It's funny but in a world overrun with zombies, zombies seem to be the least of the survivor's worries as they try to find safety in the new hostile world. With the mid-season finale shattering viewers and the rest of season five looming in the distance, everyone wants to know: Who will Team Rick face next?
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Celeb Dirty Laundry predicts two very different and very possible outcomes to this question. Signs point to the next baddie being either Negan or "The Whisperers" but which one is really up in the air. There are strong theories to point to either outcome.
Negan is the leader of The Saviors. They're basically brutal, for hire mercenaries. They run afoul of Team Rick and the Alexandria Safe-Zone. This is why signs seem to point to him as being the next big bad. He's a very important figure in the comics and all signs point to the group heading in that direction with the next half season arc.
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However, there's another hint that the next bad guys might actually be the Whisperers who are group of people that wear zombie faces as masks and live among them, whispering back and forth to stay undetected.
We may have been given a hint that these men were coming way back in season 3 when Rick reunited with Morgan and during his insane ranting mentioned "men with dead faces". We know Morgan is following Team Rick, it could be possible that these guys are also on a collision course for the group.
Storyline wise, it seems to be Negan however, he's sort of Governor v2.0 which we just had. The Whisperers would be an entirely new threat to the group. Either way, the creators aren't dropping any details just yet.