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Joe
Joe
Portrayed By: Terry Crews
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Evie; Joe"
"People thought I was nuts. No one believed this could happen. No one ever thinks bad things will happen. I'm still kickin', and most everyone else isn't."
A doomsday prepper.
- The Aloner: He's been living alone with his dog Gilligan for over a year. Even before the apocalypse he was mostly on his own, preferring to spend most of his time in his bunker preparing for the inevitable end of the world.
- The Comically Serious: He's more uptight and down-to-earth compared to Evie.
- Defrosting Ice King: He slowly comes around on Evie, after being hostile to her initially. He even lets her read his journal.
- Foil: To Eugene Porter. Both are lonely, socially challenged introverts who travel a great distance to meet a woman they made a connection with but never formally met in person. Unlike Eugene, who did in fact find the girl of his dreams, Sandra is far, far from that. Their appearances also contrast, with Eugene being somewhat overweight while Joe is muscular.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rather grumpy and standoffish, but not really a bad guy once you get to know him.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares a name with the deceased leader of the Claimers.
Evie
Evie
Portrayed By: Olivia Munn
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Evie; Joe"
- Action Girl: A skilled walker killer who's proficient in the Brazilian martial art of capoeira.
- Deadpan Snarker: Mostly in her attempts to get Joe to loosen up.
- Friend to All Living Things: She used to work in an animal shelter and quickly grows attached to the goat that she and Joe come into possession of, refusing to even consider cooking it into a meal.
- Granola Girl: She's a hippie with a somewhat flighty demeanor who grows her own weed, loves animals and is attempting to go vegan, and has an appreciation for art and the finer things in life despite the complete collapse of civilization. She also gives Joe a crystal for good luck (which ends up saving his life when Sandra tries to stab him with a meat cleaver).
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Though it's hard not to be when Joe is played by Terry Crews.
- Kick Chick: Which comes in handy against both walkers and a crazed Sandra.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She convinces Joe to learn to appreciate the beauty of the world, and opens him up to the idea of companionship and having new experiences.
- Motor Mouth: She could give Princess and Negan a run for their money. Joe eventually tries to just tune her out with music, only for her to then start singing along to the song he's listening to.
- Nice Girl: She's very chipper and upbeat.
- Not Using the "Z" Word: She calls zombies "toe-tags".
- The Stoner: Not only does she grow her own weed plants, this trait ends up saving her life when she doesn't become intoxicated by Sandra's edible.
- The Teetotaler: She doesn't drink alcohol.
Michigan
Sandra (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
Sandra
Portrayed By: Kersti Bryan
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Evie; Joe"
- Big Bad Friend: Is the online friend of Joe, and is revealed to be a paranoid sadist.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She pretends to be sweet but is really a psychopath who drugs Joe and attempts to kill him the first chance she gets.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. It’s clear that she cared for Joe before the apocalypse, but seemingly being affectionate with each other when meeting, it’s simply a mask and Sandra is quick to try and murder Joe.
- Improperly Paranoid: Believes everyone’s out to get her and became distrusting after she killed a home invader.
- Karmic Death: Killed by a meat cleaver to the chest, courtesy of one of her intended victims whose heart she broke.
- Sanity Slippage: Is clearly mentally unwell from the apocalypse.
- Serial Killer: Lured about a dozen people to torture and murder them and get their watched as momentous.
Atlanta, Georgia
Blair
Blair
Portrayed By: Parker Posey
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Blair; Gina"
An employee at the Circle of Trust Insurance Company.
- Expy: Blair is quite similar to Parker Posey's character Jennifer Jolie from Scream 3. Both are neutoric and self-centered Large Ham characters who are revealed to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold as the story progresses and they develop a partnership with someone they were initially at odds with.
- Large Ham: Parker Posey doesn't hold anything back.
- Motor Mouth: She does nothing except babble on and on about her own life and barely listens to a word any of her co-workers say.
