#8: Michael Scofield, Prison Break
The first season of Prison Break is some of the best television anyone will ever see. The second and third seasons are tolerable. The fourth and fifth will make you want to jump into a lake with Oprah Winfrey tied to your ankles. Throughout all the awful, just awful script-writing, Scofield's brilliant mind remained a constant. I don't want to post spoilers here, but let me just put it to you this way- he is definitely the best preparer on this list. He is a structural engineer and knows absolutely everything about buildings, inside and out. Beyond his knowledge, Michael has an unbelievably keen awareness of his surroundings. Now if he could somehow give some of that common sense to that lughead brother of is.
Weakness: Lincoln Burrows; Sara Tancredi; Script-writers who never finished Kindergarten;
#7: Patrick Jane, The Mentalist
#6: Walter White, Breaking Bad
He helps his university team win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, then starts his own company with a partner. Screwed out of the company he helped found, this chemist's character changes probably more than any other tv character ever. He goes from victim to hero, back to victim, back to hero, and finally to villain. At one point, he enters a heavily-guarded gang fortress to demand $50,000.00 for injuries his meth-lab partner sustains- and he has no gun. When the bad guy boss threatens to kill Walter, he uses an explosive crystal of fulminated mercury to nearly blow up the building.
He helps his university team win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, then starts his own company with a partner. Screwed out of the company he helped found, this chemist's character changes probably more than any other tv character ever. He goes from victim to hero, back to victim, back to hero, and finally to villain. At one point, he enters a heavily-guarded gang fortress to demand $50,000.00 for injuries his meth-lab partner sustains- and he has no gun. When the bad guy boss threatens to kill Walter, he uses an explosive crystal of fulminated mercury to nearly blow up the building.
Weakness: He works in a drug environment, but has no combat experience, and only minimal knowledge.
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