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This article is about the TV Series character. You may be looking for his Comic Series counterpart. For other pages with the same name, see: Ed

Nothin' that concerns you. And you ought to focus on your work. This ain't no comedy club.
―Ed to Andrea about her and the other women making jokes and not focusing on their work.[src]

Ed Peletier is an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. During the initial outbreak, he evacuated to Atlanta with his abused wife Carol Peletier and his daughter Sophia Peletier. They eventually found a camp of survivors and joined their group. He served as the primary antagonist of the episode "Tell It to the Frogs".

Overview[]

Ed was a boorish, surly, combustible, abrasive, compassionless, misogynistic and vicious bully who was brazenly violent and abusive to his wife and implied to be violent to his daughter as well -- as while threatening to kill him in response to him hitting Carol, Shane also mentioned that if he put his hands on Sophia again, he'd kill him for that as well. At one point Ed started an argument with the women of the camp that was completely unprovoked and brazenly threatened to hit Andrea; he would also often verbally abuse and harass the other women of the group. Carol reveals that the controlling bully would try and assert his dominance by not allowing her to wear attractive clothing. In "Omega," Carol's adopted son Henry tells Daryl Dixon that he overheard Carol telling Ezekiel that whenever she tried to get away from Ed, he would use her long hair to pull Carol back to him and abuse her more. Carol subsequently kept her hair short to prevent this and the trauma of Ed's abuse would cause her to keep her hair short for years after his death before she would feel safe enough to let it grow long again.

Ed was revealed to have paid very little attention to his daughter Sophia and when she was an infant he would often stay at a friend's house, leaving Carol to care for Sophia. While never elaborated on, it's hinted that Ed had a predatory sexual relationship with his daughter as Carol stated in a prayer in "What Lies Ahead" that she wished Ed to be punished for not only abusing her but also "for looking at his own daughter, whatever sickness was growing in his soul." Lori Grimes, who was sitting beside Carol during the prayer, reacted noticeably.

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Douglas County, Georgia[]

Ed never attended college and grew up as an uneducated and abusive individual. In his younger years, he charmed Carol enough to convince her to date and eventually marry him. They had a daughter together, who was named Sophia. He rarely paid attention to Sophia, often relying on Carol to be the parental figure of the family. When Sophia was an infant, Ed resorted to staying at a friend's house nights on end, leaving Carol to deal with Sophia by herself.

Ed dominated Carol throughout their marriage, from preventing her from buying her own clothes, to physically and verbally assaulting her in order to solidify his authority. At one point, Ed grabbed Carol by her hair and slammed her head against the wall, an event which would cause her to cut off all of her hair.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Metro-Atlanta, Georgia[]

During the onset of the outbreak, Ed and his family traveled towards a supposedly safe-zone in Atlanta. On the way, they got caught in a traffic jam and met Shane, Lori, and Carl. While on the road, Ed became angry when Carol offered a snack to Lori so her son could eat, and ordered her not to share with anyone. Sometime after the city was napalmed by the military, they formed a campsite outside the outskirts of Atlanta, along with other survivors.

TV Series[]

Season 1[]

Content
"Tell It to the Frogs"

Ed watches as Shane, Dale Horvath, and Jim work together to remove the battery from the car Glenn Rhee has brought to the camp after returning from the scavenge mission in Atlanta. That night, as newcomer Rick Grimes talks with his family and other members of the group, Ed starts a fire in an attempt to receive some warmth from the cold night and after Shane asks him to dim it down to embers, he refuses. However, Carol does it to keep things peacefully.

The next day, Ed watches with the other camp members when Daryl Dixon is informed that his brother Merle was left behind on a rooftop in a building. He then takes over as lookout and watches the camp from the roof of the RV. Later that day, Ed notices as Carol, Andrea, Amy, and Jacqui start joking and chatting while doing laundry in the quarry. He comes over and orders them to be quiet and to resume their chores. After Andrea and Jacqui confront him, Ed responds with hostility and then orders Carol to come with him, despite the women trying to stop her.

