NOTE: This article is only for the comic version of Alpha. To see the article for the TV version, go to Alpha (The Walking Dead TV Series).
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| “ | I've seen how you live. I've walked your streets. It's a joke. Life is blood and pain and sacrifice. You think you have accomplished so much, but I look around at what you've done... and I see children playing a game of make believe. You've built a shrine to a long dead world. We are animals who always pretended we are not. You work and toil towards restoring a life where you exercise so you can sit in a chair and let a box lie to you until all your thoughts are gone. My people? The Whisperers... our lives are true. We live the full lives we were always meant to. You strive to return to a life as slaves to our petty desires... instead of recognizing the gift this world has to offer. The gift of freedom. | „ |
| ~ Alpha sharing her twisted ideology with Rick Grimes. |
Alpha, is one of the main antagonists of Images Comics, The Walking Dead.
Alpha is sadistic and tyrannical the leader of the Whisperers a group of animalistic savages who wear skinned zombie masks to blend in with the herds and believe that humanity should give in to it's primal instincts. She is also the mother of Lydia. When, Alexandria accidentally crosses into her territory she soon comes into conflict with the communities in DC and threatens to destroy them all using a herd of zombies. However she was killed by Negan who wanted to gain the trust of the other communists to be pardoned for his crimes. Following her death her right hand man Beta becomes the de-facto leader of the Whisperers and attacks the communities in her stead. However Beta is defeated alongside most of the Whisperers leaving Alpha's plans of conquest in vain.
Appearance[]
Alpha is a middle aged woman usually seen wearing a rotting skinned zombie mask with her attire consisting of a black long sleeved shirt and matching jeans with a snake belt buckle. While unmasked she is noted to be quite beautiful as well as having a bald shaven head.
Personality[]
Alpha is a cold, ruthless, sociopathic and dangerous woman who leads the Whisperers with an iron fist. She takes great pride in her role as leader of the Whisperers and enjoys her position of power having intimidated Rick into comply with her by threatening him and his people with death and showing him a horde of zombies she collected. She shows no mercy towards her enemies having murdered various denizens of Alexandria, the Hiltop and the Kingdom just to prove a point and even savagely put their heads on pikes to mark a border between her lands and Rick's. She is also very calculating and intelligent having covertly managed infiltrate several communities by pretending to be a kind resident only to covertly kidnap and murder several of them. She also has a very twisted outlook on humanity one that is opposite to that of Rick's. She believes that humanity should return to it's primal state of savagery and views the apocalypse as a chance to do that. She thinks that life is blood, sacrifice and pain and is disgusted by the fact Rick wants to restore society. She even self-righteously views her way of life as "true" and "free" when it's just an excuse to commit her savage crimes
She has an esteemed lack of empathy or care for others and views such feelings as a weakness. She allowed the woman in her group to get raped including her own daughter Lydia, insisting that claims that rape is a power of the natural world and making it excusable and they need to learn to fend for themselves to develop strength. Speaking of her daughter she is quite abusive towards her having forbade her from calling her mom and harshly disowned her when she showed emotion and even striking her and calling her weak. However despite her sociopathic outlook she has a semblance of humanity in her, a humanity she hypocritically hated. Despite banishing her daughter she seemed quite upset about it afterwards. She cried alone and rationalized that it was the only way to make her strong. She even outright admitted towards Negan that she genuinely misses her, which proves she cared for Lydia. She also had a semblance of respect towards Negan having been showed to be impressed by his skills and cunning even allowing him to sit at her side during dinner over Beta.
Biography[]
Alpha's history before the apocalypse is unknown aside from the fact she had a daughter named Lydia. At some point after the zombie apocalypse began she either founded or took over a group called the Whisperers. The Whisperers were a cult like group that believed civilization, humanity and society was a joke. They believed that humans by nature were simply animals pretending not to be and her group embraced their true selves to "live full lives". They wore skinned zombie masks to blend in with the herds undetected, didn't go by any names aside from titles given to the higher ups in the group and they lived very primitively relying on hunting and gathering. They had no rules and regulations regarding murder or rape with Alpha knowingly allowing several men in her group to rape her own daughter as she believed surviving it would make one "strong" At some point she also appointed a right hand man whom was dubbed "Beta".
The Whisperer War[]
A few years after the apocalypse began a group of scavengers belonging to the Hiltop Colony crossed into the land belonging to Alpha. As they were clearing out a herd of zombies one of them pulled out a knife and attacked much to their shock. They go on the offensive and kill one of the soldiers named Doug. Dante then retaliates by killing the assailants and discovers that they use zombie masks to blend in with the herds. However before he can react Dante in held at gun point by Alpha with a sawn off shotgun who warns him not to move. Alpha then tells Dante that they are in Whisperer lands and as a consequence for crossing into their territory and killing their kind they will learn more about his people and ensure that they fear them. Later on however Lydia is kidnapped by the Hiltop colony and is held captive. Alpha then comes to the Hiltop and to show she means no harm takes off her mask and shows her face. She introduces herself and her army to the Hiltop's leader Maggie Greene. She revels that she has taken Dante and Ken hostage and will return them under the condition they give her back her daughter. Although, Carl is hesitant to allow this as he has heard about the abuse they put Lydia through they unfortunately have no choice. Lydia attempts to thank her mother for rescuing her but she demands that Lydia call her Alpha like everybody else. The group then depart into the forest. As they march in the woods they blend in with a zombie herd, Alpha shows disgrace at Lydia for losing her mask and tells her she has to stay in the center of the herd to avoid detection until they can craft her a new mask. However, unknown to them Carl in following behind. Soon enough, Alpha confronts Carl and demands to know why he followed them. Carl insists he wants to make sure Lydia is safe and tells her that the Hiltop has nothing to do with his actions. Alpha goes along with him for know and leads him to their base. She explains that they don't have camps or shelter and they huddle together for warmth, claiming it's how their intended to live. Once they arrive, Carl witnesses how the Whisperers live and Alpha reveals that the only reason she is acting affable towards him is because she wants him to see how their people live and what their capable off and pass on the message. Carl, however insists that he wont leave till he is certain that Lydia is not in danger as he knows what Alpha is doing to her. Alpha then realizes that she must learn more about Carl's people.
