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The Clark-Manawa Family | California | Mexico | Texas | Southeast USA

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Dorie Family

John

John Dorie

"It's not too late."

Portrayed By: Garret Dillahunt

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-6)

"It takes more than one bad afternoon, or a good one, to turn somebody."

A former lawman who Morgan encounters in Texas. He quickly becomes one of Morgan's best friends and falls in love with June. He is killed in mid-late Season 6 by Virginia's daughter Dakota.

And Then John Was a Zombie: Literally. June puts him down after a few moments, ending his suffering.
Be Careful What You Wish For: John spends most of "The Door" contemplating suicide but being unable to actually follow through on it. Even after helping Morgan and Dakota get across a bridge full of walkers he is adamant that he is returning to his father's cabin to end his life. Then, when Dakota pulls a gun on him and he realizes that he really does want to live, he gets shot to death.
Breakout Character: So popular that upon his death, his father John, Sr. was introduced to somewhat fill the void left by his absence.
Character Death: Dakota shoots him in the chest and then pushes him over a bridge. John then bleeds to death while floating down the river to shore.
Decomposite Character: His death has been noted for sharing many parallels to that of Rick Grimes in the comic series, murdered by the troubled child of an antagonistic leader, only for the fallout of his death to result in said leader being forced out of politics. Rick's television counterpart never participated in the arc that adapted the source material depicting his comic death.
Doesn't Like Guns: Traumatized by an incident in which he shot and (accidentally) killed an armed robber at a gas station.
The Gunslinger: He's referred to as such. Being a lawman with antique pearl-handled revolvers who specializes in trick shooting from his time portraying an actual gunslinger at a local wild west show, he's about as close as you can get to a modern version.
Hates Being Alone: His desire to befriend Morgan is motivated by the fact that he's been alone in the wilderness for many months and is desperate for someone to talk to.
Iconic Sequel Character: Easily the most popular character introduced on the show since the original cast of the first season, who doesn’t arrive until Season 4.
Improbable Aiming Skills: He's a former lawman who moonlighted as a "trick shooter" at a local Wild West Show, so he can shoot the gun out of a man's hand and get headshots in rapid succession.
Improvised Scattershot: He manages to kill two hostiles with one bullet by shooting at an axe blade that splits the bullet.
Killed Offscreen: His actual passing occurs off-camera as he floats down the river to the shore near his father's cabin.
Nice Guy: He's pleasant to a fault to Morgan, and his interactions with "Laura" show him to be a kind, generous, and good-natured person.
Platonic Life-Partners: Eventually becomes so close to Morgan that he calls him his best friend after his death.
Revolvers Are Just Better: Uses a pair of single-action revolvers. They used to belong his father, John Dorie Sr.
Sacrificial Lion: He is the first main cast member to die in Season 6, and the first one to die since Season 4. His death causes the domino effect of events that results in Virginia's downfall in the next episode, and also deeply affects both June and Morgan.

June

June "Naomi/Laura"

Portrayed By: Jenna Elfman

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-8)

"I was trying so hard to not be that person... running from who I was... from what I had done... that I almost became her again."

A former nurse, later John's wife. She finds herself a hot commodity due to her medical training, and unfortunately this means she's conscripted by any villainous character who can get their hands on her.

Becoming the Mask: She truly does value her work as a medic and thus actually comes to enjoy her time in Virginia's camp when she starts doing some good, despite simultaneously loathing her for separating her group and her from her new husband. Later she dances with this again when she gets brought into the Tower.
Dark and Troubled Past: Feels responsible for turning an entire community she was staying with into walkers. That "community" being Madison's.
Expository Hairstyle Change: Midway through season 6, she lets her hair down from her ponytail after losing John.
History Repeats: Time and again, June's medical knowledge is put to bad use by the antagonists who encounter and capture her. She becomes a nurse for both the Pioneers and the Tower and hates quite a bit of her work for them, and working for PADRE was the last straw.
The Medic: She's a former nurse.
Parental Substitute: In the Grand Finale she more or less adopts Odessa as her own.
Staking the Loved One: Tearfully puts down the zombified John.
Tragic Keepsake: She starts wearing John's hat after his death.

John Sr.

John Dorie Sr.

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Portrayed By: Keith Carradine

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-7)

A former policeman and John Dorie's father. In his day he put notorious murderer Teddy Maddox behind bars and after the Fall began hunting him once he realized he survived and escaped jail. After coming to terms with his son's untimely death and witnessing Teddy's final defeat, he sacrifices himself to walkers to help Morgan and Mo escape the Tower.

The Alcoholic: He started drinking heavily to cope with the guilt of being seen as a hero by his colleagues even though he had Teddy arrested on false evidence. It comes back to bite him in Season 7 when he starts drinking again and begins experiencing visions of Teddy's victims.
And Starring: As of "J.D.", Keith Carradine gets the "with" credit in the opening titles of the show.
Anti-Hero: He's a good man, but he was willing to bend the law to get Teddy (a known Serial Killer) put away. He also wasn't the best father to John, something that still deeply troubles him to this day. In Season 7 he tries to get himself a position of power at the Tower to try to change the way Strand runs it, leading to him doing some very questionable things to try to earn the ruthless Strand’s favor.
Arch-Enemy: To Teddy, as he was the one who put him away for life in the past and now seeks to take him down now that he's escaped in the lawlessness of the Fall. Teddy is actually unnerved to hear he's come back for him, and later loses his bluster and life thanks to John.
The Atoner: After finding out about his son's death, he resolves to be a better man and take down Teddy's cult for good.
Character Death: In “Sonny Boy”, he allows himself to be eaten by the walkers around the Tower to give Morgan a chance to escape with Mo.
Cool Old Guy: He's a great shot and a competent investigator who's spent the last several months tracking Teddy's cult all by himself. He used to do it for a living, after all.
A Death in the Limelight: ”Sonny Boy” revolves around him and Howard as they try to do something to cement their legacies, and they’re both dead by the end of the episode.
Devoured by the Horde: His ultimate fate, as when he sees he has received an untreatable bite from Strand’s horde, he deliberately goes into the horde to be eaten.
Disappeared Dad: He ran out on John when he was only a boy.
The Dragon: Invoked example. In Season 7 after joining the Tower he tries to work his way into becoming Strand's second-in-command, hoping to convince Strand to make benevolent reforms to avoid bloodshed. However, Strand almost immediately reveals he isn't interested in him beyond having a mindless Yes-Man executioner, convincing John his mission is hopeless.
Early-Bird Cameo: His first appearance is in an old photograph in "The Door", five episodes before his onscreen debut in "J.D."
Face Death with Dignity: Accepting that he’s doomed anyway thanks to suffering from radiation, he goes through Strand’s horde to return Mo to Morgan, accepting his sacrifice to save the baby as his legacy as he returns to the horde to be eaten.
Framing the Guilty Party: Everyone knew Teddy Maddox was guilty, but there wasn't enough evidence to convict him. So Dorie planted the purse of one of Maddox's victims on Teddy, which led to him receiving a life sentence.
Friendly Sniper: He’s a great shot and has served as the group’s sniper on at least one occasion.
Generation Xerox: As mentioned above, he's a born sharpshooter and police investigator exactly like his son was.
Heroic Sacrifice: First goes through the horde alone to get Mo out of the Tower, and then once Mo is safely delivered to Morgan, he goes back to the horde to be eaten to distract them from Morgan’s escape.
In the Back: Hill wounds him by shooting him in the back.
Knight in Sour Armor: He's a gruff, tired, cynical old man with a strong sense of justice who resolves to put his former nemesis down before he can do any harm to the new world.
Legacy Character: An Inverted case; he is John Dorie's direct predecessor.
Made of Iron: Doesn't come off too bad from getting shot in the back by Hill.
My Greatest Failure:
- He comes to regard abandoning John as this.
- He also regrets never finding the body of Cindy Hawkins so her mother could give her daughter a proper burial. This starts to eat away at him in Season 7 after Teddy himself is long dead and John feels guilty about leaving one loose thread he could never change. He and June eventually discover that the body was with them all along in Teddy's bunker, which finally gives John some closure.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: He never actually said farewell to his son before he left. By the time John Sr. meets June in Season 6, John Jr. is already dead.
Outliving One's Offspring: His son is killed only a few weeks before June encounters him in "J.D."
Pay Evil unto Evil: In the past he orchestrated the downfall of mass murderer Teddy and later helps do it again by leading Dakota on to murder him. In “Sonny Boy”, he kills Howard, Victor’s right-hand man who had embraced his ruthless execution of countless people.
Retired Badass: He's in his late sixties/early seventies and can still throw down with a much younger man like Ranger Hill.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Justified by being John's father.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The tragedy of John is that he was such a good man that he hated himself for doing questionable things for the greater good, to the point he did even more damage by running out on his family out of shame. All his actions in Season 7 are his attempts to do good but he's forced to get his hands very dirty in the process, only to come out with nothing to show for it. He ultimately dies sacrificing himself to a horde to save Mo.
Tough Love: He figured abandoning John was the best thing he could do for his son.
Walking Spoiler: He is the father of the late John Dorie, and his link to Teddy's doomsday cult is a major part of the storyline in Season 6.
Your Days Are Numbered: In “Sonny Boy” he reveals he has also received radiation burns from where he rescued Charlie, meaning he is doomed to suffer the same fate as her. It’s then doubled when he is bitten by Strand’s horde on his way out of the Tower. With no other option, he ultimately allows himself to be eaten by walkers well before the radiation claims him.

Rabinowitz Family

Sarah

Sarah Rabinowitz

Portrayed By: Mo Collins

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-7)

A trucker who Morgan meets in the wake of a deadly hurricane, and the twin sister of Wendell.

Bus Crash: After being absent from Season 8 thus far, "Anton" has Strand claim that all the survivors of Morgan's group who didn't make it to PADRE perished, presumably including Sarah.
Deadpan Snarker: She's rarely without a witty remark.
The Nicknamer: She affectionately calls Morgan "Mo-Mo".
Plucky Comic Relief: She usually makes some sort of joke or pun to be silly or try to lighten the mood.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Absent from Season 8, her actress's name removed from the opening credits. The showrunners would state they believe the twins and Jacob to be part of Luciana’s network and still alive.

