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Tyreese's Group

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In General

A group of survivors originally from Florida who found their way to the prison. While Allen's family turned against the prison group and paid the price for falling in with The Governor, Tyreese and Sasha joined Rick and became integral parts of the group, be it at the prison or in Alexandria.

Adaptational Late Appearance: Every single one of them was introduced much later than their comic counterparts.
Adaptational Villainy: Invoked but actually Zig-Zagged. They were never part of The Governor's crew in the comics, but here they allied with him after Rick kicked them out of the prison. However, both Tyreese and his sister Sasha subverts this by being Token Good Teammates while Allen and his son Ben plays this straight.
Badass Family: The crew is composed of two families; Allen's and the Brother–Sister Team of Tyreese and Sasha.
Decomposite Character: Due to debuting in a much later timeline than in the comics, their earlier roles and Story Arcs were filled by different characters. T-Dog and Oscar filled Tyreese's role as the group's only black man, and Daryl took his place as Rick's post-Shane Lancer. The Morales family serves as a placeholder for Allen's family in Season 1, while the Samuels family takes their comics storyline in Season 4.
Demoted to Extra: Tyreese and Allen's family were not as prominent as they were in the comics.
Dwindling Party: Donna dies during their introduction, and Allen and Ben die by the end of Season 3. Tyreese dies in mid-Season 5, and finally Sasha dies at the end of Season 7.
Five-Man Band: The Remnants at least, with Tyreese as The Leader, Sasha as The Lancer, Ben as The Big Guy, Allen as The Smart Guy and Token Evil Teammate and Donna as The Heart.
Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Tyreese is The Optimist, Sasha is The Realist, Allen is The Cynic and Ben is The Apathetic.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Tyreese is Leukine, Sasha is Choleric, Allen is Melancholic and Ben is Phlegmatic.
Two Girls to a Team: Sasha and Donna are the only female members of the group.

Tyreese

Tyreese Williams

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"The whole world is haunted now."

Portrayed By: Chad L. Coleman

Voiced By: Roberto Encinas (Spanish dub), Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese dub), Michael Deffert (German dub), Asto Montcho (French dub), Fabio Boccanera (Italian dub), Bognár Tamás (Hungarian dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 3-5)

Debut: "Made to Suffer"

"It's not over. This isn't the end."

Tyreese is the leader of a small group of survivors, including his younger sister Sasha, that discover the prison. His neighbor Jerry helped them survive the initial outbreak in a bunker, but they later left and joined a group of 25 people that slowly got whittled down. After briefly joining Woodbury with his sister, he joins the remaining citizens of the town in moving to the prison. He begins a relationship with Karen after settling into the prison. He enters a state of depression and rage after her death, but doesn't have long to dwell on it since the prison falls not long after. Rescuing Judith from the place, he becomes one of her primary caregivers.

Tyreese is haunted and weary of the horrific world he and his friends live in. As a gentle soul, violence is something he's very much opposed to. However, when truly enraged, the gentle, sweet Tyreese is a force of nature that can go into berserker rages that even entire herds of walkers can fall victim to. Despite being an effective combatant, Tyreese grows to hate killing, even when it comes to hostile survivors and the walkers. Ultimately, Tyreese dies realizing that thanks to his unwillingness to kill, he's just not made for the world and passes on to hopefully find peace in the afterlife.

