Character from The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (comics), Frank Darabont (TV), Telltale Games
Hershel's youngest daughter who survived on optimism and folk songs — a quiet ember of hope in a world that kept trying to snuff it out, until Grady Memorial proved that not all prisons have walkers.
Beth started as the girl who tried to kill herself at the farm — overwhelmed, despairing, convinced the world wasn't worth surviving in. Her transformation isn't into a warrior but into something harder to achieve: an optimist in hell. She chose to believe that people are worth saving, that songs matter, that tenderness isn't weakness. Her time alone with Daryl after the prison's fall is the show's most unlikely friendship — the feral redneck and the farmer's daughter, burning down a moonshine shack together while learning each other's damage. She forced Daryl to grieve. He taught her to fight. Both were better for it. At Grady Memorial, she found a different kind of apocalypse: a functioning hospital run by cops who'd created a slavery system under the guise of rescue. Her decision to stab Dawn Lerner — knowing it would get her killed — wasn't despair. It was the bravest, most futile act of defiance in the series.
Small and blonde with wide blue eyes and a delicate frame that makes people underestimate her constantly. Young-looking even by post-apocalyptic standards. Wears simple, practical clothing. Her most distinctive feature is her voice — clear and carrying when she sings, which she does for comfort and defiance in equal measure.
Also known as: Beth, Beth Greene, Bethy