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* WellDoneSonGuy: He still keeps his hopes up for his father to recover from his cancer, despite them growing increasingly distant from each other. [[spoiler:Until he learns what kind of manipulative liar Walt is right behind his back.]]
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* [[spoiler:WellDoneDadGuy: Walt tries to beg Walt Jr. for forgiveness in "Granite State". His son won't hear a word of it.]]
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Skylar continually tries to rationalize Walt's actions throughout season4 and 5, trying to convince herself that he really does have the family's best intentions at heart.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Skylar Skyler continually tries to rationalize Walt's actions throughout season4 and 5, trying to convince herself that he really does have the family's best intentions at heart.
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* SleepingWithTheBoss: Doing it with her boss.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Along with her [[ThePowerOfActing ability to fake distress when she needs sympathy]], it's one of her best weapons, as she proves in season 4 when she tricks an [=IRS=] agent investigating Beneke Fabricators for fraudulent accounting into thinking the company's bookkeeping was flawed due to incompetence rather than criminal intent.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Along with her [[ThePowerOfActing ability to fake distress when she needs sympathy]], it's one of her best weapons, as she proves in season 4 when she tricks an [=IRS=] agent investigating Beneke Fabricators for fraudulent accounting into thinking the company's bookkeeping was flawed due to [[HanlonsRazor incompetence rather than criminal intent.intent]].
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** She's obsessed with the color purple. Most of her clothes and furniture are purple. On her blog, she discusses the time she found a purple toaster oven as an example about thinking big and achieving your dreams.
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** She's obsessed with the color purple. Most of her clothes and furniture are purple. Loads of symbolism here: beyond the greed in hoarding items of just one color, you've got purple representing royalty, vanity, wealth, materialism, basically anything that makes her out to be, as she's seen in Season One, an AlphaBitch. Note that even as her role changes to TheCassandra through the course of the show, this symbolism doesn't change. On her blog, she discusses the time she found a purple toaster oven as an example about thinking big and achieving your dreams.
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** In an interview, Mitte said that he basically had to learn to selectively undo years of physical and speech therapy, and early on in the role he did it by sleep-depriving himself.
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* HiddenDepths: For the first season, Hank seems mostly to be a textbook BoisterousBruiser, but in season 2, after he kills Tuco, we begin to see that Hank secretly feels a lot of anxiety and fear about his job.
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* [[{{Deuteragonist}} Tritagonist]]: If Jesse served as Walter's {{Foil}} as he became more and more like Heisenberg, Skyler represented how all Walter's action impacted his home life.
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The following are characters in ''Series/BreakingBad'' comprising Walter White's immediate family. For the man himself, [[Characters/BreakingBadWalterWhite click here]]. For the main page, see [[Characters/BreakingBad here]].
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The following are characters in ''Series/BreakingBad'' comprising Walter White's immediate family. For the man himself, see [[Characters/BreakingBadWalterWhite click here]]. For the main page, see [[Characters/BreakingBad here]].
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* [[spoiler: MurderIsTheBestSolution: When Jesse found out about Walt poisoning Brock and almost burns their house down, Skyler's words were along the lines of, "What's one more body?"]]
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** Also doubles as a MeaningfulEcho to the recurring motif of the pink teddy bear of season 2, which ends with her birth and the deaths of everyone on two planes.
* WhamLine: Her first words nonetheless. [[spoiler:Holly keeps saying "Mama" after Walt kidnaps her in "Ozymandias," which is the final nail in the coffin for Walt in terms of trying to convince his family to stay with him.]]
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** Also doubles as a MeaningfulEcho to the recurring motif of the pink teddy bear of season Season 2, which ends with her birth and the deaths of everyone on two planes.
* WhamLine: Her first words nonetheless. [[spoiler:Holly keeps saying "Mama" after Walt kidnaps her in"Ozymandias," "Ozymandias", which is the final nail in the coffin for Walt in terms of trying to convince his family to stay with him.]]
* WhamLine: Her first words nonetheless. [[spoiler:Holly keeps saying "Mama" after Walt kidnaps her in
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* {{Badass}}: Very much so. He manages to defeat not only the incredibly dangerous and unpredictable Tuco, but ''both'' of Tuco's lethal and efficient Cousins. These are men who kill people for a living and belong to one of the most dangerous families in America. They even shoot Hank, but he still manages to kick their asses and shoot one of them point-blank - with his own gun.
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* {{Badass}}: Very much so. He manages to defeat not only the incredibly dangerous and unpredictable Tuco, but ''both'' of Tuco's lethal and efficient Cousins. These are men who kill people for a living and belong to one of the most dangerous families in America. They even shoot Hank, but he still manages to kick their asses and shoot one of them point-blank - with his the Cousin's own gun.
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* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3, [[MemeticMutation she fucked Ted]]....as a scheme to get Walt to want to divorce her after he slithered his way back into his house after she made it adamantly clear that she wanted to end the relationship. Then it turns out she never filed the divorce papers against Walt [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy as she was aware that spouses cannot be compelled to testify against their husbands in court]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3, [[MemeticMutation she fucked Ted]]....as a scheme has sex with Ted, in revenge for Walt's victory after her attempt to get have the cops keep him out of the house backfires. She carries on the affair for some time - until Walt to want to actually does sign the divorce her after he slithered his way back into his house after she made it adamantly clear papers. She finally tells him that she wanted to end the relationship. Then it turns out she never filed the divorce papers against Walt [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy as she was she's aware that spouses cannot be compelled to testify against their husbands each other in court]].
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* SexySecretary: Pretends to be an incompetent secretary who was only hired for her looks to trick the [=IRS=] agent investigating Ted for fraud.
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* SexySecretary: Pretends to be an incompetent secretary bookkeeper who was only hired for her looks looks - complete with low-cut dress and inappropriate ditziness - to trick the [=IRS=] agent investigating who's nvestigating Ted for fraud.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: It's implied that before the events of the show she was interested in becoming a writer, as she lies to Marie about working on a short story early in season one, and Walt tries to get her to attend a writing workshop out of town in season two. It might also explain why she is better at coming up with lies on the spot. During a flashback in the season 3 finale, Walt even had plans on Skyler having her own private room just for working on writing.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: It's implied that before the events of the show she was interested in becoming a writer, as she lies to Marie about working on a short story early in season one, and Walt tries to get her to attend a writing workshop out of town in season two. It might also explain why she is better at coming up with lies on the spot. During a flashback in the season 3 finale, when she and Walt even had plans on Skyler having her own private are about to buy their house, Walt suggests setting aside a room just for working on writing.her to use as a writing studio.
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* HeroicBSOD: She has one since she realizes Walt killed Gus Fring. She becomes borderline catatonic during most of the first half of season five.
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* HeroicBSOD: She has one since When she realizes that Walt killed Gus Fring. She becomes borderline catatonic during most of the first half of season five.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Thanks to a combination of witnessing Marie's kleptomania, and Ted's embezzling, by the time season four rolls around she becomes desensitized enough about crime that she gets a bit excited of the idea of assisting Walt's business. Though by the start of season five, whatever romanticized notion she had about the idea was lost, and she firmly steps back from it.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Thanks to a combination of witnessing Marie's kleptomania, and Ted's embezzling, by the time season four rolls around she becomes desensitized enough about crime that she gets a bit excited of the idea of assisting Walt's business. Though by By the start of season five, though, whatever romanticized notion she had about the idea was lost, and she firmly steps back from it.
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* DumbBlonde: [[InvertedTrope Far from it]], but she knows how [[ThePowerOfActing to play]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity the part]].
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* DumbBlonde: [[InvertedTrope Far from it]], but she knows how [[ThePowerOfActing to play]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity the part]]. She saves Ted's thieving butt from an IRS audit with a dazzling display of this in season 4.
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* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3, [[MemeticMutation she fucked Ted]]....as a scheme to get Walt to want to divorce her. Then it turns out she never filed the divorce papers against Walt [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy as she was aware that spouses cannot be compelled to testify against their husbands in court]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3, [[MemeticMutation she fucked Ted]]....as a scheme to get Walt to want to divorce her.her after he slithered his way back into his house after she made it adamantly clear that she wanted to end the relationship. Then it turns out she never filed the divorce papers against Walt [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy as she was aware that spouses cannot be compelled to testify against their husbands in court]].
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* SexySecretary: Pretends to be an incompetent secretary who was only hired for her looks to trick the [=IRS=] agent investigating the company for fraud.
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* VillainProtagonist: Played with in that she takes a Lady Macbeth-like active role in her husband's business. [[spoiler:Subverted by season five, she's mostly stopped dead on this trope after realizing what kind of man her husband has become.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: Played with in that she Skyler takes a Lady Macbeth-like active role in her husband's business. [[spoiler:Subverted by season five, she's mostly stopped dead on this trope after realizing what kind of man her husband has become.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Learning that [[spoiler:Hank finally knows about Walt's criminality]] causes Skyler to have a minor one in front of [[spoiler:Hank]] in a restaurant, though [[spoiler:Hank]] mistakes this display as a kind of StockholmSyndrome situation.
