The Walking Dead: 8 Plot Twists Nobody Will See Coming In Season 8
5. Rick Kills Negan
Anyone who's read the Walking Dead comic books, or read about them on Wikipedia for spoilers, will know this doesn't happen in the source material, but since when is that any indication about how the show will play out?
In the Image series, the war comes to a head when Rick holds a face-to-face meeting with Negan. After luring the villain into a false sense of security by opening talks about a truce, he suddenly pulls a knife and slits his throat.
The wound, however, is non-fatal and a seriously-injured Negan is carted off to a prison cell in Alexandria to spend the rest of his days there. Or at least that's the plan.
The show has already dropped a teaser that this is the direction it's heading in by having Morgan build a jail in Alexandria, but what if that was merely a red herring?
In a dramatic deviation, Negan could bleed out after Rick knifes him so the hero lives up to his "I'm going to kill you" promises. That way, the smart alecs who think they know it all because they're up to date with the comics will be left speechless.