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This article is about the leader of the Hunters. You may be looking for his Road to Survival or TV Series counterparts. For other pages with the same name, see: Chris

The thing is, I want to make this abundantly clear-- we don't do this because we want to. It's important to me that you know that. There aren't a lot of us left-- living people. If there were anything else we could do to get by-- we'd do it. There isn't. Food is scarce... If we weren't doing this, we'd starve to death. I hate to say it, but it's me or you... And whenever that's the situation-- It's very easy to choose me. No offense.
―Chris to Rick Grimes, on why his group became cannibalistic.[src]

Chris is an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in Image Comics' The Walking Dead. He is the leader of the Hunters. He served as the primary antagonist of Volume 11: Fear The Hunters.

Overview[]

As calm as he is ruthless, Chris is the undisputed leader of his group, with all members deferring to him for any major decisions. He is shown to be a competent strategist, effectively stalking the survivors and utilizing scare tactics. Chris is also completely at peace with his group's cannibalistic ways, able to fully justify their actions as a simple necessity for survival. Despite this, Chris does show signs of remorse, going as far as having friendly conversations with his victims to explain his actions, with this apparently being quite important to him. Although it is unclear if any of the children within the group that were cannibalized were his, this decision still visibly haunts him. While intelligent, Chris was also overconfident in his group's abilities, notably underestimating Rick's group, although this was partially driven by desperation due to lack of food. This overconfidence ultimately led to the group's downfall. With the tables turned Chris hypocritically begs for the lives of himself and other members of his group, clearly terrified at the prospect of dying. Like the rest of his group, he would be brutally mutilated to death at the hands of Rick, Andrea, Abraham, and Michonne.

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Not much is known about Chris's life prior to or as the outbreak began. He may have known the other members of the Hunters before the apocalypse occurred. It is also possible he had children.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Fear The Hunters[]

The Hunters started out as a regular group of survivors but, as food became scarce, they resorted to cannibalism. Chris reasoned that hunting animals was a waste of time and that humans would be much easier to hunt and kill. They normally hunted down small groups of survivors and isolated ones, and avoided larger groups. Soon after, they had no luck tracking down small groups of survivors, and they resorted to hunting down Rick's Group because they were getting desperate and needed food.

Chris and the Hunters successfully captured Dale in the middle of the night as he was leaving to die due to a zombie bite he received earlier in the day. After learning the fact that Dale was "tainted meat" because of his wound, Chris and the Hunters beat him and decided to leave Dale in front of the church that Rick's Group were staying at. As their targets carried Dale away, The Hunters resorted to shooting Glenn in the leg, believing that the survivors would be easier targets if they were scared.

Rick's group eventually discovered Chris and the other hunters in an abandoned neighborhood. Negotiations were attempted by Rick Grimes in order to get the Hunters to stop targeting their group. Rick also found out the Hunters had eaten their own children. This was the only time Chris showed signs of remorse (hinting that it was his own children they ate), but justified it by saying it was to survive, as animals in the wild (bears in this instance) would eat their own young if they would otherwise starve to death.

In the end, Chris and the other Hunters were mutilated and beaten to death by Rick and the others to avenge what they had done to Dale and all of their previous victims. Then, his body was later burned, along with the rest of his group.

Death[]

Killed By

After getting his finger shot off by Andrea, Chris and the Hunters forcefully had their weapons taken away by Abraham. Despite surrendering to Rick and begging for his life, Chris and the other Hunters are mutilated and beaten to death.

Killed Victims[]

This list shows the victims Chris has killed:

  • Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people

Relationships[]

Allies[]

Enemies[]

Appearances[]

Issues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten
Book Eleven
Book Twelve
Book Thirteen
Book Fourteen
Book Fifteen
Book Sixteen
Appears Voice is heard
👁 Appears with no lines Appears in a flashback
Appears as a walker 🖼 Appears in a photograph/video
Appears as a corpse Appears in a hallucination/dream

Trivia[]

  • Robert Kirkman answered the question whether naming characters the same name, Billy, Eugene, Chris, Bruce, Eric, and Jim, was an oversight: "It's not oversight at all. It's completely unrealistic for a group of people to meet at random and never encounter the same names."
  • Chris likely is one of the Hunters who had a child or children, since when he tells Rick they had to eat their children, he started to cry.

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