At least this one was very much intentional. Philip Blake, aka The Governor, was portrayed as a violent, vicious psychotic with delusional tendencies, and who in turn portrayed himself as an altruistic community leader and widowed family man. Not quite as terrifyingly amoral and violent as he was in the original comic book series, The Governor would still prove to be the shows defining antagonist to date. The survivors battles and confrontations with him cover the majority of seasons three and four, first through his leadership of the Woodbury community and later with the second group of survivors that he usurps leadership of. His brutal torment of Maggie and Glenn, his secret trophies of walker heads and his walker daughter chained in the closet all give clues as to his mental state. The mans away with the fairies. However, its not until he brutally murders the survivors of his own community in cold blood, after a failed attempt to take over the prison, that we truly see how demented Blake has become. The subsequent season takes his delusional behaviour further, his Jekyll & Hyde persona even more pronounced, as he murders his way to the trusting leadership of yet another group of survivors. Its fitting that one of his own people was the one to finally end The Governors threat once and for all. After all, hed arguably been more dangerous to those who followed him than to those who opposed him.
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