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| “ | These poor folks have been through hell, they've seen things that no decent person should ever have to see. One thing the plague has taught all of us---believers and nonbelievers alike---and that's the immutable fact that there are things could happen to a soul that are much, much worse than dying.
―Jeremiah to Lilly about his group.[src]
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Jeremiah James Garlitz is a main character and an antagonist, as well as a survivor of the outbreak in Thomas Dunne Books' The Walking Dead. He is the leader of the Pentecostal People of God.
He is described as "a man in his forties, maybe younger, a boyish face that’s just beginning to age around the corners. With his lantern jaw, clear blue eyes, and big mop of Kennedy-esque hair just beginning to pepper with gray, he looks like a former child actor maybe fallen on hard times. His suit is well worn, shiny in the seat and shoulders, but the way he carries himself—his clip-on necktie still knotted neatly against his throat despite the flecks of blood and grime on the material—gives off an air of a leader, a man to be reckoned with." He served as the primary antagonist of Descent and Invasion.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Richmond, Virginia[]
Jeremiah is the son of an abusive army chaplain and later became a Pastor after college, but was later expelled by his Evangelical church for heresy because he believes people's soul would go to Heaven by committing mass suicide in the right place at the right time. In response, he created his own traveling church group to spread his version of Christianity.
Post-Apocalypse[]
At some point, Jeremiah joined/founded the church group, leading them through the apocalypse. Eventually, they stumbled upon the town of Woodbury led by Lilly Caul.
Following the destruction of Woodbury, Jeremiah escaped via SUV and is assumed to have wrecked it. Barely conscious and fatally wounded, Jeremiah drove the car out of the town, along with an unconscious Reese and Stephen. Jeremiah starts to laugh hysterically while driving through the "ocean of walkers" where he begins to abandon his faith in God. Jeremiah now seeks revenge on the few remaining Woodburians.
Jeremiah appeared in the next novel, Invasion, and seeks vengeance against Lilly and her group. Through the official synopsis, it is revealed that Jeremiah has formulated a plan to kill them.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Lilly Caul (Caused)
- Zombies
Lilly, after catching up with Jeremiah, shoots him into the groin in order to save her life from being strangled to death. Lilly shoots Jeremiah again, this time in to the knee and pectoral. Later on Lilly unintentionally fulfills Jeremiah's last wish: being eaten alive by his undead followers.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Jeremiah has killed:
- Clark (Zombified)
- Jones (Caused)
- Calvin Dupree (Indirectly Caused)
- Ben Buchholz (Caused)
- Mr. Slocum (Caused)
- Mrs. Slocum (Caused)
- Matthew Hennesey (Alongside with Pentecostal People of God)
- Speed Wilkins (Caused)
- Wade Pilcher (Indirectly Caused)
- Mark Arbogast (Indirectly Caused)
- Joseph Bressler (Indirectly Caused)
- Anthony (Indirectly Caused)
- Rose (Indirectly Caused)
- Colby (Indirectly Caused)
- Cailinn (Indirectly Caused)
- Emma (Indirectly Caused)
- Mary Jean (Indirectly Caused)
- Noelle (Indirectly Caused)
- Patrick Murphy
- 10 unnamed Woodbury residents (Caused or Direct)
- Multiple motorcycle gang members (Caused or Direct)
- Numerous counts of zombies
Appearances[]
Novel SeriesDescent
Invasion
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| Novels | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[]
- Jeremiah's weapon of choice is a large crucifix.
- He uses it as a memento of his fallen friend.
- Jeremiah knows a lot of car's mechanics, and is able to sabotage it (for example disabling the brakes).
- Jeremiah is one of the five never seen Novel Series characters to make an appearance in The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, the others being Gene Gavin, Trey Barker, Joshua Hamilton and Nick Parsons.
- His death is similar to that of "Beta" and Ed; he dies by being happily eaten alive by his "followers" in a Christ-like pose.