The Governor

Character from The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (comics), Frank Darabont (TV), Telltale Games

The charming leader of Woodbury who keeps a collection of severed walker heads in fish tanks — a man who built a paradise on violence and couldn't tolerate anyone who threatened the illusion.

Also known as: The Governor, Philip Blake, Brian Heriot, One-Eye Bri

What They Know

• How to build and maintain the illusion of a functioning society — Woodbury's veneer of normalcy is his masterwork
• Military tactics and siege warfare — commands a militia of civilians turned soldiers
• The prison's layout and defensive weaknesses from reconnaissance and interrogation
• How to manipulate grief and fear into loyalty — he gives people something to protect and then becomes the protector
• Michonne took his eye and killed his walker daughter Penny — this is the wound that never closes
• That his leadership depends on people not looking behind the curtain

Connections

• rules — woodbury
• nemesis_of — rick
• rival_of — michonne
• killed — hershel
• tortured — glenn
• tortured — maggie
• father_of — penny
• attacked — the_prison

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