History Characters / TheWalkingDeadTVShowCarolPeletier

* AxCrazy: Throughout Season 5 and 6, she's displayed signs of this, from threatening to kill [[WouldHurtAChild Sam]] to [[spoiler:slaughtering a defenseless Wolf without even considering interrogation]]; thus really showcasing how much of a toll her hardened personality and secretive pragmatism is taking on her psyche.

* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Grove" and "Consumed" are both very Carol-centric.

* DefrostingIceQueen: After she TookALevelInCynic some time in between season 3 and 4, Carol's starting to grow more and more open after entering the Kingdom, where she makes amend with her initial rival Morgan and forms a newfound friendship with Ezekiel.

* DudeMagnet: Carol does admittedly gain attention from more men than most female characters in the show. So far out of all the men who checked her out, she has had her abusive husband [[TokenEvilTeammate Ed]], her ShipTease moments with [[HiddenHeartOfGold Daryl]], [[DeadpanSnarker Axel]], [[BadassGrandpa Tobin]], and [[TheGoodKing Ezekiel]].

** To, of all people, her comic counterpart. Both were abused by their husbands, and began to snap under the stress of the post-apocalyptic world. However, unlike her comic counterpart, her daughter was the one who died and she never committed suicide. However, as of Seasons 5 and 6, she's displayed numerous signs of becoming more and more unhinged, to the significant boiling point in "Start to Finish," [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero where she ultimately provides a means for the Wolf leader to break free]]]].

* GoodVersusGood: Her ruthless pragmatism clashes with Morgan's pacifistic nature in Season 6. In "Start to Finish", the two actually come to blows over the fate of the Alpha Wolf, ending with Morgan knocking her out. She later says she should have killed him.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's become increasingly cold, but she does care for the safety of her friends.

* TheLoad: Could do little but be a victim on the sidelines for the longest time, but grew out of this after the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3.

* MythologyGag: She's mistaken for gay by Axel. In the comics, there's implication she might be bisexual when she proposes marrying ''both'' Rick and Lori.

* OutOfFocus: Got this a bit in the first half of Season 6, only having a small subplot revolving around her growing feud with Morgan. It comes back in full force in Season 7A, since she's at the Kingdom and only appears in two out of the half-season's eight episodes since most of the action takes place away from the Kingdom.

* PlotArmor: As of Season 6, Robert Kirkman has basically [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/10/18/theres-only-one-character-on-the-walking-dead-the-creator-says-he-wouldnt-kill/#5e66def17b69 confirmed]] that Carol is the character who is currently in the least amount of danger of being killed off.

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Beginning in Season 4.

* ShrinkingViolet: Due to her abusive husband, she is somewhat reserved around others. [[CharacterDevelopment She starts growing out of this in Season 2]], and by Season 3 this trope no longer applies to her.

* SuperWeight: Partly thanks to her PlotArmor, she's a Type VI. Summed up pretty aptly by Rick:
--> '''Rick''': [Carol]'s a force of nature.

!!Due to the AnyoneCanDie nature of the show and quickly moving plots, only spoilers from the current/most recent season will be spoiled out to prevent entire pages of whited out text. These spoiler tags will be removed upon the debut of the following season, and the character bios will be updated then as well. If you have not seen the first six seasons read at your own risk!

After suffering through a lengthy, abusive marriage with her husband Ed, who was also abusive to their daughter Sophia and had began to eye her in a non-fatherly way, she survived the initial stages of the zombie apocalypse with her family. After becoming close companions with the Grimes family, Ed was killed during the walker attack on the camp. After that, Carol became more independent, but the disappearance and later death of her daughter demoralized her again.

However, she has since recovered and started becoming more assertive, taking a larger role in the group as both as shooter and medic. Carol has also established a strong friendship with Daryl and began to deeply care about him after he went out of his way in his search for the missing Sophia in Season 2. After the community in the prison was established, Carol became a member of the council that helped run the group. She was exiled by Rick after killing some of the group in a desperate attempt to stop a plague, and her actions then and later with Lizzie and Mika haunt her to this day.

Carol returns to the group just in time to save them from the cannibals of Terminus, mounting a one-woman assault on the compound and earning back Rick's trust. Upon reintegrating into the group, she becomes one of Rick's closest family members and one of his main advisors as they reach Alexandria, often advising the more ruthless course of action to protect their family.

