List of The Walking Dead (TV series) characters

The following is a list of characters from The Walking Dead television series based on the eponymous comic book series. Although some characters appear in both the television and comic series, the continuity of the television series is not shared with the original comic book series.
Rick Grimes, portrayed by Andrew Lincoln, is a former sheriff's deputy from a small Georgia town. He is an everyman — smart, calm, just, a sharpshooter, and a good friend, husband and father — but flawed. Rick is a natural leader, someone his fellow survivors will turn to in a crisis, confident in his guidance, even when he at times doubts himself. His overwhelming need to do the right thing and protect those who can't protect themselves may pull him away from his family, causing cracks of tension within his marriage with Lori and his relationship with his son, Carl. Frustrated about leading his group and keeping them safe, Rick gradually changes into a darker person.
Eventually, he breaks down once again, following the deaths of Glenn and Abraham, and the overshadowing presence of Negan — the series' central antagonist in season six and seven. Throughout season seven, Rick slowly regains his footing and then starts preparing for an all-out war against Negan and the Saviors. However, before the war is over, Carl dies when a walker bites him with his last wish being for his father to find a way to forgive Negan and even join forces with him so that a large, strong community can live in peace, safe from walkers. Rick is then torn between his desire for revenge and his son's final wish for reconciliation. At the end of season eight, Rick manages to find a middle ground by almost, but not quite killing Negan and deciding to keep him locked inside a prison cell in Alexandria, thus ending the war.
When Rick and the communities decide to build a bridge the following season, chaos erupts with the rebellious, remaining Saviors and conflict with members of Rick's group who believe Negan should die in retribution for brutally murdering Glenn and Abraham. In the midst of the conflict, Rick is critically wounded, the bridge is blown up, and Rick is presumed dead. However, unbeknownst to Michonne, Daryl, and the rest of the community, a nearly dead Rick is discovered by Jadis, who arranges him to be taken off in a helicopter with her to an unknown destination. In the series finale, Judith reveals to Daryl and Carol the truth about Michonne's departure in search of Rick, who is still alive.
Shane Walsh, portrayed by Jon Bernthal, is a former sheriff's deputy from a small Georgia town. He was Rick's partner in the sheriff's department and his best friend since high school.
After the walkers begin to take over, Shane goes to visit Rick in the hospital, where he has lain in a coma since being shot. He cannot save Rick (and he also welcomes this opportunity to take Rick's place with Lori and Carl), but he blocks the hospital door with a gurney and hopes Rick will die quietly of natural causes. Until Rick's recovery and reappearance, Shane led the group of Atlanta survivors and was Lori's lover. His fixation on Lori becomes very obsessive and deranged, though he tries to acclimate to the reality of Rick as leader of the group and Lori's rightful husband. Additionally, Shane shows a ruthless side, allowing Otis to be killed by walkers so that he can escape. Rick eventually confronts him for all his atrocities, but even so he forgives him. Later, Shane formulates a plan to kill Rick but fails. Rick ends his life with a knife in the chest and Carl then ends his reanimation.
Lori Grimes, portrayed by Sarah Wayne Callies, is Rick's wife, and Carl and Judith's mother. In the first season, Lori believes that Rick has died in the hospital from a gunshot wound, while the walkers are taking over, creating chaos and forcing Lori and Carl to run, under the protection of Shane. A few episodes later, they find out Rick is alive. When Rick reunites with Lori, this attracts the harassment of Shane who gradually becomes more and more hostile even when he knows that she is expecting a child of his. Eventually, Rick manages to learn about this event afterwards.
From their escape from Hershel's farm to their endeavor to take up residence at a prison, Lori becomes increasingly estranged from Rick and Carl, which she blames on herself; she becomes worried about her baby's survival. In "Killer Within", when she goes into labor during an unexpected walker attack, Lori convinces Maggie to give her a C-section, despite the fact that it will prove fatal for her. Lori then dies giving birth and Carl is forced to shoot her to prevent reanimation; this breaks Rick into an emotional state.
Andrea, portrayed by Laurie Holden, is a former civil rights attorney who is extremely protective of her younger sister Amy. Following Amy's death, she considers suicide, but decides to remain with the group.
With the others, they find a farm owned by Hershel Greene. At the farm, she continued to confide and seek comfort in Dale, and gains survivalist skills through Shane. After escaping Hershel's overrun farm, she is rescued by Michonne and is brought by Merle to Woodbury, where she begins a romantic relationship with The Governor.
She is eventually caught in the crossfire between Rick and The Governor, and attempts to mend relations, but later turns on The Governor after learning that he intends to attack the prison. Afterwards, Andrea leaves Woodbury and reaches the prison perimeter, but is secretly followed and tackled by The Governor, who then returns her to Woodbury. She is then locked in his torture chamber, gagged and bound to a dental chair, with an undead Milton. However, before she is able to free herself, the reanimated Milton bites her. After the failed attempt to attack the prison by The Governor, a nearly dead Andrea is found by Rick, Daryl, Michonne, and Tyreese where she makes amends before taking her own life with Michonne by her side.
Dale Horvath, portrayed by Jeffrey DeMunn, is an older man and former car salesman. His age, calm affect, worldly experience, and RV provide the nucleus around that the small group of survivors has formed. In addition to being wise and the respected elder of the group, Dale is rather feisty and not afraid to speak his mind or call others out for their mistakes in judgment. At the CDC, he manages to talk Andrea out of a suicide attempt by putting himself at risk, as well; however, Andrea acts cold towards Dale afterward.
Eventually, Dale becomes wary of Shane, after witnessing that the latter contemplated assassinating Rick beforehand as well as guessing that Shane killed Otis while retrieving medical supplies for Carl. He later worries that the group is losing its humanity when they decide to kill Randall in order to avoid any risks he might have posed. Dale argues for sparing his life, leading to the execution being postponed. That night, Dale is disemboweled by a walker that was unintentionally lured by Carl earlier that day; he begins to slowly suffer to death. Since his injuries are beyond treatment, Daryl mercy kills Dale. His death causes the group to reevaluate their unity and allow Randall to live; nevertheless, Shane kills Randall in secret.
Glenn Rhee, portrayed by Steven Yeun, is a former pizza delivery boy from Atlanta who knows every shortcut in Atlanta. Glenn saves Rick's life at the beginning of the outbreak and helps him find his wife Lori and son Carl. As time goes by, Glenn becomes a very important member of the Hershel-inspired group as well as a supply courier in his experience of knowing the streets. While at the farm, he meets Hershel's daughter Maggie; the two fall in love and marry eventually with Hershel's blessing.
Together, they manage to pass many hard tests as they travel northward, eventually arriving at the Alexandria Safe-Zone. When Maggie experiences complications in her pregnancy, Glenn, along with Aaron, Abraham, Carl, Daryl, Eugene, Maggie, Michonne, Rick, Rosita and Sasha, drive to the Hilltop Colony for medical assistance. However, at the nightfall, the group is surrounded by a large group of Saviors at a clearing and forced to kneel before their leader Negan.
As punishment for a previous raid on a Savior outpost led by Rick, Negan's wrath lands on Abraham and Daryl's reaction to Abraham's death causes Negan to additionally bludgeon Glenn to death with his barbed wired baseball bat he calls "Lucille", traumatizing the surviving members of Rick's group. Glenn's remains are then taken by Maggie and Sasha to the Hilltop, where he and Abraham are buried together.
Carl Grimes, portrayed by Chandler Riggs, is Rick and Lori's son and Judith's older brother. His innocence diminishes as he begins to discover and experience the brutality in the world. While approaching a deer in the woods, he is accidentally shot by Hershel's friend Otis; Hershel manages to save Carl's life. In later episodes set at the prison, Carl witnesses his mother's death during childbirth and assumes the responsibility for putting a bullet in her brain to halt reanimation.
Carl's emotional equilibrium is stabilized upon arrival at the Alexandria Safe-Zone. He begins to form friendships with the original residents there and Enid, a young girl who narrowly escaped walkers after they killed her parents. When a walking swarm invades the community, Carl accidentally receives a shot in the right eye, but manages to recover and adapts in the moral balance until the arrival of Negan. Before the war against the Saviors, Carl hatches a daring plan to infiltrate the Sanctuary and kill Negan; however, they end up forming an interesting relationship as Negan tries his best to bond with the youngling.
