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[[Characters/BreakingBadWaltsFamily Walt's Family]] ([[Characters/BreakingBadWalterWhite Walter White]]), [[Characters/BreakingBadHeisenbergsEmpire Heisenberg's Empire]] ([[Characters/BreakingBadJessePinkman Jesse Pinkman]], [[Characters/BreakingBadSaulGoodman Saul Goodman]]), [[Characters/BreakingBadDEAAndPolice DEA and Police]], [[Characters/BreakingBadJuarezCartel Juarez Cartel]], [[Characters/BreakingBadSalamancaFamily Salamanca Family]] ([[Characters/BreakingBadHectorSalamanca Hector Salamanca]]), [[Characters/BreakingBadLosPollosHermanos Los Pollos Hermanos]] ([[Characters/BreakingBadGustavoFring Gustavo Fring]], [[Characters/BreakingBadMikeEhrmantraut Mike Ehrmantraut]]), [[Characters/BreakingBadMadrigalElectromotive Madrigal Electromotive]], '''Aryan Brotherhood''', [[Characters/BreakingBadOtherCriminals Other Criminals]], [[Characters/BreakingBadOtherCivilians Other Civilians]]-]]]]]

'''WARNING: [[WalkingSpoiler Todd's character plays such a huge role in the final season's developments that practically all of his tropes were once spoiler-tagged]]. Though the tags have been removed for aesthetic purposes, massive spoilers still follow below.'''

* WalkingSpoiler: The moment that Todd kills a child, the show changes forever. From then on, every action he takes has drastic consequences for everyone around him.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: His response to Jesse demanding a measly sum of cash is to challenge him to a ''duel to the death'' and seems to be very bloodthirsty by the way he stares him down.]] Given his reasonably pragmatic personality presented before, this psychosis may be a result of being high on cocaine and alcohol at the time.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Jack is a Neo-Nazi, although his political and racial views aren't really given any attention aside from some irritation at political correctness and his disdain for federal law enforcement. If it weren't for the swastikas and SS tattoos, there would be nothing in his behavior which reveals him as a Nazi sympathizer. TruthInTelevision, as the Aryan Brotherhood is now widely seen as more interested in money and power than promoting white nationalism.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not only a white supremacist but also passionately opposed to the use of bike helmets. He sees them as PoliticalOvercorrectness, as opposed to basic safety and common sense.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Sane (Frankie) & Tait Fletcher (Lester)

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Scott Shepherd

* AffablyEvil: When he's not working as a hitman, Jack is surprisingly friendly and charming with a strong [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] vibe. He also possesses a true sense of honor and conviction in his ideals of sincerity.

* GutturalGrowler: Speaks in a deep, raspy voice, taking after Walt, Mike, and Jesse in this regard.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Played with. In the context of the main series, he's the final threat of Walter's story, but is this from Jesse's perspective, whose story properly concludes in ''Film/ElCamino''.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He organized the brutal murders of 10 people in prison, killed Hank and Gomez, stole almost all of Walt's money (albeit leaving him $10 million), imprisoned and tortured Jesse for half a year, and killed his ex-girlfriend and threatened to kill her son too if Jesse stopped cooking?]] Yeah, nobody sheds a tear for Uncle Jack when [[spoiler:Walt blows his brains out.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Originally, he was just a name dropped by Todd. He grew massively in importance as the show drew closer to its conclusion, [[spoiler:eventually ending up as the final BigBad.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all of Jack's negative qualities, he does seem to genuinely love his nephew Todd as if he were his own son. This is the reason [[spoiler:why he keeps the meth business alive: despite believing that he and his gang will never need to make any more drug money, he wants to help Todd impress Lydia.]] Their actors even came up with a backstory for the two of them, in which Jack took Todd from his sister for his own protection after she kept bringing too many abusive boyfriends home.

** While he's not above killing or enslaving someone, Jack openly expresses disdain for the type of savagery criminals like Gustavo Fring or the Salamancas engage in. [[spoiler:When he's put into the same situation with Hank as Marco, he quickly shoots him down on the spot, not [[BondVillainStupidity run back to his car to find an exotic weapon to ritualistically kill him with]].]] Additionally, when Walt [[spoiler:orders a hit on Jesse]], Jack says he respects the order to make it quick and painless, saying that there's too many "savages" out there.

** He finds {{Greed}} unattractive. [[spoiler:He gives away $10 million to Walt as a consolation prize, and isn't onboard with the idea of continuing to cook meth. It's his love for Todd that keeps the partnership with Lydia alive, not greed.]]

