeing her since the cave collapse at the end of "Squeeze".
Break the Cutie: The events of the cave collapse, spending days moving with the Whisperers' walker horde, and being on the run for several weeks while being tracked by feral survivors really push Connie to her breaking point. Virgil notes she hasn't slept in several days and she spends much of "On the Inside" completely paranoid and freaking out. Thankfully, she manages to find some peace again when she reunites with Kelly at the end of the episode.
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She's the Gentle Girl to Daryl's Brooding Boy. Especially in "Chokepoint" when she convinces him to accept Lydia as part of the group.
The Bus Came Back:
- Returns in "A Certain Doom" after having been missing since "Squeeze".
- After going missing again after that episode she returns for good in "On the Inside".
Celebrity Survivor: Her exploits taking down corrupt politicians made her somewhat notable to the media before the apocalypse. When Kelly mentions Connie got Pamela's uncle kicked out of Congress, a surprised Carol says, "That was you?"
Connected All Along: One of the "sleazeball politicians" Connie got booted from office was the uncle of Pamela Milton, the leader of the Commonwealth introduced in Season 11. Not only that, Connie actually interviewed Pamela herself once before the world fell.
Cool Big Sis: She gently assures Kelly that losing her hearing isn't the end of the world and they can still look after each other. Kelly later tells Maggie that Connie has always been a good sister to her, and put her own life on hold to take care of her when their parents wouldn't.
Cute Mute: She's deaf and one of the nicest and friendliest characters, who communicates with sign language or by writing.
Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. She tells Kelly that seeing a baby in peril brought back old feelings she thought that she'd dealt with, and motivated her in leaving with Daryl to bring back Henry and Lydia.
A Day in the Limelight: "On the Inside". Justified as it's Lauren Ridloff's official return to the series after taking a leave of absence to work on Eternals. Much of the episode is shot from Connie's perspective as she fights to get back home to her friends, and succeeds by the end of the episode.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Her comic counterpart isn't deaf. However, she does become disabled in a later issue, when a walker bite forces the rest of the group to amputate her arm.
The Dreaded: Awesomely becomes this to Pamela Milton, who accurately pegs Connie as the author of the incriminating news article about Sebastian and assumes she has it in for her family after previously getting her uncle removed from power.
Friend to All Children: Befriends Judith and teaches her sign language, throws all caution to the wind to save a Whisperer baby, and embarks on a mission with Daryl to rescue Lydia and Henry. She also successfully argues with Daryl to let Lydia stay at a time when Daryl is contemplating leaving her behind to prevent Alpha from attacking Hilltop.
Grin of Audacity: She's delighted when she sees the shake-up her news article has had on the Commonwealth populace, and joins them in protesting outside Pamela's office.
Handicapped Badass: She's completely deaf, and doesn't speak. The rest of the group learned ASL to communicate with her. As for the badass part...
Tara: (to Kelly) Connie's gonna be OK, alright? She's with Daryl.
Yumiko: More like Daryl's gonna be OK. He's with Connie.
The Heart: The wise and level-headed moral center of the group, Connie serves as a calming and empathetic influence to all of her friends. When Magna stubbornly refuses to take Yumiko's orders during a siege on Hilltop, it only takes one look from Connie to get her to head back inside.
Implied Love Interest: She and Daryl have several moments that could be interpreted as Ship Tease or merely two people forming a close bond after working together. Carol and Kelly openly prod them about it, but both parties remain evasive on the subject and so far nothing has been confirmed in-canon. Even when Connie is apparently killed partway through Season 10, while Daryl is certainly distressed over losing a good friend, it’s vague as to whether he’s also processing it as the loss of something more. Becomes less ambiguous in "New Haunts" when the camera focuses on Daryl watching Connie walk away and Carol suggests he ask her to dance at the masquerade ball later that evening. Nothing ultimately comes out of it and they end the series as friends while Daryl leaves on his own to find Rick.
In Name Only: The only thing she has in common with her comic counterpart besides her name is having a relationship with Kelly, though in the series it's a familial bond instead of the comics' romantic one.
Intrepid Reporter: She'll stop at nothing to expose the Commonwealth for the classist sham it really is.
My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction when her expose causes a bunch of people to get tear-gassed at a vigil for the missing Commonwealth residents.