During a festival taking place at Alexandria, Alpha infiltrates the community and pretends to be a denizen to gain their trust. Soon enough Carl's father Rick confronts the Whisperers to get back his son. Alpha introduces herself to Rick and recognizes him as she heard a lot about him during her infiltration. However she comments that she is not impressed. Rick notices that she is carrying a bloody machete and asks what she did angrily. Alpha vaguely tells him she had some "trouble on the road" and it was unavoidable. Rick confronts her asking if she killed a member of his group but one of the Whisperers punches him for standing up to their leader. Alpha then tells Rick he is not in a position to threaten her and that is a habit he needs to break. Alpha then demands that Rick follow him. However, Rick refuses to leave his son alone but Alpha threatens to kill him if he does not comply. Alpha then holds Rick at gunpoint and directs him to the top of a building. On the top of the building Alpha shows Rick a horde of thousands of zombies she has gathered and threatens to unleash it on his people and destroy everything he loves. On the way down Alpha insults Rick for attempting to rebuild society claiming that life is pain, blood and sacrifice and they are animals who pretend they are not and Rick works to rebuild a long dead world. Rick tells Alpha that her views are just an excuse to keep people in line and she is on a overblown power trip. However she insists that animals need a leader an Alpha. When they arrive back at camp Rick tells Carl they are leaving but he refuses to do so without Lydia and reveals that Alpha allows her daughter to be raped. Rick confronts her on this and she doesn't even try to deny it claiming that it is "apart of nature". However, Lydia no longer shares these views and insists that it is wrong and calls out her mother for not even trying to protect her. Alpha is disgusted and claims that this is a world for the strong not a world for the weak, the victims. Alpha in a rare moment of vulnerability begins to cry and when Lydia see's her mother is angry she attempts to comfort her only for Alpha to slap her daughter in the face. She then pulls Rick close so no one can hear her. She tells him that she can't offer her daughter the life she needs not with the Whisperers but he can. She then makes the decision to banish Lydia from the group claiming that she doesn't belong here as she is weak and she longs for the old ways. She demands them to leave and tells them she has marked a border between their lands and demands that they never cross it or this will mean war. On the way out Rick notices to his horror that the border is marked with pikes that contain the zombified heads of several members of their communities. Alpha had covertly kidnapped several of them and killed them just to make a point. Later on Alpha privately goes into the woods and begins crying. A member of the group confronts her and understands that she is remorseful about banishing her daughter. Alpha admits that she didn't anticipate worrying about her as she believed she was above such feelings and thinks she is being stupid. However, the whisperer assures her that he understands and comforts her but claims that know one else must find out less she get challenged for her position as leader. Alpha agrees with this statement and quickly slits his throat and kills him to ensure no one can know about her weakness. Another Whisperer asks what happened and Alpha lies and claims that he challenged her.
Issue Appearances[]
Volume 22: A New Beginning[]
- Issue 132
Volume 23: Whispers Into Screams[]
- Issue 133
- Issue 138
Volume 24: Life And Death[]
- Issue 139
- Issue 140
- Issue 142
- Issue 143
- Issue 144
Volume 25: No Turning Back[]
- Issue 148
Volume 26: Call To Arms[]
- Issue 154
- Issue 155
- Issue 156
Volume 27: The Whisperer War[]
- Issue 157 (Zombified)
Killed Victims[]
- Olivia (Alive)
- Josh (Alive)
- Carson (Alive)
- Tammy Rose (Alive)
- Luke (Alive)
- Erin (Alive)
- Ken (Alive)
- Amber (Alive)
- Larry (Alive)
- Oscar (Alive)
- Rosita Espinosa (Alive)
- Rosita's unborn child
- Ezekiel (Alive)
- 1 unnamed Whisperer
- Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
Trivia[]
- Alpha is the first antagonist to be the literal opposite of Rick: both are leaders of their community, both have children who don't see eye to eye with their parents (and both are in a relationship with each other); but whereas Rick is trying to build a functioning society based on morality and law, Alpha is trying to return humanity to its "natural order": primal, violent, and chaotic.
- In the comics, Alpha's main adversary was Rick, but due to his departure in the TV show, her enemy in it was Carol.
- Alpha is the first main female antagonist in the comics.
External Links[]
- Alpha on the The Walking Dead Wiki
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