Negan (full name in the television series: Negan Smith ) is a character in the comic book series The Walking Dead , its self-titled television adaptation , and its spin-off series Dead City . He 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. In the comics, the character's appearance is based on Henry Rollins , as confirmed by Charlie Adlard . Jeffrey Dean Morgan portrays Negan in the television series, having first appeared in the sixth-season finale .
210-596: After Rick Grimes and his fellow survivors agree to begin a trading relationship with the Hilltop Colony, they are ambushed by the Saviors and forced to obey Negan's orders to give the Saviors half of their supplies, as the other communities do. Initially obedient, Rick and the others secretly conspire with other communities in the Washington, D.C. area to prepare for war against the Saviors. After his defeat at
420-417: A cannibalistic group of hunters. On the way to the capital, they find out that their mission is bogus as Eugene Porter has been lying to them about the cure. They decide to still push on to D.C. because of their close proximity, and they find out that the capital is just as infested as the other major cities. Despite these set backs, they are recruited by Aaron to stay in a secluded and secure township on
630-460: A Drama Series , MTV Movie Award for Best Villain , and Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television . When offered the role of Negan, Morgan immediately accepted, as he was already a fan of the comic book series. In March 2022, it was announced that Morgan would reprise his role as Negan in a spin-off series alongside Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee . Originally titled Isle of the Dead , it
840-610: A Savior secretly working against Negan. Rick, initially angry with Dwight's appearance, eventually forms an alliance with him, but remains wary of whether to trust Dwight or not. During the war, the Alexandria Safe-Zone, the Kingdom and the Sanctuary suffer many losses. Rick rescues Andrea and Carl when the Alexandria Safe-Zone is bombed by the Saviors. Maggie, now the de facto leader of the Hilltop Colony, relocates
1050-634: A Savior who has displeased him, with a hot iron to teach everyone a lesson about "following the rules". He then decides to bring Carl back to Alexandria, where they wait for Rick. Negan is approached in Alexandria by Spencer Monroe ( Austin Nichols ), who attempts to bond with him over whiskey and a game of pool. The two seem to hit it off, until Spencer tells Negan about how dangerous Rick is and that he should be in charge for both of their sakes. Negan states that while Rick hates him, he respects that Rick
1260-440: A Savior, who informs him that reinforcements are on the way. "Monsters" opens with Rick talking to Morales, trying to convince him of Negan's evil to no effect. Their conversation is cut short when Daryl kills Morales from behind, despite Rick's protests. He is further disturbed when Daryl executes a Savior who Rick had promised to let go in exchange for information. In " Some Guy ", Rick and Daryl chase two Saviors while they make
1470-491: A Woodbury citizen and The Governor's lover, unsuccessfully tries to negotiate terms of peace with the two conflicting communities in the episodes " I Ain't a Judas " and " Arrow on the Doorpost ". In the episode " Clear ", Rick and Michonne form a stronger bond on a journey to retrieve guns after the assault, where they meet the mentally unbalanced Morgan, who has lost his son. Rick refuses to give Michonne over to The Governor in
1680-464: A bag of guns. They discover that Merle cut off his hand to escape. In the episode " Vatos ", they return to the campsite just in time to save the remaining survivors as a group of walkers overrun the camp. In the episode " Wildfire ", after many losses the group leaves the insecure campsite and travel to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the hope of finding a cure. In the season finale, " TS-19 ",
1890-433: A bat with him. It feels like he put that behind him in his last appearance." In the final issue, set 20 years later, it is revealed that Negan is still alive. He avoids all contact with the other survivors, living on food parcels left by Carl and maintaining a state of mourning for his wife Lucille. Taking place between Issue 174 and the final issue, "Negan Lives!" is a one-off short story focusing on Negan. Negan encounters
2100-492: A boar that died from that same flu in The one that killed her sow Violet, Rick begins to burn the enclosure of the pigs to avoid any possibility that the possible virus continues to exist. At the same time, he returns Carl's weapon and takes out his Colt Python for protection. In the episode " Isolation ", Carol admits that she killed two infected people to spare others from getting infected; Rick exiles her, Rick then burns his shirt in
2310-406: A community known as the Kingdom. There, Rick meets with their leader King Ezekiel ( Khary Payton ), who decides not to fight. Rick and the group are able to procure wired explosives left by the Saviors. Later, Rick and the others are surrounded by a new junkyard group. In "New Best Friends" , Rick negotiates with the leader Jadis ( Pollyanna McIntosh ), and she agrees on one-third of supplies once
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#17327807207872520-491: A constable in the community along with Michonne. In the episode " Try ", Rick has a confrontation with Jessie's abusive husband Pete (Cory Brill), forcing Michonne to knock him unconscious. In the season finale, " Conquer ", Deanna holds a meeting to potentially exile Rick, but Rick proves he is trying to ensure the community's protection from the living and the dead, before Pete shows up and tries to assassinate Rick with Michonne's katana , accidentally killing Deanna's husband in
2730-467: A dangerous group called the Claimers, before travelling towards Terminus, a supposed sanctuary, in " Us ", Rick is seen with Carl and Michonne, walking along the train tracks, heading to Terminus. In the season finale, " A ", Rick re-encounters the Claimers, who try to kill him, as well as sexually assault Michonne and Carl, but an enraged Rick bites the leader Joe ( Jeff Kober ) in the neck as Michonne and
2940-541: A deal with the Hilltop Colony: the Saviors would use the weaponry the other group was lacking to cull all zombies wandering near the Hilltop's premises; in return, the Saviors would obtain half of Hilltop's supplies, such as livestock and crops. Negan punishes even the smallest infraction (real or perceived) with brutal violence; for example, he orders the death of Hilltop's leader, Gregory , because he feels Gregory
3150-414: A devastated Rick turns away as Carl commits suicide. As Rick mourns Carl's death, he contemplates making his son's vision of a peaceful future a reality. In the season finale, " Wrath ", Rick's group and the Saviors face off for a final battle. Rick cuts Negan's throat, but, inspired by Carl's last wishes, allows him to live, imprisoning him instead. Rick begins the season as the de facto leader of all of
3360-563: A drifter near the Sanctuary. Disobeying Negan's direct orders to let her go, the Croat brutally tortured and killed the young woman who confessed to being a Kingdom scout. Realizing that the Croat was a monster and a rabid dog who had to be put down, Negan tried to kill his former friend, but he missed and only succeeded in blowing off the Croat's right ear. The Croat fled and eventually formed his own group in Manhattan . At some point, Dwight fled
3570-446: A few days after which aliens had invaded and revealed themselves responsible for the creation of walkers and the downfall of human civilization, planning to use the surviving humans to harvest water, used as a currency on their planet. Rick then witnesses a resurrected cyborg Governor attack Michonne, with an also-resurrected Lori standing by his side. After being told to either join him or die, Rick smiles and prepares for battle. In
3780-471: A fire extinguisher. In return, Negan asks the boy to kill Lucille for him. At some point after the outbreak, Negan is found by a group led by a man named Dwight . He slowly takes control over this group from Dwight, renaming them the Saviors and ruling them with an iron fist. He also takes a baseball bat from another survivor and wraps it in barbed wire and names it after his late wife Lucille. Negan, along with his team (which includes at least 50 others), makes
3990-478: A group of Saviors who oppose Rick's rule. This causes an even further rift between the communities, and ideologies clash as Maggie and Daryl begin to oppose Rick's leadership and vision of cooperation. Rick learns that Maggie is going to kill Negan, and rides with Daryl to try and stop her; this results in a fight between the two in which they fall into a chasm, and have to fight their way out to avoid being swarmed by two incoming herds of walkers. Rick tries to salvage
4200-439: A group of survivors to take control of a Savior compound with the added goal of capturing a stash of guns housed inside. Rick finds where he believes them to be housed, but only gains access after killing a Savior in a brutal fight. He opens the door to find a nursery with a baby inside, forcing Rick to question the morality of his plan. This is compounded when he is confronted by former Atlanta survivor Morales ( Juan Pareja ), now
4410-486: A group of the Saviors after they leave the Hilltop Colony. Rick's group retaliates, killing them. He sends the lone survivor back to Negan with a warning to stop terrorizing the residents of the Hilltop and that Negan and his men can pay them half of everything they have in exchange for his protection. Rick and Andrea return to the Safe-Zone to discover Abraham has been murdered and Eugene is being held hostage. Residents of
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#17327807207874620-402: A hasty pursuit with weapons on their backs. One of the Saviors begins to shoot at them, forcing Daryl to deviate from the road. Rick stays in his way. One of the Saviors, Iago, evades the walkers on the road, pulling the other Savior's target and causing him to stumble. When he regains his position and continues shooting at the other truck, Rick veers off to the side, allowing Daryl to open fire on
4830-451: A helicopter, and Rick announces his intention to help him change the CRM; however, their helicopter is attacked, and Okafor is killed. A woman begins executing soldiers, and after finding Rick, she pulls off her helmet revealing herself to be Michonne. The CRM arrive, and Rick warns Michonne to create a cover story presenting her as weaker than she is in order to save being killed, her friend Nat
5040-424: A hunting rifle which was not in the armory. Impressed, Negan states that "this is something to build a relationship on" before telling him to find them something interesting for next time. Before leaving, Negan takes back Lucille and tells Rick that "I just slid my dick down your throat and you thanked me for it". Negan meets his men returning with supplies from the Hilltop. They are attacked by Carl, who kills two of
5250-441: A lot of Saviors, Negan tells Rick's group they have to be punished, and he is going to beat one of them to death with "Lucille", a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Negan chooses the victim in a game of " Eeny, meeny, miny, moe ", which he recites while pointing Lucille at each member of the group, before landing on an unseen individual, saying, "you are it." Negan warns the group not to say anything or to move, and he begins to beat
