Characters from Hershel's Farm in the comic series The Walking Dead:
The second large group of survivors encountered by Rick, Hershel and his family live on his small, enclosed farm in Georgia, the setting of a large portion of the second volume of the comic. They are met shortly after the group meets Tyreese, his daughter Julie and her boyfriend Chris on the road out of Atlanta.
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Tyreese's Group
Tyreese
Tyreese
- Debut: Issue 7
Tyreese is a former professional football player who joins the group with his daughter and her boyfriend at the start of the second volume. He and Rick become quick friends, and Tyreese takes up a secondary leadership position in the group. He is captured and executed by the Governor in Issue 46.
- Action Dad: Is a father and kicks a lot of ass.
- Bash Brothers: With Rick.
- The Big Guy: For the group overall.
- Career-Ending Injury: In his backstory.
- Celebrity Survivor: Subverted: he used to be a pro football player, but he was already washed up by the time of the Zombie Apocalypse. He and Michonne both admit he wasn't even very good.
- Close-Range Combatant: Downplayed. He's a terrible shot but makes up for it by being good with a hammer.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The Governor tries to cut Tyreese's head off with Michonne's katana, but when he can only get the blade halfway through Tyreese's neck, he's forced to slowly saw through the rest. This takes several panels and Tyreese is still alive for most of it.
- Defiant to the End: The Governor takes him hostage and tries to use him as leverage to get inside the prison, but even as a katana is being held to his throat he still screams for Rick not to let him in. This leads to the Governor killing him in a rage.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: He's worthless with a gun. Fortunately, he swings a mean carpentry hammer.
- The Lancer: To Rick.
- Lightning Bruiser: Moves quickly and deals a lot of damage.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Gets left in a room full of zombies armed only with a hammer. When they come back to retrieve his body, he's alive and unbitten, all the zombies are dead.
- Off with His Head!: Which reanimates and is put down by Michonne.
- Papa Wolf: Towards Julie. Best shown when he discovers that Chris killed Julie in a botched suicide pact. He strangles Chris to death, and then allows him to reanimate so he can kill him again, but slower.
- Please Wake Up: Begs for Julie to "come back." Of course, she does, just not how he was hoping.
Julie
Julie
- Debut: Issue 7
Julie is Tyreese's daughter. She has a relationship with Chris, and the two vow to have a Suicide Pact. However, it goes terribly wrong, and Chris ends up killing her, letting her die in Tyreese's arms, and then shooting her again once she reanimates.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: Reanimates in Tyreese's arms after being shot.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies in her father's arms and then reanimates as a zombie which causes Chris to put her down a second time. As expected, Tyreese does not take this turn of events very well...
- Driven to Suicide/Suicide Pact: In Issue 14, we discover that Chris and Julie have formed a suicide pact and plan to kill each other simultaneously.
- Mutual Kill: Well, it was supposed to be.
- Nice Girl: In the limited screen time she gets alone, she appears to be somewhat kind. However...
- Corrupt the Cutie: Hanging around with Chris has this effect with her, eventually leading her to form a Suicide Pact with him.
- Not-So-Badass Longcoat: Wears a longcoat but isn't much of a fighter.
- Sex Signals Death: She is killed shortly after making love to Chris for the first time.
- Together in Death: She forms a suicide pact with Chris so they can be "together forever", but it doesn't exactly work out the way they wanted it to...
Chris
Chris
- Debut: Issue 7
Chris is Julie's boyfriend.
- Asshole Victim: No one felt particularly sad over his death, considering how much of a prick he was.
- Driven to Suicide: Was in a suicide pact with Julie, though in the end he fires too early and is killed by an enraged Tyreese.
- Interrupted Suicide: By himself by accident.
- Jerkass: Acts rude and entitled to pretty much everyone except for Julie.
- Not-So-Badass Longcoat: Same deal as Julie.
- Sanity Slippage: Goes through enough to form a suicide pact with Julie.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Carl even lampshades it.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He gets mad when assigned babysitting duty instead of being allowed to help Rick and the others kill zombies and thinks he should be out there fighting alongside them just because he's almost an adult and not a completely horrible shot with a gun.
- Suicide Pact: Plans one with Julie, but it goes horribly wrong...
- Teens Are Monsters: He plans on both him and his girlfriend Julie committing suicide rather than put up with the new life they've found themselves in and actually convinces her to go through with it. Ultimately, he only succeeds in killing Tyreese's daughter which soon leads to his own death after he puts her zombie down right in front of her father.
