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I am thinking of the kids, Cal. Best thing for us, is the best thing for them.
―Meredith to Calvin, regarding their stay in Woodbury.[src]

Meredith Dupree (née unknown), also called Mer, is a main character first encountered in The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor. She is described as "a mousy, waiflike little woman in a ragged sundress who looks like a phantom as her anguished face is so ashen, drawn, and haunted that she looks as though gradually disappearing."

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Augusta, Kentucky[]

Meredith grew up in Augusta with her brother, Rory, who was interested in natural science. Her brother used to find the secluded fishing holes in the backwoods of East Kentucky, telling her about the flaming nature of methane ponding up to Green River. She had a couple of different diagnoses—bipolar disorder and clinical depression at a young age. She was taking lithium as medication, and it seemed to help her.

Mobile, Alabama[]

In 1987, she married Calvin Dupree, a general contractor who helped her stay in the care of a psychiatrist despite a poor environment.

During the 1990s, the couple had three children: Thomas "Tommy" in 1992, Bethany in 1995, and Lucas "Luke" in 1999. The family believed in Christianity and once went bankrupt. She and her children lived in Mobile while her husband worked out of the city. She usually sang the lullaby, "Hush, Little Baby," real pretty to her son Lucas when she put him to bed.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Southern United States[]

As the outbreak began, Meredith and her family moved for a long time around Alabama and Georgia while her husband had been putting her kids through the mill. They were kicked out of two other settlements, including the KOA camp. People don't have the luxury of being sympathetic or Christian about it nowadays as it's survival of the fittest, being paranoid and ignorant when they found out about her condition.

The Fall of the Governor - Part Two[]

"The Fall"[]

After taking leadership of the town of Woodbury following the death of its previous leader, Lilly Caul begins welcoming refugees into the town, including Meredith and her family.

Descent[]

Meredith suffered bipolar disorder, and because of her mental disorder, her family was dispelled by two other groups before they arrived in Woodbury. Contradictory to her previous groups, Lilly decides to accept her family. Hap Abernathy was killed on a mission to search for her medicine. Meredith eventually would be grateful to Woodbury people, in order to not be a burden to her family and Woodbury people who accept her despite her disease. When Woodbury is attacked by a huge herds, Meredith bravely lures the walkers away from the town and blew herself up with several hundred walkers and saves Woodbury. At least for now, she is deeply mourned by Lilly and the others.

Death[]

Killed By
  • Herself (Suicide, Sacrifice)

When Woodbury is attacked by a huge herds, Meredith lures the walkers away from Woodbury and blew herself up with several hundred walkers.

Killed Victims[]

This list shows the victims Meredith has killed:

Trivia[]

  • Meredith is the second character in the Novel Series that sacrifices herself to a mega-herd in order to save the group, with the first being Austin Ballard and the third being Miles Littleton.
  • She's the first person in the entire The Walking Dead franchise to suffer from Bipolar Disorder.

Appearances[]

Novel Series

The Fall of the Governor - Part Two

Descent

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

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