125 Facts About Negan

1.

Negan, later revealed as Negan Smith in the television series, is a fictional character in the comic book series The Walking Dead and in the television series of the same name.

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Negan was the leader of the Saviors, a group of survivors in the Sanctuary that oppresses other survivor communities and forces them to pay tribute to him.

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Negan was chosen by Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray as a guest character for the fighting game Tekken 7, as they are fans of the television show and the character and thought he be a "perfect fit" for the video game series.

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Negan is happily married to his wife, Lucille, but nonetheless has a mistress on the side who doesn't know he is married.

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Negan flees the hospital and finds a boy being trapped by zombies, and helps to dispatch them with a fire extinguisher.

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Negan slowly takes control over this group from Dwight, renaming them the Saviors and ruling them with an iron fist.

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Negan takes a baseball bat from another survivor and wraps it in barbed wire and names it after his late wife Lucille.

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Negan introduces his weapon of choice; Lucille, a baseball bat covered in barbed wire.

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9.

Negan tells the group that the Saviors will be back in one week to collect half of everything they have, threatening more deaths should they refuse.

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When Negan arrives, Carl fires at them until he loses control of his gun.

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11.

Negan goes as far as to lead him through the Saviors' facilities, revealing that he is the leader of a cult-like domain of selfless followers who bow to his every word and command.

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12.

Negan reveals that he would like to get to know Carl a little better, but he gets distracted by Carl's bandaged face.

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Negan tells Rick how eager he is to show him "what he has done to his son".

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Several days later, Negan arrives at the Alexandria Safe-Zone a few days ahead of schedule; he's informed that the community is "practically" out of supplies, and Rick went out looking for more.

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Negan decides that he will stay in Alexandria until Rick returns from the supply run.

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Confused and angry, Negan takes Lucille and sees Rick pointing a gun at his head.

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Negan reveals that before every pickup, he has a back-up team armed with guns surround the Safe-Zone and guard the area while he and the other Saviors go in and salvage for supplies.

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Negan berates Nicholas for doing this and accuses him of being a coward.

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19.

Negan is interrupted when Paul "Jesus" Monroe grabs a Savior by the foot and uses him as a human shield.

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Negan tells his men to stand down, and when he does this, Jesus leaps out of a trench and kicks the nearest Savior in the face.

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21.

Negan is later seen back at the Sanctuary, where he gives the Saviors a speech about their being the dominant force in the world, and the need to remind people of that.

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22.

Negan refuses Rick's offer, and reveals that Gregory has defected to the Saviors, meaning that Hilltop is under Negan's control.

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23.

Negan calls Dwight, ordering him to bring the men from the outposts back to help drive off Rick's army.

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Negan's corrects him by saying he's got the wrong woman; Rick loves Andrea, and she was in love with Abraham, the man Dwight killed.

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25.

Negan realizes that if the herd keeps them stuck inside for more than one day, they will all be dead, and he orders squads outside every two hours to clean up the infestation by any means necessary.

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Negan gets word of one of his outposts being overrun by Rick's army and sends more men to fortify the remaining ones.

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27.

Negan finds a way to eliminate all of the zombies that had flooded into the Sanctuary's courtyard, for he is later seen heading towards Alexandria.

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28.

Negan sees a herd of roamers attacking several people from Alexandria.

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29.

Later, Negan finds out that Eugene was making ammunition for Rick's army and goes to see him.

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30.

Negan is unaware that Dwight is loading an arrow to kill him when he spots Rick away from the other survivors.

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31.

Negan assumes that Rick is dead and that the war is essentially over, reasoning that Rick's forces have neither the manpower to counterattack nor the will to keep fighting without their leader.

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32.

Negan says that he will be their Savior again, as long as they let him urinate on Rick's dead body.

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33.

Negan arrives at Hilltop's gates and offers to accept their surrender, asking to send out whoever is in charge - and is stunned when Rick emerges to greet him.

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34.

Negan asks Rick to surrender, to "let things go back the way they were", but Rick refuses.

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Negan takes this all in, and Rick says that they can take their supplies, but they must give the survivors something in return; make supplies of their own to give or trade for others via a barter system.

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36.

Negan realizes that he has only inflicted suffering upon the communities that he has “saved”, and apologizes.

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37.

Negan wakes up inside one of the rooms in the Hilltop and sees Rick standing over him.

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38.

Negan then says to Carl that he enjoys their talks, which help him keep track of the time and days passed.

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39.

Negan says that he thought the two of them were friends to which Carl walks away, making Negan retreat into the corner of his cell.

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40.

Negan asks if Rick is taking Carl to the Hilltop, slightly shocking Rick.

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41.

Negan says that he and Carl are friends and that Rick could not break that bond.

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42.

Negan tells Rick that he is just getting things ready for him and that he will not be in his cell forever.

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43.

