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I love you, mom.
―Tommy's last word to Lilly.[src]

Thomas Dupree, better known as Tommy, is a main character who first appeared in The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor. He is the eldest son of Duprees, the refugee family who came to Woodbury. After the death of his parents, he quickly became Lilly Caul's surrogate son, also her right hand and an important ally, despite his young age. He is described as "a miniature version of his father; he is a wiry, fair-haired kid with a ruddy face that displays emotions readily and openly, his huge brown eyes full of intelligence and vigor."

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Mobile, Alabama[]

Thomas was born in 1992 to Meredith and Calvin Dupree as the eldest of three children. He was raised in a lower-class household with his sister, Bethany, and brother, Lucas, under his fundamentalist Christian parents. Unlike his family, he was secretly an atheist himself, sometimes annoyed with his father's Jesus talk and the praying and the God stuff. He grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons, especially The Road Runner Show. He remembered the Road Runner occasionally going over a cliff, perhaps on a boulder or a log, and at the very last possible instant (as the boulder is about to crash to earth) executing a graceful little jeté and hopping off the rock at the perfect moment to land safely next to the enormous crater formed by the impact.

As a child, he slept alone at night while trying to ignore the bloated darkness behind his open closet door in his bedroom. The more he tried to ignore that darkness, the more terrifying that half-open sliding door—and the unknown shadows behind it—would become.

In the early 2000s, he attended Rolling Acres grade school, where the kids made fun of him because he was poor and had to wear those Kmart tennis shoes all the time. As his parents went bankrupt, he went to summer landscaping jobs, commandeering the riding mower until his neck blistered in the sun and his arms seized up with cramps, hard-working even in his youth, all to help them dig their way out of it and maybe to also thumb his nose at the schoolkids who bullied him.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Southern United States[]

As the outbreak began, Tommy and his family moved for a long time around Alabama and Georgia while he had been putting through the mill. They were kicked out of two other settlements, including the KOA camp. People don't have the luxury of being sympathetic or Christian about it nowadays as it's survival of the fittest, being paranoid and ignorant when they found out about his mother's condition.

The Fall of the Governor - Part Two[]

"The Fall"[]

After taking leadership of the town of Woodbury following the death of Brian BlakeLilly Caul begins welcoming refugees into the town. She soon meets the Duprees, including Tommy.

Descent[]

Tommy continues his life in Woodbury, along with his family. It is quickly seen that Tommy has hardened during the apocalypse, as he kills his father in order to save Lilly and Bob. Tommy survives the attack of Pentecostal People of God with several others, and move to near-by sewers since Woodbury is flooded with the undead.

Invasion[]

Tommy continues his life in sewers. After Jeremiah commits his final attack, Tommy turns out to be a vital part of winning the war since he is able to control heavy arsenal. He lures walkers away from the survivors and is almost trapped inside the crane, but is saved by David. Tommy survives the attack.

Search and Destroy[]

A little over a year passes after the final attack of Jeremiah, and now 14-year-old Tommy continues his life in Woodbury. He is seen as part of railroad work crew. Tommy, along with his crew, returns to Woodbury only to discover that the town has been under an attack, and almost every adult has been killed and children have been kidnapped. After hearing from David that his siblings are missing, Tommy joins Lilly in her rescue team to get their people back from the kidnappers.

Only Lilly and Tommy make it to the Medical Center and find the children. The group are soon surrounded by the Center's inhabitants. The leader of the research team, Nalls, tells Lilly they need healthy children to develop a cure for the zombie plague. Lilly slowly gains his trust and offers herself to be the test subject instead of the children. Tommy takes his siblings and the rest of the children with him and leaves the center.

Six months later Lilly is able to escape and finds now 15-year-old Tommy inhabiting a large store. He has become highly skilled with horses and in surviving.

Return to Woodbury[]

Tommy continues his life in the Ikea, and shows Lilly loyalty by joining her in the trip to Woodbury.

Tommy later saves his people from Spencer-Lee Dryden, shooting him through the neck from behind with his rifle and attempting to lower a rope into the pit to pull them out. However, Tommy, who has appeared sickly since killing Spencer, falls into the pit and is revealed to have been bitten on the arm which he explains happened by a small zombie on his way through Woodbury. Tommy refuses amputation, knowing that it's already too late and asks Lilly to be the one to put him down. After Spencer reanimates and bites Lilly, Tommy decides to amputate her leg himself when Ashley Duart can't bring herself to do it. Beforehand, Tommy tells Lilly that he loves her and calls Lilly Mom for the first time. Shortly after the amputation, Tommy succumbs to the infection and dies, and Ashley shoots him in the head with a gun taken from Spencer's body to keep Tommy from reanimating.

After the Woodburians figure out a way out of the pit, Tommy's body is lifted out on a stretcher to be given a proper burial a month later.

Death[]

Killed By

After being separated from the group, Tommy saves his fellow survivors by killing Spencer-Lee Dryden. He then goes to find some rope to get the others out of the pit where Dryden trapped them. A while passes, and Tommy gets back but falls down to the pit due to his dizziness, and soon Lilly figures out Tommy had been bitten. Tommy refuses amputation and cuts Lilly's infected foot off to save her life. Ashley puts Tommy down soon after this and he is given a funeral a month later.

Killed Victims[]

This list shows the victims Tommy has killed:

Appearances[]

Novel Series

The Fall of the Governor - Part Two

Descent

  • "Lake of Fire"
    • "Chapter One"
    • "Chapter Two"
    • "Chapter Five"
    • "Chapter Six"
  • "The Labyrinth"
    • "Chapter Seven"
    • "Chapter Eight"
    • "Chapter Ten"
    • "Chapter Eleven"
    • "Chapter Fifteen"
    • "Chapter Sixteen"
    • "Chapter Seventeen"
    • "Chapter Eighteen"
    • "Chapter Nineteen"
  • "Last Rites"
    • "Chapter Twenty-One"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Two"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Three"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Five"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Six"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Seven"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Eight"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Nine"

Invasion

Search and Destroy

  • "Stone Soup"
    • "Chapter One"
    • "Chapter Two"
    • "Chapter Three"
    • "Chapter Four"
  • "Scorched Earth"
    • "Chapter Five"
    • "Chapter Six"
    • "Chapter Seven"
    • "Chapter Eight"
    • "Chapter Nine"
  • "Nightshade"
    • "Chapter Ten"
    • "Chapter Eleven"
    • "Chapter Twelve"
    • "Chapter Thirteen"
    • "Chapter Fourteen"
    • "Chapter Fifteen"
  • "Perchance To Dream"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Four"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Five"

Return to Woodbury

  • "Exodus"
    • "Chapter One"
    • "Chapter Three"
    • "Chapter Four"
    • "Chapter Five"
    • "Chapter Six"
  • "Welcome to the Terrordome"
    • "Chapter Seven"
    • "Chapter Eight"
    • "Chapter Nine"
    • "Chapter Ten"
    • "Chapter Eleven"
  • "The Sky Is Bleeding"
    • "Chapter Thirteen"
    • "Chapter Fourteen"
    • "Chapter Fifteen"
    • "Chapter Twenty"
    • "Chapter Twenty-One"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Two"
    • "Chapter Twenty-Three"

Novels 1 2 3 4 5
Rise of the Governor
The Road to Woodbury
The Fall of the Governor
Descent
Invasion
Search and Destroy
Return to Woodbury
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[]

  • In a conversation with Barbara, Tommy reveals he is an atheist.

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