He later runs interference while Daryl kills Beta. Though he takes a while to complete his task, he manages to do so. Though the communities gave him a life sentence, Negan only did seven and a half years in jail before being conscripted by Carol to infiltrate the Whisperers and kill their leader, Alpha. It was assumed that someone would kill him in the aftermath, but he was instead taken captive by the Alexandrians. Negan led his gang, the Saviors, against Hilltop, Alexandria, and The Kingdom for two and a half seasons. In particular, Abraham and Gene died at the hands of Negan. Whether you love to hate him or just plain hate him, you'd better get used to Negan's presence on the show - because, barring a major departure from the source material, the leather-clad villain is here to stay.Plenty of main characters died suddenly during the course of the show. ![]() But how much is he really fighting for the forces of good, and how much is he actually fighting for his own manipulative ends? That remains to be seen… but it's clear that the character isn't going anywhere for a while, which explains why actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan recently revealed in an interview with Howard Stern that he'll be portraying Negan at least through The Walking Dead Season 8. It's around this time that the current issues of the Walking Dead comics have left off: with Negan free once more, fighting against the Whisperers, seemingly on Rick's side once and for all. (They're a group of survivors who continually cloak themselves in the skins of fallen zombies so they can walk among them undisturbed.) It's at this moment that Negan turns from full-blown antagonist to something of an anti-hero, as he helps bring down a group that is arguably even worse than his own Saviors he even infiltrates the Whisperers' camp, decapitates their leader, and brings her zombified head back to Rick as a trophy. When a new group of villains begins terrorizing the citizens of Alexandria, Rick actually turns to his old foe for advice on defeating the so-called Whisperers. Despite the fact that the young Grimes continually insists that he wants to kill Negan, he keeps visiting the murderer in prison, where they have lengthy conversations about Carl's life and struggles. The next volume in Kirkman's saga then flashes forward two whole years since the end of the war with the Saviors Negan is still imprisoned, but has struck up a disturbing relationship with young Carl, as a sort of demented father-figure counterpoint to Rick. So, in the middle of a parlay, Rick slits Negan's throat and after the murderer passes out from blood loss, he awakens to find himself locked up in a prison cell inside Alexandria where Rick tells him he'll have a front row seat to see how all of the colonies are more successful and prosperous without Negan's tyrannical leadership, until he dies an old man. When the final confrontation between Negan and Rick finally comes, our hero decides that the villain doesn't deserve the mercy of a quick death Rick wants to prove Negan's entire twisted worldview wrong. Like a cockroach, Negan always seems to be able to wriggle out of a tight spot. ![]() Not only does Negan survive the upcoming battle, but he's still alive in the comic series, several years later story-wise. And if you thought that the impending conflict would result in the gratifying death of Negan, just like the deaths of other leaders both good and bad (The Governor, Deanne Monroe, etc.)… well, in that case you'd be wrong. That's exactly where things lead in the comic series by Robert Kirkman. If the show seems to be gearing up to an all-out war between the Saviors and the united forces of Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom… then you'd be right. ![]() However, because of what happens to Negan in the Walking Dead comics, the answer may be surprising Right now, viewers are likely wondering how long it will be before the Saviors are defeated, Negan is killed, and the group hits the road once more. There's nothing wrong with having a formula - in fact, there's comfort in familiarity - but it does lend itself to a certain amount of predictability. By now, The Walking Dead fans know the show's formula: our plucky band of survivors find a promising new shelter, they build a life there, they're threatened by a new group of villains (usually with a charmingly psychopathic leader), the shelter is destroyed, they hit the road and find a promising new shelter.
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