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!!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. Additionally, character portraits will be updated each half-season with the release of an official, complete set from AMC. If you have not seen the first ten seasons read at your own risk!

!Magna's Group

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[[folder:In General]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:L-R: Luke, Yumiko, Connie, Kelly, Magna]]

-> ''"It's funny, but before all this, if you saw us all sitting at the same table at, like, a restaurant, a bar, or something... you'd say to yourself, 'Well, hey, I don't know. Maybe these people work together?' Because we certainly don't have anything in common, except for the fact that we're breathing. And that's a lot nowadays, right?"''
-->-- '''Luke''', "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E06WhoAreYouNow Who Are You Now?]]"

A group of five people rescued by a pre-teen Judith Grimes six years after the apparent death of her father, Rick. They end up being taken to live at Hilltop and are quickly accepted into the community with the threat of the Whisperers lingering on the horizon.
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* ActionGirl: All four women are combat-proficient.
* AdaptationExpansion: They've gotten a lot more to do than their comic counterparts. Downplayed with Magna and Yumiko, who became fairly prominent in later issues, but definitely played straight with Connie, Kelly, and Luke, who were reduced to background characters almost immediately after their introduction. While Luke is this by default due to being SparedByTheAdaptation, Connie and Kelly played no pivotal role in the comic series until its end and were completely absent from the last issue's DistantFinale.
* ArtifactName: The group is nominally referred to by viewers as "Magna's group" due to it being their title in the comics, despite [[AdaptationalBadass Yumiko]] filling the leader slot better. Magna is, however, the first of them to be seen during their introduction in "What Comes After" and is the most prominent member of the crew in their first spotlight episode, while Yumiko is sidelined due to a head injury, so the name has stuck.
* BadassCrew: Best seen in "Silence the Whisperers" as they work through the night to fend off a horde from Hilltop while its denizens deal with a collapsed wall.
* CrazyPrepared: Almost to Rick Grimes levels. Magna hides a small knife in her belt buckle, and even after settling into Hilltop, she and Kelly hide a stash of supplies in the woods in case things go south during the conflict with the Whisperers. In "Chokepoint", Connie chooses a specific building to take shelter from Beta in because the group had already stayed there and hoarded a cache of supplies just in case they ever returned.
* DwindlingParty: According to Luke, there were others who perished before Bernie (their most recent loss). Otherwise averted, which is unique for [[AnyoneCanDie this show]]: all five are still alive as of the Season 11B finale, making them the group with the lowest mortality rate ''in the entire series''.
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Yumiko. While the group claims not to have a leader, Yumiko is far and away the most vocal in a crisis and is the most insistent at having to step up when there's no one else who is willing to.
** TheLancer: Magna. She's the rougher, gruffer, more cynical {{Foil}} to Yumiko, and the clear leader of the group in her absence.
** TheSmartGuy: Luke. He's a music teacher and self-admittedly the least capable survivor of the group. He also has some technological know-how, as evidenced by his role in disposing of the walker horde in "A Certain Doom".
** TheBigGuy: Kelly. While not the most physically imposing of the group, she has the impulsiveness and gung-ho attitude typical of the trope, and can handle herself pretty well in combat.
** TheHeart: Connie. She keeps an eye on her friends and is a calming and level-headed presence in times of need. She also has shades of TheSmartGuy due to her common sense.
* FireForgedFriends: The group proves themselves as loyal additions to the communities when Yumiko and Magna help Michonne come to the aid of the rescue mission for Eugene in mid-Season 9.
* FiveTokenBand: The group is fairly diverse, consisting of one white man (played by a Jewish actor), two lesbian women (one of whom is half-Japanese), and two African American women who are both on the deaf spectrum (one of whom is implied to be queer as well; see Kelly's entry below).
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Luke is Sanguine, Yumiko is Choleric, Magna is Melancholic, Connie is Phlegmatic, and Kelly is Eclectic.
* GoodAllAlong: A deeply distrustful Michonne hates them from the get-go due to her refusal to consider letting in any outside survivors. The other members of Alexandria become convinced more quickly of the group’s trustworthiness, but it takes several episodes for Michonne to finally see that they are indeed good.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Like Rick's group, they're decent but pragmatic people who have established a familial bond and have no problems killing human threats if they have to.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: They make their debut at the very end of [[EndOfAnAge Rick Grimes' final episode]].
* NotUsingTheZWord: They call zombies "sickos".
* TrueCompanions: The group is tight-knit and fiercely protective of one another. Though Magna and Yumiko and Connie and Kelly (who are sisters) already knew each other before the apocalypse, it's clear from their introduction that the group as a whole have been surviving together for quite some time.

