Fear The Walking Dead, Season Six: Who’s THE WORST?

Who Is THE WORST?

This question is both tough and easy.

On the one hand, we have so many good candidates this season. For a few weeks, Dakota was number one with a bullet. I was almost going to make Martin comparisons, and if you know me at all, I don’t draw comparisons to Martin from Terminus lightly. Martin is the benchmark, for me, as far as Walking Dead villains go. If I’m comparing another character to him, it means I think they’re a murdering scumbag who’s so callous, so heartless, that they can’t even muster some kind of sick pleasure out of killing, but just do it like drinking a glass of water, and look at it as no less routine. Dakota was going to get that comparison.

Then there’s Rollie, whose heel turn was so senseless and aggravating that alone made me want to give him the nod.

But, after watching the season finale, I have to go with Teddy Maddox.

The reason I do this isn’t that he’s a manipulative, serial killing utopianist who leads a death cult and tries to commit genocide twice (Once with biological warfare, the other time with nuclear warfare). No, the reason I’ve decided to go with Teddy is that he is all of those things and yet, can’t even adhere to his own convictions.

As we saw during John Dorie Sr. and June’s segment of the season finale, it turned out that, in spite of all of his preaching about “The End Is The Beginning”, when Teddy finally set his plan into motion, he planned to ride out the blast inside a bomb shelter. Yep, Mr. “Die-For-The-Cause” (He, apparently, killed most of the loyal followers with radiation poisoning) DIDN’T want to die for the cause.

Remember how I said Teddy almost fooled me? This is how.

You see, when he put Alicia in the bunker and told her how he was counting on her to not make the world the way he wanted, as much as I hated it, I almost admired him for at least seeming like he legitimately wanted Alicia to make the world better. Then when John Sr. found that bunker, it all disintegrated.

Oh, I know, he said he was only using it to come back and finish the job, but he didn’t plan on Morgan interrupting him. Yet, he knew exactly where to go to get to that bunker, and he hauled ass to get there in time. This means that he had planned to rush there the moment the mission was complete, letting everyone else across the continent die in the worst ways imaginable while he sat in his comfy little bunker and rode out the storm.

Being a genocidal maniac is one thing, but when you can’t even muster up the balls to stand by the beliefs you claim to call for that genocide, you’re just a hypocritical, mass-murdering coward and it doesn’t get much lower than that.

So, what do you think? Do you agree? Disagree? Is there someone else you think should be on this list? Is there someone else in this season you think was worse? Let me know in the comments!

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