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Shirewilt Estates
In General
Noah's hometown, a residential community located just outside of Richmond, Virginia. The town was sacked and its residents were massacred by the Wolves.
- Dead All Along: Noah looks forward to reuniting with his family, only to find them and everyone else have been killed by the Wolves.
- Mythology Gag: The name of the town is a reference to "Wiltshire Estates" from the comics. Interestingly, Wiltshire Estates already appeared in the series, as the town Shane and Andrea go to to practice killing walkers. However, it was never named on-screen.
Noah
See Atlanta
Noah's Brother
Noah's Brother
Portrayed By: Xavion Shelton
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 5)
Debut: "What Happened and What's Going On"
One of Noah's younger twin brothers.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: The Wolves murdered him along with the rest of the town and left him to reanimate. He's later put down by his brother, Noah.
- Behind the Black: He sneaks up on Tyreese while he's distracted, all without making a sound.
- Hero Killer: He's the walker who bites Tyreese on the arm, forcing Michonne to amputate him and ultimately resulting in his tragic death.
- Undead Child: One of the few zombie children seen on the show.
Library Group
Library Survivor
"The Last Librarian"
Portrayed By: Kevin Patrick Murphy
Voiced By: Carlos Ysbert (Spanish dub)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 6-7)
Debut: "Last Day on Earth"
"My people — everyone at the library, they're dead."
The leader of a small community of survivors based in a library dominated by the Saviors. When his group began rebelling against the Saviors, they struck back and wiped out every survivor in the Library besides him. Simon tortured and beat him, and used him to show the Alexandrians what could befall them should they not submit to Negan once he hangs him and leaves him to turn.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While being beaten and tortured, all he can do is beg for mercy even though he clearly knows it won't work.
- Character Death: Dies in the Season 6 finale.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Being tortured and beaten by a gang of Saviors, getting spray-painted on, and ultimately hung without a Mercy Kill is no pleasant way to go.
- Last Episode, New Character: First appears in the Season 6 finale.
- Make an Example of Them: He's a victim of this, as Simon uses him to demonstrate the Saviors' wrath should Rick not submit.
- Mercy Kill: Averted. He is simply hung, and the Alexandrians can't spare the bullets to put him out of his misery. Rick later encounters his severed head on the ground while scavenging for his axe.
- No Name Given: Only credited with the incredibly generic title "Male Survivor". Talking Dead gives us the much more catchy title "The Last Librarian."
- Off with His Head!: Rick clings to his body to get off the RV, and his weight causes the decomposing walker's body to split at the neck.
- Posthumous Character: He makes much more of an impact upon his death and during his time as a walker, in and out of universe.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He's introduced solely to show what happens to communities who rebel against the Saviors, and his death was seen at the final roadblock the group encounters, really showing how dire their situation is. In the following episode, Negan specifically takes Rick to his undead corpse to show him up close and personal.
- Sole Survivor: Of his group for about a day before he's killed.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in his first appearance.
Baltimore Shelter
Matias
Matias
Portrayed By: Javier Carrasquillo
Voiced By: Jean Rieffel (French dub)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 9)
Debut: "Omega"
A man who was in the same camp as Alpha and her family.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: As no one knew at the time that you come back as a walker regardless of whether you've been bitten, no one makes sure to destroy his brain. This allows Matias to reanimate and attack the camp in the dead of night while they're all sleeping. In Alpha's version of these events, he even kills Frank.
- Canon Foreigner: He never appeared in the comics.
- Character Death: Alpha smothers him to death when he puts the entire camp at risk.
- Non-Action Guy: He isn't a fighter, and is killed by Alpha with barely any struggle on her part.
- Red Shirt: Exists only to show what a monster Alpha is and provide the audience with an early clue that Lydia's memories of her childhood aren't what they appear to be.
- Too Dumb to Live: Panics and loudly tries to flee the shelter where he and a bunch of people are hiding. Predictably, it gets him killed, albeit by Alpha, who won't let him compromise their safehouse. Ironically, this leads to Matias reanimating and attacking the camp himself.
Bloodsworth Island
Virgil
Virgil's Family
Lisa, Jasmine, and Bobby
Portrayed By: Denisha Gillespie (Lisa)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10)
Debut: "What We Become"
Virgil’s family. They were accidentally locked inside the facility on Bloodsworth Island by Virgil, and chose to commit suicide together rather than be killed by a swarm of walkers. Michonne begrudgingly helps Virgil put them down.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: Since their brains weren't destroyed, they all reanimated after committing suicide.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: They chose to hang themselves to avoid being slaughtered during one of the riots.