Wendell

Portrayed By: Daryl Mitchell

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-present)

Sarah’s twin brother who uses a wheelchair.

Action Survivor: He can still kill walkers and use firearms, though his wheelchair does limit him on some occasions and he sometimes needs help getting places fast in it.
Bus Crash: After being absent from Season 8 thus far, "Anton" has Strand claim that all the survivors of Morgan's group who didn't make it to PADRE perished, presumably including Wendell.
Handicapped Badass: He may use a wheelchair but he’s still perfectly capable in combat. Notably, he still confronts Martha with his shotgun by literally crawling the length of the 18 wheeler the group was using as he lacked access to his wheelchair, and keeps her in check for some time. He also has some deployable spikes attached to said wheelchair he can use to kill or at least impale a few walkers at a time.
The Mole: He joins Grace and June’s resistance against Victor at the Tower.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When he was 10, he tried to save someone from being run over, and suffered the injury that cost him use of his legs. He understands and defies this trope, however, and resolved to double down on trying to help people despite what it cost him.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappears for some time before returning in Season 7. He's MIA in Season 8 as well. The showrunners would state they believe the twins and Jacob to be part of Luciana’s network and still alive.

Morgan's Group / The Caravan

Morgan

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Althea

Althea "Al" Szewczyk-Przygocki

"What's crazy is doing what we've been doing and calling it living."

Portrayed By: Maggie Grace

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-7) | The Althea Tapes

"It isn't just other people's stories on the tapes... it's my story. It's the people I knew... people I loved. And I'm not gonna leave them behind."

A woman Morgan meets when he arrives in Texas, who is obsessed with recording the stories of survivors she meets like a reporter. She falls in love with CRM agent Isabelle and later leaves the group to go on the run with her.

But Now I Must Go: She originally pulled this on Isabelle, but later pulled it on Morgan, knowing her true place is with Isabelle.
Butch Lesbian: Apparently; the only person she's shown having romantic interest in is Isabelle.
Connected All Along: In Season 4 she is shown to have a tape titled “Abe and Doctor”, revealing she has met and interviewed Abraham Ford and Eugene Porter from the mothership series.
Dyeing for Your Art: Maggie Grace, who usually sports long blond hair, has her hair cut into a tomboyish, short and dark style, making her look completely different.
Gender-Blender Name: "Al", short for Althea.
Hypocrite: She eventually realizes that it was wrong of her to end things with Isabelle due to not wanting to give up her life recording people, when Isabelle became a fugitive of the CRM as punishment for saving Al’s friends from the impending nukes.
Intrepid Reporter: Her defining trait. She's so committed to reporting that she makes it her primary concern during the Zombie Apocalypse.
It's Not You, It's Me: She ended her and Isabelle’s relationship due to refusing to give up her recording. However, she gets over it and returns to her.
Married to the Job: She’s initially afraid to be with Isabelle due to not wanting to give up recording people and leaves her. However, she realizes she loves Isabelle enough to make a sacrifice as she did.
Put on a Bus: Her last appearance in Season 7 (and for the rest of the series) is her deciding to return to Isabelle and going on the run from the CRM with her.

Charlie

Portrayed By: Alexa Nisenson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-8)

A member of the Vultures who joins Morgan’s group.

A Day in the Limelight: Season 7’s “Mourning Cloak” gives her a spotlight episode as she tries to enjoy being a normal teenager even in the middle of the apocalypse, even enjoying a brief romance.
Back for the Dead: After half a season of absence, she returns in Iron Tiger, just to die via suicide.
Book Ends: She finally gets to see the beach at Galveston like she wanted at the end of Season 7, during her last meeting with Alicia.
Character Death: In Season 8’s "Iron Tiger" she kills herself to resolve a hostage situation where Troy was using her as leverage to get PADRE’s location.
Cheated Death, Died Anyway: She manages to survive radiation poisoning thanks to PADRE possessing medical resources virtually unheard of after the Fall, only to later have to kill herself to save PADRE from Troy.
Child Soldier: Of the "child spy" variety on several occassions.
Cruel and Unusual Death: She begins suffering a long, slow one at the hands of radiation poisoning. Season 8 reveals she managed to survive thanks to PADRE.
Death Seeker: She begs Alicia to kill her. Alicia almost obliges but then doesn't at the last second.
Extreme Doormat: She can be guilted into pretty much anything, up to and including suicide missions.
Fatal Flaw: Her Guilt Complex, which leads to her being an Extreme Doormat. A trait so consistent from her first to last appearance that it's hard to imagine her without it. Initially, she is manipulated by the Vultures to act as a child spy against Madison's group (and perhaps even more groups), but the loss of the Vultures and the guilt over killing Nick sends her on a spree of multiple suicide attempts. For the next several seasons, she acts as a dog to Alicia and her group, being briefly used as a spy again by Victor (though it's safe, since she is spying on Daniel.) without any protest. After the excursion beyond the mountains, she gains a knack for venturing out with Suicidal Overconfidence despite not being equipped to venture out alone, leading to her acquiring severe radiation poisoning for the sake of a group she's desperately trying to make up to. All of this culminates in her reunion with Madison, who guilts her into going on a Suicide Mission that's clearly above her paygrade. After being captured by Troy, Madison offers the latter the coordinates to a safe space, Charlie commits suicide rather than be the cause of Madison's plans falling through, all because of her guilt. Worse yet, the coordinates Madison offered Troy weren't even Padre coordinates, but the coordinates to an alternate location, meaning Charlie killed herself due to misunderstanding her.
Fourth-Date Marriage: Downplayed. She gets a whole romance with Ali over the course of a single day. Ali ends up killed by Howard after said day.
Guilt Complex: See Fatal Flaw.
Heel–Face Turn: After the defeat of the Vultures, she joins Morgan's group, and seeks to make up for killing Nick.
Hero Killer: She fatally shoots Nick in Season 4.
Heroic Sacrifice: She kills herself so Troy loses his hostage he was using to force the location of PADRE out of Madison.
I Just Want to Be Normal: She longs for the normal life of a young woman that she's been denied thanks to the Fall.
Kids Driving Cars: Frequently seen taking over the wheel when no one else is available.
My God, What Have I Done?: Her immediate reaction after fatally shooting Nick is one of horror.
Replacement Goldfish: Daniel comes to love her like a daughter with Ofelia long dead.
Tagalong Kid: Initially, due to her Guilt Complex turning her into a sluggish, suicidal wreck. She later grows into a more useful Kid Hero, essentially becoming Alicia's Alicia.
Uncertain Doom: Despite her terminal diagnosis in Season 7, when she is mentioned in Season 8 she is not explicitly confirmed to have died. In "Anton", Strand claims all the group members who haven't appeared so far died, but she finally returns in "Iron Tiger".
Your Days Are Numbered: She is afflicted with radiation poisoning and is given a terminal diagnosis by June and Grace. She survives after PADRE treats her with their superior resources.

Jim

Jim Brauer

Portrayed By: Aaron Stanford

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

An impatient, abrasive man who joins Morgan's group after the hurricane. When he is bitten, he uses his last act to kill himself and provide an opening for the group to escape some walkers.

A God Am I: Subtly implies this due to his ability to brew beer, thinking this means he deserves a lofty place in post-apocalyptic society.
Author Filibuster: As time goes on he becomes a mouthpiece for the season’s writers questioning Morgan’s worldview and character development.
Dirty Coward: Due to having been sheltered from walkers, he’s a pretty weak, cowardly man.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Quickly earns his place as the resident asshole of the group.
Meaningful Name: His last name means "brewer" in German, which alludes to his profession as a propietor of ales.
Non-Action Guy: He’s been holed up in his brewery since the Fall so he doesn’t have any martial experience when Morgan meets him.
Slept Through the Apocalypse: More like sheltered through the apocalypse. He doesn’t get out of his brewery until about a year and a half after the Fall and has to get a crash course in walkers.
Token Evil Teammate: He’s the biggest asshole among the party formed by Morgan in the back half of Season 4, constantly whining about Morgan’s decisions and contributing almost nothing.

Grace

Grace Mukherjee

Portrayed By: Karen David

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-8)

A power plant worker who is first encountered by Morgan and Alicia. She and Morgan fall in love, though they are separated by the coming of the Pioneers. It's discovered Grace is pregnant, but unfortunately the baby is stillborn due to radiation from the plant. She and Morgan decide to adopt Mo as their new daughter once she recovers from her grief.

