This article contains spoilers – and spoiler - ish theories – about the most late sequence ofThe Walking Dead .
When somebody onThe walk Deadexpects a challenge to be leisurely , there ’s a good chance it wo n’t be . So it was with serious intellect that we drop dead into last Nox ’s episode , " Not Tomorrow Yet , " assuming Rick ’s plan to take on the Saviours was a bad one .
At first things run smoothly : Rick and the others infiltrate the Saviours ' compound without much difficulty , pop a half - dozen in their slumber before the guards are roused and a gunfight ensues . But then of course in the final moments – the right way when it seems that triumph has been clinched – the tabular array turn . Some Saviours have survived . And they ’ve take Carol and Maggie surety .
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It ’s long been assumed that Negan , the show ’s new , much - discussed , and as yet unseen villain , would be revealed in the season six coda – still four episodes away and set to air in early April . Now it ’s all but guaranteed that we ’ll be glimpsing him to begin with , and very likely next week . Dozens of Saviours are dead . Their subsister have the upper hand . One affair seems almost certain : Negan is about to appear . And he ’s going to be passably mad .
So what ’s the mass with Negan ? We be intimate he overtop a lot of authority in these part . The Hilltop Community seems afraid of him . But so far we have n’t seen the threat in activity . reader of the comics know he ’s even deadlier than the Governor before him . A lot of that has to do with the unforgettable path he ’s introduced . He lie in wait Rick and a few others on the road . He brandish a baseball game bat wrap in barbed wire , which he calls " Lucille . "
Then he kills Glenn .
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Glenn
The destruction of Glenn Rhys inThe Walking Deadbooks is so notorious that it ’s on non - referee ' radar . It ’s the Red Wedding of graphic novels : so brutal , so horrific , and so totally unexpected that it ’s hard to get through without toss the book away in disgust . For years , fans have gear up for some version of the fit . But it is n’t just a matter of when it would go on , or exactly how . It ’s whether it would even happen at all .
There are several compelling reasons to think it would never occur to lapse . For one thing , Glenn ’s dying as depicted in the comics – a slow and graphic baseball game bat brain - bash by – may be too gruesome to show on TV , even by modern cable standards . For another , it ’s too predictable : the comic death has been talked about since the egress was published in 2012 , and the series systematically depart from the seed material in a bidding to keep things sweet . And there ’s the fact that Glenn already " die " to begin with this time of year – a bad handled sham - out that barely fooled anyone . Sparing him just to cave his head in a few hebdomad later would be brutal .
But Negan hover . And when he arrive , he ’ll surely take a dupe . Who will it be ?
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Abraham
Abraham is a possible action . He ’s also belt down by the Saviours in the comics , though a little in the first place and not by Negan ’s hired man . The show has devoted an unusual amount of clock time to fleshing out Abraham ’s character this time of year – proof to many that he ’s on his way out . ( A lengthy philosophic monologue is often a good way to describe the show ’s next dupe , as Bob and Tyreese showed last yr . ) Last nighttime , Abraham ended thing with Rosita , his longtime amatory pardner , bringing to a close a multi - episode arc postulate his broken affections . Life feel more or less wrap up for Abraham .
Carol
There was no grounds to believe Carol could be the next to die until " Not Tomorrow Yet , " where she became the episode ’s excited focussing . The pre - credits cookery montage found her longing once again for a paying back to a non - violent domestic life , broil cooky for the townspeople and hand - delivering them room access - to - door . She found romance , for the first time since her husband ’s death . And she insisted that she stay behind to protect Maggie , a decision that had the polar effect . Carol ’s time wait up .
Daryl
A late rumour that Norman Reedus put his family in Georgia up for sale naturally kickstarted a new possibility : Daryl Dixon would be Negan ’s surprise first victim . And , alas for sports fan , there ’s some digest evidence . Daryl killed a fistful of Saviours a few weeks ago ; when the plan of attack was suggested , he was the most gung - ho and over - confident .
And the character is so dear – you’re able to buy an"If Daryl Dies We Riot " T - shirt at Hot Topic– that no death would be quite as shocking . In fact it might be too shocking : the most compelling grounds to conceive Daryl will pull through is that killing him off might halt mass from watching . Surprise end are suppose to outrage sports fan , not all alienate them .
Glenn is the dependable bet . Last night , the former delivery boy take his first - ever aliveness , in cold blood . He swiftly bolt down many more . Polaroids of head - bashing victims past bent on the Saviours ' wall . Glenn scrutinizes them . Then there ’s the fact that it was Maggie , of all people , kidnapped and held hostage by the stay Saviours , a number of event that ’ll inevitably put her love interest in harm ’s way . It seems very likely that it will be Glenn ’s head that meets the spiky oddment of Negan ’s baseball squash racquet , " Lucille . " Whatever the resultant , a long - awaited comer – and a scandalous death are both on the purview .
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