Marco and Leonel Salamanca, commonly known as the Cousins, are major antagonists in the TV series Breaking Bad and supporting antagonists in its prequel series Better Call Saul. The duo were twin brothers and hitmen for the Cartel. Despite an austere, mechanical physicality and virtually non-verbal interaction, they were a fearsome presence who killed without hesitation or emotion.
Anglesmith Origins[]
Chapter 4[]
Tuco got in contact with his cousins and then decided to help, they were introduced heading on their way and murdering innocents with gas and lighters before seeing Boddicker who thinks They made the right choices to get these guys. As Becker wanted some truly deadly assassins to kill Slade, Bean, Bender, Anti Cosmo and the others if it came down to it.
Boddicker picks them up and brings them to Becker and Boddicker tells him what the Cousins did respectfully. The Twins arrives with the others to go after Wile E, Harry, Anti Cosmo, Slade, Luan and Bender who they tussle with and later Bean and her friends. Like Bunny and Claude, they do some real damage and apart from Anti Cosmo, Luci, Stan and Wendy they managed to hurt everyone respectfully.
The Cousins leave with Becker and Tuco ready to make their next move against Slade with Stansfield and Jack The Ripper.
Chapter 5[]
The Twins join Becker in taking his shortcut by tempting Hansel and Gretel to lead them to a short cut. However them and Becker are plotting to betray them, after they help them. The Cousins and Becker betray and kill the two, with The Cousins beheading the two of them which shocks Captain Hero, Nacho, Bunny and Claude, with Yates just being indifferent.
Becker with Nacho, Hero, The Twins, Yates and Bunny and Claude all getting ever so closer to the Infosphere with this cut taken.
Chapter 6[]
The Twins arrives with the others with the intent to do what Becker and his superiors want and get the Infosphere for them and hold an ax Becker gave them to decaptivate Slade. The Twins fight Nacho as well as Wile E, Bender, Slade and Harrison in a fight with their weapons not really slowing down
After Becker is knocked off the mountain, they decide to leave as they know the cops are on their way.
Double Life Emergence[]
Act 1[]
Episode 1[]
The Cousins Return on Don Bolsa and Don Eladio who they sent to sent a message to G-Lo, Bender and Wile E Coyote. Though they are seen, they manage to disappear before G-LO can attack them with her gelatin powers.
Episode 2[]
The Cousins arrive with other Cartel members at Dee Dee's hotel to try and kill her and the others and engage in a shoot out with the rest of the heroes. They do shoot some of their own teammates intend to get what Eladio wants from Bender and Slade for themselves. The Cousins do leave after being outgunned though they are able to help Bolsa capture and behead Tortunga
Afterwards, they agree with Professor Chang by nodding and putting explosives in the man's head and sending it to Slade and Bender, as they and Hector decide to go after one of Chang's own operations and go after Deathstroke's group as well. They stay to the side to keep their leadership hidden.
Episode 3[]
Under Hector's orders, they head to Gookin University to expose and destory whatever Midas is hiding from The Cartel with Professor Chang and end up having to engage against both Leon and Deathstroke's group but also the experiments Chang made. They send their men to go after Leon and Deathstroke's group as they deal with the attrocities that Chang experimented on. Though they kill a few of them, The Cousins flee upon realziing they will be outgunned.
Episode 4[]
The Cousins only appear at Hector's side as they observe what Bender and co are trying to find in the reservoir and are ordered by Hector to being kept alive.
Episode 5[]
By Hector's side they headed to the biggest body of water in Mexico to help oversee what Midas and Pi-Pi are doing with it. They serve as intimidation and force to anyone who may try to interfere. Carmen and Carmlita go to investigate the project with Doug, Bunny and Claude and stay wary as they and even other cartel members are afraid of them. The Cousins just look around and think they hear something and try to kill Daffy unknown to him, though it's because they are high on alert.
They are mentioned by Camila and Carmen as they explain about the Cartel to Lydia and Lincoln and how psychotic and ruthless they are under Hector Salamanca. They are next seen during Bolsa's meeting with his fellow Cartel leaders to serve as muscle to Hector in case a civil war breaks out between them in a more open fashion.
Episode 6[]
The Cousins and Hector are being tailed by Leon and Tiger Claw as they work to investigate a situation from the Salamancas as they are out to fetch a camera of the corpses that Daffy had taken. They eventually do find them and they attack both Leon and Tiger Claw. The Latter stays and fights The Cousins and the other criminals, though The Cousins are the only ones that land a hit on him by shooting him.
Act 2[]
Episode 7[]
The Cousins are surveilling things with Hector when it comes to Leon and his work with Lydia and Lincoln and are given orders to kill the kids after Leon leaves. This the Cousins do when they notice Lydia and Lincoln investigating and this though leads to them being outnumbered and out matched by unexpected reinforcements. The Cousins decide to just leave knowing they are in a losing situation and are told to lay low since one of them is a cop.
Episode 9[]
The Cousins join Hector in their ongoing struggle when it came to the bliss betwen Midas and Big Jack Horner in the middle while also fighting the heroes as Midas's use of the drug Bliss goes into effect.
Episode 10[]
At first, they decide to tail Lincoln, Lydia and their friends after dealing with Horner, though they decide to not engage against Judge Holden upon seeing his brutality and skill something that they make obivous to Hector and Jack Horner among their return.
Episode 11[]
On Hector's side they follow the heroes without Lydia or Lincoln and Hector schemes with them to use the kids' parents as leverage and to get the cops off their back.
Episode 12[]
Carmen, Maria and Caremlita have a showdown with The Salamancas who are intend to use the kids's parents as leverage. With Guns akin from them and Riff Raff who taken on Carmen who and Carmelita who are also using guns and Maria using her glove to defend against them. As everyone is intend to defend each other
As the others go against the Salamancas and Riff Raff, this is when Judge Holden arrives and causes the Salamancas to flee yet again as he intends to arrest and kill the heroes just like the Salamancas who flee as their intend to kill him to no avail.
Judge Holden beats down on Hector Salamanca and the Cousins and throws him into a prison cell for his own intent, He spares the Cousins and Riff Raff to flee as Hector learns that Midas took over the cartel. Machine Head, and The Cousins report later what they have found on phones to Jack Horner and Hector about everything Midas is doing and that Frank is still unaccounted for
Act 3[]
Episode 13[]
Them and Hector in jail discover what Midas is doing and Hector puts them in charge of trying to find a way to get back at Midas for stepping on his and Jack Horner's business.
Episode 15[]
Midas force feeds the Cousins with his food which ends up turning them into chickadatyls for his plans.
Act 4[]
Episode 23[]
They are brought back to their normal selves and with Hector are present at Don Eladio's meeting where they are told to get rid of anyone associated with Midas as Eladio wants his reputation in the Cartel gone from the books for gone.
Chronicles of Zaragoza[]
Chapter 8: Earth X's Last Stand[]
The Cousins follow the heroes and lead the Cartel to attempt assassinate Bender, Marcy and Slade's crew and they put them on their toes forcing them to hide. They then follow Libby and her friends intend to either kill them or use them to get back the heroes. They head to Eladio's house to protect him and faces everyone there. One of them is shot to death and the other gets their legs severed and injected by a lethal inhection.