The character I am choosing is one from one of my personal favorite shows of all time, Breaking Bad. I am choosing none other than Heisenberg himself. I will be comparing him to another classic anti hero, Ichabod Crane. 
The first characteristic that the two share is a strong aptitude for discipline and teaching. In Breaking Bad, Walter White is constantly reprimanding Jesse and trying to make some order in a chaotic drug world. Even in his own classroom, is it apparent that he is in control and calls all the shots. Ichabod Crane, in his classroom, is known for using the rod when needed and also instilling discipline into his students. It is clear that his students respect him and believe he is the king of the class. 
A second major characteristic that the two fictional characters share is a love for a certain women. Ichabod Crane is famously in love with Katrina Van Tassel. His love for her causes him to go at great lengths to impress her and hopefully win her infatuation back. It is her that is his great undoing, as his depression at her refusal at a proposal (or whatever may have happened that fateful night), is what happened to make his hallucination so real. In Breaking Bad, Walter White is definitely in love with Skylar. He loves her, seemingly no matter what, and went to great lengths in order to keep his family together, often at the risk of his life and even theirs. In fact, the whole drug empire began when Walter White wanted money to support his family after he was going to die. This trait of loving a woman to a very high extent makes the major characters' lives difficult. 
A third and final characteristic that is shared between the heroes of Breaking Bad and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is their very apparent poverty. Walter White is in a very tough financial situation. He has a very low paying job as a teacher (no offense) and it is not nearly enough to cover his skyrocketing medical bills. He is in a rut. In order to remedy the situation, he turns to drugs. Ichabod Crane is similar. He is poor. He sleeps and eats is his own students' houses, rotating through them throughout the year. He constantly needs to eat, and his teacher salary doesn't quite cover those costs. As a result, his sole goal in life is to marry a rich woman who will let him eat all he wants. 
These three characteristics show that the progression of the antihero from the classics to even modern day television has not changed as much as expected. They still share the same underlying traits: the traits that make one wonder: Am I for him or against him?




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