Clementine (The Walking Dead)

Clementine is the main protagonist of ' video game series and the titular main protagonist of the Clementine graphic novel series. She is a survivor of the zombie outbreak who was taken in and cared for by a man named Lee Everett when she was 8 years old. He taught her how to survive and protect herself, and over the course of the franchise's four main installments, she used those skills to protect those she cared for and loved, including Alvin Junior. 
She was voiced by , who also voiced Alicia Winston in .
==Personality==
Clementine, despite her young age, displays exceptional intelligence and maturity, which can be attributed to the harsh environment she has grown up in. She attended school up until the first grade, which she found relatively easy. Her ability to think practically and improvise is evident, such as when she helps Lee secure a door using his father's cane during a walker attack.
Her keen perceptiveness allows her to notice details that most children her age would overlook. For instance, when Ben faces interrogation by Lilly, Clementine intervenes and pulls him away from the argument to spare him any trouble, using the excuse of showing him her drawings. Clementine's intelligence also makes her a quick learner, enabling her to adapt rapidly to the zombie-infested world. She hones her marksmanship skills during a train journey with Lee and later learns from Jane how to dispatch walkers quietly and efficiently while scavenging for supplies.
Unlike Duck, who often remains oblivious, Clementine is highly attuned to the group dynamics and events unfolding around her, such as the power struggle between Lilly and Kenny. In "Starved For Help," she acknowledges her parents' absence, expressing a preference for comforting lies over harsh truths, although this may vary depending on player choices.
Clementine is not one to conform blindly and isn't afraid to voice her opinions. She believes in the importance of altruism unless faced with threats. She disagrees with the group's decision to loot a station wagon filled with rations left behind by other survivors, arguing that the owners might return for their supplies. Despite her maturity, Clementine retains some innocence typical of children. She admits to playing a prank on Duck by placing a bug on his pillow and finds the idea of licking a salt lick "gross." Her idealistic perspective on how society should behave in a zombie apocalypse sometimes clashes with the harsh realities, leading to her misunderstanding certain events. Additionally, she lacks comprehension regarding topics like sex and menstruation, possibly due to her young age and the absence of consistent guidance.
Despite potential disagreements with Lee's choices or his approach, Clementine regards him as a father figure who can be trusted to protect her, a relationship that greatly contributes to her growth and maturity. After enduring traumatic experiences, witnessing her undead parents, and making difficult choices like leaving Lee to turn or shooting him, Clementine's innocence wanes. Over a year later, she has become more hardened and less idealistic, focusing solely on survival. She is now better equipped to defend herself and make tough decisions when needed, though her resourcefulness remains her primary asset due to her young age.
Depending on player choices, Clementine can display a cold and ruthless side, resorting to blackmail or supporting the killing of those she deems deserving. On the other hand, she may attempt to appeal to people's better nature, indicating that some faith in humanity persists. Her maturity becomes evident when others seek her advice, and she is perceived as mature for her age, considering the harsh realities of the apocalypse.
As Clementine continues to evolve between Season Two and meeting Javier Garcia, she becomes a seasoned survivor, adapting various survival and combat techniques. She maintains a short haircut, employs the use of walker guts to blend in with herds, and employs Jane's knee-strike technique for subduing walkers. She later imparts these skills to AJ and, to some extent, Gabriel Garcia.
When leaving the New Frontier, Clementine adopts a more isolated and detached demeanor, believing that forming attachments only leads to pain and loss, echoing Jane's perspective. Nevertheless, she retains her warmth and trust for those who have earned it, particularly Javier, helping him with the goal of saving Richmond.
Upon rescuing A.J. and settling into a more stable life, Clementine embraces a more cheerful demeanor to shield A.J. from her own grim outlook. She focuses on teaching him valuable survival skills and moral lessons. She longs to find a permanent home, and upon discovering the Ericson's Boarding School, she finally finds a sense of safety and belonging.
