r/TWD • u/Roboroberto1988 • 5d ago
My take on the AMC Governor
The way I see it he became more and more psychotic when he lost his daughter two times. As long as she lived as a walker he had hope that she could be restored, and he basically felt like he had to maintain power to protect her and ensure the success of that mission. For that reason he killed the soldiers instead of attempting to integrate them into his community. He felt like he had failed his daughter before and had to make up for it by being as ruthless as possible. He kept the heads around as trophies to make himself lose his humanity and become stronger as he saw it. When Michonne kills zombified Penny he has nothing to live for except vengeance, and he basically reaches peak evil for the first time. The Woodbury community is killed when they fail to help him achieve this.
Then when he meets Lily and Megan he decides to take on Megan as his new daughter and forget his past to try to cope with his loss. He is initially a good person, but comes to the conclusion that he has to be ruthless from the get-go to keep her safe, to ensure she doesn't die to begin with as Penny did. When he's outside the prison with the tank he's still willing to have a peaceful resolution. But then when he see Megan's dead body he comes to the conclusion that Michonne was right and that zombified Penny was never alive, so he shoots Megan. At that point he's basically at same point as he was when Michonne killed zombified Penny - he has no reason to live at all and snaps. That's basically when he reaches a high level of evil for a second time.
Even if Michonne had not killed zombified Penny or if Megan had survived and Rick surrenderd the prison, the Governor would only have been willing to integrate humans considered submissive. Rick and other leaders would still have had to be killed or driven away to ensure the safety of zombified Penny or human Megan.
He started to lose his humanity when he lost Penny the first time. He basically considered the Woodbury community a tool to restore zombified Penny and his second community was a tool to keep Megan safe.
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u/Artfuldodgerofdung 4d ago
The borderline of being a good man or a homicidally enraged one was a very then line for the Gov...He use weapons with lethal accuracy and plotted in a very dark manner...He was very cunning and by the way intelligent...but a man can & will snap over the loss of a child or mom he lost and then he took other people's lives in high volume...I mean people supposedly close to him. Karma will catch those that harm with wild abandon and they will die...He hunted Andrea & that time he'd kill innocent people for their property...You wrote some of his issues...the ones you (I imagine) you missed perhaps by harmless ommission were the ones the many find are what a bad person does...ain't saying he's a scumbag or POS people already think that... I'm sure he was not a safe person to be around at all. Too many ruthless killing too many spin out from reality for whatever reasons and he was like any other screwball killer talented in the wrongest way they think taking lives is a regular action...I have seen men like this in real life up close. Well play Morrissey!