Daryl Dixon

Late 40s to Early 50s *("Who Are You Now?")*

Early 50s *("Rest in Peace")*

* Unemployed

**Post-Apocalypse**

* Former Hunter for the Atlanta Camp
* Former Member of the Prison Council
* Former Recruiter for the Alexandria Safe-Zone
* Former Soldier for the Militia, the Coalition, and the Commonwealth Army
* Former Leader of the Saviors
* Former Biofuel Producer
* Leader of his own group

Will Dixon - Father †

Merle Dixon - Brother †

William Dixon - Grandfather †

Judith Grimes - Surrogate Niece

R.J. Grimes - Surrogate Nephew

Dog - Former Pet

Leah Shaw - Ex-Lover †

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> Stop! What the hell you doing? We all deserve better than this. You built this place to be like the old world. That was the fսckin' problem. (…) If you don't, you're gonna lose everything anyway. We got one enemy. **We ain't the walkin' dead**.
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**Daryl Dixon** is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's Television Universe. He is a main character in *The Walking Dead* and one of two protagonist in *The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon*. He served as the sole protagonist of *Daryl Dixon* in Season 1 and will serve as the co-protagonist, alongside Carol Peletier, starting in Season 2.

He is the younger brother of Merle and the last surviving member of his family. Daryl is an expert at hunting, tracking, navigation, and observation. He is also a skilled combatant, knife-wielder and crossbowman. Rick Grimes values him as his right-hand man, close friend, and later on as a brother figure.

Daryl is at first a brazen, surly, impulsive redneck but develops himself as an integral part of the group due to his survival skills. His aggression is unprecedented, and it remains one of his most valuable assets, as well as one of his most noticeable. Following the deaths of Edand Sophia Peletier, Daryl has developed a close bond with fellow survivor Carol Peletier. He later formed a brief yet close bond with another fellow survivor Beth Greene before her demise.

Following the end of the war against Negan and the Saviors, Daryl becomes the new leader of the Saviors, though he eventually resigns from the role, giving it to Carol instead. In the years following Rick's assumed death, he started living in the woods after spending a long time searching for his best friend's body. He also came across a dog as well as his former owner, a woman named Leah who he develops a romantic bond with, during this time. Later on, he forms a parental bond with Lydia and acts as her father figure, protecting and caring for her. After moving to the Commonwealth, Daryl joined its army alongside Rosita Espinosa. A year after Pamela Milton is overthrown, Daryl tells Carol he loves her before departing to see what else is out there. He tells Judith that if he hears anything about her parents he will find them and bring them home. He promises he'll be back before he rides off on his bike and starts a new journey somewhere else.

After ending up in France because of some bad people he came across, Daryl tries to find a way back home, meeting new people along the way. At some point he meets a woman and forms a loving connection with her, eventually marrying her and having kids. At some point he becomes the adopted father of Havana Grimes.

