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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Maggie has Gregory thrown in the fenced cage with the other Saviors. She also butts [[{{Jerkass}} Jared]] in the face with her rifle. Twice.
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* MythologyGag: Gregory tells Maggie to just build a gallows to deal with the captive Saviors. In the comics, getting hanged was Gregory's final fate, as punishment for attempting to kill Maggie. [[spoiler:And, one season later, it's his death on the show too.]]

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* HandicappedBadass: Stalwart Michonne can barely fend off Savior Zia due to still being in pain from the NoHoldsBarredBeatDown she received in the season 7 finale.



* RealityEnsues: Stalwart ActionGirl Michonne can barely fend off Savior Zia due to still being in pain from the NoHoldsBarredBeatDown she received in the season 7 finale.
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* PunchClockVillain: Dillon recognizes himself as such.

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* PunchClockVillain: Dillon Alden recognizes himself as such.

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** The shipping container Rick is held in gets marked with an "A" just as the boxcar holding cell in Terminus was.
** Carl sets out, and finds, the lone survivor, named Siddiq, from the season premier in order to give him some more food and water.



* CallBack: The shipping container Rick is held in gets marked with an "A" just as the boxcar holding cell in Terminus was.


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** Carl asks Siddiq the three questions that the group always asks new survivors in order to find out if their trustworthy enough to be brought into the group.

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->''"So you took Negan's deal. I'm here to offer a better one. My people will win. Your choice is to forget Negan, switch sides again. And be a part of the next world that Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom will build together. Or... we destroy you."''
-->-- '''Rick Grimes'''

The weight of the war begins to really hit the allied forces as they begin to follow their own individual agendas.

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->''"So you took Negan's deal. I'm here to offer a better one. My people will win. Your choice is to forget Negan, switch sides again. And be a part of the next world that Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom will build together. Or... we destroy you."''
-->-- '''Rick Grimes'''

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->'''The weight of the war begins to really hit the allied forces as they begin to follow their own individual agendas.'''


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* BreatherEpisode: Despite some action here and there, this episode largely depicts a lull in the war and dealing with the fallout of the opening attacks of the season.

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!Season 8, Episode 6



-->'''The weight of the war begins to really hit the allied forces as they begin to follow their own individual agendas.'''

!Season 8, Episode 6

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-->'''The The weight of the war begins to really hit the allied forces as they begin to follow their own individual agendas.'''

!Season 8, Episode 6



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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Daryl and Tara feel this way toward Dwight, setting out to take their revenge upon him now that his role in the attack on the Sanctuary is complete.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Daryl and Tara feel this way toward Dwight, setting out to take their revenge upon him now that his role in the attack on the Sanctuary is complete.complete.
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->''"So you took Negan's deal. I'm here to offer a better one. My people will win. Your choice is to forget Negan, switch sides again. And be a part of the next world that Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom will build together. Or... we destroy you."''
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* BadassInDistress: Rick is imprisoned by Jadis and the Scavengers

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* BadassInDistress: Rick is imprisoned by Jadis and the ScavengersScavengers.



** Rosita and Michonne are both coping with injuries they received at the end of Season 7.
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* EvilChancellor: Gregory tries to be one for Maggie, despite Maggie initially agreeing with him on executing the captured Saviors it doesn't get Gregory very far.

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* EvilChancellor: Gregory tries to be one for Maggie, despite Maggie her initially agreeing with him on executing the captured Saviors it doesn't get Gregory very far.
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* EvilChancellor: Gregory tries to be one for Maggie, despite Maggie initially agreeing with him on executing the captured Saviors it doesn't get Gregory very far.


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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Gregory finally gets completely removed from his position of power in the Hilltop when Maggie has him incarcerated with the Saviors. By episode end, Gregory is laying in the cell pen bloody, beaten and dejected.
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* {{BFG}}: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on Leo of the Saviors. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza very well, and is vaporized for it.]]