* VillainyFreeVillain: For the first two seasons, she mainly existed to be a thorn in Walt's schemes as she tries to find out all of the secrets he's been keeping from her.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Learning that [[spoiler:Hank finally knows about Walt's criminality]] causes Skyler to have a minor one in front of [[spoiler:Hank]] in a restaurant, though [[spoiler:Hank]] mistakes this display as a kind the effects of StockholmSyndrome situation.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: For the first two seasons,she Skyler mainly existed to be a thorn in Walt's schemes as she tries to find out all of the secrets he's been keeping from her.
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* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3, [[MemeticMutation she fucked Ted]], but only Ted]]....as a scheme to get Walt to want to divorce her.her. Then it turns out she never filed the divorce papers against Walt [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy as she was aware that spouses cannot be compelled to testify against their husbands in court]].
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* BerserkButton: The risk of something happening to his family overrides his better judgment, leading him to deliver a savage beating to Pinkman (whom Hank blames early on for "corrupting" Walt), abandoning a crime in progress when he's told his wife's been hospitalized, and finally [[spoiler:when Walt dares to pretend innocence after finding Hank's been investigating him.]]
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* BerserkButton: The risk of something happening to his family overrides his better judgment, leading him to deliver a savage beating to Pinkman Jesse (whom Hank blames early on for "corrupting" Walt), abandoning a crime in progress when he's told his wife's been hospitalized, and finally [[spoiler:when Walt dares to pretend innocence after finding Hank's been investigating him.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: After being shot multiple times in 3-7, he still manages to load a gun with a handy bullet and kill his would-be murderer. As of Season 5B, his fixation on [[spoiler:bringing down Walt before he dies of cancer]] is nearly all-consuming, overriding all other considerations, [[spoiler:including the safety of other people and even whether his evidence would hold up in court.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: After being shot multiple times in 3-7, "One Minute" by Marco Salamanca, he still manages to load a gun Leonel's pistol with a handy bullet and kill his would-be murderer.Leonel with a round to the head. As of Season 5B, his fixation on [[spoiler:bringing down Walt before he dies of cancer]] is nearly all-consuming, overriding all other considerations, [[spoiler:including the safety of other people and even whether his evidence would hold up in court.]]
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Walter and Skyler's teenage son and Holly's older brother. He has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches. His father's absences and bizarre behavior lead them to grow apart, leading Walter Jr. to have his friends teach him to drive and his wanting to be called "Flynn".
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Walter and Skyler's teenage son and Holly's older brother. He has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches. His father's absences and bizarre behavior lead them to grow apart, leading Walter Jr. to have his friends teach him to drive - rather than his dad - and his wanting to be called "Flynn".
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* BerserkButton: The risk of something happening to his family overrides his better judgment, leading him to deliver a savage beating to Pinkman, whom Hank blames early on for "corrupting" Walt, abandoning a crime in progress when he's told his wife's been hospitalized, and finally [[spoiler:when Walt dares to pretend innocence after finding Hank's been investigating him.]]
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* BerserkButton: The risk of something happening to his family overrides his better judgment, leading him to deliver a savage beating to Pinkman, whom Pinkman (whom Hank blames early on for "corrupting" Walt, Walt), abandoning a crime in progress when he's told his wife's been hospitalized, and finally [[spoiler:when Walt dares to pretend innocence after finding Hank's been investigating him.]]
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* {{Badass}}: Very much so. He manages to defeat the incredibly dangerous and unpredictable Tuco, and then manages to defeat Tuco's lethal and efficient Cousins. These are two men who kill people for a living and belong to one of the most dangerous families in America. They even shoot Hank, but he still manages to kick their asses.
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* {{Badass}}: Very much so. He manages to defeat not only the incredibly dangerous and unpredictable Tuco, and then manages to defeat but ''both'' of Tuco's lethal and efficient Cousins. These are two men who kill people for a living and belong to one of the most dangerous families in America. They even shoot Hank, but he still manages to kick their asses.asses and shoot one of them point-blank - with his own gun.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She could be seen as this at times, as she plays innocent to get what she wants occasionally.
* BuffySpeak: "My arches happen to be very arch-y."
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She could be seen as this at times, as she plays innocent to get what she wants occasionally.
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* FanNickname: As of season 5, a bizarre running joke has sprung up on the show's IMDb board that revolves around calling Hank "Honk" instead.
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* FanNickname: As of season 5, a bizarre running joke has sprung up on the show's IMDb Website/IMDb board that revolves around calling Hank "Honk" instead.
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* TheCassandra: "None of this would have happened if you hadn't bought pot from that Pinkman kid!"
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* TheCassandra: "None of this would have happened if you hadn't bought pot from that Pinkman kid!"kid!" Or at least, she would be if she were right about anything ever, which she pretty much is not.
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->''"I never wanted any of this."''
Walter's wife. She has had several meager sources of income: writing short stories, selling items on eBay, working as a bookkeeper, and ultimately helping her husband launder money. Skyler and Walter have a son, Walter Jr., and an infant daughter, Holly. Skyler cares for Walter very much, but their marriage becomes increasingly strained due to his unexplained absences and bizarre behavior.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:"Where's Hank?"]]
* AwesomeByAnalysis: She's apparently one hell of an accountant, but this was first shown when she tracked down Jesse on her own. Later on, she uses an off-hand remark to figure out that Walt has two cell phones, a relationship with Jesse but not with Gretchen, no clear revenue, and lied about all of this, and she outright tells Walt that she knows he's a drug dealer.
* BigShutUp: Given to [[spoiler:Marie]] in force during season 5, when she is under a lot of stress and fear.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She could be seen as this at times, as she plays innocent to get what she wants occasionally.
* CelebrityParadox: In "Rabid Dog," there's a shot that reveals her brother-in-law owns a DVD set of ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', which featured Anna Gunn.
* ChekhovsHobby: Her love of creative writing. Helps her to spin an intricate and compelling story of about Walt amassing his money through gambling.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Has been smoking more and more as her dread of Walt has grown and grown.
* ControlFreak: She sees herself as a necessary one, given Walt's impulsiveness.
** In Season 1, she insists that Walt get chemo and radiation treatment, and freaks out when Marie encourages Walt to make his own decisions during the "talking pillow" exercise.
* ConsummateLiar: She proves to be just as adept at this as Walt, keeping the Heisenberg secret and fooling the Beneke investigators.
* CorruptTheCutie: Thanks to a combination of witnessing Marie's kleptomania, and Ted's embezzling, by the time season four rolls around she becomes desensitized enough about crime that she gets a bit excited of the idea of assisting Walt's business. Though by the start of season five, whatever romanticized notion she had about the idea was lost, and she firmly steps back from it.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** From "Box Cutter":
-->'''Saul:''' "People carpool to work, right? It's good for the environment."
-->'''Skyler:''' "He carpools? He carpools to his job at a meth lab?"
** From "Rabid Dog":
--> '''Walt:''' Are you spying on me?!
--> '''Skyler:''' [[BluntYes Yes]], and I feel just awful about it.
* DirtyCoward: Sees herself as this in "51".
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: Fakes an attempt in Season 5 [[spoiler:so she can get Walt Jr. and Holly away from Walt]].
* [[spoiler:TheDogBitesBack: Skyler discovers her brother-in-law is dead and attacks Walt with a knife]].
* DumbBlonde: [[InvertedTrope Far from it]], but she knows how [[ThePowerOfActing to play]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity the part]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Her hair gets progressively lighter as the show goes on, and [[PowerHair cuts it]] around the time when she starts the money laundering scheme.
* FootDraggingDivorcee: During Seasons 3-4.
* GenreSavvy: Sees straight through [[spoiler:Hank's]] attempts to get her to come clean on Walt's activities. After her request to have a lawyer present when she talks is declined, Skyler, knowing that [[spoiler:Hank only cares about taking down Walt at all costs]] makes a scene at the restaurant. [[spoiler:It is also widely believed that she knew Walt's Take That speech was in fact a Taking the Heat speech in "Ozymandias"]].
* GetOut: Several times.
** Tells Walt to get out in "ABQ" after finding out about the second cellphone
** Tells [[spoiler:Lydia]] to leave the carwash after wondering why a person would wash a rental car.
** When she finds out [[spoiler:Hank is dead]], she wants Walter out permanently.
* [[GoodParents Good Mother]]: Considering the lengths she goes to to keep her children safe from and unknowing of Walt's criminal activities, she definitely counts.
* GoodWithNumbers: Studied accounting while growing up and controls the family's[[spoiler: and the drug empire's]] finances. She is also the first one to come across Ted's fraudulent practices.
* HeelRealization: She has one much, much earlier than Walt in season 4. It manages to stick.
* HeroicBSOD: She has one since she realizes Walt killed Gus Fring. She becomes borderline catatonic during most of the first half of season five.
** Again in "Granite State" as a result of being taken through [[spoiler:police investigations against Walt's actions.]]
* IAmNotSpock: This is the role she is (at least in 2013) best known for.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: What she employs to escape the dinner with Walt and Jesse in "Buyout.
