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* HonoraryAunt: To Judith. The first thing they do when they reunite after [[spoiler:several years]] is share a hug, and are shown bonding at the start of the next episode. Even more heartwarming when you remember Maggie delivered Judith when she was born at the prison.

* DeathGlare: [[spoiler:She stares daggers into Negan every time she sees him in the last few episodes of Season 10. First, at the start of "Home Sweet Home" when she sees him outside his cell for the first time in almost a decade; then in "Here's Negan" when she's out walking with her son while Negan is trying to help rebuild the community and later when Negan troops back to Alexandria to continue staying there. It's little wonder Carol tried sending Negan away for his own safety.]]

* EtTuBrute: Maggie feels betrayed when Rick spares Negan and when Michonne supports it at the end of the Savior War.

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* TraumaCongaLine: Where to begin? Maggie easily has one of the most hellish tenures on the show in terms of losing those closest to her, rivaled only by Rick and Carol. She loses her mother and brother early on to the walker virus, followed by family friends Otis, Patricia and Jimmy in quick succession. Then her sister Beth and father Hershel die within ''ten days'' of each other. A few months later, her husband Glenn is brutally murdered in front of her, her best friend Sasha dies in the conflict with the Saviors, and to add insult to injury, Rick and Michonne choose to spare Negan, the man who killed Glenn. While Maggie does get some closure regarding Glenn's death, as well as give birth to her and Glenn's child, due to being PutOnABus she is not able to say a final farewell to the late Jesus, Enid, and Tara, all of whom were close friends of hers.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Taking leadership of a large community just at the onset of a war certainly is no easy task for Maggie. She has to contend with ever-dwindling food and supplies, a large amount of POW's brought in by Jesus (and against her will), and an overpopulation crisis when the other communities are sacked and their populations relocate to Hilltop. In "Do Not Send Us Astray", she is forced to bury dozens of her people after the Savior's biological attack on Hilltop.

* DeathGlare: [[spoiler:She stares daggers into Negan every time she sees him in the last few episodes of Season 10. First, at the start of "Home Sweet Home" when she sees him outside his cell for the first time in almost a decade; then in "Here's Negan" when she's out walking with her son while Negan is trying to help rebuild the community and later when Negan troops back to Alexandria to continue staying there.]]

* DeathGlare: [[spoiler:She has one when she sees Negan outside of his cell for the first time in several years.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: Hershel smiles during Rick's final impassioned speech for peace, knowing that he has absorbed his lesson about how you can come back from the things you do to survive.

!!Survivors first introduced at Hershel's Farm on the [[LiveActionAdaptation television show]] ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: The fact that he was able to crawl away with ''his head still barely attached to his body'' is nothing short of amazing and shows how much HeroicWillpower Hershel had even in his last moments on Earth.

* VengefulWidow: After Glenn's death. She admits after a skirmish at Hilltop that she wanted Glenn's grave to be the last thing Negan saw before he died. In Season 9, she finally gets the chance to exact her revenge but chooses a more restrained version by letting the now tortured, death-seeking Negan live.

* TheLeader: She becomes the leader of Hilltop Colony in Season 7 after proving herself to be a much more competent, compassionate leader than Gregory ever was. In Season 8, with Alexandria and the Kingdom destroyed and everyone forced to flee to Hilltop she becomes the leader of the entire resistance, though she shares command with Rick towards the end of the war. As of Season 10, she's the leader of a small group consisting of her, her son, Elijah, and Cole.

* CoolAunt: To Judith.

* TheLeader: She becomes the leader of Hilltop Colony in Season 7 after proving herself to be a much more competent, compassionate leader than Gregory ever was. In Season 8, with Alexandria and the Kingdom destroyed and everyone forced to flee to Hilltop she becomes the leader of the entire resistance, though she shares command with Rick towards the end of the war.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Along with her masked companion, she arrives in the nick of time to save Gabriel from being killed by some Whisperers in "A Certain Doom".]]

* TraumaCongaLine: Where to begin? Maggie easily has one of the most hellish tenures on the show in terms of losing those closest to her, rivaled only by Rick and Carol. She loses her mother and brother early on to the walker virus, followed by family friends Otis, Patricia and Jimmy; then her sister Beth and father Hershel die within ''ten days'' of each other. A few months later, her husband Glenn is brutally murdered in front of her, her best friend Sasha dies in the conflict with the Saviors, and to add insult to injury, Rick and Michonne choose to spare Negan, the man who killed Glenn. While Maggie does get some closure regarding Glenn's death, as well as give birth to her and Glenn's child, due to being PutOnABus she is not able to say a final farewell to the late Jesus, Enid, and Tara, all of whom were close friends of hers.

* TheMourningAfter: She still wears the wedding ring Glenn gave to her nearly a decade after his death,[[spoiler: as her reappearance in "A Certain Doom" shows.]]

* NonActionGuy: She starts trying to sideline herself a bit in Season 6 due to her pregnancy, but will definitely take up arms if the situation calls for it. "The Same Boat" secures her status as a PregnantBadass (see DamselOutOfDistress above), and in "Go Getters" she refuses to be kept out of the fight at Hilltop and drives over a bunch of walkers with a tractor. In the Season 7 finale, she leads the people of Hilltop into a massive firefight against the Saviors. In the Season 8 premiere, she jokes that she can keep fighting well into her second trimester and later takes part in the initial attack on the Sanctuary as well as leading the charge in the battle at Hilltop.

