Ben (Night of the Living Dead)

"*Don't look at it!*"
—Ben warning Barbara not to look at the zombie that Ben just killed.[src]

Ben is the protagonist in George A. Romero's Night of The Living Dead.

## Biography

### Night of the Living Dead

Ben is first seen after Barbara tries escaping from the house due to her being scared. During the time, he boards up the house along with Harry Cooper, Helen Cooper, Karen Cooper, Judy Rose and Tom.

After saving Barbara, he go goes outside and starts beating two zombies to death with a pipe and goes back inside and saves Barbara just in time before she is attacked by a zombie. Ben burns the zombies and finds some nails and wood and starts boarding up the house, along with Barbara's help and starts telling a story of him lighting a zombie on fire with gasoline.

Barbara decides to tell Ben a story about Johnny and her when they were kids. He decides to head out and tells Barbara to keep calm but this doesn't do much as she does the opposite and starts freaking out which causes him to slap her. He then turns on a radio and listens as the news reporter talk about how these "normal looking people" are committing mass murder, he later sees zombies walking towards the farm house but stops them by taking a couch and burning it on fire.

During when Ben is searching the farm house, he finds a rifle and some shoes for Barbara. When Tom and Harry appear from the basement in the farm house, he scolds Harry for hiding in there while he did the work in securing the house, while he is heading down to look at a window. He gets grabbed by two zombies, he manages to shoot a zombie in the chest but he shoots it again in the head after the zombie was unfazed.

His gunshot causes zombies to come even more to the farm house causing Harry to freak out only for Ben to call Harry out for being to arrogant in hiding in the basement. Ben is seen again as he watches the TV and learns about the zombie outbreak, after learning about this information, when Tom and Judy decide to try and find military camps, Ben volunteers to help them both and head to the gas station. So when they get to the gas station, Tom tries unlocking the key to the gas pump but fails so Ben shoots the gas and Tom, unintentionally sprays it all over the truck. This ends up making the truck go on fire for unknown reasons which causes the truck to explode, killing Tom and Judy.

Ben later heads to the farm house. He gets locked in by Harry, but only to bust the door open, he thens boards the door back but then punches Harry after he begins to help Ben only for to punch Harry to give him a beat down, he stops and later turns on the TV to see the new report and finds out large armed posses are trying rebelling against the zombies and on there way to stop the invasion. This is where Ben finds out that the only way to kill a "ghoul" is to a shot in the head, he then gets surprised due to the lights going out.

When he is trying to stop the zombies from getting in, he drops the gun, only for Harry to get hold of the gun and hold Ben hostage but before Harry could do anything, he manages to kick the gun out of Harry's hands and shoot Harry in the side of his gut, causing him to fall down onto the stairs and get killed by his undead daughter.

Ben tries saving Barbara from the horde, only for her to be devoured. He is grabbed by a undead Karen but is later pushed onto a couch and heads to the basement to see a the dead bodies of Harry and Helen Cooper, when Karry and Helen start reanimating, Ben both shoots them in the head and waits.

## Death

* Vince *(Accidental)*

When the zombies clear out of the farm house. He heads up stairs to see if anyone outside. Once he's upstairs, he sees the posse at the house but one of the posse members (Vince) sees Ben and assumes it's a zombie, Ben is later shot by Vince, it's unknown if Vince realized that Ben wasn't a zombie or still assumed he was a zombie.

## Victims

#### Humans

* Tom *(Indirectly Caused)*
* Judy Rose *(Indirectly Caused)*
* Harry Cooper *(Caused, Zombified)*
* Helen Cooper *(Zombified)*

#### Notable Zombies

* White Shirt Zombie

* Many Unnamed Zombies.

## Trivia

* The actor of Ben, Duane Jones will be remembered due to one of The Walking Dead's characters, Duane Jones
	+ Here is the links to Duane Jones from The Walking Dead
	+ Duane Jones (Comic Series) & Duane Jones (TV Series)

## Links/Sources

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdsk\_5huuHk - Dead Meat