The Walking Dead (video game)/Characters

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Protagonists

Clementine in The Final Season

Clementine

Voiced by: Melissa Hutchison

The protagonist of the entire series, and the player-controlled character of the second and fourth seasons. An eight-year-old girl in the first season, and the first survivor that Lee comes upon. The two of them tag along throughout the game until Lee succumbs to a walker bite. In the following years, she looks out mainly for herself, as well as meeting many different people along the way.

  • The Ace: The zombie apocalypse and its hardships have turned Clem into an extremely proficient survivor. She has added many skills to her repertoire, including marksmanship, hunting and the ability to read people well.
  • Action Girl: Necessitated by the apocalypse and with the help of adults such as Lee and Jane, she has become a proficient fighter and (when necessary) killer.
  • Action Girlfriend: For Louis or Violet, if she chooses to enter into a relationship with one of them.
  • Action Survivor: Manages to escape her infected babysitter and survive for at least a couple days by herself, and she is only eight-years-old.
  • Affectionate Nickname: 'Clem' by everyone, 'sweet pea' by Lee and 'darlin' by Kenny.
  • The Aloner: Between seasons 2 and 3, after she is separated from Kenny/Jane/Edith and is left with AJ. When AJ is taken by the New Frontier, she is truly alone, and ends up preferring it, having lost trust in groups.
  • Ambiguously Brown: While her parents are both black, her fair complexion makes her full racial profile uncertain.
  • An Arm and a Leg: In season 4episode 4, Clem is bitten on the lower left leg. Later, in the barn, she tells AJ to either kill her or leave her to turn. Instead, AJ chops off her lower leg with an axe, which ultimately proves to save her life, though she has to use crutches from then on.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: If Clem goes with Jane at the end of Season 2 and Gabe dies at the end of season 3, Clem admit her feelings for him by kissing him on the lips.
  • Badass Adorable: From late in Season 1 onwards, when she starts helping in combat. The adorable may subside, but it persists to some extent.
  • Badass and Child Duo: With Lee.
  • Badass Boast: Tends to give these when someone threatens her, such as her 'still not bitten' line while in the shed in Season 2 episode 1, or optionally telling Mitch to 'back the fuck off' after he threatened her and AJ for Marlon's death.
  • Bad Liar: Responds with a nervous 'I don't know' when asked by Lee (in season 1) and AJ (in season 4) if she licked a salt lick in the St. John barn.
  • Battle Couple: If she enters into a relationship with Louis or Violet near the end of Season 4, episode 2.
  • Berserk Button: Making fun of her cap.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: If attacked (e.g., by Winston in Season 2 episode 1), threatened (e.g. by the Delta) or not treated with any respect (e.g. Carver). She can definitely hurt those that cross her.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Played straight with AJ, inverted with Sarah (she is about 5 years older than Clem in Season 2).
  • Big Brother Worship: She isn't related by blood to Luke, but their relationship can be interpreted as this.
  • Big Damn Heroes: If her friends are endangered, she will not hesitate to help out in a big way, such as shooting the Stranger, stopping Carver or helping Javi and his group when surrounded by walkers.
  • Blackmail: Optionally done to Sarah and/or Alvin so that she can sneak around the cabin to get supplies for her dog bite, and possibly to Rebecca when she is being mean to Clem, so that Clem doesn't reveal Rebecca's baby may not be Alvin's.
  • Blood Knight: Can show shades of this in Season 2 depending on player choices, and becomes one outright the following season, frequently preferring violence as a solution to situations. She can still be one in The Final Season, but is never stated in the entire series to enjoy killing.