** "Rabid Dog":
-->'''Walter:''' How much have you had to drink?
-->'''Skyler:''' Not nearly enough.
* InSeriesNickname: Sky.
* IveComeTooFar: Suggesting that Walt should kill [[spoiler:Jesse when he becomes a threat]], reasoning that it's only one more life against them.
* [[spoiler:LadyMacbeth: Walt wants to talk some sense into Jesse. Skyler wants Walt to have him killed instead.]]
* MamaBear: Her children are ''not'' going to find out about her and Walt's crimes or be in any form of danger on her watch. Unfortunately for [[spoiler:Walt]], he unknowingly becomes an obstacle to that goal in [[spoiler:"Ozymandias" as he is involved in Hank's death. After asking him to leave, he refuses to listen and moves towards her instead causing her to lash out at him with a knife.]]
* MostWritersAreWriters: It's implied that before the events of the show she was interested in becoming a writer, as she lies to Marie about working on a short story early in season one, and Walt tries to get her to attend a writing workshop out of town in season two. It might also explain why she is better at coming up with lies on the spot. During a flashback in the season 3 finale, Walt even had plans on Skyler having her own private room just for working on writing.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When she realises the depths of Walt's ruthlessness and sees Ted paralyzed and terrified of her, leading to the above HeroicBSOD.
* [[spoiler: MurderIsTheBestSolution: When Jesse found out about Walt poisoning Brock and almost burns their house down, Skyler's words were along the lines of, "What's one more body?"]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Along with her [[ThePowerOfActing ability to fake distress when she needs sympathy]], it's one of her best weapons, as she proves in season 4 when she tricks an [=IRS=] agent investigating Beneke Fabricators for fraudulent accounting into thinking the company's bookkeeping was flawed due to incompetence rather than criminal intent.
* PowerHair: Gets this hairstyle after establishing the car wash laundering scheme, but grows it back out somewhat after her first HeroicBSOD.
* ThePowerOfActing: Turns out to be one of Skyler's best weapons. Whether she's faking contractions to bail her sister out of her shoplifting problems, making up a story about Walt's gambling addiction on the fly, or convincing a locksmith that Walt's condo is her home, Skyler can sell it.
* PragmaticVillainy: Involves herself in Walt's crimes to enact some damage control and keep their children from ever discovering them.
* PrecisionFStrike: "I fucked Ted."
* SexySecretary: Pretends to be an incompetent secretary who was only hired for her looks to trick the [=IRS=] agent investigating the company for fraud.
* [[spoiler:ShedTheFamilyName: Reverts back to her maiden name "Lambert" in "Granite State.]]
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Once she starts to get involved with Walt's business, it becomes clear that she has a lot of business smarts, and her elaborate lie to the family about where the money is coming from is pretty ingenious. Skyler immediately pointing out to Walter how incredibly stupid are some of his schemes shows that she's as smart as him or at least more prudent.
* TakingTheHeat: Forced to paint herself as the "bitch mom" to prevent Walt Jr. from learning about his father's activities.
* VillainProtagonist: Played with in that she takes a Lady Macbeth-like active role in her husband's business. [[spoiler:Subverted by season five, she's mostly stopped dead on this trope after realizing what kind of man her husband has become.]]
** [[spoiler:She then plays this straight from "Blood Money" until "Ozymandias", when she refuses to cooperate with Hank's investigation. After this, she wants nothing more to do with Walt.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Learning that [[spoiler:Hank finally knows about Walt's criminality]] causes Skyler to have a minor one in front of [[spoiler:Hank]] in a restaurant, though [[spoiler:Hank]] mistakes this display as a kind of StockholmSyndrome situation.
* VillainyFreeVillain: For the first two seasons, she mainly existed to be a thorn in Walt's schemes as she tries to find out all of the secrets he's been keeping from her.
* WhamLine:
** "You're a drug dealer"
** "51" gives us [[spoiler:"[I'm waiting] for the cancer to come back."]]
** "Rabid Dog" gives us [[spoiler:"We've come this far. For us. [[AMillionIsAStatistic What's one more]]" in regards to killing Jesse]].
* [[spoiler:WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: When she asks Walt to kill Jesse when he becomes a risk.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: A particularly epic one in "ABQ" where she calls out Walt for having two cellphones, not telling his mother about the cancer and refusing Gretchen and Elliott's money for treatment.
-->"Lies on top of lies on top of lies."
* WomanInWhite: Wears mostly off-white colours in Season 5.
* YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: To Walt.
* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3 with Ted Beneke, but only as a scheme to get Walt to want to divorce her.
!!Walter ‘Flynn’ White Jr.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"My Dad is my hero."'']]
->'''Played By''': RJ Mitte
->''"This here? All this that I've been through... and you're scared of a little chemotherapy?"''
Walter and Skyler's teenage son and Holly's older brother. He has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches. His father's absences and bizarre behavior lead them to grow apart, leading Walter Jr. to have his friends teach him to drive and his wanting to be called "Flynn".
* BigOlEyebrows
* [[spoiler:BrokenPedestal: Both his parents are this, and '''how'''.]]
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: RJ Mitte has mild cerebral palsy in real life, but Walt Jr. was conceived from the start as having it, and Mitte had to learn to walk with crutches and speak ''less'' clearly to portray the level of affectation that the show's creator had in mind.
* DisabledSnarker
-->'''Walt:''' I didn't know you started drinking coffee.
-->'''Junior:''' Yeah, and I also started tying my own shoes, all by myself.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Decides to be called Flynn for some reason until his parents' separation, at which point he sides with his dad and demands to be called Walt Jr. [[spoiler:Then reverts back in Season 5B.]]
* HeroWorshipper: Adores his father [[spoiler:until [[HeroicBSOD he learns everything]] in "Ozymandias"]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:By the second half of season 5 he is the only main character that's oblivious to Walt's being Heisenberg.]] At least, until [[spoiler:Ozymandias]].
* MeaningfulName: When he wants to be called Flynn instead of Walter, Junior. The first time this happens is simple [[RebelliousSpirit teenage rebellion.]] [[spoiler: The second time is after he finds out what his father's done, and is ashamed to share the name.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Can act sullen and grumpy, but he does love his family. He's a teenager, after all.
** JerkAss: To Skyler when she leaves Walt, assuming that she is persecuting him when instead she is trying to keep the consequences his meth business out of the house. [[spoiler:Until he learns the truth in "Ozymandias", when he doesn't hesitate to physically protect Skyler from Walt.]]
* [[spoiler:OedipusComplex]]: [[spoiler:Junior physically confronts Walter to defend Skyler and calls the cops on him]] in "Ozymandias."
* OutOfFocus: Has appeared less in Season 4 than in any other season. It is likely due to not even a year passing in-story while the actor has aged visibly.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Then why don't you just fucking die already?" [[spoiler: Doubles as a MeaningfulEcho.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an epic, long overdue one to his father in "Granite State" when he [[spoiler:refuses any money from his father despite his mother likely going to prison soon and barely making ends meet, reminding Walt that he's responsible for Hank's death, and has been a blight on the family.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Finally finding out what his dad's been up to all this time]] has taken a toll on the poor kid, but a couple of scenes later, he manages to [[spoiler:knock off Walt during the knife squabble with Skyler and pull out his phone to call the cops, especially with Walt ''still holding the knife''.]] And this is a kid that still needs crutches to walk. [[spoiler:He also doubles up in ''Granite State'', giving a very effective TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards his dad.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Walt Jr loves his breakfast.
* [[spoiler:WellDoneDadGuy: Walt tries to beg Walt Jr. for forgiveness in "Granite State". His son won't hear a word of it.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:After learning the truth, he calls out his mother on being complicit in his father's crimes]]. [[spoiler:In "Granite State", he gives one to his father for everything he did, and for acting like nothing has happened.]]
* WrittenInInfirmity: Averted. Mitte does actually have cerebral palsy in real life, but Walter Jr. was conceived as having it ever since the writing of the pilot. Additionally, Mitte's cerebral palsy isn't as severe as Walter Jr.'s (it doesn't affect his speech as strongly as it affects Walter, and he doesn't need crutches to walk).
!!Holly White
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->'''Played By''': Haven Tomlin, Elanor Anne Wenrich and Moira Bryg Macdonald
->''"Mama, Mama, Mama."''
Walt and Skyler's baby daughter and Walt Junior's younger sister. She was born in 2009.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Holly first appears in "Phoenix", the same episode where Jane Margolis dies.
* IWantMyMommy: [[spoiler:Used as a WhamLine in "Ozymandias"]]
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Played straight.]]
* MoralityPet: For Walt.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Always shown in pink.
** Also doubles as a MeaningfulEcho to the recurring motif of the pink teddy bear of season 2, which ends with her birth and the deaths of everyone on two planes.
* WhamLine: Her first words nonetheless. [[spoiler:Holly keeps saying "Mama" after Walt kidnaps her in "Ozymandias," which is the final nail in the coffin for Walt in terms of trying to convince his family to stay with him.]]
