Skyler White

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Base Breaking Character
Full Name	Skyler White
Alias	Sky Yoko Ono
Origin	Breaking Bad
Powers/Skills	High intelligence Cunning Money laundering Arithmetic skill
Family	Walter White (husband) Flynn / Walter White Jr. (son) Holly White (daughter) Marie Schrader (sister) Hank Schrader (brother-in-law) Mrs. White (mother-in-law) Mr. White Sr. (father-in-law)
Allies	Saul Goodman Ted Beneke Pamela Orbic Steve Gomez
Enemies	Walter White Marie Schrader Jesse Pinkman Hank Schrader Ted Beneke (all formerly) Lydia Rodarte-Quayle Todd Alquist / Neo-Nazis
Goals	Find out the reason behind Walter's strange behavior (succeeded) Make sure she and Walt stick to their cover story and don't get caught (ultimately failed) Protect her children at all costs (succeeded)
Why Do Some People Hate The Character?	She is controlling, spiteful and hypocritical. She is somewhat boring compared to other characters.
Why Do Some People Love The Character?	Her primary motivation is to protect her family. She is a tragic and manipulated figure. She becomes horrified at what her husband has become.
Type of Base Breaking Character	Hypocritical Anti-Villain

“	Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family.	„
	~ Skyler to her husband.

“	Well, my name is Skyler White, yo. My husband is Walter White, yo. Uh-huh! He told me everything. And just so you know, my brother-in-law is a DEA agent, and I will not hesitate to call him, not if I have to. Understood? This is your one and only warning: do not... sell marijuana to my husband.	„
	~ Skyler to Jesse Pinkman.

Skyler White is a major character from the crime drama series Breaking Bad.

She is the wife of Walter White and the mother of their two children, Walter White Jr. and Holly White. After she found out that her husband became a drug dealer from dissecting his strange behavior, she reluctantly started to cooperate with him in the drug business to protect the solidity of her family.

She was portrayed by Anna Gunn.

What Makes Her a Base-Breaking Character?

What Do People Like About Her?

• Supporters find that she can be charming, cunning or intelligent at times.
• She has extremely valid reasons for her nosy or controlling behavior towards Walt, as he constantly lies and manipulates her and ultimately endangers everyone close to them. Her primary motivation is to protect the livelihood of her family.
• She tries numerous times to get Walt to leave the drug trade at any opportunity possible.
• She is extremely tragic and primarily a villain by proxy, leading many viewers to see her as a sympathetic and manipulated figure.
• She has some memorable or comedic moments in the series, such as her first interaction with Jesse Pinkman.
• Many praise Anna Gunn's emotional performance as Skyler, such as her tearful breakdown in "Ozymandias" when Walt took Holly from her, along with her finally standing up to him moments prior.

What Do People Hate About Her?

• Even prior to his criminal activity, she was apathetic to Walter's misfortunes in life and more times than not kept her own interests in mind rather than her family's.
• Detractors find her to be a snobbish and controlling woman who tends to think more about herself than others and always wants things done her way, primarily with how she treats Walt, Marie, and Hank.
• She committed adultery with Ted Beneke just to spite Walt, taking satisfaction in seeing it upset him. Detractors find that in spite of Walt's drug-dealing, lies and refusal to respect Skyler's boundaries, this is not excusable or admirable.
  • The infamous "Happy Birthday" scene is also widely regarded as one of the most awkward or hard-to-watch moments in the series.
• She's hypocritical, as she calls Walt out for his drug-dealing activities and manipulation, but commits or is complicit in criminal or conniving activities throughout the series. She also takes advantage of the money that Walt had earned, and is a huge factor as to why his operation was so powerful. Detractors find that this dilutes the supposed moral high ground she is meant to represent over Walt.
• Some detractors dislike her character simply because she is boring in comparison to the high-stakes and dramatic storylines pertaining to the criminal characters, thereby taking away from the appeal of the series.
  • Also detractors who watch the show for the psychopathic badass drug kingpin fantasy and Evil is Cool stuff throughout the show are put off by Skyler and dislike her because she is a constant reality check that kills the vibe.

Trivia

• Because of the controversy surrounding Skyler, actress Anna Gunn received untold harassment and death threats due to her portrayal of the character, primarily from viewers who despised her for standing up to Walt. Their comments shared on the Internet became so violent that police were involved.
  • Series creator Vince Gilligan later remarked that her haters were just "misogynists, plain and simple".

External Links

• Skyler White on the Villains Wiki.
• Skyler White on the Breaking Bad Wiki.