Never Found the Body: This is what leads her friends to think she might be alive, since Magna lost her in the horde and they've yet to recover any solid evidence of Connie's death.
Nice Girl: Ranks up there with Glenn, Hershel, and Ezekiel as one of the most genuinely compassionate and altruistic people in the series. Connie is always the first of the group to express gratitude to others for showing them kindness. In "Squeeze", when Carol is freaking out due to her claustrophobia, Connie notices and helps her stay calm by finger spelling out "U R OK" on her palm.
No Full Name Given: Her last name is never revealed.
No Man Left Behind: Refuses to leave Virgil behind to be eaten by the Ferals despite him being stabbed three times. When Virgil collapses escaping the Ferals' house and two more appear having survived the walkers Connie set loose on them, Connie looks ready to hold her ground and defend Virgil to her last breath. Thankfully, she's saved by the timely arrival of Kelly, who kills both Ferals, and they're able to take Virgil back to Alexandria to get medical attention.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In "What's Been Lost", she is the only one besides Carol and Daryl to escape initial capture by Pamela's black ops team (and the only one besides Carol to do it without aid), stabbing her would-be kidnapper in the leg and tracking him to the medical ward where he is receiving treatment with the intention to tail him and find out what happened to their missing friends. Connie ends up being found and captured later anyway, but it was still a pretty decent effort.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Connie is one of the most level-headed people on the show and almost never loses her cool. So when she spends most of "On the Inside" completely on edge, you know the situation is dire.
Present Absence: Even after her disappearance, she is not forgotten about and her presumed death weighs heavily on several characters, especially Daryl, Kelly, and Carol.
Promotion to Opening Titles: In the last third of Season 11.
Reading Lips: She has this ability, likely out of necessity as most people the group encounters are not fluent in ASL. Enforced when Connie first interacts with Daryl, who initially attempts to look off to one side and mumble as he's used to doing. Connie responds by telling him to look her in the face when he speaks so she can understand him.
Related Differently in the Adaptation: Connie and Kelly are siblings instead of lovers here.
Ship Tease: With Daryl; see Implied Love Interest above. They quickly form an instinctual bond while working together to rescue Henry and Lydia from the Whisperers. By Season 10, the two have grown even closer, to the point that Kelly teases her sister about it and Carol outright encourages Daryl to take things a step further.
Sibling Team: With Kelly if the situation calls for it. They're notably the only pair of siblings known to have survived out in the wastelands for over a decade, proving how efficient they are in watching each other's backs.
Silent Snarker: Despite being deaf, this doesn't stop her from dropping snark through sign language.
- Her written response to Daryl learning ASL:
Not bad — you sign with a Southern accent.
The Smart Guy: Shares this role with Luke, having the most common sense of the group and being a Badass Bookworm who was a reporter before the apocalypse.
Team Mom: Connie is a rather maternal influence in the group, always looking after her friends and being quick to mediate conflict.
Those Two Girls: With Kelly in 11B; justified as they're both working as reporters for the Commonwealth.
Trauma Button: Revealed to be suffering from PTSD after the traumatic cave collapse and being stuck for days in the Whisperers' walker horde.
Twofer Token Minority: Connie is female, African-American, and deaf, making her a minority threefer.
Uncertain Doom: In "Squeeze", she and Magna are trapped in a cave-in brought about by Carol's failed attempt at destroying Alpha's horde with a stick of dynamite; their fates are not revealed before the end of the episode. Three episodes later, Magna returns and says she and Connie covered themselves in walker guts to blend in with the horde, but were separated in the chaos; in addition, due to the threat of Beta and the horde still at large, the survivors of the Hilltop battle are unable to go out and look for Connie, leaving her whereabouts unknown, though Kelly firmly believes her sister is still alive. She's right.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: Despite rampant amounts of Ship Tease, she and Daryl don't actually end up together.
What Happened to the Mouse?: As noted above, she disappears partway through Season 10 and remains unaccounted for going into the final showdown with the Whisperers.
- She finally returns at the end of "A Certain Doom", traumatized and severely weakened from both the cave collapse and spending so long trapped in the horde.
- Her whereabouts are up in the air again after that episode. "On the Inside" reveals she's spent the last few weeks lost in the woods with Virgil.