Negan is hugely impressed with Carl's determination, and frequently makes comparisons between Carl and Rick. Nonetheless, Negan never hesitates to endanger Carl's life, first by ordering Rick to amputate his arm; however, just as Rick is about to go through with it, Negan stops him, believing Rick to now be submissive. The next time Negan endangers Carl's life is when he prepares to strike and kill Carl with Lucille during the Saviors' first assault on Alexandria; however, soldiers from the Hilltop Colony and the Kingdom stop this act by their surprise attack on the Saviors causing a battle to ensue.
Later, Carl meets Siddiq and helps him repel a walker attack in the woods, but is bitten on the torso by a walker. Some days later, during the Saviors' second attack on Alexandria, Carl reveals the secret to his father and Michonne that he was bitten. He gives his father a stack of letters that he wrote to the group (including Negan) and commits suicide to prevent his reanimation.
Daryl Dixon, portrayed by Norman Reedus, is Merle's younger brother. A Southern redneck with a tough background, Daryl is a survivalist and member of the Atlanta band. At first he held hostility towards the Atlanta group, but with the passage of time, he quickly becomes one of Rick's closest confidantes and a leader within the group. Daryl is Rick's best friend and his right-hand man.
Daryl keeps mainly to himself, reluctant to reveal his emotional inner life. He feels great guilt over the death of his older brother Merle, his inability to find Carol's daughter Sophia before the walkers do, the murder of Beth at Grady Hospital, and his inadvertent role in the death of Glenn. After Negan's murdering rampage, Daryl is captured, imprisoned and emotionally tortured by Negan and the Saviors. Negan's followers all declare their fidelity to Negan by saying "I am Negan."
However, despite weeks of torture and deprivation, Daryl never fails to respond "I am Daryl", and eventually earns Negan's grudging respect. In season nine, Daryl helps Michonne rescue Judith and all the other Alexandria Safe-Zone children from a ruthless woman, Jocelyn, who has brainwashed and trained a group of children to kill. He and Michonne both are branded with the letter "X" on their backs.
Carol Peletier, portrayed by Melissa McBride, is Sophia's protective mother and Ed's abused wife. After Sophia's death, Carol begins to form a great strength in her, becoming a very important component in the group and is able to do anything to keep the group intact. She begins to show a ruthless side that worries Rick, who exiles her while they are at the prison. However, Carol later earns her way back into Rick's inner circle. She promises Mika and Lizzie's dying father that she will take care of his daughters and does her best to keep this promise, even after discovering that Lizzie is insane and attempting to befriend walkers. Ultimately, Carol is forced to kill Lizzie after Lizzie kills her sister in an attempt to turn her into a walker playmate.
Carol proves to be a very strong and skilled member during the rescue of Rick's group in Terminus, the attack of the Wolves in the Alexandria Safe-Zone, and the war against Negan and the Saviors. She later marries Ezekiel, and the two adopt Henry as their own son. When Carol discovers that Alpha murdered Henry, she is totally devastated and unable to sustain Ezekiel's fantasy of Carol as his "queen". However, she separates from him during the blizzard at the end of season nine and returns to Alexandria.
Throughout the series, Carol has formed a strong but gentle bond with Daryl. Numerous times, each believes the other to be dead, and their later reunions are joyous.
Maggie Greene, portrayed by Lauren Cohan, is Hershel's daughter and Beth's elder half-sister. She scavenges supplies from the local town. Soon after she meets Glenn, they form a sexual relationship and soon fall in love. Eventually, the two marry while residing at the prison. Over the course of time, both go through hard tests which makes Glenn a pillar, a sustenance in the life of Maggie for her moral balance. She also forms a strong bond of friendship with Sasha.
Months after arriving at the Alexandria Safe-Zone, Maggie reveals to Aaron that she is pregnant with Glenn's child. After the introduction of Paul Rovio (a.k.a. Jesus), Maggie is part of an advance group that visits the Hilltop Colony and attempts to form an alliance with their leader Gregory. However, Gregory is arrogant, determined not to relinquish his position of power (or even to admit he can use help), and rebuffs Maggie disrespectfully.
As the war with Negan and the Saviors intensifies, Gregory sees no choice but to join forces with Negan. Maggie by this time has made the Hilltop her home. She has become a widow, with Glenn being bludgeoned to death by Negan with his barbed wired baseball bat he calls "Lucille". From that point, her dual focus is to safely deliver the baby and to avenge Glenn's death. She assumes a leadership role at the Hilltop; Gregory hates her and continually tries to undermine her.
Rick comes close to killing Negan during the final battle, but chooses to honor Carl's memory by imprisoning Negan for life; Maggie protests this loudly. She and Daryl (who also suffered at Negan's hands) agree that Negan should not be allowed to live, but they wait and watch for a good opportunity. Meanwhile, Maggie is still attempting to lead the Hilltop as best she can. After one final betrayal by Gregory is one too many, Maggie decides to make an example of Gregory (and eliminate his trouble-making once and for all) by hanging him.
She soon sees repeated attempts by the Saviors to sabotage and undermine Rick's work, so she decides the time has come to execute Negan. However, when she visits him at his prison cell at Alexandria, Maggie sees that he is broken and no longer the tyrannical leader who killed Glenn. At some point, during the six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, she left the Hilltop alongside her son Hershel to join Georgie's group. In "A Certain Doom" Maggie returns to assist the group in the war against The Whisperers saving Father Gabriel from certain death.
Michonne, portrayed by Danai Gurira, is a resourceful and self-sufficient katana-wielding survivor. Michonne met Andrea and began to open up; they developed a close friendship while they survived together. Eventually they met The Governor and were taken to Woodbury. While Andrea was initially smitten with The Governor, Michonne never trusted him or the make-believe world he tried to create. She attempted to join Rick's group, but he did not initially trust her. During the final battle against The Governor at the prison, Michonne saved Rick's life by stabbing The Governor in the chest then leaving him to suffer until Lily ends him.
After that, they coexisted well, all the way to the Alexandria Safe-Zone. The day after Rick captured Paul Rovio (a.k.a. Jesus), he returned home to Alexandria and in the course of a relaxing evening, he and Michonne began a permanent romantic relationship. At the time of Rick's presumed death. she was pregnant with Rick's son R.J. She assumed the position of leader of Alexandria, but due to her frightening encounter with her old college friend Jocelyn, she became exceedingly wary of anyone outside Alexandria for some years, but ultimately was persuaded to reconcile with the Hilltop Colony, the Kingdom, and Oceanside. She is conflicted about Judith's friendship with the still-imprisoned Negan.
Hershel Greene, portrayed by Scott Wilson, is a veterinarian and farmer who lives on his secluded farm for many years with his wife Annette, and his daughters Maggie and Beth, as well as his son Billy from a previous marriage. He grudgingly allows Rick's group to stay at his farm while Carl recovers and while searching for Sophia. It is eventually discovered that Hershel has been keeping his reanimated first wife Josephine, and various friends and neighbors in his barn; he believes that they are simply just sick people needing to be cured.
After the Atlanta refugees eventually discover this, Shane unlocks the doors of the barn and lets the walkers free. The group then kills all the walkers inside as the Greene family watches in horror. Hershel's vision of the world then becomes devastated; however, Rick helps him overcome his trauma. In time, Hershel becomes a mentor to Rick and the moral compass of the group. Before the final battle against The Governor at the prison, Hershel is captured, along with Michonne, and held hostage.
Confronted by The Governor at the prison, Rick pleads for Hershel's life to be spared. The Governor ignores Rick and kills Hershel by beheading him with Michonne's sword as Rick, Maggie, Beth, and the rest of the prison group watches in horror; the battle commences. Sometime after the battle, Hershel's zombified head is found by Michonne and put down.
Merle Dixon, portrayed by Michael Rooker, is Daryl Dixon's older brother. A racist and misogynist, Merle grew up in an abusive household. His first meeting with Rick quickly escalates to conflict, and Merle is subdued and handcuffed to a pipe, but the keys soon become lost. The group has to leave him there alone, but Rick soon leads a rescue party only to find that Merle has cut himself free and disappeared.
