Walter White List of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters

walter hartwell white (also known clandestine alias heisenberg) (played bryan cranston) underachieving albuquerque, new mexico high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed lung cancer, starts manufacturing methamphetamine provide family upon death. knowing nothing drug trade, enlists aid of former student, jesse pinkman, sell meth produces. walt s scientific knowledge , dedication quality lead him produce crystal meth purer , more potent competitors . avoid tedious collection of pseudoephedrine required production, walt devises alternative chemical process utilizing methylamine, giving product distinctive blue color. crystal meth, given street name blue sky, dominates market, leading confrontations established drug makers , dealers.

walt squeamish use of violence, gradually comes see necessity. comes find new status drug lord psychologically rewarding, leading him become less , less reluctant resort criminal acts such theft, extortion, money laundering, depraved indifference, , murder. walt s descent, macbeth-like, criminal underworld unearths immense levels of repressed ambition, rage, resentment, vanity, , increasing ruthlessness alienates him family , colleagues.