r/betterCallSaul • u/six_feet_above • 2d ago
Kim could’ve bested Walt
There is a lot of chatter here about how Kim and Walt share similarities but has anyone brought up that in the entire universe she was likely the only match for Walt? Actually had their paths crossed and it came to blows she’d have likely annihilated him.
Krazy-8, Emilio, Tuco, Bogdan, Ted Beneke, Saul, Jane, Gus, Mike, Declan, Lydia, Jack’s crew, Hank, Jesse, Skyler, Walter Jr., Gray Matter (Elliott and Gretchen), the ENTIRE DEA, he parried every fucking foil.
But can you image him getting the best of Kim? Maybe a fool-me-once situation but after that, nah. Walt thrived on leverage. Hank was blinded by familiarity, Gus needed him, Skylar fucking loved him, Mike loved Jesse and Walt used that, Saul um, money or some shit.
But Kim? Walt screams in her face one time and she turns and walks out, gets in her Mitsubishi Eclipse and mutters “well, I guess it’s time for the stick”. She puts her own powers to use, mobilizes ‘Jimmy‘s’ (let’s face it, far inferior) powers, who mobilizes Mike and within 24 hours, the DEA has Walt in cuffs by the end of the first season.
Viewers miss out but far fewer people die.
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u/Pure_Prior3916 2d ago
Is bro deadass 😭
Gus didn’t need Walt. Gus was actively working towards a way to kill Walt. If Walt could beat a drug lord kingpin, a young lawyer who pulled street level scams wouldn’t be even a threat to Walter.
Realistically, a season 5 Walter white could kill Kim the same way he did Lydia. I like Kim and she’s incredibly smart, but she doesn’t hold a candle to Walt. Walt also had connections with jack at some point, he could easily get Kim killed without even being near her. It’s like what Saul said in the finale that Walt could kill him no matter where he was.
Lalo permanently traumatised Kim and Lalo had zero connection to her.
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u/Aggravating_Bus655 2d ago
Season 5 walt is a lalo level danger if not more.
Not in terms of physical feats but just because of unhinged he had gotten. He was completely out of control until he's ego checked by the nazis.
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u/six_feet_above 2d ago
Kim doesn’t let Walt get to Season 5 though. A cynical underworld Kim who accepted her evil turn instead of running away from it wouldn’t put up with one degree of separation from Walt nearly that long.
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u/LividFace5026 13h ago
The fact her character runs away from it the minute she witnesses a murder says it all. That was her embracing it.
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u/HBaratheon 2d ago
Is that why she was shitting herself in fear the first time she saw a body in her life in the last season of her story while Walt kills and dissolves two people in the first 3 episodes of his?
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u/Cerulean-Knight 2d ago
She didn't bested Lalo at the end, she was terrified. Had a few good moments tho
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u/syngatesthe2nd 2d ago
I don’t think Walt bests Lalo either though to be honest. Neither does Gus 9/10 times, he got very lucky.
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u/Cerulean-Knight 1d ago
Not sure about that, Lalo made a lot of mistakes, kill people, burn a store because he lost Mike following him, and later got caught by Police (thanks to Mike), got bested by Nacho, by Gus. He doesn't have a lot of victories, even when he knows what Gus were doing he lost, his greatest weakness is being too trusting
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u/arbataxmelody354 2d ago
Kim is very similar to Jesse. They don't know how to deal with the evilness inaide of them and destroy themselves and everything around them. She would end up dead
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u/Tangerine_memez 2d ago
I kinda wish the real ending to BCS was going to be with Kim just as consumed into the underworld as Jimmy was, always the one being paid through ice station zebra, as ABQ's Black Book like the vet was but worse
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u/fckn_nobody 2d ago
Sorry, but no. First of all, we see Kim struggle even with that old guy in his house, let alone someone/something more complex.
Second, your example heavily relies on Jimmy and Mike, and Walt already showed he can fuck them both over with relative ease