!!Hank Schrader
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I’m not the man I thought I was."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DeanNorris
->''"Get a big old raging hard-on at the idea of catching this piece of shit! Oh – my apologies to the HR Department. 'Grow tumescent with anticipation.'"''
Walt and Skyler's brother-in-law and Marie's husband, who works as a DEA agent. He is actively involved in investigating a meth kingpin named "Heisenberg", unaware for over a year that his prey is actually Walter. Hank has a cavalier exterior, but in reality the dark side of his job affects him more than he cares to admit.
* AndAnotherThing: One of Hank's absolute favorite tactics. See WhamLine.
* AntiHero: PragmaticHero --> KnightInSourArmor --> [[spoiler: UnscrupulousHero]]
* {{Badass}}: Very much so. He manages to defeat the incredibly dangerous and unpredictable Tuco, and then manages to defeat Tuco's lethal and efficient Cousins. These are two men who kill people for a living and belong to one of the most dangerous families in America. They even shoot Hank, but he still manages to kick their asses.
** BadassInCharge: Becomes Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC} of the DEA after Gus is killed.
* BaldOfAwesome: Very bald, very awesome.
* BatmanGambit: Hank correctly figures just how greedy [[spoiler:Walt]] is. With Gomez and [[spoiler:Jesse]]'s help, he [[spoiler:takes a photo of a dug-up barrel of money in his backyard and has Jesse send both the pic and a taunting phone message to Walt, who immediately leads the trio to where the money is really buried and angrily confesses to his murders in the process.]]
* BerserkButton: The risk of something happening to his family overrides his better judgment, leading him to deliver a savage beating to Pinkman, whom Hank blames early on for "corrupting" Walt, abandoning a crime in progress when he's told his wife's been hospitalized, and finally [[spoiler:when Walt dares to pretend innocence after finding Hank's been investigating him.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: In the second episode of season 2, he unknowingly saves Walt and Jesse from Tuco.
* BoisterousBruiser: Acts like one, but it's [[StepfordSmiler mostly to cover up]] his [[HiddenDepths inner doubts and fears]].
* BrokenAce: Hasn't been the same ever since the taskforce bombing in season 2. For a time, he was literally broken after getting shot by one of the Twins.
* TheCaptain: ASAC of the DEA.
* CarFu: He backs his car into one of the Cousins, effectively crushing Leonel's legs.
* CassandraTruth: With his suspicions about Gustavo Fring.
* CoolUncle: To Jr. Before the series, it could very well be argued that he sees Hank as more of a father to him than Walt is.
* {{Determinator}}: After being shot multiple times in 3-7, he still manages to load a gun with a handy bullet and kill his would-be murderer. As of Season 5B, his fixation on [[spoiler:bringing down Walt before he dies of cancer]] is nearly all-consuming, overriding all other considerations, [[spoiler:including the safety of other people and even whether his evidence would hold up in court.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The less obnoxious and rude he gets, the more deadpan his snarks become.
* DeathGlare: As soon as he uncovers that [[spoiler:Walt is Heisenberg]], their every interaction past that point involves gratuitous amounts of Hank just staring daggers into his soul, utterly ''seething'' with fury at the betrayal.
* [[spoiler:DefiantToTheEnd: Gives a PrecisionFStrike to Jack before he kills him.]]
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss: Of Season 5 Part 2. Despite being billed as Walt's main antagonist for the aforementioned season and the FinalBoss of the show, Hank is killed by Uncle Jack in "Ozymandias", two episodes before the finale]].
* [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome: He takes on a gang of heavily armed Neo-Nazis with nothing more than a Glock pistol, and remains composed and dignified before Jack murders him.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Becomes increasingly abusive towards Marie after being bed-ridden by multiple gunshots because he can't stand looking weak to her.
* [[spoiler:EnemyMine]]: With [[spoiler:Jesse]] as of "Rabid Dog".
* [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Walter?]]: He's utterly shocked after discovering that his brother-in-law is Heisenberg.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceDeathWithDignity: He tells Jack to "just do what [he's] going to do" in contrast to Walter's begging for his life.]]
* FanNickname: As of season 5, a bizarre running joke has sprung up on the show's IMDb board that revolves around calling Hank "Honk" instead.
* {{Foil}}: To Walt. Terrible experiences change both men, but while Walt becomes even more consumed by pride and turns into a ruthless criminal, Hank manages to subdue his GoodIsNotNice tendencies, becoming more humble and arguably an even better cop.
** ... until season 5B, when [[spoiler: Hank discovers Walt is Heisenberg]] and becomes fully obsessed with it, even being called out in the fact that the Heisenberg hunt is his personal obsession.
* FrontlineGeneral / OutrankingYourJob: He still takes an active role in the Fring/Heisenberg case even after he's promoted to ASAC, even remaining a field agent to it, to the point that his superior Ramey criticizes him for it and tells him to stop.
* [[spoiler:GetItOverWith]]: [[spoiler:Hank knows Jack won't spare him, so he refuses to beg for his life and tells him to "do what [he's] going to do".]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation]]: [[spoiler: Played subtly, but present. Upon finding out that Walt is Heisenberg, he risks everything to catch him, entirely losing his sense of humor from previous seasons and taking major risks, like trusting Pinkman, or abusing his authority by kidnapping Huell.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Definitely in season three and early four, but it's being downplayed more in season five. Partly due to the fact that Walt's actions have gotten truly extreme and Hank has become far less obnoxious and jerkish than he was at the beginning.
** [[spoiler: This trope comes back full swing in the second part of season 5. Hank's obsession with bringing down Walt causes him to make several morally and legally questionable decisions and he begins to treat his co-workers with a certain degree of frigidity.]]
* GeniusBruiser: While loud, overbearing, and seemingly dumb, Hank is a very skilled investigator, as seen in his work on the Fring case, beginning with his connection of Gale's murder to Gus Fring. This was hinted at early on, when he is able to find the hidden stash of meth hidden in Krazy-8's car, which Gomez couldn't locate earlier.
* GuileHero
* HappilyMarried: With Marie, barring rough patches in Season 4.
* HeroAntagonist: Becomes one once he makes catching the elusive "Heisenberg" his goal; unusually for this trope, he's unaware that the VillainProtagonist he's pursuing is [[HiddenVillain right under]] [[DevilInPlainSight his nose]]. [[spoiler: At least until season 5.]]
* HiddenDepths: For the first season, Hank seems mostly to be a textbook BoisterousBruiser, but in season 2, after he kills Tuco, we begin to see that Hank secretly feels a lot of anxiety and fear about his job.
* HeroicBSOD: Finally [[spoiler:finding out that Walt is Heisenberg]] absolutely '''''floors''''' Hank. His panic attacks come back with a vengeance and he is emotionally wrecked by the time [[spoiler:Walt]] confronts him about the GPS tracker.
* HeroicWillpower: When the Salamanca brothers ambush Hank in Season 3, he manages to reload his pistol and kill his assailant despite the fact that he'd just been shot multiple times.
* TheHyena: Has a singularly penetrating cackle. The cops at El Paso are not entertained.
* [[spoiler:HopeSpot]]: [[spoiler:Near the end of "To'hajiilee". Hank has Walt dead to rights, on record confessing to multiple murders, and Walt finally relents and surrenders. About a minute later, some trucks show up...]]
* InsistentTerminology: In season 4. He's not collecting rocks, he's collecting ''minerals''.
* [[spoiler:ItWasWithYouAllAlong: To Walt when he confronts him about being Heisenberg.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though loud and obnoxious, he is generous to and protective of his family and devoted to his job.
* [[spoiler:KilledMidSentence: "Do what you're gonna d-" *BANG*]]
* KnightTemplar: Borderline case, especially in the earlier seasons: beats Jesse senseless in Season 3 and conducted a bunch of searches without a warrant.
** Seems to be one of these again in Season 5 part 2, as evidenced by his treatment of [[spoiler:Skyler and Jesse]] during the Heisenberg investigation.
* MeaningfulEcho: At the start of the fifth season, Hank's boss Merkert is dismissed from the DEA because purported booster Gus Fring had been selling meth under his nose. Half a season later, Hank tells Marie that he will likely be dismissed from the DEA because [[spoiler:his brother-in-law Walt has been selling meth under his nose]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He doesn't outright state it, but his facial expression after he brutally assaults Jesse indicates that he feels a degree of remorse for letting his emotions cloud his judgement.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: Though he's not very politically correct and frequently makes racially insensitive jokes to his Mexican-American partner, he doesn't appear to be aggressively bigoted or racist. He also assumes that Gomez knows he is not serious about it.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives one to Jesse in season 3.
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Hank's obsession with catching Walt leads to him becoming increasingly manipulative, a trait commonly attributed to Walt. It gets to the point where he's willing to allow the death of his lead if it incriminates Walt.]]
** His treatment of [[spoiler: Jesse]] also mirrors [[spoiler: Walt's.]]
* NWordPrivileges: Tends to assume he has them with his Hispanic colleagues, which is one thing that makes him [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero so obnoxious]].