Character Death: She dies of a walker bite in Season 8.
Cheated Death, Died Anyway: She survives her Tragic Stillbirth of Athena, but later believes she’s going to die of radiation sickness. Whether she was or not, she does die of a walker bite she gets in Season 8.
Death Seeker: Losing her daughter Athena so thoroughly breaks her that by Season 7 she outright admits she wants to die so the two of them can be Together in Death. She seems to get over it at the end of "Six Hours" and coming to terms with being the adoptive mother of baby Mo.
Despair Event Horizon: In "JD", Morgan mentions she is still recovering from the loss of her child. Come Season 7 and she still hasn't recovered, even though she and Morgan are nominally the adopted parents of the late Rachel's daughter Mo.
Driven to Suicide: Deciding that the horrible life that awaits them once the nukes hit is not worth trying to survive in, Grace convinces Morgan to commit suicide with her before the nukes arrive. However, when they hear of Mo’s approach, they go and rescue her, with Grace begrudgingly accepting they must continue living if just for Mo’s sake.
Mirror Character: Much like Lori Grimes on the parent series, Grace ends up pregnant while determined to bring her child into the world to be raised by a man who is not the baby's biological father. Unfortunately, Grace's pregnancy takes a different, darker route, as the baby is born stillborn. Also, unlike Lori, Grace survives giving birth, while Lori had to resort to a fatal emergency C-section to save her child. Ultimately, Grace does end up dying in a similar circumstance to Lori, albeit while saying last words to her adopted daughter as opposed to Lori with her biological son Carl.
Missing Mom: She dies in front of Mo, who is broken by losing her.
Nice Girl: Grace is a very friendly and good-natured person, and quickly develops a bond with Morgan.
Official Couple: With Morgan as of "Things Left to Do". By "The Beginning" they more or less take each other as husband and wife once Morgan makes clear that was his intention, and she accepts.
Promotion to Parent: After getting over her depression, she comes to accept being the mother of baby Mo.
Second Love: For Morgan. He outright admits he's only felt the same way about one other woman, his late wife Jenny.
Ship Tease: With Morgan in Season 5, but especially in "210 Words Per Minute". They finally put their cards on the table and confess their feelings in the finale.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Something always conspires to keep her and Morgan apart and unable to live a normal, happy life together.
- At the end of Season 5 and through much of Season 6, she is separated from Morgan by Virginia and the Pioneers just after she and Morgan admit their feelings to each other.
- At the end of Season 6, they nearly kill themselves together immediately after admitting they love each other. This also comes after Grace lost her baby she was willing to raise with Morgan.
- Even after they get another chance at life and family when Mo arrives, they are forced to scrape out a living in Season 7’s nuclear wasteland. Grace ultimately gives herself up to become all but a hostage at Strand’s Tower alongside Mo. When war approaches, Grace orders Morgan to take Mo somewhere far away from the fighting, which he complies with.
- Season 8 has her and Morgan as unwilling agents of PADRE, who forbid romantic relationships and thus she and Morgan are unable to be with each other for seven years. Then she feels her radiation sickness coming back, and then she dies of a walker bite. She even lampshades the trope in her last episode, lamenting they seemingly weren’t meant to be.
Tragic Stillbirth: The devastating result of her pregnancy in Season 6. It's because of the radiation in her body causes her child to be stillborn. The explosion that knocked her unconscious didn't help matters either.
Together in Death: From the end of Season 6 to the beginning of Season 7, she wants this with Athena, especially when Teddy’s nukes are approaching.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Her whereabouts after the Season 5 finale remain unknown until it's revealed Virginia has been keeping her prisoner in a secret room in Lawton.
Your Days Are Numbered: In Season 8 she believes she is dying of radiation sickness. In "King County" she receives an untreatable walker bite, with her only hope to get treated by June. However, either it’s too late to save her, or the treatment ultimately was never going to work, as Grace died of her bite in the following episode.

Dwight

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Sherry

See here.

Wes

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Portrayed By: Colby Hollman

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-7)

A young artist who joins the group. He later finds his brother Derek a member of the Doomsday Cult, and grows dismayed with the group's graying morality. Wes defects to Strand, but when he turns on everyone, Strand cuts him down.

Black-and-White Insanity: He becomes angry with everyone around him for doing questionable, sometimes dishonest things to survive and throws his lot in with whoever he thinks is the most honest person. That person ends up being Strand for a while, but when even he shows to have a weakness, Wes turns on him, admitting that nobody can be completely honest - but still decides to try to kill him.
Blood from the Mouth: After being stabbed in the chest by Strand's sword.
Character Death: He is killed by Strand in “Divine Providence”.
The Dragon: After the deaths of Howard and John, Sr., Wes replaces them as Victor’s right-hand man.
- Dragon Ascendant: In “Divine Providence”, he decides Strand’s judgement can no longer be followed and gets most of his men to defect to him.
Dramatic Irony: He claims he should’ve joined the death cult since at least they were honest about what they were doing, unaware that Teddy intended to leave all of his followers to die anyway while he escaped in a bunker.
Evil Former Friend: He leaves Morgan's group out of disgust with their questionable choices and joins Strand's Tower.
Face–Heel Turn: He leaves Morgan’s group after deciding that Morgan will fail at taking the Tower and after seeing Luci manipulate Daniel into thinking his daughter is alive for their benefit, asking to join Strand at the Tower.
Insane Troll Logic: He becomes so disillusioned with the other characters’ questionable actions that he outright says he should’ve joined the death cult, since at least his brother was honest about what he was doing.
Irony: After having a brother who turned out to be evil, Wes himself decides to leave the group to fight on Strand’s side.
It Runs in the Family: Derek may have been an insane cultist, but Wes comes disturbingly close to his way of thinking due to also having his own brand of Black-and-White Insanity.
Motive Decay: Being disgusted with Luciana manipulating Daniel is certainly understandable, but turning murderous towards everyone for not being paragons of morality goes way too far.
The Starscream: He convinces most of Strand’s men to turn their backs on him and briefly commandeers the Tower.
Trauma Conga Line: He goes through an unfortunate lot in Season 6.
- Firstly, he is caught in an attack at Tank Town, which results in shrapnel being embedded into his stomach.
- He is then interrogated by Virginia, demanding a confession from him as the one who spray-painted "The End is the Beginning" around her communities. She does this by pressing the shrapnel further in, hurting Wes further. To rub more salt into the wound, painting is a hobby for him, and Virginia was only suspicious of him because she found spray paint cans at his place!
- Then, he spends some time at Lawton's jail, as a bargaining chip for Virginia to get her sister back.
- Finally, even when he finds his brother, Derek, at The Holding, he discovers that Derek has been completely indoctrinated by Teddy's way of life. This results in a scuffle that leads to Derek being bitten by a walker, meaning that Wes has to put him down.
What the Hell, Hero?: He’s disgusted when Luci lies to Daniel that Ofelia is alive so they can focus his rage at the Tower.

Jacob Kessner

Rabbi Jacob Kessner

Portrayed By: Peter Jacobson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-present)

A rabbi who joins the group.

Closest Thing We Got: John and June aren't Jewish, but Jacob agrees to give them an impromptu wedding ceremony in a fake wild west theme park church. He jokes that it's a little too "New Testament" for him. Virginia later employs him to give spiritual advice and funeral speeches.
Mirror Character: To Gabriel from the original show. Gabriel's congregation died due to being locked out, while Jacob's died due to being abandoned by him.
The Danza: Downplayed. He is played by Peter Jacobson.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He is briefly mentioned in early Season 7 as having evacuated somewhere else, but he doesn’t return until “Divine Providence”. Nothing is made of his sudden return either. He is missing again in Season 8 until Strand claims in "Anton" that all the group members who didn't make it to PADRE perished. The showrunners would state they believe the twins and Jacob to be part of Luciana’s network and still alive.

Tom

Portrayed By: Joe Massingill

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

Too Dumb to Live: Decides to stay on the collapsing bridge to film a propaganda video against Virginia while everyone is yelling at him to run. It's no wonder Virginia considered him a liability.

Isaac

Portrayed By: Michael Abbott Jr.

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

A fugitive Pioneer.

Defector from Decadence: He decided to flee the Pioneers despite his status as a Ranger to protect both Rachel and their unborn child.
Zombie Infectee: While on the run to find supplies for the soon to give birth Rachel, he's bitten by a walker.

Rachel

Portrayed By: Brigitte Kali Canales

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

Isaac's wife and the mother of his child.

And Then John Was a Zombie: As part of her plan to escort baby Morgan to safety, she comes back as a walker and, since walkers feel no pain, she's able to be led around on foot by Rufus until he finds Grace and Morgan. Morgan realizes the sacrifice Rachel made for her child and sadly puts her down.
Heroic Suicide: Knowing she has no chance of making it on foot, she stabs herself and arranges it so Rufus will lead her and baby Morgan to safety once she turns.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets some prominence in her first episode but is mainly a background character until her death in the Season 6 finale.

Mo/"Wren"

Portrayed By: Zoey Merchant (Season 8)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-8)

Rachel and Isaac's daughter, later adopted by Morgan and Grace.

Ascended Extra: Much like Judith Grimes, she goes from a baby (who still drives several plots) to one of the main characters of the show by Season 8.
But Now I Must Go: The decision was made for her by Grace, who ordered Morgan to flee Texas with her on the eve of the intended battle with Strand over the Tower. At the end of the first half of Season 8, she leaves the group with Morgan as he sets out to rejoin the Coalition.
Improbable Infant Survival: Survives several dangerous situations even in the middle of a nuclear+zombie apocalypse.
Living MacGuffin: Despite being a baby, she drives several conflicts throughout Season 7. She's a key hostage Strand takes during the second half of the season.
Meaningful Name: A wren is a small bird, but has a ring around its head resembling a crown, leading to it being given folk nicknames such as "king of the birds". Folk tales also tell of wrens winning bird races by hiding in the plumes of bigger birds. All that is to say is, Mo is the lynchpin in everything despite being young.
Missing Mom: And Disappeared Dad. Her father Isaac dies before she is born, while her mother Rachel dies shortly after she is born. It happens again, but not by choice, by Season 8 when Morgan surrenders her to PADRE out of desperation, and she grows up being taught that her parents abandoned her.
Replacement Goldfish: Discussed. Morgan immediately declares she's a gift from Athena, Grace's stillborn daughter, but Grace is reluctant to grow attached to her due to her trauma from losing her child. Early Season 7's plots for Grace heavily revolve around coming to terms with the loss of Athena and deciding if she can accept Mo as her own.

Camp Cackleberry

In General

Annie

Portrayed By: Bailey Gavulic

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

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What Happened to the Mouse?: Annie, Dylan and Max were meant to appear in Season 6, but the Covid-19 pandemic limited the scope of the series, leading to their roles being cut. They are implied to still be around the Pioneer communities and Valley Town, though. [[spoiler]]As of Season 7, their whereabouts are unknown, and they are likely to have perished in the nuclear fallout.[[/spoiler]]

Max

Portrayed By: Ethan Suess / Sean Koetting (adult, in dreams)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-6)

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What Happened to the Mouse?: Annie, Dylan and Max were meant to appear in Season 6, but the Covid-19 pandemic limited the scope of the series, leading to their roles being cut. They are implied to still be around the Pioneer communities and Valley Town, though. [[spoiler]]As of Season 7, their whereabouts are unknown, and they are likely to have perished in the nuclear fallout.[[/spoiler]]

Dylan

Portrayed By: Cooper Dodson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

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Ship Tease: Briefly with Charlie, but nothing ever comes of it.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Annie, Dylan and Max were meant to appear in Season 6, but the Covid-19 pandemic limited the scope of the series, leading to their roles being cut. They are implied to still be around the Pioneer communities and Valley Town, though. [[spoiler]]As of Season 7, their whereabouts are unknown, and they are likely to have perished in the nuclear fallout.[[/spoiler]]

C&L Freight Services

Clayton

Clayton/Polar Bear

Portrayed By: Stephen Henderson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

Meaningful Name: He's portly and white-haired, just like a polar bear. Might also count as Actor Allusion, since Henderson is an unusually white-skinned African-American.

