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* NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech: Negan gives one to a tied-up Craven, after having set his house and zombified wife on fire. It gradually becomes a villainous example, since this is the very moment Negan gave up on being a good guy.
-->''"Seeing red was a bad thing then. I was a bad man... then. But, see, now, nobody's suing anybody. Nobody’s gettin' fired. Hell, nobody's keeping score. Now when I see red, it's just a question of what I am capable of. And, well, man, I hate to break it to ya. See, I am startin' to think that I am capable of damn near anything."''
-->''"Seeing red was a bad thing then. I was a bad man... then. But, see, now, nobody's suing anybody. Nobody’s gettin' fired. Hell, nobody's keeping score. Now when I see red, it's just a question of what I am capable of. And, well, man, I hate to break it to ya. See, I am startin' to think that I am capable of damn near anything."''
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* WreckedWeapon: Lucille the bat breaks apart after one final use, due to rotting from spending nearly a decade underground.
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* WreckedWeapon: Lucille the bat breaks apart after one final use, due to rotting from spending nearly a decade underground.underground.
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* ShoutOut: Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/{{ACDC}}. The song is frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father — who, incidentally, was the one who got his eldest son interested in classic rock in the first place.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/{{ACDC}}. The song is frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father — who, incidentally, was the one who got his eldest son interested in classic rock in the firstplace.place.
** The scene of Lucille finding out she has cancer is a clear reference to the scene from the pilot of ''Series/BreakingBad'' in which Walter finds out about his cancer.
** Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/{{ACDC}}. The song is frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father — who, incidentally, was the one who got his eldest son interested in classic rock in the first
** The scene of Lucille finding out she has cancer is a clear reference to the scene from the pilot of ''Series/BreakingBad'' in which Walter finds out about his cancer.
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* AdaptationExpansion: In the comics, Negan left the communities in exile for good after the Whisperer War, and never returned besides a cameo in the GrandFinale. Negan’s decision to stay in Alexandria means that from here on out, any storylines for Negan fall into this trope.
* MythologyGag: Lucille’s death is framed similarly to Andrea’s comic death, passing away in her bed and her lover being unable to put her down at first. Lucille’s TV death is depicted in the aftermath of the Whisperer War, just like how comic Andrea was the main casualty who perished after the war.
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* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler: Lindsley Register's]] name is listed in the opening credits, so it isn't much of a surprise when [[spoiler: Laura reappears in Negan's flashbacks.]]
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* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler: Lindsley Register's]] Register's name is listed in the opening credits, so it isn't much of a surprise when [[spoiler: Laura reappears in Negan's flashbacks.]]
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* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler: Lindsley Register's]] name is listed in the opening credits, so it isn't much of a surprise when [[spoiler: Laura reappears in Negan's flashbacks.]]
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** Negan tenderly tells Lucille, "You are awesome." When he first shows off Lucille (the bat) to Rick's group in "Last Day on Earth", he says, "This is Lucille, and she is awesome."
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** Negan tenderly tells Lucille, "You are "You're awesome." When he first shows off Lucille (the bat) to Rick's group in "Last Day on Earth", he says, "This is Lucille, and she is awesome."
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** When Negan is playing a video game with kids online, he tells one of the other players “I hope you got your shitting pants on, because you are about to shit your pants”, which he will later say to Gabriel at the end of the Season 8 premiere “Mercy”.
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* ShoutOut: Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/{{ACDC}}. The song frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father.
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* ShoutOut: Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/{{ACDC}}. The song is frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father.father — who, incidentally, was the one who got his eldest son interested in classic rock in the first place.
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* ShoutOut: Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/ACDC.Music/{{ACDC}}. The song frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father.
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* ShoutOut: Negan is introduced in his earliest (pre-apocalypse) flashback listening to "Back in Black" by Music/ACDC. The song frequently used in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan had a major recurring role as the main characters' father.
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* WreckedWeapon: Lucille the bat breaks apart after one final use, due to rotting from spending nearly a decade underground.
* YourCheatingHeart: Negan was sleeping around with Lucille’s friend Janine - and it’s implied Janine was trying to get Lucille to leave him so she could have him for herself.
