10 Times TV Heroes Became The Bad Guy In Their Own Show
6. Walter White - Breaking Bad
The Elevator Pitch for Breaking Bad was "turning Mr. Chips into Scarface" and the show couldn't have hit the bulls-eye better.
The show could have gone a specific route which was to draw Walt deeper into the drug trade, but still maintain the character's innocence and morals.
That wasn't the case; and throughout Breaking Bad we saw Walt transform from a man trying to acquire the bare minimum to provide for his family when he's gone, to a man so proud and addicted to power that he allowed others to die to preserve his place.
The show tries to make Walt a step below the worst people in the world by introducing a gang of Neo-Nazis as the finishing villains, but they're just ahead of Walt when it comes to being evil.
Between allowing Jane to die, poisoning a child, giving up Jesse to a gang of neo-Nazis and abducting his daughter from Skyler and Walt Jr. there were no lengths Walt wouldn't go, all the while convincing himself he was still a good man.
At least in the final episode, Walt admits to Skyler that he enjoyed being a drug lord. Walt finally came to terms with knowing they were the bad guy.