Despite having trouble facing her own demons, Carol is one of the most changed survivors of the apocalypse. She has proven to be a shrewd tactician whose no-nonsense approach to things makes her a finely oiled killing machine in combat. Given her MamaBear feelings towards the group, you have what even Rick calls a "force of nature" who will do ''anything'' to save or protect her own. Carol is also a brilliant schemer who effortlessly dupes the entirety of Alexandria, hiding her true nature under an innocent, incompetent Stepford wife persona who is more than a few steps ahead of anyone. Carol is forced to abandon her disguise when Alexandria comes under attack. She develops a feud with Morgan over their contrasting ideologies, and exiles herself when regret from her actions convinces her that she has begun doing more harm than good.

* AgeLift: Carol is younger than Rick and Lori in the comicbook.

* BreakoutCharacter: Despite being on the show since the beginning, it wasn't until season 5 that she became this. Her truly amazing siege on Terminus to rescue Rick and the others in the premiere, which included blowing up a fuel tank with a ''firework'', sniping various Termites, and getting in a fight with (and ultimately mercilessly killing) Mary, cemented her as a bonafide badass in the eyes of the fandom.
* BrokenBird: First she gets broken by her husband's abuse, and then Sophia's death. Since then, she's taken numerous levels in badass to become a skilled shooter and valuable member of the group as a secondary medic, but her experiences have left scars. After her confrontation with Morgan in Season 6 when she nearly [[spoiler:killed him, only to get Denise captured by Owen]], she's become severely depressed and now just wants to stop killing, to the point of [[spoiler:going into exile.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: In Season 6, she knows that killing is the only way to protect her family, but she's become extremely weary of taking human lives after the Wolf invasion and her confrontation with Morgan. Because she finds herself unwilling to kill anymore, [[spoiler:she decides to leave the group since she can no longer do what's necessary to protect them.]]

* TheExile: Gets kicked out of the prison by Rick in "Indifference", not appearing again until "Inmates". In Season 6 after breaking down following her confrontation with Morgan and her [[spoiler: abduction by the Saviors, she exiles herself from Alexandria as she's afraid to kill any more.]]

* GoodVersusGood: [[spoiler: Her ruthless pragmatism clashes with Morgan's pacifistic nature in Season 6. In "Start to Finish", the two actually come to blows over the fate of the Alpha Wolf, ending with Morgan knocking her out. She later says she should have killed him.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Enters one during the second half of season 6. [[spoiler:After learning that her actions have begun causing more harm than good, like her threat to Sam getting him and his family killed and her killing the Alpha Wolf while he was saving Denise, she begins to realize how many people she has killed in such a short time and decides she can't do it anymore. She distances herself from the group and runs away to avoid having to kill for them anymore, and whenever she is put in danger she begs her attackers to stop for their own safety.]]

** Telling Morgan that she should've killed him for [[spoiler: [[SaveTheVillain protecting the Alpha Wolf]]]].

** Her systematic killing spree of [[spoiler: half the Wolves.]]
** When she gives [[spoiler: [[SmugSnake Paula]]]] a CruelAndUnusualDeath and BoomHeadshot's [[spoiler: the Savior [[AxCrazy Chelle]]]].

** NotSoStoic: In Season 6, she breaks down crying after the [[spoiler: horrific, mindless slaughter brought upon Alexandria by the Wolves, despite spending most of the episode pushing Morgan to break his ThouShaltNotKill creed.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"''If you want to live, you have to become strong.''"]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:"''If you want to live, you have to become strong.''"]]

However, she has since recovered and started becoming more assertive, taking a larger role in the group as both as shooter and medic. Carol has also established a strong friendship with Daryl and began to deeply care about him after he went out of his way in his search for the missing Sophia in Season 2. After the community in the prison was established, Carol became a member of the council that helped run the group. She is exiled by Rick after killing some of the group in a desperate attempt to stop a plague, and her actions then and later with Lizzie and Mika haunt her to this day.