Merle returns in "Walk with Me", alive, one-handed, and residing at Woodbury, a thriving settlement run by the malicious Governor, where Merle serves as his lieutenant and enforcer. He escapes Woodbury with Daryl, but struggles to integrate into the prison.
He attempts to secure peace with The Governor by kidnapping Michonne, but relents and lets her go before returning to Woodbury, luring a pack of walkers to attack in an attempt to assassinate The Governor. He fails and is killed by The Governor, who leaves him to reanimate. Merle is later discovered by Daryl, who violently puts him down while sobbing.
The Governor (real name Philip Blake), portrayed by David Morrissey, is the leader of the fortified town of Woodbury and later the new leader of Martinez's Camp. He is shown to be a brutal, callous, cruel, cunning, highly intelligent, megalomaniacal, psychopathic, remorseless, and savage man who is a determined survivor and strong leader to those in his group. The Governor is also a seductive man and willing to kill anyone to secure the necessary supplies to strengthen his city. However, he loses his eye in a brutal confrontation with Michonne, and then begins to wear an eyepatch.
The day after he massacres The Governor's own people following the attempted attack on the prison, he returns to Woodbury and burns it to the ground. The town is then left a burnt-out husk, overrun with walkers, and uninhabitable. After he leaves Woodbury, he goes by his real name—Philip Blake—and briefly by the pseudonym of "Brian Heriot". During the final battle against Rick's group at the prison, just as he is about to kill Rick, he is stabbed in the back by Michonne. Shortly after, he is shot in the head by Lilly, which kills him instantly. Additionally, he has caused the deaths of Axel, Merle, Milton, Andrea, Martinez, and Hershel.
Beth Greene, portrayed by Emily Kinney, is the youngest daughter of Annette and Hershel Greene, and the half-sister of Maggie and Shawn.
When first introduced, she is in a relationship with Jimmy, who is another member of Hershel's group. After his death, she later started a relationship at the prison with Zach, who also died. When The Governor returned to the prison, she watched in horror as The Governor beheaded her father; this instantly started the final battle between Rick's group and The Governor's militia. Beth, like the others, was then forced to flee the prison with Daryl, as the whole group became separated during the final showdown.
On the road, she formed a brief bond with Daryl until she was abducted by police officers enlisted in the service under the corrupt Officer Dawn Lerner and forced to remain at the officer's residence—Grady Memorial Hospital. There, she met Noah and became close friends with him. However, when the two attempted to escape together, Beth was caught and Noah had to leave her behind. Soon after, Noah met Daryl, who was searching for Beth with Carol. Daryl then brought Noah to Rick's group at the church where Noah informed them all of Beth's situation.
Rick's group then travels to the hospital where they take two of Dawn's people hostage and exchange them for Beth and Carol, who was also captured while searching for Beth with Daryl. However, when Dawn also requested for Noah, Beth finally understood Dawn and stabbed her with scissors. Dawn then immediately shoots Beth in the head accidentally by reflex, instantly killing her, but protests that she didn't mean to kill her. Without hesitation, Daryl immediately pulls out his gun and kills Dawn by shooting her in the head. Outside, as the rest of Rick's group arrive at the hospital, Maggie breaks down as a sobbing Daryl carries Beth's body.
Tyreese Williams, portrayed by Chad L. Coleman, is the leader of a group from Jacksonville, Florida, which includes his sister Sasha, as well as Allen's family.
During his stay in Woodbury, Karen and Sasha discover the sinister personality of The Governor and upon arriving at the prison, formed a relationship with his surviving Woodbury companion, Karen. After the death of Karen and the fall of the prison, he temporarily becomes the main caretaker of Judith Grimes and Lizzie and Mika Samuels.
When he learned of the death of his partner at the hands of Carol, he forgives her. He goes with Carol to rescue his friends in Terminus and spares the life of a cannibal named Martin who attempts to take the life of the baby Judith. He is bitten on his arm by Noah's zombified brother, which is then amputated by Rick, which causes him to die from loss of blood. Later, Michonne avoids his reanimation.
Sasha Williams, portrayed by Sonequa Martin-Green, is a former firefighter from Jacksonville, Florida and Tyreese's young sister. After the fall of the prison, she formed a relationship with, Bob Stookey. After the deaths of Bob and Tyreese, she suffers from severe anguish and post-traumatic stress disorder. She begins to isolate herself, refusing to invest in the Alexandria Safe-Zone; however, she does develop a close friendship with Maggie. She forms a deep and romantic relationship with Abraham Ford in which she and the sergeant share a common experience with post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal imprudence.
When Abraham is killed by Negan she relocates to the Hilltop Colony, growing closer to Maggie, and befriending Enid and Jesus. During an attempt to get revenge on Negan, Sasha is kidnapped. When he tries to use her as leverage against Rick and the group she commits suicide by taking a cyanide tablet given to her by Eugene Porter; attacking Negan as a walker when he takes her back to Alexandria. Later, Maggie and Jesus find her zombified form wandering around outside Alexandria and put her down.
Bob Stookey, portrayed by Lawrence Gilliard Jr., is a former army medic and alcoholic, but struggles to get rid of vice, which causes him problems with the group. As time passes, this develops an attraction to Sasha with whom he subsequently maintains a loving relationship, in turn Bob has developed a renewed sense of optimism after surviving the fall of the prison. During his stay in the church of Father Gabriel, he leaves with Rick, Michonne and Gabriel in a food run, but is bitten by a walker. After a banquet, he leaves the church and starts crying when he is suddenly kidnapped by the Hunters of Terminus.
After being knocked out, he awakens to discovers his leg is being cannibalized. He laughs and hysterically mocks them, saying that he is "tainted meat" and shows them his bitten shoulder. In response, the Hunters savagely beat him and leave him outside the church. Soon after, the group murders all the Hunters as revenge for Bob and previous matters. He dies the following morning with Tyreese stabbing him in the head to prevent reanimation as Sasha cannot bring herself to do it.
Sgt. Abraham Ford, portrayed by Michael Cudlitz, is a survivor and former member of the military who has a relationship with Rosita. Before meeting Eugene, he had a family who ran away after seeing him kill a group that threatened their safety. After his family was killed by walkers, Abraham attempted suicide, but Eugene arrived at the same moment, stopping him from doing so. His mission has become attempting to deliver Eugene to Washington, D.C., believing he has the answer to the cause and cure of the walker plague.
Upon discovering that Eugene was lying, he nearly beats Eugene to death. During his stay at the Alexandria Safe-Zone, he reconciles with Eugene and assumes the position of community construction leader, ends with Rosita and begins a deep relationship with Sasha. However, he is brutally murdered by Negan, who repeatedly clubbed him in the head with his barbed wired baseball bat he calls "Lucille". Abraham's remains are then taken by Sasha and Maggie to the Hilltop Colony, where he and Glenn are buried together
Eugene Porter, portrayed by Josh McDermitt, is a survivor and member of Abraham Ford's group. He is often portrayed as a cowardly but very intelligent man. When introduced, he was pretending to be a scientist claiming to know how to cure the walker virus, and that he was being taken to Washington D.C. so he could combat it. In truth, he believed Washington to be heavily fortified, and he would therefore be safe there. When he finally admits his lie, he is beaten by Abraham and loses trust within the group, though he is eventually forgiven upon reaching the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
During Negan's rule, he is taken to the Sanctuary and made one of Negan's lieutenants, due to his knowledge of creating ammunition. Eugene abused this trust to turn on Negan in a crucial showdown, saving his friends and forcing the Saviors' surrender. Months after Negan's defeat, Eugene becomes crucial in helping advance and develop the communities. Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, a much more capable and confident Eugene becomes one of the first members of the group to encounter The Whisperers.
During the war against The Whisperers, Eugene communicates on the radio with a strange woman who invites him to her distant community. He prepares to go with Yumiko and Ezekiel, and on the way, they meet Princess, who joins them on their journey. Both arrive at the place where they were to be seen but suddenly they are captured by some soldiers in white armor.
