
#ARMY OF THE DEAD BLONDE TV#
On the TV show, there is no mention of them making such pretense they are more up front about the fact that they're running a protection racket. Furthermore, the comic version of the Saviors at least keep the areas surrounding their vassal communities clear of walkers in exchange for their exorbitant tribute. On the show, they apparently have a custom of killing one member of every group they come into contact with right off the bat.
Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Negan says that they try to avoid killing other survivors unless they need to make an example because they're no use to them dead. Adaptational Early Appearance: They first appear in "Always Accountable," which is during the show's adaptation of the "No Way Out" arc from the comics, several volumes before the Saviors' first appearance there. In the show, Oceanside was formerly one of their vassal communities until all the men were killed and they fled to their current home. In the comics, they have no connection until Oceanside joins the multi-community alliance two years after Negan's defeat. Adaptation Origin Connection: With Oceanside. Furthermore, many individual Saviors are subject to this, receiving more screentime and characterization. While Rick's group kills a few Saviors prior to meeting Negan in the comic, there is a subplot involving them wiping out an entire Savior outpost on the show. Adaptation Expansion: They get much more fleshed out as a group. The Saviors are able to sustain their large army by extorting tributes of food, weapons, and other supplies from a number of Puppet States who they dominate and abuse through intimidation, terrorism, and murder. Their powerful, charismatic leader, Negan, is both revered as a Dark Messiah and feared as a tyrant.
A massive group of hostile, heavily armed survivors with a network of settlements in the Washington, D.C.