Adaptational Late Appearance: In the show he debuted during the Prison Arc. In the source material he debuted after Shane's death and before the group arrives in the Greene farm.
Adaptational Modesty: In the comic, he's a two-timer, first having a relationship with Carol before cheating with Michonne. Here, his only Love Interest is Canon Foreigner Karen and he never had a relationship with either Carol or Michonne.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Tyreese is much nicer, compassionate, and diplomatic compared to his comic counterpart. By Season 5, he becomes The Heart of the group, something his comic counterpart never was.
Adaptational Villainy: Invoked, but ultimately subverted in Season 3. He joined Woodbury^note after Rick kicked them off the prison, forcing him to find another safe place for his group and Woodbury is the only available option. Once there, he and his group decided to help the Governor in his "war." But despite this, Tyreese has remained a good person, was very reluctant to harm the prison group, and protesting the use of walkers against them. He even flat-out refuses to take part in the second prison attack during the Season 3 finale and joins Rick's group after learning the truth about the Governor.
Adaptational Wimp: In Season 4, he is reworked into a Token Good Teammate who dislikes the brutal nature of the apocalypse and struggles with many moral dilemmas that aren't present in the comic, such as forgiving Carol for killing Karen and refusing to kill Martin even after he'd held baby Judith hostage and forced Tyreese to walk out into a herd of zombies. His Death in the Limelight episode is even centered around Tyreese accepting in his dying moments that he just wasn't mean enough to survive in the kill-or-be-killed setting.
An Arm and a Leg: Michonne chops off his bitten arm in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Sadly, it's likely already too late for him given the amount of time that passed between his bite and the amputation (being bitten twice doesn't help either); and the blood loss only hastens his death.
The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Deconstructed during Season 5 when he loses his will to kill anything, even if the situation very much calls for it. He's horrified by the slaughter of the Hunters (which was, needless to say, well-deserved considering their intentions) and Martin points out that being unwilling to kill anything will only continue to cause problems. Martin's proven right when allowing him to live allows Gareth to find the group again, something that haunts Tyreese until his death, when he sadly accepts that his suffering will end once he leaves the world he's no longer fit for.
Arch-Enemy: Martin becomes his in Season 5. They only face off once (not counting their Dead Person Conversation) but Martin is the first character to directly confront Tyreese's morality and how it will get him killed.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He is the most capable fighter of his group, hence the leadership.
A-Team Firing: He's almost worthless when using a gun. It takes him four shots to hit a very slow moving walker with a sniper rifle. In "30 Days Without An Accident", he misses a couple of very close range shots with a handgun.
The Berserker: When he's truly angry he is a terrifying force to be reckoned with; Allen was nearly fed to a pit full of walkers, an entire herd of walkers was decimated when he was cornered by them, and he nearly beat Martin to death. You'd better hope you're not in range of his fists or his hammer if he's angry. Word of God even clarifies that no other member of Rick's group could've not only survived, but decimated the herd he was surrounded by.
Beware the Nice Ones: Tyreese is one of the kindest and most decent people on the show. When Allen attacked him near a pit of walkers though, Tyreese almost threw him in. In Season 4, Karen's death sends him into a massive fit. Then in the Season 5 premiere "No Sanctuary", he pummels, beats, and almost kills the douchebag who threatened to snap baby Judith's neck. The next episode revealed that the guy survived, but his face is obviously swelling bad.
The Big Guy: He is literally the biggest, the tallest and physically the strongest member of Rick's group.
Brother–Sister Team: With Sasha.
Character Death: In "What Happened And What's Going On", he's bitten twice by walkers and dies of his wounds by the end of the episode.
Dead Person Conversation: While dying, he talks to the ghosts of Lizzie, Mika, Martin, Bob, The Governor and Beth.
A Death in the Limelight: Gets a hearty amount of focus in Season 5 and a starring role in "What Happened And What's Going On," and he's dead by the end of said episode.
Decomposite Character: Due to debuting much later than his comicbook counterpart, his roles for the first two seasons were filled by T-Dog (received his backstory as an ex-football player), Shane (as The Lancer with the Love Triangle gone bad story line) and Daryl (received his character relationship with Carol, as well as The Lancer after Shane's death).
Demoted to Extra: At least in comparison to his comic counterpart. In the comics, Tyreese is almost immediately a member of the main cast, and is The Lancer to Rick. Here, Tyreese doesn't debut until far later in the timeline, and only becomes a main cast member in his final season. Additionally, Tyreese never becomes The Lancer and wasn't nearly as prominent as the likes of Glenn, Daryl, or even Carl. To compensate for this, see Decomposite Character.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: His comic counterpart is decapitated by the Governor using Michonne's katana. This version of Tyreese is bitten in the arm twice by walkers and he dies from the infection.
Doomed Moral Victor: Tyreese eventually comes to be the most peaceful and forgiving character in the show (to the point that he pleads with Sasha to forgive the psychopathic cannibals who mutilated her boyfriend), but as Martin points out, it begins to cause serious problems for him and his family - and ultimately haunts him until his death.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: He is very capable at handling walkers but ends up getting mortally wounded when one bites him while he's not paying attention. It's not a complete example though, as his slow death throughout the rest of the episode is very emotional and cinematic.
Enemy Without: Word of God is that Tyreese fears his own strength and the berserker he becomes when he's enraged.
Face Death with Dignity: Once he realizes that he's about to die, he faces the end peacefully and with no fear. It helps that several of his deceased friends appear to him as hallucinations and comfort him.
Foil: His sister Sasha is hot-headed and confrontational, while he is kind, sweet and reasoning. Their combat skills also differ in that Tyreese is proficient in melee and brute strength while Sasha is an excellent shot.
Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: When Carol admits she murdered Karen (and David), Tyreese almost breaks a table and seems to consider shooting her. Ultimately he forgives her when Carol tells her reasons, and that Karen's death was quick - but promises never to forget what she did.
Friend to All Children: He's aghast to see the newborn Judith in the apocalypse, and later fights tooth and nail to protect her, Lizzie, and Mika when the three of them end up under his care after they escape the prison. Even after Lizzie killed her sister and tried to kill Mika, Tyreese doesn't hold it against her and later imagines her as one of his fallen friends comforting him as he dies.
Gentle Giant: He's the only one who shows nothing but gratitude to the prison group for saving and harboring them. He is also very disturbed by having to kill walkers, particularly when stabbing them through the prison fence. Tyreese is also often seen carrying and tending to baby Judith, a position that he seems entirely competent and comfortable with.
The Heart: Of the group following Hershel's death.
Heroic Blue Screen of Death: He goes through this when he finds Karen and David's charred bodies in the prison yard. And then there's Sasha falling sick. He so affected by both events that he remains several seconds inside a walker surrounded car — with an open door — during the mission led by Daryl to find antibiotics.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With his sister.
Iconic Item: His beanie that he's rarely seen without. It's left on the cross marking his grave.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Season 5 delves into his wistful, desperate desire to avoid the overrun, brutal world he's forced to live in; largely due to the emotional trauma of losing so many friends to the apocalypse. It's quite clear that he'd be happy to just watch Judith while the others deal with people and walkers. In his Dead Person Conversation with several characters, he's confronted over this desire by Martin and The Governor, who mock him for wanting to escape reality. Ultimately, Bob, Beth, Lizzie, and Mika are able to assure Tyreese that there was nothing wrong with wanting to be done with the apocalypse, and comfort him as he passes away, finally ending his suffering.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: He's got horrible aim with a firearm, which nearly gets him killed during the fall of the prison, before being saved by Lizzie and Mika. This is the reason he generally sticks to his trusty hammer.
