[2] Armed with a katana and harboring a mysterious past, in both the comic and TV series Michonne has a prominent role in the conflict between the town of Woodbury led by The Governor, and the Prison group.

In the television series, Michonne's trauma and guarded nature gradually diminishes as she slowly recovers and finds herself opening up and investing in a community of Rick's core group.

[15] Michonne and Abraham are clearing zombies away from the Alexandria Safe-Zone perimeter when they are surprised by an unknown man, later revealed to be named Paul "Jesus" Monroe.

An adult Carl is tried before Michonne, now a High Court judge in the Commonwealth, for the crime of killing walkers Hershel Rhee kept as a travelling show feature, as they are now viewed as property.

[20] Michonne makes her first appearance as a hooded figure near the end of the second-season finale, "Beside the Dying Fire" (though at the time Danai Gurira had not been cast for this role), wherein she saves Andrea from a walker by decapitating it with her katana, which features a triquetra on the inner crossguard.

In the episode "Walk with Me", Michonne and Andrea are taken by a group led by Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker) from a nearby town called Woodbury, run by the Governor (David Morrissey).

Andrea, having been severely ill after spending eight months on the road, embraces the town's sense of community which Michonne resists, suspicious of The Governor and his leadership.

She then spies Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) on a supply run in a nearby town and overhears directions to the prison where they are staying, but Michonne is not able to make contact with them as they are ambushed and kidnapped by Merle.

In the episode "When the Dead Come Knocking", Michonne is brought into the prison, albeit cautiously, by Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Rick (Andrew Lincoln), who directs Hershel (Scott Wilson) to tend to her wounds.

During a mission to rescue Glenn and Maggie with the prison group, in the mid-season finale "Made to Suffer", Michonne finds the Governor's zombie daughter, Penny, whom she kills despite his pleas not to.

When the Governor is punching Rick in the face, Michonne impales him through the chest with her katana killing him and escapes as the prison is overwhelmed by walkers drawn by the noise.

Enraged when Dan (Keith Brooks) tries to rape Carl, Rick snaps and brutally kills Joe by biting out a chunk of his throat.

When Michonne returned and realized what happened, she let them turn and kept Mike and Terry as her walker pets, as a way of punishing them for allowing Andre to die.

Forced into a container, the group are reunited with Glenn, Maggie, Bob and Sasha, as well as meeting Sergeant Abraham Ford, Dr. Eugene Porter, Rosita Espinosa and Tara Chambler.

[26] In the episode "Strangers", as the group continues travelling Michonne offers to take out a nearby walker only to realize her sword was left behind in Terminus and kills it with a gun instead.

The people of Alexandria, led by politician Deanna Monroe (Tovah Feldshuh), have been shielded from many of the dangers and tribulations that the new world holds, which causes Rick's group to believe they are weak.

Deanna explains to Rick and Michonne that their basic roles as constables are to keep the peace and establish a sense of civilization inside the walls of Alexandria.

In the episode "Try", Rick fights with Pet, an Alexandria resident, he begins to angrily rant to the gathered crowd and pointing a gun at them, Michonne eventually silences him by knocking him unconscious.

In the season finale "Conquer", Rick admits to Michonne that he and Carol stole guns from the armory but didn’t tell her because he was afraid she could try to change his mind.

Rick agrees, having seen the costs of subjugation and the two reunite with Maggie and Daryl at the Hilltop (along with Carl, Rosita, and Tara) as the group walks off to plan their next move.

The ninth season of the series finds Rick's group attempting to build new lives following an end to the conflict against the Saviors, with Negan being kept in the jail inside Alexandria.

In the episode "What Comes After", Rick seemingly sacrifices himself by blowing up the bridge they were constructing to connect all the communities, in order to stop an oncoming herd of walkers, leaving Michonne devastated.

Michonne is shown visibly pregnant, having spent the last few months looking for Rick's body after the explosion, finding no trace of him except for his pistol (which she eventually gives to Judith).

In the series finale, a year after Michonne's departure to find Rick, she continues her search, although she appears to have parted ways with the group of survivors that she had encountered and resumed her journey alone on horseback.

They accompany her to Bridgers Terminal, but are attacked by a CRM helicopter that launches Chlorine Gas on them, all but she and Nat are killed, and the two are forced to remain in their location for a year to remove the poison from their bodies.

Thorne gives Michonne a chance to prove her worth by joining her, Rick and a handful of soldiers on a mission to clear a mountainous area for the CRM.

After jumping from the helicopter, Michonne and Rick fall into a river outside of Greenwood, a community of innovators formed after the apocalypse began and which still has power and modern amenities.

Making a stop to rest on their way to Alexandria, Rick and Michonne encounters and fight off a family of bandits and spend the night in Yellowstone National Park where Jadis, having deduced their survival, finds them.

"[32] Noel Murray of Rolling Stone ranked Michonne number one in a list of 30 best Walking Dead characters, saying, "She survived on her own for months, figuring out how to thrive in the wilderness under the harshest of circumstances.

Savage when she has to be, tender and affectionate with her friends and lovers, both nurturing and deadly as they come, this character (courtesy of Danai Gurira's continually extraordinary performance) represents this series at its best.