2) Maggie
Of all The Walking Dead‘s major characters, Maggie arguably stands shoulder to shoulder with Rick as its most important. After losing her father, sister (TV only) and husband to equally horrific circumstances, Maggie has – somehow – not offed herself from the grief of losing her entire family, but instead soldiered on in her resolve to not let the post-apocalypse claim ownership of the planet.
Unlike other entries on this list, however, Telltale doesn’t have quite as much wiggle room to work with exploring Maggie’s past. Her long-running tenure in both the TV and comic series all but makes any such story redundant (we know everything there is to know about the unfortunate events that befell her, following the zombie uprising), so that only leaves the present and potential future.
It’s unlikely that Telltale would want to step on the toes of Kirkman’s own work to provide an alternate story set ahead of the comic, but Maggie’s role as the head of the Hilltop community is a story thread in itself that has promise. The time jump that follows the dethroning of Negan as leader of the Saviors (which, incidentally, we now know will happen in the TV series, too) is a so far untapped resource of storytelling potential ripe for the picking.
There’s easily enough room for Telltale to, er, tell the tale of Maggie’s day-to-day struggles in running and overseeing the Hilltop, as well as plenty of anonymous citizens to cause unrest and social conflict, narrative devices that the developer has excelled at utilizing for its other games in the past.
