3. Heisenberg - Breaking Bad
The distinction between Breaking Bad's Walter White, as played by Bryan Cranston, and his villainous alter ego Heisenberg, is a difficult one to discern. But after five seasons and 62 episodes, Heisenberg became a beast that existed outside the own shell of Walter White. Heisenberg was an extension of Walt, but Vince Gilligan's outstanding writing staff gave Cranston all the tools to make him seem like much more. Which is not to absolve Walt of guilt, painting him as some sort of saint, as both of them were the same man on the surface. But Walt's transformation into Heisenberg created an almost tangible, entirely separate character that existed on his own terms. Gilligan often simplifies it as "Mr. Chips to Scarface", which is a fine analogy on paper and is a nice comfortable way to describe it, but the dark facade of Heisenberg was much more than a mere black pork pie hat and attitude shift. Though he was born from Walt, Heisenberg was his own man and acted as such. Walter White may technically be a villain, but Heisenberg was the true personification of the word, and one of the greatest villains of all time.