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| “ | I'm not dying... think of it... scientifically... I'm just... evolving... into a different--worse life form. I'll still exist... in some way. Take the supplies... you'll need them to take care of these people. Use what I taught you. Go.
―Stevens to Alice after being bitten.[src]
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Dr. Stevens (first name unknown) is a survivor of the outbreak in Skybound Entertainment's Comic Universe. He is a supporting character in Thomas Dunne Books' The Walking Dead and Image Comics' The Walking Dead. He is the head doctor and a resident of Woodbury.
Overview[]
Stevens is an intelligent, stern, and friendly man. To his patients, he is calm and caring. He immediately befriends Rick despite their initial hostile encounter. He openly shows disgust at the actions of the bloodthirsty Governor and has no qualms insulting him. Despite his disdain, Stevens is unable to do anything to stand up to the Governor knowing the punishments he will face. After being given the opportunity to escape Woodbury, Stevens takes it, though which much sadness knowing some of the residents he will be leaving behind. In his last moments, he immediately accepts his fate and tells his trusted assistant to take his supplies and go help others in need.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Brookhaven, Georgia[]
Dr. Stevens was once an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor who owned a small private medical practice in Brookhaven in Atlanta, Georgia. It's speculated around Woodbury that he was divorced before the outbreak.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Woodbury, Georgia[]
At some point, Stevens arrived in Woodbury and saw all the sickness and malnourished survivors sustaining injuries living throughout the town so he set up and offered his services for free at the Meriwether County Medical Center.
Rise of the Governor[]
"Chaos Theory"[]
After arriving in Woodbury, Brian Blake begins to explore the town and hears the name 'Stevens' and that he is a doctor and gentleman who offered his services to the town several weeks ago after seeing all the malnourished and injured survivors living there. Brian goes to visit him and Stevens takes a look at Brian's wounds he sustained from Philip. He tells him he will be fine and will heal up. Brian offers to pay Stevens but he declined as his services are free. Stevens tells Brian he should get out of the town as fast as he can because of 'Chaos Theory'. Every day they're burning more and more deceased survivors behind the racetrack and due to the town's nature it's eventually destined to fall.
After the town discovers the bodies of Philip, Nick and Bridges' daughter in the woods, Stevens and his assistant, Alice, attend the town meeting in the courthouse. Stevens asks Gene Gavin what it is exactly he wants with everybody to which Gavin yells that he wants their obedience. After Brian kills Gavin, Stevens quickly checks the corpse of Detroit with many other residents and finds no pulse.
The Road to Woodbury[]
"This Is How the World Ends"[]
When Josh's group arrive in Woodbury, Bob Stookey finds himself under the racetrack being given a tour of the infirmary by Stevens and Alice. Bob tells him about his army medic days in Afghanistan. Stevens asks if Bob drinks to which Bob shamefully confirms he's an alcoholic. Stevens tells him to keep drinking, because it's better to be drunk if he's going to live in this town. Bob later introduces Lilly Caul to him and Alice, they attempt to move the body of Josh Hamilton but she screams at them to leave her alone. Stevens later returns alone and consults with Lilly about Josh's death. They take a walk around the town and talk about the Governor and various dictators throughout history. On Christmas, Stevens, Alice, Lilly and Martínez celebrate together where Stevens reveals his horrendous singing voice.
One night, Lilly comes to him, Alice, and Martínez with a plan to end the Governor's reign and assassinate him. Stevens agrees that it is best for the town and joins the others. The plot involves kidnapping him during the big new years arena fight, where the Governor would be loaded into a van and brought out into the woods to be fed to walkers. Stevens and Alice provide a stun gun to the group while Martínez gathers four of his most trusted men to help with the plan. The Governor, Bruce and Gabe are kidnapped but escape from their bonds in the middle of the drive into the woods. Both groups have a Mexican standoff in the back of the van, only to be interrupted by a herd of zombies which attacks them. Both groups decide they need to work together to escape. Back at Woodbury, the Governor holds Lilly and Martínez in a concession room and then calls for Stevens and Alice because of the stun gun. Philip makes a deal with the group to not question him or get involved with his leadership and he'll keep the town safe and not kill them. However the group is forced to chop up dead bodies as punishment and an act of fair dominance, reminding them he could have killed them easily.
