Ed (Shaun of the Dead)

"…All you ever do is fuck things up, fuck things up and make me look stupid."

- Shaun screaming at Ed outside the Winchester in front of a horde of zombies "Whassup, niggas?"

- Ed at Liz's apartment

Ed is the tritagonist of Shaun of the Dead. He is the main protagonist's, Shaun, best friend and flatmate until the end of the climax where he was killed by a zombie and kept as Shaun's "pet."

He was portrayed by Nick Frost who also portrayed Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz.

Biography
Ed and Shaun's friendship is said to have gone back till primary school and he apparently likes having him around because "he's a laugh" and has sold a bit of weed more than once. However he utterly despised Shaun's other flatmate, Pete and this was completely mutual with him giving him the nickname "Prick". The twos favourite hangout is the pub, the Winchester however when Shaun gets in a relationship with Liz it brings an effect on his normal life.

Shaun promises to her that things would change however when nothing does she dumps him, leaving him completely heartbroken. Ed tries to cheer him up by telling him hilarious stories of other regulars but they become so intoxicated that they don't even realise that London has fallen into the hands of a zombie uprising and while being scorned by an angry Pete he reveals that he himself was bitten by a zombie and is slowly turning into one.

The morning after, Ed and Shaun discover a girl in their backyard who they think is actually drunk however when she is impaled in the chest by a pole and still walks away, revealing herself to be a zombie. While trying to run away they run into an even larger zombie and are trapped in their house. Inside their house they are attacked by a one-armed zombie, they both attack him but when Ed smashes an ashtray against his skull and by this kills him. Shaun and Ed discover that he only way to kill the zombies is to "remove the head of destroy the brain." They attack them with a selection of vintage records but later use a cricket bat and a shovel which successfully kills the two of them.