page_title: Travis Manawa
section_title: Development and reception
hierarchical_section_title: Travis Manawa / Development and reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Cliff Curtis speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: Travis Manawa is a fictional character in the first three seasons of the television series Fear the Walking Dead portrayed by Cliff Curtis. The character is a former English teacher who is dealing with the fallout in addition to a divorce and a resentful son.
context_section_description: The season three episode "The New Frontier" features the death of Travis Manawa in the opening scene.
  Showrunner Dave Erickson explained the decision to kill off Travis:
  Travis is dead. I think what was important from the perspective of the audience as well as for the characters, it was something worse again in the fact that we thought we’ve achieved some level of safety. We thought we were going to be okay, and then out of nowhere in the random violence of the apocalypse, suddenly Travis is taken from us. And in his last action, he realizes how bad his wound is before Alicia does and he knows that life is seeping out of him and it’s only a matter of time before he dies, and he doesn’t want her to be responsible for putting him down.
  So when he knows his time is up, he goes for the door and he makes his way out with the intention of throwing himself out. We tried to address that later on because I think Alicia’s concern subsequent to the helicopter going down is, did he indeed die? Was there enough damage done to his brain to make sure he didn’t turn? Is he still wandering around out there? And Jake says the height was too much and I think that’s what we need to believe. The height from which he fell and the velocity and the violence of that is going to do enough trauma to his brain that he would die. So, Travis sadly is gone.
caption: Travis Manawa is portrayed by Cliff Curtis (pictured).
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