10 TV Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won

While some say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Walter White's was undoubtedly paved with copious amounts of methamphetamines. He may have started and ended his crystal crusade as a (debatably) good man, but his descent into criminality and murder cannot be explained away by a cancer diagnosis.

For a lover of creation and chemistry it's certainly ironic how destructive Walt became to everyone around him. From the moment he turned down the job at Grey Matter, the reasoning behind his quest to become a drug lord for his 'family' peeled away one murder at a time.

Although Vince Gilligan spent the final episodes mopping up and letting Heisenberg atone for at least some of what he did, it thankfully wasn't a complete cop out as, in the final meeting with his massively put upon wife, he admits that really he did it all for himself.

At the end of it all, having saved Jesse (an addict he mentally abused for years) by decimating a gang of neo-Nazis with a machine gun robot - he is mortally wounded and left to ponder his decisions amongst the remains of his meth empire. Would he have done anything differently, given the chance? The look on his face in the final shot suggests that he would choose to be "the one who knocks" every time.