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General Gene Gavin, also known as The Major, is a major antagonist in Rise of The Governor. He is a army major and former tyrannical leader of Woodbury, and the catalyst for Brian Blake to become the tyrannical unhinged villain he is today.
Personality[]
Gene Gavin is shown to be an authoritative, intimidating and egotistical, using his power as a Major General and the Leader of Woodbury to hurt others and oppress them. He is quick to rage and to threaten, hurt or even murder someone who disrespects him or challenges him, threatening to shoot Brain Blake when questioning him and straight up killing Detroit once he started walking away. Gene was ultimately shown to be lazy and short sighted, not bothering with trying to defend Woodbury and their actions lured more walkers, such as dirt racing. It is shown that by the end, Gavin was completely entitled and unhinged, wanting the respect and fear of the people of Woodbury once things get bad and didn’t accept that they didn’t respect his authority, which ends up getting him killed.
Biography[]
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Gene Gavin was a U.S. Marine who was given the role of the Major General of the Georgia National Guard in Camp Ellenwood, and he constantly abused his authority to intimidate or humiliate his subordinates in any way, a treatment he spared form his two pupils and bodyguards, Manning and Trey Barker.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Once the outbreak hit, Gene Gavin, along with six of his guardsmen, including Trey and Manning, came into Woodbury to set up defense, and Gene started to run Woodbury. He ran things like a Wild West town, focusing less on trying to build defenses, and more was willing to steal from families, Rape women at gunpoint and run race tracks for people as entertainment, which ends up luring more Walkers.
Rise of The Governor[]
Gene is first shown when Brian and his group comes to town, meeting the general at the front of the race track. Gene attempts to extort money for entry, much to Brian’s confusion due to the state of the world. Once questioning Gene’s motives, The Major gets hostile, threatening Brain with a gun befoee assaulting Brain, forcing him to walk away.
After the deaths of Nick, Philip and Mr. Bridges’ Daughter, Woodbury started up a meeting at a courthouse to deal with the issues of the rising number of Walkers, in which Gene attempts to set up his leadership, wanting to be respected and feared despite not earning it, and Gene attempts to threaten multiple people, threatening an old man with a gun and insulting Martinez.
Once one man, Detroit, gets enough of the insults and turns and attempts to leave the room, Gene immediately kills Detroit by shooting him in the head, and the corpse lands right next to the silent Brian Blake. During the commotion, three people run out, to which Gene orders Trey and Manning go get them before he starts making a speech towards the group about being made examples and how this is the end times now and must listen to him. Brian, however, snaps due to everything in his life crumbling down, and without another word, approaches Gene Gavin and fires several bullets straight into his face and body, killing Gene Gavin brutally and creating Brain Blake into the infamous Governor.
Trivia[]
- Gene can be considered the greater scope villain in the novels and comics, as he’s one of the key components in why Brain Blake became the ruthless tyrant that is the Governor.
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