House Boat
Brooke
Brooke
Portrayed By: Lauren Glazier
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Dee"
The leader of the houseboat community.
- Always Someone Better: It’s clear Dee resents her for doing just about everything better than her. She’s beautiful and well-loved by her community, whereas Dee is humiliated by Billy for not having something better fitting to wear to the dinner party and is also regarded as an outsider because of her poor temper and demeanor. She also manages to quickly win Lydia’s affection by simply being kind to her and caring for her well-being, whereas Dee is so abusive she can’t go a few sentences without demeaning or verbally abusing her daughter and has been physically abusive to her. When the community falls, Dee gleefully rubs it in how Brooke lost everything, relishing it.
- Bread and Circuses: A positive example. She tries to give her community some sense of normalcy by having fun events like dinner parties and workout classes. Dee can’t stomach it, thinking it’s just bullshit to keep people ignorant of the world outside the boat. To Brooke’s credit, it really does work and has earned her the loyalty and love of her people.
- Despair Event Horizon: After the house boat becomes uninhabitable and all its residents are killed, Brooke washes up on shore a broken woman and doesn't attempt to fight back when at the mercy of Dee, who is clearly prepared to kill her.
- Facial Horror: Dee leaves her with a massive scar across her cheek as a reminder of Brooke's failure to protect the people in her community.
- Foil: To Dee. Brooke is a strict but good-hearted woman who tries to hold onto a semblance of humanity by throwing dinner parties and holding morning exercise classes to help her people relax and feel at ease again. It's also not a stretch to say she would have been a better mother to Lydia, or at least a more nurturing one who wouldn't subject Lydia to both physical and psychological torture. On the flip side, Brooke also lacks Dee's more pragmatic, ruthless streak that probably would never have led to the downfall of her community if she had taken the proper precautions with Billy after Mr. Langston's death.
- Friend to All Children: She gets along well with Lydia and is mortified when the other residents selfishly start trying to throw Lydia (along with Dee) under the bus to keep Billy from executing them.
- The Leader: Of the houseboat community.
- Mama Bear: She shows some protective instinct towards Lydia and expresses concern over her clear discomfort with her actual mother, Dee.
- Meaningful Name: A woman named Brooke is the leader of a community on the water.
- Ms. Fanservice: She’s a beautiful woman who frequently dresses well, even when she’s not holding a dinner party.
- Naked on Arrival: She is introduced canoodling in bed with her lover and getting ready for the dinner party later that evening.
- Nerves of Steel: Shows no visible fear when Dee begins threatening her life to get her to tell where Lydia is. Later, after crossing the Despair Event Horizon, she’s so broken that she doesn’t care what Dee does to her.
- Pragmatic Hero: She’s shown making a tough call regarding moving on without a community member since the boat must keep moving to look for more fuel and supplies.
- Properly Paranoid: You can see where she’s coming from when she doesn’t trust Dee considering the latter woman’s insanity, foul temper and unwillingness to compromise.
- Sole Survivor: The only surviving member of the houseboat community by her own words.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Brooke’s community loves her for being a beautiful, benevolent leader who genuinely cares for them. Subverted later when the much more ruthless Billy leads an uprising against her, believing she’s too weak to effectively lead them.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If she had listened to Dee about Billy, her community would never have fallen and been the last straw needed to convince Dee that it's pointless trying to rebuild any sort of civilization.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Brooke is last seen alive and is never mentioned or referenced on The Walking Dead, leaving her ultimate fate unknown. Though showrunner Channing Powell claims
that in her mind Brooke is "not dead yet" and hopes to explore more of the character if the series is renewed for a Season 2. - You Will Be Spared: Dee leaves Brooke alive because she doesn't want to kill her in front of Lydia. Still, she makes sure Brooke won't ever forget who she is.
Billy
Billy
Portrayed By: Nick Basta
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Dee"
A member of the houseboat community.