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* {{BFG}}: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on Leo of the Saviors. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza Espinosa very well, and is vaporized for it.]]
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* PunckClockVillain: Dillon recognizes himself as such.
* RealityEnsues: Stalwart [[ActionGirl Action Girl]] Michonne can barely fend off Savior Zia due to still being in pain from the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown No Holds Barred Beatdown]] she received in the season 7 finale.

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* PunckClockVillain: NoBodyLeftBehind: There aren't even falling guts when Rosita shoots Leo with a GrenadeLauncher.
* PunchClockVillain:
Dillon recognizes himself as such.
* RealityEnsues: Stalwart [[ActionGirl Action Girl]] ActionGirl Michonne can barely fend off Savior Zia due to still being in pain from the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown No Holds Barred Beatdown]] NoHoldsBarredBeatDown she received in the season 7 finale.

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* {{BFG}}: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on a Savior. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza very well, and is vaporized for it.]]

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*BadassInDistress: Rick is imprisoned by Jadis and the Scavengers
* {{BFG}}: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on a Savior.Leo of the Saviors. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza very well, and is vaporized for it.]]



*CallBack: The shipping container Rick is held in gets marked with an "A" just as the boxcar holding cell in Terminus was.



** The shipping container Rick is held in gets marked with an "A" just as the boxcar holding cell in Terminus was.



* DirtyCoward: Jesus notices that Gregory is already trying to suck up to the other Saviors.

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* DirtyCoward: Jesus notices that Gregory is already trying to suck up to the other Saviors.Saviors after being imprisoned with them.



* PunckClockVillain: Dillon recognizes himself as such.



* TemptingFate: One of the Saviors facing down a rocket launcher-toting Rosita claims that she wouldn't actually shoot him. He's quite wrong.

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* TemptingFate: One of the Saviors Leo, when facing down a rocket launcher-toting Rosita Rosita, claims that she wouldn't actually shoot him. He's quite wrong.
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* DiscretionShot: We don't actually see Daryl kill Zia.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: The two walkers that Carl and Siddiq put down make a 'W' together on the ground.
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* GenreSavvy: Gregory clearly wants to set himself up as [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man Behind The Man]] to Maggie, who deposed him. Maggie, who sees him for [[TheStarscream the Starscream]] that he is, is having none of it and throws him in the stockade along with the Savior prisoners. By the end of the episode she is informed that he is already [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder trying to ingratiate himself to his cellmates]], to her complete lack of surprise.
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* GenreSavvy: Gregory clearly wants to set himself up as [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man Behind The Man]] to Maggie, who deposed him. Maggie, who sees him for [[TheStarscream the Starscream]] is having none of it and throws him in the stockade along with the Savior prisoners. By the end of the episode she is informed that he is already [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder trying to ingratiate himself to his cellmates]], to her complete lack of surprise.

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* GenreSavvy: Gregory clearly wants to set himself up as [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man Behind The Man]] to Maggie, who deposed him. Maggie, who sees him for [[TheStarscream the Starscream]] that he is, is having none of it and throws him in the stockade along with the Savior prisoners. By the end of the episode she is informed that he is already [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder trying to ingratiate himself to his cellmates]], to her complete lack of surprise.
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* GenreSavvy: Gregory clearly wants to set himself up as [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man Behind The Man]] to Maggie, who deposed him. Maggie, who sees him for [[TheStarscream the Starscream]] is having none of it and throws him in the stockade along with the Savior prisoners. By the end of the episode she is informed that he is already [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder trying to ingratiate himself to his cellmates]], to her complete lack of surprise.
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* ActionSurvivor: Even moreso than your typical ''The Walking Dead'' protagonist is Siddiq, whose MO for dispatching Walkers is to lure them into improvised booby traps and then dispatch them with his knife.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: While Rick and friends have been building communities and waging wars, Siddiq has racked up an impressive 237 Walker kills singlehandedly by setting clever traps and ambushes, all as part of a personal quest to honor his late mother who believed putting the undead out of their misery freed their trapped souls.
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** Rosita and Michonne are both coping with injuries they received at the end of Season 7.



