I'm going to compare all the previous Antagonists to the current one, how they relate to each other.
Shane Walsh:
Shane Walsh: "...The right choice is the one that keeps us alive. It's always the same with you..."
Shane Walsh: "...If y'all wanna live, if y'all wanna survive, you gotta fight for it!..."
He's very much single minded and jealous, and thinks that the arrival of Rick was a curse. He had been screwing around with Lori, and Judith is his rightful daughter. He feels like he lost Lori, Carl, and Judith. He also feels like he was a leader of a group that now wants Rick to lead.
Shane Walsh: "I don't think you can keep them safe."
He ended up being right. Only thing is he does lie a lot.
The Governor (Philip Blake as well as Brian Herriot):
The Governor: "This life now, you kill or you die. Or you die and you kill"
Known in the comics as Brian Blake, The Governor is a psychopath who thinks he is a savior of all people, yet he's ruthless. His talent to kill people is so easy.
The Governor: "I should say that we're going be OK, and we're safe we will bury our dead tomorrow and watch TV on the sofa. But I won't. Because I can't. Cause I'm afraid. I'm afraid that the terrorists want what we have! They want to destroy us!"
He doesn't have any emotions when he kills his opponents, but he cares about his crew deeply and would do anything to survive. He does have a little emotional attachments to his group that he will protect.
Hershel Greene: "If you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how can you threaten to kill someone else's?"
The Governor: "Because they aren't mine."
But he has extreme emotional attachments to his zombie daughter named Penny Blake, the most depicted in the show. He is a very unstable antagonist.
Gareth:
Based on a character named Chris from the comics, Gareth initially was a friend who has his own group to fight for.
Gareth: "...We didn't want to hurt you before. We didn't want to pull you away from your group or scare you. These aren't things that we want to do. They're things we got to do. You and your people took away our home. That's fair play. Now we're out here like everybody else trying to survive. And in order to do that, we have to hunt. Didn't start that way, eating people. It evolved into that. We evolved. We had to. And now we've devolved...into hunters. I told you, I said it. Can't go back, Bob. I just hope you understand that nothing happening to you now is personal. Yeah, you put us in this situation and it is almost kind of a cosmic justice for it to be you, but we would have done this to anybody. We will. But at the end of the day, no matter how much we hate all this ugly business... A man's got to eat... If it makes you feel any better, you taste much better than we thought you would..."
His group follows cannibalism. It pretty much sums it up. A quirky character, he really wasn't much of an antagonist. He was the leader of Terminus, though he was killed off pretty fast. He was just trying to survive though he did it by the worst possible means.
Gareth: "We can walk away, and we will never cross paths again! I promise you!"
Rick Grimes: "But you'll cross someone's path. You'd do this to anyone, right?"
He as a character gets quite panicky when he or his group is in danger, and tries to escape by any means necessary.
Negan:
Negan: "People are a resource. Money on the table. People are the foundation of what we are building here!"
Negan: "You know, Rick, this whole thing reminds me that you have a lot of guns. There’s all the guns you took from my outpost when you wasted all my people with a sh*t-ton of your own guns, and I’m bettin’ there’s even more, which adds up to an absolute … *ss-load of guns, and as this little emotional outburst just made crystal clear … I can’t allow that. They’re all mine now. So tell me, Rick — where are my guns?"
Negan: "Feels good! Sounds good! I do believe Lucille’s getting a little jealous."
Negan is the most complicated antagonist I've seen. He is not ruthless like The Governor, yet he punishes anyone who crosses him. He also makes an emotional attachment to his baseball bat that he named after his wife, which is similar to the zombie daughter in the case of The Governor. He acts like a dictator. Anyone / group he meets, they work for the Saviors.
Negan: "Are you cool, though, Dwight? I mean, I just said it was happy hour at the p*ssy bar, and Dwight eats for free… and you said no."
Negan is initially portrayed as a misogynist, especially by featuring his own harem of wives or girlfriends that he steals from others. But his involvement in the harem is unclear, so it might be just an act. His followers, or saviors are forced there to serve him, but few/many of them are there by choice. This is the difference between Negan and the others.
Negan: "In case you haven’t caught on, I just slipped my d*ck down your throat and you thanked me for it."
But he does make a lot of adult jokes that finally makes The Walking Dead a proper Adult Show. His jokes are funny if you properly listen to them.
Negan: "You're keeping me in here to remind everybody how merciful "the great Rick Grimes" was, but I am tell you I can be so much more than that. I can help you."