- Together in Death: The reason why he and Julie formed a Suicide Pact. He's horrified when he shoots her too early, as now they won't be able to be together forever.
Greene Family
Hershel
Hershel Greene
- Debut: Issue 10
Hershel is the highly religious owner of a small farm in Georgia, where he and his family stayed with two friends when the Zombie Apocalypse began. Although his initial meeting with Rick's group was tense, he and his family joined them at the prison for safety.
- Abusive Dad: Beats Billy for talking back to him.
- As the Good Book Says...: Following Billy blaming him for Rachel and Suise's deaths by moving them to the prison, Hershel beats him, claiming that the Bible says they are supposed to "Honor they mother and father", and that he will go to hell if he talks back to him again.
- Boom, Headshot!: By the Governor.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: He does not approve of Glenn's relationship with Maggie at first. However, he cools down over time and even becomes a father figure for Glenn.
- Closest Thing We Got: Due to being the most devout person at the prison he officiates Maggie and Glenn's wedding.
- Death Seeker: After witnessing the deaths of his wife and about 85% of his children (excluding Maggie), Hershel just kneels over Billy's corpse and begs for someone to kill him. The Governor obliges with a Boom, Headshot!
- Despair Event Horizon: After Billy's death he shuts down and surrenders his life to the Woodbury soldiers.
- Driven to Suicide: Puts a gun to his head after the zombies in his barn escape and kill Lacey and Arnold, blaming himself for their deaths. Rick pulls it away from his head before Hershel can pull the trigger. It happens again in issue 48, as after seeing Billy killed right before his eyes, combined with his other children who died earlier, he gives up on life, stays behind at the prison and lets the Governor kill him without struggle.
- Doesn't Like Guns: Though he'll use them when he has to.
- The Fundamentalist: Although he does loosen up with time, saying that if God's put them in a world where they have to sin to survive, then so be it.
- Heroic BSoD: Several times. The last one leads to his death, after witnessing Billy dying in front of him breaks the last of his spirit and he asks the Governor to kill him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be extremely mean to his children, particularly Billy, and an outright asshole to other survivors if they annoy or anger him. However, his heart is normally in the right place, and he lightens up some throughout the series.
- The Medic: due to his experiences as a veterinarian he's able to provide medical expertise when needed.
- Not So Above It All: While he normally disapproves of cursing, make him mad enough and he'll start dropping f-bombs.
- Odd Friendship: Eventually forges one with Axel, teaching him how to farm.
- Papa Wolf: His children are his top priority.
- Serious Business: Don't joke about Hell in front of him.
- Staking the Loved One: Puts down three of his children at the end of the barn massacre: Shawn, who was already a zombie, plus Lacey and Arnold, who were killed during the zombie attack.
- Token Religious Teammate: This is why Glenn decides to have him as a priest when he proposes to Maggie.
- Trauma Conga Line: His ever decreasing number of children. First Arnold and Lacey are killed in the barn incident, then Rachel and Susie are found dead at the prison, and finally Billy getting killed in front of him, and Hershel giving up all hope and will to live despite Maggie still being alive.
- Would Hit a Girl: He was about to smack Lori in the face after she gives him a What the Hell, Hero? for planning to kick the group off his farm once Carl recovers.
- Zombie Advocate: He believes they are just sick people, and is horrified when he learns Rick's group has been killing zombies. Instead, keeps any that wonder onto his farm in his barn, hoping that hey will recover. After Lacey and Arnold get eaten, he quickly changes his mind.
Maggie
Maggie Greene
- Debut: Issue 10
Maggie is Hershel's fourth child and second daughter. She began a relationship with Glenn soon after meeting him, and they eventually married at the prison. She is currently pregnant with his child, although Glenn gets murdered by the Saviors shortly after they discover this.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Her execution of Thomas Richards and her takeover of the Hilltop from Gregory prove that she is not somebody to mess with.
- In issue 141 she orders Gregory to be publicly hanged after he tried to kill her.
- Break the Cutie: She loses every single member of her family by the time the prison arc is over, and loses Glenn to the Saviors several months later.
- The Cutie: Though she becomes more hardened over time.
- Exact Words: In #160, she tells Dante that while she "likes" him, she'll never love anyone besides Glenn. In #174, she kisses Dante, appearing to be at least willing to give him a chance even if she may never love him like Glenn.