- Driven to Suicide: Virgil and Michonne find their zombified corpses hanging in the room where they killed themselves together.
- The Lost Lenore: Lisa is this for Virgil. Her death, along with those of their children, causes him to lose his mind.
- Morality Chain: For Virgil. Specifically, Lisa, as Virgil mentions his wife used to always keep him grounded, and without her he goes completely off the deep end.
- Suicide Pact: They apparently followed through on one, since their bodies are still together when Michonne and Virgil find them.
- Walking Spoiler: Finding out what really happened to them spoils Virgil's entire backstory and motivations, as well as the fact that he lied to Michonne about there being guns on the island.
Lucy, Celeste, and Jeremiah
Lucy, Celeste, and Jeremiah
Portrayed By: Olivia Stambouliah, Eve Gordon, and Taylor Gordon (respectively)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10)
Debut: "What We Become"
Three survivors living on Bloodsworth Island. They were once Virgil’s colleagues at the base, only to end up his prisoners. When Michonne frees them, she convinces them to spare Virgil’s lives. They accompany Michonne for the first leg of her trip north, and part ways with her for parts unknown.
- Cruel Mercy: In a sense. Michonne acknowledges that Virgil will never be able to repay them for all he did to them, so she convinces them to spare his life so he can live and suffer with the guilt and the pain of trying to make amends.
- The Dog Bites Back: They're deadset on killing Virgil before Michonne intervenes.
- Good Is Not Soft: They’re good people but they are ready to kill Virgil for imprisoning them.
- Nice Guy: All three of them are good people.
- Put on a Bus: Michonne parts ways with them after their ship reaches their initial destination, the trio not joining her quest to find Rick.
- Walking Spoiler: Discussing their role in the plot quickly exposes the truth about Virgil and that Michonne leaves the show to find Rick.
Survivor Caravan
In General
Survivor Caravan
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10) | The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Debut: "What We Become"
A caravan of hundreds of nomadic survivors moving across walker-infested territory. They are joined by Michonne Hawthorne at the end of "What We Become". For tropes about them and their members see here.
Other Families
Ford Family
Ellen, Becca, and A.J.
Ellen, Becca, and A.J. Ford
Portrayed By: Andrea Moore (Ellen), Drake Ethan Light (A.J.)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 5)
Debut: "Self Help"
The family of Sergeant Abraham Ford. They abandoned him after watching him brutally murder a bunch of attackers, and were later killed by walkers.
- Adaptation Name Change: Ellen was named Beth in the comics. To avoid a One-Steve Limit with Beth Greene, her name was changed to Ellen in the show.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. They were raped in the comic, but this doesn't appear to be the case in the show.
- Eaten Alive: They were devoured by walkers, presumably while they were still alive.
- Living Emotional Crutch: After their deaths, Abraham nearly blew his brains out, his reason to live completely gone. Fortunately, Eugene chose that particular moment to make his introduction...
- The Lost Lenore: Ellen is this for Abraham.
- Named by the Adaptation: The names of Abraham's children weren't mentioned in the comic.
- Non-Action Guy: They don't appear to have been combat-proficient, as they were killed by a small group of walkers and seem to have relied on Abraham to do most of the fighting.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: They fled from Abraham after becoming terrified by his brutality.
Alpha's Family
Frank
Frank
Portrayed By: Steve Kazee
Voiced By: Anatole de Bodinat (French dub)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 9)
Debut: "Omega"
Alpha's husband and Lydia's father. He was murdered by his wife early in the outbreak.
- Abusive Parents: Alpha makes Lydia believe he was one, when it was really the other way around. Lydia eventually realizes the truth and admits that, despite her mother's manipulation, he was a good father and she misses him.
- Beard of Evil: His beard accentuates his despicability in the scenes where we're led to believe he was an abusive Hate Sink. In reality, he had no beard and was a loving father and victim of his wife's abuse.
- Canon Foreigner: Alpha made no mention of a husband in the comics.
- Character Death: Alpha stabbed him in the neck to prevent him from taking Lydia from her.
- Death by Origin Story: His early demise left Lydia in the sole custody of Alpha.
- Good Counterpart: To Carol's husband, Ed. Ed was a Domestic Abuser and Pervert Dad who more than deserved his gruesome death by a walker; Frank was a loving but weak-willed father who met a tragic end at the hands of his psychotic wife.
