Analyzing Evil: Todd Alquist From Breaking Bad

Hello everyone and welcome to the one hundred sixty-seventh episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature character for this video is Todd Alquist, from Breaking Bad. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

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[Ididitlikethis]

Todd is the embodiment of the term “Affably Evil”. Unlike Gus, who politeness and kindness are a facade, Todd’s niceness is entirely genuine despite the fact that he’s tortured and murdered innocent people.

[tobeornottobe]

Todd is such a terrifying kind of evil. The evil of apathy. He feels no pleasure, anger, annoyance, or hesitance when committing his atrocities.

[danielsantiagourtado]

The most terrifying thing about Todd is that theres truly people like him out there. They are pefectly polite yet they see murder and torture as. Chores no different than buying milk

[ethanhawkins]

Him luring Andrea outside to murder her in front of Jesse was one of the most vile scenes in TV/film that I’ve ever witnessed

[ElusiveMysteryMan]

Todd is the sort of dude who you could go bowling with. He'd buy a pizza for the group, tell you about a funny T.V. show he'd been watching, shoot a child in the face, finish the pizza, and go right back to telling about the T.V. show.

[AGXZ-mzil]

Todd's personality is like a robot for me . He has no emotion or conflict within him, he just does the task he is told to do without any hesitation or question.

[reidepperson]

The character of Todd really sneaks up on you, you think 'he's gonna die in two episodes' but then he literally enslaves Jesse and becomes one of the main antagonists of the later part of the series

[trevorpb]

The scariest thing about Todd is that he started out as a background character that seemed totally harmless, and then he’s revealed to be an absolute monster.

The best TV villain ever, in my opinion.

[codafett]

I love how the show lures you into a false sense of security with Todd, by presenting him as a polite young man who never even gets mad.

[johannvonbabylon]

16:12 I've always took Todd's reaction to the machine gun as it not even occurring to him that Walt is the one responsible for it. Maybe had he lived a minute longer he would have figured it out, because he wasn't completely stupid, but I think his first instinct was that an enemy third party had attacked them, because his respect for Walt couldn't reconcile with the reality of Walt's hateful vengeance against him and his group.

[UATU.]

I found Todd so disturbing I avoided anything Jesse Plemons was in for too long. He is a wonderful actor, very underrated. Thank you for covering this one.

[keithfilibeck]

The best part is his antithesis in Jesse as a character, they couldn't be more oppositie. And it makes Jesse that much more heroic in how he escaped being a bad person compared to everyone else in the series

[controllerplayer]

The craziest part about Todd is that after Walt uses the gun to kill the neo nazis, he doesn’t even fear being killed by Jesse or Walt. He probably doesn’t even understand why it was done in the first place.

[TheUnmitigatedDawn]

The scariest part of Todd is that he straight up doesn't know what he's doing is evil.

Not an "I don't care" sort of evil. Just..."I do"

[ih]

Whats most interesting about Todd is that he's not written like an antagonist like the rest of the villains from the BB/BCS universe. He isn't always a step ahead of the main characters and never acts as a large, looming threat over them. In fact, he's the reason Jesse even survives to see the end. I think Todd is a rare case of a villain not being an antagonist.

[danielsantiagourtado]

"just so you know this isnt personal" Chilling

[benc]

Todd is the most accurate portrayal of a psychopath I’ve ever seen, he’s not unpleasant, he doesn’t enjoy killing he just doesn’t see a problem with it because he has no concept of empathy

[ryancasey]

He really did ask if they could take Jessie in as a slave in the manner that a child might ask his parents if they could keep a stray dog they happened upon.

[JamesKonzek-xrzy]

The seemingly nice displays of Todd were mere echoes of what Todd's humanity would have been had he been raised properly in his formative years. Truly a tragic figure.

[brokenalice]

Plemons was perfectly casted here. That everyman vibe of his appearance gets more and more sinister as the story progresses. Pretty good analysis of that character's evil.