"The Walking Dead" ended the first half of season 6 with one of the biggest cliffhangers in TV history. But just as fans are preparing themselves for a bloody Valentine, one of the showunners had hinted that maybe people should be more scared of Rick and his group than of Negan.

Fans know that "The Walking Dead" will undoubtedly leave them hanging in the fall finale, but no one expected the show to end with Maggie (Lauren Cohan) separated from the rest of the group, Morgan (Lennie James) and Carol (Melissa McBride) going head to head and Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Carl (Chandler Riggs), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) and Jessie's (Alexandra Breckenridge) family getting ready to wade through a lawn full of walkers. Oh, and Daryl (Norman Reedus), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) meeting Negan's henchmen.

The Melty site report that in the series aftershow, "Talking Dead," showrunner Scott Gimple teased fans that they will be getting the gift of "chaos, terror, heartbreak, heroics, tragedy and terror" when the show returns on Valentine's Day.

And if that's not enough, Gimple hinted at some game-changing details for the back half of the season. In a TV Guide interview, the producer ominously said that fans will see Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) "brought to life straight out of the books."

Fans know by now that Negan is one of the scariest and most brutal villains around, but is it possible that there are other people just like him? It seems there are. According to Gimple, "some of the scariest people in the back half of the season are our people," meaning Rick and his group.

"These characters are at their strongest right now, but the problem is, the threats of the world are also at their strongest," the showrunner explained. "We'll see these immovable objects meet."

It's actually shocking to hear something like that, considering that as the protagonists, viewers often look at these survivors as the good guys. But it has also been shown numerous times already that they have also survived because they were willing to do whatever it takes. Rick has shown time and again that he was willing to kill to protect his family, like when he bit off Joe's jugular or when he killed Gareth and the rest of the Terminus cannibals back at Father Gabriel's church. Carol had also done her fair share of killing, like when she killed her and burnt Karen's body back at the prison and when she executed Lizzy after the young girl stabbed her sister to prove that walkers are still people.

With Rick and his group hardened by life and the Alexandrians still in denial about the true nature of the world, it is possible that their seemingly brutal methods of surviving might make them seem the villains when season 6 resumes.