Eugene Porter

Eugene Porter is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. He served as a supporting protagonist during the second half of Season 4 and one of the main protagonists from Season 5 onward. He and his travelling companions Abraham and Rosita are en route to Washington.

Personality
Eugene is aloof, eccentric, cultured, and highly intelligent. While a detriment to the group while on the road due to his cowardice and clumsiness, being neither "combat ready or for that matter combat inclined," Eugene's value is evident in his ability to build helpful devices such as water filters and batteries out of common items. He's extremely able to force locks. He likes reading books and he is shown to be interested in video games. He sports a mullet, which he is very proud of. He is somewhat of a voyeur, who enjoys watching people having sex and eyeing up women.

Eugene prioritizes his survival over anything else, even allowing multiple people to sacrifice themselves to protect him under the false belief that he was an important scientist. Despite his manipulative abilities, he does possess a will to do good when he can, and as he continues to survive, he begins to put into perspective the importance of his conscience, going so far as to expose his lie for the well-being of his new friends.

Over the course of the second half of season 5 and the entirety of season 6, Eugene slowly begins to develop his skills as a survivor, and his courage. While this is slow at first, it is only when the survivors fight back against the herd in Alexandria that he truly shows he has developed the courage and skills needed to survive. This evolution continues after the time jump, and he shows his courage and newfound skills to survive when he is taken hostage by Dwight and the Saviors, and gives the other survivors the opportunity to fight back.

Pre-Apocalypse
Houston, Texas Very little is known about Eugene's life before or as the outbreak began. Eugene lied about who he was, stating that he worked on a Human Genome Project with nine other scientists, dealing with research on how to combat diseases with other diseases.

He is seen to be an avid fan of video games. He is also seen to have knowledge of dinosaurs, as he mentions that no one can know for sure if the zombie disease didn't cause the extinction of the dinosaurs; though it was most likely a joke in attempts to impress Tara Chambler. While his occupation prior to the outbreak is unknown, he appears to possess a vast amount of knowledge of many different areas, and is well read.

Post-Apocalypse
Eugene somehow survived the onset of the outbreak, and eventually came across Abraham Ford, who saved him from walkers. Seeing the opportunity of being protected, he lied to Abraham, pretending he was a scientist who knows what caused the epidemic, and that he was on a mission to go to the capital, where supposedly he could reverse the effects of the plague and restore order to the world. Eventually, they were joined by Rosita Espinosa and several other survivors, who travelled from Houston to northern Georgia, losing several members on the way.

Episode Appearances
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Season 4

 * 4x10: "Inmates" (No Lines)
 * 4x11: "Claimed"
 * 4x15: "Us"
 * 4x16: "A" (No Lines)

Season 5

 * 5x01: "No Sanctuary"
 * 5x02: "Strangers"
 * 5x03: "Four Walls and a Roof"
 * 5x05: "Self Help"
 * 5x07: "Crossed"
 * 5x08: "Coda" (No Lines)
 * 5x09: "What Happened and What's Going On" (No Lines)
 * 5x10: "Them"
 * 5x11: "The Distance"
 * 5x12: "Remember" (No Lines)
 * 5x14: "Spend"
 * 5x16: "Conquer"

Season 6

 * 6x01: "First Time Again" (Flashback)
 * 6x02: "JSS"
 * 6x05: "Now" (No Lines)
 * 6x06: "Always Accountable" (Voice Only)
 * 6x07: "Head's Up"
 * 6x08: "Start to Finish"
 * 6x09: "No Way Out"
 * 6x10: "The Next World"
 * 6x12: "Not Tomorrow Yet"
 * 6x14: "Twice as Far"
 * 6x16: "Last Day on Earth"

Season 7

 * 7x01: "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be"
 * 7x04: "Service"
 * 7x06: "Swear" (No Lines)
 * 7x07: "Sing Me a Song"
 * 7x08: "Hearts Still Beating"
 * 7x11: "Hostiles and Calamities"}}

Trivia
Comic Series= ''' is a main character first encountered in Issue 53 of ' ' and is an out-of-shape science teacher. Eugene often appears sloppy and depressed. He was travelling with Abraham Ford and Rosita Espinosa for a very long time during the apocalypse, lying to them, saying he knew what caused the undead outbreak, leading them towards Washington, D.C. where they bump into Rick's group and they once again move their way to Washington, D.C. where they find more survivors. Despite everything Eugene has done, he has somewhat become the wise member of Rick's group, and has also expressed brutal loyalty towards his fellow companions.
 * Eugene is one of the three surviving characters that first appeared in Season 4, the others being Rosita Espinosa and Tara Chambler.
 * Eugene is one of the only main characters to have never directly killed a living person, along with Dale Horvath, Andrea, Lori Grimes, Hershel Greene, Gareth, Deanna Monroe, Gregory, and Ezekiel.

Trivia

 * Eugene is currently the longest living male character in the Comic Series, who is not a member of the original group.
 * With the death of Rosita, Eugene is now the last surviving member of Abraham's group.
 * He is also the last post-prison survivor after the death of Gabriel Stokes.
 * It is stated in the Letter Hacks that Eugene is on the autism spectrum.