Hans Landa and Heisenberg

The image of these two characters is paradoxical: they are super-competent relative to the roles they play, and that's why their evil actions seem cool. So Walter White had a stake in a highly promising startup and a rich girl, Gretchen, and ultimately, due to his bruised ego, didn't become a billionaire (which would have eliminated the misalliance issue), but instead put his chemistry knowledge to good use in the drug trade. But that's crazy; with the drug business at its peak, he made an order of magnitude less than he would have if he had stayed in the startup. Without the deaths, stress, and inability to spend his earnings. So, their whole cool factor is that they're actually complete idiots. They had the opportunity to weasel their way out and get much more of what they ultimately wanted without getting caught up in the dirt and crime. There's a certain paradox about someone rising to a position where they're incompetent. So, I attribute it to such supercompetent idiots. In general, this kind of insanity makes writing fanfiction very difficult. Like, a hungry wolf has a mountain of meat in front of him, but he doesn't eat it due to some stupid moral flaw. This makes the works completely hermetic and limits the plot threads almost entirely. I wanted to write a Worm fanfiction, but I ran into the problem that all the characters have mega-fucked traumas that rigidly determine their behavior. Plus, the apocalypse at the end doesn't leave much room for further development. That's why I'm not writing about what Hans Landa might have done—it's unclear, the Third Reich will definitely fall, and writing a detective storyline about someone working for it while carefully avoiding war crimes is a very difficult task; you need to know nuances I don't know.