The Fall of the Governor - Part One[]
Stevens patches up Christina Haben's wounds after the helicopter crash. He tells her all about Woodbury and how much of a monster the Governor is. This leads to Philip strangling Christina to death when she refuses to stay in the town and calls him out for being a bully. Philip then visits Stevens in his apartment and threatens that the only reason he's not dead is because there's no other doctors in the town.
After the Governor cuts off Rick Grimes' right hand, Stevens bandages his stump and puts him into surgical gowns. He tells Lilly and Austin that he believes Philip attacked the man unprovoked and that the new strangers likely aren't a threat which Lilly isn't fully convinced of causing them to fall out.
The Best Defense[]
Rick is taken to Stevens' office. Stevens inquires about the Governor's bleeding ear, but he says that Rick has to be patched up first. Stevens asks if Rick is one of the arena fighters, the Governor answers that he asks the questions and that Stevens should do his job. Stevens calls Alice Warren, his assistant, to come help because Rick has lost a lot of blood. The Governor's bleeding stops and he leaves. He then says that he wants Rick's riot suit, so Stevens should not damage it. After he leaves, Stevens asks Rick "What have they done to you?"
After Rick wakes up, Stevens says he should have been asleep for a couple more hours, and they try to bring him back to the bed. Suddenly, Rick punches Stevens in the face, and asks who he is, threatening to kill him in the process. Stevens tells Alice to get a sedative, and she injects it into Rick. Stevens tells her to get someone to help move Rick back to his bed.
When Rick wakes up again, he asks Stevens if he is the one who patched him up. Rick says it feels like it's infected, and Stevens says it's not and it's normal. He also asks if Rick is going to attack him again, but he promises he won't. Rick asks for The Governor's real name, and Stevens reveals that his real name is Philip. He also says that he hasn't always been so mean, but he can't do anything to challenge him because he knows what would happen to him if he tried to rebel. Suddenly, The Governor arrives, states that what the doctor said was correct, and Dr. Stevens asks what he wants.
This Sorrowful Life[]
Dr. Stevens is in the middle of treating one of the arena fighters, Harold, when another arena fighter, Eugene Cooney, marched into the clinic and stabbed Harold in the neck for knocking out a good chunk of his teeth, albeit on accident.
After treating Rick's severed hand, the doctor fled town with the aforementioned survivors, along with Alice and Martinez in order to escape the Governor's tyrannical rule. On the way out of the town, a woman by the name of Marianne Williams runs into Stevens. She informs him that her son, Matthew, has a fever. Stevens sadly tells her to make an appointment later, knowing that he will never be back in town.
Stevens barely made it out of the town before he was bitten by a zombie. He was the first one over the fence, but a roamer came up from behind him and bit him. As he was dying, he begged Alice to continue his work by taking care of the group.
The Fall of the Governor - Part Two[]
"Battlefield"[]
After the group escapes, Lilly and Austin find him zombified outside the chain-link fence. Lilly thinks he had second thoughts about leaving while Austin thinks the prison survivors murdered him. Either way, with great sadness, Lilly puts him down. She and Austin spend all day digging a grave and give the best man in Woodbury a proper burial. Later the Governor lies about the circumstances surrounding Stevens' death to the town to further rally them against the prison group.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Zombies (Alive)
As Stevens climbs over one of Woodbury's walls, a biter emerges out the abandoned doorway of McCallum's Feed and Seed behind him and bites Stevens on the neck.
- Lilly Caul (Zombified)
While investigating outside the fence, Lilly finds a zombified Stevens and puts him down.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Dr. Stevens has killed:
- Christina Haben (Indirectly Caused)
- Possibly numerous counts of zombies
Relationships[]
For a more in-depth look at Dr. Steven's relationships, read here: Dr. Stevens (Comic Universe)/Relationships
Allies[]
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Enemies[]
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Appearances[]
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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 |
| Issues | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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| Book Three | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
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| Book Sixteen |
| ✔ | 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[]
- Dr. Stevens is named after Terry Stevens, an artist for Robert Kirkman's Battle Pope.[1]
References[]
- ↑ "[There are two doctors,] Doctor Stephens, mentioned In Issue 2, and Doctor Stevens from Woodbury. The first is named after my family doctor when I was a child ... the other is named after none other than Terry Stevens, my friend and artist on a few of my early projects like Battle Pope Presents: Saint Michael." Issue 47, page 25, "Letter Hacks".