- The Heavy: The most direct antagonist of the episode, even one that revolves around Villain Protagonist Dee.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Clearly lusts after Brooke and suggests she’ll grow to like him once he takes over.
- Pet the Dog: Downplayed. He admits that Brooke is pretty much perfect when it comes to keeping up good morale and wants her to continue in that role. However, he is still forcibly taking control due to deeming her too weak to protect and lead the community.
- The Starscream: He and some henchmen capture the houseboat to install him as leader.
- Uncertain Doom: Brooke says everyone was killed in the fight that ensued after Dee escaped with Lydia, but it’s not established if Billy and his men also all died or not.
- The Unfettered: Completely casual and happy to murder survivors on the boat until he thinks he’s good.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His capture and destruction of the house boat community leads to Alpha’s nihilism fully taking over her and leads to her creating the Whisperers, who would become a dire threat to the Coalition’s attempt to rebuild civilization.
- Villain Has a Point: Like Dee, he’s not wrong that Brooke’s soft touch isn’t going to work when it comes to leading a community after the Fall - his mutiny being good evidence of that.
- Would Hurt a Child: Although he spends most of his hostage situation more interested in punishing Dee for her actions, he does ask for both her and Lydia to be brought before him.
The Whisperers
Hera
Hera
Portrayed By: Anne Beyer
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Dee"
The original leader of the Whisperers.
- Ambiguously Evil: It's unknown if she was a benign leader or a malicious one like Dee when she eventually took over. Considering she and her people urged Dee to spare Lydia, it seems to lean more towards the former.
- Canon Foreigner: There's no implication that Alpha wasn't the original leader of the Whisperers in the comics.
- The Leader: She was the leader of the Whisperers before Dee presumably killed and replaced her as Alpha.
- Wham Shot: After her group surrounds Dee and Lydia, Hera removes her mask to reveal a familiar head of long blonde hair, which looks awfully similar to the long blonde hair from the mask Dee was later known to wear when she became Alpha...
Madawaska, Maine
Davon
Davon
Portrayed By: Jessie T. Usher
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Davon"
A man who happens upon the Madawaska community.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: He is framed as the murderer of Amanda, who died in an accident while he was defending himself, and as the kidnapper of the children.
- Pyrrhic Victory: He clears his name, saves his own life and Garen’s and avoids being killed by the townspeople, but he’s still thoroughly disgusted by their bloodlust and capriciousness, and has lost his chance at love with Nora.
Nora
Nora
Portrayed By: Loan Chabanol
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Davon"
A woman in the community.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She’s a sweet, pretty woman who is one of the main proponents for her former lover’s execution, and later initiates the brutal execution of her nephew.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: She likes to put strawberries in salad and uses vinegar to draw out the flavor. Davon teases her about it, wondering why she’d ruin strawberries like that.
- Break the Cutie: A friendly, pretty girl who loses her sister and seemingly her child to the man she had fallen in love with, only for it to be revealed that her nephew was the true culprit and she nearly got Davon killed for nothing. The end of the episode subverts the trope when she is the first to partake in Arnaud’s brutal execution, implying she wasn’t really the best person to begin with.
- Et Tu, Brute?: She’s understandably heartbroken when she thinks Davon murdered Amanda and Garen in cold blood.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: She started to fall for Davon while helping him recover from his injuries.
- Hospital Hottie: A beautiful woman and a skilled medic.
- Mama Bear: Nearly allows Davon to be killed due to believing he has killed her son.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed. While she does look ashamed when Davon points out she and the town nearly killed him for nothing, she still ignores his pleas for humanity and has Arnaud executed.
- Ship Sinking: Her romance with Davon is dead in the water after she not only nearly had him killed, but she ignored his pleas for mercy for Arnaud.
- Token Good Teammate: Even before she tries to stop Davon’s execution due to believing he has a lead on Garen’s whereabouts (and inspiring others to also follow her), she is implied to be one of the few good hearted members of a community that is strongly implied to actually be malevolent.
