1. Madison Clark is a fictional character and the protagonist for the first four and eighth seasons of the AMC television series Fear the Walking Dead.
46 Facts About Madison Clark
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Madison Clark is portrayed by Kim Dickens, and created by Robert Kirkman and former showrunner Dave Erickson.
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Madison Clark is described as intelligent and willful to the point that she sometimes becomes forceful.
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Madison Clark is quick to adapt to the new world, likes being in control of situations, and is prone to feeling tense during disagreements with others or in situations where she is largely powerless.
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Travis later tells Madison Clark to take the kids to the desert without him.
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Alicia witnesses her zombified neighbor, Mr Dawson, attacking Mrs Cruz across the street, but Madison Clark prevents her from intervening.
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Madison Clark tells Madison the boy was turning, but she is worried that he is becoming unhinged.
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Madison Clark decides to sleep with Alicia that night to provide comfort and they are woken by a gunshot to find Chris standing over them, holding a knife and they chase him from the room.
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Madison Clark asks Nick to tell Madison he could not find them.
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Madison Clark turns on the hotel lights against everybody's wishes in hopes of attracting Nick's attention, though Alicia convinces her to respect Nick's decision to choose death over their family, despite becoming upset about Madison Clark not appearing to care about her decision to stick with the group.
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Madison Clark shuts off the lights, but not before Travis, now alone, sees them.
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Madison Clark then talks with Alicia and reveals to her that her father's car crash was a suicide and reiterates her love for her.
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At the hotel, the tourists are let in, and Madison Clark recognizes them based on Travis' description.
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Madison Clark is reluctant to have Travis exiled but ultimately agrees to go with him the next morning while Strand refuses to have anything to do with it.
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Later that evening, Madison Clark is mourning Travis' death when Jeremiah approaches her to sign a checkout book for weapons; she signs and they have a brief conversation.
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That night at their bunker, Madison Clark is with her children, but Nick wants to leave due to Troy's actions at the compound.
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Madison Clark refuses and declares they stay because Travis died getting here and she is tired of running; if the Ottos cannot run the ranch, they will take it.
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The news upsets Madison Clark, and makes her join Troy's militia in search of the plane wreckage and discover who shot the helicopter.
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Troy does not accept the coexistence of the natives on the farm, and Madison Clark fails to keep the peace between the two sides.
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The trio travel to Gonzales Dam and meets Daniel, who Madison Clark tells that Ofelia is alive.
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Madison Clark convinces Lola to create an exchange system between the communities: water for livestock, plantations, etc.
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Madison Clark is separated from Alicia and Nick when the dam explodes and everyone is carried away by the current.
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Madison Clark first appears in the second episode "Another Day in the Diamond" living in a baseball stadium where she, Nick, Alicia, Strand, and Luciana have lived for a year after the explosion of the dam.
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Madison Clark is carrying an oxygen tank due to damages sustained from smoke inhalation.
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Madison Clark then holds him at gunpoint as she leaves with Mo, Morgan's adopted daughter, claiming that Mo will be better off without him.
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Madison Clark chooses to help Morgan get Mo back from PADRE after he rescues Madison from a revenge-seeking posse whose children she had kidnapped.
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Seven years after helping Morgan to rescue Mo, Madison Clark is a prisoner of PADRE and has become suicidal.
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Madison Clark is reunited with Daniel Salazar for the first time since the destruction of the Gonzalez Dam, learning that he now leads a resistance army of parents seeking to rescue their children from PADRE.
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Madison Clark convinces the Prefect named Dove to help them in the hopes of finding answers about her family and forces Shrike to reveal that the organization's mysterious leader is actually her and her brother Ben who took over following the death of all of the adults twelve years before.
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When PADRE unleashes the horde from their shipyard in order to get at the supplies inside, Madison Clark helps Morgan despite his insistence that she stay away due to Morgan slipping in and out of his state of insanity following Grace's death and Mo's return to PADRE.
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Madison Clark helps Morgan to see that those you lose are never really gone and he finally breaks the cycle of losing people and losing himself.
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Now in charge of PADRE, Madison Clark decides to reform it into what PADRE was always supposed to be while trying to find the parents of the kidnapped children.
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Madison Clark is subsequently hunted by a hostile group, reuniting with Victor Strand in the process.
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Madison Clark is reunited with Charlie and Luciana while searching for fuel, only to learn that Charlie was the one who had killed Nick.
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Madison Clark spitefully sends Charlie on a suicide mission to assassinate Troy, but finally relents and forgives her after discovering that Charlie had Nick's body recovered and cremated, leaving his ashes for his mother.
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Tracy eventually claims that Alicia was killed in a mansion near Fort Worth, but Madison Clark tries to kill her anyways before Strand arrives to dissuade her along with a group of women who had been helped by Alicia over the years.
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Ben reveals that Madison Clark had survived the events at the stadium by taking shelter in the water tank of the stadium's irrigation truck - parked close to the gate by Douglas near the start of the attack - and Ben and Shrike had found and rescued her after hearing Madison Clark's last message to her kids, believing that she was someone that they could manipulate to do their bidding by using her kids against her.
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Madison Clark manages to draw in nearby walkers who devour Ben while Troy unexpectedly saves her life.
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Remorseful for his actions, Troy helps Madison Clark stop the herd.
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However, believing that Alicia giving Troy another chance had gotten her daughter killed, Madison Clark kills Troy by fatally impaling him on Alicia's prosthetic arm rather than making peace with him.
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The dying Troy implores Madison Clark to take care of Tracy, claiming that she's actually Alicia's daughter whom he had kidnapped.
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However, Tracy shoots Madison Clark, apparently killing her, and takes off.
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Unbeknownst to everyone else, Madison Clark survives the explosion after having locked herself in her old cell with the oxygen tank that Madison Clark is forced to occasionally use keeping her from suffocating.
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Alicia reveals that Troy had lied about her being Tracy's mother which they conclude was so that Madison Clark would fight as hard for her as she did for her own kids.
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Madison Clark decides to return to Los Angeles with Alicia and Tracy to help the survivors there rebuild their destroyed home city.
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The decision to let Madison Clark leave the show received intense criticism and is widely regarded as the reason the show plummeted in viewership, despite the season receiving positive reviews.