Why Negan is the Best Character in The Walking Dead
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Today I talked about why I think Negan Smith is the greatest character on The Walking Dead.
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I used the following websites during the making of this video:
-wikipedia.org
-netflix.com
-symbols.typeit.org
-skybound.com
-screenrant.com
-walkingdead.fandom.com
-bloody-disgusting.com
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Disclaimer
0:08 - Intro
1:33 - Negan's Story and Journey
25:16 - Summary
30:51 - Outro and Credits
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.
Yer I agree 100% and u gotta remember the context off that situation she killed her sister thinking she was helping her in the same situation as with that kid killing the family for negan
@@blaisedunbar5097 and also she was about to kill a baby
Yep. In that situation the adult in charge really has no choice.
He was a teacher. He does have a special connection to kids.
@@robinhoffman468 Lizzie was schizophrenic. There really was not any way to reason with her. No meds in the apocalypse to help maintain that.
Lucille was actually played by Jeffery dean morgan's (negans actor) real life wife.
he's married to a baseball bat in real life? 🤔 /s
@@ezekielsmith3571😐
i look forward to Negan his performance in S4 of THE BOYS
Omni man is gonna finally feed Hollander his own heart???
Wait jdm is in the boys?
@@mappingshaman5280 he will be in the new season. I've never watched it but i might now.
@@EthanHebert- The Boys is funny as feck. Karl Urban is a god amongst mere actors.
@@seensee4295 GEKOLONISEERD
*He's the only character on the show that still acts like a teenager despite his trauma and age...*
True 😂😂
Ye in the comics he says ruck every sentence pretty much
Teenager?
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.
That still doesn't make the numbers any less inflated if anything it makes them even larger as to the number of men ricks group killed. He has justification
@DieKnowMight did you forget negans men literally killed Denise
@@DieKnowMight The savious were kiling people way before Rick's group arrived he made people slaves, have people actually watched the show?
Rocket launcher
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.
Yeah I was like wtf?
Exactly
27 I believe was the total number Negan gave them. But he didn't know about the ones Daryl BBQed at that point lol.
I think he means all saviors in that season. Still I think it's not 200 but it's a lot
@@hisaichiyushiki8219 Yeah I figure high double digits
I've never heard that TWD has crappy villains....
Same but when you think about it outside of Shane and negan no other villains had character development at all and only add Shane in there cause he’s my favorite character but many people said he was a villain which I kinda don’t agree with
@@chaseyoung9628governor
Fr, personally I believe the Governor is the best villain but Negan has a bit more depth, which makes sense since he's in the show longer
*Alpha and the whisperers entered the chat* *the reapers entered the chat* *the commonwealth entered the chat*
@@chaseyoung9628 so are we just gonna forget the governor
2 of my favorite Negan quotes are both about Beta. He calls him "fe fi fo asshole" and "Frankenstein's hemorrhoid"
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.
I’d disagree.. television villain maybe but Antoine suhger from no country for old men is the greatest villain ever imo
It's a female thing. We are attracted to him as well. At least, I speak for myself :)
Most ppl forget that Negan’s ppl attacked Daryl and friends first. Then Daryl used his rocket launcher 😂
I love Negan but yeah, most of Negan meat riders conveniently forget some events that happened even before Rick and the group went to the outspot lol
@@amlo_06Exactly. Even prior to any of the protagonists’ run ins with saviors, the saviors went around invading other communities, slaughtering people, and then extorting them. I hate the claim that “Rick was as bad as Negan.” It’s not true, he was never even half as bad as Negan.
Honestly and they killed Denise
Yep as Rick said early on getting to Alexandria, he has never met a bunch of luckier people than them. They were lucky the massive herd fell into the ditch and kept drawing most walkers nearby there. And to go what, nearly two years of not running into any of the saviours was incredible. Despite Deanna's sons both being complete idiots outside of the walls.
@@victornieves1794Do you think the first people Rick had to kill were part of the early saviors
dude he MISSED the jugular. if you hit the jugular your dead in 6 to 10 seconds
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
Half of em were
@@erikbowman9194 no like they wernt in the original script, they actually wrote these up
During Covid for something to do, so good
here's negan is the only good one
C'mon, give "One More" some credit it was pretty well written and quite enjoyable even if Gabe and Aaron aren't the most interesting of characters to some.@@_amp1262
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.
At least until that awful last season
@@Hunterkirkseybro, season 11 is legendary!
@@Hunterkirksey Why does season 11 get so much hate? Even though there’s a lot of stupid parts (I still don’t get the sudden appearance of evolved walkers, but I think the walkers definitely DID need to change at some point) and it is a MASSIVE shift, but I still thought it was incredibly fun and a really well done government takedown plot.
Haha Negan was the main character for me in the last 2 seasons. Especially the way they set the seasons up
and no surprise, the show lost most of its viewers.
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 wish you could get through to these people. I dread their real world political perceptions
well said. I fins myself repeating the same thing constantly. And people forget that Negans men attacked Abe, Daryl and Sasha in 6x6 and 6x9 too before the outpost
They did it because they were a POTENTIAL threat dude, Maggie literally explained it to Gregory that they were going to kill the saviors at the outpost because the Alexandrians NEEDED food and medications, they could've just let the Saviors do their thing but they did it because they needed supplies...
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
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
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 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.
Indeed. Henry Rollins. Even the way he was drawn. Kirkman wanted him to portay TV Negan but I think Rollins turned it down.. which, although I like JDM as Negan, it would have been cool to see, ngl.
Quality on point in the first 30 seconds, good luck on the rest of your channel!