Intergenerational Friendship: He outright calls baby Judith his friend.
Large and in Charge: He is twice as big as the rest of his group and clearly in command of them.
The Leader: Of his small group. After joining the community at the prison, he steps out of the leadership role.
Life-or-Limb Decision: When his arm is chomped on twice by walkers, Rick and Michonne cut it off, but it's already too late for the big guy and it fails to save his life.
Lightning Bruiser: He's very agile for a guy his size.
Long Last Look: He takes one last, long look at the sun in his final moments before agreeing to let go.
Love Interest: For Karen, with the two of them becoming a couple in the Time Skip between Season 3 and 4.
Martial Pacifist: Tyreese can definitely kick ass, but he always chooses to be diplomatic.
My Sister Is Off-Limits: Averted, as Tyreese seemed pretty happy about Sasha and Bob getting together.
Named by the Adaptation: His comic counterpart has Only One Name. Here, he's given the surname Williams.
Nice Guy: Very much so. He snaps and gets aggressive on three occasions, but they were rather understandable (Allen's provocation, the aftermath of Karen's murder, and Martin threatening to kill baby Judith). In the latter case it turns out that he couldn't even bring himself to kill the bastard like he said he did as he turns up alive in the next episode.
One-Man Army: In "Isolation", he demolishes a horde of walkers all by himself.
Only Sane Man: The most level-headed of his group, though he briefly has a Sanity Slippage after Karen is murdered.
Papa Wolf: To the children in general, but it's most evident in the second half of Season 4. Judith may not be his child, but when she was threatened in the Season 5 premiere, he brutally mutilated the guy who threatened her.
Parental Substitute: In the beginning of the second half of Season 4 for Lizzie, Mika, and Judith, alongside Carol. For a time, he was the sole adult in his party, and is forced to deal with the realities of protecting three largely helpless children while also contending with walkers. He continues in this role until Judith is reunited with Rick in the Season 5 premiere, but still promises to help as much as possible with her afterwards.
Pay Evil unto Evil:
- To Allen, after he antagonized Tyreese out of petty jealousy and advocated the use of walkers against the prison group.
Allen: I'll protect [my son].
Tyreese: Oh, like you protected Donna?
- In the Season 5 premiere, Martin threatens to kill Judith. He responds in due course, by nearly beating the SOB to death.
Plot Armor: Clumsily running in the open field, with his wardrobe-size frame, while in close range of shooters during the third Prison Attack. Sadly, the plot armor is finally revoked in Season 5 when he doesn't notice a walker behind him in time.
Promotion to Opening Titles: While he was promoted to series regular as of Season 4, his name only appeared in the OBB of Season 5. Much like Hershel, Beth, and Gareth before him, it doesn't do him much good, and he dies in the middle of the season.
Real Men Wear Pink: He's the most powerful member of Rick's group and can decimate an entire herd on his own, but the man loves taking care of and spending time with baby Judith. Deconstructed in that it's implied that trying to resign himself to taking care of Judith is his unhealthy way of withdrawing from the everyday brutality of the world.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a very level-headed leader to his small group and continues to be a good voice of reason when he cedes leadership to other members of the group.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The gentle and reasonable blue to his sister's impulsive and confrontational red. But when he gets angry it now turns to Sasha holding him back.
Sacrificial Lion: His death in the middle of season five comes just at the same time the group is losing hope. In-Universe, it's proof that even the toughest and most powerful people can be suddenly killed if they let their guard down for a moment. On a meta-level, his sudden death only an episode after Beth's proved that Anyone Can Die is still very much in full effect.
Scary Black Man: Subverted. Tyreese is nice, reasonable, compassionate, and shows nothing but gratitude to the prison crew for harboring his own group. The only incidences when he becomes violently angry is when he finds out that Karen has been killed, and when a man from Terminus threatens to kill Judith. The latter one results in Tyreese very nearly beating the asshole to death.
Sixth Ranger: Subverted for Rick's group in "The Suicide King". Played straight for Woodbury in "I Ain't A Judas", although he is having second thoughts. Played straight to Rick's group as of "Welcome To The Tombs".
Sleeves Are for Wimps: Always wearing A-shirts until fall comes late Season 3.
Spared by the Adaptation: Justified as he debuted much later than his comic counterpart. He was the first fatality of the prison attack in the comics, but he survived in the show. In "Too Far Gone", Hershel actually suffers the death Tyreese had in the comics. When he dies in the mid-Season 5 premiere, it's much later in the timeline compared to his death in the comics.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: Nobody saw it coming, largely because Beth had just died the episode beforehand.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Oscar, and, by second degree, to T-Dog, as the Blue Oni black man set to be a member on the heroes' side.
Those Two Guys: With Sasha in Season 3. Averted from Season 4 onward once they both start receiving more screen time.
Thou Shall Not Kill: A major belief of his. It's seemingly averted in the Season 5 premiere when he kills Martin, but the next episode subverts it by revealing that Martin survived. Ultimately, he dies without having ever killed a living person, with the possible exception of one member of the Governor's militia.
Token Good Teammate:
- Tyreese is the only member of his team who isn't an Ungrateful Bastard and is levelheaded. While his sister isn't an Ungrateful Bastard, she's very Hot-Blooded and argumentative, while Donna is given no characterization due to her early death. This becomes a factor when the arrived in Woodbury, where he is one of the few ready to argue against the Governor's decisions.
- During the fifth season - particularly during the Grady Memorial Rescue Arc - Tyreese is the one advocating the most peaceful course of actions. While the group are not villains, they've certainly grown more brutal in combat and are far more comfortable with it than he is.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The tragedy of Tyreese's demise is that he was one of the most goodhearted characters on the show, who did his best to be a moral compass for the group in the wake of Hershel's death. His desire for a peaceful life with his friends and baby Judith also makes this even more tragic since the group arrives in the relatively peaceful Alexandria soon after his demise.
Tranquil Fury: When Carol finally confesses to killing Karen, Tyreese, already in a poor state after the loss of Mika and Lizzie's execution, can't even muster the strength to get as violent and loud as he did when he first learned of his girlfriend's death. That said, he's still fuming through Manly Tears, and nearly breaks the table he's holding with his bare hands until he accepts it.
Unskilled, but Strong: Tyreese has incredible strength for a person in the apocalypse, but has less control over himself due to being The Berserker when he fights.
Weapon-Based Characterization: Morally-conflicted Gentle Giant Tyreese uses a hammer, which can be used both to destroy and to create.
You Can't Fight Fate: The universe seems to be screaming for him to die in his final episode. Not only is he bitten by a single child walker, he's forced to allow another one to bite him in the same spot, and the only one able to go and get help is the crippled Noah. The group present deeply struggles to carry his huge body to safety, and he's nearly bitten again while the group is forced to fight off another swarm. Then his foot gets tangled in some ropes. Tyreese's friends deserved to be praised for how they fought until the bitter end to try to get him to safety.
Zombie Infectee: He's bitten by a walker and lays dying for an extended amount of time, and when he's attacked by another one, he allows it to chomp on the same arm until he grabs a weapon to kill it with. He dies at the end of the episode.

