Ben Paul

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## Heroic Benchmark

### Alias

Kid
Shitbird (by Kenny)

### Family

Unnamed parents
Unnamed younger sister

### Allies

**Stone Mountain High School**:

* Travis
* David Parker

**Motel Survivors**

* Lee Everett †
* Clementine
* Lilly (formerly)
* Katjaa
* Kenny
* Duck
* Larry †
* Carley † (determinant)
* Doug † (determinant)
* Mark †
* Chuck †
* Christa
* Omid
* Molly

**Cancer Group**

* Vernon (formerly)
* Brie

### Enemies

LillyVernon †
**Save-Lots Bandits**

* Jake †
* Linda
* Gary
* Drew

### Goals

Survive the apocalypse (formerly; failed).
Help the Motel Inn group however he can (succeeded).
Assist the Motel Inn Group in finding Clementine (posthumously succeeded).

### Goodness Zone

Sacrificing himself to buy Lee's group more time (determinant).

### Type of Hero

Insecure Coward

**Ben** **Paul** is a supporting protagonist in *Telltale's* *The Walking Dead: Season 1.* He was a band student at Stone Mountain High School, and survived for three months before.

He was voiced by Trevor Hoffman.

## His Good Ranking

### His Heroic Deeds

* Explains to the Motel Inn group that a walker reanimates after death, not just after a bite. To prevent reanimation, sufficient damage to the brain would be necessary. This would be crucial information for Lee and Clementine, as they would know how to properly prevent reanimation.
* Watches over the Motor Inn hotel alongside either Carley or Doug while the rest of the group goes to the St. Johns' dairy farm.
* Follows orders from Lee and tries to help out the Motor Inn group in any way he can.
* In the bell tower at Crawford, Ben sacrifices himself to allow Lee's group more time to find Clementine (determinant).
* Participates in Lee's group to help find Clementine and helps stave off a walker attack in the house (determinant). If Ben is the only one accompanying Lee, he helps get the elevator shaft open when Lee is unable to and can catch Lee jumping from the bell tower.

### Why He Doesn't Stand Out?

* Even though he provides the information needed to fully kill walkers, this act relies heavily on Fridge Brilliance since most of Lee’s group does this instead, thus making his greatest action too indirect to make him qualify. Thus, he heavily fails the admirable standards to Charles, Carley, and Doug (the latter two who also fail the standards), who both have played far more active roles in saving Lee’s group. Not to mention that the rest of his heroism amounts to simple supportive heroism and following Lee’s orders, making him bog-standard.
* He has many corrupting moments that make him inconsistent as a hero:
	+ He reveals that he has exchanged supplies from the Motor Inn to the bandits on the train ride to Savannah. Although remorseful, his failure to tell the truth earlier results in either Carley or Doug getting killed, Duck getting bitten, and Lilly's descent into insanity.
	+ He cowardly abandons Clementine from a group of walkers near the bell tower, forcing Lee to fend off the walker herd by himself, and unknowingly led Chuck’s death.
	+ In Crawford, he unintentionally opens the door containing a walker herd, nearly resulting in Lee's group getting killed.
	+ He squeamishly refuses to cut an infected Lee's arm off while looking for Clementine. While Lee was dying, this was still cowardly.

## External Links

* Ben Paul on the Heroes Wiki
* Ben Paul on the *Walking Dead* Wiki

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