Breaking Bad: Each Main Character Ranked From Worst To Best

In Walter White, Breaking Bad found one of the greatest characters of all time, with a storyline unrivalled by modern shows. Played by the constantly great Bryan Cranston, Walt was at once the hero and the villain of the show, a cancer suffering family man who decided to start making meth in order to make money for his family to use after his death.

Though this was (almost) noble, at least by Breaking Bad standards, Walt quickly got a taste for his role in the drug trade. With his ego ballooning with every batch of meth he made and every new ally he manipulated into helping him, Walt went from caring family man to egomaniacal drug lord at a rapid pace, making money hand over fist and getting into more and more trouble as he went.

The true joy of watching Walt, though, was not just his descent to villainy, but the fact that under all of his confidence, power and intimidation, he was also both incredibly lucky and often maddeningly pathetic - a man so caught up in his own victories that when someone finally cut him down (like Gus or Jack Welker), he proved to be nothing more than a clever man way out of his depth.

A hell of an arc, a hell of a performance, but Walt wasn't quite the best character in the show...