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!!Members

[[folder:Magna]]
!!''Magna''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I've done things. Terrible things. If I had all this, I wouldn't trust me, either."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NadiaHilker
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Nieves "Nikki" García (Spanish dub), Suzuka Kimura (Japanese dub), Audrey Sablé (French dub), Barbara Pitotti (Italian dub), Týna Průchová (Czech dub), Laura Györfi (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 9-11)
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E05WhatComesAfter What Comes After]]"

->''"This place is like a city from before. Where people who can't fit in get cast out."''

A woman who, along with her group, made their way to the Washington region. She is Yumiko's girlfriend and a former convict, something that earns Michonne's ire when the group is interviewed by Alexandria. Magna is able to prove herself a loyal ally when she and Yumiko help rescue Eugene from the Whisperer ambush in the graveyard. She and her group become permanent residents of Hilltop, and she and Yumiko join the governing council after the death of Tara.

When Yumiko begins taking more direct leadership of Hilltop, Magna becomes angry and unwilling to accept her girlfriend as her boss, causing them to have a bad argument. Magna goes missing due to a cave-in at Alpha’s cave, but turns up alive during the Battle of Hilltop. She and Yumiko mutually agree to end their relationship due to being unable to come to terms with their differences.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Her comic counterpart quickly became the group's most vocal supporter of the communities after settling in and had to talk Connie and Kelly into fighting for people other than themselves. Here, she is more hostile and guarded, possessing a foul temper even after being accepted into Hilltop. She is also revealed to be stealing from Hilltop and outright tells Daryl that she doesn't trust him.
* AgeLift: She's in her thirties here (matching her actress' age) while her comic counterpart was in her twenties.
* AmicableExes: Her split with Yumiko is mutual and they part on good terms.
* BadassLongcoat: She takes to wearing one in the second half of Season 9.
* BattleCouple: With Yumiko if the situation calls for it.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Speaks in a rather low, growly voice.
* CruelToBeKind: By Season 11, Magna has lost faith in Connie being alive after several weeks of her being gone. She gently asks Carol not to give Kelly false hope in order to spare her any more pain.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Michonne deduces that she did time after noticing a prison tattoo on her hand. It's later revealed Magna murdered the man who raped her young cousin after he walked away from the crime without any punishment.
* DropTheHammer: Her main weapon is a warhammer.
* HiddenWeapons: She hides a small knife in her belt buckle.
* HideYourLesbians: Actors Nadia Hilker (Magna) and Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko) approached the show creators requesting more on screen intimacy between their characters as it was not explicitly clear they were in a relationship. Their first on screen kiss is shown 10 episodes after their introduction. So little of their relationship was shown before the kiss, that many viewers thought they had only just gotten together despite them actually being in a long term relationship.
* HotBlooded: In contrast to the rest of the group, Magna is very feisty and quick to anger. She scales it back after the events of "Squeeze".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Magna is not the nicest person around. She can be surly, selfish, and uncooperative, and also steals from Hilltop at one point even after the community has been nothing but accommodating to her since she arrived. She also needlessly antagonizes Yumiko when she feels that the latter is being too controlling in their relationship. She does, however, have a lot of loyalty and love for those she cares about, and only steals because she wants to protect her own group first and foremost. Ultimately, Magna is a lot like Daryl -- she takes a while to warm up to people, but once she does, she is their friend for life.
* KickTheDog: She becomes more hotheaded towards Yumiko when she begins taking over Hilltop and is more verbally hostile to her during their argument that ultimately ends their relationship. Afterwards, though, she mellows out.