- Farmer's Daughter: She is the daughter of Hershel, who is a farmer.
- Happily Married: To Glenn.
- Heroic BSoD: After the last of her family dies.
- Hypocrite: She agrees with Rick allowing Negan to live despite the fact that he beat her husband to death with a baseball bat right in front of her, yet when Gregory attempts to poison her she almost immediately agrees with Jesus that he must be executed. The fact that that her reason for doing it (fear of Gregory's popularity among the Hilltop citizens, despite everyone hating his guts) and the method used to carry it out (hanging, which Maggie herself had experienced first hand when she attempted to take her own life) has only reinforced this perspective in the eyes of many fans. In #174, however, Negan correctly deduces that Maggie was not happy about Rick's decision to spare him.
- Interrupted Suicide: She tries hanging herself after losing all of her family, but gets cut down and survives. She later comes to regret it as a moment of weakness.
- The Leader: Becomes the head of the Hilltop during All Out War.
- The Mourning After: Flat out says in #160 that she will never love anyone other than Glenn, more than two years after his death. In #174, however, she kisses Dante and seems to reciprocate his attraction to her.
- Parental Neglect: Despite her best efforts she fully admits after the Time Skip that Hersel Jr. ended up the way he did because she was too busy being the President of the Commonwealth to raise him properly.
- Pregnant Badass: In "All Out War" she takes part in fighting the Saviors while heavily pregnant.
- Put on a Bus: She moved to the Hilltop with Sophia in issue 101.
- The Bus Came Back:Returns to the main plot in Volume 19.
- Sole Survivor: She's the last surviving member of her family.
- Took a Level in Badass: In "All Out War", Maggie takes over the Hilltop from Gregory and leads an army to assist Rick in fighting the Saviors, showing up at Alexandria armed to the teeth and chasing Negan's forces away.
- Walking Spoiler: She's been around since the comic's tenth issue and stuck around to the very end so its understandably hard to talk about her without bringing up a lot of spoilers such as the death of her entire family, her relationship with Glenn, Glenn's death, their child, her becoming leader of the Hilltop Colony or her eventually becoming President of the Commonwealth.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Starts beating the crap out of Rick after Glenn is murdered by the Saviors, berating him for doing nothing to stop it, despite them being surrounded by fifty armed men. This was mostly fueled by grief, and they part civilly at the Hilltop when she decides to stay with Sophia.
Billy
Billy Greene
- Debut: Issue 10
Billy is Hershel's fifth child and third son. He worked as a farm hand for his father and helps his father plant crops at the prison.
- Badasses Wear Bandanas: He is never seen without a headband on.
- Boom, Headshot!: By a Woodbury soldier.
- Friendly Sniper: Turns out to be an excellent shot.
- It's All About Me: His reaction to Carol committing suicide right after seducing him is "Why would she do that to me?"
- Kill the Cutie: He was one of the nicer characters.
- Mauve Shirt: Besides Maggie, who becomes a major and long-running character, Billy is the longest surviving and the most fleshed out of the Greene children (though that's not saying much).
- Perma-Stubble: Has one.
- Sweet Tooth: When talking to Otis he says that fruit and vegetables all taste the same to him, but that if he knew where a candy bar was within walking distance that he'd hop the prison fence and make a run for it.
Rachel and Susie
Rachel Greene and Susie Greene
- Debut: Issue 10
Rachel and Susie are twin girls and Hershel's youngest children. Murdered by Thomas Richards at the prison.
- Girlish Pigtails: Susie.
- Mercy Kill: Glenn shoots their reanimated heads.
- Off with Her Head!: Thomas Richards cuts off both their heads with a knife.
- Single-Minded Twins: They are always seen together and are practically a single character.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We learn virtually nothing about them before they die.
Lacey
Lacey Greene
- Debut: Issue 10
Lacey is Hershel's third child and oldest daughter. She is eaten by zombies when they break out of the barn.
- Bookworm: About the only thing we learn about her is that she has a lot of books.
- Deadpan Snarker: Her "tour" of the farm with Rick's group is particularly snarky:Lacey: This is our yard... if you'll follow me around back, I'll show you our backyard.
- Eaten Alive: She is caught in the middle of the zombies when they broke out of the barn, and is quickly swarmed and partially eaten.
- Gutted Like a Fish: The zombies tear into her stomach and pull her guts out.
- Red Shirt: Doesn't have many lines or much characterisation before getting killed in her second appearance.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in Issue 11.
