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* GoryDiscretionShot: Played with throughout the episode, as it's unclear whether the production team wanted to go all-out with specific shots or spare the audience from other moments of brutality. Glenn and Abraham's fatal beatdown with Lucille is only shown at the beginning, and then largely occurs offscreen for both cases... except when it cuts back to a full-body shot of Negan whacking the remains of Glenn's head, which are then shown in gory detail. Glenn's head is not shown in detail as Rick's group carries it back to the truck, but just prior to this, his and Abraham's remains are seen in full view, despite attempts to obscure the damage or make it out of focus.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Played with throughout the episode, as it's unclear whether the production team wanted to go all-out with specific shots or spare the audience from other moments of brutality. Glenn and Abraham's fatal beatdown with Lucille is only shown at the beginning, and then largely occurs offscreen for both cases... except when it cuts back to a full-body shot of Negan whacking the remains of Glenn's head, which are then shown in gory detail. Glenn's head is not shown in detail as Rick's group carries it back to the truck, but just prior to this, his and Abraham's remains are seen in full view, despite attempts to obscure the damage or make it out of focus. There's also the matter of the extensive practical effects needed to create the images of Glenn and Abraham's mangled heads, giving at least somewhat of a [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic reason]] as to why it wasn't quite as fully onscreen as it was in the comic.
* NotSoStoic:
** Michonne kept her composure fairly well throughout the ordeal, giving Negan a severe DeathGlare during the picking, though she quickly became revolted to see Abraham grossly cut down next to her, and later has a look of despair as Glenn dies. That said, when Negan is threatening to do terrible harm to Carl, her adopted son, that's when she really begins panicking and makes the risk of asking Negan to spare him and assuring him they get it. This is why Negan doesn't punish her for speaking out of turn, as even he can recognize that she is genuinely afraid and has more or less been cowed into submission.
** Carl is absolutely furious the entire night and forces himself to watch the whole affair, and doesn't show any fear. He wasn't close to Abraham so he was more angry with Negan on principle than anything. But when Negan begins gruesomely and sadistically killing Glenn, who he ''was'' good friends with? That's when he finally breaks and starts sobbing, though it's still with an absolutely ''furious'' glare on his face.
** Michonne kept her composure fairly well throughout the ordeal, giving Negan a severe DeathGlare during the picking, though she quickly became revolted to see Abraham grossly cut down next to her, and later has a look of despair as Glenn dies. That said, when Negan is threatening to do terrible harm to Carl, her adopted son, that's when she really begins panicking and makes the risk of asking Negan to spare him and assuring him they get it. This is why Negan doesn't punish her for speaking out of turn, as even he can recognize that she is genuinely afraid and has more or less been cowed into submission.
** Carl is absolutely furious the entire night and forces himself to watch the whole affair, and doesn't show any fear. He wasn't close to Abraham so he was more angry with Negan on principle than anything. But when Negan begins gruesomely and sadistically killing Glenn, who he ''was'' good friends with? That's when he finally breaks and starts sobbing, though it's still with an absolutely ''furious'' glare on his face.
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* TheReveal: It was "last day on Earth" for Abraham at the end of Season 6.
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* TheReveal: It was the "last day on Earth" for Abraham at the end of Season 6.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: Going in, everyone knew at least one person from the group would die.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: Going in, everyone knew at least one person The advertisements for Season 7 and this episode emphasized that someone from the group would die.die this episode, partially due to the negative backlash the fandom had to the Season 6 finale to the point that some even mocked the show for having to assure them that the Lucille victim would actually be shown.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, a wordless version. When Negan says that Lucille is a [[JustForPun vampire bat]] for the sheer amount of blood drawn with the two victims, none of them even crack a smile, considering their close friends just died. Noticing, he asks if the joke he made about the situation was really that bad.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, a wordless version. When Negan says that Lucille is a [[JustForPun vampire bat]] bat for the sheer amount of blood drawn with the two victims, none of them even crack a smile, considering their close friends just died. Noticing, he asks if the joke he made about the situation was really that bad.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Negan is fond of these, knowing his victims don't dare react:
--> '''Negan:''' Lucille, is thirsty. She is a ''vampire bat''!