- Jerkass: He's nothing but rude and condescending to his wife. Or, rather, Alpha would let Lydia think he was.
- Non-Action Guy: Alpha tells Lydia he was stupid and weak. And while he doesn't appear to have been a coward, she probably wasn't far off from the truth, seeing as he puts up zero fight when Alpha has him cornered.
- Papa Wolf: Subverted. While he loved Lydia dearly, it's made clear he wasn't a fighter and he's quickly killed by Alpha, who is the real beast in the family (for better or worse).
- Posthumous Character: Only appears in flashbacks.
Amelia and Milo's Family
Amelia and Milo
Amelia and Milo
Portrayed By: Virginia Newcomb (Amelia) and Roman Spink (Milo)
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10)
Debut: "What It Always Is"
"It was just Milo and me. We'd been walking for days — weeks, until the hissers ran through our camp, scattered everyone to the winds. After that, we went back to what it was before, what it always is in the end — Milo and me, moving from place to place, surviving..."
— Amelia
A mother and son who are rescued by Negan. He offers them to one of the nearby communities but, sadly, they are both murdered by Brandon before Negan can follow through on his promise.
- Bludgeoned to Death: They're beaten to death with a tire iron by Brandon.
- Canon Foreigner: Never appeared in the comics.
- Mama Bear: She's introduced fighting off walkers to protect her son.
- Morality Pet: Negan quickly forms a bond with Milo, enough that he puts a halt to his plans to infiltrate the Whisperers' camp so he can personally escort Milo and his mother to one of the communities.
- Non-Action Guy: Milo hides while his mother takes care of the walkers.
- Not Using the "Z" Word: Amelia calls zombies "hissers".
- The Quiet One: Milo doesn't speak much.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: They die in their debut episode.
Mays Family
Mays
Mays' Brother
Mays' Brother
Portrayed By: Robert Patrick
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10)
Debut: "One More"
Mays' twin brother.
- And I Must Scream: Mays held him prisoner for who knows how long mere feet away from his family who he shot to save his own life.
- Barbarian Longhair: He has not had the opportunity to maintain his appearance due to being held prisoner by his brother.
- Despair Event Horizon: It’s all but stated that his decision to shoot his family rather than committing suicide was what drove him over the edge.
- Dirty Coward: He shot his wife and child in a game of Russian roulette rather than take his own life, whereas Aaron and Gabriel never raised the gun at each other.
- Driven to Suicide: He blows his brains out rather than accept Aaron and Gabriel's offer to return to Alexandria.
- It's All About Me: According to Mays, when their food began to run out, he ate his brother’s share and attacked him when he was caught. He also killed his family when forced to by Mays.
- No Name Given: Only known as Mays’s brother.
- Offing the Offspring: Shot his own son in a game of Russian Roulette.
- Together in Death: He deliberately positions himself to fall onto his deceased family, and his body crumples onto them as if he’s embracing them after he shoots himself.
- Walking Spoiler: Most of the tropes about him stem from the last twist of “One More”.
- Would Hurt a Child: Again, he killed his young son.
Laura's Family
Franklin
Franklin
"Take it easy, Capone."
Portrayed By: Miles Mussenden
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10)
Debut: "Here's Negan"
"We have a lot. We just want to help."
A doctor encountered by Negan early in the outbreak. He was also Laura's adopted father.
- Canon Foreigner: He never appeared in the comics.
- Deadpan Snarker: He refers to Negan as "Capone" after he tries to rob them with an empty gun.
- Nice Guy: He is extremely courteous to Negan and gives him the medical supplies he needs for Lucille.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Subverted. Negan repays his kindness by giving up his location to Valak's Vipers, but only because he wants to get home to his wife as soon as possible. When it turns out Lucille has killed herself, Negan returns and helps free him and his daughter.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: There's no mention of a Franklin in the Saviors and Laura never mentions an adopted father, leaving his fate in the present day unknown. Given the nature of the Walking Dead universe, it's more than likely he died at some point between the events of "Here's Negan" and our introduction to the Saviors in Season 6.
Negan's Family
Lucille
Lucille Smith
"Now it's time for you to go on without me. I need you to do my fighting for me, okay?"
Portrayed By: Hilarie Burton Morgan
Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 10)
Debut: "Here's Negan"
"I stuck with you 'cause I could always see the man you are right now. Even when you weren't."