Arnold
Arnold Greene
- Debut: Issue 10
Arnold is Hershel's second child and son. He is eaten by his zombified brother Shawn when the zombies break out of the barn.
- Berserk Button: When his father is attacked by zombies in Issue 11, leading to an Unstoppable Rage.
- Red Shirt: Doesn't have many lines or much characterisation before getting killed in his second appearance.
- Too Dumb to Live: Tries to punch a zombie to death while turning his back on several others a couple feet behind him. It isn't very surprising when he gets chomped on.
- Unstoppable Rage: "NOT MY FATHER! NOT MY FATHER!" Unfortunately, he gets so wrapped up in pummeling that zombie he doesn't notice his undead brother coming up behind him.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in Issue 11.
Shawn
Shawn Greene
Click here to see Shawn prior to reanimating
- Debut: Issue 11
Hershel's first child. See the video game series characters page for more information on him.
- Dead All Along: He died early into “A New Day”, being indirectly killed by Kenny’s son, Duck.
- Zombie Infectee: He died and reanimated as a zombie. Hershel keeps him in the barn, but he ends up killing his brother Arnold.
Other Farm Survivors
Otis
Otis
- Debut: Issue 9
Otis is a friend of Hershel who joined him at the farm with his girlfriend Patricia.
- And Then Otis Was A Zombie: Killed and reanimated when the prison yard is overran.
- Death by Racism: Refers to Dexter and Andrew as "a couple niggers" after a black woman saves his life. He dies offscreen in Volume 6.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: One of only two named characters so far to die entirely off-panel, only mentioned after Rick kills his zombie, and doesn't get a funeral scene, either. It's mentioned that no one liked him very much.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: As a zombie, only his torso remains.
- Put on a Bus: When he goes back to Hershel's farm to hold the fort. He is the only character who doesn't return to the group in the following volume.
- The Bus Came Back: He does however follow the group's trail to the prison at the start of Volume 4.
- Reckless Gun Usage: His shooting of Carl, when he thought he, Rick, and Tyresse were zombies, even though they were talking and carry weapons.
- Shovel Strike: Briefly uses a shovel as a weapon when he can't get inside the prison and is surrounded by zombies in Volume 4. Luckily, Michonne was nearby at the time and saved him.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Initially, he feels awful about shooting Carl, tries to help Hershel stay on the moral path, and has a very civil conversation with African American Tyreese. After he comes to the prison from staying at the farm, he abruptly begins acting racist.
Patricia
Patricia
- Debut: Issue 10
Patricia is Otis' girlfriend.
- AB Negative: The one really useful thing she does is donate blood to Rick, since she's type O-.
- Boom, Headshot!: Courtesy of Woodbury soldiers during the prison attack.
- Dumb Blond: Just read her other tropes to see all the stupid shit she does.
- Horrible Judge of Character: First, she freed Thomas Richards after he was imprisoned for killing Hershel's twins, and was surprised when he tried to kill her. Then she sided with Dexter and Andrew when they tried to take over the prison.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Every other death during the prison battle had at least some impact, but all Patricia got was a shocked look from Billy as she was shot through the head and then was literally never mentioned again.
- Lethally Stupid: Even out of mercy, freeing a Serial Killer while your friends are sleeping is NOT a good idea.
- The Millstone: Not only is she useless, but her stupidity often endangers the other group members.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nice job freeing Thomas from his cell, Patricia. Oh, and congrats on going along with Dexter and Andrew when they try to take over the prison.
- The Scrappy: In-Universe and out; neither the fans nor the other characters liked her much after the above actions, and even her own boyfriend didn't want to talk to her.
- Sex Signals Death: She has sex with Axel right before the Governor attacks the prison and is one of the first casualties of the battle.
- Too Dumb to Live: All the time, and ironically she died as she lived. Her failure to realize that it's probably not a good idea to leave yourself exposed while dozens of men are shooting at you results in her own death.
Hershel II
Hershel Greene II
Click here for his appearance in “The Farm House”''
- Debut: Issue 130
The son of Maggie and Glenn, though tragically Glenn dies before he is born.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: He's a spoiled brat, but he's nowhere near the level of Sebastian Milton, despite comments made to Maggie by her own family. He's very amicable to Carl until he reveals he killed one of his walkers, even being relieved that Carl found it and no one got hurt. Beyond that, the worst act he does all issue is skip out on paying a hotel clerk.