Sasha

Sasha Williams

"I don't believe in magic or luck, I do the math and I don't gamble."

Portrayed By: Sonequa Martin-Green

Voiced By: Chus Gil, Begoña Hernando ["Made to Suffer"] (Spanish dub), Sachie Hirai (Japanese dub), Irina von Bentheim (German dub), Géraldine Asselin (French dub), Domitilla D'Amico (Italian dub), Antonie Talacková (Czech dub), Bogdányi Titanilla (Hungarian dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (3-7, 8 ^noteFlashback, 9 ^noteHallucination)

Debut: "Made to Suffer"

"I mean, hell, you're always accountable. It's just that with all that other noise, you know people won't notice."

Sasha is Tyreese's cynical younger sister and was a firefighter before the Zombie Apocalypse. After joining the prison group, Sasha becomes part of a council that leads the growing community and proves to be the group's most competent sniper. She also begins to form a relationship with Bob after the fall of the prison.

After the escape from Terminus, Sasha and Bob's relationship continues to grow until he dies from a walker bite. The subsequent deaths of Beth and then Tyreese weigh heavily on Sasha, who becomes traumatized and increasingly reckless. At Alexandria, Sasha volunteers to be the safe-zone's sentry, manning a sniper post in a nearby church tower. Nearly overcome by despair, Sasha is nearly goaded into killing a suicidal Father Gabriel before Maggie arrives and helps bring both back from the brink.

In Season 6, Sasha finds herself the object of Abraham's affections, though she initially keeps her distance after he makes some very forward advances. Abraham eventually wises up, and Sasha agrees to start a relationship with him. However, her worst nightmares come true when Abraham is killed by Negan. Deciding to carry on his legacy of service, Sasha moved with Maggie to Hilltop where she watched over her as she recovered and took leadership of the Colony. When Rosita offered her a chance to assassinate Negan, Sasha agreed, and after being captured by Negan, took Eugene's poison pills, and the surprise of her dying and reanimating gave the group the chance to start their war against the Saviors, with Rick and Maggie acknowledging her sacrifice in the end.