Amanda
Amanda
Portrayed By: Embeth Davidtz
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Davon"
A leader in the community and Nora’s sister.
- Facial Horror: During her fight with Davon she falls into a bowl of acid. It melts through her head enough to kill her in seconds.
- Posthumous Character: She is the walker that Davon is handcuffed to in the intro of the episode.
- Red Herring: She’s made out to be the culprit behind the child murders and captures, but the episode reveals that she was only covering for Arnaud who actually was the one going through with it. She was still complicit in it, but he was the mastermind.
- Would Hurt a Child: Eventually comes around to killing children up to and including her own family.
Arnaud
Arnaud
Portrayed By: Gage Munroe
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Davon"
Amanda’s son and Nora’s nephew.
- Alas, Poor Villain: It’s easy to pity him since he’s far from being an actually evil mastermind, and his pleas for mercy from Davon and Nora are as pitiful as a young child begging to not get in trouble. And he still ends up dying a brutal death.
- Arc Villain: The main antagonist of the episode.
- Devoured by the Horde: After being knocked around by the community a bit, he is thrown to the walkers he created, who quickly kill him.
- Karmic Death: He is exposed by the man he nearly got executed for discovering his crimes, and sentenced to execution by his own aunt. Finally, he is eaten by the walkers of the children he had already killed.
- Villainous Breakdown: His final minutes of life are spent crying and desperately pleading for mercy.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In his mind, he’s doing the community’s children a favor by killing them before they have the opportunity to grow up and do terrible things to survive - and possibly things ordered by the community.
Others
Amy
Amy
Portrayed By: Poppy Liu
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Amy; Dr. Everett"
- Character Death: She and her group are killed by the horde.
- Killed Offscreen: Everett finds her now a walker, her last having been seen alive before the final commercial break of the episode.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. She shares a name with Andrea's younger sister who was part of the Atlanta Survivor Camp.
- Sacrificial Lion: The first heroic casualty of Tales who demonstrates that, true to the anthology format, the show will not shy away from giving a Downer Ending and killing its’ protagonists.
Everett
Dr. Chauncey Everett
Portrayed By: Anthony Edwards
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "Amy; Dr. Everett"
A lone scientist studying walkers.
- The Aloner: Completely without any human contact in the Dead Sector and is almost completely happy with it.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He spends most of the episode telling Amy that he would rather be left alone, and by the end of it, he is.
- Genuine Human Hide: He wears a coat made out of walker skin that allows him to escape the walkers’ sense of smell. If he hides his face, he is able to almost immediately lose their attention if he’s caught it.
- Good Counterpart: Downplayed. He’s something of this to previous franchise antagonists Alpha and Martha, who also preferred walkers to people and claimed to prefer a lack of morality and values. Like Alpha, however, Everett is a hypocrite who does care for a select few people - and like Martha, one of them is long dead.
- Hypocrite: Claims to prefer being objective as possible and that human attachment means nothing to him, but as Amy calls him out on, he’s still clinging to his love for his deceased friend who became Specimen 21. He later doesn’t even try to help Amy’s friends but demands she help him save 21 from a lake.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He’s selfish, cold, and prefers walkers to people, but he’s not evil and is a good man for the most part deep down.
- Pyrrhic Victory: At the end of the episode, the skull hunters are no more and he is left alone once again like he wanted. At the cost of the loss of Specimen 21 and Amy, who died trying to save her group from the horde he knew was coming. Everett is seen looking morose when he encounters Amy as a walker and as he recites a poem over narration, not happy with his situation in the slightest.
- Straw Nihilist: He has complete faith and devotion to his concept of nature, seeing walkers as a new apex predator who deserve respect and protection, and that humanity is doomed to fall to them.
Eric
Eric
Portrayed By: Danny Ramirez
Appearances: Tales of the Walking Dead
Debut: "La Dona"
Idalia's husband/significant other.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares a name with Aaron's recruiter husband from Alexandria.
