Madison Clark, portrayed by Kim Dickens, is a former high school guidance counselor and is the mother to Nick and Alicia and ex-fiancé of Travis.
Travis Manawa, portrayed by Cliff Curtis, is a former English teacher who divorced from his wife Elizabeth Ortiz and had to deal with the resentment of his troubled son Chris.
Travis is a good-natured man and loving father, a protective, pragmatic and resolute individual who holds a firm personal conviction and belief that everything can be fixed, one way or another.
He has been described as "the one character who desperately tries to cling to his humanity, the one person who believes that there is always a way to repair something that is broken and that a corner will always be turned" and "a good man trying to do right by everyone in his life".
She was a formerly high-ranking member and resident of the Broke Jaw Ranch community as she becomes a de facto co-leader, and briefly had a relationship with Jake Otto.
Christopher was shown to be a normal, highly intelligent teenager before the apocalypse occurred, though he did appear to be extremely angered at his father for leaving and seemed to hold this against him for the rest of his life.
[1] Victor Strand, portrayed by Colman Domingo, is a mysterious character who has acquired great personal wealth as immediately indicated by his suit and jewelry, then later by his gated coast-side estate, Aston Martin and luxury yacht, the Abigail.
Alex, portrayed by Michelle Ang, is a pragmatic and quiet survivor of Asian descent introduced in the Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 web series.
With Luciana having been left unconscious from her worsening condition, Nick successfully forces the Otto family to treat her and she eventually recovers from her injuries.
However, their community at the Dell Diamond baseball stadium is destroyed by a massive attack by the Vultures, apparently killing everyone aside from Luciana, Nick, Strand and Alicia.
After Virginia's defeat, Luciana moves to Morgan's new community where she accompanies Alicia, Al and Wes on their reconnaissance mission into the cult's base, the Holding.
After the cult successfully launches ten nuclear warheads, Luciana joins Daniel, Wes, Sarah, Jacob, Charlie and Rollie in seeking shelter from the coming destruction.
As Daniel has been proven to have been right, Luciana backs him up about the coordinates that he had heard over the radio which turn out to have come from Al who has sent her CRM pilot friend Isabelle to rescue the group.
After Daniel brutally kills Arno, the leader of the Stalkers, Luciana is able to convince the rest to join their fight against Strand and his forces at the Tower.
Described as having "embraced the violence of the apocalypse", with his "isolationist viewpoint" of being "intensely suspicious of outsiders" having allowed him to be "better-suited for leading in this new post-apocalyptic world", after having a hateful mother and drunk negligent father.
At Madison's insistence, Troy leads a team to rescue Alicia from Black Hat Reservation, breaking a truce and killing several of Walker's men.
Shortly after defeating the Saviors, Morgan leaves the Junkyard and begins working his way west, ending up in Texas where he meets John Dorie.
After running into a hostile group of survivors, the two men are rescued by a journalist named Althea and are then captured by Victor Strand, Luciana Galvez and Nick and Alicia Clark.
John Dorie, portrayed by Garret Dillahunt, is a former police officer who uses 2 Colts Singles as his primary weapon and is also a man of fascinating contradictions and one of the first survivors Morgan encountered in Season 4.
Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki, portrayed by Maggie Grace, is a curious and tactical journalist who encounters Morgan Jones and John Dorie on the road through Virginia.
Following the destruction of PADRE, June decides to travel around providing medical attention to those who need it, painting a large cross on the side of Al's old SWAT van.
Charlie's condition is shown to be rapidly deteriorating, leaving her bedridden soon after she first gets sick and with June and Grace predicting that she only has a few weeks left to live at most.
Grace Mukherjee, portrayed by Karen David, is a mysterious woman who used to work at a nuclear power plant that melted down near the site where the plane of Morgan's group crashed.
Shortly after this revelation, while helping Morgan to lay his son Duane to rest, Grace is bitten by a walker while protecting a now eight-year-old Mo.
In season 5, he made his first appearance in the spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, becoming the second character to crossover, the first being Morgan in the fourth season, Dwight was a ruthless and reluctant lieutenant member of "The Saviors" a group of people who subjugated communities (including Alexandria, Hilltop and The Kingdom), to be given food, supplies in exchange for "protection" Dwight had to do abominable things to save his wife Sherry who was held captive by Negan (the leader of the Saviors), when the communities revealed Dwight was a key piece for the victory of the rebel communities since he offered to work as a double agent helping especially Alexandria, when the communities manage to defeat the Saviors, Dwight is forced to be exiled due to his atrocities, who repented of his actions decides to leave and go in search of his wife Sherry.
Now completely disillusioned with other people, Wes only cares about ensuring his own survival, mutinying against Strand and condemning his former friends to death if it means protecting his new home.
In season 7's "Cindy Hawkins," John Sr. finds a reanimated Dakota outside of Teddy's secret bunker when he emerges a couple of months later due to his hallucinations.
Shortly before the bunker collapses, John finally locates her body hidden in the walls and gains peace on his failure to find her and keep his promise to her mother.
In "Sonny Boy," John reveals to June that he is dying of terminal radiation sickness, having gotten exposed while rescuing Charlie from a radioactive building despite being quick and taking precautions.
Determined to ensure his legacy, John embarks upon a suicide mission to deliver baby Mo to Morgan through the Tower's walker moat, wearing a makeshift suit of armor.