Clementine's attitude toward her former friend Lilly is marked by indifference, as Lilly has become her enemy and has sanctioned AJ's mistreatment at the hands of Abel.
==Heroic Acts==
NOTE: Most of these can be avoided.
===The Walking Dead===
*Brings Lee a weapon to defeat a zombie attacking him, saving his life.
*Brings Lee his father's cane to barricade the drugstore's door.
*Risked her life to help her group escape and defeat the St. John family.
*Speaks out against stealing from a seemingly abandoned car.
*Saves Molly from a zombie (Determinant).
*Killed/Trapped a zombie that got into the house the group were staying in, possibly saving Omid's life (Determinant).
*Spoke in defense of Ben when the group was considering abandoning him (Determinant).
*Saved Lee from The Stranger.
*Dragged Lee into a jewelry store when he passes out in the middle of a zombie horde.
*Before her final goodbye to Lee, she shoots Lee as a mercy kill to prevent reanimation instead of leaving him as a walker because she doesn't want to see him as a walker like she saw her parents as one of them. (Determinant)
===Season Two===
*She distracted the scavengers, attempting to allow Christa to escape from them.
*She met a dog and then fed it. But once it attacked and was suffering, she put him out of his misery instead of letting him suffer.
*Befriended Sarah (Determinant).
*Accepted Nick's apology (Determinant).
*Gave water to the dying man in order to get informations of what happened to Christa (Determinant).
*Saved Pete's life (Determinant).
*Tried to take the blame instead of Sarah getting blamed for taking photographs (Determinant).
*Accepted Rebecca's apology (Determinant).
*Clementine told Walter the truth that Nick killed Matthew. But still defended him, claiming his a good man and not like everyone else, causing Walter to save Nick from being killed by a Walker(Determinant).
*Told Kenny that the group is cool (Determinant).
*Told her group that she likes and trusts Kenny with her life (Determinant).
*Gave herself up to save Carlos(Determinant).
*Attempted to prevent Kenny from shooting anyone as it'll risk their friends' lives (Determinant).
*Saved Alvin.
*Comforted Sarah after Carlos got seperated from the group.
*Defended Sarah when Carver demanded for Carlos to smack his own daughter across the face.
*Tried to help Sarah in her work (Determinant).
*Tried to stop Carver from telling off Reggie (Determinant).
*Didn't give in to Carver's manipulations.
*Leaves before Kenny brutally killed Carver (Determinant).
*Told Sarah to run away to save her (Determinant).
*Tried to do anything she can to help Sarita after she's been bit by one of the Walkers.
*Saved Sarah from getting devoured by Walkers (Determinant).
*Refused to rob Arvo of his sister's medical supplies (Determinant).
*Crawled through the ticket booth in an attempt to get water (Determinant).
*Asked Jane to help Sarah who was trapped in the rubble of the observation deck (Determinant).
*Saved AJ from his zombified mother or alerts everyone else to the danger so that they will save him.
*Rescues AJ in the firefight to prevent him from getting killed.
*Attempts to save Luke.
*Tries to stop Kenny from beating up Arvo because Kenny blame him for Luke and Bonnie (Determinant) death (Determinant).
*Called for help or tried to stop Mike, Bonnie and Arvo from robbing them of their supplies and stealing the truck so they can get away from Kenny.
*Looks after AJ regardless of other decisions.
*If she killed Kenny, she calls Jane out after realizing her manipulation and takes AJ away from Jane's corrupting hands.
*Lets a family in need of help stay with her if she stays with Jane.
*Doing her best to help Kenny if she stays with him, or alternatively fulfilling his wish if she stays in Wellington.
===A New Frontier===
*Helps Javi reach his family at the junkyard and offers to stay behind to fight off the New Frontier with him.
*If Javi informs her that his chocolate bar is for his niece, she will give it back, showing her true heroic self despite her initial hostility.
