Hank Is The Hero Breaking Bad is one of the rare series that features a villain as a protagonist. Whereas Walt is evil, Hank is good. For all intents and purposes, he is the hero of the show.
Henry R. "Hank" Schrader is the central antagonist of AMC's Breaking Bad and a minor antagonist in its prequel series Better Call Saul.
Walter Hartwell White Sr., also known by his drug-lord alias Heisenberg, is the main protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad, portrayed by Bryan Cranston.
Next up in our Breaking Bad character studies series, we look at Hank Schrader (Dean Norris)—the secret hero of the show—and his struggles against Walter White (Bryan Cranston), the antihero.
Hank then tells Jack to do what he has to do and Jack kills him with a shot to the head. Jack's men bury Hank's and Gomez's bodies in the hole Walt had stored his money, stealing most of it but leaving one barrel totaling approximately $10M for Walt.
Walter White
Cause of Death: Walt was accidentally shot by the same remote-activated machine gun he used to kill Jack Welker and his gang. Walt was far from an innocent character by the time he died, but he found a sliver of redemption by saving Jesse from Welker's gang.
Furious that he was tricked into believing that his wife was in the hospital, Hank goes to Jesse Pinkman's house and attacks him as he opens the door. He knocks Jesse out cold before realizing that he has gone too far.
Jack is a sadistic man who enjoys torturing and humiliating people. He groomed his nephew Todd Alquist into a cold-blooded murderer like himself, which gives him the number one spot as the most reprehensible villain on the list.
Marco and Leonel Salamanca, commonly known as The Cousins, are twin brothers, deadly enforcers, and prolific hitmen for Don Eladio Vuente's drug cartel.
When we were introduced to Jesse, he was a crystal meth junkie and a small time drug dealer. But as we came to know him, more facets of his personality emerged. Turns out, he was not a bad human as far as characters from the so-called 'Breaking Bad' universe went. He was good at heart.
Breaking Bad is about how power can corrupt anyone, even a bumbling small-town chemistry teacher with terminal cancer. That is why Walter White is the ultimate antihero: unlike Tony Soprano (who is in therapy), White is past the point of redemption.
Walt Betrayed Flynn
After Flynn realized who his father was and what he had done, he hated him so much that he wouldn't even talk to him. His immense hurt could be seen in the final phone call between the two.
Hank is taking charge and running the situation like he always does, and Walt resents it. Instead of allowing him to, Walt seizes control, and demands that things be done his way.
She and her husband, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), have a son, Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte), who has cerebral palsy, and an infant daughter, Holly (Elanor Anne Wenrich). Her sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt), is married to a DEA agent, Hank Schrader (Dean Norris).
In the final scene, Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg while perusing Walt's copy of “Leaves of Grass” on the toilet. The book is inscribed: “To my other favorite W.W. It's an honor working with you.
Walter became dangerous once he developed his alter ego, Heisenberg. Certainly Gus underestimated him as a threat. But Walter spent most of his life as benign—he needed to develop cancer to feel his anger at lost opportunities. Walt was dangerous as Heisenberg when he felt thwarted and desperate.
In our Breaking Bad Trivia #1 today we will tell you the two actors who were considered play the lead. These actors were John Cusack or Matthew Broderick. When things didn't work out with them, show's creator Vince Gilligan thought no one better than Bryan can play the character.
As much as Breaking Bad tried to say Walter White took a sinister turn due to cancer, his dark journey actually began after an act of kindness. In Breaking Bad, it's explained that Walter White (Bryan Cranston) began cooking and selling meth and became Heisenberg because of his cancer diagnosis.
Throughout Breaking Bad, Walter White murders over 200 people (although not all with his own two hands), and likely fits the definition of a serial killer by the time the series ended.
It really does seem like Todd genuinely likes Jesse, and maybe even looks up to him a bit. I think it's kind of like a man's best friend situation. [Laughs] I really think he looks at Jesse with some admiration and feels close to him, because he's probably been more honest to him than most people.
Gus (or one of his men) called Hank in order to give him a chance to defend himself. This was Gus' way of almost sticking it to the cartel without being too obvious.
In Breaking Bad, who warned Hank (Dean Norris) about the cartel hit and saved his life? It was none other than Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) who contacted Hank about an impending cartel assassination attempt, despite being the one who ordered the hit in the first place.
Gus Fring tipped Hank off. Even though he did send the brothers to attack Hank in the first place, he warned Hank so that he would be aware of what's going on and proceed to kill them, thus wrapping up a loose end.