Sophia Grimes (Comic Series)

Sophia Peletier is one of the few remaining survivors of the original Atlanta band, and is a young blonde girl who survived with her mother Carol, she is six years old.

Pre-Apocalypse
All that is known about Sophia's life before the zombie apocalypse is that she was the daughter of Ed and Carol Peletier.

After-Apocalypse
After her father committed suicide, Sophia was taken by Carol to see her aunt in Atlanta. The two could not make it into the city, so they stayed at Dale Horvath's camp that he and Andrea and Amy had set up. Also at the camp were a man named Glenn, and a family of four with twin sons that were Sophia's age. Sophia spent most of her time at the camp playing with the twin boys Ben and Billy until a woman named Lori Grimes showed up at camp with her son, and a family friend.

Hershel's Farm
After Carl was shot, Rick and others were led by man named Otis to a farm, which was owned by Hershel Greene.

The Prison
Sophia and her mother were among the survivors that moved into the Prison. At the beginning of this point in the series is when Sophia asks Carl to be her boyfriend, to which he eventually agrees. That time period was particularly difficult for Carol, who saw her relationship with Tyreese disintegrate due to the interference of Michonne. Sophia did not receive a lot of support or attention from her mother at that time and eventually had to deal with the terrible trauma of her suicide. When Tyreese was thought to be dead, having been surrounded and left in a gym full of zombies, Carol commented on the fact that Sophia didn't really register it, and that all the death going on confused her. After Carol's suicide, she remained in a catatonic state for the remainder of her stay at the prison.

Hershel's Farm Redux
After having come across Maggie and Glenn, Rick, Carl and Michonne meet up with the other survivor's who left the prison prior to the Woodbury assault. Carl sees Sophia and tells her that now they both have dead Moms. Sophia says that her Mom isn't dead, and crying in the next room. Sophia had apparently repressed all memories of Carol as her Mother, and now believed Maggie to be her actual biological parent. She still however, remembers Carl and the other members of the group she had met before.

Alexandria Safe-Zone
Along with Carl, Sophia is one of the two remaining children of the group to reach the Alexandria Safe-Zone. She appears to adapt well, as she eagerly participated in a Halloween event for the kids and enjoyed some candy for the first time. She has even taken to calling Glenn her father, though its unknown if she's repressed her memories of her true father or she truly is bonding with him.

Alexandria Safe-Zone Chaos
When a horde of zombies break into the Safety Zone, Maggie and Sophia stay behind in Rick's house, as the group attempts to make an escape. Mainly because both Maggie and Sophia are slow runners and would never make it. Maggie, wanting to protect Sophia, chooses to stay behind. It's not known if she knows about Carl being shot or if he'll survive, or if it'll affect their friendship. After Carl woke up from his coma, she is seen with him reading and asked him about his eye, he tells her that it doesn't hurt as much now. She says that it's unfair that nothing bad happens to her, Carl then snaps at her that both her mom and dad are dead and Glenn and Maggie are just two people who took her in; he then apologises for what he said. She says it's ok and tells him that she knows Glenn and Maggie aren't her real mommy and daddy and that she is just pretending. She later seen running up to Glenn and Maggie when they return, she tells them that she is just pretending that they are her mom and dad and that she isn't scared anymore about the fact that her real mom and dad are dead.

Carl Grimes
Being his childhood "girlfriend", Carl and Sophia seem to get along pretty well. They are often seen kissing and holding hands, and pretty much together having fun. Carl usually protects her from zombies.

Carol Peletier
Carol was her previous and biological mother. After she committed suicide, like her father, Ed, Sophia didn't talk for months. Nowadays, Sophia adopts Maggie Greene as her Mother, and apparently has no memory of Carol as her Mother previously.

Maggie Greene
Maggie adopted Sophia (or she sees herself as her mother) after they and everyone else escaped from the Prison.

Glenn
Since Glenn is married to Maggie Greene, Sophia sees Glenn as her father. Their relationship hasn't been shown to be as strong as Sophia's and Maggie's, but even so Sophia sees him as a father.

Trivia

 * Sophia's last name has never been mentioned in the comic but in TV series (all the original Atlanta survivors' last names came from TV series) but mentioned by Jim, it's Peletier.


 * In the comic, it was never directly stated how Ed Peletier died, Carol merely states that, "He watched his parents die right after everything started to happen. He couldn't deal with it... he just sort of gave up on life... he... y'know." In the TV series, her father Ed Peletier was alive and living with the survivors before being killed in a zombie attack.


 * In AMC's The Walking Dead series, Sophia is twelve years-old. In the comics, she is six when Rick first met her.


 * Another difference between the comics and the television series is Sophia's fate. In the comics, she is still alive and well, whereas she turned into a walker and was subsequently shot and killed by Rick in the second season of the T.V. show.