History Characters / BreakingBadLosPollosHermanos

* {{Jerkass}}: Unlike his boss or Nacho, Tyrus seems to take overtly sadistic pleasure in being a dick to absolutely everyone who's either on or below his pay grade. He nearly stops Nacho from getting the extra lot for Hector in a blunt manner and is otherwise just kind of a prick to almost everyone except Gus. [[JerkassHasAPoint To be fair]], Hector is being an outright {{Troll}} by demanding the extra cut just for the sake of [[EvilIsPetty pissing off]] Gus. Later on, when staging a FalseFlagOperation, after Victor shoots Nacho as part of the act, Tyrus smugly claims "it's got to look real," before dropping a cellphone onto the sand right in front of him. Sure, a lot of the nasty things Tyrus does can be chalked up to "just doing his job", but his [[EvilIsPetty not even extending his hand to pass Jesse a phone and instead making him pull it from his hand]] places him firmly under this trope. You always get the impression he'd rather shoot you than talk to you.

"Corporate security" for Los Pollos Hermanos, these guys were Mike's trusted employees who were promised hazard pay should Gus be killed. Despite Mike's assurances that they were loyal, [[spoiler:Lydia and eventually Walt wanted to have them all killed before they said anything to the DEA about the meth operations.]]

The security team consisted of Jack [=McGann=], Andrew Holt, Anthony Perez, Isaac Conley, William Moniz, Raymond Martinez, and Harris Boivin. [[spoiler:All seven of them were killed in jail by the Aryan Brotherhood along with their lawyer Dan Wachsberger, laundry manager Dennis Markowski, and Madrigal foreman Ron Forenall.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: The first time we see him, he still acts much like any other kid his age, and is obviously nervous while murdering Combo. When Jesse encounters him later on, however, he behaves in a much more openly hostile and confrontational manner, clearly having been desensitised by his murder of Combo.

* DirtyCommunists: Despite being a self-proclaimed Libertarian, he's got at least three heavy books on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on his bookshelf.[[note]]The classical definition of “libertarian” usually falls under far-left/anarchist umbrella, but in the United States, it’s usually used to refer to classical liberalism or anarcho-capitalism. Considering that he has a Ron Paul campaing sticker in his notebook, he's most likely the former. Regardless of which he is, however, neither are especially fond of Marxism.[[/note]] This is not unusual, however, since people that are into politics tend to study even ideologues that they strongly disagree with.

* DirtyCommunists: Despite being a self-proclaimed Libertarian, he's got at least three heavy books on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on his bookshelf.[[note]]The classical definition of “libertarian” usually falls under far-left/anarchist umbrella, but in the United States, it’s usually used to refer to classical liberalism- regardless of which he is, however, neither are especially fond of Marxism[[/note]]

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* TheWorfEffect: His death serves as this for Walt, who is trying to plead his worth to Gus to avoid being killed; if even a loyal and important henchman like Victor is killed over an honest mistake, a willful traitor like Walt stands absolutely no chance. In an interesting twist on this trope, however, the person causing the effect actually holds less power than the person experiencing it; Walt is absolutely right in that he's vital to Gus' operations, so the only way to keep him in line long enough to find a replacement is for Gus to bluff that anyone is expendable in his organization. There is no better way to achieve this at the time than killing Victor.

* TheWorfEffect: His death serves as this for Walt, who is trying to plead his worth to Gus to avoid being killed; if even a loyal and important henchman like Victor is killed over an honest mistake, a willful traitor like Walt stands absolutely no chance. In an interesting twist on this trope, however, the person causing the effect actually holds less leverage than the person experiencing it; Walt is absolutely right in that he's vital to Gus' operations, so the only way to keep him in line long enough to find a replacement is for Gus to bluff that anyone is expendable in his organization. There is no better way to achieve this at the time than killing Victor.

* TheWorfEffect: His death serves as this for Walt, who is trying to plead his worth to Gus to avoid being killed; if even a loyal and important henchman like Victor is killed over an honest mistake, a willful traitor like Walt stands absolutely no chance. In an interesting twist on this trope, however, Gus likely ''has'' to invoke it; Walt is absolutely right in that he's vital to Gus' operation, so the only way to keep him in line long enough to find a replacement is for Gus to bluff that anyone is expendable in his organization. There is no better way to achieve this at the time than killing Victor.

