He has a harem of wives who only married him in exchange for things like their husband's and mother's lives virtually all of them have to have sex with him to survive. Problem is, Negan is a monster - and a monster who already rapes. Instead, Negan brutally stabbed him in the neck, letting Sasha know that rape was against his rules because, "we're not monsters." He told the terrified and dehydrated Sasha he'd give her water in exchange for sex, and when she told him to go to hell, he tore off her shirt and unbuckled his belt.Īt this point Negan came in, and the audience - at least the segment of the audience not familiar with Kirkman's source material - was likely meant to assume that the series' biggest bad yet would encourage David's assault. And Sasha's ( Sonequa Martin-Green) "rape scene" from Sunday night's episode, "Something They Need," was a firm reminder that Walking Dead has a strange, spotty history with these plotlines.Įarly on in the episode, one of Negan's ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan) previously-nameless goons, David, snuck into Sasha's prison cell. Still, there have been a couple of notable missteps.
(The show skipped a famous plot line from Robert Kirkman's comics in which Michonne is repeatedly raped by the Governor.) Sexual assault is far too often used for shock value or background noise on television, and Walking Dead has avoided some of the controversy circling its genre brethren by either handling the issue thoughtfully - like when Maggie ( Lauren Cohan) was sexually humiliated by the Governor ( David Morrissey), and she and Glenn ( Steven Yeun) were shown grappling with their pain and confusion for the rest of the season - or avoiding it altogether. But The Walking Dead is a show where abused middle-aged housewives can become Imperator Furiosa-like warriors, and skinny pizza boys can become lethal survivalists so its women have typically fared better than their counterparts on, say, Game of Thrones.Īnd more often than not, this is a good thing. In a lawless land with virtually no rules except "don't get bit," it's easy to imagine that women, children, and others more physically vulnerable would be forced to grapple with sexual violence in addition to entrail-eating zombies. Throughout its seven-year run, The Walking Dead has largely shied away from onscreen depictions of sexual assault.
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