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Alice, previously an
interior design student, is a fast learner and, while living in Woodbury, is Dr. Stevens' assistant. She chooses to leave Woodbury with Rick and thereafter becomes the de facto physician of Rick's group and helps deliver Lori's baby. While attempting to cover Rick and Lori in their escape, she is personally killed by a vengeful Governor during the assault on the prison. • :
Series Lifespan: #29–48 •
Bob Stookey is the local town drunk of Woodbury. Forty years prior to the series, he was supposedly an army medic. His minor role expands significantly when he saves the Governor's life. He is called upon by Gabe and Bruce to save the Governor when Alice and Dr. Stevens, the only town medics have fled and Michonne almost tortures the Governor to death. After a slow recovery, the Governor personally asks him to watch over his zombie daughter until the Woodbury army returns from killing the prison survivors. In
The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor, it is revealed that Bob is alive and continues to live in Woodbury along with Lilly Caul and the group of refugees she has taken in. • :
Series Lifespan: #29–43 •
Lilly Caul is an angry brunette woman from Woodbury who participated in the prison assault. Before Woodbury, she was a survivor with her father, who sacrificed himself to save her. Lilly's back story is told in the novel
The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury. She is ordered by the Governor to kill Lori who is protecting baby Judith. After shooting them, she discovers that the Governor forced her to kill a baby, and she becomes extremely distraught. When a large crowd of zombies breaks through into the prison yard, Lilly kills the Governor while he's gathering them up, and she throws his body to the hordes while attempting to lead the remnant of the Woodbury survivors into the prison. The prison becomes overrun with zombies, but it is ultimately unknown what becomes of any of them. Robert Kirkman announced that Lilly Caul is not the same character as the Lilly from the
Walking Dead video game. Lilly's fate is revealed in
The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor, where she escapes the prison, leading a small group of surviving Woodbury soldiers back to the safety of the town. She becomes the
de facto leader of Woodbury, and takes in a new group of refugees to live in the town with the original residents. • :
Series Lifespan: #46–48 •
Bruce Cooper was the Governor's right-hand man and one of his best friends. An intimidating, muscular figure, Bruce is tall and bald, but has a short goatee. He is shown as trusting of the Governor to do whatever is necessary for the survival and prosperity of Woodbury, whether it means violence and brutality against those who disagree or run the wrong way with them. He is extremely loyal to the Governor, displaying this trait when he nearly killed Glenn without any hesitancy under orders from the Governor. When Rick's group ventured out to loot Woodbury's Wal-Mart in preparation for an attack, Bruce led a small team to confront them; he is then shot in the neck by Andrea and left for dead. the Governor later discovers him alive, barely, choking on his own blood but managing to give his boss info on the survivor's actions before Phillip shoots him, to prevent reanimation. • :
Series Lifespan: #27–43 •
Gabriel Harris (or Gabe) was the other enforcer most loyal to the Governor and another one of his closest friends. Gabe is described as a short, stocky man and seems extremely obedient toward the Governor, albeit hesitant and doubtful of some of the Governor's actions. He becomes the Governor's chief confidant after Bruce's death, organising Woodbury against the prison community. He accompanies the Governor almost everywhere. He leads the scout parties and is responsible for discovering the prison's location, as well as the capture and torture of Tyreese, handing him over to the Governor to use as leverage. Gabe is second in command at the latter prison assaults. At the end he becomes weary of the battle, and is shot by Andrea when she returns with the RV. • :
Series Lifespan: #27–47 •
The Governor (or Philip Blake / Brian Blake) was the leader of Woodbury. He turns on Ricks group and imprisons them. Attempting to find the location of the prison where Rick's group have found shelter he cuts off Rick's hand, mentally tortures Glenn, and has Michonne restrained, stripped and repeatedly
raped To learn the location of the prison, the Governor allows the survivors to escape the premises with the help of one of his guards. However, Michonne stays behind and finds her way to his apartment, where she manages to tie him up and torture him with various implements, dismembering and disfiguring him. He loses his right arm, his fingernails, his right ear, his testicles, and his left eye. The Governor survives and eventually finds the prison. When the first attack on the prison fails leading to retreat. After a failed later attempt to gain his way into the prison by using Tyreese as a hostage, the Governor crushes the fences with a tank. A bloody massacre ensues killing most of Ricks group forcing the remaining members to flee. After the battle tensions rise within his group, as the ammunition they have remaining is limited and a handful of their own moral consciences come into play. The Governor forces Lilly to kill Judith and Lori, and Lilly, who sees an opportunity to end the Governor's reign, shoots him in the head and kicks him into a group of roamers. • :
Series Lifespan: #27–48, #72 (flashback), #75 (canon) •
Penny Blake was the daughter of The Governor who has been zombified by the time the comic starts. The Governor keeps her locked in his apartment and feeds her human remains. • :
Series Lifespan: #29–44, •
Caesar Ramon Martinez was the man who conducted Rick, Glenn, and Michonne's entry to Woodbury. He later helped Rick's party escape and fight their way back to the prison. After assisting Rick's party in escaping, Martinez betrays them by sneaking out of the prison to go tell the Governor its location so that he may capture and kill everyone inside. During his run back to Woodbury, Rick runs him down in the RV and then strangles him to death. Caesar's reanimated body is discovered by a Woodbury scouting party, and his head is brought back to Woodbury, to manipulate people to turn them against the people of the prison. He is put down by Lilly Caul upon the latter's return to Woodbury. • :
Series Lifespan: #27–36, #43 (as a zombie), #75 (canon) •
Dr. Stevens was Woodbury's primary doctor. While he resents working for the Governor, he understands that he would be killed if he did not cooperate. He tends to Rick's severed hand, being responsible for his recovery. While escaping Woodbury with the others, he is bitten and presumed to be a zombie. In
The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor Lilly discovers he has turned into a zombie. She kills him and buries him. • :
Series Lifespan: #28–32 •
Marianne Dolan Williams is a resident of Woodbury, and the mother of
Matthew Williams. She approaches Dr. Stevens as the former is attempting to escape from Woodbury with Rick's party, hoping to schedule an appointment with him for Matthew, who has recently taken ill. Dr. Stevens tells her to reschedule, even though he knows he will never return to Woodbury. It is revealed in
The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor that Marianne Dolan Williams is still alive and continues to live in Woodbury under the leadership of Lilly Caul. • :
Series Lifespan: #32 •
Hap Abernathy is a member of the Woodbury Army, who participated in the assault on the prison. After the prison becomes overrun by Walkers, he and a small group of surviving soldiers are led safely back to Woodbury by Lilly Caul. • :
Series Lifespan: #48 •
Gloria Pyne is a member of the Woodbury Army. She looks for Tyreese and Michonne after they escaped. In
The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor, it is revealed that Gloria and a small group of surviving Woodbury soldiers had been led safely back to Woodbury by Lilly Caul, who has now assumed leadership of the town. • :
Series Lifespan: #45 == Post-prison survivors ==