Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca | The Best Villain

Lalo needs his own series. Ruthless, calculating and charismatic, hands down Best ever salamanca.

The fact that Lalo had an easy escape route during the raid, thought about it for a second, and decided to go back in and take out the rest of them is just so cold

Tuco was brutishly intimidating. Twins were silently intimidating. Hector, before being crippled, was patriarch intimidating. Lalo was intellectually intimidating. Salamanca’s definitely were a mixed bag of interesting characters.

Lalo repeating, "Tell me again," in that lower voice, was terrifying 💀

Jimmy: “I thought I was going to be swallowing condoms filled with heroin” Lalo: “Maybe later” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Seeing Lalo made the power that the Salamancas had, make sense. The twins, Tuco, Hector were all hardcore cartel no doubt, but none had the brains to be running an enormous drug empire. In a franchise with multiple of the best TV villains of all-time, Lalo's presence still stands out.

Lalo is a cheerful psychopath. He even dies with a smile on his face.

He's almost a nice guy 😂

one of the few characters in the series that actually has an accurate spanish accent

Lmao lalo heard gus speaking 6 words of spanish and immediately switched back to English 😂

He's like a Mexican Joker 🃏 🤣

Theory (or not) but I’m willing to bet lalo is one of the soul reasons why eladios cartel is so powerful and why the Salamanca name has such a strong reputation in that world. He’s a psychopath but he’s also a genius. With his head for numbers, his fluidity between Spanish and English, his social skills, his planning, his skills with a gun and his physicality. Eladios love for him is also very telling. Such a great character

you go "blablabla"...... and they walk outta there... I mean its amazing !! 😁

The man who can made Gus shit his pants

The unsettling reality is that individuals like Lalo exist in real life—charming, always smiling, cracking jokes, and seemingly friendly, yet lacking a moral compass. They would do anything for their own benefit, though extreme actions like killing might be rare. Nonetheless, they can be ruthlessly opportunistic. In real life, they often become politicians, lawyers, marketers, and religious leaders.

1:43 I love this scene for so many reasons but for one big one in particular. When Hector came to talk with Gus, he did it with all his goons and the subtlety and grace of a sledgehammer to the face. Which is fitting, because Hector was a powerful but cranky old man who was try to assert his dominance over Gus. But that was incredibly foolish, because as Gus pointed out making such a scene draws unwanted attention to the Cartel as a whole. But Lalo? He comes in and he plays the "game" just as well as Gus. To an outside observer this is just a hardworking manager and a appreciative customer having a conversation. Lalo plays to the role and comes to Gus' level but he does so in a way that puts Gus slightly on the back foot. And that makes Lalo seem even more dangerous than Hector because he understands and has mastered subtlety. While Hector came in with the subtlety and skill of a thug with a sledgehammer, Lalo comes at it with skill, speed, and precision like a knife fighter

The guy that played Lalo was a damn good actor.

I love Lalo so much. He's like an evil, Mexican, Sherlock Holmes. Had a blast whenever he was on screen.

"Te vas a morir." Bravo, Vince.

Tony Dalton is a national treasure.