the walking dead "Merle Dixon"

Merle Dixon
Actor	Michael Rooker
Gender	Male
Hair	Grey/White
Age	Late 40's to early 50's
Occupation	Unknown
Relations	Daryl Dixon (Brother) Will Dixon (Father) Jess Collins (Half-Uncle)
First Appearance	"Guts"
Last Appearance	"This Sorrowful Life"
Cause of Death	Shot by The Governor (Alive) Stabbed by Daryl Dixon(Zombified)
Status	Dead
Series lifespan	"Guts" to "This Sorrowful Life"
Ethnicity	Caucasian-American
A zombified Merle being stabbed multiple times by Daryl.
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"Maybe these people need someone like me around, huh? Do their dirty work. The bad guy."

—Merle talking to Daryl.

Merle Dixon was a survivor of the zombie apocalypse and brother to Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead. He makes his debut appearance in "Guts", in Atlanta. After being cuffed to the roof on top of the building in Atlanta by Rick due to Merle's racist and aggressive behavior, he is forced to amputate his hand later when Walkers are approaching the roof through a door, since T-Dog had accidentally dropped the key to the handcuffs. Eventually he is found by a man named Philip and is taken to Woodbury. However, after Rick's group attacked the town, Merle was considered a traitor and fled Woodbury with Daryl.

 Overview

Appearance and Personalit 

Merle is a tall, Caucasian male with a rugged build. He has short grey hair and commonly is seen with light facial stubble.

An unruly and quick-tempered Southern redneck, Merle is extremely ill-tempered, racist, violent, volatile and quick to express his beliefs. Much like his younger brother, Merle is an expert tracker and hunter. He is deadly with firearms, and in the third season, his hand-blade attachment proves to be one of his deadliest weapons. He is an experienced bruiser, showcased in the first season when he dominated T-Dog in a fist-fight, and at the same time was able to fend off Rick, Morales, and Glenn simultaneously. He also shows his fighting abilities when he took down Caesar in the brutal battle-royal event in Woodbury, and was able to fend off Michonne's sword attacks with his hand-blade. Merle was The Governor's right-hand man, all the while striving to find his brother and take vengeance on Rick and T-Dog, who left him for dead on the roof. However, he later comes across and takes Glenn and Maggie hostage, going as far as too brutally beat Glenn into revealing information about the prison.

After the prison group comes to the rescue of Glenn and Maggie, Merle was then branded as a traitor and a terrorist by The Governor, and became an enemy of Woodbury. After joining the prison group, his personality began to slightly change, appearing to lose some of his violent and racial tendencies. He is even shown to be searching for some forgiveness from those of the group who he had once wronged. He later attempts to fulfill the potential deal made by The Governor and Rick, which was an exchange of Michonne for peace between the two groups. However, he has a change of heart and releases her, instead opting to take on the group of Woodbury soldiers who had been planning an ambush. This would be his biggest and final act of redemption, as after taking down eight Woodbury soldiers, he is killed by The Governor, reanimates and is finally put down by his own brother.

While in a heated argument with his younger brother, Daryl, he knocks him down and, in the process, rips his shirt, revealing Daryl's scars. Hinting that their father beat them both to a somewhat high degree.

While he was staying in Woodbury, Merle has read many books including the Bible and even memorized verses of the Bible showing that he is intelligent and also possibly religious. He has also claimed that he liked Woodbury's Library and is one of the few things he missed about Woodbury.