Kelly

"You can't give up everything about yourself because bad things happen."

Portrayed By: Angel Theory

Voiced By: Ai Ishikawa (Japanese dub), Laure Filiu (French dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 9-11)

Debut: "What Comes After"

"[Connie] says she's my guardian angel, but, really, it's the other way around."

Connie's younger sister, who acts as the translator between her and other people. She and her group join Hilltop, and Kelly quickly becomes distressed when Connie journeys outside the walls to help Daryl fight the Whisperers.

As the months pass, Kelly finds to her distress that her hearing is failing, but albeit with the caveat that her other senses are being enhanced. When Connie is trapped in a cave-in, Kelly remains optimistic that her older sister will turn up just fine.

Age Lift: She's in her twenties here (matching her actress' age) but her comic counterpart is in his thirties.
Ambiguously Gay: She was once featured alongside the show's openly queer characters in a Twitter post celebrating Pride month. Her sexuality has not been explored in the show itself, however, leaving it somewhat ambiguous.
Ascended Extra: Kelly is by far the most Out of Focus of the group in Season 9, and is barely seen interacting with anyone outside of their established circle. She receives a lot more screen time in Season 10, getting involved in several action scenes, and has plenty of one-on-one interactions with characters outside her group, like Carol, Daryl, Elijah, and Maggie.
The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest of the group, and the others are protective of her.
Boyish Short Hair: She has short hair and appears to be rather tomboyish.
Brats with Slingshots: Although no longer a child, she is the youngest member of the group, and wields a slingshot with devastating skill.
Everyone's Baby Sister: She's Connie little sister, but everyone in the group gladly looks after her. Magna in particular holds a degree of almost motherly affection for Kelly.
Gender Flip: Kelly was originally a man in the comics, and was Connie's boyfriend instead of her sibling.
Hero-Worshipper: In Season 11, she starts to idolize Carol and looks forward to going on scouting missions with her.
Hot-Blooded: Kelly's biggest flaw is her impulsiveness. In "On the Inside", she takes off on horseback alone to search for Connie. In "Outpost 22", she tries to convince Ezekiel to escape the labor camp with three fleeing Coalition residents, who are promptly shot. In "Family", she spots two figures emerging from a walker herd and almost fires at them until Connie stops her and she realizes it's Luke and Jules.
- Though she is able to keep it on check on one notable occasion, when Connie and Magna are trapped underground by an explosion triggered by Carol. Kelly tearfully reminds the group that the noise will likely attract walkers and Whisperers, and that they'll be unable to rescue their friends if they are also captured or killed.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: Kelly can easily be mistaken for a young man if her voice isn't heard or her name and gender explicitly said, given her very masculine clothing style plus her short hair. The only exception is her earrings (although of course some guys wear them too).
Nice Girl: Kelly shows every sign of being as compassionate and empathetic as her older sister. Though she takes part in Magna's theft of the Hilltop supplies, she is ultimately the one who tells Magna to confess to it, and clearly doesn't mean anyone any genuine harm.
No Full Name Given: Her last name is never revealed.
Ordinary High-School Student: She was in high school when the outbreak began.
Parental Neglect: Connie took over raising her when their parents lost interest.
Practically Different Generations: She's implied to be a lot younger than Connie, who already had an established career as a journalist while Kelly was still in high school when the outbreak began. This is also reflected in the twenty-one year age difference between actresses Angel Theory and Lauren Ridloff. However, Kelly is supposed to be older than Theory's actual age while Ridloff could pass for a much younger character, making the gap even more vague.
Promotion to Opening Titles: In the last third of Season 11.
Related Differently in the Adaptation: Connie and Kelly are siblings instead of lovers here.
Satellite Character: Her characterization in Season 9 revolves around being Connie's sister. She gets more of an arc in Season 10 as she deals with her gradual hearing loss.
Shipper on Deck: Teases her sister over her growing closeness to Daryl.
Sibling Team: With Connie if the situation calls for it.
Those Two Girls: With Connie in 11B; justified as they're both working as reporters for the Commonwealth, not to mention she probably wouldn't want to be apart from Connie after the events of Season 10 anyway.
Tomboy: Her physical appearance and clothing style give off this vibe. Not to mention that her comic counterpart is male.
Translator Buddy: She acts as this for Connie when dealing with others.
Twofer Token Minority: Kelly is female, African-American, and hard of hearing, making her a minority threefer.

Former Members

Bernie

Portrayed By: Louis Zehner

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 9)

Debut: "Stradivarius"

A recently deceased member of the group.

And Then John Was a Zombie: He comes back as a walker, for all his group to see.
Death by Adaptation: In the comics, he is killed in his very first scene. When we meet the group in the show, he is already dead.
The Gadfly: He enjoyed getting under Magna's skin according to Yumiko, though it was always in jest.
Iconic Item: His horrible shirt that bugged Magna so much.
Killed Offscreen: By a walker herd.
Mercy Kill: Michonne puts him down in front of his group instead of letting him remain a walker.
Posthumous Character: He dies off-screen before our introduction to the group.

Characters / The Walking Dead (2010): Magna's Group

Magna's Group

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