Ben (Night of the Living Dead)

Ben is one of the main protagonists (alongside Barbara) in the film Night of the Living Dead.

Original
He meets Barbara in front of a house, when he was fleeing from other zombies. She lets him into the house where she had been. After that he managed to keep the zombies in check. Then he turned, with the help of others, the house into a fortified place to make sure the zombies cannot enter in the future. He also finds for certain that the zombies can be killed by hitting them in the head.

After being safe he, like the others, see TV and finds out that the problem is nationwide. In time, however, the defenses fail and the zombies, who become more and more, kill them one by one. He is the only character among them who is not killed by the zombies.

In the morning, when zombie hunters, who had been organized by the nation in the meantime, arrive, they think he is a zombie and shoot him in the head. After that they burn his body together with the other zombies those zombie hunters had killed until then.

Remake
He meets Barbara in front of a house, when he was fleeing from other zombies. He shows strength and fighting determination and helps her get over with trauma of having lost his brother and being hunted by the zombies by guiding her about what she should do now. He has already killed a zombie before by hitting his head and also tells it to her.

They then take over the house and defend it with the help of others who are in the basement and appear later. However, because of the actions of one of them, Harry, who wounds him with a shotgun in order to protect her daughter who has become a zombie, he later turns into a zombie while he hides in the basement and is later killed by zombie hunters when they find him in the house.

Barbara avenges his death by killing Harry, who she finds later unscathed.