5460-426: A new strategy. Negan delivers an analogy to a group of Saviors about how one can destroy a man "by fucking his vagina", meaning that the best way to destroy a man's heart is by destroying the woman he loves; Negan clearly believes this to be Holly. She corrects him by saying he has got the wrong woman; Rick loves Andrea, and she was in love with Abraham, the man Dwight killed. Negan refuses to listen, insisting that she
5670-570: A park in the city, Michonne finds an artist named Benjiro who uses old TVs and iPhones as his canvas and realizes that he was the one who had created the engraved the iPhone that Michonne had found, which led her to discover Rick's survival. Recognizing Michonne, Benjiro explains that Rick would come in once a few months for years for a new portrait of his family to help him remember them by until Rick could see Michonne and Judith again. However, Benjiro could never get Carl quite right for Rick. This gives Michonne renewed hope that Rick hasn't been taken in by
5880-412: A point system in order to sustain their lives, though many give in to his graces in exchange for a better lifestyle, most notably the women in his "harem", whom he considers his "wives". Negan reveals that he would like to get to know Carl a little better, but he gets distracted by Carl's bandaged face. He orders Carl to remove the bandages. Carl allows him to see it only after being threatened; he removes
6090-403: A quieter, peaceful life as a farmer, growing crops and raising livestock for the community. However, his new life is disrupted by the threat of an illness breaking out, in " Infected " Rick is seen for the first time with Carl taking care of the pigs and Carl asks for his gun, but the police asks him to focus on his work, suddenly the block D is attacked and Rick and Carl go to help the residents of
6300-487: A reality where an alien invasion occurred in the midst of the " Alexandria " arc and Rick was rebuilt as a cyborg to face a resurrected Governor ; a comic book limited series following the character, Skybound X: Rick Grimes 2000 , was released from July 7 to August 4, 2021. Rick has been described as an everyman character who emphasizes moral codes and values. Lincoln obtained the role in April 2010; Kirkman felt he
6510-456: A red canoe, and disguising a walker as a consignee, he leaves a note stating that he is not coming and if she loves him, she will go. He asks that Jadis helps cover up Michonne’s escape, but immediately discovers she has remained. He tells her that the only reason he was allowed to live despite his escape attempts was because of Okafor, and that the only way Michonne will be able to escape is if Rick remains and makes sure she lives. While exploring
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6720-420: A secret city whose occupants are not allowed to leave. Consignees must perform tasks to earn their citizenship in the CRM, but Rick has attempted escape 4 times, even cutting off his own left hand. Despite his attempts to escape, Lieutenant Colonel Donald Okafor still pushes him to join the CRM as a soldier. He laments after speaking with his friend, fellow Consignee Esteban, whom was recently allowed citizenship as
6930-564: A secret. They huddle the community at gunpoint, but promise they will return them later. They fail to convince Oceanside to fight, however. In "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" , Negan's former lieutenant Dwight ( Austin Amelio ) offers to help Rick and delays Negan's imminent arrival, while Rick brings Jadis and the Scavengers to Alexandria to prepare for an attack. It backfires when it
7140-400: A series of phone calls and seeing visions of Lori in the prison courtyard. He comes into conflict with The Governor ( David Morrissey ), the leader of a small town called Woodbury, after Michonne ( Danai Gurira ), a mysterious katana-wielding survivor arrives at the prison to reveal Glenn and Maggie Greene ( Lauren Cohan ) have been kidnapped (in order to gain information on the location of
7350-433: A ship arrives revealing her presence. He is concerned by her behavior, telling her to sort out her issues and move on after the loss of her daughters. Later, as Michonne and Rick go to Alexandria to attend a fair that has been planned for months, they discover Carl is missing and decide to go after him. Alpha confronts them, marching Rick at gunpoint to an unknown building where he sees thousands of Whisperers. Michonne's sword
7560-519: A shot fired by the blond wolf. Each failed attempt to light the RV sends Rick into a state of increasing panic, before he hears the pack's moans as they emerge from the forest beside him. The plan goes awry at several points and Rick returns to Alexandria pursued by half of the herd in the episode " Now ". Deanna realizes she is no longer fit to lead the community, and officially makes Rick leader of Alexandria. The next morning ["Heads Up"], Rick continues guarding
7770-425: A son, Carl , and a daughter, Judith . He awakens from a coma after a life-threatening gunshot wound to find the world overrun by reanimated humans dubbed " walkers ". In the comic book series The Walking Dead , Rick served as the protagonist, with the series' epilogue taking place decades after his death. In both media, Rick awakens from a coma into the apocalypse and searches for Lori and Carl, finding them in
7980-411: A stand-off situation, snipers tend to give away their position after several shots. He clarifies that Rick's "sniper bitch", Andrea , is "as good as dead," provoking Rick to strike him. As Negan holds him off, Carl shoots off a portion of Lucille, causing the Saviors to open fire at the Safe-Zone walls. Negan orders them to stop, and issues an ultimatum: "Give me the boy, or I'll bash in all four skulls of
8190-484: A team to seek Dr. Carson's aid at Hilltop. The group is herded into a trap by the Saviors, and Rick watches helplessly as Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) kills two (unseen) members of the group. In the season premiere, " The Day Will Come When You Won't Be ", it is revealed that Negan's two victims were Abraham and Glenn. Negan torments Rick, saying that their deaths were his fault for crossing the Saviors, and threatens to kill them all unless Rick submits. In " Service ", Rick
8400-541: A terrible fate. Jadis later mentions Rick to Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Kublek, calling Rick the strongest man she ever knew. Jadis admits that she took advantage of the moment that Rick became entirely vulnerable and used it to her advantage. Five years after his departure in " What Comes After ," Rick has become a consignee at the Civic Republic Military, based in Philadelphia, which has become
8610-410: A tour and hold Lucille. Both Rick and Father Gabriel ( Seth Gilliam ) lie to Negan that Maggie is dead in order to protect her from Negan. Negan later talks Carl out of shooting a Savior, and decides to take all of Alexandria's guns. When two guns go missing from the inventory, Negan threatens to kill Olivia ( Ann Mahoney ) unless they are found. This is later resolved when Rick finds them as well as
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8820-423: A trade of supplies. After a successful raid on the Saviors in the episode " Not Tomorrow Yet ", Rick believes the threat of the Saviors to have been vanquished, only to be proven wrong when Denise is killed in the episode " Twice as Far ". Rick makes preparations for an attack from the Saviors in the episode " East ", but in the season finale, " Last Day on Earth ", when Maggie has complications in her pregnancy, leads
9030-481: A walker buried in the mud and reluctantly surrenders. In The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live , this is revealed to have been a flashback to Rick's third escape attempt and it occurred sometime within the first five years after Rick's departure in " What Comes After ." Rick also appears in the fourth season premiere of the companion series Fear the Walking Dead with his appearance chronologically following
9240-482: A walker in the melee. Dying, Jadis decides to go out as Anne, the artist who had lived in Alexandria and been their friend for a time rather than Jadis, the ruthless Warrant Officer of the CRM. Anne tells the couple where to find the dossier and implores them to destroy it and just go home, but Michonne states that they are going to return to the CRM so that Rick can get the Echelon Briefing and they can expose
9450-451: A water manager. Rick joins the military and receives a prosthetic hand. Later, Okafor takes him and a fellow soldier, Pearl Thorne, to a private meeting in which he discusses his intentions for the CRM to change. Okafor also reveals that Rick and Thorne are classified as A's because they are both leaders willing to die for their causes, unlike B's who are ordinary people just trying to survive. Rick and Thorne had only been allowed to live once
9660-559: A week to collect their supplies. As insurance against further retaliation, Negan takes Daryl with him. Negan is shown to rule the Sanctuary (the main Savior stronghold) through fear and rewarding his personal army of enforcers (who identify themselves as "Negan" in a show of loyalty). He 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. Negan and his men arrive at Alexandria earlier than expected. He forces Rick to give him
9870-469: A woman. He stops them but is knocked down by Beta for interfering. Alpha explains that they allow for things like this to happen for women to prove their strength, causing Negan to become angry with her. Later that night, Negan and Alpha have a face to face conversation where Negan reveals how dead inside this world has made him and that he knows Alpha is just pretending to have no emotions, causing Alpha to break down. Alpha says that maybe Negan does belong with
10080-405: A young woman named Lucy who bonds with him, but she lures Negan into a trap for her group. After a walker attack kills Lucy's companions, Negan invites Lucy to join him on a quest to properly lay his wife Lucille to rest. In season 8, Negan vaguely states that he helped young people improve upon their weaknesses and molded them into stronger individuals. In the season 10 episode " Here's Negan ", he
10290-420: Is "way in the hole" for this incident no matter how many supplies they gather, before departing. After this, Rick finally knows he has to stop Negan, and hereby attempts to convince other communities to put an end to Negan's reign of terror by forming an alliance to defeat their common enemy. Negan reappears in " Hostiles and Calamities " where he greets Eugene entering the Sanctuary. After determining that Eugene
10500-484: Is a fictional character and the protagonist in the post-apocalyptic comic book series The Walking Dead and the live-action television series of the same name , in which he is portrayed by Andrew Lincoln . Created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore , the character made his debut in The Walking Dead #1 in 2003. Rick is a small town sheriff 's deputy and is married to Lori . They have
10710-413: Is about to kill Carl when Negan stops Dwight and says, "Is that any way to treat our new guest?" Instead of taking immediate action against Carl, Negan shows interest in getting to know him. He 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. Many followers in his ranks are living on
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#173278072078710920-402: Is against their rules and that he will not tolerate such behavior. David apologizes, but Negan rams a knife through his throat, stating he does not "accept his apology". He then apologizes to Sasha and gets her a new T-shirt to replace the one David ripped before complimenting her on her brazen attack. After confirming Rick did not sanction it, Negan states that she would make a welcome addition to