Negan begs to be released and claims Rick is a monster who locked him up and tortured him for speaking out against him.

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Some time later, Negan is bathing and having his hair cut by Olivia outside his cell door.

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45.

However, Negan decides not to escape and remains in his cell with the door open until Rick comes downstairs, then taunts him about the numerous ways he could have destroyed Alexandria without anyone realizing, but claimed to stay as sign of good faith and an offering to amend their trust.

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46.

Negan fills him in on everything that has happened since they have come into conflict with this new group.

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Negan advises Rick to keep his group happy, even if that means lying to them, touting his expertise as leader of the Saviors, some of whom disliked him.

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48.

Shortly afterward, Negan is ambushed by a group of Whisperers led by Beta and is taken, prisoner.

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Negan starts to live with the Whisperers, though without Beta's trust.

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50.

Negan stops them but is knocked down by Beta for interfering.

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51.

Week after disappearing, Negan turns up with Alpha's severed head and shows it to Rick and Andrea, who are very hesitant to believe and trust him.

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52.

Negan says Rick's way of thinking is inspiring and tries to convince them that his time in prison has rehabilitated him.

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53.

Negan says he could have taken several chances and attacked Rick, but he didn't.

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54.

Negan is going to be monitored for a long time and will fight on the front lines against the Whisperers.

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55.

Negan will earn his freedom after the war, unless he slips up, in which case he will be immediately killed.

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56.

Negan is confronted by Maggie, who wants revenge for Glenn's murder, but decides not to kill him after seeing him in a depressed state.

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57.

Negan avoids all contact with the other survivors, living on food parcels left by Carl and maintaining a state of mourning for his wife Lucille.

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Negan later met a woman named Lucille and the pair fell in love and married.

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Over time Negan gradually became unfaithful towards her as he constantly lied and even engaged in an affair.

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When she became a walker, Negan was unable to bring himself to put his wife down; this act of weakness would continue to haunt him and thus Negan strived to become a much stronger person.

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61.

Negan quickly gathered a large following and established outposts in various locations around the Washington, D C area.

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62.

Negan subsequently sent out a large group, led by Wade, to retrieve them and the stolen supplies.

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63.

Saviors become the main antagonists during the second half of season 6 and with their mysterious leader known as Negan being mentioned several times prior to his appearance in the season finale.

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Negan's name is first heard in "No Way Out" when a group of bikers, led by a man named Bud, accost Daryl Dixon, Abraham Ford, and Sasha Williams, and attempt to steal their weapons, but Daryl kills them with a rocket launcher.

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65.

Negan then comes out of their RV and tells Rick that he must give him all of his possessions, and that Rick and everyone else at Alexandria work for Negan now; he "owns" them.

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Negan's chosen victim is Abraham, whom he bludgeons to death with Lucille.

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67.

Negan then allows the surviving members of the group to depart with the warning that the Saviors will return in a week to collect their supplies.

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Negan is shown to rule the Sanctuary through fear and rewarding his personal army of enforcers .

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Negan keeps Daryl locked in a cell and hopes to break his spirit and mold him into one of his Saviors, but Daryl refuses to submit.

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Negan meets his men returning with supplies from the Hilltop.

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Negan is nonchalant about the imminent danger to him, but develops a respect for Carl.

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72.

Negan later sits Carl down and states that he wants to get to know him better, so he should uncover his eye.

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Negan grows to genuinely like Carl, and later brings him to watch as he burns Mark, a Savior who has displeased him, with a hot iron to teach everyone a lesson about "following the rules".

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Negan then decides to bring Carl back to Alexandria, where they wait for Rick.

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75.

Negan is approached in Alexandria by Spencer Monroe, who attempts to bond with him over whiskey and a game of pool.

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When she refuses, Negan tells his lieutenant Arat to kill someone, and she kills Olivia.

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77.

When Eugene Porter confesses to making the bullet, Negan takes him prisoner and tells Rick that he is "way in the hole" for this incident no matter how many supplies they gather, before departing.

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Negan reappears in "Hostiles and Calamities" where he greets Eugene entering the Sanctuary.

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When Negan discovers that Sherry, one of his concubines, is gone, he suspects her of freeing Daryl and has his minion Dwight - Sherry's husband - beaten and thrown in a cell.

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Negan takes the knife back and informs her that she is on the right path before stating he knows Rick is conspiring against him as he has a spy in his midst.

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Negan leads a convoy of Saviors to Alexandria with Simon, Dwight, Eugene and Sasha in tow with plans to bring Rick back under his control.

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Negan reveals the Scavengers are actually working for him as they hold Rick at gunpoint.

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83.

Negan brings a coffin forward and reveals Sasha is inside, stating they can have her back alive and he will let most of them live if they meet his demands, which include all their weapons, Daryl returned to him and for Rick to pick someone to be killed by Lucille.