* OhCrap: Two in "Confessions": the first when [[spoiler:Walt's "confession" tape turns out to be blackmail]], and a second one when [[spoiler:Marie admits she took $177k from Walt to pay for Hank's rehab]].
* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: Until he finds out about Walt being Heisenberg.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Given to [[spoiler:Jack]] in "Ozymandias": "My name is ASAC Schrader, and you can go fuck yourself"
* RankUp: He gets assigned to a better unit and later promoted, but he's a full-blooded agent who resents being a DeskJockey.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a devastating one to [[spoiler:Walt]] at the end of "Blood Money".
* {{Retirony}}: Subverted. After getting in a whole mess of trouble for beating up Jesse, he tells Marie he thinks that "The universe is telling [him he] shouldn't be a cop anymore," and he believes that he is going to be fired. Around this time, Gus gives the Cousins the okay to kill Hank. However, Hank ends up getting to keep his job, and when the Cousins try to kill him, he (narrowly) escapes.
** Subverted again after [[spoiler:Hank finds out Walt was Heisenberg all along]]. He tells Marie that the moment he busts [[spoiler:Walt]], his career will be over because he was under Hank's nose the whole time.
** [[spoiler: Succumbs to this in ''Ozymandias'', when, having finally caught Walt, he [[FatalFamilyPhoto calls Marie to tell her that he's got Walt dead to rights]], and is killed almost immediately after.]]
* SadClown
* ShellShockedVeteran: Jokes about killing Tuco, but is incredibly rattled by the experience. This gradually worsens over the series, such as when Tortuga's also killed, but comes to a head when he realizes [[spoiler: Walter is Heisenberg -- he nearly collapses upon realizing it.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Despite being deeply traumatized by his shootout with Tuco and the bombing in Juarez, he continues to maintain his blustery, backslapping persona in front of colleagues and friends.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist
* TranquilFury: When he clocks [[spoiler:Walt]] in "Blood Money."
* TurnInYourBadge: In Season 3 when he takes the Heisenberg investigation too far.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hank is the one who originally offered to take Walter on a ride-along to a meth lab, claiming he should get a little excitement in his life. If he hadn't, Walter probably wouldn't have asked to go on one, he wouldn't have been reunited with Jesse and a lot of death and destruction wouldn't have happened. [[spoiler: This includes both of his fatal shootings.]] Poor Hank's own BoisterousBruiser tendencies helped pave the way for Heisenberg.
* WhamLine:
** "Since when do vegans eat fried chicken?" Following up on that in the next episode, "Except... What are Gustavo Fring's fingerprints doing at Gale Boetticher's apartment?"
** A funny example of a delayed one. [[spoiler:"W.W., who could that be?... Walter White?]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Him finding a dedication from Gale inside Walt's copy of ''Leaves of Grass'']].
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:"It was you. All along, it was you! You son of a bitch. You drove into traffic to keep me from that laundry. That call I got telling me Marie was in the hospital... that wasn't Pinkman. You had my cell number. You killed ten witnesses to save your sorry ass. You bombed a nursing home. You're Heisenberg. Heisenberg! You lying, two-face sack of shit."]]
!!Marie Schrader
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Facing death changes a person. It has to, don't you think?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Betsy Brandt
->''"You better back off! My husband is a DEA agent."''
Skyler's sister, Hank's wife, and Walt's sister-in-law. Marie works as a radiologic technologist. She doesn't hesitate to offer advice to others but often fails to practice what she preaches. She shoplifts obsessively due to kleptomania, for which she sees a therapist. She appears self-centered and shallow but is very devoted to her husband and cares deeply for her sister's family.
* TheArtifact: The show was originally conceived as more comedic, similar to ''Series/{{Weeds}}''. The first season's subplot with Marie's shoplifting/kleptomania is written in a rather light tone. The subplot came back up later and wasn't well-received.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Subverted, she admits to looking up ways to poison Walt but doesn't act upon them.]]
-->"Don't worry, I won't hurt anybody. But it just feels good to think about it."
* CannotKeepASecret: "I can't tell you. I promised I would never, ever tell." "... All I'll say is that it has to do with adultery."
* TheCassandra: "None of this would have happened if you hadn't bought pot from that Pinkman kid!"
* CharacterBlog: During the events of season four, [[http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2012/04/maries-blog-roundup.php#more she kept a blog]].
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
** She's obsessed with the color purple. Most of her clothes and furniture are purple. On her blog, she discusses the time she found a purple toaster oven as an example about thinking big and achieving your dreams.
** From "Confessions", when things really turn dark, she starts wearing black.
** [[spoiler:And "Felina", where she wears black and white, symbolising the loss of Hank from her life]]
* DumbassHasAPoint: Marie is naive enough to think you can overdose on marijuana and die from it, but during the "Talking Pillow" debate in Season 1, she's the only one who thinks Walt should decide on his own whether his cancer should be treated and calls out Skyler on not giving Walt a chance to speak and forcing everyone to have one opinion.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: [[spoiler: Until "Felina"]]
* HappilyMarried: With Hank, barring rough patches in Season 4.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Collapses after hearing about Hank's death and is near catatonic in "Granite State"]]
* {{Jerkass}}: When under stress, her first response is almost universally to focus on arbitrary annoyances and childish whining, and also goes around to open houses lying to real estate agents about herself ''as a hobby''.
** Not to mention that time she deliberately ran over a kid's toy truck.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Marie is an [[KnowNothingKnowItAll annoying know-it-all]], but she also clearly loves her family -- it's especially visible when she does her best to stop Hank from falling into depression after he's confined to a bed.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Wears a white lab coat for her job. Justified as her job involves the use of damaging radiation techniques and chemicals.
* MotorMouth
* OutOfFocus: Has had the least amount of screen time of any of the original cast members.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Marie is a X-ray technician, but we never actually see her on the job.
* PluckyComicRelief: [[spoiler:Until Season 5B]]
* StepfordSmiler: She's really just that chipper most of the time, but still keeps up her regular behavior when she's actually deeply hurt by Hank's emotional abuse.
* StickyFingers: Is prone to shoplifting and other forms of minor larceny, particularly when she's under stress. [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama in "Buried" as her first instinct after confronting Skyler is to grab Holly and take her to their car]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Over the first four and a half seasons she serves mostly as light comic relief or as a passive victim of Hank's angry outbursts, but when she [[spoiler: finds out about Walt and Skyler's criminality]], she proves to be an extremely fierce and determined woman, [[spoiler: collaborating with Hank in his investigation and giving him several good ideas, viciously slapping her sister, and giving both her and Walt devastating WhatTheHellHero speeches]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Why don't you just kill yourself, Walt?"]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Skyler when she learns that [[spoiler:Skyler has known for ages about Walt's involvement in the drug trade]].
* [[spoiler:WidowWoman]]: [[spoiler:As of "Ozymandias".]]
!!Skyler White
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family."'']]
->'''Played By''': Anna Gunn
->''"I never wanted any of this."''
Walter's wife. She has had several meager sources of income: writing short stories, selling items on eBay, working as a bookkeeper, and ultimately helping her husband launder money. Skyler and Walter have a son, Walter Jr., and an infant daughter, Holly. Skyler cares for Walter very much, but their marriage becomes increasingly strained due to his unexplained absences and bizarre behavior.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:"Where's Hank?"]]
* AwesomeByAnalysis: She's apparently one hell of an accountant, but this was first shown when she tracked down Jesse on her own. Later on, she uses an off-hand remark to figure out that Walt has two cell phones, a relationship with Jesse but not with Gretchen, no clear revenue, and lied about all of this, and she outright tells Walt that she knows he's a drug dealer.
* BigShutUp: Given to [[spoiler:Marie]] in force during season 5, when she is under a lot of stress and fear.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She could be seen as this at times, as she plays innocent to get what she wants occasionally.
* CelebrityParadox: In "Rabid Dog," there's a shot that reveals her brother-in-law owns a DVD set of ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', which featured Anna Gunn.
* ChekhovsHobby: Her love of creative writing. Helps her to spin an intricate and compelling story of about Walt amassing his money through gambling.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Has been smoking more and more as her dread of Walt has grown and grown.
* ControlFreak: She sees herself as a necessary one, given Walt's impulsiveness.
** In Season 1, she insists that Walt get chemo and radiation treatment, and freaks out when Marie encourages Walt to make his own decisions during the "talking pillow" exercise.
* ConsummateLiar: She proves to be just as adept at this as Walt, keeping the Heisenberg secret and fooling the Beneke investigators.
* CorruptTheCutie: Thanks to a combination of witnessing Marie's kleptomania, and Ted's embezzling, by the time season four rolls around she becomes desensitized enough about crime that she gets a bit excited of the idea of assisting Walt's business. Though by the start of season five, whatever romanticized notion she had about the idea was lost, and she firmly steps back from it.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** From "Box Cutter":
-->'''Saul:''' "People carpool to work, right? It's good for the environment."
-->'''Skyler:''' "He carpools? He carpools to his job at a meth lab?"
