my favorite was the time when he drove off-road after being shot by Walter and quickly escaped, leaving behind the realistic Ehrmentraut robot that he had built in his garage earlier that day from spare car parts, fooling Walter into thinking he was dead while Mike went off to live a happy life with his family in Belize
I heard a saying that went by something like this: "the best strategist in the world doesn't need to fear the second best strategist, he needs to fear the worst one, he is the most unpredictable as you never know what stupidity he's going to do"
@@b3ygghsas that's an interesting saying and it makes sense because I've heard in professional boxing 🥊 that in a street fight guys that aren't trained in fighting can sometimes be dangerous because they will throw wild unpredictable punches that even a seasoned fighter wouldn't expect
Classic robbery line, it's sensible though and it's a threat at the same time without actually threatening someone. He risked his life because he being so tough against someone with ties to the cartel....but also tuco is being real clear he's not afraid to kill someone
I love the part where Tuco says, "I don't really want to bother with insurance, and actually you're right, it's really not that big of a deal, don't worry about it, just be more careful from now on"
@@indalcecio remember that scene in BB ep1s1 when Hank goes "Sorry Walt, a drug raid is too dangerous for civillians, I can't allow you to go." And then the show ends? Truly secured it as the greatest show of all time.
The thing that makes Mike so unique is that he manages to stay calm despite whatever situation he’s in. I feel like that what helps him stay alive…At least in these scenes that is.
Yes because he doesn’t care if he lives or dies, as long as his granddaughter is safe. He’s an empty shell of a man and there’s nothing envious about him except for his cleverness
13:00 Some people might wonder why you'd fill truck tires with money. The answer: it's actually faster & easier than filling with air, due to inflation.
Mike did not outsmart Hank and Gomez in S5E2. He actually lost. They know about the account for his granddaughter. This forced him to have to keep working with Heisenberg.
There was no proof against Mike at that time. Gus for all we know set that up out of friendship towards Mike. I know that’s not the truth but the police didn’t have anything on him at that point
But if you realize still had money coming in he was more just angry at the DEA. But he wasn’t losing at all. He stayed a free man until his death while doing the most vile things known to man
@@hindenburg1596 He certainly didn't 'outsmart' them. He just accepted a loss without letting it make him reveal anything. That's not winning. It's just cutting your losses.
I feel an important thing not shown in these clips is that while Mike outsmarting his opponents is the greatest, the preparation before all these happen is even better : him observing Hector's business to rob his truck, the carbon paper under his doorstep to see if anyone broke into his house... "Lesson is, if you're gonna be a criminal do your homework."
@@canObeans4we not only that, but he shoots several rounds into the air so the drivers think it's hunters in the distance and don't respond to the shot that ends up covering their truck with cocaine.
@@Tzizenorec Both of you didn't watch the show; the other guy (Nacho) paid Mike to assassinate Tuco, but Mike refuses to kill Tuco because the whole Salamanca family will come after Nacho if he did that; so he devises a plan to get Tuco jail time for 8 years at least, so that Nacho's problem will be fixed and no one will have to die.
A police dog always will be more intimidating than a rabid dog, and you know why? because he knows the right time to strike and is patient enough to do so. Tuco is unpredictable but you always know that sooner or later he's going to freak out for some reason, Mike on the other hand you never know when he's going to pull a gun or punch you. tuco is just a chaos waiting to blow up sometime and mike is the very well hidden bear trap who won't trigger anything until he really feels like it, as such it will be fast and you probably won't have a reaction time to it whne happens.
I didn't see it that way. I saw it as him being nervous about pulling the whole thing on Tuco because of how unhinged Tuco is and what might happen if he gets found out or otherwise fails.
@@marcusrasborg6874 I think it's less he isn't the best actor and more the amazing writing and direction. Mike's whole character is he plans basically everything and can predict almost everything. If you know something is gonna happen, then when it happens you won't be surprised at all. This also shows that Mike is cool-headed in pressure situations which is why he is usually everyone's fixer. Look at Jesse's reaction to Jane's death and Mike's reaction (obviously not perfect since Jesse cared about Jane while Mike didn't but still an example). The only times when Mike does freak out is when even he couldn't predict what would happen, like when Walt reveals Gale's address or when Gus slices open that guy's throat, or when Walt escapes and hides the Methadone.
I love the scene where Hank and gomie are trying to negotiate with Mike to confess. As a former cop Mike knows full well that all of that money is going to be seized and his grand daughter will receive nothing regardless of what he tells them
Despite Mike remaining cool as a cucumber you can see how dead inside he is in his eyes, all of that money was everything he was staying in the game for and it was completely ripped away from him like that because of one man and his ego
Honeslty I think Hank and Gomez were being kind of dicks. They want to rob an innocent 10 year old girl of her life savings? In an era where civil forfeiture is getting a lot of bad press, they would be in for a hell of a PR disaster. She might end up with a settlement for $3 million.
i like how despite being like one of the most capable person in the show, he still doesn’t let his emotions get the better of him and try to live a normal life with his family. sadly that didn’t work out so well…
@@jorozco13yearsago40 not really, the reason why Mike was killed was because he stabbed at the heart of Walter's biggest flaw by mocking to him about how his ego ruined a business that was pretty much perfect and that if he had just listened, they all would've been fine and not in the position they are now.
I never realized Mike literally rolled his eyes upon realizing his ear got grazed. Probably realized that’s one more question Stacey’s gonna ask when he goes to visit Kaylee
i LOVE tuco looking at the cops surrounding him fully realizing and i think even respecting mike’s play he just laughs and knowingly takes the bait anyway because thats tuco
@@groofromtheup5719 true true my memory is fuzzy but i felt like there was something about him not getting bail bc he did this with an officer as witness or something like that idk. just peak mike and peak tuco i love that scene
@@xXmechamonkeeXx No the real issue was that tuco was in possession of a gun which made the situation worse. Albeit punching Mike rifht in front of the police officers definitely didnt help
"I just cashed my social security check, it's all I have for the entire month!"- probably why he's working alongside Fring to mess with the Salamanca cartel
4:41 what’s great about this scene is that mike actually got hank to tell them what they got on him, mike playing the “you got nothing on me” card actually got hank to spill how much they know about him helping mike figure out how to play his next move.
The way he went from “aww come on guys” to “I’m not givng you a damn thing” is amazing acting. Reminded me of the scene in BB where Walt meets Gus and Gus switches from being the friendly chicken man to drug lord.
The gus part is such a good reveal. Everything from his facial expressions to how he carries his body, by sitting up straighter, completely transforms. Even his voice sounds more menacing "I don't think we're alike at all Mr.White"
These kinds of scenes are what I love about Vince Gilligan because he demonstrates creative solutions to problems that normal people wouldn't think of.
