There Might be a Connection

When someone says the word hero, you imagine Superman or Captain America. You think of people that are 100% good and do everything to help the people. However, anti heroes are those that are flawed. Anti heroes can be greedy, or self centered. They are littered all throughout American literature. The first antihero was Ichabod Crane. He was a greedy self-centered man that manipulated his students and chased women for their money. When i think of Ichabod, another antihero comes to mind, Walter White from Breaking Bad.

Greed

Ichabod Crane and Walter White were both greedy men. Ichabod only went after Katrina for her family's money. He never loved her, he just wanted the money for himself. Walter White was greedy because although he started cooking meth to make enough money for his family to survive after he was diagnosed with cancer and was most likely going to die, he continued to cook meth long after he reached his goal of about $750,000. His earnings were in the tens of millions and had to be stored in oil drums.

Manipulation

Ichabod and Walter White were experts at manipulation. Ichabod manipulated his students into letting him live in their homes and eat their food. He also manipulated Katrina into believing that he actually loved her, but all he was was a gold digger. On the other hand, Walter White completely manipulated and used his assistant, and some would say friend, Jesse Pinkman.

Self-Centered

It is hard to find any person more self-centered than these two men. Ichabod thought that he was superior to others because he was a teacher. He saw Katrina's other suitors as barbaric. Walter White doesn't start off as self-centered. He was once a humble Chemistry teacher, but as his meth empire grew, he began to develop an ego. For example, in an episode, he told a leader of another meth organization to "Say my name." When he did, Walter said "You're damn right!"