Pride and Prejudice to his wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton Morton) and hates it.
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The Walking Dead’s only villain-turned-protagonist, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has always been one of the series’ richest characters. Giving us a look at his life before he led the Saviors, before he wielded his baseball bat, and even before the zombie apocalypse could have made him even more fascinating. Instead,
The Walking Dead manages to tell Negan’s origin story without really telling us anything at all.
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Here’s what we knew about Negan’s life, primarily thanks to his confession to Gabriel back in season six: he had a wife named Lucille (played here by Hilarie Burton Morgan, Jeffrey’s real-life spouse) who died of cancer after the dead rose from the grave. After she passed, he named his trademark baseball bat after her, which was a strange homage that nevertheless revealed his true affection, given that Negan freaked out when he thought the bat was lost.
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Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton, Morgan’s real-life wife), seen before she was a baseball bat.
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The Walking Dead’s 10th season, which will premiere February 28, will include a look back at big bad-turned-mistrusted-anti-hero Negan and his life before the zombie apocalypse. Now, the show has released a small okay, very small glimpse of what’s in store.
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Really, the clip (via Uproxx) is trying to imply Negan has done a heel turn yet again and has Maggie trapped somewhere, where the former Savior is threatening to murder her. Given that Maggie still wants Negan dead for killing her beloved Glenn, they’re definitely headed for a conflict, and Negan could turn the tables on her only to then start smarmily gloating he’s going to kill her, being his former
really happened to Negan s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) late wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton Morgan) when
The Walking Dead flashes back to the earliest days of the zombie apocalypse.
Spoilers for The Walking Dead s extended Season 10 finale. Negan has over the years revealed pieces of his past when telling stories about his cancer-stricken wife his barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat s namesake once confessing to Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) that he was too weak to put her down after she died. He later told Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Alpha (Samantha Morton) about his wife s pancreatic cancer, but Negan and Lucille s tragic love story went untold until now.
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If the voice behind that pseudo-assurance doesn’t yet sound familiar, AMC also left fans a parting Season 10 gift on Twitter by sharing a first, ever-so-slight peek at the armor that Mercer the comics crossover character played by Michael James Shaw will be sporting when the series returns:
With an Aug. 22 premiere, fans won’t have long to wait before
TWD picks up where the current Season 10 leaves off. The show concluded its penultimate season Sunday with ”Here’s Negan,” an episode that, in delving into the past of the troubled antagonist played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, also revealed his long-concealed last name though we won’t spoil that here.
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