Logan

Portrayed By: Matt Frewer

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

Anti-Villain: He genuinely does want to help people, but he's convinced Clayton's method is inefficient and not sustainable in the long run, which is why he turns to Virginia's side and intends on supplying her communities with fuel.
Bullying a Dragon: Keep in mind, this is not his fault. He has no way of knowing just who Morgan really is, and considers him just a pushover who would not dare risk his own principles to kill him.
Face–Heel Turn: He and Clayton used to help refugees along Texas roads, but Logan lost his faith in helping people and was instead recruited by Virginia to fund her communities.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: After hearing Serena be saved, he regains his faith in Clayton's philosophy and vows to end hostilities between him and Morgan's crew. He is shot by the Pioneers seconds after.

The Vultures

In General

Animal Motifs: Vultures, of course, since they wait for other communities to collapse before scrapping what's left. During their introduction, vultures fly overhead.
Disaster Scavengers: They move from place to place stripping every resource they can get their hands on.

Melvin

Portrayed By: Kevin Zegers

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

Affably Evil: Melvin actually offers Madison and her group to join them, and decides to leave them alone after they find supplies. He also offers sincere condolences to Alicia over Nick's death, despite his own brother being killed.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Ennis' red.

Ennis

Portrayed By: Evan Gamble

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Melvin's blue.
Stupid Evil: Taunting Nick, who has lost his mother and entire community because of him, with no one but Charlie in sight. How did he think Nick would just let him go?

LaRoux Brothers

Emile

Emile LaRoux

Portrayed By: Demetrius Grosse

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6, 7 ^noteAs a zombie)

A bounty hunter sent by Virginia to eliminate Morgan Jones. Before the apocalypse he worked as a park ranger.

And Then John Was a Zombie: His reanimated head is left by Morgan to let Virginia know Emile failed at his mission. It later ends up in Josiah's possession, as he intends to have Morgan bitten by it as revenge for killing Emile.
Badass Longcoat: It lends to his mysterious image. Morgan begins wearing it later on, after killing Emile.
Breakout Villain: In a meta sense. Though he dies by the end of his first appearance, he was so popular with the fan base that his actor was brought back to play his twin brother Josiah, who eventually would join the group after pulling a Heel–Face Turn.
Decapitation Presentation: Morgan gifts his zombified head to Virginia, who was expecting Morgan's head and can't help but laugh when she realizes the irony.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He truly cared for his brother Josiah.
Face–Heel Turn: Josiah confirms Emile wasn't always the cold-blooded killer he eventually became.
Faux Affably Evil: He puts on a smiling, smooth-talking facade to lure his quarry into a false sense of security. Then he cuts their heads off.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Decapitated with his own axe.
Karmic Death: Emile's signature move is to cut off his targets' head and place it in a box to deliver to his client. Emile ends up beheaded and left in the box intended for Morgan, by Morgan himself.
Off with His Head!: His fate at the hands of Morgan.
Scary Black Man: He's rather physically intimidating and, as Morgan finds out, quite the Determinator.
Small Role, Big Impact: The key he was ordered to get back from Walter turns out to have major significance when the two men who hired Emile to do the job later ambush Morgan on the road looking to claim said key. Emile is also the first person Morgan kills since the end of the Savior War on the original series, presumably breaking his Thou Shall Not Kill stance for good.
Tempting Fate: He insists Morgan won't kill him after he had chosen to merely wound him earlier. Unfortunately for Emile, Morgan chooses this exact moment to break his Thou Shall Not Kill creed once and for all.
Trademark Favorite Food: Beans. Specifically, his brother Josiah's recipe.
Villain of the Week: The main antagonist of the Season 6 premiere, he's nevertheless dead by the end of the episode.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Since he dies in his first episode. We learn a bit more about him after his death, namely that he used to be a park ranger and had a good relationship with his twin brother.

Josiah

Josiah LaRoux

Portrayed By: Demetrius Grosse

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7)

The brother of the late Emile, and a former park ranger.

Angsty Surviving Twin: To Emile.
The Bus Came Back: In “Amina” he rejoins the group offscreen and flees Texas with them.
But Now I Must Go: Declines Morgan's offer to live in the USS Pennsylvania, though they part on amicable terms.
Heel–Face Turn: He goes from wanting to kill Morgan to being his ally by the end of "Breathe With Me".
I Gave My Word: There's no implication he wouldn't have kept to his word and helped Sarah find her brother. Even after deciding not to kill Morgan he sees his promise all the way through and escorts Sarah to Strand's tower where they suspect Wendell might be living.
My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction when his quest for vengeance accidentally causes Rufus to get bit. This causes him to abandon his vendetta against Morgan.
Noble Demon: While he's out for Morgan's blood he still has a code of honor. He agrees to help Sarah find her brother, and buries walker corpses to give them a proper sendoff. It's what makes Sarah realize he isn't a true killer at heart.
Polar Opposite Twins: He's not a cold-blooded killer like his brother was. Though he does manage to beat Morgan in a fair fight (something Emile wasn't able to do), and would have killed him if Rufus hadn't gotten bit.
Revenge: He wants Morgan dead for killing his brother.
Sixth Ranger: In “Amina” he joins the group for good.
Walking Spoiler: While he's mentioned in the Season 6 premiere, his first appearance and quest for vengeance against Morgan comes as a surprise in Season 7.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Is among several group members who have not appeared in Season 8's first few episodes. Strand claims in "Anton" that all group members who didn't make it to PADRE perished, presumably including Josiah.

Rufus

Portrayed By: Wyatt

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-7)

Emile's dog.

Boom, Headshot!: From Josiah, after Rufus is bitten by the undead Emile.
Canine Companion: He accompanies Emile who uses him to track his prey, and then becomes this for Morgan's group. "Breathe With Me" reveals he was a companion for both LaRoux brothers before the apocalypse.
Mercy Kill: Receives one of these from Josiah after being bitten and enjoying one last meal.
Team Pet: For the LaRoux brothers and later Morgan's group.
Trademark Favorite Food: His favorite food is beans, which Josiah gives him a last meal of before his death.
Zombie Infectee: He is bit on the nose by Emile's undead head.

The Pioneers

Virginia

"In a hundred years, people may look back and think our methods are ruthless and unkind, but there will be people to look back."

Portrayed By: Colby Minifie

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-6)

"We're all after the same thing. Not just in Lawton, but in all the settlements of our great franchise. Towns where people can feel safe and secure without fear of the dangers that lurk beyond. A place we can call home."

The leader of the Pioneers. She aims to create a thriving civilization via cold, ruthless and usually violent means, conscripting survivors to serve throughout her franchises. Morgan’s caravan of do-gooders offends her and she sets out to claim them.

