History Characters / BreakingBadAryanBrotherhood

* AffluentAscetic: It's not just a matter of laundering it either, Todd doesn't do much with the money he gained and his apartment is pretty bland all around.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Let's just say Todd's moral compass is different from most people's to say the least. 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 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.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Let's just say Todd's moral compass thinks differently to say the least. Todd is always a big people pleaser, childlike, and seems nice to everyone. On other hand he shows zero remorse in killing a child, torturing and enslaving Jesse, and killing his girlfriend, yet 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.

* BaitAndSwitch: At first when he listens to Jesse's recording about how Todd killed a child it looks like he is upset about it. He is actually upset that Jesse ratted his nephew and was going to kill him right then and now over it.

* PsychopathicManchild: He acts like a spoiled child let alone one who impersonates a policeman and carries a firearm, forcing Neil to "father" him as in stop throwing tantrums. He gets taken hostage by Jesse, and spends most of the movie angry and humiliated over this before exploding over hearing Neil let Jesse take about a third or more of the money stuffed in the fridge.

* {{Foil}}: To his associate Todd Alquist. Like Todd, Neil appears to be a normal, hardworking, all-American guy, but is actually a very ruthless and experienced criminal, who has no problem committing murder and played a part in Jesse's imprisonment. However, Todd is AffablyEvil and completely [[ObliviouslyEvil oblivious]] on how atrocious his acts are while Neil is a rude {{Jerkass}} whose perfectly aware of how bad he is, but doesn't care.

** There's also his PassThePopcorn attitude when watching Jesse's confession, "Does he cry throughout the whole thing.".

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Todd is introduced in "Hazard Pay" as a mile-mannered hire of Mike's that's a bit eager to please his new employers. Then out of nowhere, his unhesitant murder of a young boy at the end of "Dead Freight" exhibits him as a stone-cold killer who will prove to be a problem.

* BerserkButton: Has no love for stool pigeons. He also does not like being called a liar. [[spoiler:Trying to prove otherwise gets his whole gang killed.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Todd's unhesitant and sudden murder of a young boy at the end of "Dead Freight" exhibits him as a stone-cold killer who will prove to be a problem.

* AmbiguousDisorder: There is something ''really'' wrong with him. While the creators of the series has called him a {{sociopath}}, he is too emotionally crippled, quiet, calm, easygoing, relaxed, friendly, and self-controlled to accurately be described as such. Many have theorized that Todd has signs of autism or some kind of developmental disorder due to his undeveloped, almost deficient social skills. On the other hand, having a sociopathic monster as an uncle and father figure (Jack), it is almost inevitable that he was going to develop a ruthless side anyway.

* ArchEnemy: To the Pinkman. Jesse's ongoing downward spiral is exacerbated by Todd's remorselessness. It gets especially worse after Todd tortures him when he's kidnapped by Jack's gang for a ''year'' so he can continue making meth for them. And to further punish him, Jack has Todd kill Andrea right in front of Jesse's eyes. By the final episode Jesse relishes getting the chance to strangle him personally.

[[folder:Todd Alquist ('''UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]]]]

[[folder:Todd Alquist]]

* AffablyEvil: Todd is truly a polite, soft-spoken, slightly shy, and all-around hardworking guy. He never raises his voice or gets angry, he doesn't take things personally and does his best to get along well with everyone. He also has no qualms about doing things like killing innocent women and children. It gets even creepier when he turns Jesse into his meth slave. Although he threatens him with the lives of his loved ones, Todd still maintains a jovial demeanor around him, and even brings Pinkman ice cream as a reward for his services. Jesse Plemons describes Todd as feeling as if Pinkman is a pet. He's never rude to anyone, often trying ([[TheSociopath yet failing]]) to empathize with people, and seems to be convinced that he's [[FriendlyEnemy close friends with Jesse.]] [[spoiler:Even after Walt shoots up his uncle's hideout, Todd is still polite enough to refer to him as "Mr. White."]]

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Jack's the leader of the Neo-Nazis, but Jesse's true emnity is with Todd, who personally enslaved him and [[spoiler:murdered Andrea.]]

* CreepySouvenir: Kept the tarantula that was caught by Drew Sharp. In ''El Camino'', Jesse stumbles onto a terrarium in Todd's new bedroom with the same spider.

* TheSociopath: PlayedWith. While Todd has been called such and has no problems murdering innocent people and commits other acts of sociopathy, he's just too emotionally crippled to ever realize how atrocious his actions truly are. ''Film/ElCamino'' has properly the best example of this: in the aftermath of Todd killing Andrea, Jesse, having been ForcedToWatch the murder, is having a mental breakdown, but while Todd realizes that Jesse is upset and clearly doesn't like that he is upset, he also fails to understand ''why'' Jesse is upset, and so very ineptly attempts to comfort him by mumbling some vaguely inspirational advice to him, completely oblivious to the fact that it was his murder of Andrea that devastated Jesse all the while. This could be a result of having been raised by criminals all his life and thus Todd couldn't have developed a proper moral compass. As a result, Todd literally can't understand the amorality of his actions were a true sociopath can but doesn't care.

* TheDreaded: Implied. After Todd kills Drew Sharp and the heist team discusses what to do with him, Mike votes against killing Todd by citing his gang connections as being no joke.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all of Jack's negative qualities, he does seem to love his nephew Todd as if he were his own son. This is the reason [[spoiler: why he keeps the meth business alive: so that he can 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 Gus 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 absolutely ''despises'' tattletales, which is why he got so mad when Jesse told Hank about Todd killing Drew Sharp... [[MoralMyopia while also completely ignoring the fact that his nephew is an unrepentant child killer]].

