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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In "Down the Mississippi" he presides over the trial of Sketchy, Sleazy, and 10K for stealing the truck of some human traffickers working for him, and using it to con an entire town. Despite working for a criminal group, he holds a fair trial and even allows the defendants the opportunity to defend themselves, while silencing anyone who interrupts. And while he does ultimately sentence them to death, he only does so after being provided absolute evidence of their guilt.
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* NiceGuy: Extremely friendly and helpful when he can be.
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* BigBad: Of Season three.

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* BigBad: Of Season three. He is working for the folks at Zona but he is the direct antagonist for Roberta and her group.

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: While trying to kill 10K, he impales her through the mouth with a knife and finally kills her.



* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Is injected with the solution made by Curien after his death. His eyes open but they are not having the color of the other hybrids.]]

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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Is injected with the solution made by Curien after his death. His eyes open but they are not having the color of the other hybrids.]]



* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Dies after pulling a genuine HeelFaceTurn. But based on CameBackWrong, apparently not...



* ArchEnemy: Escorpion, whom Vasquez across the country.

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* ArchEnemy: Escorpion, whom Vasquez chases across the country.



* FaceHeelTurn: When he returned in Season 3, he was apparently insane and had forgotten about Operation Bitemark and considered himself Escorpion.



* RapidAging: She seems to immediately jump ahead several years every couple of months. Also counts as WiseBeyondTheirYears because she's acts her age even though she's less than two years old.



* RapidAging: She seems to immediately jump ahead several years every couple of months. Also counts as WiseBeyondTheirYears because she's acts her age even though she's less than two years old.

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* RapidAging: She seems to immediately jump ahead several years every couple of months. Also counts as WiseBeyondTheirYears because she's acts her age even though she's less than two years old.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Escorpion uses a spear-like object to impale her through the mouth.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Escorpion uses a spear-like object to impale her through the mouth.]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoilers: Escorpion uses a spear-like object to impale her through the mouth.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Escorpion uses a spear-like object to impale her through the mouth.]]
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!!"La Reina"

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!!"La Reina"!!La Reina



* BigBad: Of Season 2.

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* TheRedBaron: Only known as La Reina (The Queen in Spanish). Her husband who was the head of the cartel was named Gonzalo but he died and she took over.



* AffablyEvil: He is not needlessly cruel unless he has to be. He also never raises his voice and

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* AffablyEvil: He is not needlessly cruel unless he has to be. He also never raises his voice and is polite for the most part even while killing people.


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* BigBad: Of Season three.
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Is injected with the solution made by Curien after his death. His eyes open but they are not having the color of the other hybrids.]]


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!!"La Reina"
!!!Portrayed by: Gina Gershon

The head of the Zeros cartel looking for Murphy to obtain the vaccine for her in order to make her the ruler of the world essentially.

* BigBad: Of Season 2.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Can act very friendly but if you go against her, she will have you killed brutally.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoilers: Escorpion uses a spear-like object to impale her through the mouth.]]


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* AffablyEvil: He is not needlessly cruel unless he has to be. He also never raises his voice and
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot presented Simon's "Citizen Z" persona as a cool, confident, shades wearing, music playing DJ. That pretty much disappeared after the pilot, thought people still make reference to him playing music.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot presented Simon's "Citizen Z" persona as a cool, confident, shades wearing, music playing DJ. That pretty much disappeared after the pilot, thought though people still make reference to him playing music.
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!!!Portrayed by: Cora M. Abdallah

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!!!Portrayed by: Cora M. Abdallah
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* YoungerThanSheLooks: She's only one-year-old but looks like she's six. Also counts as WiseBeyondTheirYears because she acts like a six-year-old too.

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* YoungerThanSheLooks: She's only one-year-old but looks like she's six. RapidAging: She seems to immediately jump ahead several years every couple of months. Also counts as WiseBeyondTheirYears because she she's acts like a six-year-old too.
her age even though she's less than two years old.
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* AndIMustScream: After he is bitten by Murphy. 10K has his own thoughts, but Murphy controls his body.

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* TheBeastmaster: Part of Murphy's status as TheImmune is that as he goes further and further hybrid, he grows increasingly into his ability to control and domesticate nearby zombies.



* CharacterDevelopment: Murphy starts as an overtly sarcastic, abrasive [[DirtyCoward who thinks nothing of locking Doc outside a truck while their are Z's out there]]. However, as the series progress, he becomes more of a CowardlyLion figure who, while still snarking about it, is willing to put himself in dangerous situations for the group.



* CursedWithAwesome: Murphy's immune to the virus. Being immune results in him mutating into a zombie-human hybrid. Zombies regard him as one of them and he doesn't seem to need food, rest or drink. However, being a half-zombie results in his skin going grey/blue and wrinkly, weird black tumors growing all over him, his eyes changing color, and his ''skin shedding''.