Ouch XD
the way you talk about Negan sometimes made me laugh but it was so real
Your channel is very underrated.
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.
I love that Negan is both the comic relief and the reason the show needs some comic relief
He’s not THE best but he’s tied for #1 with Darnell Dickinson, Dick Crimes,and Noogen
Awesome video man.
amazing. breathtaking video.
Negans development as a character is one of the best I've ever seen in the walking dead 😍 👏
I love his interaction beetween judith, daryl, carol, maggie and of course my favourite character... Gabriel, they are so well together
Negans lean back to exaggerate his point has always stuck with me
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.
700 subscribers is crazy to me. the video quality and everything else is really good. definitely going to be a lot bigger pretty soon.
Lucille was played by JDMs real life wife, hence why the chemistry between them was so good and believable.
I never watched a single episode of The walking dead until I saw Negans opening scene on KZhead one day. I remember watching from square one desperate to get to Negans introduction as quick as I could 😂
Negan also didn’t kill Glen, Daryl did 🤣
POV Negan fan boy trying to see through his love but in reality they're seeing smoke and mirrors
Matthew Lillard was a runner up for the role, which honestly I would love to see
"Not making a decision, is a BIG decision."
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.
He should have died like every other villain.
@@johnjungkook2721 Nah
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 even just from the pov of ricks group negan is a horrible person he murders people, forces people into serfdom and SA/rapes women
My favorite KZheadr OAT
It wasn’t his jugular that Rick cut it was his throat meaning he’d suffocate on blood not bleed out
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
This needs more views
bruh negan had the hardest, most badass entry/introduction.... so fucken impactful
pleaseee make more twd vids this is so goated
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.
Exactly, on top of that i think dead city was written quite poorly, and Negan and Maggie as a duo was such a bad decision after the main show ended. We were already annoyed with their dynamic being drug out in the main show and then to just rinse and repeat it again in a worse written scenario really just ruined their characters a tad and leaves a sore spot for me personally in where the lore of the world and overarching story for Negan and Maggie is heading.
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’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.
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 😂😂
Great video
I think Rick is the best but negan is definitely top 5.
yeah to bad hes going to die in this spin off coming up on the 25
@@Slowsnows yeh, "too bad" that Rick dying is your frustrated dream lmao
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.
Great video :) What is the name of the song that plays in the background for the first five minutes? Has real Negan whistle vibes.
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
The thing about s7 and s8 haters is the fact that they were forced to see it one week at a time which is the worst possible way to watch these seasons, I get it if you don't like the seasons because of this but they are a lot better if you watch the seasons in a binge
Yeah it was really bad watching live at the time, waiting so long for what could be a filler episode really sucked, the writing, cgi and story line is still dumb compared to the rest of the show but if you can binge the whole two seasons, it’s not actually that bad
Yeah it was really bad watching live at the time, waiting so long for what could be a filler episode really sucked, the writing, cgi and story line is still dumb compared to the rest of the show but if you can binge the whole two seasons, it’s not actually that bad
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
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
15:20 is absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂
Carl dies in season 8 I wish it was 9 😢
yeah true to bad carl couldn't fit in the shows future budget i think it would've been worth it keeping carl to
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.
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.
He definitely pressured those women but I wouldn't say that they were "sex slaves". Also I'm pretty sue that Simon went rogue and killing those people from oceanside, just like he did with the trash people
From what negan says to Simon, the whole thing with oceanside happened before negan was in charge. I can't remember which episode it is but negan says something about it being before he took over
@@the_neo_crusaderHe coerced and intimidated them.
@@lukebarton4827he allowed people like Simon to kill who ever that want with no repercussions Simon murdered 10s maybe 100 men in Oceanside, and the boys and he wasn’t punished, as a leader negan is responsible for that, like Tywin Lannister is responsible for the mountain murdering Ellia Martell and her children, also raping her.
Although Simon may have gone rogue this doesn't excuse the fact that Negan knew he was a child murdering psychopath and is just as guilty by association for letting him live and of all things making him his right hand man, which gave him the opportunity to kill more children, which he did. Negan's I don't kill kids I find so funny because he literally gets so many killed because of his inability to actually lead.@@the_neo_crusader
Didn't care for eyeball chen or the ginger nut so I LOVED that scene.
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 )
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.
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
Negan deserved his movie like how he created his group etc
So what your saying is, Negan became the new Dale.
I wonder if you’ll do a video on Abraham
i watched twd for the first time last year loved it
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
It’s pretty funny is well tv show vs comics negan was like a Chad in the comics and looks younger
As I was watching this I completely forgot about Rick
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.
Nobody understands the sociopathic criminal mind like Negan does. That's a powerful story
Negan puts the Wise in Wiseass
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
Young Negan kinda looks like Nick Cage.
I originally planned on staying around the walking dead for the first 8 seasons, but Negan made me wanna stay around 😅
If you had told us that the guy who killed Glenn and Abraham would wind up carrying the show you’d have been crazy. But JDM is so fucking talented!
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??
my guess is it was a typo in the script
Its why he and Merle are mh favourites
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.
The governor don’t get enough credit
We really got cheated when they killed carl off because we missed him and neagan bonding during the latter's imprisonment.
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.
Literally. I like Negan but Negan riders make me laugh a lot
Agreed
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.
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...
That’s what I’m saying! Like that’s a crazy take
After Rick's departure he carried the show
Tell me you haven’t read ANY of the original source material without telling me you’ve never read any of the original source material.
To be fair... 25% would be whatever Negan says it is.
what was your reaction to a whole show based one negan? (twd dead city)
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)
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
Alpha was freakin' awesome
This is professional quality
I always loved twd’s villains