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Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte)

Chance of death by series end: 99 percent
It really sucks who the odds-on favorite character is to die a profound and resonating death. And that head shake you're doing defines why it must happen. No one's demise would crush Walt, or us, any harder than his son's. But no great descent into darkness is complete without a loss of Shakespearean magnitude. (When Anakin Skywalker first decided to go the Darth Vader route, for instance, it was to save a woman he would end up killing accidentally.)

And in case it wasn't obvious enough that this character represents all the purity and innocence that Walter White once himself possessed -- with extra purity thrown in due to his struggle against cerebral palsy -- his name is Walter White Jr.

Ever since discovering her husband's grim secret, Skyler's driving force has been protecting her children from the harm Walt assures her will never happen because of his amazing handle on things. (And what safer place to hide kids than the house of a DEA agent getting too close to cracking a bloodthirsty drug ring, right?) The bitter irony here will be that it was Walt Jr.'s future that prompted Walt's initial decision to break bad.

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The season finale of "Breaking Bad" airs Sunday, Sept. 2, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on AMC.

(AMC)