@@GrantDWilliams82 because in real, normal, and ordinary life I am not getting gunned down by 2 men nor getting threatened by a group of men nor being chased by a man nor am I sneaking into someone’s home to threaten them
i grew up with a guy like mike. he was a retired marine. worked on my dads trucks. he was 5’7” 180, hands down the strongest most violent man ive ever met. he was a sweet heart if you gave him respect, god help you if you angered him
They created Mike so he could "replace" Bob Odenkirks character for one episode and now he ends up as fan favourite and one of the main protagonists. After all, half of BCS only evolves around him. Bravo Jonathan!
Hank telling him how he found his nest egg is one of the biggest takedowns in the show. After seeing everything Mike went through and all the money is gone, cause of Walt.
Mike's pretty savvy wouldn't you say? Maybe he has 3 other spots he's deposited huge amounts? Maybe he's got more coming and it's never ending? We'll never know. It's not like he's into buying yachts.
It's a power move meant to rile him up and make him slip. It works on people who are already nervous or with weak willpower. Mike's just on a whole other level.
the lalo and mike scene in the parking lot is nothing short of perfect. cinematography, acting, the action, can rewatch that scene over and over and over. Shame we didn’t get to see Lalo in BB.
gotta appreciate that Mike is the only one who truly outsmarted Lalo at any point. Gus just prepared super well and got lucky. Mike beat him at his own game i.e improvisational thinking too which is even more impressive.
@@gluck5869 agree 100%, but wouldn’t say it was luck, more just pure paranoia turning out to pay off. him putting the gun in the super lab was a literal last resort thing i think for him, but agree on the mike thing 100%. he truly played lalo at his own game.
That first scene is one of my all time favorites. It perfectly encapsulated both Tuco and Mike's characters. Mike comes out on top like always (well, not always when the one who knocks is around), and Tuco finishes his L in a perfect Tuco way.
What's even more interesting is the actor playing Tuco who said he hated playing the character because he was violent, rash, cruel and evil and he wanted Tuco to die at the end of s(1?2?)
The chewing gum one is my personal favorite. I had to rewatch it several times during the first time I was watching it, really amused and excited by how Mike perfectly executed it.
Better Call Saul makes me so much more bitter about the way Mike is taken out. But I can at least take solace in the fact that he wasn't necessarily outsmarted or beaten in a regular sense. He just underestimated how much of an absolute man-child Walter was. His downfall was in not being evil enough to take Walt out first (Which isn't a bad thing in many ways.) Still, knowing he did it all for nothing and that Kailey won't see a dime hurts like Hell.
@@Arathurs Mike is no saint, that's for sure, but it's hard not to at least root for him a little. He was the anti-Walt, actually doing it all for his family.
It always feels so weird seeing a dead character in a prequel show alive and well, it’s just haunting knowing their eventual fate and downfall. And to think most of these characters’s deaths in this show was caused by one man, *Walter White.*
I think part of it is realizing Mike isn't who he played him to be. He was bettered and had a weird form of respect for Mike. He laughed when Walt blew up his office too
I know right! I mean, when Hector Salamanca got up from his wheelchair and yelled “THIS IS SPARTA!” before roundhouse kicking Jesse in the face… man that was shocking!
Hank is someone who would have been on the same skill level as Mike when he got older (Except maybe a slight edge on combat and tech knowledge, where Mike will always be superior). The only important difference would have been that Hank would have stayed on the more ethical side of things instead of collaborating with criminals.
I love this compilation, but how do you not have Mike avenging the death of his son in Philadelphia? Probably the greatest scene in the entire Better Call Saul cannon.
@@InfinityMind1 it was actually an interrogation technique, to show that Mie wouldn't be the one dictating the conversation. Because after all, every interrogation is all about leverage
This compilation could show damn near any interaction Mike has in either show. Nobody really outsmarts him. Walt just kinda goes crazy on him, and he easily outsmarts Lalo. What a great character
@@N313GrayFox I still see this as the moment where Mike gets fully wrapped up with the Cartel and later on Gus. Those other times he’d interacted with Nacho weren’t even Cartel related, it was a side hustle for both of them. Mike’s tussle with Tuco is what puts him on Hector’s radar, and then Gus’s shortly after
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Mike wanted to sabotage Hector's drug operation and succeeded Nacho wanted to put Hector in a wheelchair and succeeded Walter wanted to kill Gus with the help of Hector and succeeded
I feel like Gus recruited Mike not only because he recognized how valuable an asset he was, but also because Mike is not the kind of person even a drug lord like Gus wants to have working against them.
What I love about the Breaking Bad franchise is that it shows that to be a good criminal you have to be, above all other things, intelligent. Most people associated criminals with being dumb for the choices they make in their life and while that's somewhat true, a good criminal will probably be way smarter than the average citizen at solving non-academic problems
what are you even talking about? criminals don't survive because they are so smart no one can find them. the ones that survive are the ones that bribed the right people.
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the first clip, you should've included mike's call the cops beforehand because he knew just how long it'd take them to respond to his call and he timed everything perfectly to coincide with the arrival of the squad cars
Love the exchange between hank & Mike, one of my favourite scenes, 'Is it Mike or Michael ' 'Mr Ermantraht ' 'So anyway mike' 🤣🤣🤣 I think deep down Hank respects the fact Mike is not your average guy
Watching Mike is always so interesting. Even after the fact that you already know what happens, it's still so interesting like "how did he think of that?" What I'd give to erase both of these series from my mind and relive them for the first time
I'm 100% sure Vince made Walter kill Mike, because if he ever discovered Walter killed his men... And ensalved Jesse, he'd haveadd and p a plan to kill him and Jack's gang
I'd love to see an alternate ending with Mike finding out about Walt planning the death of Mike's men. I honestly think Walt and all the hitmen would lose if Mike had a plan in place.
Omg!! I never realized that before and wondered why that guy hadn’t been cast again. He was so easy to hate in that! Watching Eddie Murphy throw him over the fruit bar was one of my all time favorite scenes!
Mike is like playing chess on his enemies where he's a move or two ahead of them. Mike is one of my favorite BCS/BB characters of all time. My favorite scene of him is when he purchased the welcome mats as a tatic where he can noticed if his house was broken into or not due to the fact he declined the $5,000 offer that was given to from Hector Salamanca.
My favorite is the one where he gets a salamanca truck captured. He hangs boots full of drugs on an electric line and shoots to make drugs fall on a truck. Just plain old genius 😂
The best bit is when crazy old man says "that all you got" and Tuco has a deep thought then laughs maniacally and punches him again with guns pointing at him. Top level entertainment.
