History BetterCallSaul / TropesAToE

** Every single character who also appeared in ''Breaking Bad'' (Jimmy, Mike, Tuco, Huell, Gus, Hector, Eladio, Bolsa, etc) is supposed to be anywhere from 5-8 years younger than they were when they appeared in ''Breaking Bad''. In real life, the actors are all several years older. The show puts very little effort into hiding this discrepancy; at best some of the characters look about the same age and are old enough for it to be handwaved as them no longer visibly aging. Hector is the only one who really pulls it off, just because he spent all of ''Breaking Bad'' as a mute invalid. A couple of flashbacks even show Jimmy right around the time he started working in the mailroom in the early 90s, meaning he's supposed to be a good 20 years younger than he is in Omaha, and all the show does to try to sell this is give him a cheap wig. It's clear the showrunners aren't even trying to fool anyone, which is reasonable given that de-aging CGI would be expensive and would also invoke a distracting uncanny valley effect, and that makeup would likely not be effective either. The only other solution would be to recast the actors, which would be pretty much guaranteed to irritate the fanbase, so just looking the other way is the best solution.

* DestructiveRomance: Unlike Walter and Skyler, who were strained at the best of times, Kim and Jimmy are desperately in love with each other, they have great fun running scams and she encourages Saul, and she's willing to kill for him and he's willing to die for her, but they're poison to everyone around them. She [[spoiler: ends it, leaving her a broken self loathing shell of a woman, and he becomes Saul Goodman]]. In their last scenes of "Saul Gone", they [[spoiler: rekindle their relationship]], but not the part where they get turned on by scams (he gives her the finger guns as a sign that they'll be okay instead of how they've been before, and she keeps them by her side in muted agreement), they're just both at peace and happy to exist by each other.

* ContinuityOverlap: [[spoiler:The post-''Breaking Bad'' flash forwards run parallel with the events of ''Film/ElCamino''. The events of that film are eventually acknowledged in Season Six and have some impact on Saul's fugitive-era status quo (as with Jesse Pinkman having evaded the authorities, they've turned all their attention towards Saul and have located and seized all his previously hidden ill-gotten gains).]]

* EarlyPersonalitySigns: In "Inflatable" a flashback shows a young Jimmy StealingFromTheTill while working at his parents' convenience store. Chuck occasionally recalls other examples, such as Jimmy making and selling fake IDs for his classmates at school. Chuck himself is shown as a teenager getting annoyed at a five year old for not completely trusting him.

* ChekhovsGunman:
** In the season 4 finale, when Lalo is busy combing the Travel Wire footage to find out where Mike is going to look for Werner, a customer walks up to the front door, where the sign is flipped to "CLOSED". Lalo points to the sign repeatedly to shoo the customer away. Half a season later, in "Wexler v. Goodman," Mike tracks down the customer, Lili Simmons, and jogs her memory about what she saw as part of a gambit to get Lalo arrested.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Chuck can handle his divorce from Rebecca and his falling out with Jimmy. For a while he even gets a handle on his electromagnetic hypersensitivity, making small but positive steps to overcome it. Losing his livelihood however pushes him over the edge. His enforced retirement from HHM causes him to relapse and lose all hope of curing his condition, [[DrivenToSuicide driving him to suicide]]]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Gus Fring's ambiguous sexual orientation continues from ''Breaking Bad'', though one scene in the final season finally seems to address it and heavily implies that he's gay while still not overtly confirming it. He seems to make a pass at a sommelier, who either [[IncompatibleOrientation does not pick up on it or politely rejects him]], prompting Gus to aburptly leaves in low spirits. [[WordOfGod Peter Gould]] has since explicitly confirmed that Gus and Max were romantically involved, confirming that Gus is gay.

** Mike's gambit to throw Tuco in jail, which involves acting like a doddering old fool and not showing any fear after "accidentally" swiping Tuco's car in a parking lot

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A pretty minor but still jarring example; In one scene in Season 3 Episode 3 Ernesto is seen driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII, which seems a bit odd for a mere paralegal to have even if HHM might pay its employees well (He might get a little extra by being Chuck's caretaker but still...), making this pretty illogical unless he's coming from a wealthy family of course.

** In "Waterworks" [[spoiler:we see Kim's new life after leaving Jimmy. She has lost the trademark blonde BoyishPonytail and wears her now-darkened hair loose and layered with a fringe]].

** In his role as a security consultant for Madrigal Electromotive, Mike steals another worker's badge, walks right into the building, has multiple conversations with other employees, and takes advantage of every security weakness he can find. Once he's done, [[DeconstructedTrope he takes the supervisors to task over everything that he was able to get away with]]: