Gus Fring’s SECRET Backstory REVEALED! The COMPLETE Gustavo Fring Timeline | Breaking Bad

[@themalmadius]

Do you agree or disagree with the timeline? Please let me know how I can improve and if there is anything you would like to see me talk about! Music used in this video: 🎶🎵 - “An Isolated Moment” by Keith Merrill - “Loss of Power” by Gabriel SABAN - “The Untold” by Secession Studios

[@Burger-s8z]

Farting my ass off.

[@Burger-s8z]

Stinks

[@davemccombs]

I would say ditch the obvious clickbait 101 titling. There is no "secret backstory" and you aren't "revealing" anything. Further, there's no agreeing or disagreeing with an objective timeline. It's either correct, or it isn't.

[@edhas5970]

One thing I have doesn't make sense, the Santiago event has to be before max died, Eladio says "you're not in Chile anymore' possibly hinting to what happened there. Or did Gus go back to Chile after Max got killed?

[@timothysmith2042]

​@edhas5970 in the video, he speculated that Gus went back to Chile after Max's death before moving into America because the Cartel knew who he was and he had to erase the last remaining details connecting him to his past there. This is great speculation but what about that past? The cartel doesn't kill him because they know who he is and what he has done in Chile. Probably also because of who he is connected to in Chile, who might retaliate against the Cartel. the narrator dismisses the generalisino reference because Fring would be too young. Yes, he would be too young for the establishment but not a revolutionary force who leaders are often idealistic youths. Or maybe it was the secret police as is speculated here. And what of the profits of his drug empire? Was Fring sending money back to Chile to his allies there? I would love to have seen this back story played out on screen and found it especially frustrating that it was so hinted at and never came to fruition. Look, the Cartel couldn't touch Gus but Walter White can?

[@jacobwalker3060]

If Gus had ever been busted by the DEA, the ASAC in charge would get a phone call from Langley, and Gus would walk out like that

[@Burger-s8z]

Farted myself awake

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

@@Burger-s8z man, what the fuck

[@cirqusboy]

the SAC would probably be the one in charge, as it literally means the Special Agent in Charge.

[@goodnightcharly5135]

Gus is Langley

[@nathanpadilla1674]

Gus being former military. Makes so much sense on how calculated his moves were. Being 10 steps ahead on everyone.

[@Oneofakind123]

A prequel to Better call Saul, called Gustavo featuring him coming to US, meeting Peter Schüler and setting up his drug front fast food chain. It will contain Flashbacks to the life. He his escapeing.

[@inthecloudz1272]

With Giancarlo at current age playing his much younger self

[@brettstarks1846]

A Gus spinoff series with a younger actor and actual native Spanish speaker would be amazing.

[@sm5304]

Can we have a 3rd spinoff with Gus in Chile?

[@rayloc420]

im here for it

[@handsomejack3149]

I would love to see that and where Gus comes from, his upbringing, family and many more, especially that part with the chilene government/military.

[@adamethridge7824]

Young Gus I’m down

[@roberthatch6230]

Gus was my favorite character. I was disappointed when they killed him off .

[@SoulHypnotic]

I don't think a prequel to Gus should be done because the mystery around his character is what makes him all the more terrifying and captivating sometimes no explanation and less is more could be even more strong and terrifying and would keep a character far more interesting than revealing everything under the sun about them.

[@CassidyDylyn]

This feels like it was written by AI

[@awsumpops]

I feel like the voice is AI too

[@CassidyDylyn]

@awsumpops It could be. Though, the general speech patterns-particularly pregnant pausing between words and inflation-do sound very human. While AI absolutely can replicate those aspects of human speech, it requires way more work than I'm willing to assume that this guy would have put in. Real narrator, AI-written script. That's my assumption.

[@stanmanlyman4550]

Thats AI voice 100h% percent. I hear this same voice often I hate it

[@themalmadius]

@@awsumpops bro, why does everyone think my voice is AI?

[@quaning3971]

@@themalmadius jimmy lost his path because people rejected him, dont lose your path bro. i believe your voice is real and it's rare

[@snowarmth]

This is such a good video! I love your editing and humour :) It was a very fun theory too, and I say that as a super fan~

[@kelleymcbride4633]

Nice work! Cool perspective thanks for the effort!