4:08: I love how Mike takes this guy down. He doesn’t do some big move or show of force. He’s quick, precise, and efficient because that’s how he runs business. He gets the job done.
If you are trained in fighting and get into a fight you’ll be surprised how you don’t overreact or make mistakes There’s a reason people train to learn how to fight
The part where Hank was interrogating Mike was great. Hank got him in a quick bind but what were Mike's options? Rat out himself to Hank, throwing away everything, including probably the money, to try and survive, or Feign ignorance, lose the money he already lost anyway, and walk free. Hank saying "maybe" threw away the best bait he had against Mike, not that it would've 100% worked anyway.
@@MoSalah17-18 He tried to get closer and be friendly with him in the begining. After Walter gave him thr could shoulder and his relationship with Gus soured, he stopped trying to be cool with him and started disliking him.
@@Nai-qk4vp but Mike always had a bad feeling about walt. He even told saul/jimmy not to get mixed up with him because he really didn't like him from the start
My grandpa used to say to me "you should listen to your elders but not all of us because I have some friends with no marbles". I was young at the time, I had to grow up a bit to really understand what he meant. I can still hear his laughter after he'd tell me that. Rip
After the Philly cops let Mike's son's killer walk, I doubt he'd ever work for pigs again. Definitely not a Fed pig on top of that. Mike's too honorable for cops
other worldly wisdom, streetsmarts, discipline, psychological strength, impregnable calm, his own moral code, living lawlessly in an unjust world, remaining a ghost in everyday life, really one of the most complex characters
wish they would have shown the set up @ 08:05 from the beginning, when mike suspects the Salamanca crew will be waiting inside for him by placing some carbon paper underneath the welcome mat and confirming his suspicion by seen fresh foot prints and knowing they guys were in inside. Pretty awesome.
Calmly being irritated about his ear getting shot right after having such a close near death experience makes Mike out to be so badass. Such clever character exposition
4:45 my head-canon for this scene has always been that back in the day, Mike once had the same thing happen to him during an interrogation and always had it in the back of his head because he secretly thought it was super cool and could finally use it himself lol
i swear, mike has incredibly well thought out but also realistic reactions to outsmarting. there are movies about secret agents and spies that are supposed to be way beyond someone like mike that don't have anything near as elaborate or smart as these scenes. and i dont even know why, people love seeing mike be smart like this, this video has 4 million views..
Yes. Plus I think Mike outsmarting people by PLANNING AHEAD and being calm and focused is MUCH more believable than a Jason Bourne type being a constant nearly super-human type on the fly. The latter is simply NOT believable on a sustained basis, IMO.
18:47 bruh I just feel bad for that guy just minding his own business while lalo and mike are in a chase lmao that “I’m sorry it’s just not working” and when lalo hits him and spills his drink like bruh 🤣
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Mike playing the innocent senior citizen is one of my favourite gags
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@@Hankblue I could not stop laughing when he used that voice
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my favorite was the time when he drove off-road after being shot by Walter and quickly escaped, leaving behind the realistic Ehrmentraut robot that he had built in his garage earlier that day from spare car parts, fooling Walter into thinking he was dead while Mike went off to live a happy life with his family in Belize
God, if only.
Chicanery
learn somen' every day...
I always thought somehow he faked his death
@@dc7236 they dissolved his body in acid
Mike is extremely clever, the only reason he was killed was because walt did something so unbelievably stupid he couldn't have predicted it.
that is so true. His death was the proof that Walt was, as he said, a ticking bomb, waiting to explode
I heard a saying that went by something like this: "the best strategist in the world doesn't need to fear the second best strategist, he needs to fear the worst one, he is the most unpredictable as you never know what stupidity he's going to do"
@@b3ygghsas that's an interesting saying and it makes sense because I've heard in professional boxing 🥊 that in a street fight guys that aren't trained in fighting can sometimes be dangerous because they will throw wild unpredictable punches that even a seasoned fighter wouldn't expect
I thought he got killed because of the script
@@Oilatumify this is not anime shounen bro lol
Tuco lecturing Mike on how he shouldn't be risking his life over $400 is probably the most wholesome thing I've seen Tuco do to a stranger.
And ironic too because that's what he was fighting for and got tied up with Mike like a fly in a spider's web. He was describing himself.
@@ythandlenametrue really is great writing
Classic robbery line, it's sensible though and it's a threat at the same time without actually threatening someone.
He risked his life because he being so tough against someone with ties to the cartel....but also tuco is being real clear he's not afraid to kill someone
Because he’s clearly someone who cares about others. 🤣
@jamescheddar4896 Id take getting fired from a low wage job over dying anydau
That idea of using chewing gum to jam the ticket machine was genius. Also calls back to his days as a parking attendant
He probably had to deal with those kind of machines breaking all the time, he knew exactly what would put them out of commission
That's what we call gumming up the works XD
Lalo didn't have enough stickers
I didnt even think about the parking attendant thing. That's brilliant you noticed that
Actually, does the machine even take anything after it took the actual ticket?
Mike suggesting that he and Tuco exchange insurance information is one of the best scenes of the show.
I love the part where Tuco says, "I don't really want to bother with insurance, and actually you're right, it's really not that big of a deal, don't worry about it, just be more careful from now on"
@@indalcecio remember that scene in BB ep1s1 when Hank goes "Sorry Walt, a drug raid is too dangerous for civillians, I can't allow you to go." And then the show ends? Truly secured it as the greatest show of all time.
@@tescomealdeal9901 of course, that's the episode Breaking Bad won a Tony Award for, how could I forget
@@indalcecio Can't forget the Ted Award! Such a brilliant ending deserved such a brilliant prize.
@@averageillegalmemesdealer didnt bryan cranston get a oscar for that aswell
Finger is such a good character they named a body part after him. Truly superb writing.
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Bravo Vince!
Bruh 😭😭😭
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1:12 Mike’s fake scared voice saying “ah come on guys” makes me laugh every time
lol
Legitimately thought it was some other guy voice over him
@@frds_skce I thought someone else said it and I had to rewind to watch everyone’s lips and was surprised when it was Mike lmao
@@JohnnysBrainfart4372 same lol
XD
Mike is like a retired GTA character who’s been through it all.
Mike is kind of what would have happened if those cops hadn't been dicks to Rambo in First Blood
Mike is that next GTA 6 character that will kill Trevor. Just like Trevor killed Johnny.
@@Secretcodrin Mike is that character that always curses the playable protagonist out and you have to kill him in the end...
Mike is sort of like that character played by Jonathan Banks in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
@@Randomaccount12321 yeah what was his name again? mike ermtraut
Mike always look like he doesn't have a plan prepared, but when he does, he wins
Mike’s at the stage in life where NOT trying hard is the way he wins.
The only thing mike should’ve done that he hadn’t done is kill Walter right away!
