Negan lives. After telling his origin story in "Here's Negan,"
The Walking Dead ends its extended Season 10 by teasing a next season showdown between Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). When he's banished by Carol (Melissa McBride) amid increasing tensions at Alexandria, where the widowed Maggie now lives with her son Hershel (Kien Michael Spiller), memories of his late wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton Morgan) help Negan decide his future. The Season 10 finale ends with Negan returning to Alexandria with a swagger, a smirk — and a warning from Carol: "If you stay here, she will kill you."
"Here's Negan" diverges from the comic books when the exiled Negan returns to Alexandria. Years after Maggie decided against executing Negan for killing her husband, telling him he was "already worse than dead" behind bars, the Rhees must now live behind the same walls as the bat-swinging bad guy who murdered Glenn (Steven Yeun).