This article argues that while reliant on Latinx stereotypes in character construction, Breaking Bad (2008–2013) ultimately uses them to problematise American racial categories and conquest mythology. Comparing stereotyped Latinx criminals to the main white character, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), who claims difference, reveals that they share traits. In its use of Latinx stereotypes to transfer focus from difference to sameness, Breaking Bad shifts the imperial gaze to offer a critical view of the regeneration through violence myth, so integral to American western expansionism and central in Walt’s story, in that he dies in his attempt to regenerate by killing his Latinx enemies.

本文认为，虽然在角色构建方面依赖拉丁裔刻板印象，但《绝命毒师》（2008-2013）最终使用它们来对美国种族分类和征服神话进行问题化。将刻板​​印象的拉丁裔罪犯与主要白人角色进行比较，声称存在差异的沃尔特怀特（布莱恩克兰斯顿）表明他们有共同的特征。在使用拉丁语刻板印象将焦点从差异转移到相同时，《绝命毒师》将帝国的目光转移到通过暴力神话提供对再生的批判性观点，这是美国西部扩张主义不可或缺的一部分，也是沃尔特故事的核心，因为他死于他的试图通过杀死他的拉丁敌人来重生。