Will Maggie & Negan Ever Get Together On ‘Dead City’? What the Comics Say & More

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan and Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee in 'The Walking Dead: Dead City' Season 1
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Is that love in the air on Dead City, or is it just walker stench?

With the prevalence of the enemies-to-lovers trope in media today, it’s perhaps not surprising that a certain subset of The Walking Dead fans hopes to see longtime enemies Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) and Negan Smith (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) end up in… something. Love? Lust? A blood-soaked embrace? It’s difficult to say.

What’s not difficult to sense is the chemistry between Cohan and Morgan, even when Maggie and Negan are holding knives to each other’s throats, leaving each other to die, and generally making each other miserable. With spinoff Dead City arriving on Netflix and Season 2 set to premiere in May, we decided to take a look back at one of the TWDU’s most fascinatingly fraught relationships, and to ask the question: Could Negan and Maggie ever actually happen?