After being beaten, Negan later "hopefully" becomes an anti-hero because of a letter Carl sent Negan to pardon Negan. Rick had already read it, and it was just read by Michonne.
Alpha:
Alpha: "Your people crossed into our land, there will be no conflict. Your people killed our people, there will be no conflict... Bring me my daughter, or there will be conflict."
The code of The Whisperers is that they don't care about Civilization, and they want to burn it down. But usually they just care about themselves. They hide among the dead. If anyone if picked by the dead, they leave them behind.
Alpha: "If the mother can't quiet the child, then the dead will. Natural selection."
They bring their family into battle, and they travel together. If they choose to have a baby, then the mother/father has to make sure the baby doesn't cry, or else the mother/father should sacrifice the baby. So by their code, they should have left Lydia behind. Alpha says that they went to pick her up to learn about them from Lydia. I have a feeling she loves her daughter more than she's letting on. Attachments, just like every prior antagonist. Except this one is alive.
Daryl: Your mom, where is she?
Lydia: Be glad you don't know.
Alpha hits Lydia a lot, and Lydia cannot stand it. She's scared, and Henry comes to save her out of a romantic or friendly attachment. Daryl and Connie comes later to save Henry, and Lydia joins them. This implies that they just waged war on an unknown. Yet another.
Apart from that, not much is known about Alpha, Beta, The Whisperers.
Similarities
I've mentioned the differences (apart from Gareth). Shane, The Governor, Negan and Alpha all bear similarities. Leadership Qualities, attachments to someone in some form (Lori/Carl/Judith, Zombie Daughter - Penny Blake, Baseball Bat - Wife Lucille, Daughter Lydia), with Shane and Alpha's attachment being alive (ironic in Alpha's case for them and their attachments pretending to be dead to walk among the dead).
Traits
People Attached - Shane, The Governor (until his zombie daughter is "killed"), Negan (until 5 years after), Alpha (still doubtful)
Good Dictators - Negan
Good Leaders- The Governor, Negan, Alpha
Liars / Manipulator - Shane, The Governor
Friendliness - Gareth, Negan, Alpha (no longer, the last episode had them kidnap Lydia)
My pick for best antagonist is The Governor
Shane could have been a better protagonist if Rick never came, but that's alternate universe.
Long Article, yeah I'm surprised as well. That's it for now, SkateLane Booting Out
Shane Walsh: "...The right choice is the one that keeps us alive. It's always the same with you..."
Shane Walsh: "...If y'all wanna live, if y'all wanna survive, you gotta fight for it!..."
He's very much single minded and jealous, and thinks that the arrival of Rick was a curse. He had been screwing around with Lori, and Judith is his rightful daughter. He feels like he lost Lori, Carl, and Judith. He also feels like he was a leader of a group that now wants Rick to lead.
Shane Walsh: "I don't think you can keep them safe."
He ended up being right. Only thing is he does lie a lot.
The Governor (Philip Blake as well as Brian Herriot):
The Governor: "This life now, you kill or you die. Or you die and you kill"
Known in the comics as Brian Blake, The Governor is a psychopath who thinks he is a savior of all people, yet he's ruthless. His talent to kill people is so easy.
The Governor: "I should say that we're going be OK, and we're safe we will bury our dead tomorrow and watch TV on the sofa. But I won't. Because I can't. Cause I'm afraid. I'm afraid that the terrorists want what we have! They want to destroy us!"
He doesn't have any emotions when he kills his opponents, but he cares about his crew deeply and would do anything to survive. He does have a little emotional attachments to his group that he will protect.
Hershel Greene: "If you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how can you threaten to kill someone else's?"
The Governor: "Because they aren't mine."
But he has extreme emotional attachments to his zombie daughter named Penny Blake, the most depicted in the show. He is a very unstable antagonist.
Based on a character named Chris from the comics, Gareth initially was a friend who has his own group to fight for.
Gareth: "...We didn't want to hurt you before. We didn't want to pull you away from your group or scare you. These aren't things that we want to do. They're things we got to do. You and your people took away our home. That's fair play. Now we're out here like everybody else trying to survive. And in order to do that, we have to hunt. Didn't start that way, eating people. It evolved into that. We evolved. We had to. And now we've devolved...into hunters. I told you, I said it. Can't go back, Bob. I just hope you understand that nothing happening to you now is personal. Yeah, you put us in this situation and it is almost kind of a cosmic justice for it to be you, but we would have done this to anybody. We will. But at the end of the day, no matter how much we hate all this ugly business... A man's got to eat... If it makes you feel any better, you taste much better than we thought you would..."