*Stayed behind and fought the New Frontier soldiers for giving the other characters time to escape.
*If Javier stayed with Clementine in the previous episode, she will dig a hole for him to bury his niece Mariana.
*If Javier surrenders to the New Frontier, Clementine will shoot one of the raiders to save him.
*Told Javier the truth about her ties to the New Frontier.
*Saved Javier from a walker.
*Either injected A.J. with medicine in attempt to save him or put the stolen drug back (determinant).
===The Final Season===
*Saves Aasim from a zombie.
*Reveals Marlon's scheme.
*Helps the other kids fight back against the raiders.
*Pulls Omar into the safety of cover when he's shot in the leg during the raiders' attack.
*Shows mercy towards Abel during the interrogation (Determinant).
*Guiding AJ to kill Lily, ending her reign of terror. If she orders him to spare Lilly, she will kill James and try to kill AJ.
*Saves Violet/Louis from being bitten by a zombie on the shore.
*Saves Ruby and Willy from being shot by a raider.
*Stays behind to provide cover so that Aasim, Omar and Louis/Violet can reach the escape cart.
*Provides cover for AJ so he can seal the barn doors from zombies.
*Her education led AJ to save her life by cutting her injured and bitten leg, regardless if she trusted him to make hard decisions or not.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Throughout the games, Clem may reveal things about herself.
**She played but admits that she didn't like it.
**Clementine may tell Lee in "A New Day" that her friend Alfred was allergic to peanuts.
**She says in "A New Day" that she had a pet goldfish named Peanut.
**In "Starved For Help", if Lee gives her the half apple, she will say that she loves apples.
**In "Around Every Corner", she can mention that she once had a hamster.
**If she went to Crawford, she tells Lee that she misses school.
**She may say to herself in "No Going Back" that she misses watching television.
**In "No Going Back", she tells Lee in her dream that she doesn't like mathematics.
**Clementine may tell Sarah that she likes books.
**She mentions to Violet that she doesn't remember chicken nuggets that well.
**It is hinted that she always wanted a dog but didn't get one due to her mother's dislike for dogs. Her wish is later fulfilled with Rosie.
**She tells Katjaa in "A New Day" that her favorite color is purple. In "Broken Toys", while choosing the color of the party's lightning, it is revealed that purple is also her father's favorite color.
*She is the youngest group leader in The Walking Dead.
*Her height throughout the games is 4'1", 4'6", 4'9", and 5'1".
*Her first kiss can be with either Gabe, Louis, Violet, or yet to happen.
*She has a total of 19 appearances in the games - the most out of any character.
*She can potentially tell Lee during her dream in "No Going Back" that her greatest fear is to take a life.
*Clementine, Lee, Kenny, Lilly, and Javier have killed the most named characters, whether living or undead.
*In a conversation with Tenn in "Done Running", Clementine can express thoughts on the idea of an afterlife.
*She is the only survivor that survives all games regardless of the player's decisions (excluding and ).
*She is one of five characters to appear in at least three games, alongside Lee, Kenny (determinant), Lilly (determinant), and AJ.
*Clementine will kill her first walker in either "Around Every Corner" (if Lee left her in the mansion with the gun) or "No Time Left".
*If Clem stays at , she would work as a hunter on Tuesday and Thursday, and work as a patroller on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
*If Clementine fails to get help from Alvin and rejects Sarah's friendship offer, later in the shed she will have the option of saying "Screw you guys!"
*In "All That Remains", at Sam's camp, if Clementine checks the barbecue and then the cooler (in that order), she will grumble that she hates scavengers.
*With Christa, Kenny (determinant), and Lilly (determinant) missing, Clementine is the only character who appeared in the first game confirmed to be alive.
*If Kenny dies (either by Clem shooting him or leaving Wellington with him) and AJ kills Lilly, Clem is the only pharmacy survivor to have survived the games.