Rosita Espinosa, portrayed by Christian Serratos, is an optimistic and pragmatic survivor, and a member of Abraham Ford's group. Initially, she is in a relationship with Abraham; however, he eventually leaves her for Sasha. She rebounds by sleeping with Spencer, though it's clear she doesn't care much for him. Within the group, she grows close to Tara, Glenn, and Eugene. When both Abraham and Spencer die at the hands of Negan, she swears revenge upon him; however, she begins to reconsider her decision after Sasha sacrifices herself. Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, she starts a relationship with Gabriel. However, it is eventually revealed that she got pregnant by Siddiq, whom she had been casually sleeping with before falling for Gabriel.
Tara Chambler, portrayed by Alanna Masterson, is a former police academy student who holes up in an apartment complex with her remaining family—her sister Lilly, her dying father David, and her niece Meghan. She is a lesbian and characterized by being optimistic, affectionate, and very overprotective with those around her. Tara welcomes The Governor (under the pseudonym of "Brian Heriot") into her apartment and was with him to attack the prison.
After The Governor kills Hershel, Tara immediately realizes his true personality. After the fall of the prison, Tara helps Glenn to seek for Maggie. After the couple reunites, she then joins Abraham's group. When the group meets up again with Rick and company, Tara is well received in the group. When she arrives at the Alexandria Safe-Zone, she is given the position of supply runner. She forms a great bond with Eugene, Glenn and Rosita, who were with her when she was seriously injured during a supply run.
Her participation in the war against the Saviors was very important. After the war, Tara moves to the Hilltop Colony and becomes the right-hand of Jesus after Maggie departs to join Georgie's group. After Jesus is killed by a Whisperer, Tara takes over the leadership role, but is eventually killed by Alpha. It is later revealed that she was decapitated with her head appearing on a spike.
Gareth, portrayed by Andrew J. West, is the leader of a supposed safe-zone, Terminus, which he runs along with his younger brother, Alex, and his mother, Mary. He explains that Terminus initially was a safe and welcoming place, a sanctuary for all who wanted to come in, before a group of marauders took over and began ruthlessly beating and raping the other survivors. Gareth and his family had to take Terminus back by force, and decided that from then on, they would run Terminus in a similarly brutal manner by capturing, killing, and eating all those who were lured in by the various signs posted in the area.
Just before Gareth and his butchers can kill Rick, Daryl, Glenn, and Bob, Carol begins her siege on Terminus by blowing up the propane tank outside, blasting open the fences and allowing walkers to flow in. Though Terminus is destroyed and a majority of the survivors, including Alex and Mary, are killed, Gareth manages to survive and escape, along with five others, and become known as The Hunters. Later the Hunters kidnap Bob and eat one of his legs, but when he reveals that he is infected, they savagely beat him and leave him outside Father Gabriel's church, where Rick's group has taken residence. They then attempt to lead a siege against the church in "Four Walls and a Roof", only to be outsmarted and overpowered by Rick's group. Although Gareth initially pleads for his life, Rick refuses and brutally kills him with a red-handled machete (as per a promise Rick made to Gareth in Terminus).
Father Gabriel Stokes, portrayed by Seth Gilliam, is a priest at a small parish church outside Atlanta. He barricaded himself within his church for many months, denying his parishioners entry, and was tormented by his guilt until joining Rick's group. Since then, he has often struggled with trust issues and the nature of humanity in this new world, but over time Gabriel becomes a very important friend to many in the group, offering advice and wisdom to those in need. At the beginning of the war, he found himself trapped alone with Negan inside a trailer house at the Sanctuary where he was able to cut through Negan's bravado and get him to open up for the first time.
He was subsequently kept captive by the Saviors and ended up becoming blind in his right eye after an infection went untreated. After the fall of Negan, he forms a brief romance with Jadis before her disappearance. Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, he has become head of the Alexandria Council and started a relationship with Rosita, and watches over the imprisoned Negan. Besides cleaning the prison cell and continuously try to meditate with Negan, Gabriel hopes that there is some humanity inside of Negan. However, when Negan continues to make fun of Gabriel, he snaps and tells him off, to which Negan apologizes for.
Morgan Jones, portrayed by Lennie James, is a survivor staying in Rick's hometown with his son, Duane. Initially, he suffers from the loss of his wife Jenny at the beginning of the outbreak, unwilling to move on while her reanimated body roamed the town. He helps Rick recover after he wakes from his coma, and promises to contact him over radio as Rick continued towards Atlanta. Later, Morgan could not take action to prevent walker Jenny from biting Duane, and he becomes obsessed with clearing walkers from the town. Rick meets him again while scavenging for supplies, and asks him to join them, but Morgan refuses.
After he accidentally burned down his home in a fit, Morgan takes to following Rick and eventually encounters a former prison psychologist named Eastman, who helps Morgan find inner peace through the use of aikido. This not only gives Morgan a new mode of self-defense, but also imparts a new dedication to respecting the value of human life. Morgan follows Rick's group from Terminus to the Alexandria Safe-Zone, where he finds their violent ways, particularly of Carol's, distressing and tries to help show them a better way to deal with the humans that want to harm them.
After being asked to locate a missing Carol and becoming a part of the Kingdom, Morgan finally comes to the realization that you have to kill sometimes, and kills Richard in a rage. Morgan helps in the fight against the Saviors and Scavengers, but the violence and the familiar feeling of instability become too much for him, and he once again leaves to be on his own, which leads him to Fear the Walking Dead.
Jessie Anderson, portrayed by Alexandra Breckenridge, is an Alexandria Safe-Zone resident who is married to Pete, and mother to Ron and Sam. She mentions to Rick that she is a former stylist and gives him a long overdue haircut, where it is apparent that the two have a romantic chemistry. It comes to light that Jessie is abused by Pete leading Rick to intervene, which leads to a violent fight between the two men. After Rick is given permission to execute Pete by Deanna for unintentionally killing Reg, Jessie decides to step up in the community and learns to shoot. When the Wolves attack, Jessie is tackled by one of their women and brutally stabs her repeatedly.
She then tries to convince the other Alexandrians that they can be courageous and accept the harsh realities outside the walls, and begins a relationship with Rick. When a gargantuan herd breaks into Alexandria, Sam panics during the escape attempt and is devoured in front of her. In shock, Jessie freezes and a group of walkers begin to rip at her, but continues to grip tightly onto Carl's hand. An emotional Rick is then forced to chop off her arm so that she does not pull Carl into the herd with her as well. The next day, she and her sons are buried together at Alexandria once the herd is destroyed.
Aaron, portrayed by Ross Marquand, is a recruiter for the Alexandria Safe-Zone who generally has a cheerful and outgoing personality. He is gay and maintains a relationship with Eric Raeligh with whom he traveled with to recruit Rick's group. Despite losing Eric during the early stages in the war against the Saviors, Aaron continued to be an important element in defeating Negan and his followers. After the war, Aaron develops an intimate friendship with Jesus and helps construct a bridge. During an accident caused by rebellious Saviors, Aaron loses his left arm.
Spencer Monroe, portrayed by Austin Nichols, is a resident of the Alexandria Safe-Zone and son of Reg and Deanna Monroe and brother of Aiden. When Rosita ends with Abraham, she has sex with him, develops a quarrel with Rick for the death of his family and how he has handled himself with the Saviors. He tried to prove himself to the Saviors by going out alone to collect supplies, but when he reveals to Negan his desire to overthrow Rick, Negan notices how cowardly Spencer truly is. Negan doubts that Spencer has any "guts" and slashes him across the stomach, allowing his intestines to spill out before he dies, in front of the whole community. He is left to reanimate and Rick puts him down.
Deanna Monroe, portrayed by Tovah Feldshuh, is a former Congresswoman and the leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, mother of Aiden and Spencer Monroe and the wife of Reg. Rick made her see how weak the community was, she finally realizes that Rick is a great element for the community. When Pete assassinates Reg, she orders Rick to eliminate him and the latter kills him, being devastated by the death of her husband. She passes part of her leadership to Rick and before dying she declares him leader. During the invasion walker in Alexandria she is bitten by a walker and later Spencer finishes it after reanimation.
Negan, portrayed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is a totalitarian and manipulative dictator who made his first appearance in the sixth-season finale. He is the psychopathic and merciless leader of a vast organization of hostile survivors called the Saviors that he rules with tyranny. Negan has gathered together strong survivors and leads them in terrorizing nearby survivor communities in exchange for food and supplies. He sets out for revenge against Rick's group after they kill a lot of Negan's people at a Savior outpost.
