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If you’ve been following along so far in season seven of the graphic zombie thriller, The Walking Dead, you’ve already felt the need to bash in Negan yourself a few times. Just imagine how the people on set must feel! With the crack of his bat, Lucille, across two of our favorite characters already (well, Glenn needed to go), we’re feeling for Rick as he takes every inch of the torment while Daryl takes every minute of the torture. The only question on everyone’s mind: Who’s going to be the one to kill this sonuvabitch?
If you’re not reading ahead in the graphic novels (cheaters all) or don’t have a good argument for who’s best suited, let us rest your weary head and give you our best guess as to which of the main characters is going to be the one to crack Negan over the head, hopefully with the help of his best friend, Lucille.
Our 5 Best Guesses Of Who Will Kill Negan on ‘The Walking Dead’
Or hell, maybe it will just be the priest, and every single one of us will be wrong.
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Who Will Kill Negan?
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5. Daryl
After watching an entire episode of Daryl being tortured, broken down and more or less emotionally castrated, it would be fitting to watch him return the favor. Of the entire gang, he’s the toughest, but everybody has their breaking points. We believe if he’s going to kill anybody, it’ll be Dwight, but then again Daryl just witnessed the reality of Dwight’s plight (losing his wife and face to Negan) while going through his own, so it’s possible he may feel sorry for the poor bastard. Nah, he’ll kill him after all the shit sandwiches he had to eat. Daryl being on the inside, for now, might be working in Rick’s favor. Whether or not that scale tips out of his direction will be interesting, but we think there are a few people who might like to kill Negan a tad more.
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4. Rick
While Rick has had to remain restrained for the time being, you can see the blood boiling a little hotter with each passing scene in season seven. While it would be sweet to watch Rick take back control, we’ve also seen him deliver a lot of the heavy kills (Pete at end of season 5 in Alexandria, along with a few throat rips). A little hand-to-hand combat might get it out of his system, but we don’t expect the final blow to come from Rick. Maybe he’ll find himself in a position to hand the kill off to someone who would benefit more from the revenge? Perhaps our number-one choice here?
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3. Dwight
There’s something fitting about Negan getting put down by the army he’s worked so long to build. If they’re all Negan, then any member of Negan can take Negan out. Makes sense, right? Who better suited for the role than the guy who’s been beaten down the worst by Negan, Dwight? While we’ve despised his character up until this point for the way he’s treated Daryl, ever since they robbed him, we began to feel sorry for him in episode four (spoiler coming), which reveals he’s lost his wife, his sister, his face and basically his entire humanity to Negan, forcing him more into a voluntary slavery to keep his wife safe.
The challenge of a good writing team is to take someone the viewers despise and give him redeeming qualities until the point you’re actually rooting for him. Don’t be surprised if Dwight becomes the hero. And don’t be surprised if Daryl kills him anyway.
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2. Eugene
The last scene of episode four showed sweet Rosita asking Eugene to make her a bullet. While the balls on this chick excite us, it foreshadows a lack of restraint on her part compared to Rick. That kind of urgency for revenge is likely to get her killed in an attempt to avenge Abraham, but since Rosita and Eugene might be teaming up, it might be our stylish mullet man who gets put in a position to avenge, should he be responsible for helping her meet her demise.
This season is likely meant to beat Eugene down to his rock bottom, but there is a rising up that occurs in the aftermath of those moments. Killing Negan would also be his first human kill, and it would be a sweet major one.
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1. Maggie
Since Glenn was an impromptu kill, one that shocked fans more than the guess-who death of Abraham, it hurt more because it was unexpected. Although we like to think Rick and his people (perhaps with the help of new friends) will cleverly take out Negan, there needs to be an equal return of retribution after what they went through as a group. If it comes to a final blow, Maggie would be the likely candidate to deliver after losing Glenn and becoming very weak in her pregnancy. We don’t expect Negan to go away anytime soon, and that gives Maggie the chance to have her baby, gain her strength and eventually introduce Negan to the business end of Lucille.
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