r/respectthreads • u/Mr_Bell_Man • Apr 09 '22
games Respect Lee Everett (Telltale's The Walking Dead Game)
"That little girl's in my care. We've been through more together than you can imagine. Anyone who tries to get between me and her--ANYONE--is gonna wind up dead! You hear me?!?!?"
Lee Everett
Lee Everett is the main character of Season 1 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead video game series. A history teacher turned murderer on his way to prison, Lee instead finds himself in the midst of the walker (zombie) apocalypse. At the very start of the outbreak, Lee meets and befriends a little girl named Clementine who he takes into his care. Having to deal with bandits, cannibals, and even some shitbirds within his own group, Lee will do everything in his power to protect Clementine and ensure her a bright future.
In the final episode, Lee has the option to cut his left arm off after being bitten by a walker. Despite only having 1 arm, Lee has some surprisingly really good feats in this state which further shows how much of a beast he is. I will list these feats with a [1 arm] prefix. Keep in mind that all of the 1 arm feats can still be done by Lee even if he doesn’t cut the arm off.
Strength
General:
- Breaks the window of a cop car by kicking it with 1 leg.
- Keeps a double door shut that has a ton of walkers trying to get through
- Pulls a walker so hard that it rips in half.
- Pushes a 4-door car by himself
- While stuck underneath a door with 2 walkers on top, pushes the door back and slides out.
- Kills a walker by stomping on its head.
- Catches Ben and, using just 1 arm, holds onto him for at least 40 seconds. During this time, Lee talks to Ben and even turns around to look at Kenny while still holding on.
- Continued from above: pulls Ben back up using just 1 arm for most of the pull.
- Despite being in his late teens, Ben is surprisingly really big. He’s roughly 6’5” which makes him the tallest character in all of Season 1 and possibly even the entire series.
- [1 arm] Using a meat cleaver, slices a walker’s head in half. Remember that Lee was close to dying at this point.
Melee Combat with Humans:
- [Pre-Apocalypse] Killed a senator who was caught sleeping with his wife through unknown means. Lee claims that his death was an accident though the whole ordeal is vague and up to player interpretation.
- Resists Andy St. John’s attempt to push him into an electrical fence and overpowers him.
- Beats Andy to the point where his face is completely messed up. Beating could’ve gone on longer but Lee is told to stop by his friends.
- Fights back and restrains an angered Kenny, who is filled with rage due to his son’s impending death.
- Defeats Molly who was going in for a sneak attack.
- As shown in the version where you lose to Molly, she was planning to either kill or seriously harm Lee so she wasn’t going easy on him during this encounter. Molly was going to hit you with her pickaxe as she assumed you were with Crawford, a group of horrible people which she greatly despises.
- Right after the encounter with Lee, Molly easily disarms Kenny despite him having a gun on her back. Kenny RT for reference.
- [WoG] Telltale Director Kent Mudle stated that Lilly in Season 4 is the best fighter in the game series, with the exception of “weird gods” from past games including Molly. Going by this, Lee defeated one of the best combatants in his series.
- [1 arm] Overpowers Clem’s kidnapper, who is on top of him and has a gun.
- [1 arm] After getting shot on the left side of his body, hits Clem's kidnapper in the face with his only arm, then tackles him and starts to choke him.
- [1 arm] Strangles Clem’s kidnapper to death. Keep in mind that you can still strangle the kidnapper to death even if you got shot as mentioned above.
Durability
- Is inside of a cop car that crashes into a walker and rolls down a big hill. Although knocked out for a while, Lee survives with only an injured leg.
- Gets sucker punched in the face by Larry, but gets back up after about 10 seconds.
- Larry is a big powerhouse, being described by Kenny as 6’4” and 300 lbs.
- Falls and hits his head on a windshield which cracks from the impact, but is seemingly unaffected.
- Gets pushed off an overpass (or alternatively, jumps off of it himself) and lands on top of a slow-moving train without being injured. He then quickly jumps down to get inside the train cabin.
- [NSFW] Cuts his own arm off without any anesthetic and patches it up right before passing out for a few hours. Despite the unbearable pain, Lee is able to continue the episode while doing all of the [1 arm] feats mentioned in this thread during a course of several hours. He only starts to pass out again and eventually die after he saves Clem; by that point it's nighttime whereas the arm cutting was earlier in the day.
