Sam (Animal)

Sam is a dog that appears in Telltale Games' The Walking Dead: Season 2.

Pre-Apocalypse
Nothing is known about Sam's life before or as the outbreak began. However Clementine can find a picture of Sam with a family shortly after they meet.

Trivia

 * Before Clementine meets Sam, a sign can be observed on the forest trail that warns of dangerous animals in the forest, foreshadowing the food event between them.
 * It is not an uncommon behavior for dogs to be food aggressive and snap at another animal or person who gets near or takes their food while eating. Food aggression will usually cause a dog to growl or snap, but lunging at a human the way Sam does at Clementine (after initially allowing her to take the food) is abnormal, even for a dog on the verge of starvation.  Sam's unusual behavior is largely a plot device to give Clementine a non-zombie bite.
 * Sam is the first interactive animal in the game, the first to be killed by a survivor and also the first one who attacks a survivor.
 * Clementine receives a scar from Sam's bite, thereby showing that Sam will be remembered through it.
 * Sam could be a reference to Sam from Sam & Max
 * Telltale Games also made a few games based off Sam & Max
 * Sam is the first animal of the Video Game who dies on-screen.