--> '''Negan:''' [Amputating Carl's arm with an axe] needs to happen now, ''chop chop.''
--> '''Negan:''' Lucille, is thirsty. She is a ''vampire bat''!
--> '''Negan:''' [Amputating Carl's arm with an axe] needs to happen now, ''chop chop.''
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* PungeonMaster: Negan is fond of making puns, knowing his victims don't dare react:
--> '''Negan:''' Lucille, is thirsty. She is a ''vampire bat''!
--> '''Negan:''' [Amputating Carl's arm with an axe] needs to happen now, ''chop chop.''
--> '''Negan:''' Lucille, is thirsty. She is a ''vampire bat''!
--> '''Negan:''' [Amputating Carl's arm with an axe] needs to happen now, ''chop chop.''
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The lame puns that are not funny
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Negan is fond of these, knowing his victims don't dare react:
--> '''Negan:''' Lucille, is thirsty. She is a ''vampire bat''!
--> '''Negan:''' [Amputating Carl's arm with an axe] needs to happen now, ''chop chop.''
--> '''Negan:''' Lucille, is thirsty. She is a ''vampire bat''!
--> '''Negan:''' [Amputating Carl's arm with an axe] needs to happen now, ''chop chop.''
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* DeathSeeker: The episode is titled "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be", after Jenner's cryptic warning in the first season finale that one day, Rick would ''wish'' that Jenner wouldn't have let them escape a group suicide in the exploding CDC; given that and the events of this episode, it's implied that while he doesn't say it, Rick finally wishes that he had indeed just ended it all for him and his loved ones back at the CDC after the horrors of this episode.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The positioning of the remains at the end of the ColdOpen, being directly across from the middle of the RV, aligns almost exactly with Abraham's position in the line-up, or at least narrows it down to someone within his range.
** When driving the RV, Negan hits a walker whose head explodes against the windshield, and Negan turns back to ask Rick if he's reminded of anyone. While Negan's attention is turned, a ''second'' walker also gets its' head destroyed, foreshadowing that Negan took ''two'' victims.
** Rick's vision of a peaceful dinner with his family enjoying fresh food ultimately comes to pass in [[spoiler:the GrandFinale, when the surviving group members enjoy a peaceful dinner together. This also ends up being Rosita's last meal before she dies of a walker bite.]] Even the freshly baked bread eventually becomes a commodity that Alexandria enjoys by the time of Season 10.
** The final pan over the peaceful dinner ends with a shot of Glenn and Abraham. However, careful viewers will notice that Sasha is the other character most prominently in the shot, [[spoiler:the shot telling us who will be the last casualty of the group this season as Sasha dies in the season finale.]]
** The positioning of the remains at the end of the ColdOpen, being directly across from the middle of the RV, aligns almost exactly with Abraham's position in the line-up, or at least narrows it down to someone within his range.
** When driving the RV, Negan hits a walker whose head explodes against the windshield, and Negan turns back to ask Rick if he's reminded of anyone. While Negan's attention is turned, a ''second'' walker also gets its' head destroyed, foreshadowing that Negan took ''two'' victims.
** Rick's vision of a peaceful dinner with his family enjoying fresh food ultimately comes to pass in [[spoiler:the GrandFinale, when the surviving group members enjoy a peaceful dinner together. This also ends up being Rosita's last meal before she dies of a walker bite.]] Even the freshly baked bread eventually becomes a commodity that Alexandria enjoys by the time of Season 10.
** The final pan over the peaceful dinner ends with a shot of Glenn and Abraham. However, careful viewers will notice that Sasha is the other character most prominently in the shot, [[spoiler:the shot telling us who will be the last casualty of the group this season as Sasha dies in the season finale.]]
