Maggie Rhee[1] (née Greene) is a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead, portrayed by Lauren Cohan in the television adaptation of the same name.

Tragedy soon befalls Maggie, her brother Billy, and Hershel, when her two youngest sisters are brutally murdered by one of the remaining prison inmates, who is revealed to be a psychopathic sadist.

[volume & issue needed] The family remains close and in a deep state of depression for an extended amount of time, with Maggie caught in the middle of Billy and Hershel's strained relationship.

[7] Maggie yearns for a child, but Glenn and Hershel turn down the notion when they remind her of the cruel reality they are living in; despite this, however, she still holds out hope that she will be able to at some point when they have a more secure and better supplied environment.

[volume & issue needed] Upon reuniting with Rick and others, Maggie learns of Hershel and Billy's deaths during the assault; this sinks her into a deep depression, made even worse by the reminders of them around the farm.

[8] Glenn's attempts to console her prove effortless, and while journeying with the group led by Sergeant Abraham Ford to Washington D.C., she sneaks off into the woods one night and hangs herself.

After many strenuous events at the Alexandria Safe Zone, she and Glenn finally get some good news in the form of Doctor Cloyd telling her she is pregnant (much to the couple's surprise).

[volume & issue needed] She eventually ousts the Hilltop's leader, Gregory as a selfish coward, who pledges allegiance to Negan in order to avoid his own death, with no concern for the community itself.

[volume & issue needed] Maggie delivers a speech coercing the entire town to support Rick in his war against the Saviors, citing their precarious position and future as a reason to push forward against the Saviours.

[volume & issue needed] Maggie successfully overthrows Gregory's position as leader and the allied forces manage to work together and capture Negan, who subsequently resides as a prisoner at the Alexandria Safe Zone.

[volume & issue needed] After Sophia is brutally beaten almost to death by two bullies, and is saved by Carl Grimes, now working as a blacksmith apprentice and living at the Hilltop Colony with Maggie, she is forced to send him away.

[volume & issue needed] Maggie is introduced as Hershel (Scott Wilson)'s confident and athletic eldest daughter and the sister of Beth Greene (Emily Kinney).

In the episode "Bloodletting", after Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) is accidentally shot, Maggie retrieves his mother, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and brings her to the farm, where her father Hershel (Scott Wilson) treats the boy's wounds.

In the episode "18 Miles Out", Maggie's sister, Beth (Emily Kinney) becomes suicidal and Andrea (Laurie Holden) encourages her to make a choice whether to take her life.

In the season premiere "Seed", after spending the winter on the run, the group spots an abandoned prison and Maggie proves herself a capable soldier in helping to clear the yard of walkers.

In the episode "Us", the three run into Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz), Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt), and Rosita Espinosa (Christian Serratos) and save Glenn and Tara Chambler (Alanna Masterson) from walkers in a tunnel.

In the mid-season premiere "What Happened and What's Going On", in the aftermath, Maggie, now the lone surviving Greene, is depressed but agrees to go on to Washington regardless, in hopes of a safe haven, despite encountering another loss with the death of Tyreese (Chad L. Coleman).

In the midseason premiere, "No Way Out", Glenn and Enid (Katelyn Nacon) save Maggie from the lookout post and join the others in fighting the herd inside Alexandria.

In "Knots Untie", Maggie follows Paul "Jesus" Monroe (Tom Payne) to the Hilltop and negotiates a trading deal with its Governor, Gregory (Xander Berkely), to take care of a hostile group called the Saviors in exchange for food and supplies.

In the season finale, "Last Day on Earth", Rick, Carl, Sasha, Abraham, Eugene and Aaron drive the RV to get Maggie to the Hilltop's doctor, but they are trapped and captured by the Saviors.

In "Dead or Alive Or" a Savior named Alden (Callan McAuliffe) suggests an agreement to Maggie that the prisoners be allowed to leave the cell supervised for a short period of time.

The woman they meet calls herself Georgie (Jayne Atkinson) and gives Maggie hand drawn blueprints for buildings and machinery such as windmills to allow the Hilltop to thrive after the war.

Maggie and Daryl eventually deduce that Oceanside is the culprit, seeking revenge upon the surviving Saviors who took part in the massacre of all of the males in their community over the age of ten.

Negan makes a Whisperer mask for Maggie, and tells her that he should have killed Rick's entire group, including her, because it would have made life safer for the other communities that the Saviors ruled.

Several years after the end of The Walking Dead, Maggie seeks out the help of Negan, revealing that Hershel has been kidnapped and taken to a walker-infested Manhattan by a man known only as the Croat.

In the years since the defeat of Pamela Milton and Lance Hornsby, Maggie has been forced to abandon the original Hilltop due to the damage from the Whisperers ultimately being too severe to repair, instead relocating the community to a rural factory complex in either New York or New Jersey.

With the kidnapping of her son and her reunion and reluctant alliance with her husband's killer, Maggie is forced to deal with a resurgence of trauma over Glenn's death, particularly as Negan has reverted back to many of his old ways.

It was later reported Cohan had not reached an agreement to sign on for season 9 as a main cast member due to a pay dispute, as she demanded an enhanced salary closer to her male co-stars Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus.

Andrew Conrad of The Baltimore Sun stated that the storyline epitomized a "steamy romance",[20] while The Wall Street Journal's Aaron Rutkoff called it "the funniest moment of the series.

"[27] Noel Murray of Rolling Stone ranked Maggie Greene 7th in a list of 30 best Walking Dead characters, saying, "She's developed political acumen thanks to the tutelage of Deanna, and has used it to fill the void within the survivors and become the group's real leader.