Walter White is selfishness incarnate, and perhaps one of the greatest tragic figures to ever grace television, making his ultimate descent into villainy that much more compelling. A brilliant chemist turned meth kingpin, Walter (or Heisenberg) spends five seasons lying, betraying, and killing his way to fame and fortune. And yet, even as his increasingly loathsome crimes begin to tear his loved ones apart, he still maintains that it’s all for the sake of providing for his family — denying the selfish enjoyment of his self-made empire until it’s too late. As vile as it all is, though, we can’t deny the thrill of watching Walter’s villainy take form, transforming him from a sympathetic underdog to the central baddie of Breaking Bad — even as we story continues to unfold from his warped perspective.