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‘The Walking Dead’ Spoilers: Stars Discuss Their Characters’ Deaths By Negan On ‘The Talking Dead’

By Kris Holt
Published on: 03:08 PST, Oct 24, 2016

The season premiere of The Walking Dead finally answered the question fans had been waiting for all summer — just who did Negan kill with his nasty, barbed-wire-wrapped bat, Lucille?

Rather than repeat the cheap trick of Season 6 of The Walking Dead, where viewers were made to wait for multiple episodes to find out the fate of Glenn (Steven Yeun), the premiere revealed Lucille’s victims almost right off the bat.

Warning: The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere spoilers ahead.

The Walking Dead did not reveal the characters’ deaths immediately, as there needed to be a little build up. Thankfully, the writers put the deaths at around the halfway point of the episode, leaving plenty of time for reaction from the rest of the group.

Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) was the first to fall in this episode of The Walking Dead, as Negan quite literally bashed his brains in. After Negan’s little game of “Eeny Meeny Miney Mo,” he stops in front of Abraham and points Lucille at him. He takes one big swing at the top of Abraham‘s head and knocks down the big man. Abraham pulls himself back up, gives Negan a big, defiant “Suck my n**s,” and proceeds to have his head smashed to an unrecognizable mess.

The other member of the group to fall was Glenn, whose death many had predicted as he died first at Negan’s hands in The Walking Dead comics series. With the show frequently diverting from the comics, Glenn fans had hoped their favorite would escape a grizzly fate. Both he and Abraham died in gory, disgusting fashion.

In the 90-minute season premiere of the post-show, Talking Dead, both actors discussed their dead characters along with host Chris Hardwick, Negan himself (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the rest of the group who were at Negan’s mercy, showrunner Scott M. Gimple, and the creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman. The live show took place at the Hollywood Forever Ceremony in Los Angeles with many fans in attendance.

Yeun was glad the story played out the way it did, as he did not want Glenn’s famous death from The Walking Dead comics going to any other character.

“The death in the comic Robert [Kirkman] wrote was such a messed up, but at the same time incredible way to take something away, and make a story as impactful as it is. When you read that comic you kind of don’t want that to go to anyone else. I think I even said ‘don’t give that to anybody else.'”

Yeun also said on the show, according to Deadline, that he was glad to have the support of his castmates and friends on the show, as well as his wife, as he leaves The Walking Dead after being part of the cast since the first season.

Cudlitz, meanwhile, suggested he was more than happy to exit The Walking Dead with one last, great line.

“[The show’s writers] had a tough time inserting any dialogue with Abraham because of where we left last season. There was no interaction with the rest of the group, [so] to actually insert something in there was very, very awesome.”

Gimple, who has been showrunner of The Walking Dead since Season 4, admitted to Hardwick and viewers that he was “looking for a way to break the audience,” according to Vanity Fair.

There was a brief moment of solace in as Negan killed Glenn, when the latter told his pregnant wife Maggie (Lauren Cohan) that he will find her. Cohan suggested the line meant that the pair were “star-crossed lovers” and as such Glenn would always be with Maggie, “in this life or the next.” Whether that means there might be alternate realities for The Walking Dead, or some kind of afterlife, remains to be seen.

As The Walking Dead ended its premiere, Maggie threatened Negan. And as the show rolls on into the rest of Season 7, it seems likely that with Maggie having lost her husband, she’ll have little on her mind except her child and revenge.

[Featured Image by AMC]

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