Donna (TV Series)

"It's alright, leave me here."

- Donna to her husband Allen.

Donna is a survivor of the zombie apocalypse and part of a small group of survivors led by Tyreese. She appeared in the mid-season finale of Season 3, "Made to Suffer", her only episode being alive.

Pre-Apocalypse
Nothing was known about Donna's life before or as the apocalypse first began.

"Made to Suffer"
Donna makes her only appearance in this episode. She, along with her group (led by Tyreese), are getting swarmed by Walkers in the woods surrounding the prison. While the group is fleeing, Donna is grabbed by a Walker and bitten on the arm. Her son, Ben, screams in horror, while her husband, Allen, pulls her away from the Walker and carries her to a destroyed section of the prison. Before entering, Sasha says that Donna will just slow them down, but her husband decides to carry her in anyways. Once inside the prison, Donna's screams are heard by Carl, which eventually leads him to Tyreese's group, where he manages to save them from the Walkers that were attacking them. While Carl leads Tyreese's group back to the cell block where the others are staying, Carl suggests that they leave Donna, to which the group disagrees, and she is carried back to the cell block by Tyreese. Once at the cell block, they lie Donna on the floor, but by this point she had already succumbed to her bite wound and died. Carl volunteers to make sure she doesn't reanimate but Tyreese says that he'll do it, Tyreese attempts to kill her with his hammer, but stops upon realizing that Carl has locked them out of the cell block.

"The Suicide King"
Donna's body is wrapped up in a sheet and carried outside by Allen and Tyreese. The prison survivors informed Tyreese and his group that they could bury Donna near the other graves in the prison yard.

"Prey"
Donna is mentioned by Allen while he is arguing with Tyreese in Woodbury. He talks about how Tyreese saved Donna from Walkers and he became her "Knight in Shining Armor". Allen was very jealous of Tyreese for being so friendly with his wife.

Tyreese and Allen have another argument at the biter pits. When Tyreese insults Allen about why he couldn't save Donna, the two get into a physical alteration.

Killed by
Donna was bitten by a Walker while she was in the forest, and succumbed to her infection that evening after arriving at the prison.
 * Walkers

After Donna died, Tyreese made sure she didn't reanimate by bashing her head in with a hammer.
 * Tyreese (Before Reanimation)

Killed Victims
This list shows the victims Donna has killed.
 * Numerous counts of zombies.

Allen
Allen and Donna were husband and wife and loved each other very much. When Donna was bitten by a Walker and she asked to stay put, Allen refused to let her stay and carried her all the way to the prison where Rick's group was. As the infection began affecting Donna rapidly, Tyreese is forced to put her down. He raises his hammer but is unable to kill her before reanimation. When Tyreese was about to kill an already dead Donna, Allen and his son Ben, looked away and cried.

Ben
Donna and Ben have a basic mother-son relationship. Ben was shown to be distraught after Donna was bitten and looked away when Tyreese killed her before reanimation.

Tyreese
It is mentioned in "Prey" that after Tyreese saved Donna from a Walker, she revered Tyreese as her "knight in shining armor", much to the dismay of Allen.

Trivia

 * Donna shares few similarities with her Comic Series counterpart:
 * Donna is married to Allen and has a family with him.
 * Donna dies as a result of being bitten by a Walker.
 * The TV Series counterpart of Donna appears vastly different from the Donna in the Comic Series:
 * In the Comic Series, Donna is an overweight, blonde-haired, middle-age woman. In the TV Series, Donna is thin, brunette, and appears to be in her mid-to-late 30s.
 * Donna and Allen have two sons in the Comic Series, Billy and Ben, whereas it appears Ben is their only child in the TV Series.
 * In the TV Series, Donna is a member of Tyreese's group, whereas in the Comic Series, she is a member of Rick's group.
 * Looking at the time of the outbreak, TV Series-wise, Donna had been able to survive for a very long time; Comic Series-wise, she had died very early on.