Action Girl: She shows off some pretty sweet shovel swinging skills in her introductory episode, and during the run to the department store, she shows she is just as adept with a gun and creating Improvised Weapons. By the fifth season, she is the group's go-to sniper and is probably the most combat-proficient female after Michonne.
A Day in the Limelight: "Always Accountable" focuses largely on her character alongside Abraham and Daryl.
A Death in the Limelight: Gets a lot of screentime in her last three episodes, particularly the Season 7 finale, which features several flashbacks of her with Abraham and Maggie, and she's dead by the end of said episode.
And Then John Was a Zombie: Turns after poisoning herself with one of Eugene's pills and while being transported via casket to Alexandria. She is revealed to be a walker when Negan opens the casket and is later put down by Maggie and Jesus.
Ascended Extra: Goes from a recurring character all the way to billing in the show's opening titles by Season 6.
Axe-Crazy: Not exactly, but her Sanity Slippage crossed with her Blood Knight tendencies can make her very.... twitchy at times. She's calmed down by Season 6.
Back-to-Back Badasses:
- With Maggie in "Alone" when they were surrounded by walkers near an ice cream truck. In "Go-Getters", they join forces with Jesus to clear out the Hilltop when it is overrun by walkers.
- With Michonne and Rosita in "Try".
Battle Couple: Briefly so with Bob, and later with Abraham towards the end of Season 6 which ends just as quickly.
The Big Guy: She becomes one of the group's heavy hitters starting in Season 5, and begins sharing the role with Rosita in Season 7 after Abraham's death, only to cede it to her upon her death.
Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Follows in her boyfriend Abraham's steps, as she dies in the Season 7 finale.
Big Damn Heroes: Sasha and Abraham save Glenn's life when it looks like he is about to be devoured in "No Way Out".
Blood Knight: Michonne determines very quickly in "Try" that Sasha was hunting walkers.
Broken Bird: She doesn't take Bob's death well in Season 5, nor the death of her brother. By the time the group reaches Alexandria, she's paranoid, possibly experiencing auditory hallucinations, and may well be a Death Seeker.
Brother–Sister Team: With Tyreese until his death.
Canon Foreigner: Never appeared in the comics, though Tyreese did have a daughter named Julie whose storyline turned out much differently.
Cartwright Curse: Both of her boyfriends, Bob and Abraham, die shortly after she enters into a relationship with them.
The Cassandra: She points out that Terminus seems too good to be true when Maggie and Bob are dead set on heading there, and warns that it's more likely to be another Woodbury than the safe haven it purports to be. Naturally, it turns out to be even worse.
Character Death: In "The First Day of the Rest Of Your Life", she takes the cyanide pill Eugene made rather than be used by Negan to hurt her friends, with the intention of coming back as a walker and attacking Negan when the coffin she's being held in is opened.
Character Development: The vast bulk of her development revolves around her coping with the deaths of her loved ones, and her nearly fatal battle with depression. Once she recovers, she notably gets up much faster than before after Abraham's death, proving just how stable she has become even in the wake of her boyfriend's death.
Cold Sniper: Sasha's the best shot of the whole group and comes across as this to anyone she doesn't trust, especially after Tyreese's death and their admission to Alexandria. She's more of a Friendly Sniper with some the group, though.
Composite Character: All her role starting Season 5 originally belongs to Andrea in the comics, particularly the death of a significant other during the "Fear the Hunters" arc as well as becoming the group's resident sniper. Also, since Michonne receives the Adaptational Nice Guy treatment, Sasha gets her comic counterpart's storyline of being paranoid and out of place when the group arrives at Alexandria. Starting in Season 6 she picks up Holly's place as the girl Abraham leaves Rosita for, and ends up taking Holly's comic book death in the Season 7 finale, being the surprise walker captured by Negan at the start of "All-Out War."
The Cynic: Her experience at Woodbury and the fall of the prison make her skeptical about the signs for Terminus promising safe-haven. While Maggie and Bob want to push on to Terminus to find safety and maybe other members of their group, Sasha doesn't believe they will ever find the others again and simply wants to find a safe building and stay put. Her reaction to Alexandria is similar, but compounded even more so by the recent deaths of Bob, Beth, and Tyreese.
Dead Person Conversation: She appears in Season 9 as a hallucination to a badly wounded Rick.
Death Seeker: Towards the end of Season 5 until Maggie helps her recover. In "Forget", when she hallucinates hearing walkers nearby she simply sits down and says "Come and get me."
Despair Event Horizon: Just as she's starting to cope with Bob's death thanks to Tyreese, he then gets killed, and she's visibly devastated and can barely manage to stand at his funeral.
Determinator: While stuck in quarantine she fights through her own sickness to assist Hershel in treating others who have fallen ill until she literally passes out from exhaustion and dehydration. When Abraham dies, she nevertheless gets up far quicker than you'd expect when she realizes there is still work to be done, and that she must follow Abraham's example of valor.
Dreaming of Things to Come: Sasha had a dream about Abraham dying literally hours before he was killed by Negan. His death by drowning in the ocean in the dream also foreshadowed the group's involvement at Oceanside.
Driven to Suicide: After Eugene gives her cyanide pills he made in response to Sasha's offer of a weapon to kill Negan with, she instead takes one of them, knowing that Negan will use her to hurt her friends.
Dude Magnet: Sasha is an intelligent, good-hearted and beautiful woman who attracts the attention of Bob, Spencer, and Abraham; as well as, unfortunately, Gregory, Negan and the Savior David. Gareth also refers to her as "the pretty one" to taunt Bob.
Exact Words: When Negan informs Sasha of his plan to use her to force Alexandria to surrender, he tells her that three of their people will have to die as retribution for rebelling against the Saviors. When met with resistance from Sasha, Negan walks it back to just one person needing to die. Sasha seemingly relents to this, because she plans to become the "one person" from Alexandria who will die during the exchange, in order to prevent Negan from using her to harm her people.
Extreme Mêlée Revenge: She did not hold back when she stabbed Martin to death.