*If Lee stays silent when given the option to have Clementine either shoot him or leave him, she will make the decision herself, with Lee's past actions determining her choice.
*Clementine has several car crashes: one during "No Going Back", one with Kenny during a flashback in "Ties That Bind - Part 1" (determinant), and one early on in "Done Running".
*Depending on player choices, Clem can be in some way responsible for the deaths of all three leaders of the motel survivors: Lee (directly), Kenny (directly or indirectly), and Lilly (caused).
*Clem was born on 26/10/94; the world collapsed on 20/7/03, and the first game's final chapter takes place on 1/11/03, during which the Stranger says Clem's ninth birthday was six days prior.
*Clementine has been held captive up to eight times: by the St. Johns, the Save-Lots Bandits, the Stranger, the Cabin Group, Carver's Group, Prescott, the New Frontier (determinant), and the Delta.
*If Lee gives her nothing to eat in "Starved For Help", and later stops her from eating human meat, she can be one of three characters that doesn't eat in this episode, the others being Lee (determinant) and Mark (determinant).
*Clementine (alongside Lilly and potentially Carley) can directly kill the joint-second most people on-screen out of all the Motel Survivors during the first game, with a total of 2 - just behind Lee, with a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10.
*When attacked by a zombie in the shed in "All That Remains", Clementine's fight with it is almost identical to Lee's fight with Sandra in "A New Day" of Season 1, following a trend within the Video Game to symbolically mimic previous scenes.
*If the player chooses, Clementine's first can be shared with Bonnie. Moreover, if the player chooses, Clementine's first alcoholic drink can be a swig of Nick's or Jane's ; if she tasted both, she comments that the rum was better.
*Clementine, Violet, Walter, Matthew, Zachary, Jonas, Paige, Javier García, Paul Monroe, Minerva, James, and Charlie are the twelve LGBT characters in the games. Clementine is also the first to appear. Clementine and Violet can also be the fourth same-sex couple in the game.
*She survived her bite in "Take Us Back" due to her leg getting amputated shortly thereafter, making her one of the many amputees in The Walking Dead, and one of the four characters who survive a bite due to amputation and confirmed to be alive, others being Lilly, Elton and Lydia.
*Throughout the series, Clem has travelled a considerable distance over the span of nine years: TWD is set in , TWD 2 is set in (and later ), one of the endings of TWD 2 is set in , TWD 3 is set in , TWD 4 is set in , and the comic then takes Clem to .
*In "A House Divided", there is a dialogue option where she tells Luke about how she had a treehouse once, before adding "I hated it". However, in "Take Us Back", she can mention it and seemingly look back on it fondly. She could have possibly meant that she hated having to hide in it during the outbreak's start.
*During the first game of War in "Done Running", if Clementine asks the group what's the nastiest thing they ate. Clem claims to have eaten a guy's leg. Although she plays it off by saying it's just a joke after the group's understandably shocked reaction, this can be true depending on if Lee stopped her from eating the meat in time at St. John's dairy farm.
*In the second game, Clementine has the torn photo of Lee from "A New Day" and her drawing of Kenny's family from "Long Road Ahead", which she keeps in her backpack from the same episode. It is unknown if she had convinced Christa and Omid to venture to with her to retrieve the former after the events of "No Time Left", or if she had secretly kept it since "A New Day".
*Her outfit in the fourth game is a callback to Lee's primary outfit. Lee wore a blue shirt and Clementine wears a blue jacket. Both have rolled sleeves and Clem's white hoodie sleeves going below the rolled sleeves of her jacket mimic the white undershirt sleeves that went past Lee's rolled shirt sleeves. Also, her jacket belonged to a group known as the Silver Stallion Motorcycle Club.
*Clementine can determinantly never fire a rifle throughout all games. In fact, she only has two opportunities to use one, firing a maximum of two rounds during "A House Divided" when fighting walkers at Moonstar Lodge, and an inconclusive amount of times using an in "Ties That Bind - Part 2" while defending Prescott from the New Frontier, assuming Javier chose not to surrender.