* KnifeNut: Her preferred weapons are throwing knives. She also keeps a small knife concealed in her belt buckle.
* TheLancer: While the group doesn't really have a leader in theory, Yumiko is the closest thing they have to a shot-caller, making the more pragmatic, ruthless, and ill-tempered Magna this by default. When Yumiko begins stepping into a leadership role at Hilltop, it eats away at their relationship as Magna is seemingly hostile to the idea of Yumiko being able to order her around.
* LipstickLesbian: While she has a few masculine traits, her appearance is decidedly feminine.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The surly and aggressive Masculine Girl to Luke's artistic and diplomatic Feminine Boy.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 11. She notably drops out of focus when the group ventures to the Commonwealth, going from "Rogue Element" to "Trust" without a single appearance, and even then only having a brief cameo in "Acts of God".
* PartingWordsRegret: In "Squeeze", she's eager to get back to Hilltop as soon as possible because she left things on a bad note with Yumiko.
* PerpetualFrowner: She's very sullen.
* PetTheDog: An early sign that Magna's actually a big softie is when she approaches Enid and comforts her about her missing boyfriend, Alden, assuring her that he's in good hands with Luke.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She seemed to have this kind of relationship with Bernie, according to Yumiko. She's so distraught upon encountering his zombified form.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: While it's easy to catch if you were paying close attention to their interactions, it's not until "The Calm Before" that Magna and Yumiko are shown kissing, definitively establishing to the audience that the two are in a relationship.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to pretty much her entire group, all of whom are more level-headed and reasonable than she.
* ReformedCriminal: Of the SympatheticMurderer variety. It's unknown if Magna was a criminal outside of this one instance, however.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Hot-tempered and even hostile at times, but she genuinely does care about the people in her group and seems to have a solid friendship with Jerry. She starts being more openly friendly to other people after "Squeeze".
* SympatheticMurderer: She took it upon herself to make sure her cousin's rapist got exactly what he deserved.
* TattooedCrook: She has several tattoos and did time in prison before the apocalypse.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While not evil, Magna is the most disagreeable member of the group and is the worst team player, possessing a serious self-destructive streak that even drives a wedge between her and Yumiko. She's also revealed to be one of the only heroic characters who killed someone before the apocalypse.
* TookALevelInKindness: She mellows out a lot after her NearDeathExperience in "Squeeze". For one thing, she doesn't get angry at Carol (who caused the cave-in that nearly got her and Connie killed), and becomes a heck of a lot friendlier in general.
* UncertainDoom: In "Squeeze", she and Connie are trapped in a cave-in brought about by Carol's ill-advised attempt at destroying Alpha's horde with a stick of dynamite; their fates are not revealed before the end of the episode. Magna finally returns three episodes later in "Walk With Us", having escaped the cave along with Connie by covering themselves in walker guts and blending in with the horde.
* WhatTheHellHero: Daryl is furious when he learns that she has been stealing valuable resources from Hilltop when the community is also a refugee camp for the people of the Kingdom and have been nothing but gracious to them since they arrived.
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[[folder:Yumiko]]
!!''Yumiko Okumura''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Look, when shit hits the fan, somebody's got to step up."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EleanorMatsuura, Courtney Chen[[note]]On-set double in "Splinter"[[/note]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Inés Blázquez (Spanish dub), Hodaka Mieno (Japanese dub), Jennifer Bischof (German dub), Claire Beaudoin (French dub), Eleonora Reti (Italian dub), Martina Šťastná (Czech dub), Ilona Molnár (Hungarian dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 9-11)
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E05WhatComesAfter What Comes After]]"

