Later, A flashback to a moment in Lucille’s life from seven months ago showed the two living together prior to the apocalypse. Then, the show went back six weeks to him trying to help Lucille (Hillarie Burton Morgan) with her cancer treatments while also trying to keep their home safe from the walkers outside. At this point, zombies were already everywhere. The sequence about Negan being beaten up by a criminal was set 12 years ago. The flashbacks gave a clear timeframe for when these tragic events occurred in Negan’s life, and they also helped to shed some light on when season 10 takes place in regards to the show’s timeline. Related: The Walking Dead's Camouflage Zombies Support A Reaper Fan Theory But when the zombie apocalypse kicked off and his wife died from cancer, Negan stripped away his inhibitions and became a villain. One of his biggest problems was that he had a potentially violent temper, which he had to keep a leash on.
As it turned out, he was an ex-gym teacher struggling to find work, while also engaging in an affair with one of his wife’s friends.
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This was done to give viewers its first full taste of who the leader of the Saviors used to be. In fact, the show even featured a look at the world before the zombie virus outbreak happened. It’s not often at all that the AMC series takes a trip to the past, but flashbacks were a major focal point of The Walking Dead season 10, episode 22, “ Here’s Negan”. The reveal came in the long-awaited origin story episode for one of its most popular characters, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The Walking Dead has finally confirmed how many years have passed since the zombie apocalypse finally began apparently, the world fell apart around 12 years ago.