* TheWorfEffect: His death serves as this for Walt, who is trying to plead his worth to Gus to avoid being killed; if even a loyal and important henchman like Victor is killed over an honest mistake, a willful traitor like Walt stands absolutely no chance.

* TheWorfEffect: His death serves as this for Walt, who is trying to plead his worth to Gus to avoid being killed; if an even loyal and important henchman like Victor is killed over an honest mistake, a willful traitor like Walt stands absolutely no chance.

* TheWorfEffect: His death serves as this for Walt, who is trying to plead his worth to Gus to avoid being killed; if an even loyal and important henchman like Victor is killed over a simple mistake, a willful traitor like Walt has absolutely no chance.

* DeathByAThousandCuts: Is the first of Walt's prison victims to be murdered. Saul reveals [[''Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E13SaulGone'' during his arraignment]] he was stabbed '''forty-eight times'''.

* EyeScream: Just 'barely' averted; Jesse shoots him right below his left eye.

* TheChewToy: The poor man has to deal with [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS4E10Winner Gus taking him down to the lab just to tell him (albeit in nicer terms) to get fucked,]] once he gets a job in the finished lab he's [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E8ISeeYou fired and replaced with Jesse]], and once he's brought back he only lasts about an episode before [[spoiler: [[Recap/BreakingBadSE13FullMeasure getting killed by his replacement.]]]] It only seems fitting that he gets his own form of cosmic retribution by [[spoiler: his copy of 'Leaves of Grass' being instrumental in Heisenberg's downfall.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite what he did, Mike sees his death as an unfortunate necessity.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He violently kicks lab equipment in frustration due to being shocked by Gale's death and his attempt to cook meth himself hints that he refused to have Walt get away with it. Too bad he implicated himself at the crime scene.
* FaceOfAThug: His appearance by itself is menacing.
* FauxAffablyEvil: More on ''Better Call Saul'' than on the parent show, he can come off as a great and unassuming guy when he's worming his way into other people's social lives to hold their lives as leverage against others.

* IdiotBall: Despite characterized as being an experienced professional on the level of Mike, he immediately tries to become the new cook after Gale's death (despite only learning of the formula through watching Walt cook) and managed to implicate himself at the scene of crime. This, unsurprisingly, gets him murdered by Gus in a rather bloody fashion.

-->'''Victor:''' Pop's a nice guy...

* TheQuietOne: Not as much as Tyrus, and he talks a little more in his final appearance.

* SavedByCanon: He'll survive the war between Gus Fring and Lalo Salamanca just to get his throat cut by his own boss in a meth lab several years later.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Gus kills him for the colossal fuckup he made (that he also couldn't fix).

* BackAlleyDoctor: For Fring's operations. Downplayed in that he's pretty professional and has the proper skills for handling humans.

* AssholeVictim: Given both his actions and attitude, no one (except possibly at least Mike) mourns him when Walt and Hector blow him to smithereens.

* TheBrute: Victor's replacement.

* TheQuietOne: Even more taciturn than Mike or Gus, which is saying something.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Sure, their murders were horrific and grisly, and continued to solidify Walt as completely ruthless, but they were still thugs, at least two of whom would've murdered Walt and his entire family before they had gotten caught. Of course, considering how little we see of them, they may well have been more sympathetic if we'd gotten to know them better.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Sure, their murders were horrific and grisly, and continued to solidify Walt as completely ruthless, but they were still thugs, at least two of whom would've murdered Walt and his entire family before they had gotten caught. Of course, considering how little we see of them, they may well have been more sympathetic if we'd gotten to know them better.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:How the Aryans dispose of them seems awfully over the top, much like everything else the Aryans do. Although as mentioned in KickTheSonOfABitch, they had it coming by nearly murdering Walt's wife and kids.]]

* JerkAssHasAPoint: When Walter confronts Tyrus on somebody else cooking in the lab, Tyrus points out that Walter has been out of commission for 4 days, and they are on a work schedule. Considering Walt was out of commission because of a fight he himself started, Tyrus’ point has some validity.