Analyzing Evil: Todd Alquist From Breaking Bad 

Honestly, I think someone who feels absolutely nothing while doing it is even scarier than someone who enjoys it.

​@@thewandererslibrary9928business as usual

I am around addicts a lot. Addicts are often sociopaths. All addicts are sociopaths to some degree to be honest. Some of them are like Todd. He's realistic as Hell.

Like Roose Bolton

​@@Skoopyghostwtf?

He needs to do Kratos

How annoying was the kid?

Definitely shouldn’t go bowling with him he’ll make you the pins

@@sebastianriemer1777his dirtbike was loud

@@sebastianriemer1777He trapped a tarantula. Unforgivable

I have to skip through that part when rewatching. The sound Jesse makes when he sees Andrea shot just fractures my soul. Even knowing that Aaron was only an actor acting in a scene doesn’t make it easier to watch.

I'm glad it wasn't just me who feels that way. Honestly, that particular scene bothered me so much I pretty much stopped watching television entirely after that. I haven't owned a TV in probably 12 yrs.

@@HandsomeHank5150 you’re soft😂

There's so many emotional motiffs in that scene. The unfairness of an innocent being killed, the arrogance of Walter for having unwittingly sold him to slavery and guiding these scum to her house, the helplessness of having to watch such an atrocity, and the unquenchable wrath you now have for her killer, which you used to just hate. I can understand the people who can't watch that scene. It's a hard clip.

Aaron Paul's acting definitely helped in that scene

To be fair I don't think there is a single moment where Todd gets mad

Exactly bro.

he just feels like a generic background character who might receive some slight development and then.....THAT scene happened

The most vicious evil always comes unexpectedly. They come to you with smiles

When he first showed up, my immediate gut reaction was 'oh no, this guy seems nice. Walt's gonna kill him, isn't he?'. I wish Walt had. I rapidly went from hoping Todd would survive, to wanting him dead with a passion

That kid had nothing to lose.

its all just is part of the job for him

I felt the same about Anders Breivik. The photo that circulated about him at the time showed a normal looking guy. You wouldn't have thought of anything bad if you had seen him walking down the street.

A huge chuck of some of the most charismatic people are either sociopaths or psychopaths.

@@manwiththeredface7821 It is this societal flaw that allows the real mosters walk among us. Personally, anyone that's very charismatic and socially aware I am skeptical of. There are then tests you can use to further determine, like any blank hawkish staring they might do, or catching them slip up while masking an emotion ore over doing the emotion. I knew someone like this in high school. Idk where they are now or if they ever did anything malicious, but they did used to get in trouble sometimes. He deoesn't come off like a kid that does tho, which is an little unnerving.

I struggled for a bit to understand the difference between faux affably evil and affably evil, but I think I've got it now.Feel free to correct me if and where I'm wrong. It's the difference between people like Gus and people like Lalo. A Gus will drop the affable part when torturing or killing someone, while a Lalo would still be smiling, chatting joking...just still having a good time while committing these horrific acts

@@an-animal-loverwow I think ur spot on

@@tdog1143 yay

When Todd says "I'm sorry for your loss" to Walt right after Jack murders Hank, Todd doesn't seem to be purposefully rubbing salt in the wound, he's just genuinely telling Walt that he's sorry things turned out the way they did.

YES!! You got it!!

it shows his social absence

The only thing scarier than a monster who knows why they’re a monster is a monster who DOESN’T know why they’re a monster.

“Mr. White?”

He didn't even care about his Uncle and friends being gunned down

He was stupid. Not completely unintelligent, but stupid nonetheless.

Well reasoned and I tend to agree

I think you're right. He has genuine respect and reverence for Walt, so it likely never occurred to him that Walt would be capable of planning a revenge plot over months and carrying it out. This is actually consistent with Todd's lack of insight into others' minds. He totally misunderstands Walts' motivations. Walt is a vulnerable narcissist, not a psychopath. He wanted to look into Jack's eyes as he destroyed everything Jack loves and takes back "ownership" of Sky Blue. Todd treats sudden, brutal violence as just part of the business. If you need to do it, that's ok and to be expected. But if you don't need to kill someone, then that's ok, too. When Todd's role models are gone, he's adrift, unsure of what to do. That's when Jesse gets the drop on him because it simply never occurs to Todd that Jesse wouldn't want to be friends after all that he has done to Jesse.