Actually Pretty Funny: She laughs when she discovers Emile's reanimated head left in the box intended for Morgan's head, by Morgan himself.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Her actual death is this, as she starts panicking and trying to convince June not to execute her.
Alas, Poor Villain: Despite everything she did, it's easy to feel sorry for her as she watches everything she built come crashing slowly down, and was also willing to accept being exiled if it meant she could be with her daughter.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Shockingly is this, despite her status as the Big Bad of Seasons 5 and 6. There are three villains in 6: herself, Teddy, and her daughter Dakota. Virginia herself was a Well-Intentioned Extremist who believed that the ends justified the means of creating a new civilization. Teddy was an apocalyptic cult leader who wanted to destroy much of what used to be the US with nuclear weapons. Dakota was a selfish unstable sociopath who would kill to keep a secret, and ended up siding with Teddy.
All for Nothing: Her efforts to try and recreate a semblance of civilization are completely negated, as is her goal to create a world where her daughter could be safe. Teddy's doomsday cult unleashes a nuke that destroys the entire region where her settlements were and then some, and her own sociopathic daughter allows herself to be incinerated in the blast.
An Arm and a Leg: In "Bury Her Next to Jasper's Leg", her right arm is bitten by a walker. June cuts off her hand to stop the infection.
Asshole Victim: Downplayed. She was a cruel and manipulative leader who was about to order a pregnant woman's execution, meaning she ultimately deserved her comeuppance. However, the Hidden Depths she showed in her last episode and her unshakeable love for Dakota keeps her from being a straightforward example of this trope.
Better to Die than Be Killed: She asks Morgan to execute her instead of giving the angry mob the satisfaction of twisting the knife and killing her painfully.
Big Bad: The driving force behind most of the conflict in the back half of Season 5 and in Season 6. She's frequently mentioned in episodes where she does not appear and her influence is always felt.
Boom, Headshot!: This is how she finally meets her end, courtesy of the recently widowed June Dorie.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: In "Things Left to Do", Morgan is forced to protect her from Strand and the Outcasts until he can successfully negotiate to get Grace and Daniel back.
Deadpan Snarker: She's always quick with a bitingly sarcastic putdown.
A Death in the Limelight: Gets plenty of screen time in "Things Left to Do", her last episode before she's killed off at the end.
Disc-One Final Boss: She's the Big Bad of the first half of Season 6, but ends up killed off in the ninth episode of the season, with Teddy's doomsday cult as the true Final Boss.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely cares for her sister, Dakota (actually her daughter). It's what convinces June to spare her life when she's been bitten by a walker.
Even Evil Has Standards: As cruel as her methods are, she's scared shitless of the people in Teddy's doomsday cult.
Evil Counterpart: For Morgan. Both have a desire to build up a place where people can be safe, but clash over their differing ideologies.
Face Death with Dignity: When she's at June's mercy she admits that she knows June won't keep her alive and asks June to take care of Dakota after she's gone. Fortunately for Virginia, there's something June wants as well...
Family Relationship Switcheroo: Virginia is actually Dakota's mother. She had Dakota when she was very young, and this fact was hidden even from Dakota herself by feigning a sister relationship between them.
Fiery Redhead: A temperamental woman with red hair.
Foil:
- She is this to Negan from the parent series. Both are Visionary Villains with a bullying, somewhat childish disposition who genuinely believe they are doing the right thing by restarting civilization under their harsh and demented rule. Like Negan, her life ends up being spared by a merciful leader despite numerous people rightfully wanting her dead. Virginia's final fate at the hands of an angry widow is a shadow of what would have happened to Negan if Maggie had gotten around to killing him.
- She's also one for Alpha, also from the parent series. They're both abusive mothers to an Antagonistic Offspring who they nevertheless claim as their Morality Pet. The major difference is that Virginia swore to protect her daughter to the end, while Alpha tried to kill Lydia when she wouldn't submit to her mother's way of life. Virginia was even willing to let Dakota live in the home of her sworn enemy if it meant she could be safe. Both Virginia and Alpha end up as the Disc-One Final Boss to their respective storylines.
- Lastly, she is one for Pamela Milton from the comic series. Both are Affably Evil leaders of large alliances who put up a friendly image, but run their communities as microcosms of the corrupt and stratified circles they came from. They both have a complicated relationship with the protagonist (Rick in the comics, Morgan in the show), and frequently jump between friend and foe. Virginia's daughter Dakota is also arguably a foil to Pamela's son Sebastian, as they are both neglected yet spoiled, turning them into sociopaths.
Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to rile her up.
Hated by All: It’s telling how many characters try to form deals with her that involve getting the hell away from her and her leaving them alone.
Heroic Sacrifice: Unusually for an antagonist, but she agrees to let Morgan execute her in front of everyone in exchange for letting Dakota stay in his community.
Jerkass: She's not a pleasant person.
Karmic Death: She gets shot by June, the woman Dakota made a widow due to Virginia's neglect of her daughter's mental health. Also, the gun June uses to kill her originally belonged to John.
Mama Bear: She's extremely protective of her daughter, Dakota, who doesn't return the sentiment. Like, at all.
Pet the Dog:
- She seems genuine when she agrees to let Alicia and Charlie go off on their own in exchange for them delivering Dakota back to her.
- She sincerely thanks June for patching up her bullet wound in "Things Left to Do".
Psychopathic Womanchild: She has a rather childish demeanor and is prone to temper tantrums whenever things don't go her way.
Teen Pregnancy: Colby Minifie is only in her late 20s while Dakota is implied to be in her mid-teens, suggesting this.
Theme Naming: With Dakota. They're both named after US states.
The Unfettered: She'll do anything if it means keeping Dakota safe.
Utopia Justifies the Means: A firm believer in this. See Well-Intentioned Extremist.
Values Dissonance: In-Universe acknowledgement of this, as the quote under her image displays. She's aware of how her methods are less than decent, and that future people may look back and think of it so. However, she believes it's better that way, as in her words, there at least would be people to look back.
Villain Has a Point: Morgan's method of helping people is inefficient and not sustainable in the long run. Virginia's communities, while draconic and tyrranical, actively worked to sustain themselves and had the potential to act as permanent settlements to the people within.
Villainous Breakdown:
- When she's been bitten. She angrily destroys her walkie talkie and screams at June to hack her arm off. When June refuses, Virginia attacks her and it leads to a brief scuffle that June wins.
- The entirety of "Things Left to Do" is one for her as she realizes just how many people she's pissed off, including her own daughter, who repeatedly arranged to have her killed.
Villain Respect: She seems to gain some respect for Morgan when she finds he built his own secret, thriving settlement.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: She claims to be this, repeatedly saying that she wants to restart civilization by any means, even if those means are less than moral.
Would Hurt a Child: She is seconds away from ordering the pregnant Grace's execution before the timely arrival of Morgan.

Dakota

"Now's the time to do something."

Portrayed By: Zoe Colletti

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

Virginia's younger sister.

Affectionate Nickname: Teddy calls her "Sioux", a reference to Sioux Falls, his favorite city in South Dakota.
Alas, Poor Villain:
- While she killed John and was completely unrepentant for her crimes, it's easy to pity her knowing she'd just been betrayed by the person she thought she could trust and in the end died realizing there wasn't a place for her in the world anymore.
- Notably, John Sr. seems to have pity for Dakota despite her killing his son. He even laments she was another girl he couldn't save from Teddy's influence, and puts her undead corpse out of its misery.
And Then John Was a Zombie: John Sr. emerges from Teddy's bunker a few months after the nuke hits and finds Dakota's charred, undead corpse still lying in the spot where she had been vaporized by the explosion.
Antagonistic Offspring: She saved Morgan's life hoping he would come back looking for vengeance against Virginia. Interestingly, Dakota doesn't actually know that Virginia's her mother, not her sister.
Asshole Victim: While a bit of a Tragic Villain, she was also a ruthless, cold-hearted sociopath who murdered John, so she still deserved her comeuppance.
Ax-Crazy: A less sadistic example than most, but she still resorts to committing murder whenever she's backed into a corner.
Bait the Dog: She's shown helping out the main group at the start of Season 6, assisting them in taking down her sister Virginia. She then proceeds to kill Ranger Cameron offscreen for telling a secret, kills John when he learns it, betrays the group to Teddy's apocalypse cult and helps cause a nuclear strike on the area.
Birds of a Feather: Bonds with Teddy over feeling like they never quite fit into society as well as their similarly strained relationships with their mothers.
Character Death: She is killed instantly when the nukes impact in the Season 6 finale, her body turning into a charred skeleton in an instant.
Creepy Child: She quickly befriends Ed (a taxidermist who stuffs walkers for a hobby) and Teddy (a Serial Killer bent on wiping out all of humanity). She also coldly murders John and would have killed Strand if Morgan hadn't intervened.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Asshole Victim she may have been, but being shredded down to the bone by a nuclear explosion is not a pretty way to go.
Decomposite Character: She takes some of Sebastian Milton's storyline from the comics, dealing beloved main character John Dorie, Jr an undignified death out of spite and confusion, with the resulting outcry causing the downfall of their mother. Dakota takes this as Sebastian's TV counterpart suffers a Death by Adaptation before he can do such a thing to any character.
Driven to Suicide: After finding out Teddy used her, she doesn't bother to take shelter from the nuke and simply allows herself to be disintegrated.
Dying as Yourself: She seems to find some sort of peace in her final moments, accepting that she will never change her ways, and embracing her death as one of the nukes lands nearby.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She honestly doesn't seem to understand why the others are mad at her for killing John.
Face Death with Dignity: After killing Teddy, she simply closes her eyes and waits for the nuke to hit.
Foil:
- To Lydia from the parent series. Like Lydia, she resents being the daughter of a cruel and manipulative leader who is also an Abusive Parent. Unlike Lydia, Dakota makes an active effort to dispose of her mother, and has no apparent moral compunctions about arranging to have someone kill her. She and Lydia are both sent to live in the very communities their mothers had waged war against, and both are treated unkindly for it. In Dakota's case, the hate is very much deserved given that she murdered one of their closest friends; Lydia did no such thing and was almost completely harmless. Also, while Lydia remains steadfast in her attempts to earn acceptance, Dakota ends up relapsing by joining Teddy's cult.
- To Charlie within the same series. Dakota murdered John, and Charlie murdered Nick, two of the main group's closest friends. Said victims were attempting to help them come around to a better life from a group of villains. While Charlie was rightfully hated, especially by Alicia, she showed that she was genuinely remorseful and acted out of impulse that she could never take back, and has taken numerous steps to atone for it. Dakota killed John in cold blood because she wanted to keep a secret, and despite being given numerous chances, never takes the opportunity to Heel–Face Turn, and remains unrepentant to her death. Also, on a meta level, Charlie kills both a character named Nick and a character played by an actor named Nick; Dakota kills a character named John and a character played by an actor named John.
- Lastly, she is one to Sebastian Milton from the comic series. Both are children of the leader of large stratified chains of communities. They are neglected but at the same time spoiled, as their mothers cover for anything they do, including murder. This behavior ends up being their mothers' downfall, as they kill the begging Rick and John (who themselves are foils to each other). Rick's murder causes an outry that completely destroys Pamela's reputation and drives her out of politics, while Virginia meets her fate at the barrel of John's widowed wife.
Hate Sink: She murders fan-favorite John Dorie, and despite teasing that she may Heel–Face Turn, she ultimately backstabs the group again and helps Teddy with his apocalypse plan, drawing nothing but well-earned hatred from viewers.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Goes from killing John to being taken in by Morgan's people to attempting to infiltrate Teddy's cult to save Alicia, to legitimately joining the cult, to killing Teddy when she realizes he used her.
Hereditary Hairstyle: She is a redhead like Virginia and has the same haircut that she has.
Hero Killer: She murders John to keep him from telling Morgan that she killed Ranger Cameron. It ends up being for naught as Morgan quickly realizes the truth anyway.
I Did What I Had to Do: How she rationalizes killing Ranger Cameron, since telling Virginia about how she has been sneaking out of Lawton ended up getting her into serious trouble with her "sister".
Morality Pet: Virginia's love for Dakota is one of Virginia's redeeming traits.
Never My Fault: Doesn't see anything wrong with having killed Ranger Cameron; after all, she's only doing what other people have done to get their way in the new world.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Saving Morgan's life ended up working out far worse for her in the long run than it would have if she had simply stayed miserable living in Lawton.
Redemption Rejection: She tries, but is too self-centered to truly change, and sides with Teddy's cult in the last episodes of Season 6.
The Sociopath: Strand outright calls her this at one point, and she actually does fit a lot of the criteria. She's ruthless, lacks empathy, can shift her emotional state at the drop of a hat, murders people to cover her tracks, and ultimately can't pull a Heel–Face Turn on account of her own selfishness.
Spanner in the Works: Alicia would have killed Teddy if Dakota hadn’t chosen that moment to pull a Face–Heel Turn and point a gun at her.
Theme Naming: With her sister Virginia. They're both named after US states.
Villainous Friendship: She begins to form one with Teddy, feeling he's the only person who understands her. That goes out the window when she finds out he was a fraud and was only using her, and she kills him for it.
Walking Spoiler: Dakota plays such a huge role in the events of the season that most of the tropes relating to her have been whited out. Namely, that she's Virginia's daughter, kills John Dorie, and is the one who saved Morgan's life at the Gulch.

Rangers

In General

What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unknown what became of most of the Rangers and the people from Virginia's settlements in general after Texas became decimated by Teddy's nukes.

Hill

Portrayed By: Craig Nigh

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

The second-in-command of the Pioneers.

Boom, Headshot!: How June kills him, the same as his boss.
The Dragon: He is Virginia's loyal right-hand man.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Goes on the lam after Virginia's defeat, and ultimately takes up residence in John's father's cabin.

Cameron

Portrayed By: Noah Khyle

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

A Ranger established in Lawton.

Small Role, Big Impact: His death kickstarts the chain reaction of events that leads to Virginia's downfall.

Jeb

Portrayed By: Lee Stringer

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

One of the Rangers overseeing the Tumbleweed Sugar Producing Factory

Bad Boss: He doesn't give a damn about the workers forced to clear the factory of walkers.

Doomsday Cult

Teddy Maddox

Theodore "Teddy" Maddox

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"You don't know what it is I'm setting out to do."

Portrayed By: John Glover

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6, 7 ^noteFlashback (archive footage)) | Dead in the Water

"People look around the world up there and see death everywhere they gaze. But that's not what's really there. If they looked hard enough, if they truly looked with open eyes, they would see life. But it's not their fault they don't know how to open their eyes. It's not their fault... They're seeing the way they always have."

The leader of the Doomsday cult who intends to exterminate all life on the surface. He is also a serial killer who was hunted down and imprisoned by John Dorie Sr. in the 1970s. Thanks to the Fall, he’s free to enact a new reign of terror, and makes good on his threats at the end of Season 6. He ultimately doesn’t get to see his life’s work completed though, as his long history of lying finally catches up to him when the one ally who turns out to be crazier than him, Dakota, turns on him and shoots him.

Arch-Enemy: To John Dorie Sr., who sent him to prison nearly forty years ago. John still hates him for his atrocities, and Teddy himself is clearly shaken to hear his voice again since his conviction and imprisonment was the worst time of his life and truly made him powerless.
The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of "USS Pennsylvania", he succeeds in launching one of the submarine's missiles to come crashing down over Texas. Subverted in the finale when his true goal to survive the nukes fails as Dakota kills him before they hit.
Beard of Evil: A sinister old man with a very thick and bushy beard.
Big Bad: In the back half of Season 6, though he's also a Greater-Scope Villain (see below).
Boom, Headshot!: Dakota kills him this way after a shot through the chest.
Break the Haughty: In “USS Pennsylvania”, his smug confidence is shaken when he hears the voice of Dorie, Sr., taking him back to his imprisonment before the apocalypse and the worst moment of his life.
The Cameo: He makes a brief appearance in the Dead in the Water web series, stopping Riley just as he's about to commit suicide and convincing him to join his cause.
The Corruptor: As a cult leader, naturally, and he manages to turn Rollie, Riley, and Dakota over to his side. Alicia isn't having any of his bullshit, however.
Crazy-Prepared: He had an underground bunker ready in anticipation of his impending nuclear apocalypse, showing how much of a coward he was that he never intended to die along with his followers.
Creepy Souvenir: He kept Cindy Hawkins' necklace in his bunker, as well as newspaper clippings talking about his numerous murders over the years.
Dirty Coward: He never intended to die with the rest of his followers, as the Season 6 finale reveals. He was intending to ride out the nukes in a shelter with another survivor (Dakota) for the ostensible reason that he needed two people to fire the rest of the nukes, but it’s clear Teddy was just saving his own ass.
Evil Is Hammy: John Glover wastes no time hamming it up in his first scene and never looks back.
Expy: Teddy is largely based off infamous real-life cult leader, Charles Manson.
Faux Affably Evil: He's very charismatic and is willing to use nuclear warheads to wipe out humanity.
Final Boss: Of Season 6. The original Big Bad, Virginia, is taken care of in "Things Left to Do", leaving Teddy and his cult as the final obstacle that the heroes must face.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is the leader of a dangerous cult.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Subverted. He was already a notorious serial killer before the apocalypse, but even discounting the fact that he had been imprisoned for decades, his killing spree pales in comparison to his evil plan in Season 6 that poises a threat to the entire continent of North America and the rest of the planet. Given the long term effects a nuclear apocalypse across the majority of said continent would have (and the danger from the fallout being carried around the world by weather patterns), he may just be the most dangerous villain in the entire franchise.
Greater-Scope Villain: He is the Serial Killer that John tells Jacob about in "The Key" and is the one responsible for embalming the walkers Dwight and Althea find at the funeral home in "Alaska". Morgan has several hostile encounters with his people throughout the season, all in search of the key that was stolen by Emile.
Irony: Despite being a convicted murderer with over 20 kills to his name, he's never actually seen killing any living person on-screen.
Karmic Death: He is killed before his nuclear apocalypse can begin, after he’d been subtly pulling strings to sacrifice everyone else so he could watch and survive it.
Non-Action Big Bad: Downplayed. He can kill walkers, but as an old man he's not exactly combat-proficient and relies mostly on words to do his fighting.
Self-Made Orphan: Killed his own mother when she didn't approve of his psychotic ideas and threatened to have him committed.
Serial Killer: He was known as "The Mortician Murderer" and murdered at least 22 people in his heyday, including some girls as young as seventeen. After embalming the women in his bunker he would then pose their bodies in the places they disappeared from for police to find.
Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in a few episodes, but he has a major impact on Season 6 and, postmortem, in Season 7 and 8.
The Sociopath: Despite his claims otherwise, this is what he truly is: a selfish maniac who views other people as pawns and wants to wipe out all of humanity simply because he can.
Stripped to the Bone: A few months after the nukes hit, Dorie Sr. finds what's left of Teddy's charred corpse still lying in the place where Dakota shot him.
Torture Cellar: In a secret room in his underground bunker is the torture chamber where Teddy embalmed all his victims.
Villainous Legacy: He has a massive negative impact on Season 7 despite having been killed in the previous season finale. The nuclear devastation that he unleashed is an ever-present danger, and the doomsday cult he created is still an active threat under Arno's leadership. Two members of the group die due to complications from his devastation, and a third is believed to be dead, one of their founding members and leaders. Ultimately he forces the group to flee Texas, the setting of the show for about three seasons, due to the fallout finally rendering the area uninhabitable. In Season 8, the group then ends up in PADRE's clutches for the better part of a decade thanks to having had to evacuate Texas, leading to more deaths and conflicts.

Riley

Lieutenant Jason Riley

"Are you ready to accept his word?"

Portrayed By: Nick Stahl

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6) | Dead in the Water

"Welcome to The Holding. I think you're going to like it here."

A high-ranking member of the Doomsday cult who is one of Teddy's devoted followers.

Alas, Poor Villain: Not on Fear, but Dead in the Water adds plenty of retroactive pity points by revealing that he used to be a good man who was willing to disobey his superiors' orders to nuke an entire city because it was the right thing to do.
And Then John Was a Zombie: After dying from his wound, he's the first walker to rise once the nuke has hit.
Asshole Victim: A sadistic cultist who wants to nuke all of humanity? No one will be mourning this psycho now that he's been killed by Charlie. Dead in the Water does gain him plenty of sympathy points, however.
Beard of Sorrow: Grows one after falling into depression over the deaths of his wife and son.
Became Their Own Antithesis: Dead in the Water shows that he turned down a command to nuke the city of Chicago, a far cry from the cultist who doesn't express any remorse for being willing to destroy the entire country.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Before the outbreak starts, he mentions how he isn't sure if he even wants to be a father, and would rather take command of his own submarine. When shit starts hitting the fan, he no longer cares about his career as a Navyman and just wants to get back to his family as soon as possible.
Character Death: Gets shot in the back by Charlie and bleeds to death just before the nukes hit.
The Dragon: He appears to be Teddy's top enforcer, and as a former crewman on the Pennsylvania, he's one of the most crucial to Maddox's plan.
Driven to Suicide: He was seconds from pulling the trigger on himself when Teddy arrived and stopped him.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He sincerely loved his late wife Lucy and newborn son Oliver, enough that their deaths almost drove him to kill himself. Unfortunately, it's this vulnerability that made Riley privy to Teddy Maddox's manipulation.
Evil Gloating: He spends his final moments taunting the group about how even though he's mortally wounded, he'll still relish watching them die when the nuke hits.
Expy: His hair and fashion sense are oddly reminiscent of Anton from No Country for old Men. They differ more in personality though.
Faux Affably Evil: He seems like a nice enough guy at first, but he quickly reveals his nastier side when he resorts to torture to get answers from Morgan's people.
In the Back: Charlie shoots him this way when he tries to attack Daniel.
Made of Iron: Despite being stabbed in the right side of his chest by Morgan, Riley doesn't look any worse for wear when he chooses to flee.
Nice Guy: Dead in the Water reveals he used to be this, and was a loyal friend to his fellow crewmembers aboard the Pennsylvania.
Outliving One's Offspring: A photo of him in the Pennsylvania reveals he had a son who, as we find out in Dead in the Water, was devoured by walkers along with Riley's wife.
Pet the Dog: Downplayed. He does leave Morgan and Grace alive after getting the key, even though shooting Morgan would definitely have been the best option for him. This is likely because he anticipates Morgan will be dead soon anyway.
Reasonable Authority Figure: In Dead in the Water. He calmly takes charge of the surviving crewmembers and leads them in escaping the Pennsylvania.
Would Hurt a Child: Threatens to shoot Grace (who's about to give birth) if Morgan doesn't hand over the key he's after.