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* ManlyTears: All the men have them after the deaths, most notably Daryl (since he inadvertently caused Glenn's death) and ''especially'' Rick when Negan nearly forces him cut his son's arm off.
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* ManlyTears: All the men have them after the deaths, most notably Daryl (since he inadvertently caused Glenn's death) and ''especially'' Rick when Negan nearly forces him to cut his son's arm off.
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* AdultFear: Twice over. First, Rick is scared senseless by the idea of Carl getting his arm cut off... then he gets even more scared when told ''he'' has to do it to him.
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* TheDragon: Negan refers to Simon (the Savior who organized the ambush) as his "right hand man" and asks Rick [[NotSoDifferent whether he has one...]] if that person isn't the one whose head he just finished smashing in.
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* TheDragon: Negan refers to Simon (the Savior who organized the ambush) as his "right hand man" and asks Rick [[NotSoDifferent whether he has one...]] one... if that person isn't the one whose head he just finished smashing in.
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** A weird case of combining this and FaceDeathWithDignity. Abraham doesn't make any attempt to actually fight back against Negan (considering his earlier threats), but he does give him a DyingMomentOfAwesome with his FamousLastWords.
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** A weird case of combining this and FaceDeathWithDignity. Abraham doesn't make any attempt to actually fight back against Negan (considering his earlier threats), but he does give him a DyingMomentOfAwesome with his FamousLastWords.last words.
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* FamousLastWords: Both Lucille victims get out a final sentence before they are killed.
-->'''Abraham:''' Suck my nuts.\\
'''Glenn:''' Maggie... I'll find you.
-->'''Abraham:''' Suck my nuts.\\
'''Glenn:''' Maggie... I'll find you.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: While the scene where Abraham was beaten to death had no noise except for Negan's commentary in the previous episode (likely to keep the identity of the death secret), this one shows the same scene, which includes every member of the group sobbing, and Abraham's DefiantToTheEnd FamousLastWords.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: While the scene where Abraham was beaten to death had no noise except for Negan's commentary in the previous episode (likely to keep the identity of the death secret), this one shows the same scene, which includes every member of the group sobbing, and Abraham's DefiantToTheEnd FamousLastWords.last words.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Glenn and Abraham. More cruel with Glenn as at least Abraham really does "take it like a champ" and stays down after the 2nd hit, while Glenn is left writhing for several moments while Negan continues to gloat to the group.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Glenn and Abraham. More cruel with Glenn as at least Abraham really does "take it like a champ" and stays down after the 2nd hit, while Glenn is left writhing in agony for several moments while Negan continues to gloat talk to the group.
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* CharacterDeath: Glenn and Abraham.
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* KilledOffForReal: Glenn and Abraham.
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* CharacterDeath: Glenn and Abraham.
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* KilledOffForReal: Glenn and Abraham.
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!!Tropes:
* AddingInsultToInjury: As if emasculating his entire group, killing two of its strongest members and making off with Daryl wasn't bad enough, Rick's last view of the clearing (while driving off in the RV) shows a lone walker stopping to crouch down and eat the remains of Glenn's brain matter off the ground.
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* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Abraham wordlessly volunteered to sacrifice himself and Negan ultimately took him up on the offer.
** [[WordOfSaintPaul According to Michael Cudlitz]], Negan's selection of his victim wasn't random at all; Negan methodically used his game of "eenie meanie minie mo" as a front to observe each group member's reaction to having Lucille pointed at them and determine who would be the logical choice to take out. [[spoiler:Negan himself later confirms in the Season 8 finale that he specifically picked Abraham, as he didn't want to kill Rick in front of Carl.]]