[@The-Game-Theory]

Gus's childhood was in Peru, where he lived in poverty with his mother and siblings. His parents were divorced, and his father was in Chile. When Pinochet came into power, Gus's father became a high-ranking general in Chile. Gus's father offered him a chance to come to Chile and join the military, saying it was his only way out of poverty. Believing this to be true, Gus agreed and moved to Chile. This is why Hector mockingly referred to him as "Generalissimo." Gus was just a low-level officer, but his father held a high-ranking position. Later, Gus met Max and fell in love with him. Gus tried to keep their relationship hidden from his father and the military but ultimately failed. Gus was discharged from the military, and his father gave him an ultimatum: end the relationship or be disowned. Gus refused, and he and Max immigrated to Mexico. Eladio knew that Gus's father was a high-ranking officer in Chile, which is why he couldn’t kill Gus. Eladio feared retaliation if he did. However, killing Max posed no such risk, as Gus's father was already intent on ending the relationship.

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

I feel like this would be a great in-story reason for his poor Spanish, since it isn't a natural language in Peru. Even if Chileans speak Spanish, it's Chilean Spanish, which I would assume is slightly different from Mexican Spanish.

[@estevan5309]

Where did you find this info?

[@15OgLoc]

​@@estevan5309 it came out of his behind

[@jesss.5864]

Nice head cannon. Too bad they didnt actually put something like that in the show

[@The-Game-Theory]

Gus mentions lucuma trees and coatis from his childhood to Hector, who is in a coma. However, there are no coatis in Chile, while Peru has both. Additionally, Peru has a significantly larger Black population than Chile.

[@josephyounger660]

It is stated in S4 Ep 8 pf Breaking Bad, that Gus immigrated to Mexico in 86, but then immigrated to the U.S in 89, within the same sentence that info is uttered, also Santiago has a bit more to it than just Herr Schuler and Gus, as Lalo reminisces on a time in Santiago when he gives Hector the bell, yes they could be two different events, but the creators of this show have shown a lot of care and intent with their writing, so its not so easy to write off as coincidence in my mind personally.

[@mabelstamina]

Gus was framed by Hank Shrader who wanted the meth empire all to himself. All Gus wanted was to run a successful fried chicken business, but Hank had other ideas.

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

Gus wanted to run some chicken shacks AND help the DEA Fun Run

[@jonbooker6359]

The restaurants opening at 6am is crazy work lmao. Who tf eating fried chicken that early?! What yall got on the breakfast menu Gustavo?!

[@erikhouston]

Dude this has always ate my lunch…

[@stevechaille7255]

It's all about the prep work for the coming day.

[@Kspice9000]

​@stevechaille7255 dude it's fried chicken and the batter isn't even made at the restaurant 😂

[@hikewadepaddle]

Gus and Shuler's team were down 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th of the company picnic's softball game. Shuler had a badly pulled hamstring, but hit a walkoff home run to win. You're so over dramatic in your theory.

[@themalmadius]

@@hikewadepaddle yeah I took some creative liberties 😅… your version fits in perfectly tho

[@sovicarious4974]

Nice video, definitely worth the subscribe☝️

[@Dan-ud8hz]

Gustavo Fring IS Spongebob Squarepants

[@aprilmcelia1969]

homey i've met someone who was a child soldier under pinochet. when they are indoctrinated that young, a former general at 28 is not unheard of. at that age they don't have developed empathy and are capable of more ruthless barbarities. i didn't let this person close to me when i learned that.

[@aprilmcelia1969]

on peter schuler.. what business does a german business person and national have doing in chile? a lot of the war criminals from world war II on the german persuasion sought out new lives, most often in argentina. to go down that rabbit hole look into the guerra sucia / dirty war. this was mostly well known as a witch hunt on the communists and leftists in argentina where a bunch of people were 'disappeared'.

[@aprilmcelia1969]

if you are basing your research on the works of milton friedman.. sorry but you ain't going to get it. there is not enough information it seems to tell what the origin of madrigal in chile is but i can guarantee it's an extremely shady origin story.

[@aprilmcelia1969]

a better guess is that they were in the business of 'relocating' war criminals, suggesting that they have a heavy truman hafficking department

[@aprilmcelia1969]

you are definitely not a historian. neither am i. i would consult with an actual historian from the region. here is my best guess based on the other information. gus was born into a poor rural chicken farm family that would have been branded as communists. the death squads probably executed his whole family and for some reason, decided this kid is alright and would make a good child soldier. do the whole climbing the corporate ladder but with child death squad thing, becomes a general at a very young age. pinochet lasted till around 1990. by then extradition would have been a lost cause. but if he got moved to mexico at the age of 28, that could track. he would have needed an entity like madrigal to forge new documents and obfuscate records. madrigal would not have been an altruistic entity, helping war criminals start new lives across the globe out of the goodness of their corporate heart. they would have needed financial incentive to do something like that. this is where the business plan for los pollos hermanos as a methamphetamine distribution network across the americas would have been shared. they would never approve such an ambitious business plan from anyone except someone they could trust to be patient, meticulous, and detail oriented. you can look into the history of nazis and methamphetamine, but it was a very popular drug in germany amongst the war criminals, especially the tank drivers. after the second world war meth spread various places around the world, not sure about details of that spike in south america, but wouldn't be surprising if the death squads used it.

