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| “ | If you care about people, there are people to protect, there are people that you will kill for. If you don’t want to kill, or if you can’t, then you have to get away from them. | „ |
| ~ Carol's philosophy on being able to survive |
Carol Peletier is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Michonne), of AMC's The Walking Dead. While she starts off quiet and weak, she becomes more ruthless and stronger during the apocalypse.
She is portrayed by Melissa Mcbride.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Admirable?[]
- When the group is trapped in the CDC, Carol pulls out a grenade she was storing and helps get the group out.
- She cooks dinner for the Greene family as a thanks for them taking the group in.
- She helps Lori look for Carl when they lose him on the farm.
- She and Daryl cover Rick when they take the prison.
- When Hershel gets bit and Rick chops off his leg, She and Lori do everything to keep him alive.
- She comforts Rick after Lori dies of childbirth.
- She constantly helps watch over baby Judith with Beth.
- When Andrea arrives to the group to make a treaty for Woodbury and Rick, Carol is the only one who is not cold and happy to see her.
- She teaches the kids to defends themselves.
- She puts Ryan down when he is bitten and comforts his daughters.
- She and Rick go to find food and medicine for the sick survivors.
- She saves Tyreese and the kids when they reunite.
- She tells Tyreese the truth about her killing Karen and David.
- She saves the group singlehandedly when they get captured by Terminus.
- She helps Daryl go look for Beth and practically forces him to save Noah when he gets trapped.
- She comforts Daryl after Beth's death and gives him her knife.
- She gets some guns for Daryl and Rick to protect themselves.
- She tells Rick about Jessie's abuse and threatens Pete to stay away from her.
- She stops the Wolves when they attack and put down the dead Alexandrians.
- She joins Rick and the others when they go make a stand.
- She visits Sam's grave who she got killed and places a cookie there as a apology.
- She starts to feel bad for all the people she killed and goes on a pacifist approach for a while.
- She feels remorse for killing Paula and the saviors and leaves Alexandria for a while.
- She helps the Kingdom attack the Savior outpost.
- She opens fire on the Saviors when they are holding some survivors hostage.
- She comforts Ezekiel after Shiva's death and convinces him he still means something to her.
- She saves Henry when he goes out in the woods.
- She participates in the last fight for the Savior war.
- She stops Daryl from beating up Justin and scolds Justin for his decision making.
- She stops Jed from hurting Henry.
- She convinces the Highwaymen to help them in exchange for a movie.
- She stops Lydia from killing herself.
- She helps put out the fire in the woods.
- She frees Negan and has him go kill Alpha.
- She leads the Whisperer horde off a cliff.
- She kicks Negan out of Alexandria in a way of protecting him from Maggie.
- She helps recapture their horses.
- She stays behind in the Military base to get more food for the communities.
- She runs some errands for Lance to get Ezekiel his surgery.
- While she was initially a coward, she completely sheds this quality and becomes braver.
- While searching for Daryl through the Nest, she takes a second to stop and save a father and daughter who are being hunted by hostile forces.
- After seeing that Genet is about to murder an elderly couple that had helped Daryl and Carol, she leaps to their rescue despite the man having earlier betrayed Daryl and Carol to Genet in the first place.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She can be rather cold, and downright mean towards people. A prime example is when she told Jessie's son Sam that he would die a gruesome and terrible death so he wouldn't rat her out about stealing the guns. This led to his and his family's death when he froze in a zombie herd and started crying when he remembered her words and got him and his mother eaten.
- She has let her wrath take over at times, like when she went out of her way to kill Alpha which resulted in Magna and Connie getting trapped in a cave and manipulating Lydia into showing herself to a whisperer, which broke her trust and caused her to run away for a short time while also causing a strain in Carol's friendship with Daryl Dixon.
- She is particularly lethal, single-handedly causing the deaths of nearly everyone in Terminus and killing most of the Wolves herself, even executing one that Morgan had restrained. However, killing is shown to take a toll on Carol with her killing just 18 people causing her to leave Alexandria out of fear of her being forced to take more lives. Nevertheless, Carol wracks up a massive body count over the course of the series, killing without hesitation if provoked to action. In The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, taking place the better part of a decade after her kill count was only just 18 people, Carol tells Ash Patel that she's killed a lot of people, but she remembers every one of them and it never gets any easier for her to live with.
- She has made a ton of morally ambiguous choices like:
- Killing Karen and David and not giving them a chance to fight the Flu. She was later shown to feel remorse for it with Tyreese choosing to forgive her for it after seeing how much killing people hurt Carol.
- Executing Lizzie, a child after she killed her sister and showed clear mental issues. However, this was also not an easy choice for Carol to make and it continues to haunt her. It was motivated by the fact that Lizzie was too dangerous to be around other people, couldn't simply be left on her own, and splitting up the group to have someone watch her was also too dangerous.
- Manipulating the Alexandrians to believe she was weak to have to upper hand on them.
- Killing Owen when he was trying to save Denise though to be fair, she didn't know and simply thought that Denise was still in danger from her kidnapper who had only had a change of heart after violently kidnapping Denise.
- Burning the rogue Saviors to death in their sleep, albeit after she was provoked and had given their leader Jed multiple chances where Carol could've killed him, but didn't. In this case, the Saviors had attacked and robbed Carol and her son only hours before and, presumably, killed some of her friends and stolen their belongings, the latter part of which was the breaking point for Carol who stated that she would've let the attack on her and Henry go otherwise. Jed would desperately claim that they had only found the stuff, but it was never clear if he was telling the truth or not or who else would've killed and robbed Carol's missing friends around that time as the Whisperers hadn't yet arisen as a threat.
- Brutally torturing a Whisperer for information on their horde.
- Lying to Ash Patel that she needs to fly to France to search for her long-dead daughter, causing him to abandon his isolated life. This is particularly despicable as Carol chose this lie because Ash had lost his son, although it's shown to haunt her.
- Her way of surviving is overall pragmatic as she only helps strangers in exchange for something and only let Negan out of the cell so he can kill Alpha and she didn't hold her part of the deal when he succeeded.
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