Except for when he had Walt at gunpoint in the laundromat and let him call Jesse and metup with Walt a final time.
He did not plan on getting shot by Walt.
@@daisaigaming6836 obviously, he did not expect it
Mike pretending to be a helpless senior citizen is the funniest thing ever
"Aww come on, guys!"
I could seriously watch a whole show of Mike outsmarting people
Would've loved a Mike spin off if he wasn't killed off in BB, imagine him in some form of retirement.
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Mike and Price was like a strangers & freaks quest on gta 5
The thing that makes Mike so unique is that he manages to stay calm despite whatever situation he’s in. I feel like that what helps him stay alive…At least in these scenes that is.
Except briefly when Gus slit victors throat
Makes him a great foil for Walt in BB and a great friend to Saul in BCS.
And then the one scene where he finally does get angry is where he dies
@@benballard5930 I don’t blame him for losing it at Walt tbh
Yes because he doesn’t care if he lives or dies, as long as his granddaughter is safe. He’s an empty shell of a man and there’s nothing envious about him except for his cleverness
13:00 Some people might wonder why you'd fill truck tires with money.
The answer: it's actually faster & easier than filling with air, due to inflation.
Good one.
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Kind of a double meaning with inflation. Nicely done
@@joshselkovits466 Yes, that's what I was going to say lol. That's real inflation, literally inflating the tires with money.
Gtfo! That was a good one!
Mike did not outsmart Hank and Gomez in S5E2. He actually lost. They know about the account for his granddaughter. This forced him to have to keep working with Heisenberg.
They still didn't get anything from him which was their goal, so he actually won this situation
There was no proof against Mike at that time.
Gus for all we know set that up out of friendship towards Mike. I know that’s not the truth but the police didn’t have anything on him at that point
But if you realize still had money coming in he was more just angry at the DEA. But he wasn’t losing at all. He stayed a free man until his death while doing the most vile things known to man
@@basher5107 they found his granddaughters accpunt gus made and confiscated the money? Did u actually watch the episode
@@hindenburg1596 He certainly didn't 'outsmart' them. He just accepted a loss without letting it make him reveal anything. That's not winning. It's just cutting your losses.
I feel an important thing not shown in these clips is that while Mike outsmarting his opponents is the greatest, the preparation before all these happen is even better : him observing Hector's business to rob his truck, the carbon paper under his doorstep to see if anyone broke into his house...
"Lesson is, if you're gonna be a criminal do your homework."
Don't forget the part where he throws the shoes full of drugs on the power line and then later shoots it when the truck passes by
@@canObeans4we and the part where he gets shot by an ego driven chemistry teacher
@@leavethisaccaloneplzlol lol his one big mistake.. arguably to emphasize how volatile Walter was that someone so cautious could get outplayed
@@canObeans4we not only that, but he shoots several rounds into the air so the drivers think it's hunters in the distance and don't respond to the shot that ends up covering their truck with cocaine.
@@leavethisaccaloneplzlol Ah yes can't forget about that part
Mike: I'm a streetwise ex-cop. There's not much that could surprise me.
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The fact that he looked more annoyed than concerned or in pain when his ear gets shot is hilarious
Mike is such a badass 😂
He's lucky it was only his ear.
A few centimetres of less luck and he would be
bro rolled his eyes to missing an ear chunk 💀💀💀
his ear froze off since he was in the freezer for so long i think
Mike is the embodiment of the saying "beware of a poopoo in a urinal where a peepee would suffice."
Beware of a pop pop
Totally 🤣
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Uh, sir, please don't talk like that🤓
He’s the living definition of the “call an ambulance, but not for me” meme
@@Tzizenorec what advantage
@@Tzizenorec
He can't win any fight.
It's all about leverage and the element of surprise.
That's why Walter shot him at the end.
@@Tzizenorec Both of you didn't watch the show; the other guy (Nacho) paid Mike to assassinate Tuco, but Mike refuses to kill Tuco because the whole Salamanca family will come after Nacho if he did that; so he devises a plan to get Tuco jail time for 8 years at least, so that Nacho's problem will be fixed and no one will have to die.
@@Tzizenorec Did you watch Breaking Bad then?
Don't care
Every time Mike’s devising a scheme without context I’m like “What’s he up to man, what’s he doing.”
in his head, he is telling himself "here's whats gonna happen"
Wat the dog doin
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@@MICROKNIGHT3000 *What the dawg doing
What’s he schemin that ol mischievous rascal
Nacho's palpable anxiety because he knows Mike is a lot more dangerous than Tuco understands is hilarious
A police dog always will be more intimidating than a rabid dog, and you know why? because he knows the right time to strike and is patient enough to do so. Tuco is unpredictable but you always know that sooner or later he's going to freak out for some reason, Mike on the other hand you never know when he's going to pull a gun or punch you. tuco is just a chaos waiting to blow up sometime and mike is the very well hidden bear trap who won't trigger anything until he really feels like it, as such it will be fast and you probably won't have a reaction time to it whne happens.
I didn't see it that way. I saw it as him being nervous about pulling the whole thing on Tuco because of how unhinged Tuco is and what might happen if he gets found out or otherwise fails.
@@brunopereira-gx7dp I think your point still stands but I think I would be more intimidated by the dog with rabies.
@@Ishl a dog with rabies doesn't have to kill you, just bite you
Nah, tuco is chaos, and is more dangerous
I love how Mike always has that bored, half asleep look even in intense situations. He be like "oh, THIS again."
The only time I saw him look panicked was when Gus sliced that guy's throat open after Walter had Jesse kill Gail.
@@bonniehowell9206 or when Walt revealed Gales address
Yeah he isn’t the best actor
@@marcusrasborg6874my man definitely didn't watch bcs
@@marcusrasborg6874 I think it's less he isn't the best actor and more the amazing writing and direction. Mike's whole character is he plans basically everything and can predict almost everything. If you know something is gonna happen, then when it happens you won't be surprised at all. This also shows that Mike is cool-headed in pressure situations which is why he is usually everyone's fixer. Look at Jesse's reaction to Jane's death and Mike's reaction (obviously not perfect since Jesse cared about Jane while Mike didn't but still an example). The only times when Mike does freak out is when even he couldn't predict what would happen, like when Walt reveals Gale's address or when Gus slices open that guy's throat, or when Walt escapes and hides the Methadone.
I love the scene where Hank and gomie are trying to negotiate with Mike to confess. As a former cop Mike knows full well that all of that money is going to be seized and his grand daughter will receive nothing regardless of what he tells them
He takes it with the typical stoicism but that is his entire life ruined right there. Walt had already killed him.