11130-467: Is and promising to leave the radio open for a few minutes at dawn every day, echoing Morgan and Rick's promise to each other the first time that they parted ways. Jadis reappears in season 2 of The Walking Dead: World Beyond , although there is no sign of Rick. Six years have passed since their departure from Virginia and the only possible clue that Jadis gives to Rick's current fate is her mentioning to Huck that she had traded "something very valuable" to
11340-481: Is attacked by walkers and the group flees the city, forced to leave subdued and chained group member, Merle Dixon ( Michael Rooker ) behind. In the episode " Tell It to the Frogs ", the survivors lead Rick to their campsite where he happily reunites with Lori and Carl, as well as Shane. Merle's brother Daryl Dixon ( Norman Reedus ), however, demands that a group return to the city to find him; Rick also wants to retrieve
11550-413: Is doing. Jadis tells Rick that she placed a file among her possessions detailing Alexandria, and if she dies, the CRM will find it and destroy Alexandria hours later. Rick and Thorne meet with Beale, who gives Rick a martial arts book he gave to Okafor and promotes Thorne. After receiving the Echelon Briefing, she becomes more committed than ever to the CRM. Rick organises and escape for Michonne involving
11760-484: Is enraged by Rick, claiming him responsible for their losses. Rick also begins to suffer hallucinations of his wife. The survivors of the prison assault — Rick, Michonne and Carl — return to Hershel's farm where they reunite with the remainder of the prison group who left before the assault. They meet a new group of survivors who are on a mission to Washington, D.C. , which consist of Abraham Ford (the leader), Eugene Porter (a man who claims to have knowledge on
11970-488: Is first heard in " No Way Out " when a group of bikers, led by a man named Bud, accost Daryl Dixon ( Norman Reedus ), Abraham Ford ( Michael Cudlitz ), and Sasha Williams ( Sonequa Martin-Green ), and attempt to steal their weapons, but Daryl kills them with a rocket launcher. In the season finale, " Last Day on Earth ", while driving the ailing Maggie Greene ( Lauren Cohan ) to the Hilltop, Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln ) and his group run into multiple roadblocks set by
12180-414: Is forced to abide by Negan's rules and the opposition of Spencer, whom he threatens. In " Go Getters ", Rick plans an expedition to go find more supplies, knowing that the saviors will return for more offerings and Aaron offers to accompany him. Carl looks at his father reluctantly to see him too submissive to Negan's orders and began to treat him with indifference, rejecting even his offer to accompany him on
12390-504: Is here to parlay. To support his claim, he has a blindfolded Holly brought out of his truck and offers to release her back to Rick. Rick agrees to talk only when Holly is safely back inside, and Negan agrees. This is later shown to be a ploy: it is revealed that Negan had Holly killed and she later reanimated. As the Alexandrians are distracted by this revelation, Negan orders his men to surround Alexandria and throws another grenade over
12600-420: Is hit with the arrow, Negan and Dwight retreat to the rest of The Savior horde, hoping to devise a plan of attack against the remaining survivors at Hilltop. By now, the Saviors have re-grouped, and Negan orders them to get ready for their attack on the Hilltop mansion. When they begin their attack, they are immediately surrounded by Rick's forces, so Negan orders them to retreat and head back to The Savior camps on
12810-407: Is indeed highly intelligent, Negan allows him to get comfortable within the Sanctuary and even sends him two of his "wives" to provide him with company. When Negan discovers that Sherry ( Christine Evangelista ), one of his concubines, is gone, he suspects her of freeing Daryl and has his minion Dwight ( Austin Amelio ) - Sherry's husband - beaten and thrown in a cell. When he is convinced that Dwight
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#173278072078713020-406: Is interrupted when Paul "Jesus" Monroe grabs a Savior by the foot and uses him as a human shield. 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. Jesus orders Rick and the others into a trench and proceeds to fight his way towards Negan. When Jesus reaches Negan, he manages to disarm him and hold him hostage. Jesus stalls
13230-625: Is killed by a surviving CRM Frontliner, and Rick places her sword in his hand. As a helicopter arrives, Rick tells her to think of a new name for the dead other than ‘walkers’ as that's the same name he uses and would arouse suspicion. Michonne becomes a consignee and Rick promises the two of them will escape, but he refuses to fight back. Back at his apartment, Rick requests that Thorne vouch for Michonne, which she does. Hours later, Jadis arrives. She tells him she will kill all those in Alexandria if he attempts to leave with her, before asking what he
13440-423: Is not sufficiently loyal. Later, Negan, along with 50 other Saviors, sneaks up on Rick Grimes ' group and subdues Rick by surprise. They line up all of the survivors from the van ( Rick , Carl , Glenn , Maggie , Michonne , Rosita , Aaron , Eugene , Abraham ) telling them that Negan wants revenge for the Saviors who were killed. Without Rick's consent, Negan imposes a binding deal: everything that belongs to
13650-406: Is now in charge - and is stunned when Rick emerges to greet him. Negan asks Rick to surrender, to "let things go back the way they were", but Rick refuses. Rick goes on to say that they should pool their resources and people together, and in the current situation, the only ones who are “winning” are the undead. Negan takes this all in, and Rick says that they can take their supplies, but they must give
13860-440: Is planning something, although Rick lies that he isn't. Later, during a mission at a chemical plant, Rick tries to escape only to encounter a little girl among the walkers, all of whom are killed by him and Thorne, who reveals that Okafor knows about Rick's family. Rick confronts him, who confirms he had found the letters he attempted to send to Michonne during his third attempt . A fight ensues, during which Okafor reveals his wife
14070-420: Is portrayed as having been a high school gym teacher. Negan later met a woman named Lucille and the pair fell in love and married. Over time, however, Negan began cheating on her. She found out about the affair and he begged her forgiveness, which she granted. Around this time, Negan was fired from his job because he assaulted a man whose kids went to the school he taught at because the man had insulted his wife. In
14280-422: Is pregnant (presumably with Shane's baby), but Rick plans to care for it. Carl Grimes , Rick's son, is accidentally shot in the back by a man named Otis, who escorts Rick and another survivor, Tyreese , a recently joined member of Rick's group to the farm of Hershel Greene and his family. The group stays there for a brief amount of time before Rick is held at gunpoint by Hershel and forced to move out. While on
14490-424: Is reflexively shot in the head. Dawn is immediately killed by Daryl and a stand-off is defused by Officer Shepherd. In the mid-season premiere, " What Happened and What's Going On ", Rick's group travels to Virginia where Noah's community is and eventually strive for Washington despite the cure being outed as false, in hopes of finding a safe haven, but suffer one more loss with Tyreese. In the episode " The Distance ",
14700-400: Is revealed Jadis was already working with Negan. Negan threatens to kill Sasha, and Rick asks to see her. Sasha, having committed suicide to prevent herself from being used as bait, reanimates as a walker and attacks Negan, buying the Alexandrians a chance to open fire against the Scavengers and Saviors. Rick is shot by Jadis after he tries to re-negotiate, and later soldiers from the Kingdom and
14910-529: Is revealed to have been bitten and asks Rick to look out for the native Alexandrians as he does his own pre-Alexandria group before she dies. Rick prepares ponchos covered in walker innards for the group to sneak through the herd to safety. Sam suffers a mental breakdown in the mid-season premiere " No Way Out ". Sam is killed, followed by his mother, and Ron shoots Carl in the eye before being killed by Michonne. While Dr. Denise Cloyd treats Carl, an enraged Rick leads nearly all of Alexandria in battling and defeating
15120-465: Is said people were taken for protection. Rick runs out of gas and stops at a farm. Rick finds the owners inside who have committed suicide . Rick throws up outside and searches their barn where he finds a horse. Upon arrival, Rick is rescued from a large group of walkers by a fellow survivor named Glenn Rhee , who takes him to a camp where Rick is reunited with his wife Lori and son Carl, as well as Shane. Tension between Rick and Shane over leadership of
15330-426: Is saved by a doctor. Rick chooses to imprison Negan, believing that watching the regrowth of civilization from behind a cell is a better punishment than killing him. Dwight takes over as leader of the Saviors, supporting Rick and the war is won. An indefinite number of years later, Rick and the others have rebuilt Alexandria into a thriving sanctuary. He welcomes newcomers Magna and her group who are initially wary of
15540-422: Is short-lived when The Governor, now horribly disfigured, finds the prison and captures Tyreese and Michonne. He manipulates his followers into believing Rick's group are marauders. During the final assault on the prison, Tyreese is executed in front of the group as an act of force to lure the group out of the prison, and both sides suffer significant losses. Lori and Judith are killed as they try to escape. Carl
15750-401: Is smeared with blood. Alpha decides to leave her daughter Lydia who has feelings for Carl, with Rick, believing her to be a weakness. She criticizes Rick's leadership and trying to re-establish society as it had been, before telling him she has marked a border. As Rick reaches the border, he is horrified to find many civilians from each of the four communities decapitated, including Ezekiel and
15960-487: Is tested by his own group when encountering non-group members, who believe his community should join them. Rick manages to rebuild his convictions through agreeing to join, and becoming a father once more, but antagonists exploitation of his group ushers him to maintain a hardened stance. Ultimately, they succeed in rebuilding society. An alternate version of Rick, dubbed Rick Grimes 2000 , is introduced in Issue 75 in 2010, from
16170-426: Is the face of Amber's former lover Mark, who is left disfigured in the same manner as Dwight, with a portion of his face permanently scarred and an eyeball exposed. After the ritual, Negan dismisses his congregation before turning to Carl, who hands back "Lucille", and Negan leads him away, contemplating what to do with him. Negan runs into Rick while the latter was on his way to find Carl. Negan tells Rick how eager he
16380-419: Is the first time in very long that he has hope for the future. Rick's mindset on survival changes and he gradually develops an optimistic outlook on the community and its true potential. Later, Carl wakes up from his coma with minor amnesia . Rick worries that the son he knew is gone, as he shows no grief over the loss of Lori. A small insurrection is later formed but defused without bloodshed and Rick forgives
16590-517: Is the one who killed Connor "and a terrible liar." He then orders her taken away and goes off to clear his head. Later, Negan is seen outside with more Saviors trying to clear the courtyard of all the zombies, swearing that if any of them die he will "fuck them up." Eventually, too many roamers pour in the fence and Negan's group retreat inside once more. 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
