Lee Everett
Lee Everett is one of the protagonists of Telltale's The Walking Dead video game series, debuting as the playable main protagonist of the first season.
He is 37 years old when he debuts.
Tasked with protecting a girl named Clementine in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, Lee allies with several other characters and groups. When creating the character, Telltale worked with realism in mind, placing strong emphasis on him being a parental figure to Clementine.
Lee is voiced by Dave Fennoy, an American voice actor, who received a positive reception for his role in the game, specifically his voice work and writing. Fennoy was nominated for Best Performance by a Human Male at the Spike VGA.
Appearances
Prior to the events of the game, Lee, a native of Macon, was a history professor at the University of Georgia. One day, on his way to work, he fell ill and came home to find his wife sleeping with a state senator. In a fit of rage, Lee killed him, and was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.The onset of the zombie apocalypse occurs as Lee is being taken to prison to begin serving his sentence, only for the car to hit a zombie and the driver turned into a zombie. He takes shelter in a nearby suburban home, where he finds a young girl named Clementine, who has been hiding from the zombies as her parents had left for Savannah some time before the apocalypse. The two go together and find themselves at the farm of Hershel Greene, where they meet a man named Kenny and his wife and son, Katjaa and Duck. The group are thrown out after an accident kills Hershel's son, forming a small group with survivors, including a woman named Lily and her father Larry.
After holing up in a motel for months, the group meets the St. John family, who invite them to dinner at their family dairy, eventually discovering them to be cannibals and that they plan to kill and eat his group as well. After surviving the St. Johns, the group is forced to flee the motel from bandits and head to Savannah via a train. As they approach the city, Clementine's walkie-talkie goes off, revealing the voice of a man who knows of Lee's actions to this point and promises Clementine that she will be safe with him.
In Savannah, the survivors look for a boat and supplies to flee the mainland. They encounter more survivors, including a doctor named Vernon and a young woman named Molly. With their help, the group is able to prepare the boat for their journey. Vernon departs, but remarks that he believes Lee to be an unsuitable guardian for Clementine. The next morning, Lee wakes to find Clementine gone, and while searching for her, he is surprised by a zombie and bitten. With what little time he has, Lee and the other survivors agree to look for Clementine, at first believing her to have been taken by Vernon. Instead, the man on the walkie-talkie reveals that he has kidnapped Clementine, and is at the hotel that her parents would have been at. After entering the now abandoned safehouse of Vernon's group, Lee is given the option of amputating his bitten arm. Either way, Lee and the group are able to escape from the hospital where they make their way back to the house, but find that the boat has been stolen by Vernon and his group. Shortly after the house is overrun with walkers but the group escape into the attic, where they eventually find a way out. Casualties arise while making their way to the hotel, and Lee is separated from Omid and Christa. Barely hanging onto consciousness, Lee makes it to the hotel and meets Clementine's captor, who explains that Lee's group had previously stolen provisions from his family's car, which ultimately led to the death of his wife and children, and goes to question Lee's other decisions and, regardless of whether or not he had joined in taking the provisions from the car, ultimately berates him and plans to kill him and look after Clementine as his own. Lee gets Clementine's help to subdue and kill the man. They make it out of the hotel by covering themselves in walker guts where they discover Clementine's zombified parents before Lee passes out.
When Lee awakens, he is out of strength and barely able to keep conscious, but finds Clementine has dragged him to safety. With his time short, Lee helps Clementine secure keys and a gun to escape the city, and tells her to find Omid and Christa. The player can choose to have Lee instruct Clementine to either shoot him to prevent his reanimation or do nothing and leave him to become a walker.
During the final episode of Season Two, Clementine falls unconscious after being shot and has a flashback featuring Lee. In the dream, the pair have a short conversation regarding life in the post apocalyptic world - in particular, how people are shaped by trauma.
He does not make another appearance until the third episode of The Final Season. Clementine dreams of her time aboard the train with Lee, and he helps her gain the confidence needed to lead her new friends to safety.
In Clementine, a comic series taking place after the events of The Walking Dead, Lee makes multiple additional appearances. His first appearance is in a nightmare had by Clementine, wherein he carries her through a herd of walkers - ultimately dropping her. Additionally, he later appears in two flashbacks depicting both the pair's first meeting, as well as Lee's death.