** Both men are crude and politically incorrect individuals with a borderline irrational disdain for a certain group of people (junkies in Hank's case, cops in Jack's) and who can be underestimated due to their joker demeanor, but in actuality they're highly intelligent and cunning. Despite this, Hank mostly does most of his dirty work himself, while Jack often has his nephew and his men pull off the more complicated hits.
** They also both happen to be role-models to their respective nephews, [[spoiler:though [[TheSociopath Todd]] seems to get over Jack's demise much quicker than [[BreakTheCutie Walt Jr]]'s with Hank's]].
** Jack mocking Jesse's tearful confession video after his enslavement also a dark mirror to Hank's laughing at Gale's silly music video after his death.

* FatalFlaw: Jack's hatred of snitches/rats. [[spoiler: It gets him killed. When Walt came to the clubhouse, Jack and his gang were already planning to kill him. But just Walt saying that they were partnering with Jesse - a rat in Jacks eyes, who he promised Walt he would kill later - was enough to keep Walt alive and show him that Jesse is a slave rather than a partner. This allowed Walt enough time to get his keys back and later trigger the M60 in his trunk outside.]]

* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:His absolute hate for snitches plays a part in his downfall - if he just executed Walt without absolutely needing to prove to him that he's not partnered up with Jesse, he probably wouldn't die.]]

* ObviouslyEvil: If the big swastika tattoo on his neck didn't clue you in, he is introduced as a top of the line assassin that even Mike admitted to being wary of.

* OutsideGenreFoe: This is what truly makes Jack Welker so dangerous in the context of the narrative. In the world of Breaking Bad, Meth is king. Not for Jack though, he isn't concerned with becoming a druglord, or building a meth empire and he's not a druggie or some cartel enforcer. Jack is quite simply a Neo-Nazi mercenary whose first solution to every problem is to kill it, he'd be right at home as the villain of some gritty action movie. No one has any way to counter him because his firepower and resources are far outside the capabilities of the rest of the remaining characters, [[spoiler: including Hank and Gomez.]] If he encountered half the situations that Walter White did, he would've murdered them on the spot. Jack is so disconnected from the other conflicts in the show that [[spoiler: the moment Walter promises him 10 million dollars of unlaundered dirty money, he immediately gives up on the empire and decides to just cash it in.]]

* PapaWolf: A dark and villainous example. [[spoiler:Jack happily laughs at Jesse's tearful confession video until they get the part where Jesse rats on Todd. Jack then angrily charges off to kill Jesse and forsake the millions they could earn off his higher quality meth for endangering Todd. Jack only relents on killing Jesse because Todd needs Jesse's meth to impress Lydia]].

* {{Pride}}: Something he has in common with Walt: Jack is a proud man who holds true to his own values and doesn't like leaving a job unfinished. [[spoiler:Walt insults his by claiming that he partnered up with Jesse, a snitch. This ends up being his undoing, as he insists on showing Jesse is alive and enslaved rather than killing Walt on the spot.]]

* {{Sadist}}: Downplayed. While he's not above being cruel in line with what comes with his occupation, Jack openly disdains savage cruelty and prefers to get his jobs done quick and simple. His worst acts [[spoiler: of enslaving Jesse]] was at Todd's behest and he isn't seen participating in needlessly tormenting him like his goons.

* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: An {{Inversion}}. He is definitely lower on the villain totem pole than Gus Fring or the Juarez Cartel, and at best is probably on the level of the Salamanca family who have been around since season 1. He isn't anywhere near as ambitious as the other villains either (including Walt), being content to outright retire if he gets enough cash. Yet, he proves to be the final villain of the show, making up for his lack of scope and influence with sheer ruthlessness and the personal impact he has on the main characters.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:To the Hank and Jesse alliance. If he and his gang didn't intervene, then Hank would still be alive, Walt would be apprehended, and Jesse wouldn't have been forced into servitude.]]

* TattooedCrook: He's seen with some gang tattoos, including a nice big swastika on his neck.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Todd's moral compass is calibrated differently, to put it lightly. Todd is always a big people pleaser, childlike, and seems nice to everyone. Nonetheless he shows zero remorse over killing a child, torturing and enslaving Jesse, and killing his girlfriend, yet he still thinks Jesse is his friend. This could be interpreted that Todd never fully understands how awful his actions truly are nor how they would cause people to hate him.

* CaptainOblivious: He doesn't realize that Jesse, the man he enslaved, treated like an animal, and whose girlfriend he killed, hates and despises him with every fiber of his being, and Jesse doesn't even try very hard to make a secret of this fact, constantly shooting absolutely withering {{Death Glare}}s in Todd's general direction, which he also completely fails to notice. In fact, it seems like it never even occurs to Todd that Jesse has plently of very good and understable reasons for hating him and wanting him dead; never once does he think of Jesse as anything other than a friend.

* AffablyEvil: When he's not working as a hitman, Jack is surprisingly friendly and charming with a strong Doc Brown vibe. He also possesses a true sense of honor and conviction in his ideals of sincerity.