Why Negan is the Best Character in The Walking Dead 

To be fair, i think even negan would have pushed the "not killing kids" thing to the side if in the same situation as carol regarding lizzie.

Lucille was actually played by Jeffery dean morgan's (negans actor) real life wife.

i look forward to Negan his performance in S4 of THE BOYS

*He's the only character on the show that still acts like a teenager despite his trauma and age...*

You forgot earlier in season 6 Negans men attemped to kill Abraham, Daryl and Sasha. So our group already new they were a threat. Negan men struck first.

He is the best villain ever. His acting is superb and the way he tilts his body as he is scaring the day lights out of people around him. I love him!! Negan and Rick were top notch in TWD.

Rick and his group didn't kill 200 people at the satelite outpost lol. I don't think it would really be an outpost at that point unless negan had thousands of people which he doesn't. Eugene estimated that they killed 30 people so I'd say that's more reliable.

Lucille was played by JDMs real life wife, hence why the chemistry between them was so good and believable.

I've never heard that TWD has crappy villains....

2 of my favorite Negan quotes are both about Beta. He calls him "fe fi fo asshole" and "Frankenstein's hemorrhoid"

Great video. Just wanted to mention something regarding 26:13. The Walking Dead is shot on a 16mm film, instead of a 32mm one, which adds a grainy look immediately. Its an intentional creative decision that they have used throughout the entire series.

dude he MISSED the jugular. if you hit the jugular your dead in 6 to 10 seconds

Most ppl forget that Negan’s ppl attacked Daryl and friends first. Then Daryl used his rocket launcher 😂

The background stories and mini episodes were bonus episodes made during Covid. So they weren’t even supposed to be made but they wanted to give us more content. Those episodes were phenomenal

200 or so people? That's a goant exaggeration it was more like 20 or 30 and they weren't a potential threat they were a definite one. Hilltop said they were extorting them and that they killed a 15 year old kid just to show how serious they were. "they said we needed to understand right off the bat". I get so sick of people talking about the stalite outpost killings as though ricks group is evil for doing that or even close to being on negans levek ethically just because it was in their sleep. Yes killing someone who is asleep makes it sound alot worse but you gotta look at rhe Bigger picture. Also those people sleeping had pictures of smashed heads from negans bat hanging over their beds. Yeah they were angels lmao

I never got the impression that negan ever wanted to kill maggie in season 11 or dead city. To me it seemed very one sided. Sure negan wasn't going to just let maggie whack him, but i didn't get the impression he'd go as far as killing her first.

Haha Negan was the main character for me in the last 2 seasons. Especially the way they set the seasons up

Something I like about Negan’s introduction is that through Eenie, meenie, miney moe he keeps looping through Rick’s group after “And. You. Are” and deliberately pick Abraham as “It” since Abraham would be useful due to being the biggest and physically strongest as compensation for the man power Rick and Co killed despite being a 30:1 ratio

Congratulations this 3 part series is about to explode good shit hope the next chapters are as good or better

Objectively speaking Rick is the best character of twd. Negan's great but please, it is nothing compared to Rick lol. Not even Negan's comeback in Dead City has caused so much excitment and people going insane like Rick is doing with his return in the ones who live and all that thanks to his development/evolution🔥. The difference of the impact says a lot if not all.

Have to say, really good job on the video. Wasn't expecting it to be this good

I heard somewhere that the character in the comics was partially inspired by Henry Rollins, which I could totally see, the combination of being imposing whilst charming in a sinister way. Also got vibes of Randall Flagg from The Stand mini series (the Jamie Sheridan portrayal).As you stated definitely one of the best characters on television and certainly elevated the show to a much higher level.

He’s not THE best but he’s tied for #1 with Darnell Dickinson, Dick Crimes,and Noogen

Quality on point in the first 30 seconds, good luck on the rest of your channel!

the way you talk about Negan sometimes made me laugh but it was so real

Negans lean back to exaggerate his point has always stuck with me

Also, like you said, in Neegans flashback episode we see that he loved Lucille (his wife) more then anything. He fought like hell to keep her alive when she had CANCER during the apocalypse. I think losing her turned him into the Neegan we first meet and the end of the show is the arc of him returning back to the person he WAS- protecting his current wife years later and finally understanding the impact of what he did to Glenn. The whole basbeball bat wielding viscious era was a direct cause of losing the true Lucille.