  • Boyish Short Hair: She gets it cut by Lee in episode 3 to prevent it from being grabbed by anyone, alive or undead. It gets cut again by Javi at the end of season 3 so she can have it short again.
  • Break the Cutie: Frequently, particularly when someone in her group dies, such as Larry, Lee and Omid. Also when she sees her undead parents.
  • Broken Pedestal: If Lee does things Clem doesn't agree with, she will view him more negatively. Regardless, she becomes disillusioned with Lee in episode 4 and decides to run off with the Stranger. This indirectly causes Lee's death, something Clem greatly regrets in future seasons. The pedestal gets put back together when Lee rescues her.
  • Burn, Baby, Burn: In season 2 episode 1, she can choose to have a picture of Lee or of Kenny's family burned to keep the campfire lit, as opposed to a log.
  • Captain Crash: She crashes twice while driving a car, firstly when Kenny is teaching her how to drive a manual car between seasons 2 and 3 (if she went with him at the end of season 2) and again at the start of season 4 when trying to escape a walker-infested train station with AJ.
  • Character Tics: She hugs AJ whenever she feels relieved or during calm moments.
  • Cheerful Child: Initially, but the cheerfulness gradually fades during season 1. Averted after season 1, as the hardships brought on by the apocalypse cause her to become a lot more cynical.
  • Chick/Dude Magnet: Over the last two seasons, she earns the attraction of Gabe, Louis and Violet.
  • The Conscience: Clem's mere presence can convince Lee to choose morally right decisions. Can also be seen as one for Kenny in season 2.
  • Cool Big Sis: To AJ in season 4.
  • The Corrupter: James has concerns she is one for AJ in season 4, whether intentionally or not.
  • The Cutie: Only in season 1, after which a much tougher exterior is formed to survive.
  • Daddy's Girl: Her father gave her the baseball cap she wears, and this trope shines through with her affection for Lee.
  • Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response: She attacks the Stranger so Lee can fight him. If need be, she can also shoot him dead.
  • Damsel in Distress: When she is captured by the Stranger in season 1, episode 4.
  • Deadly Dodging: In season 2, she dodges a walker, letting it attack and kill Winston, her attacker early in episode 1. She also makes a walker fall off the bridge in episode 2 this way.
  • Deadpan Snarker: After the first season, once she loses hope for a normal world.
  • Death Glare: Gives her first one after her hair is cut in season 1 (not at Lee though). Gives a lot more in subsequent seasons since she is a lot less willing to put up with others people's crap. Examples include after Reggie awkwardly pats her on the head in season 2 episode 3, and when David barges into the outpost garage in season 3 episode 3.
  • Death Seeker: If she had not been told AJ was alive in season 3, she would have become this.
  • Defector From Decadence: She is exiled from the New Frontier for using medicine on AJ despite not being allowed to. Since then, she is considered an enemy of the community.
  • Defiant to the End: Can tell Lilly to see her in Hell when she has Clem at gunpoint during the Delta attack on the school.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Gradually warms up to people as season 3 progresses. The extent of defrosting in season 4 is up to the player.
  • Determinator: In difficult circumstances, she draws on every reserve within her to survive and help others. Examples include her ordeal with getting her dog bite treated in season 2, episode 1, and helping AJ get the two of them to James' barn at the end of season 4, while nursing a wounded and walker-infected leg.
  • Disney Death: Clem is bitten by a walker in the final episode, and it seems that she is dead when AJ swings an ax towards her. It turns out that he cut off her infected lower leg, which is shown to have saved her about 20 minutes later, though she has to use crutches from then on.
  • Establishing Character Moment: When she hands the hammer to Lee so he can kill the walker (who was Clem's babysitter), it signified her helpfulness and resourcefulness.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Violet develops feelings for Clem, in addition to Louis and in the previous season, Gabe.