Derek

"Those places up there... they're about how we used to live. This... this is how I wanna live now."

Portrayed By: Chinaza Uche

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

A member of the cult and Wes' brother. He is also a painter.

Beard of Evil: A bearded black man with genocidal goals.
Boom, Headshot!: Wes shoots him in the head to keep him from coming back as a walker.
Cain and Abel: Tries to shoot Wes when he refuses to bend a knee to Teddy's way of life.
Mad Artist: He paints murals of the places attacked by the Cult, including Gas Town.

Strand's Tower

In General

When the nukes came down, Strand took refuge in a tower that was inhabited by Howard, who had boarded art, music, and historical artifacts to try to preserve history. The Tower lucked out as not only was it not struck by the missiles, weather patterns carried the fallout away from it, leaving it a sustainable, unaffected oasis in the nuclear wasteland of Texas. Strand seized the chance to build a monument to his own ego and founded a community in it alongside Howard.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us:
- In “The Portrait”, Arno’s Stalkers threaten to attack the Tower with a dud warhead that will destroy the Tower with its lingering radiation. They are chased off thanks to a counterattack led by Grace.
- Most of Season 7 builds up Alicia leading a raid on the Tower to claim it as the group’s own. However, she and Strand make some sort of amends again and the Tower ends up lost by the time Alicia’s group is allowed inside.
Crapsaccharine World: It certainly looks like heaven compared to the nuke-ravaged Texas outside, but it’s run by a ruthless despot like Strand who threatens people with death if they so much as do a painting of him that he doesn’t like. It gets worse as Strand’s paranoia deepens.
Disney Villain Death: The Tower’s primary form of execution of traitors or people Strand gets sick of is to throw them off the top floor to an instant demise.
Egopolis: Strand wastes no time crowing about how the Tower will be an important chapter in the history books of civilization - HIS civilization.
What Happened to the Mouse?: No mention is made of the 200 survivors who were living in the Tower when it ends up destroyed.
You Can't Go Home Again: It ends of destroyed by the end of Season 7 and rendered uninhabitable thanks to an irradiated horde.

Howard

Portrayed By: Omid Abtahi

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-7)

A former history teacher who befriends Victor Strand. He becomes his first officer at the community they form in the Tower he was living in.

Action Survivor: Downplayed. We haven’t seen him in active combat, but he’s seen casually wielding weapons and goes out on patrols and recon missions indicating he is combat-capable.
Alas, Poor Villain: Its easy to feel sorry for him since he survived a nuclear apocalypse after a walker apocalypse, and sought to build a place where his family could live in peace and make amends with him - only for Strand to take advantage of him and use him as a glorified executioner, and dispose of him when he finds a new candidate as his partner.
All for Nothing: His dedication to helping the Tower thrive so it can be a place where his family can live and forgive him is all for nothing. Strand finds his dead family and doesn’t tell him to keep him motivated, and Strand ultimately loses faith in him and has him executed even after John, Sr. confirms Howard is loyal to him. Even then, Strand causes the destruction of the Tower only a few episodes later.
Character Death: In “Sonny Boy”, Victor has John, Sr. execute him due to having lost faith in him and wanting the latter as his new right hand.
A Death in the Limelight: ”Sonny Boy” revolves around his desperate attempt to save his own life and his legacy, which he believes is to help the Tower thrive as the foundation of a new civilization. We also learn of his family history and how he wants to make amends with them. He ends up killed before the end of the episode.
Disney Villain Death: He’s fond of dishing this out to people Strand orders executed at the Tower, and ultimately he suffers this fate at the hands of John, Sr.
The Dragon: He becomes Strand's right-hand man in the new community they start together.
Et Tu, Brute?: He is aghast that Strand has lost faith in him even after he’s proven he remains loyal to him.
Everyone Has Standards: He starts showing signs of discomfort with Strand’s paranoid, ruthless pragmatism as time goes on.
Karmic Death: Thrown from the Tower to his death like he did to numerous people.
Last Episode, New Character: For Season 6.
Nice Guy: At first. He's perfectly friendly and courteous to Strand since they're convinced it's their last moments on Earth. In Season 7 he's colder towards enemies or potential enemies, but he's still pretty decent to people on Strand's good side.
Pet the Dog: Even after telling Morgan he’s not welcome at the Tower, he is willing to hear out his request to let Mo take residence there with Grace.
Smug Snake: Thanks to Strand’s influence he becomes smug and cocky towards people outside the Tower, especially towards Morgan, who Strand has built up as the main rival to them.
Took a Level in Jerkass: After Strand takes him under his wing he becomes much more of a jerk in Season 7. He's more of a smug, ruthless Jerkass in Season 7 since he's spent the last three months holed up with Strand, but this is mostly only to enemies and people who have failed Strand. Otherwise, he remains pretty civil and decent towards people on Strand's good side. It's likely he let being elevated to a position of power go to his head, especially given what we learn of how he desires a big legacy, which Strand probably smooth-talked him about.
Villain Has a Point: He inherits some of Strand’s ruthless pragmatism. When he finds some survivors have been afflicted with radiation burns, he has them executed almost on the spot, a cold but not unwise choice since others could get sick as well. In “Mourning Cloak”, he also is well aware to be wary of Charlie due to the conflict with Morgan and Alicia.
Yes-Man: Completely loyal to Strand and happily does his bidding.

Will

Portrayed By: Gus Halper

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7)

A former senator's aide who joins the community led by Victor Strand.

All Love Is Unrequited: He clearly has a thing for Alicia, even though he's not a part of her community anymore. Alicia never clarifies if she ever reciprocated his crush on her.
And Then John Was a Zombie: After reanimating he becomes one of the walkers surrounding Strand's Tower.
Disney Villain Death: Strand pushes him to his death from the roof of the Tower.
Driven to Suicide: It's implied he had given up as he didn't stop the walker creeping up on him, only to be saved by the timely intervention of Strand's people.
Posthumous Character: He returns for a few flashback scenes in the mid-Season 7 finale, showing how he grew to trust and respect Alicia.
Sacrificial Lamb: His death reveals the new lengths Strand is willing to go to make his civilization work.
Small Role, Big Impact: Only appears in two episodes (one of them posthumously), but learning Strand murdered him because of her is the catalyst for Alicia declaring war on her former friend.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets characterized well, but doesn't live past his first episode.

U.S.S. Pennsylvania Crew

Renwick

Captain Renwick

Portrayed By: Emmett Hunter

Appearances: Dead in the Water

Boom, Headshot!: From Riley, to keep the Captain from becoming a walker.
Face Death with Dignity: After it becomes clear he's beyond saving, he calmly accepts his fate and tells Riley to shoot him.

Pierce

Portrayed By: Jason Francisco Blue

Appearances: Dead in the Water

Black Best Friend: Riley's closest friend onboard the Pennsylvania.
Devoured by the Horde: He charges into a horde of walkers and takes one down before getting overwhelmed.
Face Death with Dignity: He accepts his fate remarkably well after being bitten, and implores Riley to make it back to his family.
Failed a Spot Check: Doesn't notice Farley's reanimated corpse lying on the ground beside him until it's too late.
Zombie Infectee: Gets bitten on the ankle by an undead Farley.

Walter

Walter Schowski

Portrayed By: Damon Carney

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6) | Dead in the Water

Off with His Head!: Gets beheaded by Emile.

Alvarez

Portrayed By: Jay Gutierrez

Appearances: Dead in the Water

Accidental Murder: Accidentally kills Farley after mistaking him for a walker.
Devoured by the Horde: Gets jumped and eaten alive by a small group of walkers.
Jerkass Has a Point: It may have been ruthless but he wasn't wrong to shoot Winokur after he got bitten on the wrist by a walker.

Stalkers

In General

A group of survivors who originally formed part of Teddy’s death cult, and later fell in under Alicia’s leadership per Teddy’s orders. However, when Alicia made questionable decisions, Arno led a splinter cell to form their own group of roaming bandits.

Bus Crash: In "Anton", Strand says that the group members who didn't get found by PADRE all perished, presumably including all the Stalkers who formed the group's cannon fodder.
Easily Forgiven: They agree to join forces with Morgan’s group after recognizing Luci is right that they’ve both drawn blood from each other’s side - even after Daniel had just killed Arno.
Even Evil Has Standards: It’s implied they don’t want to continue Teddy’s plot to nuke the world now that they’ve been living in the nuclear hell he left them in, though they still possess loyalty to him.
Good Counterpart: To the Scavengers led by Jadis in the main show. Like the Scavengers, they’re an eccentric community of people who change sides more than once and seem to be normal people underneath it all. Unlike the Scavengers, the Stalkers turn out to be willing to side with the good guys for good, and so far have not double crossed our heroes for selfish gain like Jadis did multiple times.
Hazy-Feel Turn: After Arno’s death, Luci convinces them to join their forces against Strand. The hazy part comes from how one of their members agrees since “it’s what Teddy would have wanted”, showing they still revere their insane, murderous former leader.
No Name Given: Or rather, they did not give themselves the name “Stalkers”. That was something Will came up with.
Noble Demon: Despite being former members of a death cult, they turn out to still be perfectly reasonable people when not attacking others, even before their Hazy-Feel Turn.
Red Shirt: They’re mostly cannon fodder for walkers in larger fight scenes.
Undying Loyalty: They’re still loyal to Teddy after his death, though they don’t seem interested in continuing his goal of launching every nuke possible.

Arno

Portrayed By: Spenser Granese

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7)

The leader of the Stalkers.

