The Walking Dead: 10 Times Rick Was Really The Villain

At this point in the proceedings, Rick and his group had barely any contact with Negan and the Saviours. Save for an incident in which Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham came across a small group of Saviours but ended up getting the upper hand with the help of an RPG launcher and the intel received by the Hilltoppers about their plundering ways, Rick knew little of them.

But off he trots to the Saviour outpost regardless to take them out while most of them are sleeping and loot their supplies and armoury. Doesn’t that sound kind of like someone familiar? A certain barbed wire baseball bat-wielding psychopath named Negan perhaps?

You could, of course, argue that this attack was justified too and that the Saviours’ barbaric reputation warranted such a violent and underhand pre-emptive strike. On the other hand, by slaughtering and stealing from them Rick was doing exactly what Negan and the Saviours – the actual villains of the last few seasons – were doing to other groups.

And killing people in their sleep? Low blow, Rick, low blow.