So what's going to happen with Negan after his big mid-season finale?

(Spoilers coming for the mid-season finale of season 9 of "The Walking Dead" on AMC)

Until now, throughout Season 9 of "The Walking Dead", Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has been stuck at one place: his prison cell in Alexandria. We spent time with him from time to time because he makes fun of those who visit him. This week, it is Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) who experiences the heckling of Negan.

And it is Gabriel who apparently made a big mistake that will change the course of Negan's future. Late in the episode, after pissing off Gabriel with his usual speech – Gabriel was not in the mood to treat him because he was worried for Rosita but could not help her. see because he was on Negan's assignment – Gabriel closed the cell and broke loose. That night, Negan discovers that the door of the cell is not locked.

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Then Negan comes out of there … and that's where his story ends, as we head for the mid-season break.

Now, Negan had a key role to play in comics with the coming war against the Whisperers, these people we discovered were disguised as zombies at the end of the mid-season finale. The TV version of "The Walking Dead" already leads him in at least a slightly different direction, although it is probably in the interest of condensing his story a bit.

Anyway, I'm about to talk about what Negan did after leaving Alexandria in comics, which means Potential spoilers to come for the last half of season 9 of "The Walking Dead". Just FYI.

In the comics, Negan discovers that his cell is unlocked but that he does not leave. He wants to stay to try to win Rick's confidence and show he is reforming. It does not work. So when a teenager named Brandon Rose decides to break up Negan to take revenge on Rick, who killed his father, and Whisperers, who killed his mother, Negan agrees.

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Brandon wants to force Whisperers and Alexandrians to kill each other by disclosing Rick's plans to the Whisperers. But Negan has other ideas and murders Brandon before going to the Whisperer camp and pretending that he wants to join them. After a long discussion with Whisperer leader Alpha, about his Whisperer life, Negan kills her and slips out of the camp with her head.

He brings his head back to Alexandria and Rick allows him some freedom in exchange for continuing the war against the Whisperers, which he does. During the war, Negan accidentally breaks his bat, Lucille, during the fighting. At one point, he even saves Rick's life. Once all this is over, Negan gets his freedom for real and leaves to live alone in the woods.

While there he is there, he is finally confronted with Maggie in a sequence that already played in the series several weeks ago – when Maggie (Lauren Cohan) went to Alexandria to put Negan for good, but could not bring himself to do it because he was so pathetic.

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Now, the part of this story that will certainly not appear in the TV version of "The Walking Dead" concerns all the content of Brandon Rose, because this character does not exist in the series. As you may have guessed, Brandon is the son of Tammy Rose. But everything about Tammy Rose (Brett Butler) in the series is different: she is married to Mr. Sutton and their son Kenneth died in the premiere of season 9.

This is so and with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) out of the picture, star Angela Kang and the writers of the series have decided, apparently, to give a bond to Negan only when he discovered that his cell was open and to skip all those other things. Of course, the next step is still unknown, as the series has shown a growing willingness to abandon the book over the past two years.

But it will be a few months before knowing for sure where Negan's story goes, now that "The Walking Dead" is paused.

& # 39; The Walking Dead & # 39 ;: The most shocking and unsettling deaths up to now

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  When the sister of Andrea Amy (Emma Bell) died during season 1, it proved that no one was safe.

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  The death of Jim (Andrew Rothenberg) in season 1 shows the characters how to treat a person bitten for the first time.

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  Sophia (Madison Lintz) was appreciated by everyone, but Rick did not hesitate to pull the trigger when she became a walker.

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  Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) was the moral compass of the group, but died in the middle of Runner Randall's discussion about the execution.

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  Shane (Jon Bernthal) was ready to kill Rick, but Rick acted first, proving to be a fearless leader.

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  T-Dog (IronE Singleton) gave his life to save Carol from the walkers when the group tried to take the prison.

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  Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) died during delivery, prompting Carl to shoot him in the head to prevent him from resuscitating.

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  Merle (Michael Rooker) proved that he was a good man giving his life to try to arrest the governor.

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  Andrea (Laurie Holden) did not see the governor for what he was and paid the ultimate price.

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  Hershel (Scott Wilson) wanted peace, but the governor gave himself the head to prove something to Rick.

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  Tyrese (Chad Coleman) paused for a few moments, but long enough to be stung by a walker.

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  Lizzie (Brighton Sharbino) killed her sister Mika (Kyla Kenedy) before Carol shot Lizzie in the back of the head.

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  Beth (Emily Kinney) died while protecting Noah from Dawn (Christine Woods), forcing Daryl to shoot him in the head.

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  Noah (Tyler James Williams) suffered one of the most horrific deaths in the history of "Walking Dead", thanks to Nicholas.

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  Jessie (Alexandra Breckenridge), Ron (Austin Abrams) and Sam (Major Dodson) both died within seconds of each other. Sam was eaten when the horde invaded Alexandria. Jessie died while she was trying to save him. Ron then tried to kill Rick, but was stabbed by Michonne and then eaten.

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  Abraham (Michael Cuditz) is the one we had to wait six months before seeing his assassination by Negan. Of course, he was beaten with Negan's baseball bat, Lucille.

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  But Abraham was not the only victim of Negan that night. After Daryl punched Negan, Negan decided to give another example to someone in the group – and he chose Glenn.

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  Spencer (Austin Nichols) thought that he could use Negan to kill Rick in order to take control of Alexandria. But Negan had other plans, destroying Spencer in the sight of all members of the community.

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Olivia (Ann Mahoney) suffered a lot of indignities from Negan, who finally reimbursed her by shooting her.

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Ole Dr. Carson made a critical mistake by telling Dwight over and over again nasty things about Sherry. Then Dwight accused the good doctor of helping Daryl escape the Saviors – and Negan threw him into the furnace.

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When King Ezekiel's crew ran out of a cantaloupe to pay homage to Negan's saviors, Benjamin was hit in the leg as a punishment. Unfortunately, the shot hit an artery and young Ben bled.

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It turned out that Richard had thrown one of the cantaloupes because he wanted to start a war between the Kingdom and Saviors – and he thought they would kill him because he was short. They shot Ben instead, but Morgan strangled Richard the next day, after confessing.

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Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) used Eugene's suicide pills to kill herself while she was locked in a casket theatrically because of a ridiculous thing that Negan was doing. When Negan opened the coffin, she appeared as a walker and rescued Rick and the inhabitants of Alexandria from one moment to the next.

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Morales (Juan Gabriel Pareja) returned in season 8 after being out of season 1, but that return was short-lived. About ten minutes of show after Morales, his deceased family and now a member of the Saviors, came forward, he was shot down by my Daryl.

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Eric (Jordan Woods-Robinson) was shot at the battle of the Alexandrians against the Saviors, then emptied of his blood and turned into a walker after a scene. Farewell in tears with his boyfriend Aaron (Ross Marquand).

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Shiva the tiger bit the dust while saving Ezekiel, Carol and Jerry from a group of season 8 walkers. There were too many and they swarmed and ate it.

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Carl died in the first half of season 8 after suffering a zombie bite during the first half of the season.

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Gregory had his long awaited death when he was executed by hanging for attempting to murder Maggie during the premiere of Season 9.

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Jesus was killed when he tried to decapitate a zombie and discovered that he was in fact a living man disguised as such; it was the first real contact of Alexandria and Hilltop with Whisperers.

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SPOILERS AHEAD. "The Walking Dead" has never hesitated to show much coolness and death, but the death of some characters has been harder than others. Check back on some of the deadliest victims of the hit AMC series.