  • The Exile: Exiled from the New Frontier after stealing medicine to help a sick AJ, and is exiled with AJ from the Ericson's Boarding School after AJ murdered Marlon.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Clem can stay silent and close her eyes as Lilly is about to kill her in season 4 episode 2. Subverted as Lilly backs out due to their past together.
  • Fallen Hero: Downplayed. Carver predicts she will becomes this, and can be proven right depending on player choices over seasons 2 to 4, such as rejecting the family at the end of season 2 (if she is with Jane). She acts more antagonistic in season 3, and can act mean to others depending on player choices in season 4, but is never outright villainous.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: At the end of season 3, Javier gives Clem a new haircut, with her hair parted to the right and a single ponytail on the left. She cam criticise the style, but nevertheless keeps it in season 4.
  • Fingore: If she only goes with AJ at the end of season 2, she gets her right ring finger crushed in a car door between seasons 2 and 3, forcing her to amputate the top half of it.
  • First Kiss: Can be with Gabe, Louis or Violet. Averted if she does not kiss any of the three.
  • Focal Character: In seasons 2 and 4.
  • Man Bites Man: Twice in season 2:
    • In episode 1, she bites Winston hard enough to draw blood when trying to escape from his grip.
    • In episode 3, she bites Luke, who Clem thinks is one of Carver's henchmen, again drawing blood. Luke was simply holding his hands over her mouth so she stayed quiet.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Can be played this way in season 2. Examples include forcing Alvin to get her supplies so she doesn't tell Rebecca of their meeting and pretending to be Sarah's friend.
  • Menstrual Menace: In season 3 episode 4, she tells Javi that she 'bleeding', implying that her periods have started.
  • Morality Pet: Mainly for Lee in season 1, but she can also influence others' decisions in subsequent seasons. Inverted for Javi in season 3 as Clem becomes somewhat of an 'amorality pet', frequently encouraging Javi to make immoral choices.
  • The Musketeer: She is proficient with both handguns and melee weapons such as screwdrivers and knives.
  • My Greatest Failure: Being the indirect cause for Lee's death by going with the Stranger. This forces Lee to look for her, and while just outside the mansion perimeter, he gets bitten by a walker.
  • Nice Hat: Her baseball cap, a gift from her dad.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Raising AJ by herself from either the end of season 2 or between season 2 and 3, partly on the run. She loses him to the New Frontier before season 3, but finds him at the McCarroll Ranch between seasons 3 and 4, and starts being his foster mother again. During season 4, the pair find the Ericson's boarding school, and through a combination of having others to help take care of him and AJ's growing independence, she does not have to keep such a close eye on him anymore.
  • Orphan's Ordeal: Since the start of the apocalypse. She finds out her parents are walkers near the end of season 1, episode 5.
  • Parental Abandonment: Clem's parents are in Savannah at the start of the apocalypse, and she is alone when Lee finds her. By the time Lee and Clem are in Savannah, they have become walkers.
  • Parental Hypocrisy: Clem can tell AJ to not swear, but swears a lot herself. Moreover, if Clem chooses violent options despite telling AJ to avoid it, AJ will call her out.
  • Parents as People: After both of AJ's parents die and everyone else dies or leaves the group for one reason or another, Clem has to become a foster parent for AJ. Since she was only eleven, she had difficulty and she can admit in season 4 that she was never taught how to be a parent. AJ's lack of experience around people and his violent tendencies make parenting difficult in season 4.
  • Passive-Aggressive Kombat: With Rebecca in season 2 episode 1.

