History Characters / TheWalkingDeadTVShowDarylDixon

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Carol and Kelly both take note of Daryl's growing closeness to Connie (and vice versa).

** He still has a rough time working with people he doesn't know, however, which comes up again when he and Rosita are undergoing basic training at the Commonwealth. Daryl fails Mercer's training exercise because he doesn't put in more effort to work with his assigned team partner.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: Simply put, when Daryl wants someone dead, he'll kill them without talking and making a big scene of it. When Mitch Dolgen has the gall to surrender after using his tank to destroy the prison, Daryl quickly puts an arrow in his chest without a single word. After getting his ass kicked by Beta once before, Daryl takes the lesson to heart next time they cross paths by running up behind Beta and driving a pair of knives into his skull while he's distracted. When [[spoiler:Leah]] is about to kill Maggie, Daryl quietly accepts that she's gone off the deep end and shoots her in the back of the head without first attempting to make contact with his [[spoiler:ex-girlfriend]].

** With Connie as of Season 9. They quickly form a bond while working together to rescue Henry and Lydia from the Whisperers, and Daryl later begins learning ASL in order to better communicate with her. They also hold hands when Daryl tries to cheer her up with a story about Merle. Carol playfully notes that ''something'' is going on between them and Daryl himself remains evasive on the subject. It becomes less ambiguous when Carol catches Daryl looking at Connie and urges him to ask her to dance at the Commonwealth's masquerade ball.

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* CoolUncle: To the Grimes children. Judith and R.J. even call him "Uncle Daryl", and in "Silence the Whisperers", we see him join them, along with Michonne, for dinner.

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Carol and Kelly both take note of Daryl's growing closeness to Connie.

* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:His relationship with Leah goes down in flames after she frames him for Pope's murder.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Shane. When Dale has been ripped open by a walker and is declared by Hershel to be beyond saving, it's Daryl who steps in to spare Rick from having to MercyKill him, in contrast to Rick's then-[[TheLancer lancer]], Shane (who had more beef with Dale than Daryl ever did). When Rick is apparently blown up in an explosion, Daryl spends the next six years looking for Rick's body to give his fallen friend a proper burial, unlike Shane who left the comatose Rick for dead a few weeks into the apocalypse and started an affair with his wife.

* AchillesInHisTent: After leaving the group in "The Suicide King", he spends most of "Home", away from them after leaving with Merle. [[ChangedMyMindKid He]] [[BigDamnHeroes comes]] [[ForegoneConclusion back]].

* LonelyTogether: Implied to be the root of his relationship with Leah, who lost her adopted family, while Daryl is still stinging from the loss of his best friend and [[BashBrothers surrogate brother]], Rick.

* MrFanservice: Has quite the following due to his TroubledButCute nature and penchant for wearing sleeveless shirts.

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* StakingTheOnesYouLove: He tearfully puts down his zombified brother, Merle.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: Simply put, when Daryl wants someone dead, he'll kill them without talking and making a big scene of it. When Mitch Dolgen has the gall to surrender after using his tank to destroy the prison, Daryl quickly puts an arrow in his chest without another word. After getting his ass kicked by Beta once before, Daryl takes the lesson to heart next time they cross paths by running up behind Beta and driving a pair of knives into his skull while he's distracted. When [[spoiler:Leah]] is about to kill Maggie, Daryl quietly accepts that she's gone off the deep end and shoots her in the back of the head without first attempting to make contact with his [[spoiler:ex-girlfriend]].

* KillTheOnesYouLove: He tearfully puts down the zombified Merle.

* BreakoutCharacter: Daryl is one of the most popular characters. He was promoted to the main cast in Season 2 and given an entire episode to show his badass credentials. In Season 3, he's become the second-in-command to Rick and runs the group when he's not available. By Season 4, he's probably the show's {{Deuteragonist}} and in Season 5, it's safe to say that he's one of few characters on this show with PlotArmor. He ends up taking over from Rick as the new lead of the show starting in Season 9, and is set to headline a spin-off with Carol after the conclusion of the main series. Not bad for a guy who didn't even appear in the source material.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 1-11) | ''Untitled Daryl and Carol spin-off''

** With Connie as of Season 9. They quickly form a bond while working together to rescue Henry and Lydia from the Whisperers, and Daryl later begins learning ASL in order to better communicate with her. They also hold hands when Daryl tries to cheer her up with a story about Merle. Carol playfully notes that ''something'' is going on between them and Daryl himself remains evasive on the subject. It becomes ever-so-slightly less ambiguous when Carol catches Daryl looking at Connie and urges him to ask her to dance at the masquerade ball.

* IronicName: "Daryl" means "open", something he decidely [[TheAloner isn't]].

* ParentalSubstitute: For Lydia, and also for Judith and RJ as of Michonne's departure in "What We Become". In "New Haunts", it's implied he went to Commonwealth to give the Grimes kids a vacation while Alexandria is being cleaned up; the three are seen living together in an apartment with Daryl keeping an eye on them as if they were his own children.

** And with Maggie as well. He pretty much always has her back, and is genuinely torn up over feeling like he caused the deaths of her father, sister, and husband. Maggie assures him that Glenn’s death was not his fault and doesn’t hold her other losses against him either, and he is completely supportive of her plans to one day take vengeance out on the man who actually did kill Glenn.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Claudio Serrano (Spanish, Seasons 1-3), Carlos Di Blasi (Spanish, Seasons 4-11), Creator/RikiyaKoyama (Japanese), Tommy Morgenstern (German), Emmanuel Karsen (French), Francesco Pezzulli (Italian), Martin Stránský (Czech), Zoltán Schmied (Hungarian)

** In "Stalker", Alpha stabs him in the leg and he manages to run a great distance with the knife still in his leg, pull it out, have blood spew from the wound, and spend about a day drifting in and out of consciousness before finally being patched up by Lydia. The very next night he is fully able to participate in the Hilltop battle with only a limp slowing him down.

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