However, Pamela never fully trusts Rick later in the comic series, she becomes paranoid and orders an army against him under suspicion of conspiracy. Rick and Pamela extensively serve as collaborators, and Pamela is shown to respect Rick for the communities that he's compiled. In terms of the storyline within the comics, Pamela has much of her interactions with Rick Grimes, who is no longer in the TV series. In the comics, and likely in the TV series, Pamela is responsible for personally selecting Mercer to be Sebastian's bodyguard. Expressing extreme distress with this, Mercer, a highly ranked Commonwealth officer, eventually arrives at the scene and is berated for not being there to defend Sebastian.

Pamela is also the mother of Sebastian Milton, the spoiled brat whose rude ungratefulness after being defended against oncoming walkers results in a rightfully aggravated Eugene Porter punching him in the nose.

These were done in order to inform whether or not they'd be inducted into the Commonwealth and what their role would be. She enforces these aspects of the social ladder within her own community, which has already been seen with the interviews that Yumiko, Eugene, Ezekiel and Princess were forced to have. While serving as a respectable governor, Pamela prides herself on superiority within her community, believing in the importance of possessing a high status and subscribing to the social hierarchy. Upon arriving in the community, she was able to quickly rise up to become its leader. Prior to the apocalypse, Pamela was a politician, which made her transition to life at the Commonwealth effortless. In the comics, Pamela is a smart, committed leader that has a strong belief in meritocracy.

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