50 Fun Facts About The Walking Dead: the Telltale Series

Which piece of clothing, a keepsake tying her to her parents, is Clementine's trademark in Telltale's The Walking Dead?

A baseball hat was chosen because the artists pictured a girl who wears one beloved item every day. Her clean white dress, by contrast, grows filthier as the story darkens.

When Lee Everett first meets Clementine in Telltale's The Walking Dead, where has she been hiding from the walkers?

Her treehouse sheltered her alone after her babysitter turned while her parents were away in Savannah. Lee stumbles into the yard after fleeing a crash.

Which comic-book hero did the creator of The Walking Dead ask Telltale to keep out of the 2012 game?

Rick Grimes stayed out because the comic's creator had long-term plans for him. Telltale invented its own lead, Lee Everett, instead.

Telltale's The Walking Dead is set in the comic-book universe created by which writer, who oversaw the game's story?

Robert Kirkman liked the studio's pitch because it centred on hard decisions and survival instead of shooting. He watched over the story but left the developers alone.

To slip through a Savannah horde, Lee and Clementine smear themselves with what in The Walking Dead: Season One?

Walker guts mask the smell of the living, so the dead pass them by. The same trick returns in later seasons, right up to the very last episode.

What dark secret does Lee Everett's group uncover about the St. John family in The Walking Dead: Season One?

They are cannibals who invite the hungry group to dinner at the family farm. The survivors escape and leave the place overrun by the dead.

After a bite seems to doom Clementine in The Walking Dead: The Final Season, how does young AJ save her?

He amputates her leg with an axe, and the game holds back the outcome until its closing scenes. Lee was once offered the same desperate remedy for his arm.

Telltale's The Walking Dead is credited with reviving which game genre, in decline since the 1990s?

Adventure games had faded for years before this story-first hit arrived. Its hard choices paved the way for later titles such as Life Is Strange.

As the outbreak begins in the opening scene of Telltale's The Walking Dead, how is Lee Everett travelling?

In a police car, he is being driven to prison when the cruiser hits a walker and swerves off the highway. The wreck frees him just as Georgia falls apart.

After Telltale collapsed in 2018, which company finished the last two episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season?

Skybound Games, an arm of the comic creator's own company, rehired much of the old team to do it. He felt the heroine's story had to be finished properly.

Before his conviction, which subject did Lee Everett teach at the University of Georgia in Telltale's The Walking Dead?

History was his subject, and the past he hides from his new companions is a murder conviction. Within the group, the harsh Larry knows the truth about it.

Lee Everett's family owned a pharmacy in which Georgia city, his hometown, in The Walking Dead: Season One?

Macon is where the survivors barricade themselves inside the Everett family drugstore. They later hold out for months at a motel nearby.

In Episode 1 of Telltale's The Walking Dead, most players saved which survivor over Doug when walkers attacked both?

Carley was the majority pick, though the writers had aimed for an even split. They adjusted later dialogue so that no choice would feel obviously right.

Kenny and Katjaa's young son in The Walking Dead: Season One goes by which bird nickname?

Duck is really Kenny Jr., and a bite he suffers during a bandit raid shatters the family. His mother takes her own life as he lies dying.

Kenny, who longs to escape the mainland by boat in The Walking Dead: Season One, did what job before the outbreak?

Fisherman by trade, he pins every hope on finding a vessel in Savannah. Loss after loss leaves him one of the most volatile figures in the series.

After bandits overrun their motel in The Walking Dead: Season One, how does Lee Everett's group travel on to Savannah?

By train, they ride with a drifter named Chuck, who urges Lee to teach the girl to defend herself. Tragedy strikes the group before they arrive.

Which walled Savannah community hoarded the city's supplies in The Walking Dead: Season One?

Crawford looked like a fortress, but Lee's raiding party finds it already overrun by the dead. The mission costs the group more of its members.

The Stranger who abducts Clementine in The Walking Dead: Season One blames Lee Everett's group for doing what?

Looting his car in the woods left his family without supplies, and he holds Lee responsible for their deaths. The hotel showdown puts the player's past choices on trial.

Which episode of The Walking Dead: Season One ends with Clementine's goodbye to the bitten Lee Everett?

No Time Left was the most acclaimed chapter of the five. Its closing scene was settled before the rest was written, and the whole story was built to reach it.

In The Walking Dead: Season One, what grim rule does the death of Ben Paul's teacher reveal?

Everyone is already infected, so anyone who dies will rise, bitten or not. Only destroying the brain keeps a corpse down.

Lee Everett begins Telltale's The Walking Dead convicted of killing which kind of politician, his wife's lover?

A state senator was in bed with Lee's wife when he came home sick from work. The killing earned him a life sentence, which the outbreak interrupts on its first day.

Whose group steals the escape boat from Lee Everett's survivors in Savannah in The Walking Dead: Season One?

Vernon, a doctor who doubted Lee was a fit guardian, slips away from the mansion first. His people then make off with the only working vessel.

Which regular from the comics appears in Episode 1 of Telltale's The Walking Dead before leaving for Atlanta?

Glenn joins the drugstore survivors, then heads off to look for friends in Atlanta. The writers had to keep such guests in line with the comic's timeline.

Whose farm shelters Lee Everett and Clementine early in The Walking Dead: Season One until his son Shawn is killed?

Hershel Greene orders the newcomers off his land after walkers kill his boy. The scene always ends that way, because the comic had already settled the son's fate.