* DarkMessiah: Murphy is taking on more-and-more traits of this constantly. By Season 3, he's embraced the role completely, and starts building an army of [[UndyingLoyalty utterly loyal]] followers who view him as their savior.
* DeathSeeker: Murphy's inner monologue in "Day One" reveals that, beneath all the bluster, he doesn't want to be the savior of humanity ''or'' the "zombie messiah". He just wants to "curl up and die like everyone else". He might have grown out of this by season 3.



* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Most of the other survivors would stick together at this point out of genuine friendship. If he wasn't the salvation of humanity, though, they'd probably leave Murphy to his own devices, if not outright kill him for his many KickTheDog moments.



* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Will going along with saving humanity until a better offer comes up, then go back to saving humanity when that offer turns against him.

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Will going along with saving humanity until a better offer comes up, then go back to saving humanity when that offer turns against him. At times he even borders on TokenEvilTeammate.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Murphy is abrasive and cowardly, and not above more morally dubious actions if it means survival. That said, he begins to come out of it as evidenced by his sadness when he believes Doc to be dead and subsequent joy at finding out he is alive. Even more so in "Resurrection Z", when he saves the crew from Jacob, an insane preacher.



* TheImmune: He is supposedly immune to the zombie virus due to an experimental vaccine, which means zombies will also ignore him.
* LivingMacGuffin: He has the zombie cure in his blood, making Murphy the most important person on the planet.

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* TheImmune: He Thanks to having the only z-virus vaccine, Murphy is supposedly immune to the zombie virus due bites. As the series progresses, he starts to an experimental vaccine, which means show signs of mutation, essentially turning him into a halfway zombie that retains his intelligence but is zombie enough that actual zombies will also ignore him.
him, or at least don't attack him. He can also transmit the vaccine through his blood, as he discovers when a man he bit doesn't turn after dying, but it makes the bitten his slave.
* LivingMacGuffin: He has the zombie cure in his blood, making The quest to get Murphy to California drives the most important person on the planet.whole plot.



* TheWorfEffect: While he's still safe from zombie aggression no matter how many zombies are around, he is incapable of controlling more than a small group at any one time.

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* TheWorfEffect: While he's still safe from zombie aggression no matter how many zombies are around, SignificantHaircut: Murphy shaves off all his hair after he realizes that the vaccine is incapable of controlling more than starting to have side-effects. He grows i back later, along with a small group at any one time.beard.



* TookALevelInJerkass: Started as a selfish ConMan who sometimes liked his friends to a megalomaniac who wants to enslave his friends.

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* TookALevelInJerkass: Started as As of the season 2 premiere Murphy is even more of a selfish ConMan who sometimes liked his friends JerkAss than he already was, seeming completely indifferent to a megalomaniac who wants to enslave his friends.human extinction.



* WildCard: He's pretty much the only character we can safely say has ContractualImmortality, as there would literally be no show without him. But, the hints on whether he's ultimately going to be TheHero or the {{Villain|s}} keep flip-flopping.
* TheWorfEffect: While he's still safe from zombie aggression no matter how many zombies are around, he is incapable of controlling more than a small group at any one time.



* BratsWithSlingshots: 10k, the youngest of the group, has a slingshot as a backup weapon. It's a decent ammo saver, and it helps that he can unfailingly shoot zombies right through the eye.is



* ImprobableAimingSkills: It's not just that he can headshot any zombies from buildings across the yard, it's that he's self taught.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: It's not just that Not only is 10K impressively good with his rifle, he can headshot any kill zombies from buildings across the yard, it's that he's self taught.with a slingshot.




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* SacrificialLion: So you know just how dangerous all the zombies are.




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* UndyingLoyalty: To Murphy after he resurrects her.



* LosingYourHead: After he is injected with his own vaccine, Dr. Kurian is decapitated but survives as a talking head.


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* OracularHead: Thanks to a treatment devised from Murphy's blood and Roberta's machete.
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* WouldHurtAChild: When he kidnaps Lucy he tasers her to shut her up. When that doesn't work he puts a sack over her hand and chokes her until she agrees to keep quiet.

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* WouldHurtAChild: When he kidnaps Lucy he tasers her to shut her up. When that doesn't work he puts a sack over her hand head and chokes her until she agrees to keep quiet.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot presented Simon's "Citizen Z" persona as a cool, confident, shades wearing, music playing DJ. That pretty much disappeared after the pilot, thought people still make reference to him playing music.
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* MacGuffinGirl: Just like her daddy.


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!!"The Man"
!!!Portrayed by: Joseph Gatt

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A mercenary who tracks down people for Zona. His latest target is Murphy.