* TokenReligiousTeammate: After her father dies, her sister gets abducted and killed and Gabriel undergoing a SanitySlippage induced FaceHeelTurn, Maggie becomes the true religious voice of the group until she moves to Hilltop.

* TraumaCongaLine: Where to begin? Maggie has easily one of the most hellish tenures on the show in terms of losing those closest to her, rivaled only by Rick and Carol. She loses her mother and brother early on to the walker virus, followed by family friends Otis, Patricia and Jimmy; then her sister Beth and father Hershel die within ''ten days'' of each other. A few months later, her husband Glenn is brutally murdered in front of her, her best friend Sasha dies in the conflict with the Saviors, and to add insult to injury, Rick and Michonne choose to spare Negan, the man who killed Glenn. While Maggie does get some closure regarding Glenn's death, as well as give birth to her and Glenn's child, due to being PutOnABus she is not able to say a final farewell to the late Jesus, Enid, and Tara, all of whom were close friends of hers.

* HandicappedBadass: After losing a leg, Hershel does not usually exit the prison since he can no longer run (an inevitability on supply runs, as Daryl notes in season four). However, he quickly proves that he is still perfectly capable in close-combat with walkers, as evident when after a few minutes on his crutches, he ''uses them as weapons to kick walker ass''. Rick even brings him to the sit-down with The Governor that could potentially become a firefight, crutches and all.

* BigShutUp: In Season 8, she aims a sharp "Shut your damn mouth!" at [[DirtyCoward Gregory]].

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ScottWilson

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LaurenCohan

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EmilyKinney

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PruittTaylorVince

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jane [=McNeill=]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' James Allen [=McCune=]

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ScottWilson

-->''"You step outside, you risk your life. Take a drink of water, you risk your life. Nowadays you breathe, you risk your life. Every moment now, you don't have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for!"''

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LaurenCohan

-->''"To sacrifice for each other, to suffer, to stand, to grieve, to give, to love, to live, to fight for each other. Glenn made the decision, Rick. I was just following his lead."''

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EmilyKinney

-->''"I know [[AudienceMonologue you]] look at me and you just see another [[NonActionGuy dead girl]]. I'm not [[LadyofWar Michonne]]. I'm not [[TookALevelInBadass Carol]]. I'm not [[GoodIsNotSoft Maggie]]. I've survived and you don't get it 'cause I'm not like you or them. But I made it."''

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PruittTaylorVince

->'''Portrayed by:''' Jane [=McNeill=]

->'''Portrayed by:''' James Allen [=McCune=]

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. He doesn't become as {{Wangst}}y as his comic counterpart. Having his children reduced to mainly two [[note]] Hershel has several children in the comics, all of whom sans Maggie were {{Mauve Shirt}}s. [[/note]] and him [[AdaptationalNiceGuy being much more likable]] might have helped. The only time he came close to this was when he fell OffTheWagon after the mid-Season 2 finale, which he also quickly recovered from.

* BreakoutCharacter: Originally Hershel was to be killed off before the end of the second season (and again in the third), but Scott Wilson's warmth in his performance convinced the show runners to keep him on. After taking his level in kindness, Hershel became one of the most beloved characters on the show and eventually became one of the show's major characters, to the point that his death became the emotional climax of the climactic prison war and is now regarded as one of the most tragic and powerful moments of the entire series. Robert Kirkman even noted how hard it was to kill off Hershel, expressing sadness that Wilson wouldn't be on set the following year. Prior to the mid-Season 4 finale, an entire video tribute was put together by the cast and crew, bidding farewell to Wilson and referring to him as a "legend". Two years after his character's death, Wilson was even the first induction into the ''Walking Dead'' Hall of Fame at the Season 6 fan premiere event. It's very easy to say that of all the characters killed off in the show, Hershel is one of the few characters that ''everyone'' misses.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Similar to Tyreese's fate in the comics, Hershel's neck is slashed in a botched decapitation attempt, and then after he desperately crawls away a few feet, it's followed up by the Governor hacking brutally away at the neck to decapitate Hershel completely.

* ADayInTheLimelight: "Internment" mostly revolves around his attempts to manage the illness spreading through the prison while waiting for the other to return with medication.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Something must be said for Hershel’s last actions in life after The Governor mortally wounds him. Despite literally dying, he still makes an admirable, if vain, effort to crawl away to safety. The Governor literally has to finish decapitating him for him to finally stop trying to survive. His head reanimates shortly after, a clear sign of what a strong person Hershel was right to the end.

* HeroAntagonist: In early Season 9 she and Daryl plot to kill Negan behind Rick's back despite knowing that Rick is keeping him alive to honor the late Carl's wishes. They take preventive measures to keep Rick from reaching Alexandria to stop Maggie and further defy Rick's vision of a peaceful society by letting Oceanside kill Arat, the last of the Saviors responsible for the massacre that claimed the lives of their men and sent them into hiding. Maggie's reasons for wanting Negan dead are extremely justified, however, given Glenn's death and how Rick basically pulled a MyWayOrTheHighway in his decision to spare Negan's life while ignoring how Maggie really felt about the situation.