Asshole Victim: Despite having some honorable traits he was still a devotee of Teddy’s cult who was willing to kill innocent people to get what he wants, meaning he deserved his fate.
Big Bad Ensemble: He’s the other main threat for most of Season 7 besides Strand.
Big Bad Wannabe: He doesn’t put up a terribly impressive performance during his time on the show. His Stalkers are easily routed offscreen by Grace and the group, and he gets outwitted by Daniel and killed. Daniel lampshades that he couldn’t take the Tower even when he was armed with a nuclear weapon.
Broken Pedestal: He originally revered Alicia as the new leader of the Doomsday Cult per Teddy’s orders, but when Stalkers died on her watch, he broke off with his own faction that formed the Stalkers.
Disc-One Final Boss: He dies in midlate Season 7 leaving Strand as the sole main antagonist to deal with.
Eaten Alive: His legs are devoured by starving walkers while all he can do is scream in agony. They’re stripped to the bone and Arno still doesn’t die for a few more minutes.
Faux Affably Evil: He usually puts up a sleazy, insincere front.
It's Personal: He hates Alicia because of the members of their group who died on her watch.
Karmic Death: Daniel kills him using the same crane he has surely killed several others with.
Noble Demon: While an evil devotee of the Doomsday Cult, he still genuinely cares about the people under his command. His dying act is to warn Luci of someone freeing deadly radioactive walkers from the crater.
Smug Snake: He’s usually smug and condescending, and far more antagonistic than Teddy. However, once Daniel turns the tables on him, he finally breaks down and panics.
Villain Has a Point: He knows as well as anyone that its impossible for a walker to lead someone anywhere due to it being a mindless reanimated corpse, so it’s understandable why he loses faith in Alicia.

Others

Martha

Portrayed By: Tonya Pinkins

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

A serial killer traumatized by the death of her husband that targets survivors trying to help others.

Arc Villain: For the end of Season 4.
Asshole Victim: Completely deserved to die for being an insane survivalist who killed countless people for doing the bare minimum of decency.
Ax-Crazy: She’s only trying her best to kill as many people as possible.
Berserk Button: The sole use of the word “help” drives her over the edge. When Stevie simply thanks her for helping her with her grammar, Martha kills her, enraged at the prospect of even helping someone with something as inconsequential as grammar.
Black-and-White Insanity: If you accept help from anybody or give help to anybody, you’re weak and deserve to be killed by her. She kills Stevie on the spot for even thanking her for helping her with her grammar.
Break the Haughty: She ultimately fails to break Morgan and dies not only seeing Morgan set off to rescue his group, but also with the knowledge that she’s been restrained and will be unable to kill anyone once she turns. She’s left a wailing, crying baby.
Crazy Homeless Person: Filthy and disheveled and it helps with her crazy serial killer personality.
Despair Event Horizon: The death of her husband completely breaks her.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Completely unable to process anybody trying to help anybody else and sees it as a personal offense.
Evil Counterpart: To Morgan. Both lost their spouses and saw them turn undead and both lost their grip on sanity, but whereas Morgan regained his empathy for others, Martha sunk deeper into cruelty.
Evil Mentor: Sees herself as this to Morgan, trying to force him to stop helping people so he can be strong again in her eyes.
Evil Stole My Faith: When no one came to help her husband before he perished of his wounds, she became convinced that the concept of helping people is a lie and is just weakness.
Foil:
- Specifically brought in to counter Morgan’s self-inflicted isolationism he brought from his trauma on the main show.
- She’s introduced the same year that the Whisperers were introduced in the main show, and shares a lot of Alpha’s deranged, Darwinist psychotic killer personality traits. Unlike Alpha, however, she lacks any living relatives she still loves and thus retains a shred of humanity for.
Karmic Death: Mortally wounded and chained to a car so she can’t hurt anyone after reanimating. For someone who’s desperate to kill and hurt as many people as possible for being human beings, this is a fitting fate.
Nightmare Fetishist: She loves walkers for supposedly being strong since they don’t help people. When she learns she’s going to be restrained so she can’t kill anyone after turning, she loses her little remaining shit.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She specifically loses her shit when she hears of people trying to help others and works her damndest to try to kill them for it.
Put Them All Out of My Misery: She takes her grief over the loss of her husband out on anybody and everybody who either offers help or gives help to other people.
Rage Against the Heavens: After burying her husband, she begins outright calling God a “shitty ass God” in anger over her husband’s death.
Smug Snake: Has a completely smug demeanor as she carries out her killing sprees.
The Social Darwinist: Believes anybody accepting help from anybody is weak.

Isabelle

Portrayed By: Sydney Lemmon

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5-7)

A pilot for the CRM who becomes Althea's love interest.

Big Damn Heroes: In the Season 6 finale, she arrives to airlift Daniel and the rest of his group to safety before the nukes hit.
Heroic Sacrifice: A non-fatal version. She defies the CRM by going to collect and rescue Daniel’s group, knowing very well that the CRM will hunt her to the ends of the earth as retribution. But she was willing to give it up to help her girlfriend’s extended family.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She reluctantly accepted Althea refusing to come with her, knowing how much her career of videotaping meant to her. Luckily for her, Althea comes to her senses and rejoins her.
Put on a Bus: Her last appearance to date is her and Al agreeing to go on the run from the CRM together.
What the Hell, Hero?: She’s understandably hurt and angry when her girlfriend leaves her due to wanting to keep interviewing people despite what Isabelle was willing to sacrifice for her girlfriend’s friends.

Ed

Portrayed By: Raphael Sbarge

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

A taxidermist dwelling in a cabin somewhere in between the Pioneer's communities.

Devoured by the Horde: How he dies.
My Greatest Failure: He went mad after one of his creations got loose and killed his wife and daughter. Nevertheless he kept making more augmented walkers.
Taxidermy Terror: He augments zombies grafting claws, jaws or antlers of animals on their bodies to make them more fearsome.

Larson Family

Kevin, Kim and Briga Larson

Portrayed By: Aaron Spivey-Sorrells (Kevin), Julia Barnett (Kim), Ella McCain (Briga)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-7)

A family who lose their cellar to two of Teddy's cultists as they prepare for a nuke to hit. After Dwight and Sherry help them they take shelter together and end up becoming close.

And Then John Was a Zombie: Briga is the only one of the three not to be shot in the head, and is put down by Dwight after reanimation.
Batter Up!: Kevin carries a bat to defend himself.
Boom, Headshot!: Both Kevin and Kim are executed by a shot to the head.
Death of a Child: Poor Briga...
Intergenerational Friendship: Briga with both Dwight and Sherry. Dwight especially as he presents her with a GameBoy he found while out on a run.
Morality Pet: For Dwight and Sherry, who go out on runs and steal food from bad people to provide for the family.
Satellite Character: They exist entirely to provide motivation for Dwight and Sherry. The moment they find the family dead, they change their minds about Mickey’s husband.
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: After surviving a nuclear explosion at the end of Season 6, they're unceremoniously killed off in their first appearance in Season 7.

Mickey

Portrayed By: Aisha Tyler

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7)

A former professional wrestler known as "The Bride" who was one-half of a formidable tag team duo along with her husband Cliff.

Action Girl: As a former pro wrestler, it goes without saying.
Celebrity Survivor: Dwight takes a moment to gush when he recognizes her.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She is never mentioned again after "PADRE".
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Doesn’t return in “PADRE” as Dwight offhandedly mentions she wants nothing to do with Alicia’s plan.
Sixth Ranger: Or rather, third ranger, as she joins Dwight and Sherry’s Dark Horses and later Alicia’s group and by extension Morgan’s.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Even after her Written-In Absence mentioned below, she still doesn’t return with no comment made on her whereabouts and she’s not seen again before the end of the series.

Paul

Portrayed By: Warren Snipe

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7)

A man who survived both the Fall and Teddy's nukes who encounters Alicia.

Action Survivor: Due to his age he's not the best in combat, but he can still kill walkers and use a gun when needed.
Bizarre Taste in Food: Discussed. He enjoys haggis but had to develop a taste for it since it's often the only food he can easily find in places like grocery stores.
Cool Old Guy: He's a wise, friendly man with a strong sense of right and wrong.
Heroic Sacrifice: He dies buying time for Alicia to escape from Arno.
The Lost Lenore: He has a wife who died in the nuking of Texas.
Mauve Shirt: He's the fleshed out guest star of a single episode, dying before the end of it.

Characters / Fear the Walking Dead: Texas

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Dorie Family

John Dorie

Portrayed By: Garret Dillahunt

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-6)

June "Naomi/Laura"

Portrayed By: Jenna Elfman

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-8)

John Dorie Sr.

Portrayed By: Keith Carradine

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-7)

Rabinowitz Family

Sarah Rabinowitz

Portrayed By: Mo Collins

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-7)

Wendell

Portrayed By: Daryl Mitchell

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-present)

Morgan's Group / The Caravan

Althea "Al" Szewczyk-Przygocki

Portrayed By: Maggie Grace

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-7) | The Althea Tapes

Charlie

Portrayed By: Alexa Nisenson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 4-8)

Jim Brauer

Portrayed By: Aaron Stanford

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

Grace Mukherjee

Portrayed By: Karen David

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-8)

Wes

Portrayed By: Colby Hollman

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-7)

Rabbi Jacob Kessner

Portrayed By: Peter Jacobson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-present)

Tom

Portrayed By: Joe Massingill

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

Isaac

Portrayed By: Michael Abbott Jr.

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

Rachel

Portrayed By: Brigitte Kali Canales

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 6)

Mo/"Wren"

Portrayed By: Zoey Merchant (Season 8)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6-8)

Camp Cackleberry

Annie

Portrayed By: Bailey Gavulic

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

Max

Portrayed By: Ethan Suess / Sean Koetting (adult, in dreams)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 5-6)

Dylan

Portrayed By: Cooper Dodson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

C&L Freight Services

Clayton/Polar Bear

Portrayed By: Stephen Henderson

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

Logan

Portrayed By: Matt Frewer

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 5)

The Vultures

Melvin

Portrayed By: Kevin Zegers

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

Ennis

Portrayed By: Evan Gamble

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Season 4)

LaRoux Brothers

Emile LaRoux

Portrayed By: Demetrius Grosse

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6, 7 note As a zombie)

Josiah LaRoux

Portrayed By: Demetrius Grosse

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6, 7 ^noteAs a zombie)

Appearances: Fear the Walking Dead (Seasons 6, 7 ^noteFlashback (archive footage)) | Dead in the Water