* ArchEnemy: Jesse's ongoing downward spiral is exacerbated by Todd's remorselessness. It gets especially worse after Todd tortures him when he's kidnapped by Jack's gang for a ''year'' so he can continue making meth for them. And to further punish him, Jack has Todd kill Andrea right in front of Jesse's eyes. By the final episode Jesse relishes getting the chance to strangle him personally.

* LackOfEmpathy: He has what can only be described as a sociopathic disregard for how any of his actions might affect other people; he just does them because he sees them as necessary or because they are a means to an end, and to him, that is all that really matters. It is implied that the main reason he tortures and enslaves Jesse, as well as kills Andrea, is because of a crush he has on Lydia rather than the money. It could be a case of LoveMakesYouEvil, but it is very likely that Todd simply sees no reason not to do these things. The only one he shows any real emotion to is his Uncle Jack, whom he sees as a father figure.

* PragmaticVillainy: Jack is perfectly content exiting the meth game after getting enough money from it [[spoiler:as well as stealing from Walt]]. The only reason why he doesn't is because Todd hopes to impress Lydia by

* BoringButPractical: No advanced science like making ricin or explosives, no border-crossing hitmen with axes and no long planned revenge with meth empire as decoy. Jack just plans on schedule with a well trained team and does the job.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all of Jack's negative qualities, he does seem to love his nephew Todd as if he were his own son. This is the reason [[spoiler: why he keeps the meth business alive: so that he can help Todd impress Lydia.]]

** While he's not above killing or enslaving someone, Jack openly expresses disdain for the type of savagery criminals like Gus 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]].]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In his first appearance, he looks like just another regular criminal who does dirty jobs for some money. This is quickly thrown out of the window when he brutally shoots a child for coming across the train heist in "Dead Freight", just to make sure he doesn't leave any witnesses alive (who probably didn't even have a single idea what he's seeing). It only gets worse from then on.

* ArchEnemy: Jesse's ongoing downward spiral is exacerbated by Todd's remorselessness. [[spoiler:It gets especially worse after Todd tortures him when he's kidnapped by Jack's gang for a ''year'' so he can continue making meth for them. And to further punish him, Jack has Todd kill Andrea right in front of Jesse's eyes. By the final episode Jesse relishes getting the chance to strangle him personally.]]

** In the most twisted, sickest way possible. Even after enslaving Jesse and forcing him to be his meth cook under the threat of murdering everyone he cares about, he's friendly and courteous to him, even bringing him ice cream. Todd is so twisted he doesn't seem to think there's anything ''wrong'' with locking Jesse up and forcing him to toil in the gang's drug laboratory against his will, or why that should stop them from being friends.

** Even though his go-to response to any potential witness is murder, Todd merely intimidates Skyler. When Lydia later asks him to kill her, he still refuses.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Seemingly averted; despite being a more-or-less part of a Neo-Nazi gang, he doesn't even wear any white supremacist symbols, unlike his accomplices. He doesn't even make any racist remarks about killing Andrea (who happens to be Hispanic), only doing so because his uncle wanted to punish Jesse's disobedience. He is geninuely offended when Jesse suggests his Hispanic housekeeper tried stealing his money, saying that she was a hardworking and honest lady. He just killed her because felt he had to after she found where his money was.
* PsychopathicManchild: Todd is a shy, reserved guy and his crush on Lydia feels like a child getting his first crush on his elementary school teacher. At the same time, he's a ruthless killer. His bedroom in ''Film/ElCamino'' further proves this point, full of toys appropriate for much younger children. The rest of his apartment also has some questionable choices in furniture and colors.

* WalkingSpoiler: Let's just say that when Todd does what he does, the series changes forever.

* HateSink: Not quite this initially unlike his nephew, especially with his virtues and affability, but he becomes this full-stop after [[spoiler: killing Hank and enslaving Jesse.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the AffablyEvil trope. Usually, AffablyEvil is used to make a villain more likable and to prove that he's not that bad. Todd is constantly polite and friendly to everyone when he's not casually murdering people, but this does ''not'' make him likable. He actually shows how an AffablyEvil person would come off in real life: extremely creepy, since it's disturbing to see a genuinely meek and polite guy like Todd being able to kill innocent people and even children without remorse. That's why he's considered one of the most hateable characters on the series (by contrast, manipulative FauxAffablyEvil Gustavo Fring is the most popular villain).

->'''Portrayed by:''' Scott [=MacArthur=]

'''Kenny:''' Where do you want [me to kill Walt]?\\

-->'''Jack:''' You know, I gotta be straight with you, man. Taking out all these guys is doable. But hitting them in three separate jails all within two minutes? Whacking Bin Laden wasn't this complicated.

-->'''Jack:''' ''(on the topic of Walt wanting to kill Jesse quickly)'' Angry, non-rat, got it. How angry are we talking, by the way? Like Hulk angry? Like, uh...Rambo, James Bond, badass individual?

-->'''Jack:''' Let me worry about what I breathe, kid. Just hurry this up so I can grab a smoke.

-->'''Lydia:''' I am correct in assuming this should be blue?
-->'''Jack:''' See, I'm thinking the headline here should be "76%."