See I can imagine somebody gaining power of a group and turning it into the empire he has but I can ' t see him doing it especially with his egotistical cultlike dictatorship of a personality , making everyone refer to themselves as Negan like they are his little pets . Here ' s an example I got remember on the motorway when Negans most valuable bitch boy sees his old friend and puts the gun to his back and eventually shoots him , the guy had nothing to lose didn ' t even care he was going to die , you can ' t go running a fear show on people like that they just don ' t care and I think your underestimating how many people are ready to die in an event like this and wouldn ' t mind dying by getting a last good shot in at Negan or just being pushed to far by him .