Remember seeing that scene for the first time with no context, and just thinking "Dude better compleeeetely deny knowing anything about it!" 😂
Despite Mike remaining cool as a cucumber you can see how dead inside he is in his eyes, all of that money was everything he was staying in the game for and it was completely ripped away from him like that because of one man and his ego
Mike should have diversified his portfolio
Honeslty I think Hank and Gomez were being kind of dicks. They want to rob an innocent 10 year old girl of her life savings? In an era where civil forfeiture is getting a lot of bad press, they would be in for a hell of a PR disaster. She might end up with a settlement for $3 million.
Mike is the best example of the phrase "be weary of an old man in a line of work where most die young"
That would be "Wary" not "Weary" 🤓
I've never seen this quote before. Truly an original comment for the ages! 🙄
Breaking bad fans don't recycle the same 4 quotes challenge
@@josephrees7100 impossible mode
@@runningoutofnames3CS The only mode
Mike is the embodiment of the saying “beware of an old man in a profession where men die young”
Wasn't it his saying?
stop repeating and stealing the same quotes over and over, ive seen this for years and so have you, just saying it for likes
@@1ukzje, bro, I can feel your pain, but do you know, your call just won't work?
@@1ukzje doofus it ain’t stealing a quote if I used quotation marks. And btw doofus, that’s what quotes are for, to be used again and again 😂😂.
more like beware of an overused quote
i like how despite being like one of the most capable person in the show, he still doesn’t let his emotions get the better of him and try to live a normal life with his family. sadly that didn’t work out so well…
Well that's exactly what led to his demise, he let Walt crawl under his skin
@@jorozco13yearsago40 Very good point
@@jorozco13yearsago40 under his finger
@@ulime finger named waltuh
@@jorozco13yearsago40 not really, the reason why Mike was killed was because he stabbed at the heart of Walter's biggest flaw by mocking to him about how his ego ruined a business that was pretty much perfect and that if he had just listened, they all would've been fine and not in the position they are now.
I never realized Mike literally rolled his eyes upon realizing his ear got grazed. Probably realized that’s one more question Stacey’s gonna ask when he goes to visit Kaylee
"Hey Grampa, what happened to your ear?"
"Squirrel."
"Here? In New Mexico?"
"It was a New Mexican Squirrel."
@@meh2521just five more minutes!
i LOVE tuco looking at the cops surrounding him fully realizing and i think even respecting mike’s play he just laughs and knowingly takes the bait anyway because thats tuco
not like it impacted the charges any
@@groofromtheup5719 true true my memory is fuzzy but i felt like there was something about him not getting bail bc he did this with an officer as witness or something like that idk. just peak mike and peak tuco i love that scene
yeah that part gives me a real chuckle, especially Tuco's laugh. One of my favourite little scenes in all of BB and BCS as a whole.
@@xXmechamonkeeXx No the real issue was that tuco was in possession of a gun which made the situation worse. Albeit punching Mike rifht in front of the police officers definitely didnt help
"Aw C'mon Guys" gets me everytime
"I just cashed my social security check, it's all I have for the entire month!"- probably why he's working alongside Fring to mess with the Salamanca cartel
Mike is good at playing the "pathetic old man" routine pretty well.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
He can be the new equalizer
Read this at the same time as the scene 😂 1:11
Mike is probably my favourite character in any show ever.
🗿
*finger
He's probably the best finger out there.
Same here I love this character
Top 20 fs
4:41 what’s great about this scene is that mike actually got hank to tell them what they got on him, mike playing the “you got nothing on me” card actually got hank to spill how much they know about him helping mike figure out how to play his next move.
That's pretty much how you're supposed to deny involvement among the presence of police officers in general 🤷
The way he went from “aww come on guys” to “I’m not givng you a damn thing” is amazing acting. Reminded me of the scene in BB where Walt meets Gus and Gus switches from being the friendly chicken man to drug lord.
It's really not that amazing dude it's a simple line read, pretty much anyone could do it
If he wore a pair of glasses he wouldn’t have hit him
@@Trollololololful well prove it.
@@Trollololololful Obvious troll is obvious
The gus part is such a good reveal. Everything from his facial expressions to how he carries his body, by sitting up straighter, completely transforms. Even his voice sounds more menacing
"I don't think we're alike at all Mr.White"
These kinds of scenes are what I love about Vince Gilligan because he demonstrates creative solutions to problems that normal people wouldn't think of.
Its not that normal people don't think of them, its that most of them wouldn't actually work work in actual, real, normal life.
@@GrantDWilliams82 because in real, normal, and ordinary life I am not getting gunned down by 2 men nor getting threatened by a group of men nor being chased by a man nor am I sneaking into someone’s home to threaten them
@@GrantDWilliams82 No, its that most normal people wouldn't think of them.
Vravo Bince
@@GrandGourmand but if you were doing those things in real life, most of Mike's tricks wouldn't actually work and you'd just be dead.
i grew up with a guy like mike. he was a retired marine. worked on my dads trucks. he was 5’7” 180, hands down the strongest most violent man ive ever met. he was a sweet heart if you gave him respect, god help you if you angered him
Did he grape you
@@dukenukem69 thats an interesting question to ask lmao what in the hell made u ask that?
@@KTJ1101 he wants it
@@dukenukem69 One person cannot grape anybody. There has to be a bunch of them.😆
@@dukenukem69 🤔
Mike doesn’t need his own show . . . He outsmarted everyone by dominating two of the best shows of all time.
I love the fact that Mike knows he's an old man and uses that to his advantage. Grandfather of the year award.
I love how is he is mildly irritated that his ear got shotoff 😂
They created Mike so he could "replace" Bob Odenkirks character for one episode and now he ends up as fan favourite and one of the main protagonists. After all, half of BCS only evolves around him.
Bravo Jonathan!
It also made a lot more sense than having a lawyer clean up Jesse's apartment.
@@Immafraid Yeah. Saul doesn’t look like he’d do any physical work, and he seems sensitive to dead bodies as well.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Especially after having a staring contest with-wait have you seen BCS? I don't want to spoil it.
@@Immafraid I have seen BCS, who’re you talking about?
bravo vince
Mike is such a badass. Even when the tip of his ear was shot, he didn't look like he was in pain, he just looked annoyed. 🤣
To be fair u dont feel much pain in the tip of your ear, but y hes badass:)
It’s almost like he’s an actor and his ear wasn’t really shot
@@DuskLegend it was tho. Everyone that was shown to be killed in the show are no longer here with us.
@Dusk Legend We're talking about the character, not the actual guy playing him. If his ear was supposed to hurt then he would've acted like it.
@@x3IBudallazZz still burns and hurts. Similair to when your fingers get burnt ( not the pads)
Hank telling him how he found his nest egg is one of the biggest takedowns in the show. After seeing everything Mike went through and all the money is gone, cause of Walt.