- All for Nothing: After the Time Skip, he goes to great expense to purchase walkers and cart them around the colonies to show off to people in the hope they'll remember the dangers they pose. However, Hershel is blind to the fact that people aren't actually afraid of his freak show attraction and what he's doing trivialises the walkers, making them seem more amusing rather than scary.
- Dead Guy Junior: He is named after his deceased grandfather.
- Foil: Grows up to be one to Carl after the Time Skip. Both were raised in the apocalypse by parents who ended up becoming leaders fundamental in the establishment of the new world order. By the time of the final issue, both he and Carl are pretty much the last people clinging to the old world, both desperately trying to remind people walkers are dangerous and to never forget what they've lost to them. However, while Hershel and Carl would both agree people should remember the danger walkers pose, Carl also realizes he doesn't want his daughter to grow up being scared all the time (which is also what motivated him to begin wearing an eyepatch again). Ultimately, Carl decides to give new generations peace of mind rather than preserve a more visceral sense of what the world went through. Carl also got to know his father growing up whilst Hershel did not, so Hershel clings to the past in an effort to search for a connection to his dad, whilst Carl is able to move forward and wants people to be able to forget about the walking dead.
- Freudian Excuse: When you consider the motivations behind his actions it's not really hard to see why he's kind of a dick.
- His mother had little time for him as he grew up due to her responsibilities, and instead just gave him everything he wanted.
- His position as the son of the ruler of the Commonwealth invites unfair in-universe comparisons to Sebastian Milton who is universally remembered as the kid who murdered Rick Grimes.
- He never knew his father at all and according to him, most people don't even remember Glenn.
- Jerkass: In stark contrast to his father, Hershel is a petty and vindictive brat who gets mad at Carl for protecting his family from a stray walker that he paid a lot of money for.
- Jerkass Has a Point: After Carl is set free for killing all of his walkers, Hershel confronts him about his show, stating that it was never about entertainment, but about reminding people of the dangers that walkers pose, so that they won't get complacent. He also says that the fear he experiences just from being around the walkers is the only thing that connects him to the father he never knew, whose role in helping Rick establish the new world they live in has been largely forgotten by everyone, who continually praise Rick as though he did it single-handedly. Carl is unable to respond to this, realizing that he never considered Hershel's motivations beyond money.
- Like Father, Like Son: When he grows up, he bears more than a passing resemblance to his father, Glenn. Unfortunately, due to never getting to know his father, their personalities couldn't be more opposed.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Carl in the final issue when he and Michonne outlaw the practice of owning and publically displaying zombies."I'm not who you think I am... I'm not some spoiler brat who got whatever he wanted and thinks he's above the law. I built a business... I provided a service. If you get your way, people will forget how things were. You'll see. My show reminded them what was out there. Kept them afraid... made them appreciate what they have. I never met my father. Almost no one remembers him. No one builds statues of him or writes books about what he did. Most of what I know about him is inside me. Who I am... tells me who he was. When I felt the fear of being around those things... I felt like I was feeling what he felt. It felt like I was getting closer to him. Fuck you for what you did."
- Repulsive Ringmaster: How Carl views him at least. He doesn't run an entire circus but he is a morally ambiguous individual that travels town-to-town with a wagon full of walkers he treats like The Freakshow.
- Someone to Remember Him By: Maggie remembers Glenn through him. Deconstructed, as not knowing his dad is the crux of his many issues growing up.
- Spoiled Brat: Played with. He's not quite as bad as Sebastian Milton, but still gives him a pretty good run for his money in how entitled he acts. However, his final "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Carl shows that, from his perspective, Carl is the one entitled to special treatment due to the hero worship his father receives and how Michonne and Maggie give him special considerations when he breaks the law.
- Too Dumb to Live: He's shown to keep live walkers as a sideshow attraction after the time skip. He doesn't even remove their teeth, meaning they could very easily end up biting someone if they got loose. (Which one does. Luckily, Carl kills it before it can harm anyone.)
- We Have Become Complacent: Whilst Carl thinks Hershel is just a selfish Spoiled Brat this trope is his actual motivation behind carting walkers around. He wants people to be ever mindful that these creatures wiped out civilisation and could do it again, which makes sense given that everyone who dies turns into a walker regardless of if they've been bitten or not meaning that anyone who gets careless could potentially cause another outbreak.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: While he doesn't go about it the safest of ways, all he wants deep down is to remind people that the world is still dangerous and feel connected to the father he never knew.
