Thomas Granger

20 *('A Larger World')*

28 *(Season 15)*

Kyle Granger - grand-uncle *(unknown)*

Emily Granger - grand-aunt *(alive)*

Mike Trapp - father-in-law *(alive)*

### Cause of Death

Suicide by bashing his forehead repeatedly with his own baseball bat and devoured by walkers

### Series Lifespan

'The Mute' -- 'Winter's Grasp'

> *"Come with me. Come with me to the other side, where people are people again. [...] If you won't join me, then you're all just anotherthing standing in my way,"*
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> -- Thomas to the group, before battling his former friends on the ruined bridge
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**Thomas Granger**, later known as **Thomas Eden**,is a toddler who was born after the outbreak in *The Walking Dead by EDStudios* and a main character and later an antagonist in the '*New Age*' Extension. He is the young son of Abigail Granger and Antony Eden and was conceived in the worst way possible as Eden interrogated his way down the Veteran Circle. Despite this, Abigail holds great love for her son and will protect him no matter what.

Thomas grew up believing that the brave soldier Alden was his father, only to discover, fifty years after the outbreak, with his mother having disappeared, that his true father was the Monster of the East. Feeling betrayed, he secretly fell under the wing of Manticore. Despite initially fighting for the Commonwealth in the war with the New Buckingham Corps, he proved to have little willpower and was driven insane by Manticore. He fashioned his own baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, betrayed his group, and became a mentally unhinged serial killer. He gradually became a recurring antagonist during his series tenure, before finally serving as the primary antagonist of the episode '*Winter's Grasp*'.

## Overview

### Personality

At the start of the '*New Age*' Extension, Thomas is shown to be paranoid and at times narcissistic.

Later in the series, however, Thomas' mental state devolves into almost pure insanity. Driven mad by tales of his father and the brainwashing of Joel, he becomes completely unhinged, fashioning his own version of his father's baseball bat and developing an addiction to cocaine. He begins talking to his bat, believing he is somehow communicating with his father, and he develops an obsession with it, most likely due to his drug addiction, paranoia, and inherent mental instability, rather than due to severe emotional trauma as was his father's case. Despite this, he makes efforts to keep his encroaching insanity at bay, including trying to save Hope's life by amputating her leg, albeit on an impulse.

By the end of his mental rope, Thomas falls completely under Joel's influence and views everyone around him as his enemy, leading to him ambushing the group on a broken bridge and wanting to kill his former friends so they can die together, bringing in an army of walkers to complete his task and horrifically scaring himself with his own baseball bat. When the group try to help him, he declares that they are merely standing in his way. His hatred of Hope is only inflamed further, even extending to the other members of the group, leading to Henry's death.

Having been defeated by the group, Thomas devolves into unbridled insanity, dying in a cluster of walkers while undergoing an emotional fit.

## Death

### Killed by:

* Himself *(caused, suicide)*
* Zombies

After killing Henry and unable to reach the rest of the group, Thomas realizes he will never be like his father and bashes himself in the forehead with his own bat repeatedly, caving his skull in. He falls into a cluster of walkers and is devoured as he laughs maniacally.

## Killed Victims

* Samantha
* Sid
* Jessica
* Sid's Son
* Henry
* 5 unnamed people
* Numerous counts of zombies and possibly unnamed people

## Relationships

### Abigail Granger

> *"All my mother did was fill my head with lies! She **tainted** me, then left me behind! Alone to understand what I am. That was her biggest mistake. Because I did learn! And I chose to accept it,"*
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Not much is known about Thomas' relationship with his mother, Abigail. Although his mother appeared to care greatly about her son when he was first born, over time she lost attachment to him, most likely due to the nature of his conception.

In his adulthood, Thomas holds a deep-rooted hatred of his mother, both for her detachment and her abandonment of him when she left for Canada and never returned.

### Antony Eden

> *"My name...is Thomas EDEN!"*
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> -- Thomas officially declares himself the son of the Monster of the East
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Thomas met his father, the Monster of the East, only once, when he was very young. His father had kidnapped both him and Charlotte Edwards, bringing them to his safehouse at Sasha Farm. Thomas would not recall this very early memory until his own slip into insanity. From this point, he began to idolize Eden, not knowing that he was his true father. He fashioned his very own baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and went on a killing spree, all while hiding his violent urges from those investigating the murders. Eventually, however, Thomas learned the truth of his parentage from his grand-uncle, Kyle Granger, and fully embraced his father's name, becoming Thomas Eden.

### Gideon Monroe

> *"You should have seen the look on her face. The **fire** in her eyes. The **fear**. The **panic**. One footstep...had ended it all for her. [...] I've never felt a sensation like it. She was my first. Of **many**. But she was the best. [...] It was a **pleasure** to end her life. A pleasure to see her fire die. It proved to me that it can die in anybody,"*
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> -- Thomas taunting Gideon about Samantha's murder
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## Trivia

* He is the second character in the series universe that wields a barbed-wire baseball bat, the others being his father Antony Eden and Goldilocks from the Extended Universe.
* Thomas's mental decline shows a similar trend to that of his father, albeit being far more pathological; it is more likely that Thomas is mentally ill, unlike his father, who succumbed to antagonism due to a combination of arrogance and trauma.
	+ He is the fourth antagonist whose actions can be explained by mental illness, the others being Hector Granger, Nathan Carlson and Connor Stanton.
* A similarly-named character is mentioned in the Extended Universe as a former leader of the Federates, but has no connection to Thomas Granger.