Awesome video man.

I love that Negan is both the comic relief and the reason the show needs some comic relief

bruh negan had the hardest, most badass entry/introduction.... so fucken impactful

I love his interaction beetween judith, daryl, carol, maggie and of course my favourite character... Gabriel, they are so well together

Your channel is very underrated.

"Not making a decision, is a BIG decision."

amazing. breathtaking video.

Negan ended up being my fave too, but they made him boring to a degree. Comic negan was always himself and I loved it. Idk I feel like the final season would’ve been so much better if negan wasn’t always so serious. BUT that being said, he was the best character in the final season

Very good video 👍🏻

Great vid

800 subs? bro this vid is so good you deserve 100k subs

What makes negan work besides the obvious award winning personality is that especially in the comics he has a reason for his method. His brutal but he has his reasons and rationality meaning that too some degree his sympathetic.

Negan is flat out one of my favorite characters in fiction and every scene with him is pure gold. But the Governor is also a goated villain of the show.

I completely agree with this video. I recently bought a twd funko pop signed by jeffrey dean morgan himself, bc negan is my favourite character from the show. I also bougth a poster of the line-up scene. It’s such a good poster

Great video

Negan is villain from pov of Ricks group...it's very complex character, he pushes for sure bounderies., but he make order in chaos. He is more like a dictator who has good abilities to control crowds. I think this kind of world creates men like this

700 subscribers is crazy to me. the video quality and everything else is really good. definitely going to be a lot bigger pretty soon.

Once Rick left. I quit the show. For me, Rick was The Walking Dead. His mini spin off is one of my favorite seasons of the walking dead. Its up there with Season 5 and Season 6 of the original walking dead.

My favorite RU-vidr OAT

I think Rick is the best but negan is definitely top 5.

15:20 is absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂

POV Negan fan boy trying to see through his love but in reality they're seeing smoke and mirrors

I never watched a single episode of The walking dead until I saw Negans opening scene on RU-vid one day. I remember watching from square one desperate to get to Negans introduction as quick as I could 😂

The fat lady in charge of rations line cracked me up. 😂 it's terrible but it's still on point though. He's not wrong..

This needs more views

I was in the same boat. When he killed Abraham (then favorite) I was waiting for him to get his just desserts. But, then he made me laugh...... a lot. He skyrocketed up to become my favorite for his humor alone at first. But then as the show went on and after a couple rewatches, I really started appreciating his character as a whole. And I'm glad he stuck around to the end.

Hey carol killed a killer kid who was finna slice us judith like a rotisserie chicken and she freed him. Ohhh and his and Daryls wisperer scene is beautiful 😭

I’m sorry, but there’s no chance in hell that they killed 200 people at the satellite station. Your points still comes across but that’s just an overestimate.

It wasn’t his jugular that Rick cut it was his throat meaning he’d suffocate on blood not bleed out

Negans development as a character is one of the best I've ever seen in the walking dead 😍 👏

I’m going through my first watch of the walking dead, and season 7-8 had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, it is the only section of the show that kept me as consistently interested as I was

Great video :) What is the name of the song that plays in the background for the first five minutes? Has real Negan whistle vibes.

Matthew Lillard was a runner up for the role, which honestly I would love to see

pleaseee make more twd vids this is so goated

Carl dies in season 8 I wish it was 9 😢

Good video but saying "TWD villains are bad and messy" (paraphrasing) is a strange claim. If TWD gets any praise by the masses it's usually for the villains...

The comics definitely handle most of these scenes better his cold and uncompromising disposition is always horrifying and amazingly badass at the same time him killing alpha he doesnt cry or nothing he kills her takes her head and brings it back. And when he kills brandon he did for a bigger plan to play a perspective game forcing ricks hand to fight the whisperers.