​@@mrkeoghhad someone like Jack survived, I have no doubt that he would've tried killing Walt.

Excellent point. 👍

Actually that's not the case.. Todd simply doesn't care and definitely can't love .. Unlike the Salamancas, who are sociopaths have some family or colleagues they care about... However Todd is a psychopath.. incapable of love... Even when his whole family is dead, it doesn't matter.. what matters is he's not dead..

Scene was hilarious

IT IS! IT IS PERSONAL....

@@_MaZTeR_😂😂

"I'm sorry for your loss."

He sent Andrea on a trip to Belize. Truly an American hero.

He is your average Todd. Todd gonna do what Todd gonna do.

No, he does have certain motivations, such as approval of the "adults," and his childish desire for Lydia.

Then you didn't pay attention.

Todd is kinda like an AI programmed to be friendly and affable yet will also do whatever is necessary above all other tasks or protocols to ensure success. Todd is the poster child for a task orientated psychopath with a high functioning social personality. Whereas someone like Alex DeLarge from Clockwork Orange genuinely enjoys hurting, raping, killing etc, Todd is absolutely emotionless and uncaring one way or the other.

Todd’s are the kind of people who allow for things like genocide to occur, someone who will just carry out a task no hesitation and feels absolutely nothing about it since it’s simply part of their job.

it’s just a “what? what’s wrong? why are you so scared?” after he just murdered someone’s whole family

I felt really bad for him when he died I really wanted him to be able to find some better people to be with he always felt like a little kid that accidentally hung with the wrong people

His death didn't bother me but there is a tragic angle with him. Whether be was born with psychopathic traits or acquired them from being around Jack, there's a really good chance he would be a mostly normal (if a bit weird) kid if he hadn't grown up under people like Jack.

Thanks for the spoilers

@@guiyome325why would you watch this video then bro 😭

@@guiyome325why are you complaining 💀

@@guiyome325 walter white dies btw

@@NonConsensual nice bait

I’d say Anton Chigurh and Jack are more realistic as psychopathic characters, but he’s a fantastic one.

Marlo and Snoop from the Wire are realistic psychos as well. And Agent Knox from Boardwalk Empire

@heisenberg no

​​@@MinnowTF Which Jack? Also Anton isnt really a probable representation of a psychopath as much Todd was. However, he is still realistic in the sense that people like him do exist.

He’s up there but some characters from The Sopranos are pretty realistic too. Tony Soprano included.

todd also looks very physically similar to that child

Meth Damon

He was very good in _Killers of the Flower Moon._

He was good in Black Mass. I agree, he is a good actor.

He also appeared in Fargo Season 2. He has a good range of acting.

Besides Killers of the Flower Moon he's fantastic in Game Night.

He played another creepy character in the episode USS Callister of Black Mirror...not too dissimilar from Todd in fact lol!

Imo the greatest television villains are Walter White and Tony Soprano

Smoking crack

Todd is great but I’d argue Gus is the best and most iconic, along with the Governor from Walking Dead

@@PolishGod1234I agree. There are contenders for this position.

It's a big reason they picked Landry from Friday Night Lights. To add to that shock value.

Are you from New Jersey? Everybody else fills their own gas. Random comment lol I know

God yes I want a Mike episode. Easily one of my favorite characters in the show

Best comment about Todd I so far read about. Congrats. Everyone weirdly thinks he is the “perfect psycho” or something. Todd is a victim of his environment he takes no pleasure from killing

I think I know a few people that are "weird" in this way....but they have stable and decent lives, they don't lust for violence or blood He's just doing his base "programming" in a way, he's strange and lacking in humanity but he's not a monster

I wish we had more info on the circumstances that led to Todd being raised by Jack. We assume his parents died, but have no idea how. It'd be super twisted if Jack saw potential in Todd, but thought it was being wasted by his parents, and arranged a way to kill them. Todd of course would have no idea. His parents were possibly hard core left-wingers that believed in equality.

