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This article is about the Novel Series character. For other pages with the same name, see: Bobby

P-please, Philly. J-just... do it.
―Bobby asking Philip Blake to kill him.[src]

Bobby Marsh is a main character and one of Philip Blake's old time friends in The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. He is described as "portly with his long greasy brown hair pulled back in a rattail; he is not exactly obese but overweight in his size XXL jeans, definitely the type of guy his high school classmates would call a butterball. He has a "nervous habit of giggling and a practice of using profanity."

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Waynesboro, Georgia[]

Bobby was born in 1971 as an only child, and perhaps because of that, he had clung to friendship. As a teenager, he went to Burke County High School, where he barely managed to make it graduate. He met his two friends there in his first year, Philip Blake and Nick Parsons, whom he used to drink or hang out with until he became an adult. One night in 1995, Bobby and his friends were drunk and sneaked into the Starliter Drive-in Theater out on Waverley Road and broke into a projection booth. He waved his fat little fingers in front of the projector where Top Dog was playing, pranking on making shadow dolls appear on the distant screen. It made his friend Philip laugh so hard that one thought would puke and made him watch the silhouettes of rabbits and ducks cavorting across flickering images of Chuck Norris spin-kicking Nazis. He was also a junior college dropout.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Rise of the Governor[]

"The Hollow Men"[]

Once the dead started rising, Philip Blake picked his two old friends up along with his daughter and brother, and they all started to make their way towards Atlanta for a safe zone. Along the way they stop at the Wiltshire Estates. While at Wiltshire it starts becoming clear that their current base will not suffice long term due to the high amount of zombies, only a few blocks away in the golf course. While outside taking care of the ever increasing hoard, Bobby is bitten by a twelve-year-old child, a former resident of the home they were staying at, who reanimated after hiding in a dog house. Philip panics and orders Nick to help him with Bobby and Brian to go and get bandages. Nick tells Philip that there's no use in trying to save him as he is in agony and a large chunk of his leg is missing. Bobby pleads to be killed and starts reaching for the group's nail gun. While Philip and Nick are arguing, Brian notices that Bobby has died. Philip shoots Bobby in the head seconds after reanimation. The group tells Penny that Bobby had to leave to go and find his family, and didn't have time to say goodbye. The next day Philip and Nick have a small funeral for Bobby while zombies make noise all around the house, causing Philip to go into a short rage. The group then decides to move on towards the rumored Atlanta safe zone.

Death[]

Killed By

While sticking the barricade around the Wiltshire Estates house, Bobby got out of breath and sat down next to a dog house. While sitting down a zombified kid hiding inside bit Bobby.

Just as Bobby began to reanimate, Philip shot him in the head with a nail gun.

Killed Victims[]

This list shows the victims Bobby has killed:

Relationships[]

Philip Blake[]

Bobby and Philip were good friends, even though Philip often got irritated by Bobby's actions. Philip states that some of his best moments was shared with Bobby. His affection for him is further noticed when he tries to reassure Bobby in his final moments.

Nick Parsons[]

Nick was friends with both Bobby and Philip in high school. When the outbreak began, Philip got his family and friends including Bobby in an effort to get to a safe zone. When the group arrives at the Wiltshire Estates, Bobby is bitten by a hidden former resident of the home they were staying at, who reanimated in a dog house. Bobby Marsh then dies and has his brain destroyed by Philip after reanimation. The group, including Nick, decides to move on towards the rumoured Atlanta safe zone after a burial for Bobby.

Appearances[]

Novel Series[]

Rise of the Governor[]

  • "The Hollow Men"
    • "Chapter One"
    • "Chapter Two"
    • "Chapter Three"
    • "Chapter Four"

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