*Clementine has kept more physical mementos of people she cared about than anyone else: her father's hat, a photo of Lee, a drawing of Kenny's family, hair clips from Lilly, a gold watch from Pete (determinant), a jacket from Bonnie, Sarah's glasses (determinant), Jane's nail file (determinant), Kenny's hat (determinant), Gabe's playing cards (determinant), and Violet's button (determinant). Lilly's hair clips and her father's hat are the only mementos she still has regardless of the player's choices.
*Clementine, Lee, and Kenny appear in all episodes of the first game.
**Clementine is also one of three characters to appear in all five episodes of the second game, with the others being Luke and Rebecca, though Rebecca only appears as a corpse in "No Going Back".
**Clementine is also one of the eight characters to appear in all five episodes of the third game, with the others being Javier, Kate, Gabriel, Eleanor, David, Tripp, and Conrad, with the latter two being determinant.
**Clementine is also one of the ten characters to appear in all four episodes of the fourth game, with the others being AJ, Tennessee, Violet, Willy, Omar, Ruby, Louis, Aasim, and Rosie.
*In "A New Day", Lee and Clementine spend the night in a barn the night of arriving at Hershel's farm. Whilst there, Clementine comments on the fecal smell in the barn. Due to a lack of descriptive words, Lee is given the chance to finish her sentence with "shit," "manure," or "...you know..." This has a lasting and goofy effect.
**In "Starved For Help", she will repeat Lee's choice of words (or lack thereof) to Duck when describing the smell in the barn.
**In "All That Remains", when Clementine accidentally knocks over her water bottle in the pit-stop bathroom, she will instinctively curse "Oh, shoot" or "Oh, shit" depending on Lee's words.
*As of "Suffer The Children", she and Lilly are the only motel survivors confirmed alive. However, if Clem orders AJ to shoot Lilly in "Broken Toys", Clem will be the only one alive.
**As of "No Going Back", Clementine is the only cabin survivor still alive.
**Clem, Javier, Eleanor, Paul, and Fern are the only characters alive at the end of A New Frontier regardless of player choices.
**Clem, AJ, Willy, Omar, Ruby, Aasim, and Rosie are the only characters alive at the end of The Final Season regardless of player choices.
*Depending on the player's choices, Clementine can kill no one (directly) during the first two games, and a maximum of four, those being: the Stranger, Lee, Sarita, and Kenny. There was a non-canon cut choice where Clementine had the option of shooting Mike during "No Going Back" after discovering his betrayal, which remained within the version of said episode for a few days following its release, but the option was soon removed and confirmed to have been left in by accident.
**Depending on player choices, Clementine can kill no named characters (directly) throughout all of the first three games.
**Several living characters are directly killed by Clementine regardless of player choice: Eli (accidental), Yonatan, Gad, Gina, Rodney, Eddie, and Helen.
*After the "alone" ending of the second game, Clementine will lose her left ring-finger in between the second and third games. However, Clementine still has her left ring-finger in the Clementine comic, making the second game's "alone" ending non-canon.
**The "alone" ending is obtained in one of three ways: kill Kenny then abandon Jane, let Kenny kill Jane then abandon him, or let Kenny kill Jane then kill him.
*Clementine uses the walker guts trick six times.
**"No Time Left" - Lee rubs walker guts on Clem and himself in order to mask their scent, as to escape Savannah.
**"In Harm's Way" - the cabin group do it in order to escape from Carver's group.
**"No Going Back" - she covers both herself and AJ in walker guts, thus allowing the two to safely travel through the herd. (determinant; "alone" ending)
**"Above The Law" - she had to do it off-screen just to get through the herd near Richmond. (determinant; if Javi killed Conrad earlier)
**"Broken Toys" - Clem, AJ, and Louis/Violet cover themselves in walker guts, so they could sneak onto the S.S. Stewarts Fitzgerald and save their friends.