16800-485: Is to show him "what he has done to his son". Rick, in a fit of rage, then attacks Negan before Negan reveals that Carl is fine, and Negan clarifies that he is eager to show Rick "that he has done nothing to his son." Several days later, Negan arrives at the Alexandria Safe-Zone a few days ahead of schedule; he is informed that the community is "practically" out of supplies, and Rick went out looking for more. Negan decides that he will stay in Alexandria until Rick returns from
17010-524: The zombie apocalypse , Rick was a police officer in a small town in king county, Georgia . While in a shootout against an escaped convict with his partner and best friend, Shane Walsh , Rick is wounded and subsequently awakens from a coma some time later. After Duane Jones mistakes Rick for a zombie and hits him over the head with a shovel, Duane's father Morgan Jones takes Rick in and informs him about what unfolded during his coma. In search of his wife, Lori, and son, Carl, Rick heads to Atlanta , where it
17220-522: The Alexandria Safe-Zone now belongs to the Saviors. Negan also introduces his weapon of choice; Lucille, a baseball bat covered in barbed wire. After a long talk about the new world order and whom he should beat to death using Lucille, he finally chooses Glenn as his victim. Negan slams Lucille down. Negan laughs as Glenn attempts to get to his feet. After Glenn addresses his final words to Maggie, Negan swings Lucille at him, breaking his skull and removing his eye, and finally beats Glenn to death. Negan tells
17430-707: The Alliance of the Three comprising Philadelphia, Omaha, and Portland, the latter two not knowing of the Civic Republic's existence. He explains that the CRM was originally the Pennsylvania National Guard and fought against the military when they attempted to bomb the city at the start of the outbreak. Okafor was one of the bombers, but defected and instead killed a base of 4,000 soldiers preparing to liquidate any survivors. He asks Rick if Okafor
17640-462: The Atlanta camp where he becomes the group's leader. Although Rick quickly adapts to the notion of killing walkers, his morality towards the living is constantly tested against the safety of his family and friends. Over time, after multiple conflicts with other survivors, his morals diminish and he becomes "colder" towards his enemies. Rick struggles to keep his humanity intact throughout the series. He
17850-408: The CRM in order to get her new life. In the series finale, Jadis confirms to Huck that she had in fact traded Rick for her new life in the CRM. However, Jadis reveals that she had lied about Rick being a "B" and that he was really an "A." Jadis knew that if she had told the CRM that Rick was an "A," he would've ended up as one of the CRM's test subjects and Jadis owed Rick enough to spare him from such
18060-534: The CRM realized this because of Okafor's intervention. He tells them he wants them to rise through the ranks to the point they will be eligible for the Echelon briefing, a series of secrets only a select few in the military know and none of the city does. Rick initially doesn’t intend to help with this, but Thorne, believing there is no escape from the CRM, does and threatens to shoot Rick if he attempts further escapes. Rick meets with Major General Beale, who tells him of
18270-488: The CRM's crimes. Anne gives Rick a wedding ring that Gabriel had found for him, and Rick shoots Anne on her request. Before stealing Jadis' helicopter to fly back to Cascadia Forward Operating Base, Rick and Michonne officially exchange wedding vows using the ring. Aaron (The Walking Dead) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
18480-493: The Hilltop Colony and starts the trading network. At the Hilltop, Paul Monroe admits that the Hilltop Colony have enemies. He tells them of the infamous Negan , who some speculate may not even be a person. The group learn of the Saviors, the Hilltop's rival community who frequently terrorize them and threaten to damage their community if they are not brought half of their supplies. Rick agrees to defuse their conflict in exchange for half of their supplies. Rick's group are ambushed by
18690-409: The Hilltop arrive to save the day. This prompts Negan to retreat. The episode and season ends with Rick, Maggie and Ezekiel uniting the three communities together. In the season premiere, " Mercy ", Rick stands before the assembled forces of the Kingdom, Alexandria and the Hilltop and declares the world to be theirs. He leads a large convoy of survivors with armored vehicles to the Sanctuary to confront
18900-432: The Hilltop gates, demanding to see Rick. Kal is atop the wall and threatens them by saying they will not survive what is behind the walls. Negan tells him to bring Rick, but Kal says, "you're talking to me." Insulted, Negan has one of his men shoot Kal off the wall. Once again, Negan demands Rick to show himself. After no response from him, Negan orders his men to move in. The Saviors pour into the Hilltop and begin to kill off
19110-521: The Hilltop. Now realizing the full scale of Negan's army, Rick intentionally gives in, allowing Negan to take all of Alexandria's supplies. Rick remains at conflict with Negan and the Saviors. Carl reveals to his father that the Saviors live in a factory. Paul Monroe tells Rick that they should see King Ezekiel , the leader of the Kingdom. Ezekiel, residing in a high school , greets Paul Monroe and welcomes Rick to his community. He agrees to work with Rick, and explains that he has another visitor, Dwight,
19320-415: The Safe-Zone discover the Saviors are outside of the walls, quickly killing them. Rick and several others including Glenn and Maggie decide to go back to the Hilltop Colony where Glenn and Maggie plan to live. Negan makes appears to the survivors surrounded by his men, taunting the them before brutally beating Glenn to death. Rick and the others watch in horror and Maggie and Sophia later leave Rick to go to
19530-411: The Savior. Rick manages to reach Iago's truck and jumps on board, stabs Iago in the stomach and pushes him out of the vehicle before crashing into the side of the road. He and Daryl then find a cache of 50-calibre machine guns. In " The Big Scary U ", Rick and Daryl learn from a dying Iago that everyone in the Kingdom died except Ezekiel, Jerry and Carol. They enter into a discussion about what to do with
19740-551: The Saviors and demands Negan come forward. Negan is nonchalant about the imminent danger to him, but develops a respect for Carl. He later sits Carl down and states that he wants to get to know him better, so he should uncover his eye. When Carl begrudgingly does so, Negan pokes fun at the boy's missing eye, but when he sees Carl become visibly upset, he shows genuine remorse and apologizes. He grows to genuinely like Carl, and later brings him to watch as he burns Mark ( Griffin Freeman ),
19950-413: The Saviors are driving back to the foundry, Negan notices Rick and a few others are following them. An instant later, the driver is shot and killed. Confused and angry, Negan takes Lucille and sees Rick pointing a gun at his head. Suddenly, a gunshot is heard, and Rick's gun is destroyed as well as those of the others who came out with him. Negan remarks on how stupid Rick and the others are to use bullets on
20160-538: The Saviors begin killing the roamers in the surrounding area and scavenge each of the houses for supplies. Negan and his men depart from the Safe-Zone with supplies, but, unbeknownst to them, Carl is hiding in the truck with an assault rifle. Once the Saviors get back to their base, Negan is amazed to see that Dwight is still alive. A Savior finds Carl, and Carl uses the rifle to kill six Saviors. They surround Carl, and he demands to speak with Negan. When Negan arrives, Carl fires at them until he loses control of his gun. Dwight
20370-428: The Saviors killing members of their community. To set an example, his goons used a baseball bat to beat a 16-year-old resident named Rory to death, after which Gregory submitted to Negan's demands. Negan and his men also made contact with the community known as the Kingdom and made a similar agreement with their leader King Ezekiel . However, near the start of their relationship, the Saviors found what Negan believed to be
20580-406: The Saviors until Ezekiel and his men arrive. Negan breaks free from Jesus and runs to a truck, where he retreats back to the Sanctuary with his men. 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. Negan then states they are going to war. Several days later, Rick's army arrives at
20790-419: The Saviors with his wife Sherry, sister-in-law Tina, and a truck full of supplies that they refer to as Patty. Negan subsequently sent out a large group, led by Wade, to retrieve them and the stolen supplies. The 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. His name
21000-435: The Saviors' base and demands that Negan come out. Rick offers him a chance to surrender and spare the women and children in his community. Negan refuses Rick's offer, and reveals that Gregory has defected to the Saviors, meaning that Hilltop is now under Negan's control. He calls Dwight, ordering him to bring the men from the outposts back to help drive off Rick's army. Dwight agrees but due to the commotion, Negan does not notice
21210-443: The Saviors, despite his actions against her. He then leaves her with a knife and a choice: kill herself or kill David once he reanimates to show him she is willing to work with him. He later returns to find, to his delight, that she has killed David. He 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. Rick Grimes Rick Grimes
21420-790: The Saviors, some of whom disliked him. Rick leaves, and Negan grins. When Negan hears the chants and cheers of Rick's name at a later town meeting, Negan smiles and says, "atta boy." While in his cell, Negan is approached by Brandon Rose, a young Hilltop resident who bears a grudge against Rick, Carl, Sophia, and the Whisperers; Rick killed his father as an act of self-defense, Carl beat him up after he had attacked Sophia who beat him up, and Alpha beheaded his mother. He proposes to help Negan escape, and Negan says he will think about it. Later on, Rick and Michonne discover Negan's empty cell. After his escape, Negan and Brandon enter Whisperer terrain. Here Brandon tells Negan that he wants Negan to pit Rick and
21630-671: The Saviors, which eventually causes Rick's group to travel by foot. While walking through the woods, the group is ambushed by a large contingent of the Saviors led by Negan's right-hand man Simon ( Steven Ogg ), who take Rick and his group's weapons and make them get on their knees. Dwight also brings out Daryl, Glenn Rhee ( Steven Yeun ), Michonne ( Danai Gurira ), and Rosita Espinosa ( Christian Serratos ), and makes them get on their knees, as well. 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. Because Rick's group killed
21840-428: The Saviors. Rick offers the Saviors the chance to surrender, but states that Negan has to die. The group then opens fire, ravaging the Sanctuary before a massive herd of walkers (led by Daryl) arrives. Rick uses an explosive-laden RV to blow open the gates. As walkers flood into the Sanctuary, Rick spots Negan taking cover and attempts to shoot him, but Gabriel stops him. In the episode " The Damned ", Rick and Daryl lead
22050-408: The Three jacket, writes a message to Michonne that he throws into the water. Moments later, he is found by a CRM helicopter and tosses his belongings aboard the boat where they would eventually be found by Virgil and Michonne. The pilot, referring to Rick as Consignee Grimes, orders Rick to surrender, telling him that there's no escape for the living. Enraged, Rick drives a kill stick through the head of