** [[WordOfSaintPaul According to Michael Cudlitz]], Negan's selection of his victim wasn't random at all; Negan methodically used his game of "eenie meanie minie mo" as a front to observe each group member's reaction to having Lucille pointed at them and determine who would be the logical choice to take out. [[spoiler:Negan himself later confirms in the Season 8 finale that he specifically picked Abraham, as he didn't want to kill Rick in front of Carl.]]
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* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Abraham wordlessly volunteered to sacrifice himself and Negan ultimately took him up on the offer.
** [[WordOfSaintPauloffer. According to Michael Cudlitz]], Cudlitz, Negan's selection of his victim wasn't random at all; Negan methodically used his game of "eenie meanie minie mo" as a front to observe each group member's reaction to having Lucille pointed at them and determine who would be the logical choice to take out. [[spoiler:Negan himself later confirms in the Season 8 finale that he specifically picked Abraham, as he didn't want to kill Rick in front of Carl.]]
** [[WordOfSaintPaul
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** The title of the episode is a callback to the Season 1 finale when Dr. Jenner allowed Rick and Co. to escape the CDC. Rick said "I'm grateful" to which Jenner responded, "the day will come when you won't be." It would appear that day has finally arrived.
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** The title of the episode is a callback to the Season 1 finale finale, when Dr. Jenner allowed Rick and Co. Rick's group to escape the CDC. Rick said "I'm grateful" to which Jenner responded, "the "The day will come when you won't be." It would appear that day has finally arrived.
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* FacialHorror: Abraham and Glenn's heads are reduced to piles of gore, but Glenn in particular gets a hit from Lucille right in the face, so we get to see his mangled, bloody faced in all its glory.
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* FacialHorror: Abraham and Glenn's heads are reduced to piles of gore, but Glenn in particular gets a hit from Lucille right in the face, so we get to see his mangled, bloody faced face in all its glory.
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* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Rick had an ImagineSpot near the end where he and his pals are having Sunday dinner. Before it ends, the shot focuses on Glenn and Abraham.
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* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Rick had has an ImagineSpot near the end where he and his pals are having Sunday dinner. Before it ends, the shot focuses on Glenn and Abraham.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Played with throughout the episode, as it's unclear whether the production team wanted to go all-out with specific shots or spare the audience from other moments of brutality. Glenn and Abraham's fatal beatdown with Lucille is only shown at the beginning, and then largely occurs offscreen for both cases... except when it cuts back to a full-body shot of Negan whacking the remains of Glenn's head, which are then shown in gory detail. Glenn's head is not shown in detail as Rick's group carries it back to the truck, but just prior to this, his and Abraham's remains are seen in full view, despite attempts to obscure the damage or make it out of focus.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Negan is big on this. Not only does he kill Abraham for what has been happening to the Saviors, but he beats Glenn to death when Daryl makes to object.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure:
** Negan is big on this. Not only does he kill Abraham for what has been happening to the Saviors, but he beats Glenn to death when Daryl makes to object.
** Negan is big on this. Not only does he kill Abraham for what has been happening to the Saviors, but he beats Glenn to death when Daryl makes to object.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: As Negan walks away from the distraught Rick at the end of the episode, one of the Saviors can be seen taking photos of Glenn's gory remains in the background, setting up [[ChekhovsGun an incident]] in the next episode.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Glenn, though it's perhaps one of the shortest-lived examples of this trope in all of fiction as he received his canonical death just minutes later anyway.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Glenn, though it's perhaps one of the shortest-lived examples of this trope in all of fiction fiction, as he received receives his canonical death just minutes later anyway.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: Going in everyone knew at least one person from the group would die.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: Going in in, everyone knew at least one person from the group would die.die.
* VillainousRescue: When it looks as though Rick won't be able to fight off the walkers at the bridge outside the RV, Negan opens the back window and nonchalantly guns down the group of encroaching attackers, saving him from certain death.
* VillainousRescue: When it looks as though Rick won't be able to fight off the walkers at the bridge outside the RV, Negan opens the back window and nonchalantly guns down the group of encroaching attackers, saving him from certain death.