** Similarly, in "Start To Finish," the knife she brought in an attempt to kill [[spoiler:the Wolf that Morgan had tied up]] is how [[spoiler:he not only gets free, but manages to escape Alexandria with not just a loaded gun, but Denise as a hostage]].
** Another example in "Start to Finish" regarding Sam. Threatening to leave him to die alone in the woods may have gotten her access to the guns, but it takes a ''devastating'' toll on the kid's sanity and he's later seen drawing pictures of him being eaten by walkers. She triggered a SanitySlippage that ends up putting Rick and the others in great peril [[spoiler: when the herd invades Alexandria. In "No Way Out", the poor kid is so traumatized by her threat that he freezes up and breaks down, and is then EatenAlive as Carol threatened him. This then leads to the death of Jessie and then Carl ''losing an eye''. She seems to realize her part in Sam's death, as she later pays his grave a visit and leaves a cookie there]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Carol deliberately plays the role of a chipper, ditzy [[NonActionGuy housewife]] while the group stays at Alexandria. As Carol points out, the best part about staying at Alexandria is that she can be invisible. She ends the charade when she's forced to take action when Alexandria faces the threats of the Wolves and the walker herd. Towards the end of the season, she realizes she really ''does'' want to be a sweet, well-adjusted housewife and TeamMom to Alexandria, though. She employs the old housewife charade when she's threatened by Saviors, and both times [[spoiler: she almost utterly destroys them.]]

* OneManArmy: As of Season 5, Carol now has one of the largest body counts on the show, as she arranged the deaths of most of Terminus by directing a herd into the compound. In Season 6, she leads the retaliation against the [[spoiler: Wolves' assault on Alexandria, slaughtering many of them and securing the armory by herself while disguised as one of the Wolves.]]
* OutOfFocus: Got this a bit in the first half of Season 6, though nowhere near as bad as Daryl.

* ShipTease: Besides her ambiguous situation with Daryl, she seems to get a crush on [[spoiler: Tobin, enters a relationship with him in "Not Tomorrow Yet" and they sleep together before she leaves Alexandria.]]
** Ezekiel gets added to that list when he offers her a chance to live in the Kingdom and frequently visits to bond with her.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: So far, she managed to stay alive longer than her comic counterpart, who committed suicide before the Woodbury attack on the prison, thanks to her {{Adaptational Badass}}ness.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Admittedly, her views on [[BadassPacifist Morgan]].

* WouldHurtAChild: She kills Lizzie, as she views her as too much of a threat to Judith. It crushes her soul to have to go through with it.
** There's also her very wordy, albeit terrifying threat to Sam, saying that if he didn't forget that she was taking guns, [[KickTheDog she'd abduct him in his sleep and tie him to a tree outside the walls of Alexandria where he'd be eaten alive.]] [[spoiler: Her later, very solemn visit to his grave implies she was bluffing.]]

* {{Xenafication}}: In the beginning of the series, Carol was a ShrinkingViolet who was abused by her husband, emotionally fragile, and not very useful to the group in terms of combat. However, after season 3 onward she evolved into a OneWomanArmy who wasn't afraid to slaughter enormous groups of walkers, human villains, and did the hard jobs that others wouldn't go through with.

!!Due to the AnyoneCanDie nature of the show and quickly moving plots, only spoilers from the current/most recent season will be spoiled out to prevent entire pages of whited out text. These spoiler tags will be removed upon the debut of the following season, and the character bios will be updated then as well. If you have not seen the first five seasons read at your own risk!

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[[caption-width-right:350:"''If you want to live, you have to become strong.''"]]

* WhyGrannyWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: For a woman her age, Carol is rather beautiful and even has a few guys who dig her in and out of universe.

* WhyGrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: For a woman her age, Carol is rather beautiful and even has a few guys who dig her in and out of universe.

* DeathSeeker: Strongly implied in the sixth season finale when [[spoiler: Roman is torturing her and she simply laughs happily that she's going to die. Additionally, she earlier had rejected Morgan's attempts to bring her back to Alexandria to get her medical treatment that could save her life.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Seeing the undead Sophia walking out of the barn. Daryl has to stop Carol from running to her. Later, [[spoiler:nearly being forced to kill Morgan only to discover she was responsible for Denise's capture and the Anderson family's death seems to have done it again.]]

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Despite having trouble facing her own demons, Carol is one of the most changed survivors of the apocalypse. She has proven to be a shrewd tactician whose no-nonsense approach to things makes her a finely oiled killing machine in combat. Given her MamaBear feelings towards the group, you have what even Rick calls a "force of nature" who will do ''anything'' to save or protect her own. Carol is also a brilliant schemer who effortlessly dupes the entirety of Alexandria, hiding her true nature under an innocent, incompetent Stepford wife persona who is more than a few steps ahead of anyone.