22260-606: The Whisperers after all. Negan then slits Alpha's throat and decapitates her, saying "wait until Rick gets a look at you...". A 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. Negan reassures them that he only wants trust. He says Rick's way of thinking is inspiring and tries to convince them that his time in prison has rehabilitated him. He says he could have taken several chances and attacked Rick, but he did not. He wants to fight with him, not against him. Rick finally agrees to let Negan out of
22470-491: The Whisperers against one another. In response, Negan stabs Brandon in the chest and enters the Whisperer zone alone. Shortly afterward, Negan is ambushed by a group of Whisperers led by Beta and is taken prisoner. They bring him to Alpha. Negan introduces himself and declares his love for Alpha. Negan starts to live with the Whisperers, though without Beta's trust. During a night at camp, Negan sees two Whisperers trying to rape
22680-410: The bandages to reveal that he is missing an eye after having been shot in the face. Negan, in a state of disbelief and awe, jokingly mocks the disfigurement and goes as far as to ask Carl if he can touch the part of his skull showing through Carl's exposed eye-socket, which causes Carl to break finally and cry. In a rare moment of compassion, Negan apologizes, seeing that he has finally found a weakness in
22890-407: The bandit holding him at gunpoint and comforts Carl as Rick proceeds to stab the remaining bandit to death. Rick later reunites with Morgan in his hometown, who has lost his sanity after his son's death. Rick, Abraham, Carl and Morgan encounter a large horde who follow them back to the survivors' camp. Later, after suffering several losses, the group meets a preacher named Gabriel Stokes and confronts
23100-504: The bell tower and smugly repeats that he knew Rick's sniper was good as dead, not realizing that it is not Andrea, but Connor. Negan taunts Rick about Andrea's supposed demise, and Nicholas interrupts him, pleading for his life. Negan berates Nicholas for doing this and accuses him of being a coward. He asks Rick, Heath, or Holly to ask him to kill Nicholas and says if they do so, he will spare them. However, Heath tells him, no, and so Negan begins to pick which one of them he will kill. Negan
23310-415: The block D, after the attack Rick, Hershel and Dr. Subramanian examine Patrick's corpse and discover that the cause of death is an illness, shortly after Rick goes with Maggie to secure the prison fences, before a crowd of walkers trying to tear it down, the walkers begin to crush the fence, but a thinking Rick sacrifices the pigs to lure the walkers away from the prison with the help of Daryl, then he analyzes
23520-429: The bridge between the two communities, he is thrown from his horse and impaled on a rebar pipe. Crying in agony, Rick is left on the side of the road while he passes out, as hundreds of walkers approach him. Seriously injured, Rick manages to free himself from the rebar and leads the herd away using his horse, haunted by hallucinations of his dead friends. Finding the camp overrun, Rick leads the massive combined herd onto
23730-509: The bridge, which he believes would collapse under the weight of the herd, but it holds. With his friends desperately trying to save him, Rick shoots fallen dynamite, blowing the bridge up and apparently killing himself in the process. Unknown to anyone, Rick survives the explosion and is found by Anne (Jadis) on the riverbank. Anne convinces her allies (the CRM) who are in the helicopter to take Rick to safety and treat his injuries. Rick later awakens on
23940-429: The bullet. When she refuses, Negan tells his lieutenant Arat ( Elizabeth Ludlow ) to kill someone, and she kills Olivia. Rick, having just arrived, sees this and demands to know what happened. Negan calmly replies that he has tried to be reasonable as he returned Carl unharmed and killed Spencer for Rick. When Eugene Porter ( Josh McDermitt ) confesses to making the bullet, Negan takes him prisoner and tells Rick that he
24150-399: The cell, but not in a community. He will live in an outpost, alone, with only enough food and weaponry to keep him surviving. He is not allowed these freedoms yet, though. He is going to be monitored for a long time and will fight on the front lines against the Whisperers. He will earn his freedom after the war, unless he slips up, in which case he will be immediately killed. They eventually win
24360-427: The child he finds so dangerous. In a ritualistic fashion, complete with call-and-response chanting, with the followers answering to Negan's words, Negan demonstrates that he punishes whoever displeases him by searing their faces with a hot iron. Tied to the end of a pole, the tool is held over a fire before being handed to Negan, who presses it against the victim's face as punishment for their offense. In this case, it
24570-403: The communities, with Maggie in charge of Hilltop, Daryl in charge of the Saviors, and Ezekiel in charge of the Kingdom. Rick strives for prosperity and cooperation among the communities, assuring the future that Carl had wished for. His choice to spare Negan has cost him his relationship with Maggie and Daryl, who both want Negan dead. Tensions rise between the groups to a small insurrection, led by
24780-478: The community's hybrid vehicles that has enough ethanol to get them home to Alexandria. While stopping in Yellowstone National Park for the night, Rick and Michonne are forced to fight off a group of bandits and they are found by Jadis who had deduced the couple's survival. Unable to just kill Jadis because of her dossier threatening Alexandria's safety, Rick and Michonne battle her throughout
24990-435: The community. The Governor's men drive a tank through the fences, destroying Rick's home and causing a battle between the two sides. The Governor tries to strangle a badly wounded Rick to death, but Michonne stabs him through the chest. Rick discovers Judith's empty cradle and believes that she has been killed by walkers; heartbroken, he escapes with Carl. After reuniting with Michonne in the episode " Claimed ", Rick escapes from
25200-423: The cure, requesting to go to D.C.) and Rosita Espinosa (Abraham's girlfriend). On the journey to D.C., the group face many threats. As Rick and Abraham take the interstate to Rick's hometown, they are confronted by a group of marauders who hold them at gunpoint, as one tries to sexually assault Carl. Rick, overcome with rage, bites one of the bandits' jugular vein , which distracts the other bandits. Abraham shoots
25410-475: The distress of the situation. As the survivors fight for their lives, several people are killed and Rick's son is grievously wounded by a gunshot to the head. Using the combined strength of all of those remaining in the community, the survivors fend off the horde and Rick tends to Carl, whose condition is very dire. Following the attack, Rick concludes that the undead can be beaten if the survivors put their differences aside and work together. Rick mentions that this
25620-404: The door swings open, which Negan notices. 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. As Rick locks up the cage and leaves, Negan taunts him again by stating
25830-568: The effort was not worth it. Later, while looking at the balloons that Glenn and Enid had released in the sky as a sign that they were still alive, Rick and all the residents of the community witness how the watchtower that was outside Alexandria collapse on the walls, allowing the entry of the horde of walkers. In the mid-season finale, "Start to Finish", the herd breaches Alexandria's walls and Rick takes shelter with Carl, Michonne, Gabriel, Deanna, Jessie, and her sons Ron and Sam in Jessie's house. Deanna
26040-451: The encouragement of his girlfriend Grace, Morgan is finally able to bring himself to shoot Duane using the rifle that Rick had given him when the two men had first parted ways in the attic of the house that Morgan and Rick had first met in. After finally making peace with himself, Morgan departs for Alexandria, intending to find Rick once again. Morgan makes an open broadcast to Rick, declaring his intention to find him again no matter where Rick
26250-401: The episode " Cherokee Rose ". In the episode " Secrets ", Lori tells Rick that she is pregnant and reveals that she and Shane had been together after she believed he died. In the mid-season finale, " Pretty Much Dead Already ", the group discovers that Hershel has kept walkers in the barn, including his family, believing that he can save them. Despite Rick's refusal, Shane opens the barn and kills
26460-534: The episode " Crossed ", a rescue mission in Atlanta for Beth Greene ( Emily Kinney ) ensues as Daryl informs the others of her whereabouts at Grady Memorial Hospital with escapee, Noah ( Tyler James Williams ). A rather peaceful resolution is ultimately decided with a hostage exchange, as the group captures several police officers for the exchange. In the mid-season finale, " Coda ", leading officer Dawn Lerner ( Christine Woods ) demands Noah back as her ward after Beth's departure, fuelling Beth to try to kill her but she
26670-410: The episode " Strangers ", the group meets Father Gabriel Stokes ( Seth Gilliam ) who brings them to his church to stay before going to Washington, DC in hopes of a cure. In the episode " Four Walls and a Roof ", Gareth and five other Terminus survivors hunt down the group, capture a bitten Bob, eat his leg and leave him as bait, before the group lure them into the church to be trapped and slaughtered. In
26880-586: The episode " This Sorrowful Life ", asking Merle, The Governor's former ally, to do so. Merle ultimately sacrifices himself. In the season finale, " Welcome to the Tombs ", Rick, Daryl and Michonne go out to confront The Governor after he fails to take the prison and massacres his own troops. They discover a bitten Andrea in The Governor's torture chamber. Rick reaffirms her as a group member before she uses his revolver to commit suicide to avoid turning. Rick brings
27090-431: The events of The Walking Dead season 8 finale. In the episode, Rick tries to convince Morgan Jones to come back with him before Morgan ultimately decides to go off on his own. Rick also appears in flashbacks in the eighth season and is mentioned by Morgan several times, particularly after Morgan returns to Rick's hometown of King County, Georgia where the two men first met in order to put his zombified son Duane. With
27300-407: The fence, destroying a portion of it and letting the herd inside. Negan frantically orders his men back inside the foundry but notices that Holly is still alive. He sees a zombie about to kill her and dispatches it. As she looks up, Negan smiles and says that she was not "going to get off THAT fucking easy." As the walkers converge on the courtyard area, the Saviors retreat inside the foundry to develop
27510-405: The fire in the following episode, " Indifference ". In the episode " Internment ", he resolves problems with walkers carving through the fences as the illness dies out with Hershel's medical assistance. In the mid-season finale, " Too Far Gone ", The Governor returns with a militia to take over the prison and decapitates his hostage, Hershel, calling Rick a liar for proposing they can live together in
27720-458: The following day, Negan reveals to the Saviors that he has come up with a plan that will help them win the war. He has assembled a group of roamers inside the courtyard to demonstrate his idea, exclaiming "they are the lynchpin of our plans going forward." Reminding them about the fever that comes from getting bit or from any other injury caused by a roamer, Negan approaches one with Lucille. After apologizing to Lucille, Negan begins to rub it all over