To him it's like swatting a mosquito or cleaning up a spillage. No big deal 🤷🏻‍♂️

THE MOST EVIL 😈 TODD TWISTED CHARACTER.

Seriously though, it’s thematically undeniable how much they actively oppose each other. While Todd appears to be a seemingly normal, if not upstanding and trustworthy man, Jesse at face value is a worthless thug pissing his life away. Todd carries himself with soft spoken politeness, while Jesse is oftentimes abrasive and crude. Todd does what he’s told with minimal fuss, while Jesse rejects authority and comes to resent his actions of “loyalty”. Most importantly, Jesse wept for the man he shot in cold blood. He wept for both of the women in his life who died for being close to him. He wept for the children he found along the way of the sick and twisted road he walked. Meanwhile Todd killed a child, an innocent woman, enslaved a man, and who knows what other heinous shit he could’ve done in his life, without even batting an eye.

Oh wow I didn't even think of that but you're both absolutely right! That's really cool!

Didnt jesse shot the other very nice cook in the face? No good guys in this show.

@@wittyjoker4631 because of psychological pressure from Walt, remember?

@@keithfilibeck2390 ah so someone told him to do it... then that makes it all ok?

Very true.

First off, i think you mean secret agent, not secret service. The secret service protects the president and other high ranking public servants, what you are talking about is espionage, sabotage etc. Secondly, Todd would not be fit for such a role. He is not intelligent enough and lacks the ability to read situations or people. He only works within this framework, because his obedience and unassuming demeanor makes him useful and reliable for ordinary tasks, and get along with brutes without causing a stir. A good foot soldier, nothing more. He could never maneuver the mine field of high espionage.

"Here i go killing again"

Just like Archer

He already looks like Jason Bourne from Wish.

😭😭😭

Bro is in the meth lab 😂

Sid Haig.

He looks and sounds ai generated which makes it even more terrifying to know that he's A Real Person who actually looks moves and sounds like that

I was wondering... @@Mae_Dastardly

I'm obsessed with Lydia, She's hot.

I also suspect, from what we know in the Breaking Bad universe, his lack of empathy is not a predisposition, but must be learned, probably due to growing up around brutes and goons, and the things he witnessed and heard. It is useful for him and his mind to be this way, as a self protection measure, and despite trying to be obedient and useful (also a learnt self protection mechanism) he looks for small openings to let out what little humanity he has left in him. A nuanced character, where one person is not reduced to a single trait. Many characters on Breaking Bad are complex, even a somewhat stunted simpleton like Todd.

That one may have also been motivated by him having respect for Walt.

Based Todd I‘m also obsessed with Lydia

Pragmatism. It would’ve been a stupid move to kill Skyler while the cops were surveying the house. I’m willing to bet Todd brought Lydia’s request to Nazi Jack himself and Jack forbid them from actually killing Skyler because it would draw heat to them.

Not even really that it's right, but rather, that it's a task, an errand, a chore.

​@@TrouvatkiDePercusionit is doing the dishes, it's dirty, he doesn't want to do it, but its a begrudging task that no one else will do (or so he's told)

@@darrenthetuber743 Exactly. It's just a thing to be done. That makes him especially terrifying.

Tuco loves hurting others, Gus hurts others as long as it's to benefit himself, But Todd doesn't want to hurt others, but doesn't care if he does.

@@TrouvatkiDePercusionnah he isnt particularly evil i would prefer teaming with him rather than someone like tuco

Its so funny when they say Todd is a ‘perfect psycho’ when truly he isnt evil and takes no pleasure. He definitely victim of the lifestyle of his uncle who is the true psycho

@@AY-qy4jn psychopaths aren't evil or malicious, they are just amoral which fits Todd perfectly

@@PolishGod1234 yeah im pretty sure psychopaths are evil. Theres a whole lot of amoral people so there must be millions of psychopaths around us. In fact my neighbors love calling me Clarice

​​@@AY-qy4jnno, psychopath are not evil. You can read many psychologic book who explain that with many scientific detaiks. Its deeper that " they are evil guys ".

