3. Both Characters Are Eventually Honest With Who They Are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yky4QtRX_DI Both of the leads are, at least by the end of their lives, accepting of who they are and of their motivations. The scene that marks this from Scarface is in a restaurant where Tony Montana unleashes an all out verbal attack on the upper class: "You need people like me so you can point your f**kin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie." leading him eventually to proclaim, "I always tell the truth, even when I lie." For all Tony Montana's faults, being honest for who he is is not one of them, rather than hide behind a mask he accepts that he is a "bad guy". Walter White hides behind the facade that it is "all for his family" for the majority of the show's run. However, in a surprising turn of truth, Walt confesses to Skylar, probably the person who he lied to the most throughout, that he "did it for me" and that "I liked it, I was good at it...I was alive". This marks an extreme change of character, the usual unscrupulous, scheming Walt that was present for most of the show has been laid bare, and can finally admit the truth to his wife after years of treachery and dishonesty before leading to his grisly demise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaqxAEx46Zk