Rick feels that the truck might have been stolen by Merle during his escape. Back outside, they discover their truck has been taken. They follow Merle's blood-trail through the department store but are unable to find him. In the next episode " Vatos", the four find evidence that Merle survived the self-mutilation by cauterizing the wound. Returning to the department store roof, the four see that Merle has severed his own hand with a dull hacksaw. Daryl, T-Dog, Rick and Glenn ( Steven Yeun) decide to return to Atlanta to retrieve him as well as a bag of weapons Rick dropped downtown. ![]() Rick and the group return to the camp and explain to Daryl that they abandoned Merle. He uses his belt to reach the hacksaw and ultimately cuts off his own hand to escape, as the hacksaw blade was too dull to cut through the handcuffs. In the next episode " Tell It to the Frogs", as walkers begin to invade the building and reach the chained rooftop door, Merle struggles until he notices a hacksaw by the spilled toolbox the others had left behind. Before T-Dog flees, he chains the rooftop door shut to prevent walkers from getting Merle. When the survivors do find a way out, T-Dog attempts to save Merle, but accidentally drops the handcuff keys into a vent this forces him to abandon Merle on the roof. Merle is put under T-Dog's watch while the other survivors attempt to find a way out of the city. After momentarily announcing himself leader of the group, Merle is blind-sided by Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln), who punches him and handcuffs him to a pipe before Merle can fight back. Merle insults T-Dog ( IronE Singleton) with a racist slur, and subsequently beats T-Dog in a brief, intense fight. ![]() ![]() While atop a department store roof, Merle begins firing a rifle at walkers on the street while the group demands that he stop. Merle first appears in the episode " Guts", along with a group of survivors who had traveled into Atlanta to scavenge for supplies. He is also shown to have been a drug user (e.g., in " Guts" and " This Sorrowful Life"). According to Shane and Daryl, Merle was a drug dealer before the outbreak. Though the length of time and military occupational specialty are not stated, Merle served in the United States Marine Corps, where at some point he mouthed off to a non-commissioned officer and subsequently punched five of his teeth out. Having no mother and a neglectful and abusive father, Merle raised Daryl when not incarcerated in juvenile detention. Merle is the older brother of Daryl Dixon. Rooker was among the cast members who were awarded the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series in 2012. Rooker made guest appearances as Merle in the series' first and second seasons, before he was upgraded to a series regular for the third season, where he lost a significant amount of weight in preparation for the role. He is also a main character in the 2013 video game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, which focuses on him and Daryl during the early days of the zombie apocalypse. Merle is an original character in the television series and shares no counterpart in the comic books. When the character reappears in the third season, reviewers began to have more favorable views towards him. The character's introduction garnered negative reviews from professional critics, but fan response was positive. He becomes caught in the conflict between the Governor and Rick, especially when nobody in Rick's group wants him in the group, except for Daryl. Following an encounter with series protagonist Rick Grimes, Merle disappears and joins the community of Woodbury, Georgia, where he becomes the right-hand man of The Governor. He is misogynistic and racist, which causes tensions between him and his group of survivors. ![]() The character was first introduced in the first season as a Southern redneck hunter who has a younger brother, Daryl. He was created by series developer Frank Darabont and was portrayed by Michael Rooker. Merle Dixon is a fictional character from the horror drama television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC in the United States.
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