Friendship Moment: In "Try" where Michone and Rosita search for Sasha, quickly determining that she was hunting walkers and even fighting alongside each other and saving Sasha in the process. Though their efforts went in vain, they at least tried to comfort Sasha and bring her back to reality.
Heroic Suicide: Read Character Death up above.
Hot-Blooded: She gets riled-up easily until she is able to recover from the deaths of her brother and boyfriend by the end of Season 5.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With her brother. A romantic example occurs with Abraham once they get together.
I Can Still Fight!: It takes a lot of cajoling by Hershel to convince her that she needs to take rests while she is sick..
Improvised Weapon:
- When her gun jams in "30 Days Without An Accident" during a fight against walkers in a department store, Sasha grabs a pool cue, breaks it in half, and begins killing walkers with both halves.
- In the latter half of Season 4, she uses a long sharpened stick she made herself as her primary melee weapon.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sasha can be pretty snarky at times, calling her friends idiots in a nonchalant way, but apart from that, she is a good person.
The Lancer: She is her brother's most trusted teammate and the second most capable fighter of her team after him, but also has a much more confrontational personality than he does. She also becomes one to Maggie at Hilltop in Season 7.
The Leader: In Season 4, she is part of a council that runs the group at the prison, alongside Daryl, Carol, Glenn, and Hershel.
Love Triangle: In Season 6, Abraham develops a crush on her while he is still in a relationship with Rosita, and while Sasha is interested, she doesn't reciprocate until he wises up about his Entitled to Have You tendencies and breaks up with Rosita.
Named by the Adaptation: Sort of. Though she doesn't appear in the comics, her brother Tyreese, and therefore her, is given the surname "Williams" in the show.
Odd Friendship: Develops one with Abraham in Season 6, though they end up getting together at the end of the season.
One-Woman Army: Staying in the guard tower at Alexandria makes her an extremely good shot. Best shown in "Try" when she effortlessly mows down a large group of walkers with only a little help from Michonne and Rosita.
Out of Focus: Though she's added to the main cast in Season 6, she receives little development and the majority of her main arc regarding getting together with Abraham by and large revolves around him over her. She does get some more focus in the last quarter of Season 7B, which turns out to be A Death in the Limelight, as she dies in the finale.
Promotion to Opening Titles: She is added to the opening titles for Season 6.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Tyreese's blue.
Sanity Slippage: Bob's death starts sending her down this path, but Tyreese's death is really when it happens; she becomes reckless and paranoid, finding it impossible to fit in at Alexandria. In "Conquer", she lies in a pile of dead walkers for no reason. Fortunately, Maggie is able to bring her back from the brink.
Satellite Character: Her development in Season 6 revolves around her friendship with Abraham which eventually leads to the two of them getting together (and even then more focus is put on him than her). In Season 7, her characterization primarily relies on being hated by Rosita and being friends with Maggie, with little development on her own.
Scarf of Asskicking: Starts wearing one in Season 4.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: By the time the group reaches Alexandria, Sasha is a reckless, paranoid wreck who is having auditory hallucinations of walkers and a severe panic attack at Deanna's welcome party. She gets over it in Season 6.
Ship Tease: With Bob. They had a Relationship Upgrade in Season 5. In Season 6 she starts developing this with Abraham, until he directly propositions her in "Always Accountable". However, she doesn't seem too interested in him, and begins visibly trying to distance herself from him in "Knots Untie". It isn't until Abraham apologizes for his Entitled to Have You attitude and says he's totally cool if she doesn't decide to get together with him, that she finally gives him a chance.
Shovel Strike: Originally appeared with a shovel as her weapon.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She fell for Bob, probably the sweetest member of the post-prison survivors. Later, she doesn't agree to give Abraham a chance until he matures and apologizes for coming on too strong.
Sixth Ranger: Subverted at first, but played straight at the end of Season 3.
Sole Survivor: Of her family after Tyreese's death, and the only surviving character on this page until the Season 7 finale.
Suicide Mission: She and Rosita team up to kill Negan, despite knowing that they'll probably still die if they succeed. Ultimately, Sasha decides to go charging into the Sanctuary by herself, convincing Rosita that Rick still needs her and to get ready for what comes after. She survives but is taken prisoner and ultimately kills herself with the cyanide pill Eugene made to hopefully bite Negan after she turns. She doesn't, but succeeds in turning an otherwise hopeless situation in Rick's favor.
Those Two Guys: With Tyreese in Season 3. Averted from Season 4 onward when they develop into more distinct characters.
Took a Level in Badass: In late Season 5, Sasha spends a lot of her time slaughtering walkers and working on her aim, and it pays off as she quickly becomes the group's best shot.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Her Sanity Slippage in Season 5 makes her extremely abrasive and antisocial. She gets better in Season 6.
Took a Level in Kindness: She starts to grow out of her Sanity Slippage in Season 6 and becomes much more calm and reasonable.
Tragic Keepsake: Starts wearing the late Bob Stookey's jacket after his death.
Trauma Conga Line: Early in Season 5, Bob dies just as she is starting to form a genuine relationship with him. A couple episodes later, her brother Tyreese dies. It has not done wonders for her sanity.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: Holy hell; when she, Rick, Michonne, and Abraham lured the Terminus survivors to the church after they chopped Bob's leg off for a meal and dropped him at their doorstep, she turned Martin into a human pincushion. Tyreese is reasonably horrified by this.
Weapon-Based Characterization: Sasha initially uses a shovel, reflecting how she and her original group are always looking to build/find their own place. After the deaths of those closest to her, she begins using a silenced sniper rifle, which is fitting for a person who has become detached, cold and quiet. She stops using it after recovering in Season 6.