Eventually, Negan and a large portion of his people follow and ambush the group during their trip to the Hilltop. After cornering and introducing himself to Rick's group, Negan brutally murders Glenn and Abraham with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire he calls "Lucille", named after his late wife. Afterwards, Negan takes a portion of Alexandria's supplies so that he doesn't have to kill any more of their residents, but still murders Olivia and Spencer. Rick then plans a rebellion against the Saviors.
Negan is notable for using excessive profanity when he speaks, even to his own people, despite having everything he has always wanted to maintain a balance with his people. He proved it when he had to end the life of his right-hand man, Simon, who betrayed him and became a threat to Negan and his people, and the resources for the Saviors as the war against the Militia progressed. During the final battle, Negan is defeated and then kept as a prisoner in Alexandria. Over the years, Negan's antagonism diminishes and his mental stability improves as he forms a bond with Judith.
Several months after the fair massacre, Negan suggests to Michonne that in a conflict no one is able to admit that they are the evil ones in the situation, indicating reflection and possibly remorse for his past actions. In the midst of the Whisperer War, Negan escapes from his cell and joins The Whisperers, and manages to gain Alpha's trust and affection. Eventually, Negan kills her by slitting her throat and bringing her severed head to Carol with whom he had been working with the whole time. Later, he manages to save Daryl, who was held captive by three Whisperers, in order to prove his loyalty to Alexandria.
Dwight, portrayed by Austin Amelio, is a ruthless but reluctant member of the Saviors who forms a hostile rivalry with Daryl. In "Twice as Far", he reappears with a captive Eugene and murders Denise where you see half of his face burned. He tries to subjugate Daryl and Rosita, but they are saved by Abraham and Eugene who bites his crotch. Dwight acquires the rank of lieutenant within the group of the Saviors. After the deaths of Glenn and Abraham, Dwight is commissioned to keep Daryl imprisoned by orders of Negan. His wife Sherry helps him escape and his wife escapes from the Sanctuary to an unknown location.
This causes Dwight forms quite a grudge against Negan which reveals that Negan burned his face when he left the Sanctuary. For these reasons, he forms an alliance with Rick, working as a double agent in the war against the Saviors. After Negan's defeat, Daryl expels him and threatens to kill him if he sees him again. He accepts the decision and starts look for his wife Sherry which leads him to Fear the Walking Dead.
Paul "Jesus" Rovia, portrayed by Tom Payne, is a scout from the Hilltop Colony who introduces Rick and his group to the community. He has great skills in hand-to-hand fighting and was a very important piece for the war against the Saviors. After the defeat of the Saviors and Maggie overthrows Gregory's leadership, Jesus becomes Maggie's right-hand and adviser. He is the moral compass of the group and eventually became an intimate friend of Aaron. When Maggie leaves the Hilltop, he becomes the leader of the community position. In "Evolution", after finding Eugene with Daryl and Aaron, and trying to return home, Jesus is stabbed in the heart and killed by a Whisperer.
Gregory, portrayed by Xander Berkeley, is the leader of the Hilltop Colony. He is shown to be an arrogant, cowardly, selfish, and treacherous man. His leadership led the Hilltop to the subjugation of Negan and the Saviors. It began to decline with the arrival of Rick's group. Before the war, Gregory accepted a deal from the Saviors and later broke that deal during the war. After the war, Gregory's charge collapsed leaving Maggie as his replacement. After a failed assassination attempt on Maggie, Gregory is executed by hanging on Maggie's order.
King Ezekiel, portrayed by Khary Payton, is the leader of a community known as "the Kingdom". Accompanied by his Bengal tiger, Shiva, Ezekiel has always been a pacifist leader, although his community lived in the terrified subjugation of the Saviors until Rick proposed to form an alliance to end Negan's tyranny. Ezekiel initially rejects Rick, but after a Savior, Jared, kills Benjamin, Ezekiel changes his mind and decides to combine forces with the Alexandria Safe-Zone and Hilltop Colony. Together, the three combined forces manage to defeat Negan and the Saviors. Six years after Negan is defeated, he marries Carol and adopts Henry as his son.
After Henry's death, his relationship with Carol falls apart and they separate. In "What It Always Is", Ezekiel reveals to Siddiq that he has thyroid cancer. Ezekiel accompanies Eugene and Yumiko to the Commonwealth, a distant community, a journey on which they are soon joined by Princess.
Simon (also known as Lead Savior in his first appearance), portrayed by Steven Ogg, is a high-ranking member of the Saviors who serves as Negan's right-hand man. He is shown to be an articulate, brutal, ruthless, and unpredictable man with a sadistic and unnerving sense of humor, and considered even by Negan too violent and "psychotic". Simon has displayed extreme loyalty to his leader and, as such, is highly valued and trusted by Negan. Like Negan, Simon is not beyond using fear and intimidation to achieve his goals while also being a remorseless, cold-blooded mass murderer and not at all bothered by the excessive violence that the Saviors employ.
However, his loyalty to Negan lessens as the war against the Militia progresses. During the course of the war, Simon becomes deranged, has differences with Negan, endangers the Sanctuary during an attack on the Hilltop Colony, desires to take control of the Saviors and, towards the end of the war, secretly attempts to kill Negan with a small group. However, Negan discovers his plan. Despite this and his backstabbing, Negan offers Simon a chance of leadership of the Saviors by fighting to the death, which Simon accepts. Simon initially gets the upper hand before Negan eventually overpowers him.
Negan then brutally strangles Simon to death, all the while furiously berating his right-hand man for ruining what chance they had left of making peace with Rick and the rest of the communities. Afterwards, Negan gives one final squeeze that crushes Simon's windpipe, killing him instantly. Following Simon's death, he reanimates as a walker and is chained to the Sanctuary fence; possibly some Savior ended his misery.
Enid, portrayed by Katelyn Nacon, is an Alexandria Safe-Zone resident. She is first introduced to Carl sitting on a bed with a book while Ron and Mikey show Carl their video games. She eventually develops a close bond with Carl. After the events with the Saviors, Enid moved to the Hilltop Colony to join Sasha and help Maggie during her pregnancy, and starts a loving relationship with Carl. After the war against the Saviors, she is devastated after the death of Carl and becomes Siddiq's apprentice in medical practices. After the alleged death of Rick, she became the Hilltop doctor and later enters into a relationship with Alden. However, she is killed by Alpha and her severed head is put on a spike.
Jadis (also known as "Anne"), portrayed by Pollyanna McIntosh, is the oddly-spoken and enigmatic leader of the Scavengers who formed alliances with Negan and in the war maintained a neutral position with her group. After the war against the Saviors, she moved to the Alexandria Safe-Zone and had a brief romance with Gabriel. After finding a wounded Rick (following the destruction of the bridge), she redeems herself completely by convincing the helicopter pilot to help her to save him; together they both go to an unknown place to start a new journey.
Alden, portrayed by Callan McAuliffe, is a member of the Saviors who watches over the satellite outpost. When Jesus and the Militia take his group by surprise, he surrenders along with the rest of his group. Eventually, seeing the courage of the Hilltop Colony, he and other Saviors decide to join the ranks of Maggie. During the war against Negan and the Saviors, he gains Maggie's respect and decides to start a fresh new life at the Hilltop. Months after Negan's defeat, Alden has become a close member of Maggie's leadership group within the Hilltop. Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, he is working as a blacksmith at the Hilltop while in a relationship with Enid. At the end of "Adaptation", Alden is captured by Alpha along with Luke. However, they are returned in exchange for Lydia in the following episode. In "Hunted", Alden escapes the Reaper ambush, but he is attacked in an abandoned shopping mall by two Reapers that are later identified as Bossie and Michael Turner. Maggie and Negan manage to kill Turner and wound Bossie, forcing him to flee with Turner's body, but not before Bossie severely wounds Alden. Maggie refuses to leave Alden behind and she and Negan support him as they continue with their mission, but they have to stop in an abandoned church. Knowing that he is only slowing them down, Alden joins Negan in urging Maggie to leave behind and continuing on without him. Maggie reluctantly agrees, but she leaves Alden with some food and a knife to defend himself until they can return for him. After Maggie and Negan leave, Alden barricades the church door and settles in to wait. In "No Other Way", Alden, at some point, engaged in a fight with an unnamed reaper which causes him to have his throat slit in the process, though Alden succeeds in killing the aforementioned reaper. Maggie goes back to the church to find a zombified Alden and puts him and the Reaper down before burying Alden's body nearby.
