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** {{spoiler|The extremely moving music as Gus walks to his death reminds you that he was once a similar guy to Walt, and he'll die failing to get his final revenge on the people who killed his "brother".}}
** Simlarly, the sheer amount of anger and sadness in {{spoiler|Hector's}} face as he looks at {{spoiler|Gus}} before {{spoiler|setting off the bomb that will [[Taking You with Me|kill both of them]]}} makes you almost feel sorry for him.
** {{spoiler|Walt's death in the [[Grand Finale]].}}
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Possibly the purpose of the show.
** It's hard to decide if Walt's "cooking" is retaliation for a world that never cut him a break or a genuine desire to provide for his family. Not that they're necessarily mutually exclusive.
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* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Both Jesse and Walt qualify.
** Hank, whose private pain is concealed by a willfully ignorant and obnoxious public personality.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: ''Gus.'' The owner of Los Pollos Hermanos chain of chicken restaurants, and now the biggest Meth dealer of them all. Uses his chain as a cover, never been caught, and organizes anti-drug fun runs that means he associates with DEA agents that tell him all about their work. The Cartels respect him enough that he's able to call off a hit with but a single text message to two killers seeking personal vengeance. The only reason Walt is still alive is Gus can use him. Walt even figures out Gus is using him to break free of the Cartels to the point he's planning everything for his own advantages including Hank and the Cousins.
** Walt himself has his moments of this, namely in the latter two seasons. He fully becomes one in the series finale.
** Jesse displays some measure of this when he screws his parents over to get his aunt's house back. (How much of this was magnificent and how much of it was bastardy probably depends on what you thought of his parents' earlier actions.)
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]:
** All the supporters of Walt [[Draco in Leather Pants|who find his crimes justified, are rooting for him to come out well-off from having committed them, and think of him as a sort of cool, inspirational figure or even role model]]...''very clearly'', the entire point of the story and Walt's character went over their heads.
** Feminists attempted to rally to Skyler's defense against her growing [[Hatedom]], claiming that her detractors were simply a bunch of sexists hating on a strong woman standing up to her [[Card-Carrying Villain]] of a husband. Of course for this to work, you have to ignore the fact that Skyler becomes complicit in her husband's crimes and very rarely displays strength when there's risk to herself. She spends the series swaying between berating and trying to hurt Walter, accepting Walter's money and trying to help him in his illegal activities, or cowering in fear of him. Holding up Skyler as an icon of feminist strength is sort of like [[Rooting for the Empire|holding up Emperor Palpatine as an icon of a fair and just head of state]].
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
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