Mike's pretty savvy wouldn't you say? Maybe he has 3 other spots he's deposited huge amounts? Maybe he's got more coming and it's never ending? We'll never know.
It's not like he's into buying yachts.
at least his granddaughter got some money in the end
@@onepiecefanboy17 Did they confirm if she ever got any? I thought they kept finding his stashes.
@@myflatlineconstruct mike straight up says it himself in the show that all his money is seized
Only mistake Mike did was not believing Saul to handle his money. He went with another lawyer which eventually got him to runaway and face waltuh
7:05 i love how Hank asks if he can call him Mike and then just keeps calling him Mike when he tells him to call him Mr Ehrmantraut
It's a power move meant to rile him up and make him slip. It works on people who are already nervous or with weak willpower. Mike's just on a whole other level.
@@Tawleyn Or Hank knew Mike was just messing with him when he said to call him Mr Ehrmantraut and that he actually doesn't care what he calls him.
@@AlbatrossRevenue nah, he can’t know that - they barely interacted. It was disrespectful on purpose
Knowing Tuco, he was honestly pretty well contained in that first clip
yeah i think it's because he respects elders and had'nt gotten hooked on drugs quite yet
Jail probably made him a bit more wild, as it's often the case.
I think it's only because he's in a public space
Calmest Tuco moment
he wasnt on the glass bbq
the lalo and mike scene in the parking lot is nothing short of perfect. cinematography, acting, the action, can rewatch that scene over and over and over. Shame we didn’t get to see Lalo in BB.
You have watched ALL of bcs, right? If so you will know why lalo is not in BB
I mean if you wanna get technical he does get mentioned in breaking bad.
gotta appreciate that Mike is the only one who truly outsmarted Lalo at any point. Gus just prepared super well and got lucky. Mike beat him at his own game i.e improvisational thinking too which is even more impressive.
@@gluck5869 agree 100%, but wouldn’t say it was luck, more just pure paranoia turning out to pay off. him putting the gun in the super lab was a literal last resort thing i think for him, but agree on the mike thing 100%. he truly played lalo at his own game.
Lalo got killed by Gus Fring.
That first scene is one of my all time favorites.
It perfectly encapsulated both Tuco and Mike's characters.
Mike comes out on top like always (well, not always when the one who knocks is around), and Tuco finishes his L in a perfect Tuco way.
What's even more interesting is the actor playing Tuco who said he hated playing the character because he was violent, rash, cruel and evil and he wanted Tuco to die at the end of s(1?2?)
@@Kairac112 Apparently its because his family (Tuco's actor) said they hated seeing him like that on TV.
@@Matt-us1gtbet they didn't hate the money he got.
nah AMC didn't pay him that much. Breaking Bad wasn't that big in Season 1@@rapatacush3
The chewing gum one is my personal favorite. I had to rewatch it several times during the first time I was watching it, really amused and excited by how Mike perfectly executed it.
One of my favorite mike-scenes in the franchise
It’s even more impressive after season 5 and 6. Lalo was scary smart, yet Mike outplayed him then and there.
@@blankfrank25 or he has seen happen while working at the parking lot
@@themetalfleece Or it’s a script since it’s a show.
@@PhyrexJ it's clearly a documentary 🙄
Better Call Saul makes me so much more bitter about the way Mike is taken out. But I can at least take solace in the fact that he wasn't necessarily outsmarted or beaten in a regular sense. He just underestimated how much of an absolute man-child Walter was. His downfall was in not being evil enough to take Walt out first (Which isn't a bad thing in many ways.) Still, knowing he did it all for nothing and that Kailey won't see a dime hurts like Hell.
Yeah it is true
he still provided for them a lot and jesse will take care of her aswell so
The farewell to Mike at the end of BCS with his empty guard shack actually made me very sad.
It says something about human psychology how easy it is for viewers to empathize with problematic characters.
@@Arathurs Mike is no saint, that's for sure, but it's hard not to at least root for him a little. He was the anti-Walt, actually doing it all for his family.
It always feels so weird seeing a dead character in a prequel show alive and well, it’s just haunting knowing their eventual fate and downfall. And to think most of these characters’s deaths in this show was caused by one man, *Walter White.*
Waltuh
Very *dramatic*
Rip Mike he died when Waltuh forgot to put his dick away
Mike didn’t die
@@fellurs you clearly haven’t seen Ep. 7 of season 5 in Breaking Bad, have you?
Mike and Billy Mays teaming up is one of the greatest moments in television ever.
😮
@jaredbaratta8589 lmfao that got me
@jaredbaratta8589Found one? But wait there's more! In the other room!
I love the laugh Tuco gives after realizing he’s going away either way 😂
I think part of it is realizing Mike isn't who he played him to be. He was bettered and had a weird form of respect for Mike. He laughed when Walt blew up his office too
it was the equivalent of a chess master laughing touche to an opponent who bested them
After watching all the moments, it feels weird knowing who Mike got outsmarted by.
Thanks for not spoiling it
@@Inklow No disrespect but what tf are you doing on a channel with spoilers for a show you havent watched/finished
I know right! I mean, when Hector Salamanca got up from his wheelchair and yelled “THIS IS SPARTA!” before roundhouse kicking Jesse in the face… man that was shocking!
@@woahblackbettybamalam and reading the comments too :D
He wasn’t really “outsmarted”, he was surprised by someone he thought he was able to trust and it costed him.
Hank is one of the few people I think actually got to Mike, but he refused to let him see it
Hank is a great interrogator. He goads or intimidates the macho criminals and fakes friendly with some
Hank single-handedly could've taken down the whole operation. Too bad Heisenberg did it first. And too bad he crossed Jack.
Hank is someone who would have been on the same skill level as Mike when he got older (Except maybe a slight edge on combat and tech knowledge, where Mike will always be superior). The only important difference would have been that Hank would have stayed on the more ethical side of things instead of collaborating with criminals.
I love this compilation, but how do you not have Mike avenging the death of his son in Philadelphia? Probably the greatest scene in the entire Better Call Saul cannon.
He did. He killed those two beat cops in Philly
@@MilwaukeeMikeAus The person in the comment means they left out that scene from this video compilation and I totally agree
Pretty funny Tuco realized what Mike was doing when the cops showed up and decided to punch Mike again anyway.
he said “shiii i’m gettin booked anyway might as well get one more hit in”
That was a little unrealistic
They probably would have shot him if he kept swinging
@@countof3everybodyOD ???
@@countof3everybodyOD only if he was black
@@ONLYUSEmyTOILET you must not know what police are
"Well here's the thing mike...er... Michael?"
"Mr Ehmentraut"
"Here's the thing Mike..."
