Morgan Jones is one of the original characters from The Walking Dead, the first live person Rick Grimes encountered after emerging from his hospital bed and witnessing the aftermath of the apocalypse. He was a strong man when Rick met him, protecting his young son while dealing with the death — and turning — of his wife . But the new world took a toll on Morgan and the rough times kept on coming.
Throughout the series, Morgan disappeared, came back, disappeared again, then finally left for good, only to re-appear on the spin-off series Fear the Walking Dead.
Just as Morgan's presence on the show has flip-flopped, so has his personality. Sure, there are ways he remains the same strong, moral person he was in the beginning, but he has also changed quite a bit.
10 Stayed The Same: Strong Moral Code
Regardless of whether Morgan is the angry, stick-wielding Morgan or the "there's got to be a better way" philosopher Morgan, he has never lost his strong moral code. Even if he has gone from wanting to eliminate enemies immediately without cause to wanting to save everybody, he has always been one to look after his own.
Morgan certainly felt like he had lost himself so many times, and indeed vocalized that very belief, but he has always been a good, moral person deep down.
9 Changed: Lost His Mind
When Rick and Michonne found Morgan hiding alone, ramblings all over the walls, booby traps set up, it was clear he had completely lost his mind. And understandably so. He lost his family, including his son, and was existing alone with no one to share his feelings.
What's more, Morgan was living in constant, justifiable fear and paranoia. It's enough to drive anyone insane. He arguably changed the most during this period of time.
8 Stayed The Same: Never Forgot His Family
Even when Morgan was clearly starting to having feelings for Grace in season 5, it was clear that he never wavered from his undying love and devotion to his wife. She had long been bitten and turned — he lost her right at the beginning of the apocalypse — yet Morgan still remained faithful to her.
While he seems finally ready to move on and potentially start up a romance with Grace, taking their already deep bond to the next level, it's clear that his family will always have a place in his heart and he will never forgot the life he had with them.
7 Changed: Became A Skilled Fighter
After spending time with a survivor named Eastman, who helped him regain his sanity and taught him the art of aikido, Morgan became an incredibly talented fighter. His wooden staff became his trusty companion and with it, he could take down enemies of all kinds, both living and dead.
Interestingly, however, having these skills didn't mean he wanted to use them. Morgan was also trained by Eastman to appreciate the value of every human life and he vowed never to kill a living person again. But that eventually changed.
6 Stayed The Same: Insistence On Helping People
Morgan felt he lost himself after joining Rick's group, so much that he had to leave in order to prevent himself from going insane again. This is how he ended up being the first crossover character between the two series, moving over to Fear the Walking Dead.
There, he joined a new group and insisted that they did whatever it took to help people. In this respect, Morgan went back to his old ways of not wanting to kill, which lasted all the way until this current season 6 when he reached a point where enough was enough.
5 Changed: Let Walls Down
Arguably the biggest change in Morgan has been his friendship with Grace. Even with Rick, whom Morgan was closest with on the show, it was always about business. With Grace, Morgan smiled more than he ever had before. He shared intimate details about his personal life before the outbreak and listened to details about hers.
While he never vocalized it, it was obvious that Morgan was beginning to develop strong feelings for Grace, even going on a sort-of "date" in a mall where they ate candy and rode the merry-go-round. This was the first time Morgan truly let his guard down.
4 Stayed The Same: Ability To Lead
Morgan has always been a natural leader, from the moment he took stock of the situation when the walkers began roaming the streets, boarding himself up in his house with his son and helping Rick while also being cautious, to his time in Alexandria.
Once he joined the new group, Morgan proved himself a natural leader again as everyone turned to him for answers, even when he didn't want to be in charge. His ability to reason, strong moral code, and fantastic fighting skills became a deadly combination that helped Morgan remain as strong a leader as he always was, right from the beginning.
3 Changed: Guilt Over Kills
At one point, notably right after leaving Eastman following his death, Morgan felt tremendous guilt over the human lives he took. He continued to feel that way again after reverting to his old self, then returning once again to living by the aikido "code."
In season 6 of Fear the Walking Dead, Morgan has once again returned to his old self, declaring that the old Morgan who Ginny knew was gone and no longer existed. He's done with playing nice. This might help raise his stock among fans who haven't viewed him as being a favorable character through the first five seasons.
2 Stayed The Same: Belief There Will Always Be A Better Way
Even if Morgan isn't opposed to piercing a man's heart with his staff, he still strongly believes that there has to be a better way to live. He just isn't so naïvely convinced that there's hope for every bad guy to turn "good."
Now, Morgan simply wants to eliminate threats, re-build a community of good people, and try to save society from destruction instead of annoyingly preaching his unrealistic truth to those who just want to do what is necessary to survive.
1 Changed: Avoids Groups
Morgan went back and forth so many times between being a lone ranger to part of a group. Each time he joined a group, he found that his way of thinking was contrary to his new allies'. He found himself pushed into actions he didn't agree with, and he would start going insane again.
Once he left The Walking Dead after that brutal battle with the Saviors, Morgan was convinced he had to be on his own. But then he found another group of "good people" and found himself part of another group of survivors once again.
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