#It felt nice to rant about neegs hahaha

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https://www.cbr.com/negan-comics-different-series-walking-dead/

I knew this article would irritate me just seeing the title. And it did not disappoint. Do these so-called article writers even research what they're stating as apparent truth? Apparently fucking not.

TV Negan Salt ahead! Sort of. Lol

However, Negan is a highly engaging character himself, one who has transitioned from villain to hero. This wasn’t so clear cut in the comics, though,

Why wasn't it so clear cut in the comics? I thought it was pretty fucking clear. And without the need to fucking retcon naughty actions hoping the audience's 3-second attention span will just forget about it.

Negan Was Actually A Used-Car Salesman In The Comic

For some reason, the TV series didn’t adapt Negan’s background as a used-car salesman, instead settling on establishing him as a gym teacher by profession. This was the background of the character before the zombie apocalypse took place.

The TV series left out Negan’s use of his talking skills to get his prospective customers to purchase his cars, with the gym teacher history not really factoring into anything. His part-time work as a used-car salesman was meant to show how Negan wanted some level of control in his own affairs.

Hey, you want to know the real reason the tv show left this out? BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN THE FUCKING COMIC. ANYWHERE.

He isn't shown selling cars. He isn't shown using his 'skills to get customers to purchase cars.'

The car salesman thing is in his wiki, because someone took a JOKE by Kirkman in the Letters section of the comic seriously.

HE IS NOT A CAR SALESMAN ANYWHERE IN COMIC CANON.

Research, what's that? Duhrrr.

The TV series probably wanted to avoid painting Negan as too much of a weirdo, as the comics’ version was very vocal in his uncomfortable obsession with the bat and how he described the ways he wanted to love it.

Negan is supposed to be a fucking weirdo, not some boring normal. He's supposed to be obsessed with Lucille and personify her, and even risk his safety to keep her 'safe'.

Puh, at least comic Negan isn't a 50 year old lecher.

What the TV series hasn’t adapted is the character’s preference for violence even after he had turned into one of the good guys.

He displayed this when he took out Brandon, having killed the boy purely because he wanted to despite Brandon’s idolization of him. Meanwhile, the TV version killed Brandon due to the latter’s villainy as he had originally wanted Brandon to leave him alone

Oh, you mean how the show retconned him into a pure little Saint like he got a lobotomy while he was in prison?

Fucking wrong. Comic Negan didn't kill Brandon Rose just because '"he wanted to". He killed him because Brandon was a fucking sociopath who wanted everyone in Alexandria (including Negan's darling Ricky-poo) to die. He actively let Negan out to make this happen. Negan killed him to eliminate a threat. Oh and because he was annoying. Sure. Lol.

Also, Comic Negan has a willingness to do violence. Not necessarily a preference.

This was an exclusion of the source material, where Negan willingly exiled himself after seeing the failure of his ways.

His reasoning to do so was to pay for his sins, especially the fact that he’d made Maggie a widow. Comic book Negan remained so steadfast over wanting to be in exile that he continued to do so more than two decades later by the end of the comic series.

I'm not sure this is true. I think Negan would've stayed in Alexandria if Rick had let him. I'm not sure how willingly he lived alone, considering he was unhappy being so disconnected from others. Also, with Negan Lives, we know he at least traveled with Lucy for a while.

as he wasn’t keen on using firearms. He only did so begrudgingly during the Whisperer war, while always favoring the use of Lucille.

Negan uses guns in Here's Negan and even says they're cool. Later he tells Rick it's stupid to use guns on the dead. He's got a lot of armed guys protecting his back so he didn't really need one. Also he didn't begrudgingly anything in the Whisperer War. He wanted to have a gun!

His God Complex, Where People Would Follow His Every Command

The TV series made sure to leave this part of Negan’s characterization out, as it depicted him as an opportunist who used people as a resource rather than disposing of them after they outlived their importance. The comic book version veered heavily toward him being worshipped, proving his God complex.

Since Negan’s violent tendencies were toned down in general, it’s more than likely that the TV series didn’t adapt this part of Negan to avoid making him an irredeemable villain. Still, it’s a pretty vital part of his personality from the comics that didn’t show up onscreen.

This is so laughably wrong that you know that this writer never read the comic. I can't even. All of this shit is more indicative and more dialed up in the TV VERSION.

Please, TV Negan didn't use people? He treated his people like trash. He gave them numbers instead of names. He set up his own guys as killable bait, something comic Negan would've never done.

People kneeled to comic Negan one fucking time. They didn't constantly refer to themselves as 'Negan', thus erasing their identities. That was TV shit.

Oh sure, his violence is toned down in the show which is why only the tv version was gonna kill Dwight and Sherry, only the tv version BURNED SOMEBODY ALIVE, only the tv version was split seconds away from caving Carl's head in and only the tv version threatened to make Rick chop off his kid's arm. Hahaha, you're so funny article.

So you're saying the show wanted to avoid making Negan an irredeemable villain which apparently is what the comic version from this comic you clearly never read is. Well, I gotta say, when the tv show relies on retconning to make this happen... And the comic doesn't, well now. Who did the better job in achieving that?