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8 details you may have missed on Sunday's episode of 'The Walking Dead'
- Warning: There are spoilers ahead for season 11, episode 14 of "The Walking Dead."
- Sunday's episode has some major reveals and changes from the comics regarding Negan.
Sunday's episode title is taken straight from the comics.
"The Rotten Core" is the title of the 31st volume of "The Walking Dead" comic series, spanning issues 181 through 186.
In the comics, the perfect façade of the Commonwealth community quickly begins to crumble when one of its citizens dies after sustaining injuries from a Commonwealth soldier. The death leads to an uprising from Commonwealth's lower social class who aren't happy with the community's social divide.
I'm not certain the show will go this route, unless the death of a beloved "TWD" character inspires a revolt within the community.
On the show's final season, the approach to the Commonwealth's seedy underbelly has been more expansive. It's been hinted that a number of people are upset with the way the Commonwealth is run. It's also been teased that those who step out of line are handled in some mysterious way. Tyler Davis, who pulled a knife on Max, was removed from a hospital room and hasn't been seen since. It's currently unclear whether or not the Commonwealth killed Tyler because he spoke out against the leader of the community, Pamela Milton.
Lance Hornsby is also running some shady sector of the Commonwealth that may be connected to the disappearance of Tyler and others in the community.
On Sunday's episode, we learn that there are at least a few bad seeds — hence, the rotten core — operating within the Commonwealth's millitia who are carrying out unauthorized missions for Pamela's spoiled son, Sebastian.
It's funny seeing Daryl enter a police department, eating a donut, as a cop.
Daryl walks in to the Commonwealth police department at the episode's start eating a donut.
It really is funny to think of Daryl as a detective type when he joked about being an undercover cop so many years ago on season four.
It's hinted that RJ (Rick Jr.) is pretty smart for his age.
As Sebastian threatens Judith and RJ, he mentions that the "little one" skipped two grades.
April, who was trapped in the panic room on Sunday's episode, was teased in a previous episode.
April (Wynn Everett), the mother who was blackmailed into risking her life to steal money from a zombie-infested house for Sebastian, was briefly referenced on season 11, episode 11.
"Talking Dead" confirmed you can spot April's name on the list of names that Connie was sent.
In a huge departure from the comics, Negan reveals that he married Annie. The two now have a child on the way.
In case you were wondering, Sunday's multiple reveals about Negan are show-only additions.
"TWD" creator Robert Kirkman considered killing Negan in issue No. 174. When he was convinced otherwise, he already had the rest of the comic laid out without the character in it. So Negan simply vanished for 19 issues.
Kirkman later revealed in 2020's "Negan Lives!" one-off issue that Negan decided to venture back to the hospital where his wife Lucille died in the comics to retrieve her body and give her a proper burial.
"I always liked the idea of Negan going on this mission to retrieve those remains and put them to rest properly," Kirkman said in the issue.
On the show, we learn that Negan joined the Riverbend group, married a woman named Annie, and has a baby on the way.
Aaron tells Negan that it makes sense that he joined up with the Riverbend group.
On season 11, episode 13, we learned that the Riverbend leader, Ian (Michael Biehn), killed any bad people they crossed paths with. He put their skulls as trophies on display in his office.
Aaron made a quick passing remark about those skulls to Negan.
"You have a hand in putting any of those skulls on Ian's shelf?" Aaron asked.
The jab is in reference to Negan's tenure as the leader of the Saviors when he was quite taken with bashing in skulls, including Abraham's and Glenn's.
Hershel sneaks to Riverbend in the back of his mom's truck.
It's not the first time we've seen a kid hitch a ride and then hold a gun on Negan.
Carl did the same thing back on season seven, episode five when he was frustrated that his father, Rick, wasn't actively doing anything to make Negan pay for murdering Glenn and Abraham.
The major difference is that Hershel didn't tag along on the trip with a vendetta against Negan about his father until running into him and realizing he was the person responsible for his death.
Hershel is able to realize that Negan killed his dad, Glenn, because of a small line Maggie said to him a while back.
On Sunday's episode, Hershel asks Negan if he's "a bad man." Negan says he was. In response, Hershel pulls a gun on him.
On season 10, episode 17, during a conversation with Daryl, Maggie recalled how Hershel had finally asked her how his dad, Glenn, died. Maggie said she told Hershel that a "bad man" killed his father. In return, Hershel asked if the bad man got what he deserved and if he was dead. Maggie didn't say what she told Hershel.
Negan famously killed Glenn on the show's season seven premiere, a point when many viewers tuned out of the series.
In February, when Insider asked Jeffrey Dean Morgan if there was a scene with Negan that he wished played out differently he said, "I wouldn't have killed Glenn."
"Yeah. That was probably a bad decision," Morgan added.
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