This article is about the Comic Universe character. You may be looking for his Match 3 Tales or Survivors counterpart. For other pages with the same name, see: Eugene |
“ | We're supposed to put on a fucking show, you asshole! We get out there--avoid the biters--rough each other up! It's a show! Sometimes we get hurt--sometimes we don't! It's always just a cracked rib--or some busted knuckles!! Never something permanent! You knocked out my fucking teeth, you asshole! I can't get those fixed! I can't replace them! I'm fucking toothless now!!
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Eugene Cooney is a survivor of the outbreak in Skybound Entertainment's Comic Universe. He is a minor character in Thomas Dunne Books' The Walking Dead and a minor antagonist in Image Comics' The Walking Dead. He is a resident and a cage fighter of Woodbury. He is described as "a toothless, tank-shaped man with a shaved head" and "crusty, scabrous and subliterate". "He wears secondhand football pads over his iron-girder shoulders, and carries a bloodstained bat wound with reams of tape."
Overview[]
Eugene is extremely ill tempered with homicidal tendencies, making him one of Woodbury's best fighters. However, this also causes him to be extremely hostile and dangerous. After Harold accidentally knocks out Eugene's teeth during one of their fights, he becomes enraged and proceeds to kill Harold with no remorse.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Location Unknown[]
Not much is known about Eugene's life prior to or as the outbreak began. It is possible he was already a resident living at Woodbury.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Woodbury, Georgia[]
At some point after the outbreak began, Eugene became a guard in Woodbury.
The Road to Woodbury[]
"This Is How the World Ends"[]
Eugene is first seen with Travis helping gather biters for the big arena fight. Travis backs his truck up against the fence and Eugene gets out with a grunt to open the vertical door and lower the ramp. Soon after, Dr. Stevens arrives with one of the National Guardsmen, Stinson, who is placed in the back of the truck as bait and devoured.
At some point Eugene volunteers to fight in the arena for entertainment as a staged performance.
The Best Defense[]
Eugene is first seen fighting Harold in the Woodbury arena, where he gets his teeth knocked out when Harold hits him with a crowbar.
This Sorrowful Life[]
Enraged, Eugene later confronts Harold in Dr. Stevens' office, protesting that the fights are meant to be staged, but Harold knocked out his teeth. Though Harold tries to get him to calm down, Eugene ultimately stabs him in the neck.
Due to the death of Harold, the Governor finds himself a fighter short, so he makes a deal with Michonne (whom he's been brutally raping): if she fights Eugene, he will let her rest for a week. The Governor allows Michonne to use her sword, since the crowd won't like seeing a man beat up a woman, but tells her that she isn't allowed to kill Eugene. When the match starts, Michonne kicks Eugene in the groin and immediately decapitates him, horrifying the crowd and enraging the Governor.
Is unknown if his reanimated head was destroyed or kept by the Governor to add to his collection. One of his feet is given to Penny for food.
Death[]
- Killed By
In the arena fight, Michonne kicks Eugene in his groin and then decapitates him with her katana.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Eugene has killed:
- Harold Abernathy
- Possibly numerous counts of zombies
Relationships[]
For a more in-depth look at Eugene's relationships, read here: Eugene Cooney (Comic Universe)/Relationships
Allies[]
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Enemies[]
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Appearances[]
Novel Series[]The Road to Woodbury[]
The Fall of the Governor - Part One[]
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Comic Series[]Volume 5: The Best Defense[]
Volume 6: This Sorrowful Life[]Volume 12: Life Among Them[]
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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 Two | |||||||||||||
Book Three | 👁 | ✔ | |||||||||||
Book Four | |||||||||||||
Book Five | |||||||||||||
Book Six | ✔ | ||||||||||||
Book Seven | |||||||||||||
Book Eight | |||||||||||||
Book Nine | |||||||||||||
Book Ten | |||||||||||||
Book Eleven | |||||||||||||
Book Twelve | |||||||||||||
Book Thirteen | |||||||||||||
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Book Fifteen | |||||||||||||
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[]
- Robert Kirkman answered the question whether naming characters the same name, Billy, Chris, Jim, Eugene, Eric, and Bruce was an oversight, "It's not oversight at all. It's completely unrealistic for a group of people to meet at random and never encounter the same names."[1]
- Eugene's last name, Cooney, was mentioned in The Fall of the Governor.
References[]
- ↑ Robert Kirkman forum, Image Comics, (March 20, 2005)