->''"I was a lawyer. I like rules. They bring order to the chaos - which means you need me."''

A former lawyer, Magna's girlfriend, and ''de facto'' leader of the group. She is briefly injured when the group is brought to Alexandria by Judith, but recovers by the time they join Hilltop and helps Michonne rescue Eugene, Aaron, and Daryl from the Whisperers. Yumiko quickly becomes a leading figure in Hilltop, particularly after the death of Tara and leadership of the community is up in the air. However, this drives a wedge between her and Magna, who is hostile to the idea of Yumiko becoming her boss, and ultimately leads to the end of their relationship. Yumiko helps lead the survivors during the Battle of Hilltop, and afterwards agrees to join Eugene’s mission to meet Stephanie, eager to meet new people after breaking up with her girlfriend.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Takes more of an active leadership role than in the comics. Comic Magna was unambiguously the leader of the group, but Yumiko seems to fill that spot better in the show.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Comes with being a lawyer in this adaptation. She's more analytical than her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalNationality: She seems to be half-British, judging from her accent and her actress being half-British. Her comic counterpart is Japanese-American.
* AffectionateNickname: Magna sometimes calls her "Miko". As does Yumiko's long-lost brother, Tomi.
* AmicableExes: Her split with Magna is mutual and they part on good terms.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She impresses the Commonwealth auditors with how well she's pieced together the way things work at their community without actually setting foot in the door.
* BattleCouple: With Magna if the situation calls for it until mid-Season 10.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's normally cool and collected, but doesn't hesitate to punch Carol in the face when she thinks the latter is being callous about nearly killing Magna and Connie by getting them trapped inside a cave.
* ControlFreak: Both her girlfriend Magna and Yumiko's brother Tomi bring up her tendency to run other people's lives by looking for things to "fix". It causes the already foul-tempered Magna to grow angry with her and leads to the dissolution of their relationship, and results in Tomi losing the job that made him happy and being forcibly conscripted to return to practicing surgery.
* TheCynic:
** In the group consisting of her, Eugene, and Ezekiel, she initially plays this role in their interactions with Princess. Yumiko is distrustful of the colorful, curiously upbeat stranger and firmly believes Princess is leading them all into a trap. While this attitude is understandable considering they're trying to meet a deadline (not to mention Princess straight-up walks them into a ''minefield'' at one point), Yumiko does exacerbate the situation a bit with her sour demeanor and has to be dissuaded from barking at Princess by Ezekiel.
** Otherwise averted, as Yumiko is much more accepting of Hilltop and its people than Magna is. She's also a friendly and supportive traveling companion to Eugene, Ezekiel and, once they're sure she's not dangerous, Princess.
* DecompositeCharacter: Kind of. With Michonne being PutOnABus in Season 10, Yumiko takes her place as the former attorney who joins Eugene's expedition to meet Stephanie. Yumiko ''is'' a part of the journey in the comics, however; she's just filling a different role and narrative purpose in the show. She also gets Michonne's "long-lost family member" storyline where she discovers a relative thought to be dead residing at the Commonwealth.
* FireForgedFriends: After starting off on the wrong foot with Princess, Yumiko softens when Princess confesses how lonely she is and leads the group to transportation as promised. Yumiko then makes amends by inviting Princess to travel with them, an offer she happily accepts.
* HelloAttorney: A former lawyer played by the lovely Eleanor Matsuura. She can really rock a suit as shown in "Promises Broken", and looks downright gorgeous in her dress to the masquerade ball in "New Haunts".
* HideYourLesbians: Actors Nadia Hilker (Magna) and Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko) approached the show creators requesting more on screen intimacy between their characters as it was not explicitly clear they were in a relationship. Their first on screen kiss is shown 10 episodes after their introduction. So little of their relationship was shown before the kiss, that many viewers thought they had only just gotten together despite them actually being in a long term relationship.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: She studied law at both Oxford and Harvard Law School.
* JerkassBall: Only in "The Tower" (as noted under TheCynic). She initially has zero tolerance for Princess or her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} antics, outright calling her "selfish and crazy" despite her having done them no wrong except accidentally scaring away their horses and being understandably reluctant to hand over her gun.
* TheLeader: Although the group doesn't really have one, they all quickly defer to Yumiko when it comes to making decisions, especially in combat situations. In Season 10, with Maggie PutOnABus, Jesus and Tara dead, and Ezekiel stepping down due to several recent personal traumas, Yumiko begins to take charge of Hilltop until towards the end of the Whisperer War, when she joins Eugene's mission to the Commonwealth.
* LipstickLesbian: She has a feminine appearance and no stereotypically "butch" traits personality-wise.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A downplayed version with her brother Tomi. While still a very feminine woman, Yumiko is also a seasoned and experienced badass who is comfortable surviving in the harsh zombie-infested world. This compared to Tomi, who admits he's happy living in the Commonwealth as a baker and doesn't appear to have any combat experience due to arriving there relatively early after the outbreak started.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "arrow child" in Japanese. Three guesses what her WeaponOfChoice is.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Robert Kirkman never gave Yumiko a surname in the comics, but in the show [[FreezeFrameBonus it can be seen]] on a letter given to her by the Commonwealth in "Out of the Ashes".
* NiceGirl: Yumiko is a kindhearted woman who cares deeply for her friends.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 11, Part 2, she only makes a small appearance in “New Haunts” compared to her regular role in Part 1.
* RagsToRiches: Goes from your average survivor to a privileged, wealthy attorney in the Commonwealth’s upper class. She’s even seen stuffing people’s hands with wads of hush money to not disclose Tyler’s hostage taking.
* RedOniBlueOni: She is much more reasonable and level-headed than her girlfriend.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Once she recovers from her injury in her debut appearance, she quickly becomes one of the most heavily focused on members of her group. She is the only new character who is among the first witnesses to the pike massacre, one of the most pivotal scenes of the series; she quickly begins stepping up as a leader; and she joins the mission to Commonwealth and ends up taking over a subplot from the departed Michonne.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Her weapons are a bow and arrows.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Yumiko is female, Japanese, and a lesbian, making her a minority threefer.
* UptownGirl: Yumiko was a lawyer who had a higher-class upbringing compared to the more working-class Magna, who was a waitress at a truck stop. This is briefly highlighted in "New Haunts", when Yumiko attends the masquerade ball in a nice dress and is given privileged treatment because of her profession, while Magna is in a waiter's uniform serving drinks to all the upper-class citizens.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Yumiko punches Carol after she does not apologize for the pain and trauma she caused Magna by getting her and Connie trapped in a cave.
* WeaponOfChoice: Wields a compound bow.
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[[folder:Luke]]
!!''Luke''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DanFogler
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Rafa Romero (Spanish dub), Alexander Ziegenbein (German dub), Jérémie Bédrune (French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 9-11)
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E05WhatComesAfter What Comes After]]"

->''"Sharing with each other... that's part of what makes us stronger."''

