Alternative Cuts is a YouTube channel specializing in creating high quality edited meme videos where clips of characters from various media are spliced and edited onto a scene, and uses existing dialogue in such a way that it conveys an original plot involving those characters interacting with each other. Sometimes, characters from different works altogether are inserted into the same scene, resulting in a crossover. The two works Alternative Cuts make videos from the most, however, are Breaking Bad (and Better Call Saul) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with both franchises consequently occasionally colliding in crossovers.
Alternative Cuts' YouTube channel can be found here
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Breaking Kitchen is an ongoing series of videos made by Alternative Cuts, which depicts a crossover between Breaking Bad and Hell's Kitchen wherein characters from the former participate in the latter. The whole series can be found here
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- Characters Dropping Like Flies: "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", being based on two shows in which Anyone Can Die, naturally has a huge chunk of the cast killed off in the opening game; Hank, Tuco, Combo, Jane (without even competing), Ted (who once again tripped on a carpet and smashed headfirst into a solid surface), and maybe Walt, Skyler, and Mike are dead by the end, with several other unknown characters Killed Offscreen.
- Defiant to the End: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", Hank grimly realizes he's been eliminated from "Red Light Green Light" and dares the snipers to get his execution over with. Tuco goes the extra mile by grabbing a machine gun and opening fire on the giant doll, so he can at least say he didn't go down without a fight.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: "Tuco uses the Infinity Stones in the MOST efficient way" has Tuco Salamanca barge into the Battle of Earth and swipe the Infinity Stones from Thanos. He then proceeds to casually crush the Stones into powder, which he then snorts. He then takes Mjolnir and knocks Thanos to the ground with it.
- He Knows Too Much: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", Walter accidentally chances upon the Front Man's private quarters just by knocking down the right door and the two intensely stare each other down; Walter is later shown collapsed onto the ground with a pained grimace frozen onto his face, implying that the Front Man personally punished him for going someplace he wasn't supposed to go and seeing something he wasn't supposed to see.
- It Only Works Once: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", Marco and Leonel realize they can avoid setting off the motion detectors by crawling on their stomachs. When Hank tries the same thing later on, however, he gets found out and executed.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: "Gus Fring vs LITERALLY everyone" lives up to its title in spades, as while the initial barrage of gunfire against Gus was made by Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters, things become more and more chaotic as they are joined by characters from other media including, but not limited to: The T-800 and the T-1000, Gandalf, the Flash, and Maverick. All of this completely fail to even slow Gus down.
- Non-Gameplay Elimination: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", Jane doesn't even make it to the first game, instead staying behind in the bedroom and dying of an overdose from whatever substance was snuck into the sugar cookies.
- Redemption Rejection: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", Saul desperately pleads with the robotic doll to spare the other contestants by appealing to its better nature. It seems to work for a moment... but then the bullets continue to fly.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", much like in the actual Squid Game, the Breaking Bad cast make a panicked beeline for the exit upon realizing the nature of the Deadly Game they're playing. Unlike the canon Squid Game, however, one person actually does make it out: Lalo, who happens upon a secret passageway and escapes undetected.
- Taking You with Me: "Gus Fring Survives" has Hector Salamanca's bomb in "Face Off" as in canon, but with a twist... The moment Gus realizes that Hector is trying to detonate a bomb to kill both of them, he blasts off and rockets out of the nursing home and into the air, flying through the sky and finding Walter before crashing himself into him like a missile.
- Uncertain Doom: In "Breaking Bad in Squid Game", it is unclear whether Walt or Mike survived the events of "Red Light Green Light"; Mike is shown sitting solemnly amidst the corpses as if accepting his fate, and Walt is shown having collapsed onto the ground in agony after his encounter with the Front Man. It's also not shown who the snipers were firing upon in the end, making it just as ambiguous if any of the other characters aside from Saul, Gus, Hector, the twins, Chuck, and Lalo made it out as well (leaving Skyler, Walter Jr, Jesse, Kim, Todd, Lydia, and Huell unaccounted for).
- The Worf Barrage: "Gus Fring vs LITERALLY everyone" has Gustavo Fring's Unflinching Walk in "Bug" opposed not just by the sniper, but by almost every character in the franchise that has fired a gun onscreen, including but not limited to: Jack Welker's gang, the Salamancas, Hank, Walter (who completely fails to fire his gun and then shoots himself), and Tomás Cantillo. Serial Escalation kicks into high gear as multiple characters from other franchises also chime in as well as the United States military, resulting in hurricane of bullets of all shapes and calibers as well as superpower attacks and bombs impacting Gus. All of this completely fail at even slowing him down.
- Cerebus Syndrome: At first, Breaking Kitchen was just supposed to be a hilarious Weird Crossover where the characters of Breaking Bad bring their trademark personalities (including Jerkass and Ax-Crazy) to Hell's Kitchen. Then by Episode 6, an actual background plot forms involving Ramsay and Walter having a preexisting agreement to never mention meth or Jesse in the show, Gus poisoning Ramsay and staging a Hostile Show Takeover, and Hank investigating Breaking Kitchen and Ramsay under the suspicion that he is a meth kingpin.
- Chekhov's Gun: In Episode 1, a bottle of Zafiro Añejo tequila can be seen on Gus' workstation. In Episode 7, Mike and his security team realizes that the tequila wasn't there previously, but they discovered it too late as Ramsay is poisoned by it.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The Breaking Bad characters often massively overreact to Ramsay's biting criticisms of their dishes. This is especially true with the Salamancas, with Lalo threatening Ramsay at gunpoint into increasing the number of points awarded to his dish, and Tuco having the Cousins kill guest judge Tortuga for not liking his dish.
- In Episode 7, Gus poisons Ramsay with a poisoned tequila because he didn't appreciate his curly fries enough.
- Hostile Show Takeover: In Episode 7, after Ramsay criticized his curly fries as "bland", Gus poisons him, forcing Mike and Jesse to take Ramsay away. Gus then takes control of the show, calms down and reassures the other contestants, and essentially takes control of Breaking Kitchen.