- Gets bitten by walkers two additional times in the right shoulder during his charge to the marsh house, but can still fight like nothing happened. He later confronts Clem’s kidnapper without any issues.
- Gets shot by Clem's kidnapper on the left side of his body. Seemingly doesn't phase him at all as he's able to fight back and then later leave the Marsh House with Clem.
- Gets hit in the head with a big vase while minutes away from death. Blurs out for a second, but can still see and is able to slide a bat towards Clem.
- [Limit] Dies after being shot in the head by Clem.
- [Limit] If Clem doesn’t shoot Lee then he still succumbs to the walker virus he got earlier, even if you cut his arm off. It’s speculated that armless Lee dies since he cut the arm off too late or because his arm wasn’t cauterized/treated correctly since he was in a rush to save Clem.
Speed & Agility
- Is about to get a surprise shot to the face by Danny St. John, but quickly grabs the rifle and moves it away (he covers his ear at the end due to the sound of the shot, not because he got hit).
- Shoves Andy’s rifle away right as it fires (listen to clip with sound).
- Dashes into a forest after hearing a gunshot, arrives to see Kenny still processing what happened.
- Leaps off a building and catches Molly’s hand to get onto the next building.
- [1 arm] Climbs a giant ladder in an elevator shaft so that he can reach the roof. Including the underground morgue area where Lee entered from, the hospital is 5 floors.
- [1 arm] While climbing a diagonal ladder, quickly runs on it and jumps onto a bell tower right before the ladder falls down.
- [1 arm] Runs and jumps off a bell tower, then pulls himself up on the next building’s ledge.
- [Limit] Gets bitten after failing to notice a (suspiciously quiet and crazy fast) walker while checking out a radio or when checking behind some trash. Arguably a case of Plot-Induced Stupidity.
Weapons
Due to the narrative style of these games, Lee usually can’t carry too many weapons on him at the same time. With that said, I will still list what Lee has done with the weapons that he’s been able to use.
If Lee were hypothetically plopped into a non-barefisted death match, he would at the very least have one gun and one melee weapon on him. They’d most likely be his pistol and a meat cleaver as those are probably his most signature weapons.
Guns:
- Pistol
- Hunting rifle
- Shoots several bandits (and walkers) in the head during an attack on the motel. The bullets always go through the bandit’s heads so canonically they are all headshots.
- Shotgun
Melee Weapons:
- Awl
- Fire axe
- Pitchfork
- Hatchet
- Meat cleaver
Skills and Intellect
- [Pre-Apocalypse] Lee was a history professor at the University of Georgia for 6 years up until the Senator’s death. Had a particular liking for the American Civil War.
- Lee is good with words and can talk his way out of various situations. Some examples include:
- Talking down (well technically, talking up) a cannibal who has him and his friend at gunpoint.
- Convincing Kenny, who is filled with denial and anger due to his son’s impending death, to stop the train without fighting.
- Convincing a group of people who thinks he’s with Crawford (an evil authoritarian group) to put down the gun they have pointed at him.
- Lee is good with puzzle solving and making use of what items/observations are near him. Examples include:
- Using a pillow to lower the sound of a gunshot (whether this would work in real life is… up for debate)
- Escapes from a locked meat locker by remembering that a dead guy in the room had coins in his pocket. Uses said coins to unscrew the air conditioner and have Clem crawl through to open the door from the other side.
- Pieces together through his own experience that walker guts can be used to blend in with other walkers.
- Other characters in the series such as the S2 cabin group, Kenny, Mike, and the Garcia family would not learn of this trick until years into the apocalypse after having it told to them by others. Said characters were even dumbfounded at the idea when first hearing of it.
- [Limit] Doesn’t know how to pick a lock despite being… you know… urban?
Other
- Trips a lot, though it should be noted that a lot of these instances are in the first episode where he has an injured leg.
- Gets prioritized by Clem for dream sequences over her actual parents.
- May or may not be a total scumbag.
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u/SuperSentry7 Feb 09 '23
Also, I didn’t know that they stated Lilly was the best fighter in the series minus weird gods like Molly who Lee can defeat.