Why does Negan join Rick?

After his defeat at the hands of the allied communities led by Rick, he is incarcerated for years until Rick 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.
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Did Negan become a good guy?

Despite earning a villainous reputation in The Walking Dead, Negan has proven he can act like a good guy on several occasions. Ever since Negan made his infamous debut on The Walking Dead back in season six, he has always been regarded as the main antagonist.
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Why did Negan go after Rick's group?

The "man himself" walks out of the RV and introduces himself as Negan and explains to Rick that half of their supplies will belong to him and that is the "new world order." Negan explains that he is going to punish Rick and the group for killing so many of his people.
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Why is Negan so attached to Carl?

Those Closest To Him Die Tragically

Despite threatening to kill him more than once, he became emotional when he heard that Carl had passed away. Later, after escaping Alexandria, he ran into a single mother and her young son. He traveled with them, bonding with the boy along the way.
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What episode does Negan become good?

In Episode 15, “Something They Need”, Negan turns on his decency when he interrupts and stops the imprisoned Sasha from being raped by one of his men.
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Rick Vs Negan (Round 3) Rick Slits Negan's Throat



Do Negan and Rick become friends?

However, if the AMC series is going to follow the comics, the two characters might just end up becoming friends. In the most recent issue of The Walking Dead comics, Negan and Rick are working together for the first time.
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How did Negan survive getting his throat?

Once Negan hesitated to kill him long enough, Rick took a knife and sliced Negan's throat wide open. Now, hold onto your horses — because Negan's not dead. That's right, on The Walking Dead a man can have his throat slit open and survive.
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What does Negan do to Judith?

Negan put his life on the line for Judith back in season 9 when he braved the blizzard to rescue Judith and Dog. Now that he's back in Alexandria after killing Alpha, he needs a job.
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Why does Negan love his bat?

After discovering that Lucille had committed suicide, a grief-stricken Negan wrapped the bat in barbed wire and eventually named it Lucille in honor of his late wife. As his wife stood by him and helped him get through life before the apocalypse, the bat is a symbolic reminder of her.
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Do Negan and Maggie become friends?

"Hell no!" Cohan said with a laugh. "We'll never be friends. You just got to try to make lemonade out of the lemons." Maggie and Negan never being friends gives an interesting built-in conflict to their upcoming spin-off, Isle of the Dead, which will go into production later this year for a 2023 premiere.
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How did Negan know about Rick's plan?

Negan already knows about Rick's plan by the time Dwight goes to visit Alexandria to team up with them. Though we see him back with Negan later on, and it's possible he could still give up Rick's group, Dwight is most likely #TeamRick moving forward.
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How did Rick defeat Negan?

With Negan's guard down, Rick uses a shard of broken glass to slice Negan's throat while the combined groups watch from a distance.
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Who knocked out Rick before he met Morgan?

Season 1. In the television series, Rick's hometown - where the Jones' settle - is a small Georgia town called King County. In the series premiere "Days Gone Bye", Morgan examines Rick after his son Duane mistakes Rick for a walker and hits him with a shovel.
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Does Maggie forgive Negan?

The Walking Dead slipped a crucial scene in the midst of a larger battle, but Maggie finally forgiving Negan was done right - despite the spinoff. The long-awaited moment Maggie finally forgives Negan might've been understated, but The Walking Dead's all-important scene succeeded... despite a spinoff specter.
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Is Negan the best villain?

Negan was the best villain on the walking dead. The producers tried to hard with David Morrissey(Governor), Samantha Morton(Alpha) was overated and Andrew West (Gareth) was weak asf. No other villain caused as much physical and emotional damage as the true villain of the show, Negan.
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Does Negan deserve redemption?

10 Deserves Redemption: He's The Savior Of Judith's Life

Negan always claimed that he saves people, and though it was arguably true to some extent during his time as leader of The Saviors, the baseball bat-wielding tyrant certainly ended more lives than he extended.
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How does Lucille become zombie?

In the comics, she dies of cancer in a hospital bed. Negan can't bring himself to kill his wife once she becomes one of the undead and asks a boy in the hospital to do it for him. On the show, Lucille overdoses on pills before the cancer can kill her.
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Why is Lucille so important to Negan?

There's a very good reason the name Lucille is so important to Negan: it was his wife's name. Lucille, the person, does in fact survive the initial apocalypse, despite the fact that she's battling cancer. At some point she succumbs to her illness and passes away.
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How does Negan clean Lucille?

Even though he probably doesn't want to muck up the beauty that is Lucille, Negan nonetheless demonstrates by rubbing her against a subdued walker, getting some of that gooey and fleshy zombie bits all mashed up in her barbed wire.
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Is the baby Ricks or Shanes?

For the first time, Rick admitted he knew that Judith was, in fact, not his child, but was rather fathered by his former best friend and partner Shane (whom Rick then killed… before Carl killed zombie Shane).
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Who does Negan have a baby with?

Sunday's "The Rotten Core" episode of The Walking Dead revealed Negan and Annie (Medina Senghore) are married — and she's 12 weeks pregnant with Negan's child.
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Why did Carl name his sister Judith?

"When the Dead Come Knocking"

Carl talks to Rick about the baby's name, and Carl tells Rick about how Daryl calls her "Lil' Ass Kicker", which Rick finds amusing. They finally decide on "Judith" after Carl's third grade teacher, Judith Mueller.
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What did Negan do before the Apocalypse?

Here's Negan

Prior to 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 doesn't know he is married.
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Does Negan live after Rick slits his throat?

While Rick still slit Negan's throat, he opted to keep his enemy alive and have the man who killed Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) serve instead as a reminder of how they are building a new civilization — and that the world has changed from his rule of terror.
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Does Rick slit Negans throat in the comics?

Negan says he's been wrong all along and that Rick is right. Rick then slashes Negan's throat with a knife, responding "Good." Caught by surprise, Negan begins bleeding out while Rick begins to address the remaining Saviors.
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