A friendly former music teacher. He becomes a permanent resident of Hilltop with his group, and becomes fast friends with Alden after quickly stepping up to help the community in any way he can. The pair are captured by Alpha in a bid to retrieve her captured daughter Lydia, and the deal goes through successfully.

As the months pass, Luke becomes a more capable fighter and even finds a chance at romance with an Oceansider named Jules. Their relationship blossoms until they make it official in the aftermath of the defeat of the Whisperers.
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* ActionSurvivor: By his own admission, he hasn't done anything special for his group to survive and was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time with the right people. He struggles a bit in fighting walkers, but isn't exactly helpless to kill them, either. Averted in Season 10; he's grown considerably more efficient in combat and fully participates in the battle against the Whisperer horde in "Morning Star".
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has black hair in the comics instead of brown.
* AgeLift: He's in his twenties in the comics but is pushing forty here (matching his actor's age).
* BadassTeacher: He is, in his own words, "still a music teacher", and proves to be quite handy with his new walker-killing weapon in Season 10.
* BigFun: He's rather heavyset and very friendly. Averted in Season 10, as Dan Fogler has noticeably [[FormerlyFat lost a substantial amount of weight]].
* BigNo: When Michonne, thinking he's up to something shady, accidentally destroys the rare Stradivarius violin he had salvaged and was hoping to preserve.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Both Yumiko and Judith point out his incredibly obvious crush on Jules.
* FormerlyFat: Like his actor, he's shown to have shed much of his girth during the TimeSkip between Seasons 9 and 10.
* FriendToAllChildren: One of his main arguments to Magna to prevent her from threatening/challenging Michonne is that there are kids in Alexandria and he doesn't want to bring violence upon them. He also gives Judith an AffectionateGestureToTheHead when he and his group are about to leave Alexandria.
* TheIdealist: While he has no illusions about the kind of world he and his friends live in and is still willing to do whatever it takes to protect them, Luke believes it is possible for society to one day go back to its roots so long as they hold onto the things that make them human, such as culture and music.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: He is the artistic and diplomatic Feminine Boy to Magna's surly and aggressive Masculine Girl.
* NiceGuy: He makes the most honest effort of the group to integrate himself into Hilltop, and is quick to befriend Siddiq (whom he affectionately calls "Doc") and Alden shortly after they meet.
* OfficialCouple: With Jules as of "A Certain Doom". He moves to Oceanside after the Whisperer War to be with her.
* TheOneGuy: The only surviving male of the group when they are introduced. Another man, Bernie, had perished only days before, and later turns up as a walker for all to see.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's a boy and prison resident named Luke in Season 4.
* OutOfFocus: He appears much less frequently in Season 10, only getting a small subplot about him forming a relationship with Jules.
* PluckyComicRelief: Many of the scenes he's in are usually pretty light-hearted.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted. His comic counterpart had some ShipTease with Magna, but nothing ever came of it due to his death. Here, he has no such interest and Magna is already in a relationship with Yumiko.
* PutOnABus: He moves to Oceanside after "A Certain Doom" due to his actor being in the UK filming ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore''. He has yet to appear in Season 11. Even after [[spoiler:Connie is found to be alive]] and the main storyline moves to the Commonwealth, there's not a mention of him. When Pamela and Lance visit Oceanside in "The Lucky Ones", Luke still isn't seen, nor is he (or Jules) shown being [[spoiler:held prisoner]] with the other Oceansiders by Lance at the end of "Acts of God".
* RedHerring: The ending of "Silence the Whisperers" seems to be hinting at Luke maybe not returning from his trip to Oceanside with Judith and Michonne. Not only does Luke make it back to Hilltop in one piece, he ends up surviving the Whisperer War.
* ShipTease: With an Oceanside resident named Jules. He offers to tag along with Judith and Michonne on a trip to the community for the chance to see her again. They're [[OfficialCouple officially together]] as of "A Certain Doom".
* TheSmartGuy: In "A Certain Doom", where him piecing together a radio plays a key role in the Coalition's plan to dispose of Beta's walker horde.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: His comic counterpart was one of Alpha's decapitation victims.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He quickly forms one with Alden, despite only knowing him for a few days. The two get along very well, due to Alden having a nice voice and Luke being a music teacher.
* TookALevelInBadass: In Season 10, he can now kill walkers with the best of them if the situation calls for it. And with a cool looking axe/mace-like weapon to boot.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Connie]]
!!''Connie''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Anything for us."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenRidloff
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 9-11)
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E05WhatComesAfter What Comes After]]"

->''"It's not a disability, it's a damn... superpower!"''