* YourCheatingHeart: Negan was sleeping around with Lucille’s friend Janine - and it’s implied Janine was trying to get Lucille to leave him so she could have him for herself.
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* WreckedWeapon: Lucille the bat breaks apart after one final use, due to rotting from spending nearly a decade underground.
* YourCheatingHeart: Negan was sleeping around with Lucille’s friend Janine - and it’s implied Janine was trying to get Lucille to leave him so she could have him for herself.underground.
* YourCheatingHeart: Negan was sleeping around with Lucille’s friend Janine - and it’s implied Janine was trying to get Lucille to leave him so she could have him for herself.
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* CallForward:
** Lucille can be seen wearing a Half Moon T-shirt in one scene. Negan was surprised to learn Beta's true identity in "A Certain Doom".
** Negan tenderly tells Lucille, "You are awesome." When he first shows off Lucille (the bat) to Rick's group in "Last Day on Earth", he says, "This is Lucille, and she is awesome."
** Lucille can be seen wearing a Half Moon T-shirt in one scene. Negan was surprised to learn Beta's true identity in "A Certain Doom".
** Negan tenderly tells Lucille, "You are awesome." When he first shows off Lucille (the bat) to Rick's group in "Last Day on Earth", he says, "This is Lucille, and she is awesome."
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The bat Lucille is destroyed when Negan uses it on a walker, only for it to break apart due to being buried and worn by nearly a decade of abandonment. In the comics, it was imilarly broken but after Negan used it during a fight with Beta.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The bat Lucille is destroyed when Negan uses it on a walker, only for it to break apart due to being buried and worn by nearly a decade of abandonment. In the comics, it was imilarly similarly broken but after Negan used it during a fight with Beta.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Negan was a high school gym teacher and part-time biker prior to the apocalypse.
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* StartOfDarkness: This episode chronicles how Negan started on the path from normal guy to post-apocalyptic warlord.
* WreckedWeapon: Lucille the bat breaks apart after one final use, due to rotting from spending nearly a decade underground.
* WreckedWeapon: Lucille the bat breaks apart after one final use, due to rotting from spending nearly a decade underground.
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* AllForNothing: Negan sold out the group who gave him medicine only to find Lucille killed herself while he was gone.
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* AllForNothing: Negan sold out the group who gave him medicine only to find Lucille killed herself while he was gone. It’s later Subverted when he returns to help save them from Craven’s gang.
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* BringIt: Negan smiles at Maggie when he returns to Alexandria, invoking this.
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** Negan forces Craven to kneel before him and endure a long monologue - just like he did to Rick’s group in the Season 6 finale “Last Day on Earth”.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The bat Lucille is destroyed when Negan uses it on a walker, only for it to break apart due to being buried and worn by nearly a decade of abandonment. In the comics, it was imilarly broken but after Negan used it during a fight with Beta.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The bat Lucille is destroyed when Negan uses it on a walker, only for it to break apart due to being buried and worn by nearly a decade of abandonment. In the comics, it was imilarly broken but after Negan used it during a fight with Beta.
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* IChooseToStay: Negan decides to refuse his banishment from Carol and returns to Alexandria, well aware Maggie will likely come for his head.
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* AllForNothing: Negan sold out the group who gave him medicine only to find Lucille killed herself while he was gone.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Negan creates Lucille after discovering the actual Lucille committed suicide while he was gone.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Lucille killed herself while Negan was on his last mission.
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* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Negan finds a message from Lucille on the door to their room.
-->'''Lucille''': ''Please don’t leave me like this.'' ❤️
-->'''Lucille''': ''Please don’t leave me like this.'' ❤️
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* SadisticChoice: Negan is forced to choose between giving up the group who aided him out of the goodness of their hearts or doom Lucille to death. He chooses the former.
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* ApocalypticLog: Lucille hears a radio news broadcast covering the reanimation of people who come back as walkers, giving another peek into how the media covered the incoming apocalypse.
* CallBack:
** Carol claims the Alexandrian council has voted to banish Negan. They previously weighed his fate in “Silence the Whisperers” after his accidental murder of Margo, in which it was strongly implied they were aiming for execution.
