Walking Dead Season 11: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Explains Why Negan Leaves
Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Walking Dead's season 11B premiere
Jeffrey Dean Morgan explains his character Negan's decision to leave the group in the midseason premiere of The Walking Dead season 11. Negan first arrived on the post-apocalyptic zombie drama on episode 16 of season 6, titled «Last Day on Earth.» He became the primary antagonist of the show for some time, killing off Glenn, one of the show's longtime main characters, in a particularly brutal manner. Over time, after Daryl took over his group, the Saviors, and he was sent to prison, Negan formed a reluctant truce with the other survivors, even bonding with Judith Grimes, the daughter of Sheriff Rick Grimes, who is no longer on the series but will be reappearing in a trilogy of Walking Dead movies down the road.
During the midseason premiere «No Other Way,» which aired on February 20, 2022, Negan reached another major turning point in his character. He witnessed Maggie (Lauren Cohan) exact bloody revenge on a group of Reapers, showcasing how cold-blooded the character has truly become at this point in her journey. Seeing this, he quickly realized that, despite their truce, there is no way that — when push comes to shove — Maggie will forgive him for the murder of her husband. This leads him to part from the group of survivors he has been banded together with up until this point, telling Maggie that he won't let her do to him what she did to the Reapers.
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While speaking with Insider, Jeffrey Dean Morgan explained a bit more about Negan's decision to leave. Morgan says that Negan and Maggie have "been on their journey this year and spent a lot of time together" so nothing can surprise
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