Michael

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| image = [file]MichaelPortrait.jpg|center|Michael Cross[/file]
| actor = [wiki="Jim Gleason"]Jim Gleason[/wiki]
| debut = [wiki="1 - It Begins"]Chapter 1 - It Begins[/wiki]

| Date of Birth = Unknown
| rank = Sergeant (SGT)/E-5
| occupation = Military Intelligence
| residence = [wiki]The Tower[/wiki]

| Romantic = [wiki]Pegs[/wiki]
| parent(s) =Deceased

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[h="2"]Character[/h]
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[*]Full Name: [B]Michael Cross[/B]
[*]Former Occupation: [B]Military Intelligence[/B]
[*]Special Talents: [B]Intel Gathering, Leadership, Making Homemade Chloroform[/B]
[*]Age: [B]27 at the beginning of the Story[/B]
[*]First Appeared:[B] [wiki="1 - It Begins"]Chapter 1 - It Begins[/wiki], introduces you to the story. [/B]
[*] Current Status: [B]Alive[/B]
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[h="2"]Background[/h]
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[*]Entered Military after events of 9/11
[*]Began first tour of duty as a "hard charge" (meaning enthusiastic) Private First Class
[*]Ended third tour of duty as a "tired and depressed" Sargent
[*]Background: Combat experience in Iraq, went into Army for College.
[*]Parents Died on his 3rd Tour to Iraq. Did not return home for the funeral.
[*]Michaels M.O.S. was 35 Foxtrot, Intelligence Analyst (chapter #29-1 at 5:48)
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[h="2"]Personality[/h]
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[*]A natural and respectable leader.
[*]Sharp, quick-thinking, and easily picks up on things.
[*]Became detached from other people after losing his parents while serving in Iraq.
[*]Is sometimes viewed by others as insensitive and uncaring because he hides his emotions.
[*]Has a difficult time expressing his feelings for others.
[*]Current love interest of Pegs.
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[h="2"]Notable In The Series[/h]
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[*]Prominent Main Character in the series and leader of the Tower.
[*]Breaks Arm in between [WIKI="9 - The Road to Living Death"]Chapter 9[/WIKI] and [WIKI="10 - Purgatory"]10[/WIKI], where Randy was turned
[*]Narrates [WIKI="1 - It Begins"]Chapter 1[/WIKI], [WIKI="2 - The Two Things"]2[/WIKI]
[*]Relinquished leadership to Burt in [WIKI="14 - Out of the Ashes"]Chapter 14[/WIKI] after losing Tower residents in the War.
[*]Regained leadership from [WIKI="Burt"]Burt[/WIKI] after coming back from the colony
[*]Returned to The Colony, along with the remains of Fort Irwin
[*]Leads the soldiers in an attempt to find the zombies nest, and the whereabouts of Ink
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[h="2"]Quotations[/h]
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|text = "I didn't fear death or what might be there if today was my last day. But that was then and this is now." - [WIKI]Michael[/WIKI] in [WIKI]1 - It Begins[/WIKI]
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|text = "Shoot that bitch in the face!" - [WIKI]Michael[/WIKI] in [WIKI]3 - The New Arrivals[/WIKI]
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|text = "Somebody here sold us out, I know it..." - [WIKI]Michael[/WIKI] just before the confrontation with the Mallers in [WIKI]12 - The War[/WIKI]
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|text = "Hit him again!" - [WIKI]Michael[/WIKI] after Angel punches Burt in [WIKI]13 - Separate Dying Embers[/WIKI]
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|text = "Because all the passive ones are dead. " - [WIKI]Michael[/WIKI] in response to [wiki]Pegs[/wiki] asking why everyone they meet are aggresive assholes. [WIKI]17 - There Might Be Others[/WIKI]
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