Misconception: Negan is senselessly, ruthlessly violent.
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I wouldn’t say senselessly, but he’s certainly capable of being ruthlessly violent when he needs to be, yes. We’ve seen plenty examples of that. However, never without reason. Negan’s not the kind to inflict harm or incite violence just for fun; there is always a reason, even if that reason doesn’t make sense to the rest of us or if the level of violence seems excessive. He admits to eventually starting to enjoy killing, but even then it’s, again, only done when needed. He doesn’t hurt or kill just because he feels like it.
Also, he hasn’t always “enjoyed” it. It’s, or at least used to be, popular to accuse Negan of always being this way, that he’s some psychopathic murderer that’s always had a penchant for violence and the outbreak just gave him the excuse he was waiting for to act on it. That this is who he’s always been. Or something. And that’s pretty obviously not true? It’s comic canon that he was horrified the first time he killed walkers (thinking they were people) and again when he first knowingly killed a living person, and I hope they’ll show that in his backstory episode when it comes around too. Negan’s never been a great man, but he wasn’t fantasizing about murder before the outbreak, either. He never imagined himself becoming this way, and for as ruthless and violent as he’s been, he’s more than capable of protecting and saving others, too.