* Daryl has been shown to survive some of the most severe situations. In the episode "Chupacabra", Daryl fell off a horse and, in result, getting impaled through the torso by one of his own arrows. Later in the episode, he got shot in the side of the head by Andrea. In "A", he was beaten severely by the Claimers. In "Consumed", he and Carol Peletier were pushed off a bridge in a van. In "East", he got shot in the shoulder by Dwight and still survived. In "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be", he had enough strength to land a single punch on Negan although suffering from the aforementioned gunshot wound. In "Chokepoint" he managed to engage Beta in a knife fight and knock him down an elevator shaft although the latter was a much larger and physically stronger individual, and in "Scars" he was shot with an arrow by a child then branded with an X mark by Linus, which clearly pained him. In "Stalker" he was stabbed in the leg by Alpha and still survived.
* Originally Daryl was never planned for the AMCshow, however after Norman Reedus' audition for the role of Merle Dixon, the producers admired his performance so much they created Daryl Dixon specifically for Norman.
	+ According to the Cutting Room Floor for Issue 65, Daryl was originally going to die in "Vatos".
* Daryl has been responsible for three of the original Atlanta group member's deaths.
	+ He put Dale out of his misery by shooting him in the head.
	+ His violent outburst during Abraham's execution resulted in Glenn's death.
	+ He shot and killed Morales with a crossbow bolt because he had a gun pointed at Rick.
	+ In addition, after the destruction of the Atlanta camp, Daryl used a pickaxe to put down those that had died before they could reanimate aside from Ed Peletier and Amy Harrison who were taken care of by Carol and Andrea instead.
* Daryl won IGN's "Best TV Hero" of 2012.
* Daryl's signature weapon is a Stryker crossbowwhich he also used before the apocalypse. Throughout the series, Daryl sometime changes a different model of the crossbow from time to time.
	+ Starting in Season 9, Daryl often uses a pair of dual-wielded large knives for close range combat. As revealed in an interview by Angela Kang, the knives were custom designed with Norman Reedus' help to make sure that Daryl had a good secondary weapon for hand-to-hand combat as the characters were starting to be more stingy with their bullets going into Season 9 and a crossbow is difficult to reload so it's not good for quick combat.
	+ After joining the Commonwealth Army, Daryl appears to adopt an AR-15 as his preferred weapon instead of his crossbow.
	+ Daryl has been one of the most frequent users of Rick's Colt Python, and at one point carried it after Judith refused to take it before he returned it to her.
* Daryl has been captured ten times.
	+ He was captured in the episode "Made to Suffer" by Woodbury and forced to fight his brother Merle.
	+ He was captured a second time in the episode "A" by Gareth at Terminus.
	+ He was captured again by Dwight and The Saviors in "East" after he and Rosita were trying to free Glenn and Michonne.
	+ He was captured in the episode "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" after being recaptured by the Saviors because Negan liked the way he stood up to him.
	+ He was captured along with Michonne in "Scars" by Jocelyn and her kids.
	+ He was in the episode "The Calm Before" when he, along with Michonne, Carol, and Yumiko were captured by the Whisperers, however they were released afterwards.
	+ In a flashback, he was temporarily captured in the episode "Find Me" by Leah in her cabin.
	+ He was captured in "Rendition" by the Reapersbefore reluctantly joining them.
	+ In a flashback, he was captured in the episode "Deux Amours" by Pouvoir's people on their boat.
	+ He was captured again by Pouvoir's people in the episode "Deux Amours" in Maison Mère, along with Quinn.
* Daryl has the highest number of appearances than any other character in the show, appearing in a total of 148 episodes.
	+ Additionally, Daryl's pet, Dog, is the animal with the most appearances in the show, appearing in 25 episodes.
* Daryl's crossbow has been stolen 5 times on the show.
	+ The first time was by Shumpert when he was captured by The Governor and forced to fight Merle.
	+ The second time was when the group attempted to flee Terminus, but were guided by multiple gunshots to a train car, and being made to drop their weapons for confiscation.
	+ The third was when Carol and Daryl visited Atlanta in Season 5 while looking for Beth, but got held-up by Noah in an abandoned building.