Hahahaha
I hate Hank for being like that. Being a blatantly disrespectful, hog-like, know-it-all.
@@InfinityMind1 it was actually an interrogation technique, to show that Mie wouldn't be the one dictating the conversation. Because after all, every interrogation is all about leverage
@@callumbreton8930it was also really funny
@@InfinityMind1 hank was literally one of the best characters in da show, i hate how he died
@@werdnoek have u seen the spoof where he comes back to life lol ?
This compilation could show damn near any interaction Mike has in either show. Nobody really outsmarts him. Walt just kinda goes crazy on him, and he easily outsmarts Lalo. What a great character
Walt's unpredictability (in addition to his intelligence when thinking on his feet) is what enabled him to outsmart Mike.
Lowkey Lalo outsmarted him at the end and got mike and the security away from gus
Walt never out smarted Mike. He just became a man child and shot him for essentially no reason
@@TateAnakov yeah he was fed up with mike talking to him like he was a child ahah
@@TateAnakov What about Gale's death? I'd say he outsmarted Mike by far there.
Mike is such a badass. His character is so fun and they really did us a favor by putting him in Better Call Saul.
Just realized that for both Jimmy and Mike, their stories start with them outsmarting Tuco
"stories start"?
The clip of Mike & Tuco is from the second season by which point Mike had already interacted with Nacho several times beforehand.
@@N313GrayFox I still see this as the moment where Mike gets fully wrapped up with the Cartel and later on Gus. Those other times he’d interacted with Nacho weren’t even Cartel related, it was a side hustle for both of them. Mike’s tussle with Tuco is what puts him on Hector’s radar, and then Gus’s shortly after
Mike, Jimmy, and Walter had one thing and common: They had to deal with Tuco.
@@eduardocherry7268 True. If it weren’t for that vet, he would have never interacted with the Juàrez cartel.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054
Mike wanted to sabotage Hector's drug operation and succeeded
Nacho wanted to put Hector in a wheelchair and succeeded
Walter wanted to kill Gus with the help of Hector and succeeded
I miss Better Call Saul. I don't think we'll ever get a show as good as that again.
breaking bad
@@JadeiteMcSwag 'again'
Maybe people used to say the same after The Sopranos. Might take a while but we will get another piece of art.
@@fizicio Yeah, didn't you hear? They're debuting the first episode next month! So exciting!
I prefer Breaking Bad. BCS was almost as good because of many of the side characters like Mike and Lalo
I feel like Gus recruited Mike not only because he recognized how valuable an asset he was, but also because Mike is not the kind of person even a drug lord like Gus wants to have working against them.
What I love about the Breaking Bad franchise is that it shows that to be a good criminal you have to be, above all other things, intelligent. Most people associated criminals with being dumb for the choices they make in their life and while that's somewhat true, a good criminal will probably be way smarter than the average citizen at solving non-academic problems
what are you even talking about? criminals don't survive because they are so smart no one can find them. the ones that survive are the ones that bribed the right people.
Lmao homeboy thinks this show is realistic
@@jb76489It's literally true though. Scientifically researched levels of true.
@@tommerker8063You think like a toddler
better than having no brain at all@@SairanBurghausen
12:10
I like how the guy got scared by the sound of the saw.
That was nice
Honestly, if I wouldn't know Mikes character, I would expect him to cut his head off.
VRAVO BINCE
this has gotta be a joke
WOW HE GOT SCARED AT THE SOUND OF THE SAW? WHAT INCREDIBLE AND GENIUS WRITTING
I thought that was kinda to tease what's going to happen to him for losing that money.
I love that Mike straight up disarms Tuco and takes several punches all while still playing a scared old man ☠️
All clearly planned out, just like a chess strategy.
You don’t have enough stickers to outsmart Mike.
Fine, you win, hooray for you....
Ugh BACKING UP! I have to back up! I need more 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 don't have enough 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴.
Thank you! Thaaank youuu, very nice!...... Employee of the month over here!
😬👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Yaaaaa hooray! Give him a medal!
Unless you’re Walt
@@dominiccruz7469 haha one of my favorite TV rants, and Mike's seething apathetic stare as all that's going down just makes it all the more better
the first clip, you should've included mike's call the cops beforehand because he knew just how long it'd take them to respond to his call and he timed everything perfectly to coincide with the arrival of the squad cars
I always like his derpy old man routine in the first scene
rip for the innocent man at 19:30 who had his yummy drink and whole day ruined.
Love the exchange between hank & Mike, one of my favourite scenes,
'Is it Mike or Michael '
'Mr Ermantraht '
'So anyway mike' 🤣🤣🤣
I think deep down Hank respects the fact Mike is not your average guy
Also showing cops' arrogance and stupidity. (Not all cops, but far too many).
@@rogergeyer9851 how does it show that? He had a right to be arrogant he was right on everything lol
2:18 Nacho dropping the car keys to incriminate Tuco further
Finger really is so intelligent. My favourite part was when he said "its outsmartin' time" and outsmarted all over the place.
My fav part is when you commit sudoku
@@hydroxytriptamine3554 pretty bold comin from a guy with a chemical for a name
Just Let this cringey reddit meme die out just like the rest.
@@Welsh7133yeah My chemical romance sucks
@@Welsh7133 Dafuq
Mike is the reason you can tell your children why they need to do their homework.
whatever thats supposed to mean
@@pertsa7614 Bro...
@@pertsa7614 I don’t think you did your homework
@@pertsa7614 im not quite sure what its supposed to mean either
"If you gonna be a criminal, do your homework"
But I don't wanna be a criminal...
Watching Mike is always so interesting. Even after the fact that you already know what happens, it's still so interesting like "how did he think of that?" What I'd give to erase both of these series from my mind and relive them for the first time
LMAO: If you do closed captioning @7:10 Mike responds with his own surname and CC transaltes it to "Mr. I'm in trouble".
So glad you included him robbing the truck. As you notice he parks his car in a specific spot to distract the driver so he can sneak up from behind.
or he parked it behind the only thing big enough to hide a car
@@quentin4518 definitely that
I'm 100% sure Vince made Walter kill Mike, because if he ever discovered Walter killed his men... And ensalved Jesse, he'd haveadd and p a plan to kill him and Jack's gang
Why would he kill Walt for enslave Jesse when he loved Jesse as a son ? And how could he kill Jack'S gang if Walt already killed them ?
@@zdog326 he means if mike hadn't died, he would've been out there in the desert sniping jack and his gang
That might be possible but also he might not be able to do so because he’d be busy evading the police who was constantly on him
@@zdog326 You're a bit slow, aren't you
I'd love to see an alternate ending with Mike finding out about Walt planning the death of Mike's men. I honestly think Walt and all the hitmen would lose if Mike had a plan in place.