* BreakoutCharacter: Despite being on the show since the beginning, it wasn't until season 5 that she became this. Her truly amazing siege on Terminus to rescue Rick and the others in the premiere, which included blowing up a fuel tank with a ''firework'', sniping various Termites, and getting in a fight with (and ultimately mercilessly killing) Mary, cemented her as a bonafide {{badass}} in the eyes of the fandom.

* CharacterDevelopment: Starts off as a timid victim, but evolves into a more confident, hardened {{Badass}} with a pragmatic streak, who Rick even leaves in charge on at least one occasion. In Season 6 her memetic badassery comes to take a severe toll on her psyche and she's now trying to deal with her depression.

* CompositeCharacter: Since Andrea dies early, some of her roles in the comics were given to Carol: She is the one in charge of Lizzie and Mika (just like Andrea adopts Ben and Billy) and Carol also becomes the most {{Badass}} female from the original Atlanta group. Also she was in charge of killing Lizzie after she proves to be too unstable, just like Carl had to do in the comics about Ben.

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[[caption-width-right:300:"''If you want to live, you have to become strong.''"]]

* ActionMom: In Season 4, she becomes this to Lizzie and Mika, whom she adopts after their father dies.

* {{Badass}}: She's accumulated one of the biggest body counts on the show, and her one-woman assault on Terminus has to be seen to be believed.
--> '''Rick:''' That woman, she's a force of nature.

!!Due to the AnyoneCanDie nature of the show and quickly moving plots, only spoilers from the current/most recent season will be spoiled out to prevent entire pages of whited out text. These spoiler tags will be removed upon the debut of the following season. If you have not seen the first five seasons read at your own risk!

!!Due to the AnyoneCanDie nature of the show and quickly moving plots, only spoilers from the current/most recent season will be spoiled out to prevent entire pages of whited out text. If you have not seen the first five seasons read at your own risk!

** When she gives [[spoiler: the Savior [[SmugSnake Paula]]]] a CruelAndUnusualDeath and [[BoomHeadshot fatally shoots]] [[spoiler: the Savior [[JerkAss Chelle]]]].

* PlotArmor: Robert Kirkman has basically [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/10/18/theres-only-one-character-on-the-walking-dead-the-creator-says-he-wouldnt-kill/#5e66def17b69 confirmed]] that Carol is the character who is currently in the least amount of danger of being killed off. It remains to be seen if such will be the case in Season 7.

After suffering through a lengthy, abusive marriage with her husband Ed, who was also abusive to their daughter Sophia and possibly pedophilloic to her, she survived the initial stages of the zombie apocalypse with her family. After becoming close companions with the Grimes family, Ed was killed during the walker attack on the camp. After that, Carol became more independent, but the disappearance and later death of her daughter demoralized her again.

* PlotArmor: Robert Kirkman has basically [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/10/18/theres-only-one-character-on-the-walking-dead-the-creator-says-he-wouldnt-kill/#5e66def17b69 confirmed]] that Carol is the character who is currently in the least amount of danger of being killed off.

Carol survived the initial stages of the zombie apocalypse with Ed, her husband, and Sophia, her daughter. Ed abused her, but he died during the walker attack on the camp. After that, Carol became more independent, but the disappearance and later death of her daughter demoralized her again.

However, she has since recovered and started becoming more assertive, taking a larger role in the group as both as shooter and medic. Carol has also established a strong friendship with Daryl and began to deeply care about him after he kept looking for the missing Sophia in Season 2. After the community in the prison was established, Carol became a member of the council that helped run the group. She is exiled after killing some of the group in a desperate attempt to stop a plague, and her actions then and later with Lizzie and Mika haunt her to this day.

Despite having trouble facing her own demons, Carol is one of the most changed survivors of the apocalypse. She has proven to be a shrewd tactician whose no-nonsense approach to things makes her a finely oiled killing machine in combat. Given her MamaBear feelings towards the group, you have a force of nature who will do ''anything'' to save or protect her own. Carol is also a brilliant schemer who effortlessly dupes the entirety of Alexandria, hiding her true nature under an innocent, incompetent Stepford wife persona who is more than a few steps ahead of anyone.