* BaldOfEvil: Does not even have eyebrows, leading to the derisive nickname "Mr. Clean".
* KnightOfCerebus: What makes him scarier than all the other villains on the show. He does not engage in EvilIsHammy, is totally unflappable, and is the best fighter on the show bordering on superhuman.
* NoNameGiven: The group just calls him The Man, and he never offers his real name.
* TheUnfettered: He will get his target, he will jury rig a radiation suit to get his target.
* WouldHurtAChild: When he kidnaps Lucy he tasers her to shut her up. When that doesn't work he puts a sack over her hand and chokes her until she agrees to keep quiet.
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!!Lucy Murphy
!!!Portrayed by: Cora M. Abdallah

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Murphy's half-human, half-whatever-Murphy-is daughter. Lucy can also control zombies.

* SpoiledBrat: Because her guardians are under Murphy's thrall and she has an entire planet of mindless slaves to play with, Lucy is a little too use to getting what she wants.
* TooKinkyToTorture: A non-sexual example. When The Man tasers Lucy to try and get her to shut up, she just giggles and tells him to do it again ''while smoke comes out of her head''.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Because she's been able to control zombies since she was born, Lucy is completely unafraid of zombies. She doesn't understand why other people would be afraid of zombies.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: She's only one-year-old but looks like she's six. Also counts as WiseBeyondTheirYears because she acts like a six-year-old too.
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!!Dr. Walter Kurian
!!!Portrayed by: Donald Corren

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The scientist who created [=ZN1=] zombie virus and doomed the world. He wants to find Murphy and create a zombie cure, and will kill anyone who gets in his way and work with anyone to get what he wants.

* BigBad: Of season one.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the one who created the zombie plague and caused the apocalypse, albeit unintentionally.
* LosingYourHead: After he is injected with his own vaccine, Dr. Kurian is decapitated but survives as a talking head.
* MadScientist: Because honestly, who intentionally makes a zombie virus?
* ProfessorGuineaPig: He is injected against his will with his experimental vaccine to see if it works. It does, sort of.

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!!Sketchy [=McClain=]
!!!Portrayed by: Mark Curr

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A recurring ConMan Operation Bite-mark keeps running into, along with his business partner and friend Skeezy.

* ArmsDealer: His original job. Most notably Sketchy is the one who sold Addy her baseball bat.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Skeezy.
* OnceASeason: He and Skeezy get one episode a season.
* TakeThat: His appearance in "Election Day", where he pretends to be a fear mongering "President of the Apocalypse" who promises survivors, to build a wall to keep the zombies out, then takes all their resources and scram, is a shot at Donald Trump.
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* ArchEnemy: Vasquez's arch enemy, though he didn't know Vasquez was gunning for him.




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* HeelFaceTurn: When he can't stand what he did anymore. Vasquez almost shooting him but relenting probably helped.
* MarkOfShame: He has a tattoo of Vasquez's daughter on his arm, to remind him of what he did.
* ThatManIsDead: When Escorpion starts going by his normal name again to distance himself from his past.
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!!!Portrayed by: DJ Qualls
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!!Hector "Escorpion" Alvarez
!!Portrayed by: Emilio Rivera

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Member of TheCartel, tasked with hunting down Murphy so TheCartel can monopolize the zombie vaccine cure. After he does and it all falls apart ([[DoomMagnet as usual]]), and feeling pretty bad about all the things he'd done as an enforcer, Hector joins with Warren's group.

* TheAtoner: Hector joins the group to make up for what he did.
* TheHeavy: During season two. While Escorpion is not in charge of the cartel, he is main threat facing the group.
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* EnsignNewbie: She was put in charge of the retrieve Murphy mission despite her inexperience.

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!!Sun Mei
!!!Portrayed by: Sydney Viengluang

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Army scientist from Beijing sent to bring Murphy back to China to create a vaccine. TheSmartGirl.

* NaiveNewcomer: Despite her military training, since Beijing was successfully walled off Sun doesn't have much experience in the wasteland.
* SoleSurvivor: Sun traveled to America with an entire battalion. They were all killed.
* SoleSurvivingScientist: Sun is the only known scientist left in the world with the knowledge to make a vaccine out of Murphy's blood.



Former NSA agent directing Operation Bite-mark from his base in the Arctic; doubles as a radio DJ. The MissionControl.

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Former NSA agent directing Operation Bite-mark from his base in the Arctic; doubles as a radio DJ. The MissionControl.



!!Cassandra
!!!Portrayed by: Pisay Pao

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Life unknown before the zombie outbreak, but she was used by a different survival group as bait for gullible travelers before joining up with Warren's group.

