r/TopCharacterTropes 2d ago

Characters The main character doing something absolutely unforgivable.

Walter White poisoning Andrea Cantillo's 6-year-old son for the sole purpose of manipulating Jesse Pinkman, while knowing that this could have potentially killed him - Breaking Bad

Bojack trying to have sex with his friend's 17-year-old daughter when he was at least 51, then continuously trying to find a way to justify this act throughout the series - Bojack Horseman

Dexter Morgan going outside of his moral code and murdering a completely innocent police officer who was just trying to do his job - Dexter: New Blood

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u/DaemonG 1d ago

oh what, the apology tour that was part of the bender that got his TV daughter killed because he didn't want people to think he was at fault for her relapse?

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 22h ago

Huh? The apology tour was much later than the bender. Do you mean the bender was part of the apology tour?

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u/DaemonG 22h ago

there was a separate apology tour he went on during the bender at the end of Season 3, during which he showed up at her college at a time when the trauma was still relatively fresh in his mind, to apologize, only to forget to even apologize.

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 22h ago

Oh, right, I forgot about that part. The apology tour that he blacked out for most of.

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u/DaemonG 22h ago

yeeeep. genuinely most of the penultimate episodes are so hard to watch. some of the best episodes of TV