Kelly's older sister, a woman who uses her enhanced other senses to make up for her lack of hearing. She and her group join Hilltop Colony just as the Whisperers arrive and threaten the community. Connie is trapped outside the walls when Alpha arrives for a hostage exchange, and goes to save the abandoned Whisperer baby to bring into Hilltop. When she learns that Henry has gone after Lydia, she joins Daryl in rescuing the pair of teens from the Whisperer camp. She forms a bond with Daryl as they fend off an attack from Beta and escort the children to the Kingdom.

Connie and Daryl continue to grow closer and find themselves getting teased about hitting it off by their friends and families. During a mission to Alpha’s cave, Connie and Magna become trapped inside due a cave-in caused by Carol. The pair snuck out of the cave disguised amongst Alpha’s horde, but they eventually get separated. Connie ends up malnourished and weak, and is found by Virgil some distance away from Oceanside.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Has softer features than her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalBadass: TV!Connie is more resourceful and quick at thinking on her feet.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: She's more caring and friendly than her comic counterpart, who is a bit mistrustful of the communities at first and has to be chastised by Magna on at least one occasion.
* BadassAndChildDuo: Carries a baby to safety after Alpha orders the mother to abandon it to the walkers.
* BadassBookworm: She was an investigative journalist prior to the outbreak, who even managed to take down a major corporation with her work.
* BigDamnReunion: With Kelly in "On the Inside" and Daryl in "No Other Way", their first time seeing her since the cave collapse at the end of "Squeeze".
* BreakTheCutie: The events of the cave collapse, spending days moving with the Whisperers' walker horde, and being on the run for several weeks while being tracked by [[spoiler:feral survivors]] really push Connie to her breaking point. Virgil notes she hasn't slept in several days and she spends much of "On the Inside" completely paranoid and freaking out. Thankfully, she manages to find some peace again when she reunites with Kelly at the end of the episode.
* TheBusCameBack:
** Returns in "A Certain Doom" after having been missing since "Squeeze".
** After going missing again after that episode she returns for good in "On the Inside".
* ButNotTooBlack: She's slightly lighter-skinned than her comic counterpart, since her actress is half-Mexican.
* CelebritySurvivor: Her exploits taking down corrupt politicians made her somewhat notable to the media before the apocalypse. When Kelly mentions Connie got Pamela's uncle kicked out of Congress, a surprised Carol says, "That was you?"
* ConnectedAllAlong: In "New Haunts", it's revealed that one of the "sleazeball politicians" Connie was mentioned to have gotten removed from power was the uncle of Pamela Milton, the leader of the Commonwealth introduced in Season 11. Not only that, Connie actually interviewed Pamela herself once.
* CoolBigSis: She gently assures Kelly that losing her hearing isn't the end of the world and they can still look after each other. Kelly later tells Maggie that Connie has ''always'' been a good sister to her, and put her own life on hold to take care of her when their parents wouldn't.
* CuteMute: She's deaf and one of the nicest and friendliest characters.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied. She tells Kelly that seeing a baby in peril brought back old feelings she thought that she'd dealt with, and motivated her in leaving with Daryl to bring back Henry and Lydia.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "On the Inside". Justified as it's Lauren Ridloff's official return to the series after taking a leave of absence to work on ''Film/{{Eternals}}''. Much of the episode is shot from Connie's perspective as she fights to get back home to her friends, and succeeds by the end of the episode.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Her comic counterpart isn't deaf. However, she ''does'' become disabled in a later issue, when a walker bite forces the rest of the group to amputate her arm.
* FriendToAllChildren: Befriends Judith and teaches her sign language, throws all caution to the wind to save a Whisperer baby, and embarks on a mission with Daryl to rescue Lydia and Henry. She also successfully argues with Daryl to let Lydia stay at a time when Daryl is contemplating leaving her behind to prevent Alpha from attacking Hilltop.
* HandicappedBadass: She's completely deaf, and doesn't speak. The rest of the group learned ASL to communicate with her. As for the badass part...
--> '''Tara:''' (to Kelly) Connie's gonna be OK, alright? She's with Daryl.
--> '''Yumiko:''' More like Daryl's gonna be OK. He's with Connie.
* TheHeart: The wise and level-headed moral center of the group, Connie serves as a calming and empathetic influence to all of her friends. When Magna stubbornly refuses to take Yumiko's orders during a siege on Hilltop, it only takes one look from Connie to get her to head back inside.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: She and Daryl have several moments that could be interpreted as ShipTease or merely two people forming a close bond after working together. Carol and Kelly openly prod them about it, but both parties remain evasive on the subject and so far nothing has been confirmed in-canon. Even when Connie is apparently killed partway through Season 10, while Daryl is certainly distressed over losing a good friend, it’s vague as to whether he’s also processing it as the loss of something more. Becomes less ambiguous in "New Haunts" when the camera focuses on Daryl watching Connie walk away and Carol suggests he ask her to dance at the masquerade ball later that evening.
