76 Facts About Rick Grimes

Rick Grimes is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the post-apocalyptic comic book series The Walking Dead and the first nine seasons of the television series of the same name, in which he is portrayed by Andrew Lincoln.

Rick Grimes manages to regain his morality when agreeing to join them and is able to be a father once more, but antagonists seeking to exploit his group force him to remain hardened.

An alternate version of Rick, dubbed Rick Grimes 2000, is introduced in Issue 75 in 2010, from a reality where an alien invasion occurred in the midst of the "Alexandria" arc and Rick was rebuilt as a cyborg to face a resurrected Governor; a comic book limited series following the character, Skybound X: Rick Grimes 2000, was released from July 7 to August 4,2021.

Rick Grimes has been described as an everyman character who emphasizes moral codes and values.

The group stays there for a brief amount of time before Rick Grimes is held at gunpoint by Hershel and forced to move out.

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Rick Grimes manipulates his followers into believing Rick's group are marauders.

Rick Grimes, overcome with rage, bites one of the bandits' jugular vein, which distracts the other bandits.

Rick Grimes soon becomes the Constable of the Safe-Zone, attempting to keep the peace in the town, but is eventually forced to kill Peter Anderson, a man who was abusing his wife and child and soon murdered Regina Monroe, Douglas' wife, during an assassination attempt on Rick Grimes's life.

Rick Grimes having been through so much since the prison, slowly starts resuming more leadership-like roles until finally Rick Grimes assumes leadership of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, after Douglas soon finds himself losing his grip on life, and his leadership position exacerbating as a result of this.

However, Rick Grimes resists out of fear of what might happen to him in the event of her death.

Rick Grimes agrees to defuse their conflict in exchange for half of their supplies.

Rick Grimes's group are ambushed by a group of the Saviors after they leave the Hilltop Colony.

Rick Grimes sends the lone survivor back to Negan with a warning to stop terrorizing the residents of the Hilltop and that Negan and his men can pay them half of everything they have in exchange for his protection.

Now realizing the full scale of Negan's army, Rick Grimes intentionally gives in, allowing Negan to take all of Alexandria's supplies.

Rick Grimes agrees to work with Rick, and explains that he has another visitor, Dwight, a Savior secretly working against Negan.

An arrow pierces Rick Grimes's side, taking him down, but Dwight's loyalties are revealed to be on Rick Grimes's side as he has not succumbed to the infection.

Rick Grimes confronts Negan, showing his perspective, and Negan finally understands Rick's view of rebuilding society.

Rick Grimes chooses to imprison Negan, believing that watching the regrowth of civilization from behind a cell is a better punishment than killing him.

Rick Grimes welcomes newcomers, Magna and her group who are initially wary of the safe haven, but eventually come to understand the running of the community.

Rick Grimes is concerned by her behavior, telling her to sort out her issues and move on after the loss of her daughters.

Later, as Michonne and Rick Grimes go to Alexandria to attend a fair that has been planned months in advance, they discover Carl is missing and decide to go after him, along with Andrea.

Rick Grimes criticizes Rick's leadership and trying to re-establish society as it had been, before telling him she has marked a border.

Rick Grimes decides to tell the communities, who take it terribly.

Rick Grimes starts training the people of the joined communities to fight against walkers as well as the Whisperers.

However, soon afterwards Rick Grimes is murdered by Pamela's spoiled son Sebastian, who resents him; he reanimates as a walker, forcing Carl to kill him.

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Still, long after his tragic demise, Rick Grimes is remembered in the Commonwealth as a leader and hero.

In downtown Atlanta Rick Grimes is attacked by a horde of walkers and hides inside a tank.

Rick Grimes reveals to the escaped group that Jenner had told him that everyone is infected.

Rick Grimes tells Lori he killed Shane to protect himself as well as the group, but she recoils from him, horrified.

Rick Grimes falls into a downward spiral and begins hallucinating, imagining a series of phone calls and seeing visions of Lori in the prison courtyard.

Rick Grimes comes into conflict with The Governor, the leader of a small town called Woodbury, after Michonne, a mysterious katana-wielding survivor arrives at the prison to reveal Glenn and Maggie Greene have been kidnapped.

Rick Grimes follows Michonne while somewhat distrustful of her in the episode "Made to Suffer" and retrieves the couple by killing several soldiers and consequently causing a firefight in the streets.

Rick Grimes refuses to give Michonne over to The Governor in the episode "This Sorrowful Life", asking Merle, The Governor's former ally, to do so.

Rick Grimes stops seeing visions of Lori, realizing his ruthlessness was the reason for her appearances.

Rick Grimes discovers Judith's empty cradle and believes that she has been killed by walkers; heartbroken, he escapes with Carl.

Rick Grimes takes de facto command of Alexandria with Deanna's approval and recruits the native Alexandrians to help lure the herd away.

Deanna is revealed to have been bitten and asks Rick Grimes to look out for the native Alexandrians as he does his own pre-Alexandria group before she dies.

Rick Grimes prepares ponchos covered in walker innards for the group to sneak through the herd to safety.

