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| portrayer = [[Juan Gabriel Pareja|Juan Pareja]] |
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'''Morales''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Horror fiction|horror]] [[drama]] television series ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', which airs on [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] in the United States and is based on the [[The Walking Dead (comic book)|comic book series of the same name]]. He was created by series developer [[Frank Darabont]] and portrayed by [[Juan Gabriel Pareja|Juan Pareja]]. Morales is an original character in the television series and has no counterpart in the comics. The character was first introduced in the [[The Walking Dead (season 1)|first season]] as a member of the group that series protagonist [[Rick Grimes]] encounters in Atlanta. After a long absence in the series, Morales returns in the [[The Walking Dead (season 8)|eighth season]]. |
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==Fictional character biography== |
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Little background is given about Morales prior to the walker epidemic, including his first name, although he is initially shown in the Atlanta survivor camp with his wife Miranda (Viviana Chavez), and their two young children, Eliza (Maddie Lomax) and Louis ([[Noah Lomax]]). After the first season, Morales is not seen again until season eight. |
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===Season 1=== |
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In the episode "[[Guts (The Walking Dead)|Guts]]", Morales is one of a number of survivors who have come to [[Atlanta]] to scavenge for supplies. On the roof of the department store in which they have holed up, [[Merle Dixon]], a virulent racist, attempts to assert his leadership over the group and insults Morales before beating [[T-Dog (The Walking Dead)|T-Dog]]. [[Rick Grimes]] subdues Merle and handcuffs him to a pipe, leaving him under the watch of T-Dog while the rest of the group look for a way out. Morales helps cover Rick and [[Glenn Rhee|Glenn]] with walker guts so that they can walk through a crowd of walkers to obtain a truck and the entire group (other than Merle) is able to escape the city in the box truck. In the episode "[[Tell It to the Frogs]]", Morales and the group return to the camp, where reunites with his family, and Merle's brother [[Daryl Dixon|Daryl]] becomes enraged to hear that his brother was abandoned. In the episode "[[Vatos]]", at dinner, Morales asks [[Dale Horvath|Dale]] about the watch he always carries, even though the world has ended. Soon after, the camp is overrun by a horde of zombies and Morales helps to fight them off. In the episode "[[Wildfire (The Walking Dead)|Wildfire]]", Morales helps the group clean up after the attack. When the survivors decide to go to the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]], the Morales' decide to try their luck locating relatives in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. Rick gives them some of the group's weapons and supplies. |
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===Season 8=== |
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In the episode "[[The Damned (The Walking Dead)|The Damned]]", Rick attacks an outpost of the Saviors, and becomes devastated when he finds a sleeping infant in the outpost. He is distracted and easily caught at gunpoint by Morales, who informs Rick that he has called the Saviors. |
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==Development and reception== |
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[[Juan Gabriel Pareja]] was cast in the supporting role of Morales for the first season of ''The Walking Dead'', which premiered in 2010.<ref name=oih>{{cite news|first=|last=|title=Juan Pareja Guest Starring On New AMC Network Series, The Walking Dead |url=http://www.onlyinhouston.org/en/art/3198/|work=Only In Houston |publisher=|date=2010-10-25 |accessdate=2010-11-27}}</ref> Leonard Pierce of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' reviewed "[[Guts (The Walking Dead)|Guts]]", the episode which introduced Morales, and noted that "Few of the scavenger group are especially well-drawn as characters", referring to Morales as a "cypher".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/guts,47247/ |title=Guts |work=The A.V. Club |first=Leonard |last=Pierce |date=November 7, 2010 |accessdate=February 12, 2013}}</ref> Leonard Pierce of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' reviewed the episode "[[Wildfire (The Walking Dead)|Wildfire]]", and commented that "Morales and his family decide to peel off on their own and head to Alabama, in a nice scene that nonetheless makes you wonder why they were introduced in the first place."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/wildfire,48286/ |title=Wildfire |work=The A.V. Club |first=Leonard |last=Pierce |date=November 28, 2010 |accessdate=February 12, 2013}}</ref> Eric Goldman of [[IGN]] commented that "It was hard to feel much about the one family deciding not to go with everyone when they left the camp – Honestly, I couldn't tell you any of their names, and only the husband had any screen time of note."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ca.ign.com/articles/2010/11/29/the-walking-dead-wildfire-review |title=The Walking Dead: "Wildfire" Review|publisher=IGN |first=Eric |last=Goldman |date=November 28, 2010 |accessdate=February 12, 2013}}</ref> |
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Matt Fowler of [[IGN]] reviewed the season eight episode "[[The Damned (The Walking Dead)|The Damned]]", and commented that he "really dug the Morales twist right at the end. In fact, some of the best elements of "The Damned" involved how much it actually strayed from the comics".<ref>{{cite web|author=Matt Fowler|title=The Walking Dead: "The Damned" Review|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/30/the-walking-dead-the-damned-review|publisher=IGN|date=October 30, 2017|accessdate=November 1, 2017}}</ref> [[Forbes]]'s Eric Kain commented that "Rick is eventually waylaid by a character we haven't seen since a long, long time ago. Morales (Juan Gabriel Pareja) is apparently a Savior now" and that the one thing he liked about the episode "was when Rick finds a baby after just killing a guy outside the baby's room. This stops him in his tracks and makes him realize that the Saviors aren't just monsters, but are also parents with children and families. That hard truth is compounded by the sudden reappearance of Morales."<ref>{{cite web|author=Eric Kain|title='The Walking Dead' Season 8, Episode 2 Review: None Of That Made Any Sense|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2017/10/29/the-walking-dead-season-8-episode-2-review-this-is-getting-ridiculous/#e4402c1a85ea|publisher=Forbes|date=October 29, 2017|accessdate=November 1, 2017}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 2010]] |
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[[Category:The Walking Dead characters]] |
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