* InNameOnly: The only thing she has in common with her comic counterpart besides her name is having a relationship with Kelly, though in the series it's a ''familial'' bond instead of the comics' romantic one.
* IntrepidReporter: She'll stop at nothing to expose the Commonwealth for the classist sham it really is.
* NeverFoundTheBody: This is what leads her friends to think she might be alive, since Magna lost her in the horde and they've yet to recover any solid evidence of Connie's death.
* NiceGirl: Ranks up there with Glenn, Hershel, and Ezekiel as one of the most genuinely compassionate and altruistic people in the series. Connie is always the first of the group to express gratitude to others for showing them kindness. In "Squeeze", when Carol is freaking out due to her claustrophobia, Connie notices and helps her stay calm by finger spelling out "U R OK" on her palm.
* NoManLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Refuses to leave Virgil behind to be eaten by the Ferals despite him being stabbed three times. When Virgil collapses escaping the Ferals' house and two more appear having survived the walkers Connie set loose on them, Connie looks ready to hold her ground and defend Virgil to her last breath. Thankfully, she's saved by the timely arrival of Kelly, who kills both Ferals, and they're able to take Virgil back to Alexandria to get medical attention.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Connie is one of the most level-headed people on the show and almost never loses her cool. So when she spends most of "On the Inside" completely on edge, you know the situation is dire.
* PresentAbsence: Even after her disappearance, she is not forgotten about and her presumed death weighs heavily on several characters, especially Daryl, Kelly, and Carol.
* ReadingLips: She has this ability, likely out of necessity as most people the group encounters are not fluent in ASL. Enforced when Connie first interacts with Daryl, who initially attempts to look off to one side and mumble as he's used to doing. Connie responds by telling him to look her in the face when he speaks so she can understand him.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Connie and Kelly are siblings instead of lovers here.
* ShipTease: With Daryl; see ImpliedLoveInterest above. They quickly form an instinctual bond while working together to rescue Henry and Lydia from the Whisperers. By Season 10, the two have grown even closer, to the point that Kelly teases her sister about it and Carol outright encourages Daryl to take things a step further.
* SiblingTeam: With Kelly if the situation calls for it. They're notably the only pair of siblings known to have survived out in the wastelands for over a decade, proving how efficient they are in watching each other's backs.
* SilentSnarker: Despite being deaf, this doesn't stop her from dropping snark through sign language.
** Her written response to Daryl learning ASL:
-->''Not bad -- you sign with a Southern accent.''
* TheSmartGuy: Shares this role with Luke, having the most common sense of the group and being a BadassBookworm who was a reporter before the apocalypse.
* TeamMom: Connie is a rather maternal influence in the group, always looking after her friends and being quick to mediate conflict.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Kelly during the Commonwealth arc; justified as they're both working as reporters for the city.
* TraumaButton: Revealed to be suffering from PTSD after the traumatic cave collapse and being stuck for days in the Whisperers' walker horde.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Connie is female, African-American, and deaf, making her a minority threefer.
* UncertainDoom: In "Squeeze", she and Magna are trapped in a cave-in brought about by Carol's failed attempt at destroying Alpha's horde with a stick of dynamite; their fates are not revealed before the end of the episode. Three episodes later, Magna returns and says she and Connie covered themselves in walker guts to blend in with the horde, but were separated in the chaos; in addition, due to the threat of Beta and the horde still at large, the survivors of the Hilltop battle are unable to go out and look for Connie, leaving her whereabouts unknown, though Kelly firmly believes her sister is still alive. She's right.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As noted above, she disappears partway through Season 10 and remains unaccounted for going into the final showdown with the Whisperers.
** She finally returns at the end of "A Certain Doom", traumatized and severely weakened from both the cave collapse and spending so long trapped in the horde.
** Her whereabouts are up in the air again after that episode. "On the Inside" reveals she's spent the last few weeks lost in the woods with Virgil.
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[[folder:Kelly]]
!!''Kelly''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You can't give up everything about yourself because bad things happen."'']]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AngelTheory
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Ai Ishikawa (Japanese dub), Laure Filiu (French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Seasons 9-11)
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E05WhatComesAfter What Comes After]]"