**"Take Us Back" - off-screen, AJ covers Clem in walker guts and carries her out on a wheelbarrow after chopping off her leg, bringing her back to the school and saving her life.
*Clementine's strength drastically increases throughout the games.
**In TWD 2:
***"All That Remains" - she struggles to fight Winston while fleeing in the woods.
***"A House Divided" - she is easily knocked down after firing a rifle.
***"In Harm's Way" - she struggles to get a walker off her.
***"In Harm's Way" - she collapses after being slapped by Carver. (determinant)
***"No Going Back" - she is knocked down while Kenny and Jane fight, and has difficulty getting back up.
**In A New Frontier:
***"Ties That Bind Part 1" - she chops down a tree to stop a truck.
***"Ties That Bind Part 1" - she runs through herds of walkers while firing a shotgun.
***"Ties That Bind Part 1" - she defends herself and AJ from walkers despite having a finger stuck in a car door. (determinant)
***"Above the Law" - she knocks David down when jumping on him, and holds him at gunpoint. (determinant)
**In The Final Season:
***"Done Running" - she shatters a windshield with two hard kicks
***"Done Running" - she beats Marlon in a fight at the end. (determinant)
***"Suffer The Children" - even if Abel maintains both of his arms, Clementine can beat him in a fight, smashing him through a balustrade and causing him to fall off the balcony of the boarding school, though he can pull her down with him.
***"Suffer The Children" - she manages to fight Lilly and dislodge a gun from her hands, despite Clementine being wounded.
***"Broken Toys" - she knocked out Minerva with two punches, despite being wounded by the latter. (determinant)
==Behind the Scenes==
*Melissa Hutchison won a best actress award in gaming for her performance.
*If Clem left Wellington with Kenny, unused audio reveals that he taught her how to ride a motorcycle.
*The game's developers revealed that her surname was originally "Crawford", before the developers of "Around Every Corner" invented the neighborhood of Crawford.
*Clementine was originally designed as white, but the creators wanted her to look as if she could be Lee's daughter, yet they left her Caucasian character model in the game.
*On 13/4/21, it was confirmed that she would appear in as part of Skybound X Issue 1. This eventually led to the creation of 's graphic novels. She is one of three characters from the games who appears in the Clementine series, the other two being AJ and Lee.
*It was given by Telltale that supposedly the game would involve Clementine and her brother, but due to the pre-existing relationship before the apocalypse, her brother was cut from the game, replaced by Lee Everett. It was also given that Clementine almost got cut from the game, as Telltale was concerned that the players wouldn't care about her.
*Melissa Hutchinson initially stated that Clementine was 17 in the fourth game, though she later amended her statement to 16. Melissa also mentioned that Clementine was originally supposed to start at age 7 (hence her being in the first grade) because of the change Melissa says that the girl was in the second grade at the start of the game, although Lee Everett assumed she was in first, due to Katjaa's comment.
*Telltale's staff have given conflicting statements regarding Clementine's ethnicity.
**Jessica Brezzo stated in an online interview that Clem was African-American.
**In 2019, an anonymous commenter claiming to be Brezzo replied to a comment on the post of the interview's Wikia page stating that at the time of the interview she hadn't spoken to Vanaman or Hutchison on the subject, hadn't realized it was a topic of debate among the fandom, and never stated that Clem was solely African-American.
**Sean Vanaman and Melissa Hutchison have stated she is mixed race in the 2013 "Saving Doug: Empathy, Character, and Choice in The Walking Dead" conference and "Walking Dead 'Cast 247: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier" podcast, respectively. Vanaman first confirmed that Clementine is mixed-race, and Hutchison later speculated her to be African-American and Asian. Clementine's character design in season one was inspired by art director Derek Sakai's daughter . This further supports the idea that she is intended to be African-American and Asian.
==Licensing==
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