	+ The fourth time was when he saved Dwight and Sherry in the woods from the Saviors and Dwight double crossed him, stealing his bow and motorcycle.
	+ The fifth and final time was by Dwight again when he shot Daryl in his upper shoulder area and added him into Negan's lineup.
* Daryl has the highest number of uses of the walker guts trick aside from Nicholas Clark in *Fear the Walking Dead*.
	+ In "Bonds", Daryl snaps a walker's neck and uses its blood to disguise himself from both the Whisperers and a nearby herd.
	+ In "A Certain Doom", Daryl uses the walker guts trick in order to sneak out through the Whisperers' horde surrounding the Tower and then to sneak into the horde and assassinate the Whisperers.
	+ In "Rendition", Daryl covers himself in walker guts after getting separated from the others by the Reapers, presumably in order to avoid attention from any passing herds that he encounters.
	+ In "The Rotten Core", Daryl and Rosita reluctantly use the walker guts trick in order to infiltrate Cooper's House and retrieve money for Sebastian Milton.
* Daryl has joined or infiltrated an enemy group on two occasions before later helping his friends to take them down.
	+ From "Alone" to "A", Daryl joins the Claimersbefore helping his friends to wipe them out.
	+ After being captured by the Reapers in "Rendition", Daryl joins and infiltrates the group before revealing his true allegiance in "For Blood" and helping to take them out in "For Blood" and "No Other Way".
* Daryl is the longest male living character of the TV Series, and the second longest living character behind Carol.
* Skybound published a 2014 April Fools Joke in which it was "spoiled" that Daryl would appear in Issue 129 of the Comic Series.
	+ Though Daryl is a fan favorite on the show, Kirkman confirmed that he has no interest in including him in the comics. Daryl never appeared in the Comic Series.
* Daryl displays several stereotypes of a redneck.
	+ He possesses a southern American accent.
	+ His most consistent trait is his aggressive and hostile demeanor.
	+ He has shown to have a fondness for alcohol.
	+ He has shown to be a chain-smoker.
* Daryl may be a motorcycle enthusiast - this can be theorized through several hints throughout the series.
	+ He owns a personal motorcycle jacket
	+ He drove a **1976 Triumph Bonneville *Hardtail Frame Conversion***, which was originally owned by his older brother Merle.
	+ When questioned by Aaron, Daryl dryly remarks, "I ride bikes".
	+ Daryl appears to have a proficient knowledge of mechanical engineering where he has been seen repairing several broken vehicles to the point of being able to construct a fully working **1992 Honda CB 750 Nighthawk** out of spare parts in a garage.
* Daryl possesses several tattoos including one located on his left chest which says 'Norman' - (Reedus' own and father's name), a small devil located on his upper right arm, a red tattoo with the name "Mingus" (Norman's son's name), two individual demons located on his back and a skull on his right hand.
* On *Talking Dead* for "Coda", Robert Kirkman confirmed that Daryl is straight, if slightly asexual, as previous fan theories suggested that Daryl was gay and Kirkman himself had alluded to the possibility.
* Daryl had previously owned Beth's Browning Hunter Knife, which he kept as a memento of her, which was possibly taken by Dwight.
* Daryl has killed the fourth largest amount of living characters on the TV show with a total of at least 110 victims, Carol has the third largest with at least 124, Simon has the second largest with a total of at least 172, Negan has the largest with a total of at least 225.
* Coincidentally, whenever the group comes into conflict with an antagonistic force, Daryl often finds himself with the antagonists in some way and is separated from Rick's group. When the Survivors began a conflict with the Governor, Daryl left with Merle. When the Survivors encountered The Claimers, Daryl was associated with them. Right after meeting Negan, Daryl is then held captive by the Saviors and shortly after meeting Alpha, he, Carol, Michonne, and Yumiko are then temporarily held captive by the Whisperers. When the Reapers attacked his group and killing several of their people, Daryl is captured by them and is forced to join them temporarily.
* Daryl is one of three original Atlanta camp members still alive out of 33 others. Rick and Carol are the other ones.
* Originally, Daryl was named Dwight in the scripts for Season 1.
