Character from The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (comics), Frank Darabont (TV), Telltale Games
Carol's daughter who vanished in the woods and walked out of Hershel's barn as a walker — the search that defined Season 2 and the loss that forged Carol into who she became.
Sophia barely speaks in the series, but her absence screams. She ran from walkers on the highway and vanished. The group searched for her across several episodes — it became the season's central mission, the proof that these people still valued individual life enough to stop everything for one lost child. She was in the barn the whole time. Hershel knew the barn held walkers but didn't know she was among them. When Shane opened the doors and the walkers spilled out, Sophia was last — small, shuffling, still wearing her rainbow shirt. Rick shot her because nobody else could. Her death changed Carol forever. The meek, abused housewife who wept over her daughter's grave eventually became the most ruthlessly pragmatic survivor in the group, because she swore she would never again be too weak to protect the people she loved.
A small, frightened girl of about twelve with light brown hair and wide, scared eyes. Dressed in a rainbow T-shirt and jeans. As a walker: grey-skinned, slack-jawed, vacant — still wearing the same clothes, still recognizably a child, which is what makes her emergence from the barn so devastating.
Also known as: Sophia, Sophie