Rick Grimes tells a comatose Carl that he now has hope for the future again and plans to rebuild the town, two months later, in the episode "The Next World", Rick Grimes and Daryl meet Paul "Jesus" Rovia on a supply run and after take him back to Alexandria.

Rick Grimes makes preparations for an attack from the Saviors in the episode "East", but in the season finale, "Last Day on Earth", when Maggie has complications in her pregnancy, leads a team to seek Dr Carson's aid at Hilltop.

Negan torments Rick Grimes, saying that their deaths were his fault for crossing the Saviors, and threatens to kill them all unless Rick Grimes submits.

In "Service", Rick Grimes is forced to abide by Negan's rules and the opposition of Spencer, whom he threatens.

In "New Best Friends", Rick Grimes negotiates with the leader Jadis, and she agrees on one-third of supplies once the war is over, but they need a large quantity of guns to make a formal alliance.

Jadis is dissatisfied with their offering, but Rick Grimes manages to convince her to let them keep some of the guns while they find more.

Rick Grimes is shot by Jadis after he tries to re-negotiate, and later soldiers from the Kingdom and the Hilltop arrive to save the day.

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Rick Grimes leads a large convoy of survivors with armored vehicles to the Sanctuary to confront the Saviors.

Rick Grimes offers the Saviors the chance to surrender, but states that Negan has to die.

Rick Grimes finds where he believes them to be housed, but only gains access after killing a Savior in a brutal fight.

Rick Grimes opens the door to find a nursery with a baby inside, forcing Rick to question the morality of his plan.

Rick Grimes is further disturbed when Daryl executes a Savior who Rick had promised to let go in exchange for information.

When he regains his position and continues shooting at the other truck, Rick Grimes veers off to the side, allowing Daryl to open fire on the Savior.

Rick Grimes manages to reach Iago's truck and jumps on board, stabs Iago in the stomach and pushes him out of the vehicle before crashing into the side of the road.

Rick Grimes then makes a deal to allow the scavengers to share the Saviors' supplies if they join him.

Later in the night, Rick Grimes finds that the Saviors have set Alexandria on fire, which forces him to again confront Negan.

Rick Grimes then discovers, to his horror, that Carl has been bitten by a walker.

Rick Grimes begins the season as the de facto leader of all of the communities, with Maggie in charge of Hilltop, Daryl in charge of the Saviors, and Ezekiel in charge of the Kingdom.

Rick Grimes strives for prosperity and cooperation among the communities, assuring the future that Carl had wished for.

Rick Grimes learns that Maggie is going to kill Negan, and rides with Daryl to try and stop her; however, this results in a fight between the two in which they fall into a chasm, and have to fight their way out to avoid being swarmed by two incoming herds of walkers.

Rick Grimes tries to salvage the bridge between the two communities, he is thrown from his horse and impaled on a rebar pipe.

Seriously injured, Rick Grimes manages to free himself from the rebar and leads the herd away using his horse, haunted by hallucinations of his dead friends.

Unknown to anyone else Rick Grimes survives the explosion and is found by Anne on the riverbank.

Rick Grimes appears in the fourth season premiere of the companion series Fear the Walking Dead with his appearance chronologically following the events of The Walking Dead season 8 finale.

Rick Grimes is portrayed by Andrew Lincoln, who was cast as part of the television adaptation in April 2010.

Rick Grimes was just one of those guys that basically just walks by the local malt shop and made sure the kids were getting home on time.

Rick Grimes has been described as a man that emphasizes moral standards.

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In both media, Rick Grimes adopts a more dark and assertive nature as the story progresses.

Rick Grimes is however shown to be very protective of those who have suffered alongside him and most protective of his son, Carl, which leads to him being caring and considerate to them one moment and cold and detached the next.

Later in the series, after his wife's death and his son suffering from amnesia after being shot, his long friend Andrea helps him see a brighter future for the community they reside in called Alexandria and Rick Grimes begins to embrace his leadership position, as well as start a relationship with her.

Rick Grimes then begins a trading network with other communities, which is threatened by the tyrannical Negan who is eventually subdued and imprisoned.

Rick Grimes continues to grow and expand his community, and create safety perimeters around Washington, DC to travel to other communities.

Rick Grimes was named the 26th Top Comic Book Hero by IGN, and Lincoln's portrayal of Rick has been generally well received by television commentators and audiences.

Rick Grimes was nominated for a Saturn Award in the category for Best Actor in Television.

Rick Grimes is bound and determined to get back to his wife and let her know their son is in mortal danger, without ever doubting his own ability to successfully complete the mission, while Shane on the other hand is not quite as automatically selfless and heroic.

Rick Grimes's change of heart when he looks down at the two dead walkers on the floor and is reminded of the friendship between himself and his former partner is a beautifully played moment, which speaks volumes without a single line of dialogue being uttered.

Erik Kain of Forbes said that Rick Grimes started out as "the voice of reason, a calm presence, and an earnest leader" in the first two seasons, but had developed into an "anti-hero" by season three.

Rick Grimes represents The Walking Dead's conflicted core, the conduit that writers use to explore both the hard choices a successful survivalist has to make and what it costs people when they become unfazed by death.