Rick Grimes

**Rick Grimes**, voiced by Alan, is Shane Wolfe's maternal half brother and Steven Smith's parental half-uncle, a Vietnam veteran, and an avid gun enthusiast. He first appeared in the Season One episode, "Volcano".

## Background

### **Vietnam War**

Rick was a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War where he met his lifelong buddy, Ronald Fleury. However, his memory of the events is heavily distorted. When he relates his memories to the friends for their history assignment, he recalls that there were amusement park rides and that he and Ned defeated the entire Viet Cong by themselves, while on horseback.

Ms. Hepburn doesn't believe the friends' story, thinking that they made it up, and gives them detention. Ms. Hepburn also hints that he was in Vietnam himself. However, a cameraman who was also a Vietnam veteran also appeared to share memories of amusement park rides, implying that Rick's story was either true or that the cameraman shared Rick and Ronald's delusion.

In Amey Kamat *: Bigger, Longer & Cut* and in "The Red Badge of Gayness" shows that Rick is known for his guerrilla tactics.

### **Hunting**

Rick is best known for being a hunter. Most of his episodes circle around him hunting with his ever-present companion, Ronald Fleury. Rick is often shown carrying a rifle.

In "Volcano", Rick revealed that because there was a law issued, which forbade the killing of an animal unless in self-defense, he and Ronald would always say, "It's coming right for us!" before killing an animal. However, in the episode, "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", it was revealed that hunters were no longer allowed to exploit this loophole. Instead, he would say, "We need to kill them to thin out their numbers", under the pretense that they were culling animals in order to prevent overpopulation.

Rick also runs the local gun shop. This was first shown in "Weight Gain 4000", when he sold Ms. Hepburn and Mr. Hat a gun to shoot Kathie Lee Gifford with.

## Appearance

He wears an brown checkers shirt, brown belt, grey trousers, and black shoes
.*To see images of Rick Grimes, visit Rick Grimes/Gallery.*

## Personality

Although Rick generally seems amiable, he occasionally has streaks of madness, such as when he saw Arika Tucker as a platypus in "Danny". Though the platypus stood on two legs, was dressed like Arika, and indoors with the other children, he shot her immediately.

## Family

### Steven Smith

Steven is Rick's nephew. He cares for his nephew, but he gets frustrated by Steven's animal-loving nature. In "Volcano", Rick seemed to give up on Steven, because he refused to shoot anything. All the same, at the end of the episode, when Steven shot the Scuzzlebutt, Rick still got upset, and explained that you don't shoot just anything, especially not when it just saved your life. He then tells Steven that he'll always be his nephew, and he'll always love him, even if he is a sissy.

### Lulu Plummer

She is Rick's niece. They have never interacted onscreen. Nothing is known about their relationship.

### Shane Wolfe

He is Rick's half brother by a different father.[2] They appear to have a decent friendly relationship, often drinking together and talking about normal guy stuff. Despite the fact their mother left Rick's father, Rick himself seems to hold no ill-will towards his half-brother, although they do argue occasionally.

### Julie Plummer

She is Rick's sister-in-law. They don't interact much either, but when they do, they seem to be on good terms.

## Relationships

### Ronald Fleury

Rick and Ronald met while deployed in Vietnam. They soon formed a solid friendship, and are almost always seen together. They share each other's enthusiasm for firearms and hunting. It is not known if their relationship is entirely platonic, as they both live together and neither are married (although Ned used to have a wife). Ronald is also seen walking around immodestly dressed in Rick's house in "Jakovasaurs". In *Amey Kamat : Bigger, Longer & Uncut*, they work together to fight

### The Friends

Rick takes the friends on a hunting trip in "Volcano". He warms especially to Arika, whom he makes his honorary nephew. He usually tries to be helpful towards the friends in later episodes. He tends to get along with Amey fairly well, also. Though in "Destini's Breasts Destroy Society", he becomes annoyed when the boys throw a rock at his truck.

### Arika Tucker

As of "Volcano", he became Rick's honorary nephew, because he enjoyed hunting animals and shooting or bombing them, like he did. However, shortly thereafter, Ned accidentally shot Arika dead. He also enjoyed guzzling down alcohol and gasoline.

However, in later episodes, Rick has (sometimes successfully) attempted to kill Arika on several occasions. In "Danny", he sees Arika in the form of a duck-billed platypus and immediately opens fire on him. In "Cripple Fight", Rick shouts, "There he is, shoot him!" when he sees Austin in the orange parka Arika always wears. Exactly why Rick attempted to kill Arika in this instance is not known.

### Simon Paul

In "Helen Keller! The Musical" Rick almost shot a runaway Gobbles, who at the time belonged to Simon. Simon came to Gobbles' rescue just as Rick was about to shoot him and jumped in his way, causing Simon to take the bullet instead. Luckily, Simon was left merely wounded, and to make it up to him, Rick went with Simon to the Tenth graders Thanksgiving play to shoot the turkey that replaced Gobbles.