** From "Rabid Dog":
--> '''Walt:''' Are you spying on me?!
--> '''Skyler:''' [[BluntYes Yes]], and I feel just awful about it.
* DirtyCoward: Sees herself as this in "51".
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: Fakes an attempt in Season 5 [[spoiler:so she can get Walt Jr. and Holly away from Walt]].
* [[spoiler:TheDogBitesBack: Skyler discovers her brother-in-law is dead and attacks Walt with a knife]].
* DumbBlonde: [[InvertedTrope Far from it]], but she knows how [[ThePowerOfActing to play]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity the part]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Her hair gets progressively lighter as the show goes on, and [[PowerHair cuts it]] around the time when she starts the money laundering scheme.
* FootDraggingDivorcee: During Seasons 3-4.
* GenreSavvy: Sees straight through [[spoiler:Hank's]] attempts to get her to come clean on Walt's activities. After her request to have a lawyer present when she talks is declined, Skyler, knowing that [[spoiler:Hank only cares about taking down Walt at all costs]] makes a scene at the restaurant. [[spoiler:It is also widely believed that she knew Walt's Take That speech was in fact a Taking the Heat speech in "Ozymandias"]].
* GetOut: Several times.
** Tells Walt to get out in "ABQ" after finding out about the second cellphone
** Tells [[spoiler:Lydia]] to leave the carwash after wondering why a person would wash a rental car.
** When she finds out [[spoiler:Hank is dead]], she wants Walter out permanently.
* [[GoodParents Good Mother]]: Considering the lengths she goes to to keep her children safe from and unknowing of Walt's criminal activities, she definitely counts.
* GoodWithNumbers: Studied accounting while growing up and controls the family's[[spoiler: and the drug empire's]] finances. She is also the first one to come across Ted's fraudulent practices.
* HeelRealization: She has one much, much earlier than Walt in season 4. It manages to stick.
* HeroicBSOD: She has one since she realizes Walt killed Gus Fring. She becomes borderline catatonic during most of the first half of season five.
** Again in "Granite State" as a result of being taken through [[spoiler:police investigations against Walt's actions.]]
* IAmNotSpock: This is the role she is (at least in 2013) best known for.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: What she employs to escape the dinner with Walt and Jesse in "Buyout.
** "Rabid Dog":
-->'''Walter:''' How much have you had to drink?
-->'''Skyler:''' Not nearly enough.
* InSeriesNickname: Sky.
* IveComeTooFar: Suggesting that Walt should kill [[spoiler:Jesse when he becomes a threat]], reasoning that it's only one more life against them.
* [[spoiler:LadyMacbeth: Walt wants to talk some sense into Jesse. Skyler wants Walt to have him killed instead.]]
* MamaBear: Her children are ''not'' going to find out about her and Walt's crimes or be in any form of danger on her watch. Unfortunately for [[spoiler:Walt]], he unknowingly becomes an obstacle to that goal in [[spoiler:"Ozymandias" as he is involved in Hank's death. After asking him to leave, he refuses to listen and moves towards her instead causing her to lash out at him with a knife.]]
* MostWritersAreWriters: It's implied that before the events of the show she was interested in becoming a writer, as she lies to Marie about working on a short story early in season one, and Walt tries to get her to attend a writing workshop out of town in season two. It might also explain why she is better at coming up with lies on the spot. During a flashback in the season 3 finale, Walt even had plans on Skyler having her own private room just for working on writing.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When she realises the depths of Walt's ruthlessness and sees Ted paralyzed and terrified of her, leading to the above HeroicBSOD.
* [[spoiler: MurderIsTheBestSolution: When Jesse found out about Walt poisoning Brock and almost burns their house down, Skyler's words were along the lines of, "What's one more body?"]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Along with her [[ThePowerOfActing ability to fake distress when she needs sympathy]], it's one of her best weapons, as she proves in season 4 when she tricks an [=IRS=] agent investigating Beneke Fabricators for fraudulent accounting into thinking the company's bookkeeping was flawed due to incompetence rather than criminal intent.
* PowerHair: Gets this hairstyle after establishing the car wash laundering scheme, but grows it back out somewhat after her first HeroicBSOD.
* ThePowerOfActing: Turns out to be one of Skyler's best weapons. Whether she's faking contractions to bail her sister out of her shoplifting problems, making up a story about Walt's gambling addiction on the fly, or convincing a locksmith that Walt's condo is her home, Skyler can sell it.
* PragmaticVillainy: Involves herself in Walt's crimes to enact some damage control and keep their children from ever discovering them.
* PrecisionFStrike: "I fucked Ted."
* SexySecretary: Pretends to be an incompetent secretary who was only hired for her looks to trick the [=IRS=] agent investigating the company for fraud.
* [[spoiler:ShedTheFamilyName: Reverts back to her maiden name "Lambert" in "Granite State.]]
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Once she starts to get involved with Walt's business, it becomes clear that she has a lot of business smarts, and her elaborate lie to the family about where the money is coming from is pretty ingenious. Skyler immediately pointing out to Walter how incredibly stupid are some of his schemes shows that she's as smart as him or at least more prudent.
* TakingTheHeat: Forced to paint herself as the "bitch mom" to prevent Walt Jr. from learning about his father's activities.
* VillainProtagonist: Played with in that she takes a Lady Macbeth-like active role in her husband's business. [[spoiler:Subverted by season five, she's mostly stopped dead on this trope after realizing what kind of man her husband has become.]]
** [[spoiler:She then plays this straight from "Blood Money" until "Ozymandias", when she refuses to cooperate with Hank's investigation. After this, she wants nothing more to do with Walt.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Learning that [[spoiler:Hank finally knows about Walt's criminality]] causes Skyler to have a minor one in front of [[spoiler:Hank]] in a restaurant, though [[spoiler:Hank]] mistakes this display as a kind of StockholmSyndrome situation.
* VillainyFreeVillain: For the first two seasons, she mainly existed to be a thorn in Walt's schemes as she tries to find out all of the secrets he's been keeping from her.
* WhamLine:
** "You're a drug dealer"
** "51" gives us [[spoiler:"[I'm waiting] for the cancer to come back."]]
** "Rabid Dog" gives us [[spoiler:"We've come this far. For us. [[AMillionIsAStatistic What's one more]]" in regards to killing Jesse]].
* [[spoiler:WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: When she asks Walt to kill Jesse when he becomes a risk.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: A particularly epic one in "ABQ" where she calls out Walt for having two cellphones, not telling his mother about the cancer and refusing Gretchen and Elliott's money for treatment.
-->"Lies on top of lies on top of lies."
* WomanInWhite: Wears mostly off-white colours in Season 5.
* YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: To Walt.
* YourCheatingHeart: In the second episode of season 3 with Ted Beneke, but only as a scheme to get Walt to want to divorce her.
!!Walter ‘Flynn’ White Jr.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"My Dad is my hero."'']]
->'''Played By''': RJ Mitte
->''"This here? All this that I've been through... and you're scared of a little chemotherapy?"''
Walter and Skyler's teenage son and Holly's older brother. He has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches. His father's absences and bizarre behavior lead them to grow apart, leading Walter Jr. to have his friends teach him to drive and his wanting to be called "Flynn".
* BigOlEyebrows
* [[spoiler:BrokenPedestal: Both his parents are this, and '''how'''.]]
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: RJ Mitte has mild cerebral palsy in real life, but Walt Jr. was conceived from the start as having it, and Mitte had to learn to walk with crutches and speak ''less'' clearly to portray the level of affectation that the show's creator had in mind.
* DisabledSnarker
-->'''Walt:''' I didn't know you started drinking coffee.
-->'''Junior:''' Yeah, and I also started tying my own shoes, all by myself.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Decides to be called Flynn for some reason until his parents' separation, at which point he sides with his dad and demands to be called Walt Jr. [[spoiler:Then reverts back in Season 5B.]]
* HeroWorshipper: Adores his father [[spoiler:until [[HeroicBSOD he learns everything]] in "Ozymandias"]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:By the second half of season 5 he is the only main character that's oblivious to Walt's being Heisenberg.]] At least, until [[spoiler:Ozymandias]].
* MeaningfulName: When he wants to be called Flynn instead of Walter, Junior. The first time this happens is simple [[RebelliousSpirit teenage rebellion.]] [[spoiler: The second time is after he finds out what his father's done, and is ashamed to share the name.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Can act sullen and grumpy, but he does love his family. He's a teenager, after all.
** JerkAss: To Skyler when she leaves Walt, assuming that she is persecuting him when instead she is trying to keep the consequences his meth business out of the house. [[spoiler:Until he learns the truth in "Ozymandias", when he doesn't hesitate to physically protect Skyler from Walt.]]
* [[spoiler:OedipusComplex]]: [[spoiler:Junior physically confronts Walter to defend Skyler and calls the cops on him]] in "Ozymandias."
