This article is about the Novel Series character. For other pages with the same name, see: Ben |
“ | Goddam herds are like amoebas, growing, separating, splitting off into multiple herds. Can't get a goddamn break with these things. Getting worse every day.
―Ben about the herds.[src]
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Ben Buchholz is a main character first encountered in The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor. He was the machine gun operator during the prison assault. He is described as a "pouchy-eyed and broken-down man of fifty-some years under his tattered golf shirt buttoned up to his wattled neck." "The loss of his entire family the previous year has never truly left his rheumy, watery eyes."
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Nashville, Tennessee[]
Ben was once a cadet of the Army ROTC program at Vanderbilt University, where he learned long-distance target shooting. He was confident to be able to take down a headshot at a hundred and seventy-five yards. It is unknown whether he served in the U.S. Military.
Pine Mountain, Georgia[]
After that, he has been a family man who lives in Pine Mountain.
Post-Apocalypse[]
It is unknown when Ben made it to Woodbury. He lost his whole family in a swarm outside F.D. Roosevelt State Park a year before the prison assault and seemed to be flashing back to that earlier trauma.
The Fall of the Governor[]
"Doomsday Clock"[]
Ben participates in the attack on the prison, as a machine gun operator.
"The Fall"[]
After the fall of the prison, Ben and a small group of surviving soldiers hole up in the prison to regroup, Ben along with Lilly and Matthew barricade the door. As they count their ammo Ben has eleven 115-grain 9mm rounds for his Glock 19. Later on during the night, Ben comes out half asleep when Gloria sees the bite on Austin's wrist. Ben goes with his knifes along with Lilly and Matthew to search the corridor. The next day when Lilly leads the survivors out of the prison. They are led safely back to Woodbury by Lilly Caul, who becomes the new leader of the town.
Descent[]
Ben together with Bob and Hap goes on a supply run to gather medicine for Meredith, when they did not find anything in the building, they decided to enter the basement where they discovered a mysterious door that turned out to be locked, when Bob managed to break down the door, a walker crawled out and latches onto Hap's ankle. When Hap decided he wanted to kill himself after he was bitten, Ben accepted it but Bob desperately tried to save Hap. Later in the night Ben and the rest of Woodbury held a funeral for Hap.
After the Church group try to take their lives in a suicide pact, part of their plan was to blow the gates of Woodbury which led a superherd into Woodbury, and poison the Woodburians. The poison was swapped out with water by Bob and so nobody died peacefully and instead Ben along with almost all remaining Woodbury residents and most of the church group were painfully devoured by the herd.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Pentecostal People of God (Caused)
- Zombies
While drunk, Ben, along with most of the remaining Woodbury residents, was devoured by the superherd of walkers lead by the Pentecostal People of God.
Appearances[]
Novel SeriesThe Fall of the Governor - Part Two
Descent
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Novels | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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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[]
- It is implied that Ben was an alcoholic.
- Ben is one of six Woodburians to survive the prison assault along with Lilly Caul, Hap Abernathy, Matthew Hennesey, Gloria Pyne and Speed Wilkins.