Even after all this time, that damn cliffhanger _still_ pisses me off. A fantastically, exceptionally well done introduction to the character and it ended like that.. 😅 the scene was so tense and riveting, I barely breathed during it.

and I can't believe he never, in one line even, mentioned his sons Sam and Dean also, the sound you made at 04:44 😂😂

Negan deserved his movie like how he created his group etc

I wonder if you’ll do a video on Abraham

i watched twd for the first time last year loved it

ngl this os a great video and I enjoyed it a lot, although the satellite station was more like 30 or 40 ish and not 200 I think

Didn't care for eyeball chen or the ginger nut so I LOVED that scene.

Don’t forget his badass moment in dead city where he’s talking shit, making jokes while he slit the guys throat in front of his people, scaring them off

Not sure I'd say "the best"... but, I love his story. And Jeffery Dean Morgan's portrayal. I'm literally, just watching his story right now....which really goes through to the end of the show.

Young Negan kinda looks like Nick Cage.

DAMN IT NEGAN STOP MAKING ME LIKE YOU!

My dad watched The Walking Dead as it was coming out and jumped off shortly after the time jumpy in season nine because he felt there was no good successor to Rick, especially with Carl dead. He absolutely hates Negan. I, however, LOVE Negan. I think part of the reason my dad hates Negan is because his trio of favorites is Rick, Glenn, and Daryl-all of whom suffer because of Negan-and he didn’t see Negan’s redemption. Part of the reason I love Negan so much is because of his dynamic with the Whisperers and his relationship with Judith & Lydia. I’ve tried to get my dad to watch some of the redeemed Negan episodes, but he isn’t interested. Maybe he’ll come around someday, but at least I ain’t missing out like he is. I’ll guess I’ll end with this excerpt… Negan: You sure as sh1t did. Judith: Language! I’m a kid, a$shole.

2:50 that's why I don't see him as being as bad as he is supposed to be. We only really see him retaliate when he is done wrong rather than being outright evil

It’s pretty funny is well tv show vs comics negan was like a Chad in the comics and looks younger

I originally planned on staying around the walking dead for the first 8 seasons, but Negan made me wanna stay around 😅

Does anyone know the background music around 18:21 to 20:00 that goes through most of the video?

Negan puts the Wise in Wiseass

Negans wives definitely weren't with him out of love and he knew it. So the part where he isn't bad because he doesn't let rapist live is kinda hypocritical 🤷🏼‍♀️ I wouldn't say it's consent

One if the well written characters ever

Rick didn’t cut his jugular, sliced the skin and it’s very obvious with how not only negan surviving but how the blood is coming out.

I like the flair you add through your video makes you feel like a human it’s nice if you want some constructive criticism tho the editing could use some work I think it’s a bit bland and clunky I don’t know flair that shit up but what do I know right

As I was watching this I completely forgot about Rick

Alpha was freakin' awesome

Its why he and Merle are mh favourites

Agreed

Great video. Negan is one of the reasons I still watch Walking Dead, he is and became such a great character. (But now I really wanna know why you hate Alpha so much, cause I think she was a great villian XD )

I do wish his defeat was handled differently. Negan realizing he was wrong and his way of doing things was wong then getting captured the it's done in the comics would have made his redemption a bit more believable. Having him going "oh I still think my way of doing things was correct but I like the cut of this 8 year old's jib so I'm good now." Was a bit jaring

So what your saying is, Negan became the new Dale.

I always loved twd’s villains

Tf, who has said that twd has bad villains. Two of the greatest villains are in it

Does negan keep his his promise to gabies son in the spins off or is gonna happen in the ones who live

I think the 'here's negan's story made negan naming his bat after his wife even deeper. He didn't just make the bat after someone he loves and misses. Lucille died because this guy kidnapping negan while he was trying to get medicine for lucille.. then negan killed the guy with the bat and named her Lucille.. like Lucille got her revenge. It almost makes sense why he treats the bat like it has its own personality

Nobody understands the sociopathic criminal mind like Negan does. That's a powerful story

what was your reaction to a whole show based one negan? (twd dead city)

I totally agree with you! I am by far the best!

2:38 Ricks group killed 200+ saviors before meeting Negan? Where do you get that number from? I always thought 20 maybe even 25. Where hell does 200 come from??