The Walking Dead Villains: Who’s The Worst, Part 6

The Wolves

Of all the other groups Rick’s Group has encountered throughout The Walking Dead, The Wolves might be the most barbaric: Slaughtering indiscriminately and with malice, watching them wash over the Alexandrians makes one hearken back to accounts of The Huns or Vandals ransacking Rome, as they not only kill civilians, but brutally hack them to pieces afterwards.

We get a taste of their savagery in season 5, as Tyreese and Noah discover the ruins they left Shirewilt Estates in in “What’s Happening And What’s Going On”, and again as they murder poor Red Poncho Guy in front of their…walker depository, for a lack of a better term (Which, in and of itself, is a display of just how vile they are): They are cruel, clever, swift, vicious, and, above all, violent, and leave little more than destruction in their wake.

Of course, The Wolves are more than barbaric, they are, by and large, completely insane.

During their attack on Alexandria, nearly all of them seem to revel in the wanton killing they’re partaking in, ranging from methodical to demented glee.

What’s more, the ones that don’t revel in their madness behave with a sort of berserker mania, attacking wildly and furiously, as seen in the ones who attacked Jessie and Father Gabriel.

This insanity, it seems, is instilled in all of The Wolves, as the only member Morgan is able to get anything out of parrots the same mantra as their leader, Owen (Who we’ll discuss later): That they’re freeing The Alexandrians, apparently believing that living in any sort of civilization is some sort of prison.

All of this said, they are far from dumb brutes, as their most insidious tactic makes evident: Using walkers.

When Daryl and Aaron go investigating the food supply warehouse in season 5, they walk into a booby-trap: A trailer filled to the brim with walkers, evidently (Guessing by what they did to Red Poncho guy) victims of either their attacks or just people unfortunate enough to stumble upon them.

Now, what were they doing with all these dozens of walkers? We don’t know.

But, considering that they loaded them into a large trailer, and they rammed the walls of Alexandria with a truck hitched to such a trailer, I’m inclined to think The Wolves used them as a very blunt form of biological warfare, filling communities they found with walkers to “clean up” anyone they might have missed.

It’s tough for a group to make oneself be put in the same level of despicability as the Termites, and, while they don’t succeed…The Wolves do their damnedest to try.

Next: The Craziest of The Crazy?