@@KS-sy9cc yeah its deeper than that but it all ultimately boils down to that my friend

That because Todd respects Walt. Walt never treated Todd bad. Walt didn't respect his old boss. Maybe you forgot but Walt's car wash boss was an @sshole. There a big difference there you are missing

Yeah forget child murder and human enslavement. Taking a dollar from a guy is just too far man…

Tbf Todd liked Walt. Walt rightfully so hated Bogdan and used that dollar to exert power over Bogdan

@@anxiety1018 I think it’s also because Todd has a weird way of fairness for lack of a better word. He thought that Walt should be rewarded for helping them out just like how he was going to give Jesse a pizza in El Camino for helping him dig a hole even asking him what kind of pizza he likes. He genuinely believed that Jesse earned that pizza for his work

Typical, how women see the money aspect over morality.

Hell do one on the entire Salamanca family

​@@calvinhuff7873 He already did a video on Lalo tho. As much as I hate to say this, Tuco and the Twins don't really have that much going for them like Hector or Lalo had if you understand what I'm saying. But Hector is literally the worst of the worst in a universe already filled with drug lords, a corrupt lawyer, shady companies and even being worse than a gang of Nazis.

Boyfriend?

​@@rajghosh217 Yeah, Gus is gay and Max was his boyfriend. Have you even watched the shows?

@@WhyTho525they never fully stated he was his boyfriend

And he keeps the kids spider in his room

That was a serious "WTF" moment. 😮😮😮😮

So used to carrying out atrocities that when he saw the boy he pulled out his gun and fired.

I’ve also heard that Jack’s actor has his own theory that Todd was rescued from said environment by his uncle, with Todd’s mother possibly being a drug addict.

@@capncake8837 It's refreshing that the actors playing such characters have that awareness of such situations....and sad that those said situations are very real and present that this show is based on a lot of the reality of those

It's not a predisposition, its a mechanism to protect himself, learnt in early childhood. Thats what growing up around brutes and goons can do for you, and what you yourself must become to minimize risk and pain to yourself. He is not inherently bad or sadist, he just learnt to not make a fuss about such things and to view them as normal part of life. Also he is really bad at reading people, and a bit dense.

Meth Damon

Yeah he is hilarious in game night. Plays a similar guy but who is like an autistic lonely cop.

@@nak3dxsnake might have to check it out. Known of him since his small role in “observe and report.”

@@edwardwebb5636 🤣🤣🤣 yes

If you like characters like that, get into Chris Partlow from The Wire. The OG weirdo murderer

@@MultiMasterfelixChris Partlow was the truth. He still had his own sense of morals tho. He was elite soldier like Wee-bey, except deadlier…much deadlier.

polite. not kind

This has been one of your best videos by far. You don't come at a purely evil person with distain, but one from empathy, understanding why he is the way he is. Is Todd evil? Maybe. But he is a victim of circumstances

There is no way he can be a favourite character for me. He is another great villain in the series, but he is no Gus Fring or even Walter White.

@@captainmarvelwilson508 he's not a villain, not is he supposed to be. He's a complicated simple person that was born from evil. But in almost every scene you can see the empathetic guy he could have been.

@@CharlieKellyEsq Sure, but he became a remorseless psychopath that I felt nothing for and wanted nothing for him but an agonising death, which he got.

Jesse is an interesting case of Protagonist Syndrome (where the audience is more forgiving of main characters because they witness more of their struggle - not to be mistaken for Main Character Syndrome where someone thinks they're the 'protagonist' of life). If you look at him purely from a detached, character sense, Jesse is, ultimately, no better than at least half the characters on Breaking Bad. But people will root for him even when he fucks people over because they see so much of him.