You should probably think about being nicer to me. That's just my advice...

  • Pink Means Feminine: One of her favourite colours is pink, evidenced by the flower stickers on her walkie-talkie in season 1 and her subtitles in Season 1 and 3, and during AJ's playable segments in season 4.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Definitely qualifies considering she's a child for the most part, but is still quite short compared to most adults in season 4. Nevertheless, she is still capable of fighting walkers and hostile humans significantly larger than her.
  • Plot-Relevant Age-Up: She's 8 for most of season 1, 9 at the end, 11 in season 2, 13 in season 3 and 16 years old in season 4. Each season has large time skips, so these age-ups show how she's developed over time.
  • Plucky Girl: In season 1, until the enthusiasm withers by the start of season 2.
  • Precision F-Strike: She can tell Jane she's "fucking crazy" if she shoots Kenny in season 2, episode 5. This is in response to learning Jane hid AJ elsewhere to make it look like she lost him, provoking Kenny to attempt to kill her.
  • Promotion to Parent: Clem takes over as AJ's sole caregiver at some point, being at the end of season 2 or between seasons 2 and three depending on player choices at the end of season 2. Loses this status not long before the events of season 3 when the New Frontier exile Clem and take AJ, then regains it when she finds him at the McCarroll Ranch between seasons 3 and 4.
  • Protectorate: For Lee in season 1.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Her clothing and accessories in season 2 are mostly purple, and her abilities are well-documented. She tells Katjaa in episode 1 season 1 that purple is her favourite colour.
  • Thinking Out Loud: In season 4 episode 3, she talks to herself about AJ, then about the fact she's talking to himself.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Tries to live by this doctrine, but from season 1 episode 5 onwards, this becomes impossible. Nevertheless, she tries to kill as few people as possible for the rest of the series. It's more like 'thou shalt not kill more than I have to' for her.
  • Tomboyish Ponytail: After Javi cuts her hair at the end of season 3, Clem wears her hair in a single side ponytail.
  • Took a Level In Badass: Throughout the series, right from the third episode when she starts helping Lee with tasks. This includes learning new skills and mastering them, as well as getting much better in armed, melee and hand-to-hand combat.
  • Took a Level In Jerkass: Possible in season 2, depending on player choices. Definitely does in season 3, but defrosts somewhat as the season goes on. She can retake that step in season 4, again depending on player choices. Understandable to a point considering everything she's gone through.
  • Took a Level In Kindness: After getting AJ back, Clem seems to shed that cold and standoffish personality, and returns to her more joyful version. Can be averted if the player chooses 'scumbag' options in season 4.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Several, including the baseball cap given by her dad, the walkie-talkie, a drawing of Kenny's family and a photo of Lee. Items that are optionally kept include Kenny's hat, Gabriel's pack of playing cards and a button from Violet.
  • Trauma Conga Line: The entire series can be seen as one for her, with small breaks in between, but never a lengthy period of calm. The last episode of each season as well as when Carver ruled over her group with an iron fist are particularly intense conga lines.
  • Walking the Earth: Clem has covered a large swathe of eastern United States, having been to at least 5 different states. She lived just outside Atlanta, Georgia, and travelled to Macon and Savannah in Season 1. She was in North Carolina (early on), Tennessee (Carver's base) and Ohio (Wellington; optional) in Season 2. She was in Virginia for both Season 3 and 4, coincidentally where Rick's group currently are in the comics.
  • Weak but Skilled: Strength isn't her strong suit, but she's pretty handy with a pistol after Lee teaches her how to shoot. Whenever she doesn't have a gun, she is able to to use the environment to her advantage. Her non-combat skills such as hunting have also been honed to a high level.
  • Weapon of Choice: A pistol, for the most part. She doesn't have one for most of season 4, so she uses a knife and crossbow.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Kenny berates her savagely early in season 2 episode 4, blaming her for Sarita's death. In season 4, some of her choices can get her reprimanded by other characters, especially on how she teaches AJ.
  • Worthy Opponent: To Carver in season 2 and Lilly in season 4.
Lee in The Final Season

Lee Everett

Voiced by: Dave Fennoy

A history professor, and the player-controlled character of the first season. Lee is a prisoner in transport, having been convicted for the murder of a state senator who was sleeping with his wife, when the the outbreak starts and makes his escape. He takes care of Clementine in the first season, until he succumbs to a walker bite, but not before giving Clem the necessary skills and knowledge to survive.

  • Action Survivor
  • Anti-Hero: If the player makes meaner and immoral dialogue and gameplay choices, Lee can act as one.
  • An Axe to Grind: After he gets the fire axe from the motel, he proves to be quite good with it.
  • Badass
  • Beware the Nice Ones
  • Blood Is the New Black: From either accidentally slipping on a pool of blood or after brutally bludgeoning Clementine's undead babysitter.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: He killed a state senator after catching him sleeping with his wife.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Determinator: He did everything in his power to rescue Clem and get her to safety in episode 5, include chop through a sizeable group of walkers outside the Marsh House, where Clem was being held by the Stranger.
  • The Lancer: Despite being the Player Character, Lee seems to serve this role to Kenny and Lilly, who come up with the plans and the orders, which Lee then carries out. In the last 2 episodes however, he seems to step up as a leader.
  • The Leader: Particularly towards the end of season 1, after Lilly is gone and Kenny relinquishes power.
  • Mercy Kill: To his zombified brother, and possibly to Irene as well.
  • Promotion to Parent: For Clementine.