Siddiq, portrayed by Avi Nash, is a lone survivor skilled in medical practices who debuts in "Mercy". He is first seen surrendering to Carl and tells him that he has not eaten in a few days. When Carl suddenly points a gun at Siddiq, he tries to calm Carl down, but Rick then arrives and fires a few warning shots, which makes Siddiq run away. Later, Carl returns and leaves two cans of food with a note saying: "Sorry". Siddiq watches Carl from the bushes as he walks away. Eventually, Siddiq is willing to accept Carl's help, and the two head back to the Alexandria Safe-Zone; however, Carl is bitten by a walker. As Carl is dying, Siddiq promises to honor Carl's legacy by doing for others what Carl did for him.
Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, he is the lead doctor for Alexandria and has taken Enid as his apprentice. He is a member of the Alexandria Council and seems to be one of the few people who still have a positive relationship with Michonne, often advising her on matters. Later, Siddiq is revealed to be the father of Rosita's baby, conceived after a brief fling. He is the sole survivor of those kidnapped by Alpha during the fair, and his memories of what he witnessed tortured him until he was eventually killed by Dante upon realizing he is a Whisperer spy and reanimates as a walker before being put down by Rosita.
Alpha, portrayed by Samantha Morton, is the leader of The Whisperers, a mysterious group of hostile survivors who disguise themselves with the skin of the undead in order to blend in with them and not get noticed, and the main antagonist of the second half of season nine and the whole of season ten. She is shown to be a cold, cunning, egocentric, psychopathic, sadistic, and highly intelligent woman who is a hardened, determined survivor and a strong leader to those in her group, appearing to enjoy being in a position of authority and does not take kindly to anyone who opposes her.
Alpha first appears at the end of "Adaptation", aiming Alden and Luke with a sawed-off shotgun. In "Omega", Alpha's dark past is revealed in flashbacks. It is shown that she killed her husband Frank and their group of survivors during the initial stages of the outbreak, considering them as "weak people". At the end of the episode, she appears unmasked at the Hilltop Colony with some members of her group, asking the community to return her daughter Lydia. In "The Calm Before", it is revealed that she brutally murdered and beheaded Ozzy, Alek, D.J., Frankie, Tammy, Rodney, Addy, Enid, Tara, and Henry. The beheaded members' heads are then placed on spikes, marking the boundary of a new border. Alpha does this in order to warn the communities not to cross into The Whisperers' territory.
Alpha later escalates the conflict into an all-out war after Lydia rejects her completely, forming a relationship with Negan in the process. However, after capturing Lydia, Negan lures Alpha into a trap and slits her throat. Negan subsequently delivers Alpha's reanimated head to Carol, with whom he had been working, because Carol had been obsessed with killing Alpha in revenge for the murder of her adopted son, Henry. Shortly after, Beta finds the head, and furiously grabs one of his men and feeds part The Whisperer's face to Alpha's reanimated head; Beta takes the head with him inside a bag. Inside an abandoned building, Beta puts down Alpha, and skins half of her face and attaches it to himself to wear as the new right side of his own mask, declaring himself the new leader of The Whisperers.
Beta, portrayed by Ryan Hurst, is the second-in-command of The Whisperers and Alpha's right-hand man. He serves as the secondary antagonist of the second half of the ninth season. Beta has a huge and corpulent stature. He is shown to be an aggressive, brutal, cunning, and highly analytical man who is devoted to The Whisperer way of life. Beta is completely loyal to Alpha, following her orders without question and respecting her decisions completely. Due to his large size and strength, Beta is a very dangerous opponent, capable of using excessive force to protect his group and a skilled fighter.
He is shown to be quite capable of cold-blooded murder, and appears to be a highly skilled tracker and strategic thinker as well which makes him a vital member of The Whisperers. Beta is more than willing to harm any Whisperer who poses a threat to Alpha and to keep the others in line. He first appears in "Guardians", where he captures Henry. In "Chokepoint", Daryl has a one-on-one fight with Beta, which ends with Daryl pushing Beta into an open elevator shaft. Beta survives and finds a way out.
In "Look at the Flowers", Beta discovers Alpha's severed head on a spike. In response, a furious Beta ends one of his men and puts the head inside a bag. Carrying the bag, he goes inside an abandoned building. There, his past identity as a famous country music singer is revealed. He plays one of his own records at high volume, luring walkers to his location. He then puts down Alpha, and skins half of her face and attaches it to himself to wear as the new right side of his own mask, declaring himself the new leader of The Whisperers. Beta then leads the horde of walkers to the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
In "A Certain Doom", Beta discovers the group's hiding place, and attacks with The Whisperers and a gigantic walker horde. The group manages to evade the walkers and send the horde off-track, but The Whisperers overwhelm them. During the fight, Beta is attacked by Negan, but gains the upper hand, and is about to kill Negan when Daryl intervenes, stabbing Beta in the eyes. Mortally injured, Beta is taken down by the walkers surrounding him.
Yumiko (Japanese: 由美子), portrayed by Eleanor Matsuura, is a member of Magna's group, a former criminal defense lawyer, and Magna's girlfriend. She is wounded on the road when a horde of walkers surround them but recovered shortly thereafter. She and the rest of her group begin living at the Hilltop Colony just prior to the Whisperers' arrival. Since the deaths of both Jesus and Tara, Yumiko has taken on a leadership role at the Hilltop, something Magna doesn't fully support. Yumiko, along with Ezekiel, volunteers to accompany Eugene to the Commonwealth, a distant community. They are soon joined on their journey by Princess, with whom Yumiko has a brief hostility. In "A Certain Doom", when they arrive at the Commonwealth, they are surrounded by soldiers wearing white armor.
Jerry, portrayed by Cooper Andrews, is a member of the Kingdom and Ezekiel's steward. He is a man of enormous size but is charismatic, cheerful, and kind to people. Jerry is also described as a good, loyal friend, which is demonstrated during the war against Negan. When a Savior is about to execute Ezekiel, Jerry saves him from certain death. Even though Ezekiel asks him to run, Jerry refuses to leave him. At some point during the two timeskips, Jerry has begun a relationship with Nabila and has three children with her.
Magna, portrayed by Nadia Hilker, is the leader of a small group of roaming survivors and Yumiko's girlfriend. She and her people first appear in "What Comes After", fighting against a walking horde that is overwhelming them and shortly after rescued by Judith Grimes. Magna and her companions are then brought to the Alexandria Safe-Zone, before eventually moving to reside in the Hilltop Colony. In "Who Are You Now?", she is revealed to carry a series of hidden knives on her person and to have served time in prison. Though she considers attacking Michonne, who is untrusting of her, she relents after seeing Michonne's family and instead turns over her last knife.
In "Squeeze", Magna and Connie become trapped in a walker-filled cave leaving their fates unknown. However, in "Walk with Us", Magna is revealed to have survived and escaped, but Connie's fate remains unknown as Magna got separated from her in the horde.
Judith Grimes, portrayed by Cailey Fleming, is Shane and Lori's daughter and Carl's half-sister. She is born in the Season 3 episode "Killer Within". Maggie delivers her via a crude C-section, using Carl's knife. Lori dies during childbirth. Daryl nicknames the baby "Lil' Asskicker", and Rick allows Carl to name her after his third-grade teacher, Judith Mueller. Judith's fate is seemingly unknown following the Governor's final assault on the prison. Rick and Carl find Judith's empty car seat, stained heavily with blood, and presume her to be dead.
It is revealed that Tyreese had rescued Judith before escaping from the prison with Lizzie and Mika - the three are walking through a forest, with Tyreese holding Judith in his arms, before they reunite with Carol. During the year and a half that has passed since the end of the war, Judith has been raised by Rick and Michonne in a rebuilt and thriving Alexandria Safe-Zone. Six years later, Magna's group takes on a herd of walkers. They quickly get overwhelmed but are saved when the walkers around them get shot from the trees. Magna and her group escape into the woods to find an older Judith, around nine years old, armed with Rick's revolver and a katana.