​@@trianglemoebiusit's true that Jesse's done things as bad as the others, but the reason why fans don't put him in the same box is because he's the only one who feels remorse for it. Remorse doesn't excuse anything, obviously, but the fact that he feels it does say something compared to the rest of the bad guys

@@goolgepl2112 Sure, but a few characters could feel the same way that were already covered....when the channel is low on options he'll come back probably...and maybe with Badger and Skinny Pete! (mostly joking)

Mike isn’t evil. This channel is about evil characters.

@@glibglob8755 He definitely is in many ways. Maybe working as a hitman for a cartel as a start?

@@gurrierpl that doesn’t make him evil. He’s hustling for his grandchild. It would absolutely be laughable to see Mike discussed on this channel. That’s like wanting to see a random GI from WW2 on the channel because he killed for his country. You have no idea what you’re talking about so I’m not going to continue this conversation, especially with a person of short intelligence who is quite obviously uneducated in the world of psychology. Ta ta.

​@@glibglob8755 Mike has evil inside him. He's done evil things. He, like many of the characters, are complex.

Yup. Had a family member like this. Mother described him as 12 going on 35…. There was an awful lot of stuff that went clean over my head. I now know I was going as hard as I could to simply stay out of trouble, and much of what was happening was beyond my limited capacity to perceive. It was many years afterward when I learned in (small) part what had been happening.

From what we saw in the show, the low amount of empathy might have been learned, not a genetic predisposition. A necessity to protect oneselfs mental state when growing up around brutes and goons.

@@Jonathanizer en realidad hay varias escenas en donde muestra sentirla, cuando muere hank se le ve mostrando respeto a walter porque era su familia, cuando mato a su nana la llevo a un lugar que considero lindo, se le veia poco predispuesto a matar a andrea porque sabia que jessi sufria, incluso es probable que trate como mascota a jessi porque ve que es la manera correcta en como tratarlo ya que es un esclavo, no un compañero

@@juanpablogarcia6293 From what i gather from google translate, i think we mostly agree. Todd has the capacity, but is emotionally stunted and doesn't let it show. As i said, the most plausible explanation to me is, it's a survival reflex.

He definitely is a good-looking guy.

He isn't evil as he doesn't understand the weight of his actions

@@PolishGod1234 That's the question, isn't it? Does evil require knowledge and intent, or is it simply the net result of one's actions?

@@PolishGod1234 he knows of the results of his acts he just doesn’t care

​@guiden1954 did you not watch the video

@@guiden1954 It's not just that he doesn't care - he doesn't even understand that he *should*.

Nah, definitely Anton Chigurh

@@SnootyAndTheRatfinks Todd is way more realistic

Both are great, but Todd is how we all can experience people with psychopathy in real life. Of course they rarely kill, but ruin other people in other ways, like abusing the law.

Intelligence?. Todd is polite, but hardly intelligent after months of practice he couldn’t even get waltz blue meth recipe, correctLol

@@TashaRial he is quite intelligent as he always thinks based on logic, like when he refused to kill Skyler when cops were guarding her home as It would draw attention

Oh please the fact that he knows that murder is wrong even if only from a logical standpoint, but he commits it anyway. That is the very definition of evil. This is why psychopath cannot use psychopathy as a legal definition of insanity. A psychotic cannot be blamed for their actions, but a psychopath knows the difference between right and wrong yet they commit criminal activities anyway

Edited to add Gul Dukat - probably the best antagonist / villain in all of _Star Trek._

Which is still truly terrifying because it shows you that monsters are truly all around us.

@@mcfrisko834 exactly

YESSSSSSS and the show's protagonist please!!

For real. It drives me nuts but it's hilarious at the same time 🤣

He could do 2 big video on Bond henchmen and Bond villains respectively since they individually don't have but so much depth but all interesting.

@@edgewiseCL Christopher Lee's Scaramanga {?} - Louis Jourdan (Khan) - Robert Davi (Sanchez) - Benicio Del Toro (Dario) - Sophie Marceau (Electra King) - Robert Carlisle (Renard) - Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky) - Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan)- my favourite Bond villains/ henchmen would take up a large part of one of them...

Hopper and the Fairy Godmother would be so great