[@themalmadius]

@@aprilmcelia1969 Dang, I hate to say that the child soldiers supports this timeline even more. I tried to make it more conservative guess, seeing as I don’t know much about the issue. Thanks though, this is a big part as to why I made the vid tbh, I knew I could read some comments of people more knowledgeable and I could open up that discussion to learn more!

[@DragonsinGenesisPodcast]

I think the Santiago event referenced in the show was about his involvement in the coup and Pinochet’s rule. And his German friend was there at the time, due to being the son of an escaped Nazi fugitive.

[@Eamonshort1]

Wait,nah man, holy shit. Until i saw it in your edit at the very start i never realised that the alcohol gun poisoned the cartel with was Zafiro Añejo. Goddamn. Never noticed before.

[@nizzleprizzle9783]

I love hearing people discovering new details from the gilliverse

[@snowarmth]

Subbed after hearing the boom and funny sound effects lol 5:00

[@AKRING30]

Great production

[@lilcheese7881]

I really liked this video, im a Breaking Bad fan. I just wonder how much of the video towards the end of the video is from the show or speculation? I wonder if any writers could get in touch and get their perspective

[@UniqueLibra1981]

Quality content

[@yu6387t3d]

great video! my favorite part was at 10:30 when gustavo fring takfired walter white for his supposed jahmiyyah after walter finally said he was maturidi. that moment when walter realized that 'ilm ul kalam was a valid way to study 'aqida was such a powerful culmination of his character arc that finally separated him from fring's "bi laa kayf" manhaj. it was so heartwrenching to watch as jesse pleaded with fring "don't takfir him, he may be a mubtadi but not a kafir" only for fring to say "you murji'i! i disassociate from you." jesse begged walter to read kitab ut tawhid again, but walter insisted that after reading 'aqida at tahawiyyah his life was changed and he could never go back. the tragic splitting of these close friends was such a powerful ending to the show that left all viewers in tears.

[@themalmadius]

I’m glad you liked it!

[@mrchair8911]

Absolute cinema🙏

[@norknation5049]

Second to SpongeBob’s lol 😂

[@goodnightcharly5135]

Gale was a mastermind

[@lotsaspaghetticodejr.6488]

I think a Gustavo series would be terrible. Why? The entire persona was built out of his pure hatred for the cartel, and the Salamancas in particular, over the execution of Max. If we have a prior Gustavo Fring, it would be prior to his commitment to Max's murder. Meaning we wouldn't have the cold, blood-thirsty, calculating Fring we have come to know and love. Now one could argue we would get to see his transformation, sure. But that would also require a good portion of the series with Max being alive and well, exploring Fringe's relationship with him so that we understand the motive and hatred he bears when Max is killed. Then it would be Max's murder, followed by a series finale where... nothing happens. Because the cartel and the Salamancas are killed off in Breaking Bad. So we would have no immediate closure within the Fring series itself. Meaning the entire suspense ends on a cliff hanger, except it's a cliff hanger we already know the ending to. In other words, it's just vapid fan service that tells us nothing and does nothing.

[@KPD_KPD]

They can just introduce new antagonists for Gus' story (like Chuck and Howard in Better Call Saul) before he meets the cartel. The story would be in 2 different plots. The first is Gus' youth in Chile and the second is Gus' journey in building his drug empire. Sure we already know what will happen to Gus in BCS and BB, but a backstory is still a story and it certainly is not a "nothing".

[@sojefferson1]

0:45 is crazy😂😂😂

[@NC_Keys]

you know what else is MASSIVE 😼😼😼

[@goodnightvienna8511]

Gus was involved with Pinochets secret police during the junta, he had to leave quickly because he, a, got caught plotting to overthrow Pinochet or b, the timeline of his leaving matches the downfall of pinochet. The Na@i connections come in where he has connections with Madrigal, Chile had many SS personnel after the war, just check Colonia Dignidad and they helped train people like Gus. Thats my guess.

[@ramblomaticrabblerouser]

This quiet while having captions disabled?

