Is Negan Right Should He Have Killed Everyone In Walking Dead Season 7

Is Negan Right? Should He Have Killed Everyone In Walking Dead Season 7?

In The Walking Dead season 11, episode 7, Negan made a bold statement about his actions in the season 7 premiere, but was he really wrong?

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Is Negan Right Should He Have Killed Everyone In Walking Dead Season 7

Warning! SPOILERS ahead for The Walking Dead season 11, episode 7.

Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) made a bold statement in The Walking Dead’s latest episode when he told Maggie (Lauren Cohan) that he should have killed the whole group. Apparently, the former Savior now believes that the deaths of Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Maggie and everyone else would have better than the original outcome.

Over the past few seasons, The Walking Dead has looked back quite a few times on Negan’s decision to murder Glenn (Steven Yuen) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) in the season 7 premiere. This particular moment in his life has been especially relevant in The Walking Dead season 11, now that Maggie is back, with revenge on her mind. While it’s true that Negan has changed since those days, the series has indicated that the character doesn’t wholeheartedly regret all of the wrongdoings he committed as the leader of the Saviors. He has expressed remorse over certain decisions, but he’s also defended both himself and his community for the way they handled the war with Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom.

Negan’s comments about wishing he had killed everyone in The Walking Dead season 11, episode 7, titled “Promises Broken”, took his opinions a bit further, and to Maggie, they went entirely too far. Negan’s thoughts on the matter were that this would have been the best solution to the problem. Though Negan was certainly being callous by saying this to Maggie of all people, there is some truth to his words. After all, Negan didn’t spare Rick and the others because of any moral reason. The whole point of letting them live was to create an entire community of slaves who would live to serve the Saviors. It wasn’t at all an act of kindness.

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For Negan, it was an incredibly arrogant choice, because it failed to properly take into account the potential consequences that it would have for the Saviors. He believed – wrongly – that he could keep settlements like Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom under his thumb and that they would all just stay in line out of fear. Negan wanted to use these people to forge easier paths to survival for his own community, when in reality, it would have better for the Saviors had they just killed Rick’s people. What Negan did to Glenn and Abraham is what set the Saviors’ downfall in motion because it created a host of new enemies.

From the perspective of the Saviors, killing Rick’s group really would have been the better option, but there are still problems with Negan’s argument. Negan doesn’t really recognize the fundamental differences between his people and the other three communities. He sees it as a war where both sides were justified, but that’s a rather flawed view of the situation. The Saviors enslaved the surrounding communities and used them for profit. It was their continuous, evil actions that forced a rebellion. Negan may have found some form of redemption in The Walking Dead, but a great deal of self-reflection is still needed in season 11.

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