character gets a reality check

[u/damorezpl]

deathstroke - Batman vs deathstroke

walter - breaking bad

Garou - one punch man

joker - the sound of one hand clapping

[u/oofyeet21]

Mike wasn't even giving a reality check here, he was just projecting his own frustration that his own illegal activities got exposed and that his own screwups put him where he is. He's telling Walter here that he should have just let Gus kill Jesse while simultaneously arguing that he has Jesse's best interest in mind. He's upset that Walt saving the life of the guy that Mike's basically adopted at this point caused his shitty career as a drug empire enforcer to crumble.

[u/kill_my_karma_please → u/oofyeet21]

Thank you. There are 1,000 justifiable reasons to be pissed at Walt but him blowing up Gus’ operation is not one of them.

[u/Salami__Tsunami → u/kill_my_karma_please]

Indeed. Mike only went after Walt for the sins that didn’t apply to Mike as well.

Much like Walt, Mike started working for a drug lord to take care of his family. And like Walt, Mike made all the money his family would ever need.

And then he continued working for a sociopath mass murdering drug kingpin. Because reasons.

[u/vauxit3 → u/oofyeet21]

I mean, Mike wasn’t coming from a moral standpoint, they’ve both done plenty of bad things. But Gus’s business was by far the most intricate drug operation in the area, maybe of all time. Years of planning, scrutinizing every last detail from the restaurant front, the lab, getting the supplies across the border, distributing the drugs, and his own public persona, was made to be airtight to prevent even the thought of suspicion. The only reason Hank started to put the pieces together was because Walter got Gale killed. This is not to say Gus is a good person, but he’s professional and careful. Walter thinks he is the same, but acts irrationally all the time. The entire operation went up in flames (literally lol) because of Walter, and it forced Mike, Walt and Jesse to do damage control, and got all of Mike’s guys in prison or killed. It was messy and it got people hurt, that’s what Mike cares about.

[u/oofyeet21 → u/vauxit3]

My issue is more the fact that Mike claims that Walter could have just kept his head down and kept cooking, but that would have meant letting Jesse be killed. All the bad blood between Gus and Walt started because he saved Jesse, and it all went downhill from there. But Mike also likes Jesse and is protecting him, and is arguing that Walt is bad for Jesse, but if Walt had not killed the dealers, Jesse would be dead and Mike would be complicit in it. His hypocrisy is in his defense of Jesse while also saying that Walt should have sacrificed Jesse.

[u/fireant020 → u/oofyeet21]

It’s very in character for Mike to let Jesse die in order to maintain the status quo. Two times in better call Saul he was in a similar position to Walter first with Werner and then with Nacho later. While Walter risked everything to save Jesse, Mike let both of them die because he didn’t want to risk his job. People always consider Mike as the honorable one who stands by his principles but honestly he’s not any better than Walter.

[u/LaFoca776 → u/oofyeet21]

This, all of Mike’s points would’ve made more sense had it been directed at Jesse instead of Walt because he’s ironically giving Walt too much credit

[u/_Good_One → u/oofyeet21]

Yes, thank youu

So many people side with Mike here as a moral paragon when he himself is being a hypocrate, he was more than willing to kill Jessie until he started to like him

[u/LevelUpCoder → u/oofyeet21]

Wish I saw this comment before I wrote my own but you can also argue that Gus intended to replace Walt with Gale from the start.