Gustavo Fring

*- Gus threatening Walter White.*

*- Gus tormenting his archenemy, Hector Salamanca after killing off The Cartel.*

## Character Overview:

### Alias:

Gustavo Fring
Gus
Sir
Boss
The Manager
The Chicken Man
Mr. Fring
He Who Shall Not Be Named
Fring
Big Generalissimo
The Chilean

### Occupation:

Co-Founder and Owner of Los Pollos Hermanos.
Founder and Owner of Lavandería Brillante.
Philanthropist.
Drug kingpin.
Distributor for The Cartel. (Formerly)

### Powers/Skills:

Genius-Level Intelligence
High-Durability
High-Endurance
Military Training
Manipulation
Psychological Manipulation
Criminal Intuition
Business Management
Vast Wealth & Resources
Bilingualism
Charisma
Deception
Cunningness
Intimidation
Knifemanship
Marksmanship
Strategic Mind
Weapons & Armory
Torture Methodology
Combat Efficacy & Experience

### Goals:

Take revenge on Hector Salamanca, Don Eladio and the Cartel to avenge Max Arciniega's death.
Kill Lalo Salamanca. (Both Succeeded)
Keep his methamphetamine operation running and make more and more money. (Temporarily Succeeded; Later Failed)
Obtain the perfect recipe for the "Blue Sky" meth at all costs.
Kill Walter White and Jesse Pinkman after gaining the Blue Sky recipe. (Both Failed)
Kill Hector Salamanca after dismantling the Cartel. (Indirectly succeeded, but at the cost of his own life)

### Hobby:

Practicing Philanthropy.
Tending to his businesses.
Selling and operating drugs.
Reading.
Planning.
Scheming.

### Crimes:

Mass Murder (Inc. Animal Murder, Murder By Proxy & Child Murder By Proxy)
Organized Crime
Drug Trafficking
Kidnapping
Extortion
Torture
Abuse
Blackmail
Conspiracy
Smuggling
Animal Cruelty
Arson
Racketeering
Sabotage
Corpse Desecration
Corruption

### Type of Villain:

Vengeful Mastermind

**Gustavo "Gus" Fring**, mockingly referred to as **The Chicken Man**, is one of the few main antagonists and tritagonist of the *Breaking Bad* franchise. He is the main antagonist of the AMC TV series of the same name and a major supporting anti-villainous character in its prequel series *Better Call Saul*.

A powerful drug kingpin and a high-ranking distributor for the Cartel, Gus was a Chilean national and a respected Albuquerque restaurateur and philanthropist who owned a chain of local chicken restaurants called "Los Pollos Hermanos" while using it as a cover for an extremely successful methamphetamine distribution network in the southwestern United States.

Later along the line of becoming a powerful kingpin, Gus met both; Jimmy McGill, Jesse Pinkman and Walter White, eventually banding together as a organization before crumbling down from Hector self-suiciding to avenge his family's legacy; killing them both, and Walter White controlling the entire event in the background stealing Gus' spotlight and amount of power placement.

## Personality:

Always calm and cautious by nature, despite being one of the most successful and fearsome methamphetamine drug runners in Albuquerque and the owner of a successful multimillion-dollar business, Gustavo Fring remains very humble, low-key and friendly towards his patrons. Publicly he is well-known for his numerous charitable donations to the DEA and as manager of a fast-food chain, Los Pollos Hermanos, in which he has several social interactions with his customers and is always accompanied with a smile. An actual wolf in sheep's clothing, Gustavo was not a boastful man and was intensely careful with whom he does business with, never partnering up with someone unless they are as cautious as he is.

Beneath Gus's polite and sophisticated personality, he is actually a ruthless and calculating criminal mastermind who controls his drug empire with an icy hold, and numerous people who work under him that are either unaware of his true nature or outright fear him. Gustavo is a cold-blooded, pragmatic, Machiavellian individual; he excels at business transactions and manipulations and usually retains his calm, collected and almost robotic demeanor. Even in dangerous situations, he keeps his apathetic head. The only time Gus did lose his cool, however, was moments before his death when he discovered Hector Salamanca sacrificed himself as a suicide bomb to kill him. Despite his flaws, Gus was a man of honor and will always repay his debts to someone.

However, Gustavo does have a compassionate side and genuinely cares about people. He saved Max Arcienega from the slums, financed him to attend school and partnered with him as they would become the co-managers of Los Pollos Hermanos and enter the methamphetamine trade together. After Max was killed in front of his eyes, the loss of such an emotional and possible romantic factor of his life snapped Gustavo into a ruthless crime lord. He has a vengeful side as well and lives by a "blood for blood" motto ever since Max's death rather than his business, killing the cartel proves to be more of a personal vendetta. Because of this, he took delight in tormenting Hector Salamanca over both of his nephew's death and Walter was able to use Gustavo's hatred for Hector as a result of the former's death.

## Trivia:

* Giancarlo Esposito, the actor who portrayed Gus, is not actually of Chilean descent, but of Italian and African-American ethnicity.
* In *Breaking Bad* Season 3, Gus claims to Walt he has a wife and kids, and there are children's toys in the house. Said family is never mentioned or seen again, and it was eventually confirmed he lied to Walt to further manipulate him.
* When Hank asks Gus if that is actually his real name, Fring replies that the Chilean regime back in his day was severely unreliable in keeping records of its citizens and that there are records of "Gustavo Fring", they're just obscure. While it may look like he proved his real name is Gus Fring, take into account that it was asked during a DEA interrogation and Gus arrived in 1988 in Mexico, 1 year before his lover's death. So it's most likely he changed his name for the sake of meth business affairs.
* Gus wasn't originally going to have as big a role in *Breaking Bad* as he did, and was originally going to be just a minor character.

## Gallery:

A poster of Gus Fring.Gus outside of Los Pollos Hermonos.A full body poster of Gus Fring.Gus with Mike Ehrmantraut.Gus' showdown with Lalo.Gus tormenting Hector Salamanca.Gus Fring's Death.