Allen

Portrayed By: Daniel Thomas May

Voiced By: Luis Reina (Spanish dub), Peter Flechtner (German dub), Jean-Marie Lamour (French dub), Guido Di Naccio (Italian dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Seasons 3, 4 ^noteCorpse, flashback)

Debut: "Made to Suffer"

Allen is Donna's husband. He and his family were the first survivors to join Tyreese and his sister. After they join Woodbury, Allen joins the Governor's militia and adapts easily to the job. He is killed by the Governor when he massacres the militia.

Abled in the Adaptation: His comic counterpart gets his leg chopped-off before he was mercy killed (both done by Rick). Here he dies with his full body intact.
Adaptational Late Appearance: He debuted during the Prison Arc whereas he got a Second Episode Introduction in the source material.
Adaptational Curves: His comicbook counterpart is fatter.
Adaptational Villainy: The guy is a douchebag compared to his comic counterpart.
Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel sorry for him considering how much of a dick he was.
Boom, Headshot!: Gets shot by the Governor after drawing a gun on him after the Governor killed the rest of the Woodbury militia.
Composite Character: Some of his more violent traits seem to stem from comic-Tyreese's unnamed best friend, whom according to Tyreese had tried to kill him some weeks before meeting the group.
Crusading Widower: His wife died in their debut, and his grief/desire to protect his son motivates many of the actions he takes afterward.
Death Seeker: When Tyreese holds him near the Woodbury Walker pit, he yells at Tyreese to drop him.
Decomposite Character: He's an In Name Only character and his important characterizations from the comics were given to two not-so Canon Foreigner characters; Morales was given the role of the Atlanta group's original family man member, while Ryan Samuels was given his role of a dying father who left his two children for the group.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He gets killed by the Governor for standing up against him instead of blood loss from a Life-or-Limb Decision and eventual Mercy Kill by Rick.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He did genuinely love his wife and son.
Even Evil Has Standards: He draws his gun after showing disgust at the Governor gunning down the Woodbury militia. It doesn't do him much good, however, and the Governor shoots him in the head.
Green-Eyed Monster: He is jealous that his wife looked to Tyreese for protection after he saved Donna's life.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: Right when he sees The Governor for what he truly is and draws his gun on him, he's killed.
In Name Only: Pretty much the only similarity he has with his comic book counterpart is his name.
Jerkass: Is generally rude and unpleasant to everyone except for his family.
Love Makes You Evil: To be fair, he only started acting maliciously after failing to protect his wife.
Outliving One's Offspring: Ben dies in Merle's ambush of the Woodbury militia, which Allen blames on the prison survivors and motivates him to seek revenge on them.
The Social Darwinist: Flavor 4: he thinks that society had degraded to the point where only the fit survive, and sees that as enough justification to take over the prison.
Sour Supporter: For Tyreese.
Spared by the Adaptation: Justified as he debuted much later than his comic counterpart. When he dies in Season 3 finale, it's much later in the timeline compared to his death in the comics. In the source material he died during the Greene farm Arc which was covered in Season 2, whereas in this version he debuted during the Prison Arc in Season 3. Ryan Samuels actually suffers the death Allen had in the comics, but it happens in the Season 4 premiere.
Too Dumb to Live: Pulls his gun out on The Governor right after the latter kills the Woodbury Militia, and instead of shooting him right there he hesitates and does nothing. This predictably gets him killed a few seconds later.
Token Evil Teammate: The most malicious and ill-minded member of Tyreese's group.
Underestimating Badassery: Badly underestimates Carl, had he gone through with his plan to take the prison he likely would have been shot for his troubles.
Ungrateful Bastard: Despite all the help the group gave him and the others, he wants to try and take their weapons and the prison for themselves. He also hates Tyreese for saving Donna's life prior to their introduction to the show.
Would Harm a Senior: He pointed out that one of the prison residents is an old man (Hershel), whom he didn't mind to eliminate if he had to take over the prison.
Would Hurt a Child: Yes, yes he would. When he suggests Tyreese and Sasha in order to take over the prison that they would need to kill everyone living there, they call him out on this after pointing out that there was a baby in the mix as well.