They introduce themselves and ask what her name is. She picks up her hat and introduces herself as Judith Grimes. Judith later argues with Michonne to allow Magna's group to stay and is shown to have befriended Negan out of pity for his situation. When Negan escapes, Judith lets him go and then escorts him back to Alexandria after she finds him on the road. It is Judith who ultimately convinces Michonne to reconnect Alexandria with the other communities. According to Negan, Judith is just as much of a badass as Carl was and can tell when someone is lying to her, leading to Negan treating Judith with a great deal of respect and being honest with her during his stories of her family and friends.
Lydia, portrayed by Cassady McClincy (teenager) and Scarlett & Havana Blum (young), is a survivor who, along with her parents, Alpha and Frank, survived the initial stages of the outbreak. After 23 days of the initial outbreak, Lydia and her parents remained in a moldy basement with a group of survivors. Lydia used to be naive about the state of the world and always spent time with her father, since her mother is a very cold person. After the death of her father, Lydia begins to have a nefarious treatment on the part of her mother.
In "Adaptation", after being captured by Daryl and Michonne, and kept as a prisoner in a cell at the Hilltop Colony, Lydia begins to form a bond with Henry. Eventually, Lydia falls in love with Henry and begins a relationship with him, ultimately rejecting the Whisperers in favor of the other communities, who agree to grant Lydia asylum. In "The Calm Before", Lydia rejects Alpha and The Whisperers completely, and is disowned by her mother. Her relationship with Henry is cut short when he, alongside nine others, is brutally murdered by her mother. She then lives in the Kingdom with Daryl before its fall and moves into the Alexandria Safe-Zone, displaying some suicidal tendencies out of guilt.
Several months after the fair massacre, Lydia continues living with Daryl in Alexandria, but struggles to fit in with many people being angry and untrusting of her. She adopts Henry's staff and chosen form of aikido, which Henry had learned from Morgan. When a small group attempts to attack and kill her, Negan is the only one to step in and save Lydia, though it causes trouble when he accidentally kills one of them in the process. Eventually, when Carol learns that Alpha has lied to her people about killing Lydia, Carol tries to use Lydia to turn them against Alpha. After encountering Gamma and seeing her reaction to Lydia's well-being, Lydia immediately realizes what Carol has done and runs away, refusing to be used by someone again.
In "Stalker", Lydia returns to rescue Daryl, who is succumbing to his wounds inside an abandoned gas station after a one-on-one brutal fight with Alpha. Her mother succumbs to her own wounds as well. Recognizing that while the people in the communities aren't perfect, they are Lydia's best chance of living a normal life. She is unable to kill her mother, who requested that Lydia kill her. She departs with Daryl and nurses him back to health. Disowning her mother permanently causes Alpha to press the conflict into a full-scale war.
Connie, portrayed by Lauren Ridloff, is a deaf member of Magna's group. After moving to the Hilltop Colony, she not only saves a baby that the Whisperers had left behind to be eaten by walkers but also helps Daryl in rescuing Henry and Lydia from the Whisperers, traveling with them until they escort the two back to the Kingdom. Months later, these events have bonded Connie and Daryl, who now share a very close friendship with Daryl even finding an American Sign Language book to learn how to better communicate with her.
When Magna and Connie become trapped in a walker-filled cave leaving their fates unknown. However, in "Walk with Us", Magna is revealed to have survived and escaped, but Connie's fate remains unknown as Magna got separated from her in the horde. In "A Certain Doom" It is revealed that she is alive, she is discovered by Virgil who sees her lying weak, dirty and untidy in the forest.
Juanita "Princess" Sanchez, portrayed by Paola Lázaro, is a quirky and flamboyant survivor. She joins the group of Eugene, Ezekiel, and Yumiko. The former at first had no empathy for her, but eventually managed to befriend Princess. In "A Certain Doom", when they arrive at the rendezvous point to meet Stephanie, the group is surrounded by soldiers in white armor. She is then locked in a boxcar and begins having hallucinations.
The Atlanta Survivor Camp, first appearing in "Days Gone Bye", is a base camp established in a quarry just outside the city of Atlanta, Georgia, near Interstate 85. It is led by the opaque leadership of Shane until Rick's arrival. Under Rick's more balanced leadership, most of the survivors want to live peacefully away from the walkers except for Ed and Shane who cause problems, but with the course of history the majority of the group dies while others depart the group.
The Greene Family Farm, first appearing in "Bloodletting", is led by patriarch Hershel Greene, where he lives with his daughters Maggie and Beth, his foreman Otis, Otis' wife Patricia, and Jimmy, Beth's boyfriend, who is tutored by Hershel. At the beginning, he had many problems with Rick about the walkers and ignored what was happening in the outside world, but eventually Hershel and Rick formed a great friendship by becoming advisors to one another.
The Living, first appearing in "Nebraska", is a hostile group of bandits and manipulators who are heavily armed with automatic weaponry. Few members of the group appeared on screen, except for the scouting members that encountered Rick's group. They are the first antagonistic group encountered in the series and the only one with an unknown status.
Five inmates in the prison survived the outbreak, locked up in the canteen for ten months in the West Georgia Correctional Facility. Until released from the canteen by Rick's group, they were unaware of the walker plague that wiped out a large percentage of the population. Rick tells them they can live in a separate cell block. Although two of them ultimately join Rick's group, they all eventually die.
Woodbury, first appearing in "Walk with Me", is a town in Georgia of which a few streets have been walled off to keep the town operating. It is led by Philip Blake, who has adopted the nickname "The Governor" from the townspeople. Woodbury had a population of close to eighty people at the time of Andrea and Michonne's arrival, but due to various factors (such as the prison group's attack on the town and The Governor's slaughter of nearly his entire army), the population dwindles dramatically throughout the third season. Robert Kirkman later confirmed that any and all Woodbury characters, who were not brought to the prison are deceased.
The remaining population of Woodbury at the prison community dwindles further throughout the fourth season as a result of the spreading of the flu. As of "Inmates", nearly every resident of Woodbury is confirmed to be deceased, as the bus is apparently overwhelmed and everyone on board becomes zombified (and later put down by Maggie, Bob, and Sasha). It has been confirmed that any other Woodbury resident (except Jeanette) not seen dying either on the bus or at the prison is deceased nonetheless. Thus, the entire population of Woodbury is confirmed to be dead.
After The Governor executes most of the able-bodied Woodbury residents, who had been members of his militia, only the children and elderly townspeople remain at Woodbury, under the watchful eye of Tyreese and Sasha. After Andrea's suicide due to being bitten, Rick and his group return to the prison with the remaining Woodbury survivors (including Tyreese, Sasha, Eryn, Jeanette, Karen, and Ms. McLeod), swelling the prison's population from the original ten to around thirty. Six to seven months afterwards, numerous other survivors have joined the prison community, from various locations and backgrounds. Some of those people include Lizzie Samuels, Mika Samuels, and Ryan Samuels.
The compound is initially peaceful and thriving until an influenza epidemic spreads throughout the community and infects numerous residents, killing many of those stricken. The issue is resolved after a scouting group returns with medicine. Shortly afterwards, The Governor returns with a new militia and executes the captive Hershel, igniting a firefight between the two groups. This battle leads to the fall of the prison community after The Governor tears down the fences.
As a result of the flu and The Governor's assault, the numbers dwindle significantly. The escaping newcomers are found dead on the public transport bus for the prison, while five other newcomers remain alive. Lizzie and Mika are later killed, as well as Bob, and eventually Tyreese. Sasha is the last prison newcomer to hold out, but she eventually dies after taking a suicide pill given to her by Eugene. She eventually becomes a walker, and attacks Negan and his men. Afterwards, Sasha is put down by Maggie.
After wandering on his own for six to seven months alone, following the fall of Woodbury and defections of Martinez and Shumpert, The Governor encounters the Chambler Family holed up in their apartment building. The surviving Chamblers later set off with The Governor (who has said his name is "Brian Hariot") to seek shelter elsewhere following the death of David, but The Governor's actions lead to Lilly and Meghan's deaths.