Michonne

The playable protagonist of the Michonne mini-series and a major character in the comic series.

  • Weapon of Choice: Her machete, since her katana was left with Ezekiel at the Kingdom.

Javier García

A former professional baseball player that was thrown out of the league for betting on his own games. He relies on his own skills and those around him to survive both the walkers and the New Frontier.

  • The Leader: Of his family after David left at the beginning of the season, and of the group he travels with thereafter whenever David isn't around. He can also assume leadership of the New Frontier if he chooses to at the end of the season.
  • Weapon of Choice: His baseball bat, which he uses with the skills acquired from his professional baseball career.

Alvin Junior

AJ was born late in the second season, with Rebecca as his mother, and his paternity being disputed between Alvin and Carver. He is separated from Clem the following season, but reunites with her between the third and fourth seasons, with Clem taking on a motherly role.

  • Berserk Button: Walking up behind him prompts him to instinctively hurt them in defence, such as when he bites Ruby on the finger or elbows Marlon in the crotch. Likely developed as a defence mechanism since growing up in the apocalypse has taught AJ to be wary of people sneaking up on him.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck: If Clem forbids him from swearing in season 4.
  • Protectorate: For Clem from the end of season 2 onwards.

Hershel's Farm

Hershel Greene

Voiced by: Chuck Kourouklis

The traditional farmer from the main series, met on his farm. See the main series characters page for more info.

Get the fuck outta here!

Shawn Greene

Voiced by: Peter Mussad

Hershel's first son.

  • Doomed by Canon: In the comics, he's already dead by the time Rick shows up at the farm. Here, you get to see why.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Having grown up on a farm, Shawn should really know better than to stand in front of a tractor while someone's sitting in it... especially if it's a hyperactive child is playing with the gearshift.

Motel Survivors

Kenny

Voiced by: Gavin Hammon

Kenny in Season Two

A fisherman who is met on Hershel's farm with his family when Lee arrives.

  • Action Survivor
  • An Axe to Grind: He borrows Lee's axe near the end of episode one when he heads to get the pickup truck prepared. He saves Lee with it at the end of the episode.
  • Badass Mustache
  • Cluster F-Bomb: He says the f-word 5 times when the train is blocked by a gas tanker hanging off an overpass in season 1 episode 3.
  • Death Seeker: Between the death of Sarita and birth of AJ in season 2 episode 4.
  • The Leader: While Lilly ostensibly is this, Kenny immediately takes charge when the walkers get into the drug store.
  • Nice Guy
  • Nice Hat
  • Papa Wolf

Katjaa

Voiced by: Cissy Jones

Katjaa is the wife of Kenny and mother of Duck. She meets Lee and Clementine on Hershel's farm, and looks after Clementine when Lee is not around.

Kenny Jr. aka "Duck"

Voiced by: Max Kaufman

Duck is the hyperactive son of Kenny and Katjaa.

Lilly

Voiced by: Nikki Rapp

Lilly is a member of the Air Force who was stationed at Robins Air Force Base near Macon, Georgia. She took charge of the survivors in the drug store until Kenny arrived, when they started to share duties. After she shoots Carley/Doug, she is either kicked out of the group or steals their RV. About 8 years later, she turns up as the leader of an outpost of the Delta, and leads an effort to capture children at the Ericson's school (including Clem and AJ) to help fight for the Delta in a war with another community up north.

