Location from The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (comics), Frank Darabont (TV), Telltale Games
The Governor's walled town that looked like small-town America survived the apocalypse — barbecues, cold drinks, and Saturday fights, with a tyrant behind the curtain and fish tanks full of severed heads in his apartment.
Woodbury is designed to make you forget. The generators hum. The drinks are cold. Someone's playing music. The buildings are maintained and the streets are clean. It feels like the apocalypse happened somewhere else and this little town was just lucky. The illusion is maintained by ignorance and fear in equal measure. The residents don't know about the Governor's interrogation room, or the fights where captured outsiders are thrown into a ring with chained walkers for entertainment. They don't know because they don't ask, and the ones who ask are the ones who disappear. Woodbury is the show's clearest statement about the cost of safety: you can have walls, food, and normalcy if you're willing to not look behind the curtain.
A small Georgia town converted into a fortified settlement: main street buildings repurposed as housing, shops, and a medical clinic. Walls constructed from vehicles, concrete barriers, and wooden palisades surround the town. Street lamps are powered by generators. There's a picnic area, a barbecue grill, and what passes for a town square. The Governor's apartment is above the main hall — inside, a chair faces a wall of illuminated aquariums containing severed walker heads.
Also known as: Woodbury