Ben

Portrayed By: Tyler Chase

Voiced By: Jan Makino (German dub), Romain Altché (French dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 3)

Debut: "Made to Suffer"

Ben is the son of Allen and Donna. He joins the Woodbury militia alongside his father. He is shot and killed by Merle when the militia is ambushed by him.

Abled in the Adaptation: Thanks to being In Name Only and Decomposite Character, he did not underwent his comic counterpart's Sanity Slippage.
Accidental Murder: Zig-Zagged. Merle was aiming for The Governor when Ben accidentally blocked his shot, but the actual plan aside from killing The Governor is to take out as many Woodbury militia as he can.
Adaptation Dye-Job: His comic counterpart is blond.
Adaptation Personality Change: Due to being In Name Only and Decomposite Character. His comic counterpart ended up being an Enfant Terrible who murders his own brother and doesn't realize it. This version is basically just doing typical survivor stuff such as fighting walkers and other survivors who get in their way and doesn't mind becoming Ungrateful Bastard, either.
Adaptational Late Appearance: He debuted during the Prison Arc whereas he got a Second Episode Introduction in the source material. Same goes for his direct counterpart, Lizzie.
Age Lift: From around 6 or 7 years old in the comic to a teenager in the show.
Coincidental Dodge: Inverted, he coincidentally wanders into Merle's aim, taking a bullet meant for the Governor completely by chance.
Composite Character: Possibly. He has a twin brother in the comic books, but he's the only child here.
Death by Adaptation: He dies during the height of the Prison Arc near the end of Season 3 while his comic book counterpart was executed by Carl around the cannibals arc (adapted towards the end of Season 4).
Decomposite Character: His Character Development from the comics, specifically the Creepy Child/Enfant Terrible storyline, was given to Dark Action Girl Lizzie Samuels for the show.
Demoted to Extra: His comic counterpart is The Rival of sorts to Carl. Here, he is a Mauve Shirt who is killed off before any Character Development.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He dies in via Merle's Accidental Murder instead of getting executed by Carl.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Gets shot in the neck by Merle during his ambush of the Governor's men.
In Name Only: The only thing he has in common with his comic book counterpart is his name. The character of Lizzie from Season 4 is the comic book character's true counterpart.
Like Father, Like Son: He is actually nodding in approval for his father's Ungrateful Bastardness.
Machete Mayhem: Uses a machete to dispatch a walker in the scene he is introduced in, but loses it when the walker collapses and it gets stuck in the walker's head.
Mauve Shirt: Killed off by Merle in "This Sorrowful Life".
Ungrateful Bastard: Like his dad, he wants to take over the prison before getting kicked out and joins the Woodbury army to fight the prison group, despite them having saved them previously.
Yes-Man: To his father.

Donna

Portrayed By: Cherie Dvorak

Voiced By: Ana Jiménez (Spanish dub)

Appearances: The Walking Dead (Season 3)

Debut: "Made to Suffer"

Donna is Allen's wife. She is bitten just before their group finds the prison, succumbing to the bite after the group makes it inside.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Donna is blond in the comics.
Adaptational Attractiveness: Her comic book counterpart is an old-looking woman with short blond hair.
Adaptational Late Appearance: She debuted during the Prison Arc whereas she debuted in the third issue of the source material.
Ambiguously Brown: While Donna was white in the comics, this Donna appears to be Hispanic or of mixed ancestry. Her actress is white according to Walking Dead Wiki, however.
Death by Adaptation: An odd version. She's around much shorter than her comic incarnation, but dies much later in the timeline.
Demoted to Extra: In the comics, Donna was around for the first arc and a half before being killed.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: She's Devoured by the Horde in the source material but is bitten and eventually mercy killed by Tyreese in the show.
The Load: Done nothing for the group except attracting more walkers by screaming a lot.
Pink Means Feminine: Her clothes are pink.
Red Shirt: Given none of the characterization her comic book counterpart received.
Screaming Woman: She screams a lot for most of her screentime. First during Tyreese and Sasha's introductory scene where they near-effortlessly kill some walkers, she's screaming while her husband and son attempt to drive the walkers away. After she's bitten and they enter the prison, the only reason why Carl found them is her scream.
Zombie Infectee: Gets bitten in the woods outside of the prison and dies of the bite shortly after Carl finds the group.

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