27930-432: The former's hesitation to act immediately. As more men rush outside, Negan orders them to start shooting the army before all their snipers are killed. He suddenly notices that all their snipers are taking cover and is initially confused as to why Rick's militia are shooting not the snipers, but the windows. He then notices the large herd of zombies that are rapidly approaching the Sanctuary walls. Suddenly, Holly drives through
28140-491: The group and Lori's affections boils over in a confrontation which ends with Carl shooting Shane to protect his father. Afterwards, Rick leads the group away from Atlanta, trying to find shelter and safe haven from the undead. Rick's early settlement plan proves to be disastrous, as the abandoned planned community he thought to be safe is ultimately found to be zombie infested, resulting in a death of one of their own. Lori Grimes , Rick's wife, shamefully admits to Rick that she
28350-554: The group is hoping for a new home, but unfortunately finds no answers at the CDC. The last remaining employee there, a medical doctor and researcher named Edwin Jenner ( Noah Emmerich ), reveals that the building will soon self-destruct, and whispers something in Rick's ear before the group escapes the doomed facility. In the season premiere, " What Lies Ahead ", Carl is accidentally shot during
28560-428: The group that the Saviors will be back in one week to collect half of everything they have, threatening more deaths should they refuse. Rick vows to avenge Glenn by killing Negan, amusing the latter, who beats Rick with his bare hands in response before he and the other Saviors leave the survivors to mourn over Glenn's body. Negan and the Saviors later arrive at the Alexandria Safe-Zone for their first offering. Negan and
28770-424: The group's search for Sophia Peletier ( Madison Lintz ), Carol 's ( Melissa McBride ) daughter, who was chased away by walkers during the group's escape from Atlanta. In the episode " Bloodletting ", the shooter, Otis , takes them to an isolated farm occupied by Hershel Greene ( Scott Wilson ), a veterinarian who works to save Carl's life by using a transfusion of Rick's blood. Carl recovers with Shane's help in
28980-517: The hands of the allied communities led by Rick, he is incarcerated for years until Carol recruits him as a reluctant ally against the Whisperers. After Negan kills the Whisperers' leaders Alpha and later Beta, the other survivors reluctantly accept him as an official member of their community. Morgan has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Negan in the television series, earning the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in
29190-400: The head by Michonne, Rick awakes in an exploding scientific infirmary, finding his missing hand to have been restored and replaced with a robotic one. Donning armor held in his room, he falls out of a sky ship onto the ground below, where he witnesses Glenn and Douglas be torn apart by walkers. Michonne arrives on the scene and informs Rick that he had suddenly disappeared three weeks previously,
29400-476: The heart in self-defense. Shane comes back to life as a walker, but Carl kills him. In the season finale, " Beside the Dying Fire ", a walker horde overruns the farm. Rick reveals to the escaped group that Jenner had told him that everyone is infected. He tells Lori he killed Shane to protect himself as well as the group, but she recoils from him, horrified. Rick then coldly dares any would-be traitors to abandon
29610-502: The helicopter with Anne, who assures him that he is being taken to a safe place. Six years after Rick's apparent death, Michonne has taken over Alexandria and still visits the destroyed bridge where Rick was last seen alive and talks to him. A nine-year old Judith has inherited Rick's revolver and sheriff's hat, but admits that she is starting to forget both Rick and Carl's voices. Michonne has also given birth to Rick's son, Rick "R.J" Grimes Jr. It's revealed that Michonne found Rick's gun on
29820-430: The herd away. In " Thank You ", Rick and the rest of the groups follow the horn of the truck hurriedly and it separates of Glenn and Michonne, but when it tries to drive its vehicle it is attacked by a group of wolves to which Morgan let them go ahead but Rick he manages to knock down all the wolves that tried to kill him, while trying to restart the RV to go home, he discovers that the engine had been turned off, thanks to
30030-481: The herd. Rick tells a comatose Carl that he now has hope for the future again and plans to rebuild the town, two months later, in the episode " The Next World ", Rick and Daryl meet Paul "Jesus" Rovia on a supply run and after take him back to Alexandria. He later begins a relationship with Michonne. In the episode " Knots Untie ", Jesus takes Rick to the Hilltop Colony, and when he learns they live in fear of Negan and his Saviors, offers to assassinate him in exchange for
30240-407: The hillside. 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. Negan says that he will be their Savior again, as long as they let him urinate on Rick's dead body. Negan arrives at Hilltop's gates and offers to accept their surrender, asking to send out whoever
30450-528: The infestation by any means necessary. He goes to interrogate Holly, but catches David in the middle of trying to rape her. Negan demands that he get away from her and grabs him by the collar. He angrily reminds David one of the Savior's main rules: "We don't rape". As punishment for breaking this rule, Negan proceeds to stab David in the neck and apologizes to Holly, telling her that "they [The Saviors] aren't monsters." Negan gets word of one of his outposts being overrun by Rick's army and sends more men to fortify
30660-413: The inmates try to assimilate with Rick's group with mostly disastrous results. This leads Rick into his first murder, that of the inmate Dexter, during an armed conflict with the other inmates. Weeks after their conflict with the prisoners, Rick, Glenn , and the mysterious, katana -wielding woman Michonne , search for a nearby crashed helicopter which leads them into the town of Woodbury, Georgia . At
30870-513: The location of the prison. Rick escapes the town with his group and new Woodbury ally, Alice Warren, after Michonne exacts her revenge on The Governor, as she tortures and mutilates him. Rick happily reunites with his family after his captivity in Woodbury. Alice also begins updating Lori on her pregnancy. Alice delivers Lori's baby, whom the Grimes family name "Judith". However, their happiness
31080-401: The mid-season finale, " How It's Gotta Be ", Rick marches with the Scavengers to the Sanctuary, but they are ambushed and the Scavengers flee, leaving Rick behind. Carol and Jerry rescue him, and the three decide to separate. Later in the night, Rick finds that the Saviors have set Alexandria on fire, which forces him to again confront Negan. After a brief struggle, Rick escapes with Michonne into
31290-409: The mournful group is encountered by a stranger named Aaron ( Ross Marquand ), claiming to be a recruiter for a community named Alexandria. While distrustful, they follow him as well as his boyfriend, Eric and discover he is telling the truth. In the episode " Remember ", Deanna Monroe ( Tovah Feldshuh ), a former congresswoman from Ohio and leader of Alexandria interviews the group and assigns Rick as
31500-468: The next assault on the Saviors. Rick travels to the Scavenger base to meet Jadis, and offers to ally with them against the Saviors. Jadis refuses, however, and takes Rick captive. In the episode " Time for After ", Rick tries to negotiate his release with Jadis, but she refuses again, and threatens to feed him to a walker. Rick manages to overpower Jadis, and she lets him go. Rick then makes a deal to allow
31710-534: The only reason he is alive is so Rick can prove to himself that he is still a good person, and that he wants everyone else to believe he is the only one who can fix the world. After a tumultuous community meeting about Rick's proposed plan regarding the Whisperers, Rick goes to Negan's cell and asks for his help. He fills him in on everything that has happened since they have come into conflict with this new group. Negan advises Rick to keep his group happy, even if that means lying to them, touting his expertise as leader of
31920-413: The onset of the outbreak, Negan ventured out into the walker-filled wilderness to find medicine for Lucille's pancreatic cancer , but when he returned, he found that she had died and become a walker. He cannot 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. Sometime after the outbreak, Negan established himself as
32130-550: The other Saviors with Dwight, finds Rick at a close distance and demands that Dwight shoot him with his infected crossbow. Dwight shows some hesitation, but is ultimately forced to shoot Rick. An arrow pierces Rick's side, taking him down, but Dwight's loyalties are revealed to be on Rick's side as he has not succumbed to the infection. He confronts Negan, showing his perspective, and Negan finally understands Rick's view of rebuilding society. In response, Rick slashes Negan's throat before Negan breaks his leg. Negan passes out, before he
32340-486: The outbreak, Negan lived in Reston, Virginia and was the coach of a local high school, keeping his players in line through intimidation and bullying. He is happily married to his wife, Lucille, but nonetheless has a mistress on the side who does not know he is married. During an argument, Lucille collapses and he rushes her to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with cancer . As his wife is tended to, Negan tells his mistress
32550-581: The outskirts of Washington, called the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Each person tries to find a semblance of real life, but Rick doesn't trust the leader of the town, former U.S. Congressman Douglas Monroe. Rick soon becomes the Constable of the Safe-Zone, attempting to keep the peace in the town, but is eventually forced to kill Peter Anderson, a man who was abusing his wife and child and soon murdered Regina Monroe, Douglas' wife, during an assassination attempt on Rick's life. Rick having been through so much since
32760-411: The park. Jadis reveals that, before their escape, Rick had finally earned Major General Beale's trust and Beale was going to promote him and give Rick the Echelon Briefing where he would reveal to Rick the true size and scope of the CRM's plans as well as all of their secrets. Rick agrees to return to the CRM with Jadis if Michonne can go home, but they double-cross each other and Jadis is fatally bitten by
32970-399: The people out here!" Negan admits that he liked Carl at first and that he never had a child of his own; if he did, he would have wanted him to be like Carl. Rick says that if Carl dies, their agreement is over, but, Negan states that it already is over. He orders his men to line up Rick, Heath, Nicholas, and Holly, then begins to decide which one to kill first. He notices a figure falling from
33180-453: The phone. Realizing that Rick is still alive out there somewhere, Michonne decides to depart the communities in order to search for him, finding a possible clue in the boat's logs to his location. In the series finale, Judith reveals to Daryl and Carol the truth about Michonne's departure in search of Rick who is still alive. A year later, Daryl departs to "be out there" and also locate his friends. On Rat Island , Rick, wearing an Alliance of
