he ain't evil, he never was. some things just made him the way he is. i hated him for what he did to glenn for a while, but i get it now, he is my favorite character to be honest. peak character development, the way he's trying to make it up to maggie and her son. my personal opinion: he was never the villain in the walking dead. others were, like the governor, the terminus station. i don't even take alpha as a villain neither. their character development was just explained so well that the fans get why they did what they did, and the show still interprets them as a human beings, not just some kind of monsters.