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Negan opens the coffin to find Sasha has died and reanimated as a walker.

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85.

Negan manages to capture Rick and Carl, and prepares to kill Carl.

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86.

Negan appears in the season premiere, "Mercy, " when Rick leads an army of assembled survivors outside the Sanctuary.

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When Simon suggests they wipe out one of the communities entirely, Negan becomes incensed, stating that people are critical to what they are building.

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Negan instead wants to capture and publicly execute Rick, Maggie and Ezekiel to cow their people into submission.

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Negan asks Negan if this is what he wanted or who he wanted to be, and his words seem to strike a chord.

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90.

Negan meets with Simon to handle the matter of the Scavengers.

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Simon assumes he wants them exterminated, but Negan instead wants him to give them the standard warning and kill only one.

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Genuinely saddened by the news, Negan offers Rick his condolences before asking him to surrender, to no avail.

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93.

Negan begins preparing the Saviors for an attack on Hilltop to end the war.

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Negan comes up with a plan to use the walker virus to their advantage by coating their weapons in walker flesh, including Lucille.

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Negan leads a convoy of Saviors to the Hilltop when his car is rammed by Rick, who pursues him into an abandoned building.

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96.

Rick refuses, stating Negan cares for nothing except Lucille, which he then proceeds to light on fire.

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97.

Negan manages to talk her into freeing him while she is getting ready to receive a helicopter at the junkyard.

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Negan makes his way back to the Savior compound to find that Simon has been ruling in his stead, and is responsible for the bloodshed at Jadis' compound.

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Negan warns him that the peace between the communities will not last, and that he will not be locked up forever.

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100.

When Michonne visits Negan to get him to end a hunger strike, he tells her about his late wife, Lucille, and is thankful that she is not alive to see him in his current state.

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101.

Negan's finally gets him to eat, and as she leaves he asks to see his bat.

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102.

Negan's tells him to get back to his cell, because he is already "worse than dead".

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103.

Six years later, Negan remains a prisoner in Alexandria, but has apparently accepted his fate, and has even struck up a friendship with Judith Grimes, Rick's young daughter.

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Negan helps Judith with her homework and tells her a story from his childhood where he tried to take in stray dogs only for it to go badly for him when she asks for advice with dealing with Magna's group.

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Negan receives weekly visits from Gabriel, who tries to help Negan become a better person.

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Negan responds by taunting Gabriel about his new relationship with Rosita, but Gabriel reveals that Rosita is at the Hilltop, hurt, and he cannot go to her because he has to look after Negan.

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Chastened, Negan makes an apparently sincere apology for his behavior, a first for him.

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Later, Negan realizes that his cell door is unlocked, and escapes.

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109.

Negan gets a new leather jacket from an abandoned clothing store, but is nearly killed by a pack of feral dogs in the process.

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110.

Negan tries to adapt to life alone, but eventually abandons the Sanctuary and his old life for good and returns to Alexandria.

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Negan urges Michonne to listen to and be honest with her daughter and helps her realize that Judith went to try and help her friends.

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112.

Negan is moved out of his cell during a dangerous blizzard, as he will freeze to death otherwise.

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113.

Negan is the first to realize that something is wrong, leading to Eugene discovering that the chimney is clogged.

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114.

Negan saves Judith and the dog, and carries them to shelter.

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The next day, a recovering Negan is visited in the infirmary by a grateful Michonne.

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Negan escapes, aided by Brandon, the son of a former Savior who is a fan of his.

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117.

Apparently reverting to his old ways and armed with a new Lucille created by Brandon, Negan joins the Whisperers, a rival faction bent on destroying the other communities, and becomes the right hand and lover of their leader, Alpha .

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Negan captures Lydia and brings Alpha to what she thinks is her location, but it is revealed that Negan hid the girl elsewhere to lure Alpha into a trap; he then slits Alpha's throat, killing her.

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119.

Negan subsequently is accepted by Daryl as a tentative ally of the communities following learning of his assassination of Alpha on Carol's orders.

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However, Lydia apparently changes his mind and Negan suddenly appears to distract Beta from going after Lydia, giving Daryl the distraction that he needs to finally take down Beta.

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121.

In "Here's Negan, " continuing tensions between Negan and Maggie provoke Carol into exiling him to a cabin in the woods.

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In season 11, taking place shortly after "Here's Negan, " Negan joins a mission to reclaim Maggie's old village Meridian from the Reapers, the antagonistic group that had taken it and wiped out most of Maggie's people.

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When Maggie survives the fall, Negan defends his actions as him simply choosing not to save Maggie in order to protect himself.

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124.

Negan admits that if he could do it all over again, he would have killed everyone in the lineup, not just Glenn and Abraham, as it would've saved the lives of many of his people.

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Character of Negan has been praised by both fans and critics as an antagonist of the series.

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