No, not that one. The original Lucille. Negan's late wife, whose death started him on the path to becoming the leader of the Saviors.
- Action Girl: Hand in hand with Adaptational Badass.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Hilarie Burton looks a lot more glamorous than the Lucille on the page.
- Adaptational Badass: Has no problem headshotting walkers from a distance. She's also a lot more assertive and emotionally strong than her comic counterpart. It's safe to say that she and Negan would have been one formidable duo had she lived longer.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: She has reanimated by the time Negan finds her, though she also made sure to tie herself to the bed and leave her husband a warning before she killed herself.
- Ascended Extra: She gets quite a bit more characterization and development to the point of being the co-lead of "Here's Negan". This compared to her comic counterpart who was quickly killed off early in the novel.
- Baldness Means Sickness: The cancer makes her hair fall out.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves her husband Negan from being killed by a walker. With the gun she was tempted to use to kill him, no less.
- Bury Your Disabled: She commits suicide while her husband is away.
- Death by Origin Story: A given since Negan specifically mentions her death shaping him into the man he is today.
- Decomposite Character: In a meta sense, she serves as this by taking on something of Andrea’s comic counterpart. Andrea was the main heroic death following the end of the Whisperer War, who also died in her bed and had to be put down by her distraught lover. Lucille’s death is adapted for the final episode of Season 10’s extended run, which deals with the aftermath of the Whisperer War. While the situation is different, the context and timing of the death lines up with where Andrea’s comic death would’ve taken place.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comics, she died from her cancer, with Negan at her bedside. In the show, she commits suicide while Negan is away on a scouting mission.
- Driven to Suicide: Knowing that she and Negan are fighting a losing battle, she kills herself via suffocation while Negan is away scavenging medical supplies to treat her cancer. When he finds her she is wearing the exact same clothes as when he left, suggesting that she ended her life that very same day.
- Dying Alone: She asks Negan to stay with her so this won't be the case, but he refuses. She then commits suicide while he's away.
- Et Tu, Brute?: She considers shooting Negan after finding out he's been cheating on her with her best friend.
- Face Death with Dignity: When their medicine spoils, Lucille immediately realizes her life is going to end. She tells Negan to stop to worrying about trying to treat her and to just stay around for the inevitable end.
- Handicapped Badass: She nonchalantly shoots a zombie in the head with one hand. Her other hand is holding her chemotherapy IV pole.
- I Will Only Slow You Down: Implied to be the reason for her suicide.
- Kill It with Fire: Negan leaves her walker to burn to death after he sets their house on fire. Years later, Negan admits to Gabriel that his biggest regret is he was too weak to put Lucille down himself.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Negan mentions that they unsuccessfully tried to have a child of their own. The fertility issues must have been on her side, as Negan was able to get his new wife Annie pregnant with relative ease in just a few months, in his fifties no less.
- Living Emotional Crutch: After the outbreak hit, taking care of Lucille and trying to cure her cancer were the only things keeping Negan going. After she died, well...
- The Lost Lenore: For Negan, who still grieves for her over a decade after her death.
- Morality Chain: After her death, Negan goes off the rails and promptly starts murdering people. It starts out with clear cut Asshole Victims, but given the events of Seasons 6-8, he very quickly Became Their Own Antithesis without her around to keep him humane.
- Named by the Adaptation: Like Negan, she was never given a last name in the comics.
- Parenting the Husband: Her marriage to Negan became this at one point. Specifically, she had to pay the medical bills of a man he put in the hospital while Negan spent most of his days lounging around playing video games, and making very little effort at finding a new job.
- Posthumous Character: She's long dead at the current point in the story, and is seen entirely in flashbacks.
- Revision: Negan originally relates her death to Gabriel saying he couldn't put her down, implying he left her as a walker. "Here's Negan" shows that he did kill her — by leaving her to burn in their flaming house rather than directly shooting or stabbing her in the head, meaning he was technically telling Gabriel the truth. With this revision, it seems Negan feels it was dishonorable for him not to kill her directly, but is surely just letting his self-loathing over the situation cloud his memory as well.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, she was dead right as the apocalypse began, and never actually saw any zombies. Here, she dies just over seven months into the outbreak.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Negan outright says this about her, telling Michonne that Lucille was an angel, and that she was too good for what the world would become. Given that she forgave Negan for skipping her MRI where she found out she had cancer to go cheat on her with her friend Janine, he's not exaggerating.