Which voice actress has played Clementine in every season of Telltale's The Walking Dead, from child to teenager?

Melissa Hutchison won the part after child actors struggled with its emotion and other adults could not find the voice. The writers had nearly cut the character for lack of a fit.

Which voice actor plays Lee Everett, the convict turned guardian, in Telltale's The Walking Dead?

Dave Fennoy landed the role through an emailed audition that asked for a very real performance. Being a parent himself helped him connect with the story.

Clementine's voice actress in Telltale's The Walking Dead won Best Performance by a Human Female at which show?

Spike Video Game Awards voters also named the series Game of the Year that night, and its small developer took Studio of the Year.

Telltale's The Walking Dead drew its player-choice mechanic from which science-fiction role-playing series?

Mass Effect inspired the system, but Telltale dropped its good-versus-evil scale. Here every option is murky, and staying silent counts as a choice too.

Clementine's look in Telltale's The Walking Dead was based on which relative of art director Derek Sakai?

His daughter had a bold fashion sense and wore the same favourite items again and again. He also advised that the girl would seem smarter if she said less.

Which 400 Days survivor joins Clementine's escape from Howe's Hardware in The Walking Dead: Season Two?

Bonnie starts the season as one of William Carver's followers, then turns on him. In her own short story she is a recovering addict chased through a cornfield.

Which film actor voices William Carver, the tyrant hunting the cabin group, in The Walking Dead: Season Two?

Michael Madsen plays the villain as charismatic yet dangerous. His character rules a fortified store and believes one of the runaways is carrying his child.

In The Walking Dead: Season Two, which rumored northern safe haven are Clementine and Christa trying to reach?

Wellington turns out to be real, but too overcrowded to take all who reach its gates. That forces one last painful choice in one of the endings.

A savage beating from William Carver costs Kenny what in The Walking Dead: Season Two?

His left eye is destroyed, and he takes brutal revenge during the breakout from the store. The others are left frightened by his growing rage.

Which pregnant member of the cabin group gives birth to AJ in The Walking Dead: Season Two?

Rebecca delivers the boy on a museum's observation deck, then dies of exhaustion and blood loss on the road north. Clementine ends up raising him.

In The Walking Dead: Season Two, how does Clementine's friend Luke die as the group follows Arvo north?

Drowned under lake ice, he falls through when the frozen surface cracks beneath him. Kenny blames their guide and beats him, which horrifies the others.

Whose fight with Kenny forces Clementine's final life-or-death choice in The Walking Dead: Season Two?

Jane fakes the baby's death to prove how unstable Kenny has become. Clementine must shoot him or let him kill her, and the season's several endings branch from there.

In The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, how is Kate related to the playable hero Javier Garcia?

His sister-in-law has travelled with him and his niece and nephew since his brother vanished early in the outbreak. Their closeness later sparks a fight between the men.

Which New Frontier leader turns out to be Javier Garcia's missing older brother in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?

David runs security for the group in its stronghold. He disappeared four years earlier while taking the brothers' bitten mother to hospital.

Which Virginia city, held by the New Frontier, does Javier Garcia's group reach in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?

Richmond is nearly lost when a crash opens a breach in its fence and the dead pour in. Reinforcements help herd them out, and Javier is urged to lead the town.

Which Hilltop ambassador from the comics joins Javier Garcia's group in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?

Jesus, whose real name is Paul Monroe, later returns with reinforcements to help clear the dead from a besieged town.

Which New Frontier leader, the head of diplomacy, ordered the Prescott massacre in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?

Joan pins the blame on a fellow leader and orders his execution in the town square. Whichever captive Javier asks her to spare, she kills.

Why was Clementine exiled from the New Frontier before the events of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier?

She stole medicine from the group's doctor to treat a desperately ill AJ. The leaders cast her out and kept the boy.

Before Clementine leaves to find AJ at the end of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, what does Javier Garcia give her?

A haircut is his parting gift, echoing Lee's early lesson that she must keep her hair short to survive. She then sets out alone.

In The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Clementine and AJ join teenagers holding out in the ruins of what?

A boarding school for troubled youth, Ericson's is run by the abandoned pupils themselves. By the closing scenes it has become the heroine's long-sought home.

Which survivor from Lee Everett's Season One group returns leading raiders in The Walking Dead: The Final Season?

Lilly parted from Lee's group after killing one of its members. Years on she is abducting children to fight in her community's war.

Which leader of the Ericson teenagers does AJ shoot dead in the first episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season?

Marlon had secretly traded twin sisters to raiders in exchange for safety, and planned to hand over the newcomers next. His death gets the pair voted out.

James, the pacifist who aids Clementine in The Walking Dead: The Final Season, once belonged to which comic-book group?

The Whisperers are behind him now, but he still knows how to guide a herd and uses it to draw the dead onto the raiders.

In The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the Delta raiders hold their kidnapped captives aboard what?

A riverboat is their base until a homemade bomb planted in its boiler blows it apart. The captives get away in the chaos.

Which actress voices the title character of Telltale's 2016 miniseries The Walking Dead: Michonne?

Samira Wiley plays the comics favourite across three episodes that fill in her absence from the main story. It was first planned as an add-on to an earlier season.

In The Walking Dead: Michonne, the heroine is haunted by visions of which lost family members?

Her two daughters, Colette and Elodie, appear to her as hallucinations, and guilt over leaving them drives her to the edge. In the end she chooses not to chase the visions.