His group follows cannibalism. It pretty much sums it up. A quirky character, he really wasn't much of an antagonist. He was the leader of Terminus, though he was killed off pretty fast. He was just trying to survive though he did it by the worst possible means.
Gareth: "We can walk away, and we will never cross paths again! I promise you!"
Rick Grimes: "But you'll cross someone's path. You'd do this to anyone, right?"
He as a character gets quite panicky when he or his group is in danger, and tries to escape by any means necessary.
Negan:
Negan: "People are a resource. Money on the table. People are the foundation of what we are building here!"
Negan: "You know, Rick, this whole thing reminds me that you have a lot of guns. There’s all the guns you took from my outpost when you wasted all my people with a sh*t-ton of your own guns, and I’m bettin’ there’s even more, which adds up to an absolute … *ss-load of guns, and as this little emotional outburst just made crystal clear … I can’t allow that. They’re all mine now. So tell me, Rick — where are my guns?"
Negan: "Feels good! Sounds good! I do believe Lucille’s getting a little jealous."
Negan is the most complicated antagonist I've seen. He is not ruthless like The Governor, yet he punishes anyone who crosses him. He also makes an emotional attachment to his baseball bat that he named after his wife, which is similar to the zombie daughter in the case of The Governor. He acts like a dictator. Anyone / group he meets, they work for the Saviors.
Negan: "Are you cool, though, Dwight? I mean, I just said it was happy hour at the p*ssy bar, and Dwight eats for free… and you said no."
Negan is initially portrayed as a misogynist, especially by featuring his own harem of wives or girlfriends that he steals from others. But his involvement in the harem is unclear, so it might be just an act. His followers, or saviors are forced there to serve him, but few/many of them are there by choice. This is the difference between Negan and the others.
Negan: "In case you haven’t caught on, I just slipped my d*ck down your throat and you thanked me for it."
But he does make a lot of adult jokes that finally makes The Walking Dead a proper Adult Show. His jokes are funny if you properly listen to them.
Negan: "You're keeping me in here to remind everybody how merciful "the great Rick Grimes" was, but I am tell you I can be so much more than that. I can help you."
After being beaten, Negan later "hopefully" becomes an anti-hero because of a letter Carl sent Negan to pardon Negan. Rick had already read it, and it was just read by Michonne.
Alpha:
Alpha: "Your people crossed into our land, there will be no conflict. Your people killed our people, there will be no conflict... Bring me my daughter, or there will be conflict."
The code of The Whisperers is that they don't care about Civilization, and they want to burn it down. But usually they just care about themselves. They hide among the dead. If anyone if picked by the dead, they leave them behind.
Alpha: "If the mother can't quiet the child, then the dead will. Natural selection."
They bring their family into battle, and they travel together. If they choose to have a baby, then the mother/father has to make sure the baby doesn't cry, or else the mother/father should sacrifice the baby. So by their code, they should have left Lydia behind. Alpha says that they went to pick her up to learn about them from Lydia. I have a feeling she loves her daughter more than she's letting on. Attachments, just like every prior antagonist. Except this one is alive.
Daryl: Your mom, where is she?
Lydia: Be glad you don't know.
Alpha hits Lydia a lot, and Lydia cannot stand it. She's scared, and Henry comes to save her out of a romantic or friendly attachment. Daryl and Connie comes later to save Henry, and Lydia joins them. This implies that they just waged war on an unknown. Yet another.
Apart from that, not much is known about Alpha, Beta, The Whisperers.
Similarities
I've mentioned the differences (apart from Gareth). Shane, The Governor, Negan and Alpha all bear similarities. Leadership Qualities, attachments to someone in some form (Lori/Carl/Judith, Zombie Daughter - Penny Blake, Baseball Bat - Wife Lucille, Daughter Lydia), with Shane and Alpha's attachment being alive (ironic in Alpha's case for them and their attachments pretending to be dead to walk among the dead).
Traits
People Attached - Shane, The Governor (until his zombie daughter is "killed"), Negan (until 5 years after), Alpha (still doubtful)
Good Dictators - Negan
Good Leaders- The Governor, Negan, Alpha
Liars / Manipulator - Shane, The Governor
Friendliness - Gareth, Negan, Alpha (no longer, the last episode had them kidnap Lydia)
My pick for best antagonist is The Governor
Shane could have been a better protagonist if Rick never came, but that's alternate universe.
Long Article, yeah I'm surprised as well. That's it for now, SkateLane Booting Out
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