Lee Everett
Lee Everett | |
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The Walking Dead character | |
First appearance | The Walking Dead (2012) |
Created by | Telltale Games |
Voiced by | Dave Fennoy |
Lee Everett is one of the protagonists of Telltale's
Appearances
Prior to the events of the game, Lee, a native of
The onset of the zombie apocalypse occurs as Lee is being taken to prison to begin serving his life sentence. While Lee was having a conversation with the police officer escorting him to prison, the police car transporting him to prison crashes into a zombie, and he manages to escape after killing the officer who attacked him after being zombified, but he quickly realizes the dire situation he is in. He takes shelter in a nearby suburban home, where he finds young Clementine who has been hiding from the zombies as her parents had left for Savannah some time before the apocalypse. Recognizing that Clementine would remain in danger, he offers to take and protect her, hoping that they will be able to find her parents. He eventually goes with her to the Hershel Greene farm, where they meet a fisherman named Kenny, his wife, Katjaa, and son, Duck. After an accident with walkers claims the life of Hershel's son, Shawn, the five are thrown out and eventually meet with other survivors, and form a small group, though Lee remains subdued about his history. After discovering the fate of his own family in Macon, Lee takes on more of a role of a father figure to Clementine.
After having holed up in a motel for three months with dwindling supplies, the group meets the St. John family, who invite them to dinner at their family dairy. The group agrees to send out a delegation to the St. Johns' farmstead to see if they are trustworthy; however, Lee discovers that the St. Johns have engaged in cannibalism and that they plan to kill and eat his group as well. After surviving the St. Johns, the group is forced to flee the motel from bandits and head to Savannah via a train. En route, Lee starts to help Clementine learn survival skills such as how to use a gun and why she needs to keep her hair short. As they approach the city, Clementine's walkie-talkie goes off, revealing the voice of a man who knows of Lee's actions to this point and promises Clementine that she will be safe with him.
In Savannah, the survivors look for a boat and supplies to flee the mainland. They encounter more survivors, including a doctor called Vernon and a young woman called Molly. With their help, they are able to prepare the boat for their journey. Vernon departs, but remarks that he believes Lee to be an unsuitable guardian for Clementine. The next morning, Lee wakes to find Clementine gone, and while searching for her, he is surprised by a zombie and bitten. With what little time he has, Lee and the other survivors agree to look for Clementine, at first believing her to have been taken by Vernon. Instead, the man on the walkie-talkie reveals that he has kidnapped Clementine, and is at the hotel that her parents would have been at. After entering the now abandoned safehouse of Vernon's group, Lee is given the option of amputating his bitten arm. Either way, Lee and the group are able to escape from the hospital where they make their way back to the house, but find that the boat has been stolen by Vernon and his group. Shortly after the house is overrun with walkers but the group escape into the attic, where they eventually find a way out. Casualties arise while making their way to the hotel, and Lee is separated from Omid and Christa. Barely hanging onto consciousness, Lee makes it to the hotel and meets Clementine's captor, who explains that Lee's group had previously stolen provisions from his family's car, which ultimately led to the death of his wife and children, and goes to question Lee's other decisions and, regardless of whether or not he had joined in taking the provisions from the car, ultimately berates him and plans to kill him and look after Clementine as his own. Lee gets Clementine's help to subdue and kill the man. They make it out of the hotel by covering themselves in walker guts where they discover Clementine's zombified parents before Lee passes out.
When Lee awakens, he is out of strength and barely able to keep conscious, but finds Clementine has dragged him to safety. With his time short, Lee helps Clementine secure keys and a gun to escape the city, and tells her to find Omid and Christa. The player can choose to have Lee instruct Clementine to either shoot him to prevent his reanimation or do nothing and leave him to become a walker (a choice left to the player).[1]
Lee appears in a dream that Clementine has after falling unconscious from being shot during the events of the final episode of Season Two. The dream flashbacks to the time the group has fled the motel after Lilly killed Carley/Doug, and Clementine recalls the advice that Lee gave her about learning to survive and cope in this new reality, considerations that she has to keep in mind once she regains consciousness when faced with Kenny and Jane's growing feud.
Lee appears in another dream during the events of the third episode of The Final Season, with Clementine dreaming of their time on the train to Savannah. Lee helps Clementine gain the confidence she needs to lead an attack on a group of raiders, led by Lilly, to rescue her friends.
Lee appears later again in Clementine where Clementine has a nightmare about him carrying her through a herd of walkers, but he ends up dropping her, causing Clementine to wake up. He later appears in two flashbacks during his first met with Clementine and the time where Lee ask her to shoot him.[a][2]
Concept and creation
Lee first appeared in the 2012 episodic video game
In October 2021, It was revealed that Lee will make an appearance in upcoming graphic novel Clementine by Tillie Walden.
Reception
Lee was acclaimed by critics and fans.
Notes
- ^ As depicted in The Walking Dead: Season One
References
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