* UngratefulBastard: Jared refuses food from Jesus and as expected tries to find any way out of his imprisonment.

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* UngratefulBastard: Jared refuses food from Jesus and as expected tries to find any way out of his imprisonment.imprisonment.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Daryl and Tara feel this way toward Dwight, setting out to take their revenge upon him now that his role in the attack on the Sanctuary is complete.
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* RealityEnsues: Stalwart [[ActionGirl Action Girl]] Michonne can barely fend off Savior Zia due to still being in pain from the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown No Holds Barred Beatdown]] she received in the season 7 finale.
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* ItsPersonal: Tara, Daryl, and Aaron all set out into the war zone with the goal of settling personal scores.
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* BFG: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on a Savior. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza very well, and is vaporized for it.]]

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* BFG: {{BFG}}: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on a Savior. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza very well, and is vaporized for it.]]

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* BFG: Rosita pulls a damn rocket launcher on a Savior. [[TooDumbToLive He snidely]] [[TemptingFate acts like Rosita wouldn't actually shoot him with it.]] [[ActionGirl He clearly doesn't know Rosita Espinoza very well, and is vaporized for it.]]



* DespairEventHorizon: Ezekiel is unwilling and unable to rouse himself from his sorry state following the loss of Shiva and his soldiers.

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* DespairEventHorizon: Ezekiel is unwilling and unable to rouse himself from his sorry state following the loss of Shiva and his soldiers. Aaron isn't doing much better after Eric's death, either, although he's able to function to a better level than Ezekiel.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Maggie has Gregory thrown in the fenced cage with the other Saviors.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Maggie has Gregory thrown in the fenced cage with the other Saviors. She also butts [[{{Jerkass}} Jared]] in the face with her rifle. Twice.


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* TemptingFate: One of the Saviors facing down a rocket launcher-toting Rosita claims that she wouldn't actually shoot him. He's quite wrong.
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** The shipping container Rick is held in gets marked with an "A" just as the boxcar holding cell in Terminus was.
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-->'''The weight of the war begins to really hit the allied forces as they begin to follow their own individual agendas.'''

!Season 8, Episode 6

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* TheBusCameBack:
** Jadis and her lieutenants appear for the first time since the season 7 finale.
** Rosita first appears after her brief cameo in the season premiere.
* CallBack:
** Rosita, Michonne, and Carl all stayed behind at Alexandria at the onset of the war in "Mercy", the former two due to their healing from their injuries in the season 7 finale.
** The Kingdom suffered the loss of all of their fighters in "Monsters" and "Some Guy".
** Jesus brought the captured Saviors back to Hilltop in "Monsters".
* CarFu: When Zia is escaping, Daryl and Tara violently ram into her fleeing vehicle. If that didn't kill her, Daryl makes sure to double tap her.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Scavengers betrayed Rick to the Saviors in the season 7 finale.
** Maggie knows all too well Aaron's grief over the death of his lover.
** Carol questions why Ezekiel kept coming to see her in her cottage in Season 7.
** Zia and Leo had the RPG that Abraham scavenged in Season 6's "Always Accountable", which was claimed by the Saviors in Season 7's "Service".
** Carl recalls that his mother advised him to always do the right thing, and that the right thing is usually the difficult decision.
* DespairEventHorizon: Ezekiel is unwilling and unable to rouse himself from his sorry state following the loss of Shiva and his soldiers.
* DirtyCoward: Jesus notices that Gregory is already trying to suck up to the other Saviors.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Maggie continues to agree with Gregory's point that they can't let the Saviors live. She also agrees with his "wolf among sheep" line... and has him thrown in the prison yard she had built for the Saviors.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Maggie has Gregory thrown in the fenced cage with the other Saviors.
* ShipTease: Ezekiel tells Carol that he kept coming to see her in her cottage because she made him feel "real".
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Rosita answers Leo's taunts that he won't kill her with an ''RPG to the stomach''.
* UngratefulBastard: Jared refuses food from Jesus and as expected tries to find any way out of his imprisonment.

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