* CameBackWrong: Murphy bites her to save her from dying of infection. It doesn't go so well.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She survived the early days of the zombie apocalypse by joining a group of survivors in a trailer park. Unfortunately, they turned out to be cannibals and forced her to work as a prostitute in order to lure other survivors in to be eaten. She is on the run from this group when they meet her.
* GoGoEnslavement: When Cassandra becomes Murphy's slave he dresses her up in a gold tank top and matching short-shorts, go-go boots, and a fur coat. Because he's tacky like that.
* TheRenfield: After she is bitten by Murphy she becomes very loyal to him, but reduced mental capacities.




!!Cassandra
!!!Portrayed by: Pisay Pao

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Life unknown before the zombie outbreak, but she was used by a different survival group as bait for gullible travelers before joining up with Warren's group.

* CameBackWrong: Murphy bites her to save her from dying of infection. It doesn't go so well.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She survived the early days of the zombie apocalypse by joining a group of survivors in a trailer park. Unfortunately, they turned out to be cannibals and forced her to work as a prostitute in order to lure other survivors in to be eaten. She is on the run from this group when they meet her.
* GoGoEnslavement: When Cassandra becomes Murphy's slave he dresses her up in a gold tank top and matching short-shorts, go-go boots, and a fur coat. Because he's tacky like that.
* TheRenfield: After she is bitten by Murphy she becomes very loyal to him, but reduced mental capacities.

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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Unfortunately being unable to kill Escorpion apparently drove Vaquez mad, because when he shows up in season three he's running a violent gang and calling himself Escorpion.



* CameBackWrong: Murphy [[spoiler: bites her]] to save her from dying of infection. It doesn't go so well.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She survived the early days of the zombie apocalypse by joining a group of survivors in a trailer park. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: they turned out to be cannibals and forced her to work as a prostitute in order to lure other survivors in to be eaten]]. She is on the run from this group when they meet her.

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Life unknown before the zombie outbreak, but she was used by a different survival group as bait for gullible travelers before joining up with Warren's group.

* CameBackWrong: Murphy [[spoiler: bites her]] her to save her from dying of infection. It doesn't go so well.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She survived the early days of the zombie apocalypse by joining a group of survivors in a trailer park. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: they turned out to be cannibals and forced her to work as a prostitute in order to lure other survivors in to be eaten]]. eaten. She is on the run from this group when they meet her.her.
* GoGoEnslavement: When Cassandra becomes Murphy's slave he dresses her up in a gold tank top and matching short-shorts, go-go boots, and a fur coat. Because he's tacky like that.
* TheRenfield: After she is bitten by Murphy she becomes very loyal to him, but reduced mental capacities.

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%%* AnyoneCanDie
* BackForTheDead:Gets PutOnABus with Addy during the penultimate episode of season one, only to be [[spoiler: killed off in the second episode of season two.]]

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%%* AnyoneCanDie
Former hockey player. Addy's boyfriend.

* BackForTheDead:Gets BackForTheDead: Gets PutOnABus with Addy during the penultimate episode of season one, only to be [[spoiler: killed off in the second episode of season two.]]



%%* FlatCharacter
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: In season one, he jokes that if he ever needs mercy, he hopes it'll be Addy who puts him down. In season two, she's forced to do just that.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: In season one, he jokes that if he ever needs mercy, he hopes it'll be Addy who puts him down. In season two, she's forced to do just that.]]



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Former member of the DEA until his wife and daughter were killed by Escorpion. Became a BountyHunter in the apocalypse.



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* ArchEnemy: Escorpion, whom Vasquez across the country.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His wife and kid were killed right in front of him and drove him on a revenge quest.
* TheLancer / TheBigGuy: Is one of the best zombie killers on the team, but also acts as a contrast to Warren, particularly where Murphy is concerned.



* PutOnABus: After he is unable to kill Escorpion the gang just leave Vasquez alone in a bar to drink, then he is last seen running into the woods fighting off zombies.
** BusCrash: Returns in season three, only to be stabbed by Warren the next episode.



* TheLancer / TheBigGuy: Is one of the best zombie killers on the team, but also acts as a contrast to Warren, particularly where Murphy is concerned.

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* TheLancer / TheBigGuy: Is one of the best zombie killers on the team, but also acts as WhatYouAreInTheDark: When he finally had a contrast repentant Escorpion and has him at gunpoint Vasquez is unable to Warren, particularly where Murphy is concerned.
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* SacrificialLion: Was killed after six episodes just to reinforce that AnyoneCanDie.

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* SacrificialLion: Was killed after six episodes just to reinforce that AnyoneCanDie.CrusadingWidower: He had a wife and daughter, but their fates are unknown, presumed dead.




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* HeroicSacrifice: Takes a bullet for Murphy so the mission can continue.
* SacrificialLion: Was killed after six episodes just to reinforce that AnyoneCanDie.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Warren, which tragically was about to be resolved when a zombie outbreak occurred and Garnett was shot.

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