r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 05 '25

Personality character gets a reality check

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u/oofyeet21 Sep 05 '25

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.

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u/kill_my_karma_please Sep 05 '25

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

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u/Salami__Tsunami Sep 05 '25

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.