Martinez's Camp, also known as the River Camp, first appearing in "Dead Weight", is a campsite located within rural Georgia on an open field, containing over thirty survivors. It is led by Caesar Martinez until being briefly succeeded by Pete Dolgen and then by a brainwashed Governor, who causes their downfall. The group consists veteran soldiers, former members of the National Guard, and civilians. Overall, they are a self-taught militia who try to survive at all costs. After The Governor secretly kills Caesar and Pete, he gives a speech to the majority of the camp survivors about the prison and its inhabitants, persuading them to force the prison community residents to give up the prison. However, all members (except Tara) of The Governor's newly formed militia are killed by the prison defenders and swarming walkers.
The Claimers, first appearing in "Claimed", is a dangerous group of heavily armed men who raid homes in order to search for supplies and weapons. Over time however, the group gradually descends into a sinister lifestyle where they eventually became a group of marauders. They begin to commit numerous horrific actions which include murdering innocent survivors, savagely raping several women, and sadistically hunting their victims.
Terminus is a sanctuary that is first mentioned in the second half of the fourth season over a radio broadcast heard by Daryl, Michonne, Tyreese, and Bob while driving in Zach's car. After the fall of the prison, the small factions of prison residents, who survive the assault find the signs directing survivors towards Terminus, and each group slowly begins to make its way there. The exact location of Terminus is finally revealed in "Us", where it appears to be a relatively vibrant, well-secured settlement, but in actuality hides a dark and brutal secret. It is later confirmed that Terminus is indeed a cannibalistic group, where they kill and then carve up any new arrivals that refuse to join them or prove to be a threat. After Terminus is destroyed by Carol's siege in "No Sanctuary", only six residents survive and escape, becoming known as The Hunters.
After Carol destroys Terminus, Gareth and his people begin to hunt for Rick's group in order to take revenge, now known as The Hunters.
Grady Memorial Hospital, first appearing in "Slabtown", is revealed to be the home of a sheltered group of survivors, who believe that military assistance will eventually come to them after a certain period of time. The hospital is run under a strict authoritarian regime by a group of corrupt police officers. The status of this group remains unknown.
The Alexandria Safe-Zone, first appearing in "The Distance", is a suburban community protected by large walls, located near Alexandria, Virginia. It is a self-powered community with solar panels to help power the homes and water system. When Rick's group is invited to join Alexandria, they find that the Alexandrians are defenseless, weak, and have sheltered themselves from the real world outside their gates without knowing the brutality that surrounds it, leading to a strife between the two groups. Due to several crises and attacks from multiple hostile groups, many of the original residents of Alexandria eventually die.
The Wolves, first appearing in "Conquer", is a group of deranged people who destroy camps and shelters, killing everyone. They are marked with a "W" with blood on their foreheads—the sign of a wolf. They steal the belongings of their victims, often dismembering their bodies, and cutting the "W" sign onto these victims' foreheads with knives. They usually leave their victims to become walkers.
The Hilltop Colony, first appearing in "Knots Untie", is a group of survivors that have fortified the area around a large mansion atop a hill near the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
The Sanctuary, first appearing in "The Cell", is a community of a gargantuan group founded with the goal of restoring civilization to the world. They are ruled by their charismatic authoritarian leader Negan, who is also a merciless and totalitarian dictator. Some residents are civilians that work for the community, but in majority is conformed by strong people called "The Saviors", who have a reputation of being ruthless and uncompromising, and plunder people on the road.
They enact a brutal regime to terrorize and subjugate any and all nearby survivor communities they come across in the area surrounding Washington, D.C. through murder and brutality to coerce survivors to provide a steady stream of food and other goods. The central headquarters for the group is an abandoned factory, after Negan took the place from its apparently incapable leader. After a brief war with the Militia and Negan's eventual defeat, the Saviors and the Militia declare peace.
The community was home to close to 600 members, both soldiers and workers, as well as families and children living in the Sanctuary, though their numbers were greatly diminished during the course of the war. Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, the remaining Saviors have disbanded following the Sanctuary going "bust". Most went on to join the communities they once oppressed while a handful joined a group of rough raiders led by Jed before its destruction.
The Kingdom, first appearing in "The Well", is a protected community like the Hilltop Colony and Alexandria Safe-Zone, led by its charismatic and peaceful leader "King Ezekiel". Over time, the community is subjugated by the Saviors until the arrival of Rick, who manages to convince Ezekiel to fight for their freedom.
Oceanside, first appearing in "Swear", is a community in Virginia in a pre-apocalypse campground near a small beach. With the arrival of Tara Chambler, things gradually changed for the community. Sometime after the outbreak, Natania's community encountered Simon and his group, and they were forced to work under their tyranny. Unwilling to be subservient, the community fought back but were defeated in the ensuing skirmish, and many people were killed, including most of Natania's family.
After the battle, Simon and his men rounded up all remaining male survivors over the age of 10 and executed them, as retribution and a terrorizing deterrent to any further resistances. This was done by Simon before his group joined Negan and the Saviors. Faced with a future of being enslaved by Simon or dying, the remaining women and children fled their settlement, found the Oceanside campground, and re-established their community there where Natania led them to cowardice, hidden from Simon and his group.
They adopted a policy to kill anyone on sight who discovers their community, in order to protect themselves. After Enid accidentally shoots and kills Natania, Cyndie becomes the leader of the community and decides to join the Militia in order to defeat Negan and the Saviors. Six years after Rick's supposed death at the destruction of the bridge, Oceanside becomes one of the four joint communities of the Militia and later on the Coalition, along with the Alexandria Safe-Zone, the Hilltop Colony and the Kingdom.
The Scavengers, commonly referred to as the "Garbage People", first appearing in "Rock in the Road", is a large group of odd individuals who live in a junkyard. They are led by a cunning woman named Anne, who calls herself "Jadis". On their way to find Gabriel, Rick and a few other members of his group run into the Scavengers, who takes them into the Junkyard. There, Rick strikes a deal with Jadis, with him agreeing to provide the Scavengers with weapons and supplies in exchange for their help fighting the Saviors. At some point after this however, Jadis and her people secretly make a deal with Negan and the Saviors, and inform Negan of Rick's plan to initiate a war against him.
In "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life", they reveal their betrayal to Rick's group and their service and loyalty to Negan. However, during the war the Scavengers are revealed to be collaborating with Rick in the war by revealing a neutral stance. The entire community except Jadis is annihilated by Simon and a Savior patrol. Afterwards, Jadis lures the zombified Scavengers up a hill to a metal grinder which she activates. One by one, the zombified Scavengers walk into the machine and are completely pulped, leaving Jadis the only survivor.
Magna's group, first appearing in "What Comes After", is a small group of survivors barely getting by before encountering Judith Grimes.
The Whisperers, first appearing in "Who Are You Now?", is a group of savage and hostile survivors. This group camouflages with the skins of walkers, aiming to live among them without being attacked. They use the undead as weapons to stun people, and usually attack with sharp weapons and are more bloodthirsty and aggressive than the Saviors. The Whisperers serve as antagonists for the second half of the ninth season and whole of the tenth season.
The Highwaymen, first appearing in "Chokepoint", is a group of bandit survivors very similar to the Saviors who wanted to extort the Kingdom. When confronted by Ezekiel and Carol, they decide to move to the ranks of the Kingdom.
Bloodsworth Island, first appearing in "What We Become", is an island located in Tangier Sound in Chesapeake Bay (Maryland). Prior to the outbreak, the island was used as a naval base, with the U.S. Navy stockpiling large amounts of heavy weaponry on it. The base was presumably abandoned by the Navy either during or sometime after the outbreak. At some point, it was settled by Virgil and his family. However, after his family's death, Virgil began to lose his mind and began imprisoning the other residents. However, several of the prisoners died, leaving only four people left (including Virgil).
The Survivor Caravan, first appearing in "What We Become", is a massive group of nomadic survivors traveling throughout the Northern United States to an unknown destination. Upon her arrival to New Jersey, Michonne and two other survivors make their way towards the convoy.
When Georgie's community was destroyed by The Reapers Maggie left with some members to help Alexandria, Hilltop and The Kingdom against the threat of The Whisperers.
The Walking Dead comic book and television series, based on it, are regarded as separate continuities. Therefore, regardless of any possible similarities between the two media (characters, events, etc.) appearing in one have no effect on the continuity of the other.