- Tragically Disabled Love Interest: To Negan after she gets cancer. What makes this "tragically disabled" is the effect of her illness on their relationship.
- What Does She See in Him?: Negan himself admits to Michonne that Lucille could have done and deserved better than she got with him. He actually says as much to Lucille herself, saying he doesn't know how he got so lucky that she stuck with him. Even Lucille's friend, Janine, wonders why Lucille has put up with Negan's Manchild behavior for this long. Of course, given their affair, it's implied Janine only said this because she wanted Negan all for herself.
- What You Are in the Dark: It's not clear if it was intentional on her part, but she ended up invoking this on Negan when she declined to inform him that she was aware of his affair with Janine. While she's angry about it, she kept tabs on it and knew that he ended it right away and never spoke to Janine again, which helped her to see that Negan was still the good man she loved.
- Woman Scorned: When Negan returned home the day of his wife's MRI, he immediately noticed that something was wrong with Lucille, given that she was glaring at him when he walked in the front door. She threw cancer pamphlets on the table and told him she had cancer. What he didn't know was that she found out about his affair with her friend Janine that same day and was holding their gun under the table, tempted to kill him for it.
- Women Are Wiser: She acclimates quicker to the apocalypse than her husband, who is initially reluctant to even kill a walker. She even wisely figured that they'd need other people to live, correctly believing the two of them alone wouldn't make it far.
Daryl's Family
Will Dixon
Will Dixon
Portrayed By: Robert Bruce Eliott
Appearances: The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
The father of Daryl and Merle Dixon. Despite never making it to the Atlanta camp, his life and relationship to his family is a matter of frequent reference.
- Abusive Parents: Was one to both Merle and Daryl throughout their lives, though as they grew older, he became more dismissive of them than anything.
- Call-Forward: He is gutted by a walker to the point where he can't be tended to. Jess then puts him out of his misery in a somewhat chilling homage to Dale's death in Season 2 of the main show.
"Sorry, brother."
- Dead Guy Junior: His father's name was revealed in Daryl Dixon to be William T. Dixon. However, it's not clear whether is son is also named William and happens to go by Will, or whether his full name is Will.
- Decoy Protagonist: He's the playable character for the intro of Survival Instinct, but gets gutted by a walker before he can get to safety. Notably, this is is the only piece of media we actually see him.
- Foregone Conclusion: He's not around in the Atlanta camp, making it clear he's not going to survive Survival Instinct.
- Freudian Excuse: He blamed Merle for starting the house fire that killed his wife, which led to him abusing both his sons.
- The Ghost: Possibly the most frequent one in recent history. Despite never as much as appearing on screen, we get quite a complete picture of his life and personality from Daryl's frequent stories of his abuse.
- Half-Sibling Angst: Implied but never quite touched on with him and Jess. Will's mother remarried to a man called Collins and had Jess when Will was seven years old, no doubt a source of great stress on him. In 2010, they are on speaking terms and go on a hunting trip together, but there's clearly some unresolved tension between the two of them. However, Jess appears to at least care for Will more than Will does for him.
- Hate Sink: Horribly abused both of his sons in a multitude of ways. Between beatings, emotional abuse, burning their skin with cigarettes, general neglect, there's very little genuine affection he showed either of them. Allegedly, he blamed Merle for the fire that killed his wife, not that the excuse makes his actions any better.
- Honor Thy Abuser: Downplayed and justified with Daryl. Despite abusing him throughout his childhood, he is quite broken up by his fatal wound and cannot bring himself to give him a Mercy Kill. Throughout the years, he fully admits that he recognizes the things his father did to him as terrible, but wouldn't have ever been able to kill him. Case of Truth in Television; even after understanding that they were abused, abuse victims, particularly children may feel love and attachment for the abuser.
- Mercy Kill: Jess has to shoot him in the head after being gutted by a walker.
- Someone to Remember Him By: A deconstruction of this trope. Will's father died during the Normany landings while his wife was pregnant. Will grew up fatherless, with a stepfather implied to be abusive himself, and was left quite worse off for it.
- Teen Pregnancy: He wasn't the one getting pregnant, of course. Assuming he was born in 1945 or 1946 (his father died in the Normandy Landings while his wife was pregnant with Will), and his son Merle is around his actor's age (Michael Rooker was 55 years old in 2010, being born in 1955), then Will would have had Merle at least in his mid teens. While this might just be an oversight by the writers, it nonetheless fits what we know about Will's personality.