* OutOfFocus: Has appeared less in Season 4 than in any other season. It is likely due to not even a year passing in-story while the actor has aged visibly.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Then why don't you just fucking die already?" [[spoiler: Doubles as a MeaningfulEcho.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an epic, long overdue one to his father in "Granite State" when he [[spoiler:refuses any money from his father despite his mother likely going to prison soon and barely making ends meet, reminding Walt that he's responsible for Hank's death, and has been a blight on the family.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Finally finding out what his dad's been up to all this time]] has taken a toll on the poor kid, but a couple of scenes later, he manages to [[spoiler:knock off Walt during the knife squabble with Skyler and pull out his phone to call the cops, especially with Walt ''still holding the knife''.]] And this is a kid that still needs crutches to walk. [[spoiler:He also doubles up in ''Granite State'', giving a very effective TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards his dad.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Walt Jr loves his breakfast.
* [[spoiler:WellDoneDadGuy: Walt tries to beg Walt Jr. for forgiveness in "Granite State". His son won't hear a word of it.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:After learning the truth, he calls out his mother on being complicit in his father's crimes]]. [[spoiler:In "Granite State", he gives one to his father for everything he did, and for acting like nothing has happened.]]
* WrittenInInfirmity: Averted. Mitte does actually have cerebral palsy in real life, but Walter Jr. was conceived as having it ever since the writing of the pilot. Additionally, Mitte's cerebral palsy isn't as severe as Walter Jr.'s (it doesn't affect his speech as strongly as it affects Walter, and he doesn't need crutches to walk).
!!Holly White
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->'''Played By''': Haven Tomlin, Elanor Anne Wenrich and Moira Bryg Macdonald
->''"Mama, Mama, Mama."''
Walt and Skyler's baby daughter and Walt Junior's younger sister. She was born in 2009.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Holly first appears in "Phoenix", the same episode where Jane Margolis dies.
* IWantMyMommy: [[spoiler:Used as a WhamLine in "Ozymandias"]]
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Played straight.]]
* MoralityPet: For Walt.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Always shown in pink.
** Also doubles as a MeaningfulEcho to the recurring motif of the pink teddy bear of season 2, which ends with her birth and the deaths of everyone on two planes.
* WhamLine: Her first words nonetheless. [[spoiler:Holly keeps saying "Mama" after Walt kidnaps her in "Ozymandias," which is the final nail in the coffin for Walt in terms of trying to convince his family to stay with him.]]
!!Hank Schrader
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I’m not the man I thought I was."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DeanNorris
->''"Get a big old raging hard-on at the idea of catching this piece of shit! Oh – my apologies to the HR Department. 'Grow tumescent with anticipation.'"''
Walt and Skyler's brother-in-law and Marie's husband, who works as a DEA agent. He is actively involved in investigating a meth kingpin named "Heisenberg", unaware for over a year that his prey is actually Walter. Hank has a cavalier exterior, but in reality the dark side of his job affects him more than he cares to admit.
* AndAnotherThing: One of Hank's absolute favorite tactics. See WhamLine.
* AntiHero: PragmaticHero --> KnightInSourArmor --> [[spoiler: UnscrupulousHero]]
* {{Badass}}: Very much so. He manages to defeat the incredibly dangerous and unpredictable Tuco, and then manages to defeat Tuco's lethal and efficient Cousins. These are two men who kill people for a living and belong to one of the most dangerous families in America. They even shoot Hank, but he still manages to kick their asses.
** BadassInCharge: Becomes Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC} of the DEA after Gus is killed.
* BaldOfAwesome: Very bald, very awesome.
* BatmanGambit: Hank correctly figures just how greedy [[spoiler:Walt]] is. With Gomez and [[spoiler:Jesse]]'s help, he [[spoiler:takes a photo of a dug-up barrel of money in his backyard and has Jesse send both the pic and a taunting phone message to Walt, who immediately leads the trio to where the money is really buried and angrily confesses to his murders in the process.]]
* BerserkButton: The risk of something happening to his family overrides his better judgment, leading him to deliver a savage beating to Pinkman, whom Hank blames early on for "corrupting" Walt, abandoning a crime in progress when he's told his wife's been hospitalized, and finally [[spoiler:when Walt dares to pretend innocence after finding Hank's been investigating him.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: In the second episode of season 2, he unknowingly saves Walt and Jesse from Tuco.
* BoisterousBruiser: Acts like one, but it's [[StepfordSmiler mostly to cover up]] his [[HiddenDepths inner doubts and fears]].
* BrokenAce: Hasn't been the same ever since the taskforce bombing in season 2. For a time, he was literally broken after getting shot by one of the Twins.
* TheCaptain: ASAC of the DEA.
* CarFu: He backs his car into one of the Cousins, effectively crushing Leonel's legs.
* CassandraTruth: With his suspicions about Gustavo Fring.
* CoolUncle: To Jr. Before the series, it could very well be argued that he sees Hank as more of a father to him than Walt is.
* {{Determinator}}: After being shot multiple times in 3-7, he still manages to load a gun with a handy bullet and kill his would-be murderer. As of Season 5B, his fixation on [[spoiler:bringing down Walt before he dies of cancer]] is nearly all-consuming, overriding all other considerations, [[spoiler:including the safety of other people and even whether his evidence would hold up in court.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The less obnoxious and rude he gets, the more deadpan his snarks become.
* DeathGlare: As soon as he uncovers that [[spoiler:Walt is Heisenberg]], their every interaction past that point involves gratuitous amounts of Hank just staring daggers into his soul, utterly ''seething'' with fury at the betrayal.
* [[spoiler:DefiantToTheEnd: Gives a PrecisionFStrike to Jack before he kills him.]]
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss: Of Season 5 Part 2. Despite being billed as Walt's main antagonist for the aforementioned season and the FinalBoss of the show, Hank is killed by Uncle Jack in "Ozymandias", two episodes before the finale]].
* [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome: He takes on a gang of heavily armed Neo-Nazis with nothing more than a Glock pistol, and remains composed and dignified before Jack murders him.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Becomes increasingly abusive towards Marie after being bed-ridden by multiple gunshots because he can't stand looking weak to her.
* [[spoiler:EnemyMine]]: With [[spoiler:Jesse]] as of "Rabid Dog".
* [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Walter?]]: He's utterly shocked after discovering that his brother-in-law is Heisenberg.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceDeathWithDignity: He tells Jack to "just do what [he's] going to do" in contrast to Walter's begging for his life.]]
* FanNickname: As of season 5, a bizarre running joke has sprung up on the show's IMDb board that revolves around calling Hank "Honk" instead.
* {{Foil}}: To Walt. Terrible experiences change both men, but while Walt becomes even more consumed by pride and turns into a ruthless criminal, Hank manages to subdue his GoodIsNotNice tendencies, becoming more humble and arguably an even better cop.
** ... until season 5B, when [[spoiler: Hank discovers Walt is Heisenberg]] and becomes fully obsessed with it, even being called out in the fact that the Heisenberg hunt is his personal obsession.
* FrontlineGeneral / OutrankingYourJob: He still takes an active role in the Fring/Heisenberg case even after he's promoted to ASAC, even remaining a field agent to it, to the point that his superior Ramey criticizes him for it and tells him to stop.
* [[spoiler:GetItOverWith]]: [[spoiler:Hank knows Jack won't spare him, so he refuses to beg for his life and tells him to "do what [he's] going to do".]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation]]: [[spoiler: Played subtly, but present. Upon finding out that Walt is Heisenberg, he risks everything to catch him, entirely losing his sense of humor from previous seasons and taking major risks, like trusting Pinkman, or abusing his authority by kidnapping Huell.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Definitely in season three and early four, but it's being downplayed more in season five. Partly due to the fact that Walt's actions have gotten truly extreme and Hank has become far less obnoxious and jerkish than he was at the beginning.
** [[spoiler: This trope comes back full swing in the second part of season 5. Hank's obsession with bringing down Walt causes him to make several morally and legally questionable decisions and he begins to treat his co-workers with a certain degree of frigidity.]]
* GeniusBruiser: While loud, overbearing, and seemingly dumb, Hank is a very skilled investigator, as seen in his work on the Fring case, beginning with his connection of Gale's murder to Gus Fring. This was hinted at early on, when he is able to find the hidden stash of meth hidden in Krazy-8's car, which Gomez couldn't locate earlier.
* GuileHero
* HappilyMarried: With Marie, barring rough patches in Season 4.
* HeroAntagonist: Becomes one once he makes catching the elusive "Heisenberg" his goal; unusually for this trope, he's unaware that the VillainProtagonist he's pursuing is [[HiddenVillain right under]] [[DevilInPlainSight his nose]]. [[spoiler: At least until season 5.]]
* HiddenDepths: For the first season, Hank seems mostly to be a textbook BoisterousBruiser, but in season 2, after he kills Tuco, we begin to see that Hank secretly feels a lot of anxiety and fear about his job.
* HeroicBSOD: Finally [[spoiler:finding out that Walt is Heisenberg]] absolutely '''''floors''''' Hank. His panic attacks come back with a vengeance and he is emotionally wrecked by the time [[spoiler:Walt]] confronts him about the GPS tracker.