* The "A" on Daryl's sweatshirt while in Savior captivity stands for "asshole", as confirmed by Angela Kang. She also revealed Daryl was supposed to be in a factory jumpsuit, but they did not want it to look similar to the jumpsuits worn by the DHARMA Initiative in *Lost*.
* Daryl bears a scar, similar of a black eye, on his right eye due to the fight with The Claimers in the Season 4 finale episode.
* In "East" Daryl lost his vest after getting shot by Dwight who took it from him and wore it. Thus Season 7 was the only season where Daryl wasn't seen wearing his vest. He would finally get it back from a wounded Dwight in "How It's Gotta Be".
* As of "The Cell" onwards, Daryl appears to no longer wear any kind of sleeveless shirt. The last time he did was in "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be".
* As of "Stradivarius", Daryl is missing the whole right wing off of his vest, first only missing half of his right wing in "What Comes After".
* In "Omega" Daryl told Lydia how some abusive fathers are, possibly referring how Daryl was abused in his past. This is more noticeable in "Home", when Merle rips off Daryl's shirt, revealing the scars on his back.
* Daryl has the most scars among any other characters in the series.
* In Season 9, Daryl, like Michonne, bares an **X**shaped scar on his back. "Scars" reveals he was branded this scar by Linus, on Jocelyn's orders. Interestingly Daryl already had a x scar back in "Home".
* In "The Little Prince" from *Fear the Walking Dead*, Dwight mentions Daryl to John about how he let him go because he knew of his love for Sherry and wanted to give him a chance to find her.
* Daryl is one of eight people to know ASL. The others being Carol Peletier, Gabriel Stokes, Connie, Kelly, Magna, Yumiko Okumura, and Luke Abrams.
* He is one of eleven known characters to have seen Beta's face.
	+ The other ten characters being Alpha, Lydia, Mary, Negan Smith, Beta's best friend, a Whisperer, Daniel, Grace, Dennis and Silas with the latter four being unknowingly.
* Daryl is a playable character in other media such as *PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile*, *Magic: The Gathering*, *Brawlhalla*, *Fortnite*, and *State of Survival*.
* He is one of the nine main characters who did not originate from the Comic or Novel series, the others being Merle Dixon, Sasha Williams, Enid, Simon, Jerry, Alden, Anne, and Leah Shaw.
* In "Rendition", he confirms that he used to believe in God but lost his faith sometime during the apocalypse.
* Norman Reedus and Scott Gimple confirmed on Twitter that Daryl was originally in talks to get his arm cut off in Season 7 as a punishment for punching Negan. Ultimately, the writers did not follow through with the concept and instead the scene was changed to Negan psychologically torturing Rick by tricking him into thinking that he needed to cut off Carl's arm instead.
* Daryl is one of fifteen characters in the TV universeto have dropped an uncensored f-bomb.
	+ The others are Nick Clark, Madison Clark, Hope Bennett, Rosita Espinosa, Jason Riley, Winokur, Alvarez, Joe, Evie, Sandra, Erika, Negan Smith, Juanita Sanchez, and Michael Mercer.
	+ He said it three times in Season 11.
* Daryl is the only main character who has met all the other main characters.
* Because of the announcement of the *Daryl Dixon*series prior to the show ending, Daryl is one of three characters confirmed to survive the events of *The Walking Dead*, the other two being Maggie Rhee and Negan Smith.
* Daryl and Maggie are the only characters in the series, who at least killed one person from every major antagonistic groups (Woodbury Army, The Saviors, The Scavengers, The Whisperers, The Reapers and Commonwealth Army)
* As confirmed in "Rest in Peace", he is Blood O Negative which makes him a universal blood donor.
	+ As a child, Merle and him used to sell his blood for cash.
* Daryl is one of four main characters in Season 11 who appears in all eight episodes of part three. The others three are Judith Grimes, Negan Smith, and Ezekiel Sutton.
* Daryl, Rick Grimes, Morgan Jones, and Carol Peletier are the only confirmed survivors of the outbreak introduced in Season 1 to not die in the TV Series.
* Daryl, Rick Grimes and Carol Peletier are the only characters to appear in all eleven seasons.
* Daryl is one of twenty-one characters to appear in more than one TV universe show, the others being Morgan Jones, Rick Grimes, Carol Peletier, Paul Rovia, Dwight, Sherry, "Beta", Anne, Edwin Jenner, Alpha, Lydia, Negan Smith, Maggie Rhee, Hershel Rhee, Michonne Grimes, Jenny Jones, Duane Jones, Benjamin, Ezekiel Sutton and Eastman.
* Growing up Daryl and his brother Merle watched an American sitcom called *"Mork and Mindy."*