Breaking Bad: Hank Is Not The Hero

It's sick how Hank was producing meth all this time and using Walter as his hostage/ in-house chemist. Good thing Walter managed to confess everything.

It made sense that Hank would have a huge blind spot to Walter after 20ish years of knowing him.

The whole breaking bad series is about how ego gets everyone killed. Even the main character

Hank is like if the war on drugs was a person.

Hank never seems to care about making the streets safer, it always seems to only care about winning over the other guy.

My read on Hank is that he sees people as very black and white. As good people and bad people. This is why he never considers Walt as a suspect, because he already put him in the good person category. This is why he loses his crap when he finds out it Walt. It’s also why he dosent car about Jesse, beats him and is okay with letting him die. Because he judge Jesse as a bad guy from the minute he had the fake phone call about Marie.

One of my favorite scenes with Hank is when he brags about the Cuban Cigar to Walt, right after making fun of people who were arrested for Marijuana, it shows you right there, Hank is willing to break laws to bring himself satisfaction, even if it contradicts everything he says and stands for. Seems like a small moment when it happens, but it really does give you a lot of insight into Hank as a person.

Vince Gilligan had originally planned to kill both Jesse and Hank by the end of Season 1. Season 1 was originally approved for 9 episodes, but was cut down to 7 due to the WGA strike. Hank was meant to meet his end in Episode 9. Jesse was also meant to die in Season 1 as a way of showing that even the main characters in the series were not safe, but once Gilligan saw Jesse's performance, he knew that killing off his character would be a mistake. Good thing for that strike.

Of course Hank was upset, he loved Walt like a brother in law

One theme that makes Breaking bad so amazing is that the characters aren’t good or bad… just different shades of grey

Hank showed who he was by how he treated the prostitute in the first season. He never really changed. The difference between him and Walt is the law is (sort of) backing him up. Hes not as corrupt as Walt but he's definitely willing to put other's lives in danger to reach his goals.

Apart from everything everyone else said, Hank brought along Walt, a civilian, while on a Dea operation, he took photos of himself making fun of the corpse of a criminal and had the trashiest paperweight ever. worse than everything else, he shared reserved information with his family, just for the fun of it (Gale's video and lab notes). He brought Junior, a disabled teenager, to see meth addicts and bullied a prostitute in front of him because he wanted to be the cool uncle. This doesn't make him a monster, but it makes him deeply flawed in my book. It's true the thing that mattered the most to him was his ego.

Lyle was really the only good guy in the BB universe. He just had to clean that fryer and make it spotless!!!

Hank sending Jesse to his possible death so he can catch Walt and justifying it by saying Jesse's death would just be more evidence to incriminate Walt is all you need. He's no hero. Edit: Almost everyone missed the point. It's not about who is right or who is wrong. The point is that hank isn't a hero, his actions towards the end proved that he isn't the hero. I'm not going to sit and argue with anyone about it, it's a fact.

I think the literal point that Breaking Bad is making is that nobody is all good or all bad we all have the potential to be both in us and how the events and decisions surrounding our lives can push us 1 way or the other and even people who have never put a foot wrong like Walt under the right circumstances can be pushed all the way to being evil

"My daddy is a casually racist cop and its ok so Hank isnt a racist" - great logic

Hank was a great character. In the end, just like Walt, he was willing to circumvent rules both written and unwritten, just to get exacly what HE wanted. He showed that when he tried to lure Skyler into incriminating herself, to get some dirt on Walt that he could present to his superiors. After that, he was willing to let Jesse get killed in order to get to Walt. After all, Jesse was just a "junkie murderer" in his eyes. Hank ended up having no morality beyond what was best for himself... once again, just like Walt.

A lot of people fail to realize Hank’s own obsession with Heisenberg has led to his demise He passed up the promotion in Texas to pursue a lead on Blue Sky, he was directed by his own superior to drop the Fring case yet he chose to follow up on it Just as Walt had his own ego issues, Hank equally had his own obsession issues

3:03 Kino? FUCK YOU DOIN? Sharp as a fuckin cueball…

11 minutes of Clif Notes recap of series. 1 minute of original thought.