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Merle Dixon
Merle Dixon is a fictional character from the AMC television series The Walking Dead, portrayed by Michael Rooker. He is an original character and shares no comic counterpart. He is also a main character in the 2013 video game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, which focuses on him and his brother, Daryl Dixon, during the early days of the zombie apocalypse.
Merle is the older brother of Daryl Dixon. Having no mother (who, when they were young, died in a house fire while smoking in bed) and a neglectful and abusive father, Merle raised Daryl when not in juvenile hall. Though the length of time and branch were not stated, Merle served in the military, where at some point he mouthed off to a non-commissioned officer and subsequently punched five of his teeth out. According to Shane Walsh and Daryl, Merle was a drug dealer before the outbreak. He is also shown to have been a drug user (e.g., in "Guts" and "This Sorrowful Life").
Merle first appears in the episode "Guts", along with a group of survivors who had traveled into Atlanta to scavenge for supplies. While atop a department store roof, Merle begins firing a rifle at walkers on the street while the group demands that he stop. Merle gets into a physical altercation with T-Dog (IronE Singleton) after Merle calls him a "nigger" and subsequently beats T-Dog in a brief, intense fight. 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 is put under T-Dog's watch while the other survivors attempt to find a way out of the city. 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. Before T-Dog flees, he chains the rooftop door shut. 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. 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.
Rick and the group return to the camp and explain to Daryl that they abandoned Merle. 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. Returning to the department store roof, the four see that Merle has severed his own hand with a dull hacksaw but find evidence that he survived the self-mutilation by cauterizing the wound. The four follow Merle's blood-trail through the department store but are unable to find him. Back outside, they discover their truck has been taken.
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Wikipedia>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dixon
The Walking Dead Wiki>walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Merle_Dixon
The Intellectual Zombie>reviewthewalkingdead.blogspot.com/2013/04/merle-dixon-13.html
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AMC>www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead/cast/merle-dixon
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Merle is the older brother of Daryl Dixon. Having no mother (who, when they were young, died in a house fire while smoking in bed) and a neglectful and abusive father, Merle raised Daryl when not in juvenile hall. Though the length of time and branch were not stated, Merle served in the military, where at some point he mouthed off to a non-commissioned officer and subsequently punched five of his teeth out. According to Shane Walsh and Daryl, Merle was a drug dealer before the outbreak. He is also shown to have been a drug user (e.g., in "Guts" and "This Sorrowful Life").
Merle first appears in the episode "Guts", along with a group of survivors who had traveled into Atlanta to scavenge for supplies. While atop a department store roof, Merle begins firing a rifle at walkers on the street while the group demands that he stop. Merle gets into a physical altercation with T-Dog (IronE Singleton) after Merle calls him a "nigger" and subsequently beats T-Dog in a brief, intense fight. 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 is put under T-Dog's watch while the other survivors attempt to find a way out of the city. 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. Before T-Dog flees, he chains the rooftop door shut. 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. 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.
Rick and the group return to the camp and explain to Daryl that they abandoned Merle. 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. Returning to the department store roof, the four see that Merle has severed his own hand with a dull hacksaw but find evidence that he survived the self-mutilation by cauterizing the wound. The four follow Merle's blood-trail through the department store but are unable to find him. Back outside, they discover their truck has been taken.
Links:
Wikipedia>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dixon
The Walking Dead Wiki>walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Merle_Dixon
The Intellectual Zombie>reviewthewalkingdead.blogspot.com/2013/04/merle-dixon-13.html
Copyright Owner/Official Site
AMC>www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead/cast/merle-dixon
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