Tony Soprano vs Walter White

[JohnnySic]

Who wins?

[DonDadda59]

Wins what?

[ScalsFan21]

spoilers of course

Walt is smarter... but Tony is freakin' mob boss. If by "wins" you mean if they were going after each other, who would take out the other one first, it's probably Tony, but then again we probably thought the same thing about Gus. Difference is there'd never be a reason for Tony to have to delay whacking WW.

Walt would need to call up his disappearer guy a lot sooner to escape the entire mafia, and even then Tony might still track him down when he's taking Meadow to visit colleges.

[JohnnySic]

Wins what?

Wins. You know, wins.

[DonDadda59]

Wins. You know, wins.

[andgar923]

Walter would play Tony.

Tony has a temper that would get exploited.

[1987_Lakers]

Walter is smarter than Tony, but come on. Tony is the head of the Mob and has an army on his side while Walt is basically operating alone. Paulie would put a bullet in Walt's head while he is going to get a car wash.

[DonDadda59]

Walter is smarter than Tony, but come on. Tony is the head of the Mob and has an army on his side while Walt is basically operating alone. Paulie would put a bullet in Walt's head while he is going to get a car wash.

Basically.

It all depends on what series/world this scenario is set in. If it's in the Sopranos, reality-based world, Tony- a mafia boss, would casually put a hit out on Walt, a High School Science teacher, while eating a bialy. One of Tony's many goons would catch Walt as he was coming out of his house one morning and simply shoot him in the head. The end.

If we're in the BB Universe, we'd have some ridiculously convoluted plot involving Walt trying to spike Tony's gabagool with strychnine. Tony catches him and holds him hostage in his basement while acting less like a person and more like an over the top cartoon character (think and Italian version of Yosemite Sam/Tuco). Walt manages to fashion a light saber out of the lint in his pocket and his shoe lace somehow. And just when Tony's about to kill him, Hank miraculously shows up at the last minute to save Walt.

[Tarik One]

Basically.

It all depends on what series/world this scenario is set in. If it's in the Sopranos, reality-based world, Tony- a mafia boss, would casually put a hit out on Walt, a High School Science teacher, while eating a bialy. One of Tony's many goons would catch Walt as he was coming out of his house one morning and simply shoot him in the head. The end.

If we're in the BB Universe, we'd have some ridiculously convoluted plot involving Walt trying to spike Tony's gabagool with strychnine. Tony catches him and holds him hostage in his basement while acting less like a person and more like an over the top cartoon character (think and Italian version of Yosemite Sam/Tuco). Walt manages to fashion a light saber out of the lint in his pocket and his shoe lace somehow. And just when Tony's about to kill him, Hank miraculously shows up at the last minute to save Walt.

That's more like Tony vs MacGyver

[DonDadda59]

That's more like Tony vs MacGyver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEyOeLeyeNI

[Goofsta Knicca]

Tony wuz a headcase. Walter White would come up with dat clever way to get to him like dat machine gun in da final episode sh1t.

[ScalsFan21]

The "cartoonish" label that haters of BB have attached to it is so over the top. Breaking Bad is more rooted in reality than probably over 95% of TV dramas literally ever made. The Sopranos is more classically realistic though for sure.

The only kinds of areas where BB somewhat took things to a place that went too far to maintain suspension of disbelief are sort of artistic choices rather than actual plot or character decisions. Sure there are exceptions to this as there are with literally any show that's ever been made, but for the most part it's just things like Gus getting up and walking out of the room after the bomb incident (million to one chance lmao), where something like that wouldn't happen on the Sopranos (death scenes rarely milked if ever). But neither show forced things very often.