However, in "Bury Me Here", after Jared causes the death of Benjamin, Morgan singles Jared out as a personal enemy. The captured Saviors are then taken to the Hilltop. However, Morgan kicks Jared off of him and into a hallway that walkers are coming down. He was a tank driver from Woodbury and is a member of the Woodbury Army. However, Jared turns tables on Richard after noticing that he is willing to die for the sake of Kingdom and instead shoots Benjamin in the leg. Maggie shows that she is not to be messed with and easily subdues and knocks out Jared during his unsuccessful escape attempt. Jared had an intense disliking f… He can be ruthless when necessary, but is more inclined to be diplomatic than his peers. Jared is among a group of Saviors led by Gavin in charge of collecting weekly offerings from the Kingdom. Their bad relationship is shown when Jared shoots Benjamin and not Richard, as Gavin had ordered, and when he lost patience with Jared and ordered him to get into his truck, otherwise he would kill him. The next day, Jared and the Saviors return for the missing cantaloupe. Jared screams as he is bitten several times and continues to beg Morgan to let him go, which the latter does after Jared is too weak to move. Jared and Richard have an incredibly poor and fairly violent relationship, at every exchange between the Kingdom and the Saviors, Jared takes any chance he can to antagonize Richard, and at times violently attacks him. He is portrayed by Joshua Mikel, who also portrayed Steven Conners in Black Lightning. After a brief argument, Jared gets angered and tries to pistol-whip Richard but is stopped by Morgan who hits him with his stick. Jared then starts throwing "free punches" to Richard and is eventually stopped by Gavin, who points out that Ezekiel has been good to them so far and has done nothing to deserve a bad treatment. Jared and his fellow Saviors are waiting for the Kingdommers to show up for their weekly supply drop. As the walkers bite Jared on the face multiple times, Morgan eventually lets go of him and watches as Jared gets dragged back and fully devoured, putting an end to his terror and cowardly ways. Jared insists on killing them and to head to the Sanctuary when Rick offers the Saviors a chance to return to the Hilltop and join the community, which most consider though Jared refuses to believe the offer. He is a member of the Saviors. As a result, Henry demands to know which one killed his brother though Jared doesn't answer. Jared appears to be a sadist, as he smirked while shooting Benjamin in the leg and seemed greatly amused by the subsequent pain and anguish this caused the people of the Kingdom, took delight in cruelly mocking Morgan over Benjamin's subsequent death and later says "music to my ears" with a smile as Hilltop members were screaming while being devoured by walkers, further showing Jared's lack of empathy and remorse towards other people. Ultimately, Morgan kicks Jared into a hallway from where walkers are coming down and closes a metal gate to block Jared's escape route. He is a member of the Saviors. Shortly after, Jared tries once again to escape by using a piece of wood to cut through the binds around his wrists but Alden bumps him, causing him to drop the wood as he wants to avoid causing any more trouble. —Jared to his fellow Saviors after Rick tries to negotiate with them.. Jared is an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. When confronted with an armed Henry looking for his brother's killer in "Do Not Send Us Astray", Jared pathetically tried to hide behind another Savior, mostly unsuccessfully due to Jared's size compared to the smaller man. He is one of the worst Saviors met so far, earning the hostility of Ezekiel, Richard, Benjamin, Morgan, Maggie and even his own boss, Gavin and fellow Savior, Alden. He is subsequently devoured by the herd of walkers as Morgan watches in seeming pleasure. In "The Damned" as Morgan reaches the outside of the outpost where the Saviors are rounded up, Jared can be seen holding a rifle. Later, Jared is seen trying to cut his binds with a piece of wood and is stopped by Alden, not wanting him and the rest of the Saviors to cause any more trouble. When Morgan kills a surrendering Savior at a roadblock, he hallucinates seeing a partially devoured Jared who begins to mock Morgan for his brutal killing until Jesus snaps Morgan back into reality. When Morgan and Rick are kidnapped by an escaped Jared and a band of fellow escaped Saviors, the pair end up in a scuffle, Morgan kicks Jared away before closing a gate and holding Jared to it, allowing walkers to eat him alive. This list shows the victims Jared has killed: Jared and Gavin have a complicated relationship due to Jared's obnoxious personality. Walking Dead Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. All Rick is saying here, is a steaming pile of bullshit." He is a high-ranking member of the Saviors and one of Negan's four outpost leaders alongside Simon, Regina, and Eugene Porter. However, Jesus stops him. —Jared to The Governor.. Jared is a character and an antagonist first encountered in Issue 44 of Image Comics' The Walking Dead. Several seconds later as he speaks to Morgan, his rifle is missing. Although he arrogantly didn't believe the Militia would harm any of the 39 Saviors (Jared among them) they took captive, having clearly gotten used to getting away with his violent, bullying behavior without any consequences, he was shocked when Maggie proved him wrong by killing Dean and from that moment onwards became very withdrawn whenever she was around, doing