  • Ascended Extra: Word of God, and the offical Walking Dead game website, states this is the same Lilly from the comics.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Desk Jockey: In the Air Force, but she didn't enjoy it.
  • Jerkass: Not as much as her father, but still pretty bad.
  • The Leader: Type III, and not a very good one. When Kenny showed up, he took over the group almost immediately, with no one but Lilly and her father protesting. Again shows when she leads her Delta crew at the S.S. Stewarts Fitzgerald.
  • Sugar and Ice Personality

Larry

Voiced by: Terry McGovern

Larry is a former army commander and the father of Lilly. He has a history of heart problems, but has a bad temper as well. He knows about Lee's past, and threatens to reveal it if he thinks he is dangerous.

Larry: You gonna whoop me? You and what homo parade?

  • Ungrateful Bastard: Lee finds him medicine for his heart at great risk to himself. He then proceeds to punch Lee in the face and try to leave him for dead in the drug store as walkers enter it.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He wants to throw Duck to the walkers on the merest suspicion he has been bitten, without even doing a search for the bite.

Carley

Voiced by: Nicole Vigil

A reporter from Atlanta who was in Macon to cover the local Cherry Blossom Festival. She is one of the few survivors who knows about Lee's past.

Doug

Voiced by: Sam Joan

An IT guy who is first met in the drug store.

Glenn

Voiced by: Nick Herman

Everyone's favorite pizza boy turned expert scavenger from the main series, first met in the drug store. See the main series characters page for more info on him.

  • The Cameo: Appears only in the first episode before leaving for Atlanta.

Other Season 1 characters

Irene

Voiced by: Brett Pels

Irene is a survivor trapped in a motel room that Glenn finds. Commits suicide after getting bitten.

Cabin Survivors

Luke

Luke was one half of a business partnership with Nick before the apocalypse, but it failed. He is a voice of authority for the cabin survivors, and his disagreements with Carver over how Carver's community was run led to the cabin survivors' escape.

  • The Leader: Of the cabin survivors along with Carlos after Pete's death. He seems to share this role with Kenny in the second half of season 2.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In season 2 episode 3, he follows the group back to Carver's settlement on foot without stopping to sleep or eat.
  • Ship Tease: With Jane, since they had sex in episode 4 while Luke was supposed to be patrolling the area around the gift shop for walkers.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Clem engage in some snark, but are nevertheless close allies.

Rebecca

Alvin's husband and Alvin Junior's mother, Rebecca means well and cares deeply for those in any group she's in, but can be confrontational if she doesn't trust someone. Her pregnancy and identity of the baby's father are major plot points during early-to-mid season 2.

García Family

David

Javi's older brother, Kate wife, and Gabe and Mariana's father. He was a soldier in the army before the apocalypse, with these skills proving handy during the apocalypse. He drives away with his mother to the hospital after she was bitten by her undead husband (David and Javi's father), but turns up later as one of four members on the New Frontier's leadership council, being their head of security.

  • Blood Knight: His career as a soldier and tendency to lash out at others suggest that he loves a fight. Lampshaded by Kate in episode 5.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Punches Javi in the face in the first scene of season 3, as well as calling him irresponsible even though he tried his best to make it to the house before their father died.
  • The Leader: He is one of the New Frontier's four leadership council members, being the head of security.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He often gets this from people around him including his family members. In episode 5, Kate berates him for using military slang with everyone and refusal to save New Richmond, and dumps him.

Ericson's School for Troubled Youth

Violet

A student of the school who is known for being one of the most introverted among the students. She becomes leader after Marlon is killed, then co-leader after Clem comes back. She develops a crush on Clem, and the two can become romantic partners or best friends.

  • Establishing Character Moment: Is presented as standoffish when she introduced to Clem.
  • The Lancer: To Clem after she returns to the school, since Clem's ability to plan their defence against the Delta made her happy to let Clem lead.
  • The Leader: Of the Ericson's Boarding School community after Marlon was killed by AJ and before Clem came back.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: If she is with Clem in episode 3, she accuses Minerva of being weak after seeing what she has become, evidenced by Minerva killing her twin sister Sophie.
  • Weapon of Choice: A butcher's knife.
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