* HeroicWillpower: When the Salamanca brothers ambush Hank in Season 3, he manages to reload his pistol and kill his assailant despite the fact that he'd just been shot multiple times.
* TheHyena: Has a singularly penetrating cackle. The cops at El Paso are not entertained.
* [[spoiler:HopeSpot]]: [[spoiler:Near the end of "To'hajiilee". Hank has Walt dead to rights, on record confessing to multiple murders, and Walt finally relents and surrenders. About a minute later, some trucks show up...]]
* InsistentTerminology: In season 4. He's not collecting rocks, he's collecting ''minerals''.
* [[spoiler:ItWasWithYouAllAlong: To Walt when he confronts him about being Heisenberg.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though loud and obnoxious, he is generous to and protective of his family and devoted to his job.
* [[spoiler:KilledMidSentence: "Do what you're gonna d-" *BANG*]]
* KnightTemplar: Borderline case, especially in the earlier seasons: beats Jesse senseless in Season 3 and conducted a bunch of searches without a warrant.
** Seems to be one of these again in Season 5 part 2, as evidenced by his treatment of [[spoiler:Skyler and Jesse]] during the Heisenberg investigation.
* MeaningfulEcho: At the start of the fifth season, Hank's boss Merkert is dismissed from the DEA because purported booster Gus Fring had been selling meth under his nose. Half a season later, Hank tells Marie that he will likely be dismissed from the DEA because [[spoiler:his brother-in-law Walt has been selling meth under his nose]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He doesn't outright state it, but his facial expression after he brutally assaults Jesse indicates that he feels a degree of remorse for letting his emotions cloud his judgement.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: Though he's not very politically correct and frequently makes racially insensitive jokes to his Mexican-American partner, he doesn't appear to be aggressively bigoted or racist. He also assumes that Gomez knows he is not serious about it.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives one to Jesse in season 3.
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Hank's obsession with catching Walt leads to him becoming increasingly manipulative, a trait commonly attributed to Walt. It gets to the point where he's willing to allow the death of his lead if it incriminates Walt.]]
** His treatment of [[spoiler: Jesse]] also mirrors [[spoiler: Walt's.]]
* NWordPrivileges: Tends to assume he has them with his Hispanic colleagues, which is one thing that makes him [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero so obnoxious]].
* OhCrap: Two in "Confessions": the first when [[spoiler:Walt's "confession" tape turns out to be blackmail]], and a second one when [[spoiler:Marie admits she took $177k from Walt to pay for Hank's rehab]].
* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: Until he finds out about Walt being Heisenberg.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Given to [[spoiler:Jack]] in "Ozymandias": "My name is ASAC Schrader, and you can go fuck yourself"
* RankUp: He gets assigned to a better unit and later promoted, but he's a full-blooded agent who resents being a DeskJockey.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a devastating one to [[spoiler:Walt]] at the end of "Blood Money".
* {{Retirony}}: Subverted. After getting in a whole mess of trouble for beating up Jesse, he tells Marie he thinks that "The universe is telling [him he] shouldn't be a cop anymore," and he believes that he is going to be fired. Around this time, Gus gives the Cousins the okay to kill Hank. However, Hank ends up getting to keep his job, and when the Cousins try to kill him, he (narrowly) escapes.
** Subverted again after [[spoiler:Hank finds out Walt was Heisenberg all along]]. He tells Marie that the moment he busts [[spoiler:Walt]], his career will be over because he was under Hank's nose the whole time.
** [[spoiler: Succumbs to this in ''Ozymandias'', when, having finally caught Walt, he [[FatalFamilyPhoto calls Marie to tell her that he's got Walt dead to rights]], and is killed almost immediately after.]]
* SadClown
* ShellShockedVeteran: Jokes about killing Tuco, but is incredibly rattled by the experience. This gradually worsens over the series, such as when Tortuga's also killed, but comes to a head when he realizes [[spoiler: Walter is Heisenberg -- he nearly collapses upon realizing it.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Despite being deeply traumatized by his shootout with Tuco and the bombing in Juarez, he continues to maintain his blustery, backslapping persona in front of colleagues and friends.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist
* TranquilFury: When he clocks [[spoiler:Walt]] in "Blood Money."
* TurnInYourBadge: In Season 3 when he takes the Heisenberg investigation too far.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hank is the one who originally offered to take Walter on a ride-along to a meth lab, claiming he should get a little excitement in his life. If he hadn't, Walter probably wouldn't have asked to go on one, he wouldn't have been reunited with Jesse and a lot of death and destruction wouldn't have happened. [[spoiler: This includes both of his fatal shootings.]] Poor Hank's own BoisterousBruiser tendencies helped pave the way for Heisenberg.
* WhamLine:
** "Since when do vegans eat fried chicken?" Following up on that in the next episode, "Except... What are Gustavo Fring's fingerprints doing at Gale Boetticher's apartment?"
** A funny example of a delayed one. [[spoiler:"W.W., who could that be?... Walter White?]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Him finding a dedication from Gale inside Walt's copy of ''Leaves of Grass'']].
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:"It was you. All along, it was you! You son of a bitch. You drove into traffic to keep me from that laundry. That call I got telling me Marie was in the hospital... that wasn't Pinkman. You had my cell number. You killed ten witnesses to save your sorry ass. You bombed a nursing home. You're Heisenberg. Heisenberg! You lying, two-face sack of shit."]]
!!Marie Schrader
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Facing death changes a person. It has to, don't you think?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Betsy Brandt
->''"You better back off! My husband is a DEA agent."''
Skyler's sister, Hank's wife, and Walt's sister-in-law. Marie works as a radiologic technologist. She doesn't hesitate to offer advice to others but often fails to practice what she preaches. She shoplifts obsessively due to kleptomania, for which she sees a therapist. She appears self-centered and shallow but is very devoted to her husband and cares deeply for her sister's family.
* TheArtifact: The show was originally conceived as more comedic, similar to ''Series/{{Weeds}}''. The first season's subplot with Marie's shoplifting/kleptomania is written in a rather light tone. The subplot came back up later and wasn't well-received.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Subverted, she admits to looking up ways to poison Walt but doesn't act upon them.]]
-->"Don't worry, I won't hurt anybody. But it just feels good to think about it."
* CannotKeepASecret: "I can't tell you. I promised I would never, ever tell." "... All I'll say is that it has to do with adultery."
* TheCassandra: "None of this would have happened if you hadn't bought pot from that Pinkman kid!"
* CharacterBlog: During the events of season four, [[http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2012/04/maries-blog-roundup.php#more she kept a blog]].
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
** She's obsessed with the color purple. Most of her clothes and furniture are purple. On her blog, she discusses the time she found a purple toaster oven as an example about thinking big and achieving your dreams.
** From "Confessions", when things really turn dark, she starts wearing black.
** [[spoiler:And "Felina", where she wears black and white, symbolising the loss of Hank from her life]]
* DumbassHasAPoint: Marie is naive enough to think you can overdose on marijuana and die from it, but during the "Talking Pillow" debate in Season 1, she's the only one who thinks Walt should decide on his own whether his cancer should be treated and calls out Skyler on not giving Walt a chance to speak and forcing everyone to have one opinion.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: [[spoiler: Until "Felina"]]
* HappilyMarried: With Hank, barring rough patches in Season 4.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Collapses after hearing about Hank's death and is near catatonic in "Granite State"]]
* {{Jerkass}}: When under stress, her first response is almost universally to focus on arbitrary annoyances and childish whining, and also goes around to open houses lying to real estate agents about herself ''as a hobby''.
** Not to mention that time she deliberately ran over a kid's toy truck.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Marie is an [[KnowNothingKnowItAll annoying know-it-all]], but she also clearly loves her family -- it's especially visible when she does her best to stop Hank from falling into depression after he's confined to a bed.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Wears a white lab coat for her job. Justified as her job involves the use of damaging radiation techniques and chemicals.
* MotorMouth
* OutOfFocus: Has had the least amount of screen time of any of the original cast members.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Marie is a X-ray technician, but we never actually see her on the job.
* PluckyComicRelief: [[spoiler:Until Season 5B]]
* StepfordSmiler: She's really just that chipper most of the time, but still keeps up her regular behavior when she's actually deeply hurt by Hank's emotional abuse.
* StickyFingers: Is prone to shoplifting and other forms of minor larceny, particularly when she's under stress. [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama in "Buried" as her first instinct after confronting Skyler is to grab Holly and take her to their car]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Over the first four and a half seasons she serves mostly as light comic relief or as a passive victim of Hank's angry outbursts, but when she [[spoiler: finds out about Walt and Skyler's criminality]], she proves to be an extremely fierce and determined woman, [[spoiler: collaborating with Hank in his investigation and giving him several good ideas, viciously slapping her sister, and giving both her and Walt devastating WhatTheHellHero speeches]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Why don't you just kill yourself, Walt?"]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Skyler when she learns that [[spoiler:Skyler has known for ages about Walt's involvement in the drug trade]].
* [[spoiler:WidowWoman]]: [[spoiler:As of "Ozymandias".]]