->''"[Connie] says she's my guardian angel, but, really, it's the other way around."''

Connie's younger sister, who acts as the translator between her and other people. She and her group join Hilltop, and Kelly quickly becomes distressed when Connie journeys outside the walls to help Daryl fight the Whisperers.

As the months pass, Kelly finds to her distress that her hearing is failing, but albeit with the caveat that her other senses are being enhanced. When Connie is trapped in a cave-in, Kelly remains optimistic that her older sister will turn up just fine.
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* AgeLift: She's in her twenties here (matching her actress' age) but her comic counterpart is in [[GenderFlip his]] thirties.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She was once featured alongside the show's openly queer characters in a Twitter post celebrating Pride month. Her sexuality has not been explored in the show itself, however, leaving it somewhat ambiguous.
* AscendedExtra: Kelly is by far the most OutOfFocus of the group in Season 9, and is barely seen interacting with anyone outside of their established circle. She receives a lot more screen time in Season 10, getting involved in several action scenes, and has plenty of one-on-one interactions with characters outside her group, like Carol, Daryl, Elijah, and Maggie.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the group, and the others are protective of her.
* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair and appears to be rather tomboyish.
* BratsWithSlingshots: Although no longer a child, she is the youngest member of the group, and wields a slingshot with devastating skill.
* EveryonesBabySister: She's Connie little sister, but everyone in the group gladly looks after her. Magna in particular holds a degree of almost motherly affection for Kelly.
* GenderFlip: Kelly was originally a man in the comics, and was Connie's boyfriend instead of her sibling.
* HeroWorshipper: In Season 11, she starts to idolize Carol and looks forward to going on scouting missions with her.
* NiceGirl: Kelly shows every sign of being as compassionate and empathetic as her older sister. Though she takes part in Magna's theft of the Hilltop supplies, she is ultimately the one who tells Magna to confess to it, and clearly doesn't mean anyone any genuine harm.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: She was in high school when the outbreak began.
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: She's implied to be a lot younger than Connie, who already had an established career as a journalist while Kelly was still in high school when the outbreak began. This is also reflected in the twenty-one year age difference between actresses Angel Theory and Lauren Ridloff. However, Kelly is supposed to be older than Theory's actual age while Ridloff [[OlderThanSheLooks could pass for a much younger character]], making the gap even more vague.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Connie and Kelly are siblings instead of lovers here.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her characterization in Season 9 revolves around being Connie's sister. She gets more of an arc in Season 10 as she deals with her gradual hearing loss.
* ShipperOnDeck: Teases her sister over her growing closeness to Daryl.
* SiblingTeam: With Connie if the situation calls for it.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Connie during the Commonwealth arc; justified as they're both working as reporters for the city.
* {{Tomboy}}: Her physical appearance and clothing style give off this vibe. Not to mention that her comic counterpart is male.
* TranslatorBuddy: She acts as this for Connie when dealing with others.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Kelly is female, African-American, and hard of hearing, making her a minority threefer.
[[/folder]]

!!Former Members

[[folder:Bernie]]
!!''Bernie''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Louis Zehner
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (Season 9)
!!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS09E07Stradivarius Stradivarius]]"

A recently deceased member of the group.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: He comes back as a walker, for all his group to see.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the comics, he is killed in his very first scene. When we meet the group in the show, he is already dead.
* TheGadfly: He enjoyed getting under Magna's skin according to Yumiko, though it was always in jest.
* IconicItem: His horrible shirt that bugged Magna so much.
* KilledOffscreen: By a walker herd.
* MercyKill: Michonne puts him down in front of his group instead of letting him remain a walker.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies off-screen before our introduction to the group.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: She was featured alongside the show's openly queer characters in a Twitter post celebrating Pride month. Her sexuality has not been explored in the show itself, however, leaving it somewhat ambiguous.

* PluckyComicRelief: His jovial demeanor provides some humorous moments.