Ezekiel (Walking Dead)

Ezekiel is a fictional group leader in The Walking Dead multimedia franchise. He appeared on the AMC survival horror series The Walking Dead where he was played by actor Khary Payton and made his debut in the second episode of season seven, "The Well".

Season 7
Ezekiel is the leader of The Kingdom, who two runners were responsible for rescuing Carol Peletier and Morgan Jones in the season six finale, "Last Day on Earth". Though Morgan adjusts quickly to the new surroundings, the awakening Carol believes the medieval-style Kingdom to be a joke, especially being led by a "king" who also owns a pet Bengal tiger named Shiva and plans to leave once she is well enough. While on a run with Ezekiel and other Kingdom runners, Morgan discovers that The Kingdom is secretly letting pigs they are selling to the Saviors eat walker flesh in hopes of making them fall ill to get out of Negan's grasp. Ezekiel also mentions to Morgan that he hopes he will train Benjamin in the art of Aikido with a staff. Later, Ezekiel catches Carol attempting to sneak out and grab a pomegranate. Dropping his medieval accent and King facade, Ezekiel mentions that before the apocalypse, he was a zookeeper who tended to an injured Shiva when she busted her leg on a concrete moat. Since then, she has remained loyal to him and that rumors being spreading that Ezekiel was an extraordinary man who conquered a tiger and made it his pet. This made people look to him as a leader for safety and he has to keep selling the lie to keep up hope. Ezekiel tells Carol that he respects her decision either way but really hopes she will stick around. Carol stays in an abandoned house not too far from The Kingdom and is visited by Ezekiel and Shiva, who tells her she really needs to try a pomegranate as she smiles politely back at him.

Season 7

 * "The Well"