33390-428: The pregnant Rosita. Michonne begins to cry as Andrea solemnly asks him what they do next. Rick decides to tell the communities, who take it terribly. He is attacked by two of the citizens. One man made it out alive, the other, Morton Rose, the husband of one of the decapitated victims, did not. He starts training the people of the joined communities to fight against walkers as well as the Whisperers. After being hit over
33600-457: The premises of Alexandria to ensure that their situation was not compromised, and Rick also meets with Morgan to reproach him for letting the wolves escape, which had frustrated Rick's plan to drive away the walkers. Despite having received leadership of the community, Rick continues to believe that the Alexandrians are not ready to survive in the new world. This reason leads him to scold Tara when she risks her life to save Spencer, since he felt that
33810-405: The prison invasion, Sergeant Abraham Ford ( Michael Cudlitz ), Eugene Porter ( Josh McDermitt ), and Rosita Espinosa ( Christian Serratos ). In the season premiere, " No Sanctuary ", Rick's group escapes Terminus as an explosion set off by Carol destroys the compound and infests it with walkers. He reunites with his daughter, Judith and graciously thanks Carol, who resettles into the group. In
34020-401: The prison, a more secure environment than Woodbury). Rick follows Michonne while somewhat distrustful of her in the episode " Made to Suffer " and retrieves the couple by killing several soldiers and consequently causing a firefight in the streets. The Governor launches an assault on the prison in the episode " Home " in retaliation. A former member of Rick's group, Andrea ( Laurie Holden ), now
34230-426: The prison, as the farm grows increasingly precarious. The group's concept of the prison being a safe haven quickly diminishes when Rick and Tyreese find Tyreese's daughter, Julie, shot dead in a suicide pact with her boyfriend, who remained alive. Julie surprisingly reanimates as a roamer, which causes the revelation that everyone is infected with the mysterious virus, regardless of being bitten or not. After this event,
34440-445: The prison, slowly starts resuming more leadership-like roles until finally Rick assumes leadership of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, after Douglas soon finds himself losing his grip on life, and his leadership position exacerbating as a result of this. The town becomes endangered after a scavenging group's attack attracts a nearby horde of walkers that quickly breach the town's defensive walls. Morgan and Jessie are two of several casualties in
34650-406: The process. With Deanna's approval, Rick shoots Pete in public as Morgan Jones arrives at the scene. In the season premiere, " First Time Again ", while getting reacquainted with Morgan, Rick discovers a quarry filled with hundreds of walkers held in by a barricade that is about to fail. He takes de facto command of Alexandria with Deanna's approval and recruits the native Alexandrians to help lure
34860-431: The promise that the Civic Republic represents. Thorne, suspicious of her, brings her to the site where Okafor took she and Rick and questions her, secretly drawing her knife leading Rick to secretly draw his gun. She decides to trust her and has her accompany them on a mission to the university; however, she breaks protocol and Rick helps her. Thorne aims her gun at an unsuspecting Michonne, but Rick intervenes. Thorne sends
35070-451: The remaining ones. This, in turn, leads to Ezekiel's army being eradicated in a failed attack. Negan also 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. When he arrives at the Safe-Zone, he throws a grenade over the wall, demolishing one of the houses and getting Rick's attention. He threatens that 'there's more where that came from' and insists that he
35280-473: The residents to the Hilltop, where all three communities unite. Negan arrives at the Hilltop Colony as the Saviors break down the front gates and swarm the community. Rick orders the survivors to open fire, destroying the truck that smashed through, killing several Saviors in the process. During the firefight, Rick takes Nicholas and Aaron to box in the attackers. While they take cover, Rick unknowingly leaves himself vulnerable from behind. Negan, who separates from
35490-405: The residents. As gunfire continues to erupt towards them, Negan and Dwight are separated from the other Saviors. Negan is unaware that Dwight is loading an arrow to kill him when he spots Rick away from the other survivors. He tells Dwight to shoot Rick. Dwight reluctantly does so, hitting Rick in the side. After this, Negan declares that "without him, they're nothing. Game fucking over." After Rick
35700-409: The rest of the group will die. When Rick remains defiant, Negan threatens to kill Rick's son Carl ( Chandler Riggs ) and the rest of the group unless Rick cuts the boy's arm off. After some hesitation, Rick raises the axe; Negan stops him, satisfied that he has broken the elder Grimes' spirit. Negan then allows the surviving members of the group to depart with the warning that the Saviors will return in
35910-476: The reunited Daryl (who had joined the Claimers) kill the others. The four head to Terminus, but become suspicious as they discover the inhabitants wearing the clothes belonging to the survivors they knew. The citizens of Terminus trap the group in a boxcar , where they find Glenn, Maggie, Sasha and Bob Stookey ( Lawrence Gilliard Jr. ) and new allies Tara Chambler ( Alanna Masterson ), whom Rick recognizes from
36120-427: The riverbank while searching for him and that Daryl spent years searching for his friend's body without any success. Years after Rick's disappearance, Michonne finds his boots on Bloodsworth Island while helping out a survivor named Virgil. Virgil reveals that the boots washed up on the island in an abandoned boat and Michonne finds an old iPhone with Rick's name on it and a drawing of herself and Judith scratched into
36330-419: The road again, two other members of the survivors discover a prison , where everyone seeks refuge and settles down. Rick and the group settle into the prison where they meet the former prison inmates who hadn't managed to escape. Rick and Dale Horvath soon decide it is best to have as many people as possible at his new settlement, and decide to convince Hershel and his family to leave the farm and join him at
36540-479: The roamer, covering the bat with guts and the bacteria that causes the fever. Holding up 'the new and improved Lucille,' Negan says that even the slightest touch from Lucille will now essentially be a death sentence. He orders the Saviors to do the same to their weapons. Arriving at the Hilltop later that day, Negan and his men hide in the forest just outside the Hilltop. He then issues the order: "We attack at sundown." Several hours later, Negan and his troops arrive at
36750-430: The roamers instead of saving them for "the much more dangerous thinkers" (i.e., the living). 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. With a crazed smile on his face, Negan leans into Rick and says that he and the Safe-Zone residents are "fucking fucked." Negan smiles and says that in
36960-435: The rooms in the Hilltop and sees Rick standing over him. Rick reveals that he is going to keep Negan alive so he can see the survivors’ new civilization flourish without him. Rick also tells Negan that he will spend the rest of his life in jail. Two years after the war, Carl goes to the basement of an unknown house and talks to a figure in the shadows. He then says to Carl that he enjoys their talks, which help him keep track of
37170-459: The safe haven, but come to understand the running of it. Carl convinces his father to let him relocate to the Hilltop Colony to become a blacksmith apprentice . Rick reunites with Maggie Greene and her adoptive daughter Sophia when he brings Carl to the Hilltop. Rick leaves Carl under Maggie's care. Unaware that his son has joined Alpha and the Whisperers, a tribe of thousands who disguise themselves as walkers, Rick reunites with Michonne as
37380-444: The safety of the group. In the season premiere, " Seed ", eight months have passed and Rick and Lori's relationship has deteriorated. The group finds an overrun prison facility and decide to settle there. When exploring the building's interior, they encounter some prisoners , who try to assassinate Rick and then unleash walkers into the facility, causing Lori's death. Rick falls into a downward spiral and begins hallucinating, imagining
37590-419: The scavengers to share the Saviors' supplies if they join him. Jadis demands to see the situation in the Sanctuary before she or her people commit to Rick's plan. Rick guides them to the outer perimeter of the enclosure; upon entering, Rick finds one of his snipers dead, being devoured by walkers. Unable to eliminate the other snipers, Rick climbs a tower and watches the area from a higher ground, and escapes. In
37800-491: The series premiere, " Days Gone Bye ", before the outbreak Rick and his best friend, Shane Walsh ( Jon Bernthal ), are in a gun battle with escaped convicts. Having been wounded, Rick lies in a coma while the zombie apocalypse begins. After awakening alone in the hospital, he walks through the neighborhood but is mistaken for a walker and hit over the head with a shovel by a child, Duane Jones (Adrian Kali Turner). Duane's father Morgan ( Lennie James ) takes Rick in and explains
38010-436: The sewers, where the rest of their people are hiding, along with Siddiq, who was rescued by Carl. Rick then discovers, to his horror, that Carl has been bitten by a walker. In the mid-season premiere, "Honor" , Rick and Michonne organize an escape plan with the others, while the Saviors bomb Alexandria. As he lays dying, Carl gives Rick a letter in which he urges his father to make peace with Negan. Unable to watch his son die,
38220-459: The sickness to him. Rick sets off in search of his wife, Lori ( Sarah Wayne Callies ), and young son, Carl ( Chandler Riggs ), along the way witnessing what has happened to the world. In downtown Atlanta Rick is attacked by a horde of walkers and hides inside a tank. In the episode " Guts ", a young man named Glenn Rhee ( Steven Yeun ) rescues Rick from the tank and leads him to a group of survivors scavenging for supplies. The building they are in
38430-453: The smoke coming from Alexandria, he comments that this means they've "just fucking won." After successfully bombarding Alexandria, Negan leads his men back to Sanctuary. He sees a herd of roamers attacking several people from Alexandria. He orders his men to kill the roamers and wonders aloud why they are out here beyond the wall. Nevertheless, he orders Eugene Porter and the others to be taken back with them. Later, Negan finds out that Eugene
38640-611: The supply run. Negan is later approached by Spencer Monroe who tells Negan that Rick is not a suitable leader for the community and asks that once Negan assassinates Rick, he be given control over the Safe-Zone. He responds by telling Spencer that Rick may hate him, but, he has guts, unlike Spencer, who acted like a coward. Negan then slashes Spencer's stomach, killing him almost instantly. Rick later returns with supplies. Negan initially demands all of it but then decides to take nothing, as repayment for having killed Spencer. Rick insists that they take their share, and Negan has no objections. As
38850-468: The surviving residents of Woodbury—including Tyreese ( Chad L. Coleman ) and his sister, Sasha ( Sonequa Martin-Green )—to the prison. He also confiscates Carl's pistol after hearing that his son killed a boy from Woodbury whom he believed to be a threat. Rick stops seeing visions of Lori, realizing his ruthlessness was the reason for her appearances. In the season premiere, " 30 Days Without an Accident ", having relinquished leadership, Rick tries to live