** Negan is clearly a bit uncomfortable as he realizes he’s being led to a cabin in the woods by Carol, remembering he lured Alpha to her death the same way in “Walk With Us”.
** Carol takes Negan to live his banishment in Leah’s cabin, introduced in “Find Me”.
** Carol claims the Alexandrian council has voted to banish Negan. They previously weighed his fate in “Silence the Whisperers” after his accidental murder of Margo, in which it was strongly implied they were aiming for execution.
** Negan is clearly a bit uncomfortable as he realizes he’s being led to a cabin in the woods by Carol, remembering he lured Alpha to her death the same way in “Walk With Us”.
** Carol takes Negan to live his banishment in Leah’s cabin, introduced in “Find Me”.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Lucille tells Negan to stop trying to find her more medicine and just stay with her until the inevitable end.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Janine says Negan’s manchild behavior used to be cute, foreshadowing the reveal a few minutes later that she was sleeping with Negan behind Lucille’s back.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Janine says Negan’s manchild behavior used to be cute, foreshadowing the reveal a few minutes later that she was sleeping with Negan behind Lucille’s back.
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* HappilyMarried: Even after everything, Negan and Lucille truly did have the loving relationship Negan had always implied.
* SeasonFinale: The final episode of the extended Season 10, and the final season finale of the show since Season 11 is the finalseason.season.
* YourCheatingHeart: Negan was sleeping around with Lucille’s friend Janine - and it’s implied Janine was trying to get Lucille to leave him so she could have him for herself.
* SeasonFinale: The final episode of the extended Season 10, and the final season finale of the show since Season 11 is the final
* YourCheatingHeart: Negan was sleeping around with Lucille’s friend Janine - and it’s implied Janine was trying to get Lucille to leave him so she could have him for herself.
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* HandicappedBadass: Lucille was able to kill a walker with a headshot despite her state of cancer.
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!Season 10, Episode 22
-->'''Negan is at the crossroads of his past and future when he is banished from Alexandria.'''
The tenth season finale, and the final episode of Season 10’s extended run.
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* TheBusCameBack:
** Negan finds Lucille again after nearly a decade of her being missing since Season 8’s “Wrath”.
** Laura returns in the flashbacks after her death in “Stalker”.
* ContinuityNod:
** Maggie tells Hershel that Glenn used to sing “You Are My Sunshine” to her, reminiscent of when Negan had Carl sing him the same song in Season 7’s “Sing Me A Song”, something Lori used to sing to him as well.
** Negan returns to the tree that he was defeated by Rick under at the end of the Savior War in Season 8’s “Wrath”.
** Negan remembers Season 9’s “The Obliged” when Michonne told him how nobody recovered Lucille after the Savior War.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Negan’s hallucination of his past self mocks him for believing there was a chance he could ever move past perception of the nightmarish tyrant he was to the communities.
* SeasonFinale: The final episode of the extended Season 10, and the final season finale of the show since Season 11 is the final season.
-->'''Negan is at the crossroads of his past and future when he is banished from Alexandria.'''
The tenth season finale, and the final episode of Season 10’s extended run.
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* TheBusCameBack:
** Negan finds Lucille again after nearly a decade of her being missing since Season 8’s “Wrath”.
** Laura returns in the flashbacks after her death in “Stalker”.
* ContinuityNod:
** Maggie tells Hershel that Glenn used to sing “You Are My Sunshine” to her, reminiscent of when Negan had Carl sing him the same song in Season 7’s “Sing Me A Song”, something Lori used to sing to him as well.
** Negan returns to the tree that he was defeated by Rick under at the end of the Savior War in Season 8’s “Wrath”.
** Negan remembers Season 9’s “The Obliged” when Michonne told him how nobody recovered Lucille after the Savior War.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Negan’s hallucination of his past self mocks him for believing there was a chance he could ever move past perception of the nightmarish tyrant he was to the communities.
* SeasonFinale: The final episode of the extended Season 10, and the final season finale of the show since Season 11 is the final season.
