02 | Ben

Gender Male Ethnicity African-American Hair Color Black Eye Color Brown Equipment Rifle personality: Ben is the male lead and protagonist of the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. When the undead outbreak occurred, Ben saw a diner besieged by zombies and fled in his truck to a farm house. There, he meets Barbra, and locks himself and her inside from an attacking zombie. When Ben sees two zombies destroying his truck, he goes out and successfully bludgeons both of them to death. He goes back into the house just in time to save Barbra from another zombie. As hordes of zombies besiege the house, Ben and a shock-stricken Barbra begin boarding up the doors and windows. As Ben fortifies the house, he shares his first encounter with the zombies with Barbra, and Barbra recounts her experience with a zombie in the cemetery. Ben is struck by Barbra when he tries to prevent her from going to find her brother Johnny, as he is most likely dead or reanimated, and strikes her back to put some sense into her. Barbra is knocked unconscious and Ben puts her on the sofa before turning his attention to the zombies outside. Ben turns on the radio to hear reports of nationwide violence.

While Ben is searching the house for ammunition and supplies, he hears Barbra scream and rushes downstairs to help her, finding the cellar door is open. Upon looking in the cellar, the pair realize that there are no zombies, but more survivors; the Cooper family, consisting of Harry Cooper, his wife Helen and their young daughter Karen, and teen lovers Tom and Judy. Harry insists that they should hide in the cellar, but Tom and Ben disagree, causing more zombies to hear them and head for the house. A television is set up, and as Ben and the others listen to news reports and radio broadcasts, they discover that their attackers are the unburied dead brought back to life by a mysterious phenomenon. When Ben discovers that one of the refugee locations is the nearby town of Willard, he plans to leave with Tom and Judy.