Mike is like a video game protagonist, random dudes mess with him but he always comes out on top
Well, not always.
Still can't get over the fact that Mike was the bad guy in Beverly Hills Cop. Simply amazing character arch.
Omg!! I never realized that before and wondered why that guy hadn’t been cast again. He was so easy to hate in that! Watching Eddie Murphy throw him over the fruit bar was one of my all time favorite scenes!
Also, I think his name was mike in that also.
Cuz
Showing great range. THAT is what great actors are about -- not playing one narrow kind of character every time.
He was also in Airplane. The guy talking on the mic as the other air traffic controllers are doing laundry.
Mike is like playing chess on his enemies where he's a move or two ahead of them. Mike is one of my favorite BCS/BB characters of all time. My favorite scene of him is when he purchased the welcome mats as a tatic where he can noticed if his house was broken into or not due to the fact he declined the $5,000 offer that was given to from Hector Salamanca.
My favorite is the one where he gets a salamanca truck captured. He hangs boots full of drugs on an electric line and shoots to make drugs fall on a truck. Just plain old genius 😂
The best bit is when crazy old man says "that all you got" and Tuco has a deep thought then laughs maniacally and punches him again with guns pointing at him. Top level entertainment.
Crazy old man is called Mike
@@TheBlunder-00.0 that's part of the joke
"oh come on guys!" this is my favorite version of Mike hahaha
4:08: I love how Mike takes this guy down. He doesn’t do some big move or show of force. He’s quick, precise, and efficient because that’s how he runs business. He gets the job done.
If you are trained in fighting and get into a fight you’ll be surprised how you don’t overreact or make mistakes
There’s a reason people train to learn how to fight
Mike was a cop. He knows how to bring a guy to the ground
No show of force?
@@whyareusobad3528overreact? Were you thinking and acting like you were a fictional thing?
@@bunk95
are you just like
baiting arguments or smth
Mike is one of those interesting characters in breaking bad. I'm glad this spin off gave us a better glimpse into his life.
Which show gives a better glimpse into his life?
@@gt_8106 Better Call Saul
@@gt_8106
Better Call Saul, spin off of Breaking Bad
Follows Saul and Mike's story
@@gt_8106better call saul
Better call Saul
The part where Hank was interrogating Mike was great. Hank got him in a quick bind but what were Mike's options? Rat out himself to Hank, throwing away everything, including probably the money, to try and survive, or Feign ignorance, lose the money he already lost anyway, and walk free. Hank saying "maybe" threw away the best bait he had against Mike, not that it would've 100% worked anyway.
And Walt outsmarted him several times
Shame they didnt get along. They wouldve been an unstoppable duo
@@gregh5061 He got free from Mikes restraint and took the methylmine too
Mike never respected Walter.
@@MoSalah17-18 He tried to get closer and be friendly with him in the begining. After Walter gave him thr could shoulder and his relationship with Gus soured, he stopped trying to be cool with him and started disliking him.
@@gregh5061 Gale, his zip tie restraint, when he killed him.
@@Nai-qk4vp but Mike always had a bad feeling about walt. He even told saul/jimmy not to get mixed up with him because he really didn't like him from the start
4:21 mike is such a kind man he gave that guy a free massage
My grandpa used to say to me "you should listen to your elders but not all of us because I have some friends with no marbles". I was young at the time, I had to grow up a bit to really understand what he meant. I can still hear his laughter after he'd tell me that. Rip
Imagine how different things would've gone if Mike had teamed up with Hank and Gomie. What a dream team
Listen Mike worked for Criminals but not even he would stoop so low as to work for the DEA
After the Philly cops let Mike's son's killer walk, I doubt he'd ever work for pigs again. Definitely not a Fed pig on top of that. Mike's too honorable for cops
Mike was an ex-cop
This is the moment finger outsmarted everyone
I guess you could say they all got fingered
you are not funny
@@highvisibilityraincoat thank you
@@highvisibilityraincoat greatest legal mind I ever knew
Have some more chicken, have some more pie
I love the way he responds to grave threats as though they are mild inconveniences🤣🤣
I like how when they shot mike in the ear he just seemed frustrated, not even hurt or worried just like “damnit I liked that ear”
They gave him superior flight velocity and lift.
11:50 that music made this scene way more horrifying than it needed to be, but also really encapsulates mikes badassery
other worldly wisdom, streetsmarts, discipline, psychological strength, impregnable calm, his own moral code, living lawlessly in an unjust world, remaining a ghost in everyday life, really one of the most complex characters
I friggin love your description! Perfectly sums up Mike, well done..
I disagree. It's been made clear throughout the show that Mike is a horrible person, which is self-evident, of course.
wish they would have shown the set up @ 08:05 from the beginning, when mike suspects the Salamanca crew will be waiting inside for him by placing some carbon paper underneath the welcome mat and confirming his suspicion by seen fresh foot prints and knowing they guys were in inside. Pretty awesome.
16:30 I love how even though Mike protected himself well from the volley of gunfire, they still could not miss those big ears. Lol.
How did he protect himself
I guess duck would be more accurate@@johanpi4277
Trump:
Calmly being irritated about his ear getting shot right after having such a close near death experience makes Mike out to be so badass. Such clever character exposition
4:45 my head-canon for this scene has always been that back in the day, Mike once had the same thing happen to him during an interrogation and always had it in the back of his head because he secretly thought it was super cool and could finally use it himself lol
i swear, mike has incredibly well thought out but also realistic reactions to outsmarting. there are movies about secret agents and spies that are supposed to be way beyond someone like mike that don't have anything near as elaborate or smart as these scenes.
and i dont even know why, people love seeing mike be smart like this, this video has 4 million views..
That’s because breaking bad and better Call Saul were made to be really dramatic and over the top. The shows were mostly based off old western stuff
@@dr.rizz000 very true
Outsmarting isnt ever the only things going on.
Yes. Plus I think Mike outsmarting people by PLANNING AHEAD and being calm and focused is MUCH more believable than a Jason Bourne type being a constant nearly super-human type on the fly. The latter is simply NOT believable on a sustained basis, IMO.
7:36 - Love Hank's facial expressions when he say "Maybe."! Always cracked me up!!😆🤣🤣
🤞
17:00 - I hope Mike had a concealed and carry gum license...
Good one lol
It'd be easier to list the states he doesn't have a concealed carry gum license.
18:47 bruh I just feel bad for that guy just minding his own business while lalo and mike are in a chase lmao that “I’m sorry it’s just not working” and when lalo hits him and spills his drink like bruh 🤣
Definitely not the worst outcome of a canon interaction of Lalo and a stranger..
Mike is genuinely one of the most badass characters every written.