Rick Grimes

Rick Grimes is the main protagonist from The Walking Dead franchise.

Rick was formerly a police officer in the small, peaceful town of Cynthiana, Kentucky. After being wounded in a shoot-out and waking up from a coma after a month, he becomes a reluctant figurehead of a group fighting to survive a world where the dead no longer stay dead.

Personality
Rick has been described as an everyman who emphasizes moral codes and values. Over the course of the series, he succumbs to sheer and uncompromising brutality in order to protect his fellow group members and later community from harm.

Abilities
Rick uses an axe in fighting and is skilled with guns.

Trivia

 * Rick is the sole survivor appearing in Issue 1 to still be alive, if not counting a photograph of Carl.
 * Rick is one of the three remaining Atlanta camp survivors still alive, others being Carl and Sophia.
 * Rick is the only adult of the camp still alive.
 * Robert Kirkman has said that early on, he was willing to kill Rick in #6, instead of Shane and show how it would affect Carl, having a dead father with Shane being with Lori, etc.
 * Rick is one of the many amputee victims, and one of the few still alive.
 * Robert Kirkman has expressed annoyance that Rick lost his hand so early on and has said it has caused great difficulty in writing for the character in the issues that followed.
 * Every member of the Grimes family (excluding Jeffrey) have been shot at some point in time.
 * Rick got shot prior to the apocalypse by an unnamed criminal, causing him to fall into a coma. He was later shot in the first attack on the prison by Woodbury and was pierced by an arrow in "All Out War" by Dwight.
 * Carl was shot in the chest by Otis and later in the eye by Douglas Monroe, both times being accidental.
 * Lori was shot while carrying Judith by Lilly Caul, killing both of them.
 * Rick Grimes was named the 26th Top Comic Book Hero by IGN.
 * Rick's physical appearance has undoubtedly changed the most since the beginning of the apocalypse (not including visible injuries). At the start of the apocalypse, he has short hair and is clean shaven. After the fall of the prison and during the subsequent journey to the Alexandria Safe-Zone, Rick's hair and beard grow to great lengths until he eventually shaves and has his hair trimmed as he tries to assimilate in Alexandria. This process repeats throughout his life in Alexandria and during the conflict with the Saviors. Afterwards he decides to alter his appearance by having a buzz cut-like hair style and decides to grow his beard to great proportions. It is interesting to note that his appearance now closely resembles that of Douglas Monroe, the former leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
 * His similar appearance to Douglas has been noted in Letter Hacks, Kirkman stating that it's a pure coincidence.
 * It's also been noted in the comic series, where Rick states that he doesn't want to be recognized by those who think he is some kind of war hero.
 * It has been "promised" by Robert Kirkman that Rick will not survive the entire series.
 * In the Walking Dead spin-off "The Walking Dead: The Alien", it is mentioned Rick went by the name Richie.
 * Rick reveals that he is 38 years old in Issue 162, although it's said in the script book he was 29 when the outbreak started.
 * In the Letter Hacks of Issue 165, Robert Kirkman thinks that Rick's physical limitations make him a better character.
 * Carl is the only relative of Rick currently alive in the comic series.
 * In Issue 182, when Carl asks Rick about his missing cane, Rick states that he hasn't been using it anymore because he doesn't feel pain in his leg anymore and believes it could have possibly further healed or he's just gotten used to it, but he says he still isn't in any shape to "win any footraces".
 * Rick, along with Andrea, Michonne, Brian, Abraham, Negan and Alpha, have killed the most named characters, either as a zombie or as a living person.
 * Issue 183 is first and so far the only issue in which Rick Grimes appears but doesn't speak.