If you want to add a Breaking Bad example, add a Breaking Bad example. Chances are, it's just that no one's gotten around to it yet.
(Although, please note: "Breaking trope" just refers to breaking someone down, not to the show.)
I wonder whether there's an appropriate page to note that the example from To Play the King is unrealistic. Britain's monarch cannot abdicate by his own act alone; it takes an Act of Parliament (as in 1936) to make an exception to the law of succession. Rather than bully the King, Urquhart would push an Abdication Act through Parliament and then say, coldly, "Your Majesty's Ministers advise you to sign this."
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The unrealistic abdication would fall under the trope Artistic License – Law. You can place the To Play the King example you provided on the Artistic License – Law page. If To Play the King had a work page (it doesn't), you would also list Artistic License – Law as one of the tropes.
You can also link to Artistic License – Law in the To Play the King example here, if you like, but I agree that this isn't the place for it.
Could use a page quote too, one that is this without being Hannibal Lecture. (Which applies to most on the quotes page for that page at the moment, but I didn't see any really suitable one.)
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We should get another quote. The current XKCD "Pickup Artist" one breaks me every time I read it. I don't think that's what TV Tropes is going for, despite being dramatically appropriate.
That quote makes little sense to me. I would support its removal in the forum thread.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
So, as you may notice, there are a lot of examples under Hannibal Lecture that should be here (or already are duplicated and shouldn't be there as well). Feel free to move them.
Why is Breaking Bad not mentioned here at all? I thought the name 'Breaking Trope' actually referred to the show, and there's no reason it shouldn't. About 1/3 of Walt's interactions with Jesse exemplifies this trope (the other 2/3 being Walt doing damage control), and after Skylar learns what Walt's really been doing (turning into a criminal mastermind) he goes after her more and more. If 'I AM THE DANGER' and the rant he had at her in s5 (at the end she tells him she's waiting for him to die) aren't perfect examples of this trope then nothing is.
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