When Carol refuses to leave and instead tries to calm him down, Ed smacks her hard across the face. Shane, who witnesses this from afar, becomes infuriated and, due to having accumulated rage, grabs Ed and savagely beats him while warning him that if he ever hit Carol, Sophia, or another woman, Shane would beat him to death. He then delivers a final blow to him and walks away as a sobbing Carol tends to her injured husband.

"Vatos"

Ed thereafter remained in his tent for the remainder of the day, recovering from the injuries inflicted by Shane. When Carol invites him to join the group's fish fry, he angrily rejects her, and instead grabs Sophia's arm and asks her to stay to keep him company. Carol, indignant by the morbid proposal, stands her ground and leaves the tent with her daughter. That night, Ed is napping when he is awakened by rustling outside his tent. He opens the tent to demand to be left alone but is promptly attacked by a group of walkers and devoured.

"Wildfire"

Following the attack on the camp, Ed's body is found in his tent and is laid out by the survivors with the rest of their dead. When Daryl is going to impale his head with a pickaxe to prevent reanimation, Carol stops him, stating that she would do it, as he was her husband. She then swings down at Ed's bloody and mangled body several times, releasing years of contained anger and rage, before breaking down. He is then buried on the hillside with the others.

Season 2[]

Content
"Chupacabra"

In a flashback during the early days of the outbreak, Ed and his family meet Lori, Carl Grimes, and Shane, on a congested highway. When Carol tries to share a snack from their supplies to Carl, he angrily stops her and then berates her for trying to give away their food to strangers, reminding her their family is the priority.

Death[]

Killed By

As Ed is sleeping, he hears something outside his tent. He assumes that its someone bothering him and opens the tent, only to discover a walker. It manages to force itself inside Ed's tent, biting him on the neck before being joined by other walkers who devour him.

Following the attack, as the remaining survivors clean up the camp, Daryl is about to put down Ed's corpse but Carol comes over and decides to do it instead using a pickaxe.

Killed Victims[]

This list shows the victims Ed has killed:

Relationships[]

For a more in-depth look at Ed's relationships, read here: Ed Peletier (TV Series)/Relationships

Allies[]

Enemies[]

Appearances[]

Episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
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Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
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[]

  • In the episode "Vatos", it was implied that Ed may have a history of sexual abuse towards Sophia. This is never explored however, as his death followed almost immediately.
    • This is further supported by Carol's words in "What Lies Ahead", after Sophia's disappearance. In the church, Carol said praying for Ed's death was a sin, even though he looked at his own daughter "with whatever sickness was growing in his soul".
  • Ed is the first character to be killed by walkers and the first member of the original Atlanta group to die.
  • Ed is the first supporting character to outlive his comic book counterpart, with the second being Scott, the third being Tobin, the fourth being Kal, the fifth being Bruce, the sixth being Luke Abrams.
    • Of these seven, Ed is the only one whose comic counterpart never appeared physically, as Carol's husband in the Comic Series died prior to her family joining the camp.
  • Despite dying in Season 1 of the TV Series, Ed has been mentioned at least once in every season thus far, usually by Carol.
    • In "Omega", after realizing that Daryl is likely a victim of abuse, Carol's adopted son Henry tells Daryl that he once overheard Carol telling Ezekiel about why she always kept her hair short. According to Carol, whenever she tried to escape Ed, he would use her long hair to pull Carol back to him and abuse her more. Carol cut her hair short as a defense mechanism to protect herself from Ed's abuse. The trauma Ed left her with persisted for so long after his death that it took Carol years to feel safe enough to let her hair grow long again.
  • Ed is Carol Peletier's first named human kill in the TV Series, as she put him down before reanimation.

International Dubbers[]

Language Dubber Other Characters Voiced
Czech Bohdan Tůma Tony
Tobin
Emmett Carson
Jerry
Potter
Roy (9)
Duncan
Henderson
Moyers
Willy
Emile LaRoux
French Olivier Cordina N/A
German Frank Schröder N/A
Hungarian Barabás Kiss Zoltán N/A
Italian Pasquale Anselmo Eastman
John
Japanese N/A N/A
Portuguese Fritz Gianvito N/A
Spanish (Latin America) Ariel Cister Mitch Dolgen
Bud
Gunther
Spanish (Spain) David García Vázquez Christopher's Father
Gregory

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