his best not to attract her attention, having clearly realized for the first time that he actually may not survive after all. At some point in the apocalypse, Jared somehow came into contact with a group named "the Saviors" which he subsequently joined. However, Jared shoots Benjamin in the leg instead. Ezekiel tells Richard to hand over his gun, which he reluctantly does. He serves as a recurring antagonist in Season 7 and in Season 8. After arriving at the Hilltop, the captured Saviors are let inside and corralled into two trailers in the back of the settlement. Jared is a character first encountered in The Fall of the Governor. Although an antagonist, Gavin is extremely collected and level-headed for a Savior. Jared and the others watch on as Maggie threatens Alden and Dean's body is taken away. He was a tank driver from Woodbury and is a member of the Woodbury Army. Although Jared was never shown onscreen with Negan, it was clear that he was completely loyal to him and the Saviors as he was willing to deliver Rick to him. He was a survivor of the zombie apocalypse living in the U.S. state of Virginia. When the next tribute is deliberately ruined by Richard, who hides one of the cantaloupes, Gavin orders Jared to shoot Richard as a payment. Gavin is an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. Jared is a character and an antagonist in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. As Jared attempts to flee, Morgan chases him and they start fighting until Jared briefly gains the upper hand and tries to kill Morgan with a sharp stick. During that week's offering, he gets into a fight with Richard and proceeds to punch him several times before being ordered off of him by Gavin. During the walker attack on the dive bar, Jared attempts to escape only to be engaged in a fight by Morgan, who has been released by Reilly. Jared is a character first encountered in The Fall of the Governor. Jared (Woodbury) Jared (Comic Series) - A member of Woodbury in the Comic Series., Jared (Novel Series) - A member of Woodbury in the Novel Series. Jared first mocks him while in the prison at the Hilltop, to which Henry demands who killed his brother, Benjamin but Jared doesn't reply. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Jared_(The_Walking_Dead)?oldid=3626056. When the tables are turned on Jared however, he shows himself to be a coward. As the Saviors prepare to attack, he is sent back inside along with the other prisoners. Before he lets Richard go, Jared gives him the middle finger and then leaves with his fellow Saviors. However, he and the Militia are almost immediately distracted by walkers coming down a hill and Jared uses this chance to try an escape, Morgan chases Jared and the other Saviors into the woods, he executes one of them and prepares to shoot Jared next, but Jesus stops him again. Along the way, he annoys and taunts Morgan over the death of Benjamin to the point of Morgan pointing a gun at him. Jared is among the Saviors being transported to the Hilltop. This angers Gavin who orders Jared to return Morgan's staff. Serve Gavin and take supplies from the Kingdom. Jared worked under the leadership of a man named Gavin, who was tasked with picking up their regularly scheduled tribute from a community called The Kingdom. When Jesus and Tara arrest a group of Saviors during the attack on the outpost, Jared is seen among them. After Gavin orders him to kill Richard as punishment for the Kingdom being one cantaloupe short, Jared shoots Benjamin instead, later killing him. Since Jared wasn't one of the six soldiers to return to Woodbury, he likely was devoured by walkers at some point during or after the battle. The following night, Henry opens up the cage and threatens to start shooting the Saviors one by one, if his brother's killer doesn't start showing up. While being escorted inside of the prison, he attempts to escape but Maggie stops him and knocks him with the butt of her rifle. Ezekiel orders Richard to hand over his weapon, which he does albeit reluctantly. Richard initially refuses, prompting Jared to draw his weapon. He may have lived in or near Woodbury before the outbreak. The night after the attack, an armed Henry arrives at the pen and opens the gate, demanding to know which Savior killed his brother and threatening to kill everyone if the killer doesn't step forward. With injured comrades, the Saviors argue over what to do, particularly as Rick reveals that a herd is on the way. He is particularly sadistic and cowardly, even among other Saviors, whose reckless, violent nature stands in stark contrast to Gavin's more affable and level-headed nature. Regardless, Jared continues to mock Morgan, even when he is threatened with death, such as in "The Damned", where Morgan tries to kill Jared after the Militia slaughters multiple members of the Saviors at an outpost and a majority of the remaining ones surrendered. Jared was a white male in his apparent late twenties or early thirties, who had long blonde hair. Jared is more reluctant and tries to kill them but is stopped by one of his team members in anger. When Morgan emerges from the outpost after having killed multiple Saviors, he and Jared recognize each other. However, considering Jared's selfish, compassionless, power hungry personality, he was most likely only concerned about earning Negan's respect in order to gain more power for himself. Jared decides to escape and leave his friends to die but is followed by Morgan. Jared is a member of The Saviors who is frequently seen during Kingdom's weekly tributes and is one of Gavin's men.