[Spoilers for The Walking Dead season seven premiere, obviously]
Some 200 days after Negan played the world’s most menacing round of “eeny, meeny, miny, moe,” and seemingly thousands of theories later, AMC’s The Walking Dead season seven premiere finally showed us whose head Lucille came in contact with: Abraham. Actually, make that heads: Abraham and, in front of his sobbing pregnant wife, Glenn. Abraham was a fine character, and Michael Cudlitz is certainly a fun actor, but it’s Glenn’s death that Walking Dead fans — including Demi Lovato — are reacting to with the most emotion. He was the group’s heart, one of the few optimistic characters on an increasingly nihilistic show (so many high school essays are being written about what The Walking Dead‘s glass-half-empty perspective says about America today). Glenn’s been on the show since the pilot, radioing into Rick’s tank, “Hey, you. Dumb ass. Yeah, you in the tank. Are you cozy in there?”
As you might have heard, Negan also killed Glenn in the comics, complete with a bugged-out eye. Everyone’s favorite pizza delivery person could only escape death so many times — there was the time at Terminus with, fittingly, the baseball bat, and the Dumpster misdirect. To paraphrase another show with a cliffhanger finale, now his watch is ended. And fans are emotional.
https://twitter.com/AntonioParis/status/790365357831811072
I can’t stand this.
Hearing Glenn call out Maggie is the most heartbreaking thing ever…#TheWalkingDead
— Daryl Dixon (@ImmortalDixon) October 24, 2016
I am going to need to get therapy. I am pretty sure I am suffering some psychological trauma from WATCHING Glenn and Abrahams deaths. #TWD
— Sarah (@mainegal4labor) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/RickAndThangs/status/790364364935233536
https://twitter.com/BadCarlGrimes/status/790365689764720640
https://twitter.com/Jax/status/790365842504581121
The show will never be the same again. Group will never be the same again. Glenn was the soul of the group. #TWD pic.twitter.com/nUqimwQH3r
— Kam (@kamific) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Clayton_Baker/status/790365471346491392
Remember when Glenn saved rick back in season 1. #RipGlenn #twd
I'm done with life pic.twitter.com/rp6ZbvfaGK— reagan ᓚᘏᗢ⁶ 🫶🏾 (@reaganoxox) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/laurensreedus/status/790365481152774145
#TheWalkingDead just pissed off millions of fans by killing #Glenn pic.twitter.com/yCNo8Ml0Zb
— Shawn D Taylor (@Drake74kgHokie) October 24, 2016
#TheWalkingDead #Negan#Lucille pic.twitter.com/G2UXxywrk5
— Worst Episode Ever (A Simpsons Podcast) (@WorstEpisodePod) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/breemcmahon/status/790366770100043804
At least Abraham got to go out with one killer (too soon?) line.
https://twitter.com/mattsoto090/status/790362671325466624
https://twitter.com/flaminkait/status/790362917644431360
https://twitter.com/TheJFKGamer/status/790362806889611264
"SUCK MY NUTS" Abraham's last words. Even dying he stayed true to himself #TWD
— JoJo the Techie (@jojothetechie) October 24, 2016
We’ll have much more on the premiere tonight and tomorrow.