12 Best Character Arcs In The Walking Dead

12. Ezekiel

The leader of the Kingdom, Ezekiel was always one of the oddest characters in The Walking Dead. He spoke as if he lived in a Shakespeare play and called himself king, leading his close-knit community as if it were a medieval village. Under the eccentricities, though, there proved to be a normal man, deeply changed by the new world.

Ezekiel was jovial, a great leader and motivator who formed a bond with Carol Peletier and refused to see the world in an overly negative, pessimistic way. During the war against Negan, his confidence began to waver and he slipped into a depression until Carol and Rick Grimes came along and brought him back to reality.

Most recently, he has seen his brief marriage to Carol come to an end after the brutal murder of their adoptive son, Henry, and later learned he has cancer. As of this writing, his days seem numbered, but Ezekiel's upbeat nature and hopeful outlook on the future has never completely vanished, and his story has been great to see play out.