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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I swear people always look over the fact that he forces women into sex slavery, allows the killing of kids (fishing village), and the fact that he murders people to "get a point across". Do what? I guess that's all fine and dandy if you can sit idly by and watch as an audience member. But, I highly doubt anyone would ever find this guy as "charming" if he existed in real life. I love Jeffrey Dean Morgan's performance, but the guy is hardly redeemable and probably shouldn't have been by our main cast. It seemed like the writers never actually made up their mind during seasons 7 and 8 on how bad he really is.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Awesome video man.

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 😭

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..

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 😂

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

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

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.

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.

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

Very good video 👍🏻

Your channel is very underrated.

My favorite RU-vidr OAT

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

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

Great vid

amazing. breathtaking video.

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

Carl dies in season 8 I wish it was 9 😢

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

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.

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.

Great video

pleaseee make more twd vids this is so goated

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

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??

15:20 is absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂

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 😂😂

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.

Negan deserved his movie like how he created his group etc

This needs more views

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.

Young Negan kinda looks like Nick Cage.

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

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

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...

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

I don’t think it was 200 or so killed by Rick’s group. More like 30-50 at most. At least before the Line up with Glenn. Maybe up to 150-200 after though.

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

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

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

i watched twd for the first time last year loved it

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

I wonder if you’ll do a video on Abraham

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

DAMN IT NEGAN STOP MAKING ME LIKE YOU!

Rick didnt get carl killed, Carl sacrifices himself for someone else and that is what actually kills him. Carl died doing the right thing so he can't blame anyone but himself for that one. Even if Rick was there to back him up carl was his own man at that point and does what he wants to do.

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

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

20:00 i hope this is sarcasm, because at this point both carol and (especially) gabriel are also among *these best* ones since rick disappeared. Either way, personally i find *Rick* to be the best character, because he never lost himself like negan did, and as understandable as it is, it is a sign of weakness. Considering how rick has dealt with at least as much loss as negan, but he adapted to the new world and kept fighting for a better future, instead of turning evil and started ruining & leeching off others. Oh, and im pretty sure anyone with an army like negans could effortlessly make *anyone else* look like a wuss, so thats not really a fair comparison... I also wanna point out when negan leaves maggie for her "death". im sure he did it for the obvious reasons, but like, what if she was alone..shed have to survive on her own either way. And in *her* defense later on, that was a much more intense and risky situation than with negan ngl. Most of us would open the door for sure, but i dont blame her in that situation.

Alpha was freakin' awesome

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 )

To be fair... 25% would be whatever Negan says it is.

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

People who defend Negan and the savious haven't watched the show or read the comics, this is mostly because it's been a long time since season 6 and his redemption made people forget who he really was, he was a tyrant dictator even before he met Rick's group.

I would say negan's redemption arc is one of the best in fiction, maybe a little bit less good than jaime lannister, theon greyjoy and from what ive heard vegeta (though i haven't watched that show)

Negan and Maggie were Bruce Wayne's parents in Batman! Fun fact

As I was watching this I completely forgot about Rick