[@themalmadius]

Thanks for the feedback. I think KZbin is still processing my captions but they should hopefully be online soon. I will tinker with the audio channels for next time

[@ricoperez9252]

No way this only has 55 likes Ive seen EVERYTHING youtube has on BB and BCS and this made more sense than most of them lol thanks

[@themalmadius]

Hey, I appreciate that man. I’ve been thinking about making this video on and off for about two years, but kept putting it off because I assumed someone else would make something talking about this. At a certain point I was like “let me just do it myself.”

[@ricoperez9252]

@ the Gus German connection never made much sense to me, i have a short attention span so I always chalked it up to me just missing something, but this explanation and theory makes everything make sense, those are all reasonable inferences from the info they actually gave and I do believe that’s the picture they where trying to paint, the whole show is better now because of this 😂

[@wj11jam78]

0/10 Ma is not a real element on the periodic table

[@BoardCloudIsland]

The moving background is killing me

[@not.aghost]

10 years since breaking bad came out? 🤔 I don’t know about that lmao

[@nizzleprizzle9783]

Breaking bad started in 2008 and ended in 2013. It’s now almost 2025. So almost 12 years :)

[@not.aghost]

@@nizzleprizzle9783 that math still doesnt make sense lmao

[@goodnightcharly5135]

Gale was a mega mind

[@PeterMayer]

Pretty good!

[@agabrielhegartygaby9203]

Love your timeline - I think it's possible for Gus to have kids maybe even a wife too why? "confirmed bachelors" raise too many questions and keeping women and children out of "business" fits culturally...my guess the marriage is of recent vintage a lady from Mexico, Germany or even the US and the kids would be young school age perhaps..

[@ozy667]

whats the intro song name?

[@briandenapoli3250]

Been 16 yrs since it started 11 since ending get facts straight

[@Deteatron]

By the title I thought this was another AI crap fest but this is a great video

[@themalmadius]

Hey I appreciate it! Took a while to make it but I’m pretty proud of it

[@Deteatron]

@ I would definitely look at a bunch of videos that are made by AI and their titles and try your best to be extremely different in titles so no one thinks you’re an AI channejkn

[@MutatingManiacGarr]

Wait he dies in the end???

[@themalmadius]

To be fair, it was left pretty unclear…

[@Zoroaster4]

I don't know who you're asking about, but pretty much everyone except Jesse, Saul, and Marie do. Everyone in the cartel and Peter and Gus and Max and Lydia all die.

[@harryparsons2750]

@@Zoroaster4Peter? Who the heck is Peter?

[@Zoroaster4]

@@harryparsons2750 Peter Schuller he was the German guy that worked with Gus. He goes out using a defibrillator in breaking bad.

[@ahmedseen]

​@@harryparsons2750Hey Lois, im on that breaking bad show!

[@GrannyGamer1]

Plausible

[@themalmadius]

As long as Granny Gamer thinks so, I've done my job.

[@GrannyGamer1]

@themalmadius 🤣💯⛏️♥️

[@christopherfritz3840]

Your use of the year 1958 is NOT correct. The actor was in the movie "Taps" released in 1981. Set in the same timeline he is one of the cadets at a military high-school, probably a sophomore, so 16? So 'Gus' would have been born in the 1970's..

[@dr_zotiac]

Terrible editing

[@themalmadius]

I appreciate the feedback. Anything specific you didn’t like? I’m trying to improve my content the best I can

[@TheTyronecus]

Terrible feedback, at least give something constructive.

[@bn92lannes58]

I liked it

[@llVIU]

the fact that it wasnt properly explained is an example why "better call saul" is so bad. It'feels like a bunch of irrelevant filler

[@harryparsons2750]

Better call Saul is one of the most overrated television shows ever

[@dcsquared69]

Yeah it's almost like the person who would be the focus of back story was revealed in tbe title of the show.... rofllll Chuds who need things spelled out for them in black and white and can't live without gunfight and explosions every episode are the dorks who think bcs wasn't any good lol.

[@LouisPetrenko-kd3vz]

Nar its a story of its own in a way as well as showing a lot of what happened leading up to bb

[@GhostRider-un9gm]

He's not any of that. With that terrible Spanish. Breaking bad is about the underdog teacher becoming overlords. There's a reason why alien doesn't have eyes. The mystery makes it more scary. So he is the evil dude to overcome, one that always wins and has infinite cards to play. For the protagonist to overcome because "I'm the danger,. the one who knocks". There are also no cuati animals in Santiago in Chile. The only cuati are in some archipelago Islands.....