39060-434: The survivors something in return; make supplies of their own to give or trade for others via a barter system . Negan realizes that he has only inflicted suffering upon the communities that he has “saved”, and apologizes. Rick then slashes Negan's throat with a knife. Negan tackles Rick and begins beating him, Negan gets the better of him and breaks Rick's leg. Laughing, Negan passes out from blood loss. He wakes up inside one of
39270-419: The thought of losing his family again if Rick allows Michonne to stay. Rick is no longer able to remember Carl's face, having lost the ability to see him in his dreams. Michonne gives Rick an iPhone that she had Benjiro engrave with Carl's picture and Rick finally agrees to return home. As Greenwood collapses following a CRM bombing to destroy any evidence of their presence, Rick and Michonne escape and take one of
39480-443: The time and days passed. Carl says he is leaving, but before he leaves, the figure asks him if, after all this time, all the things they have shared and the talks they have had, Carl still wants to kill him. He turns around and faces the person behind bars, simply saying: "Yes, Negan. You know I do." Negan asks how he was supposed to know that Carl wanted to kill him and tells him not to insult his intelligence. Negan says that he thought
39690-449: The town, they meet a man called The Governor , who leads Woodbury by extreme manipulation, cunningness, and ruthlessness. Fooled by The Governor's pseudo-hospitality, like most Woodbury inhabitants, Rick ultimately has his right hand severed in an attempt to get him to reveal the location of the prison. When The Governor sees Rick will never give up his family, he decides to torture both Glenn and Michonne instead, but yet again fails to find
39900-422: The transgressors. Rick and Andrea continue to become very close concerning Carl in his coma. Andrea develops feelings for Rick. Rick resists out of fear of what might happen to him in the event of her death. Paul Monroe, an ambassador from a community of two-hundred survivors called the Hilltop Colony, visits Alexandria to start a trading network with Rick's community. After some mistrust, Rick agrees to go to
40110-450: The truth, and she immediately leaves him. When the zombie apocalypse starts, the hospital workers tell Negan they are being forced to abandon the hospital and he should leave with them, but he refuses to leave Lucille's side. Lucille dies when the power goes out, short-circuiting her life-support machine; moments later, she reanimates as a zombie . He flees the hospital and finds a boy being trapped by zombies, and helps to dispatch them with
40320-676: The two back home, and Rick tells Michonne to leave next time he gives her a chance, and ends their relationship in an attempt to make sure. However, in the helicopter, Michonne grabs him and forces them both into the water below. Taking shelter in a high-rise building called Greenwood that had once been home to a survivor community of innovators, the two discover that the storm had downed their helicopter, meaning that everyone will think that they're dead and Rick and Michonne can go home. However, Rick refuses to go, insisting upon finishing Okafor's work. Rick eventually reveals that his years of imprisonment have left him severely traumatized and unable to bear
40530-566: The two of them were friends to which Carl walks away, making Negan retreat into the corner of his cell. Negan asks if Rick is taking Carl to the Hilltop, slightly shocking Rick. Negan says that he and Carl are friends and that Rick could not break that bond. Negan tells Rick that he is just getting things ready for him and that he will not be in his cell forever. Rick says that he knows Negan will die behind bars, to which Negan says that he will not and that deep down, Rick knows he should have killed Negan. Magna and her group later come down to see who
40740-557: The tyrannical dictator of a community of survivors called the "Saviors". He wields a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that he calls "Lucille," after his deceased wife. Negan quickly gathered a large following and established outposts in various locations around the Washington, D.C. area. Within the structure of the Saviors, Negan has a right-hand man named Simon as well as several lieutenants, including Wade, Bud, Gavin, Arat and Dwight . One of Negan's first Saviors and lieutenants
40950-405: The unseen individual to death, as everyone else in the group screams. Negan's chosen victim is Abraham, whom he bludgeons to death with Lucille. Enraged, Daryl rushes Negan and punches him in the face, only to be stopped by three Saviors. As a reprisal for Daryl's attack, Negan beats Glenn to death in front of Maggie, Glenn's wife. Negan then presents Rick with an ultimatum: pledge total loyalty, or
41160-484: The walkers inside, until one is revealed to be Sophia. Left with no other choice, Rick shoots Sophia dead. In the mid-season premiere, " Nebraska ", Rick is forced to kill two men in a bar to protect the group, but takes one of their group members, Randall Culver ( Michael Zegen ), as a prisoner in the episode " Triggerfinger ". In the episode " Better Angels ", Rick decides to keep the prisoner alive. Shane ultimately kills Randall, and then tries to kill Rick, who stabs him in
41370-425: The wall. Suddenly, gunfire erupts from behind several buildings. Surprised by this, Negan orders his men behind one of the trucks. He asks for one more grenade to use as cover and tells his men "the last boat is leaving... you'd better fucking be on it." He manages to escape, and they can make a fast exit. When a Savior makes an offhand comment about retreating, Negan retorts that this was not a retreat. Pointing towards
41580-555: The war and he later admits he was wrong about his decisions and leaves to fend for himself. He is confronted by Maggie, who wants revenge for Glenn's murder, but decides not to kill him after seeing him in a depressed state. (Issue 174) In the Letter Hacks for Issue 182, Kirkman confirmed that Negan will not return to the series. When asked if Negan would receive another barbed-wire baseball bat, Kirkman answered, "If we see Negan again - and we won't - I'd be really surprised if he had
41790-483: The war is over, but they need a large quantity of guns to make a formal alliance. In "Say Yes" , Rick and Michonne look for guns. They bond, have sex, and have a deep conversation about whether he will die in the war, asking her to take over if he does. Jadis is dissatisfied with their offering, but Rick manages to convince her to let them keep some of the guns while they find more. In " Something They Need ", Tara leads Rick to Oceanside where they have guns, having kept it
42000-537: The way out. Michonne gave him an intense kiss goodbye as a sign of support. In " Hearts Still Beating ", Rick and Aaron return from a supply run to Negan killing Spencer. Negan explains that Spencer asked him to kill Rick so he could take over. With some prodding from Michonne, Rick agrees to stand up and fight, and goes to the Hilltop. In " Rock in the Road ", Rick attempts to gather an army to fight Negan; when Rick fails to rally enough people in Hilltop, Jesus brings them to
42210-465: The weapons; Daryl believes that they should use them against the Saviors, while Rick sees a more humane solution. The argument turns into a fist fight, which inadvertently results in a dynamite bag thrown at the truck, destroying it along with the weapons. Daryl heads back to Alexandria, and a resentful Rick heads off to another course. In " The King, the Widow, and Rick ", Rick, Maggie and Carol organize
42420-440: Was a man known only as the Croat who had gone through some terrible experiences before Negan found him. Negan would employ the Croat's unique talents as a torturer and he became close friends with the man who came to call Negan "buraz" or "brother." At some point, Negan and the Saviors encountered the Hilltop Colony and extorted its leader Gregory into giving them half their supplies on a regular basis; failure to do so would result in
42630-480: Was among those killed during his bombing of the soldiers. He sends Rick and Thorne on an assignment to convert a college to an CRM base. At his apartment, Thorne shows him a news report of Omaha’s destruction , stating that the CRM’s secrecy keeps them safe, and it is all they have left; he considers suicide, but decides to fully commit to the CRM and burns his letters for Michonne. In the present day, Rick and Okafor pilot
42840-528: Was an "amazing find". In preparation for the role, Lincoln sought inspiration from Gary Cooper in his work in the American western film High Noon (1952), as well as the television drama series Breaking Bad . Lincoln has been well-received for his portrayal of the character, and has been nominated for several awards, winning the Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television in 2015 and 2017. Before
43050-463: Was brave enough to threaten him and swallow his pride to protect others. Disappointed that Spencer "has no guts" for going to him while Rick is gone, Negan eviscerates Spencer with a knife while jokingly stating that "he did have guts after all." This provokes Rosita, Spencer's girlfriend, to draw a gun and shoot at Negan, though she misses and instead hits Lucille. Enraged, Negan threatens to have Rosita's face mutilated unless she tells him where she got
43260-427: Was in the jail. When they walk down the stairs to where Negan is being held, Negan grabs the bars to his cell and asks if they are here to rescue him, saying that "they're animals." This shocks Magna and her group. Negan begs to be released and claims Rick is a monster who locked him up and tortured him for speaking out against him. However, Magna does not believe him, having seen actual victims of torture. Negan admits he
43470-485: Was later renamed The Walking Dead: Dead City and is set years after the end of the original series in New York City . Robert Kirkman conceptualized the character after scrapping the idea of Rick Grimes being forced to protect his son, Carl Grimes , by killing fellow survivor Glenn Rhee . Jeffrey Dean Morgan was cast as Negan in 2015. He made his television debut in the sixth-season finale . Prior to
43680-414: Was lying but had to give it a try. Magna and her companions leave the cell. Some time later, Negan is bathing and having his hair cut by Olivia outside his cell door. After finishing, Negan walks back to his cell at gunpoint from Andrea, who calls him a "fucking monster". Olivia then proceeds to lock the door, and they both leave Negan alone. However, it turns out Olivia did not lock Negan's cell properly as
43890-462: Was making ammunition for Rick's army and goes to see him. Flanked by Dwight and Carson, Negan orders Eugene to begin producing ammo for the Saviors. When the latter refuses, Negan hands Carson Lucille, and tells Eugene what will happen if he refuses to cooperate; smiling, he says that he could disfigure Eugene's face or castrate him. Eugene still refuses to betray Rick, and Negan leaves Eugene "with his thoughts and his dick... while he still has it." Early
44100-553: Was not involved and is still loyal, he sends him after Sherry, only to learn that she supposedly was killed by walkers. When he finds evidence of Dr. Carson aiding in Daryl's escape (secretly planted by Dwight), Negan throws him in the fire-pit before apologizing to Dwight for doubting him, and offering condolences for his loss. Negan visits a captive Sasha (who came to the Sanctuary to kill him) and discovers one of his Saviors, David (Martinez), attempting to rape her. Negan states that rape
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