Philip Blake 菲利普·布莱克

In Season 3, The Governor played off a facade of a congenial man, but, in reality, was a volatile and depraved sociopath. He was a smooth talker, easily able to talk his way out of situations using his "charm", and was able to use his manipulative abilities to coerce others into doing his own bidding. He was obsessed with protecting the people that he cared about by taking charge and doing what he saw as the only way of survival for his people, which included killing anyone who was a potential threat to them. He also had dark secrets, such as keeping his zombified daughter in a closet and having fish tanks filled with walker and human heads. Throughout Season 3, he gradually became a much more cold-hearted and barbaric person. His dark personality was only exacerbated when Michonne broke into his house and killed his zombified daughter, thus triggering homicidal desires within him. From then on, he lost most of his sanity and only desired to be on a warpath, seeking retaliation on Michonne and Rick's group (the latter having attacked him and "taken" Woodbury away from him).

In Season 4, after wandering alone for months following the fall of Woodbury, The Governor adopted a "makeshift family" that he found whilst wandering and retains much of his old self. However, he lied to them, keeping his past and his violent nature a secret, while convincing himself that he is doing this to protect them (which is true). According to his actor, David Morrissey, The Governor was genuinely fighting himself in a "Jekyll-and-Hyde" manner. This battle with himself ultimately proved to be fruitless, as he returns to his old actions to protect his new family by killing Caesar Martinez and later Pete Dolgen and attempting to take the prison from Rick's group by holding Hershel and Michonne hostage, eventually brutally killing Hershel and almost suceeding to kill Rick. He dies an unremorseful mass murderer, and is put down by one of the very people he swore to protect, yet failed to.