Defend a villain

I don't mean talk about a likeable villain...I mean literally defend one.

This can be in good fun and in jest, or it can be legit in that you think the movie/show's villain is actually not and got an unfair shake. Feel free to be as obnoxious and heavy-handed as you want in your argument, and in a sense this can also be somewhat of an "overanalyze" thread (as we've done several times before on here). And prepare to defend your answers with logic and argument.

Please name the movie/character before going into your argument. I have a couple in mind. I'll start:


The Karate Kid - John Lawrence

I'll start by adding that my stance on KK is well-documented on here, and I think it's legit arguable that Daniel Larusso is the true villain of this movie. So I'll start here.

Obviously John is somewhat of a trouble-maker in his past. But he makes the conscious decision to go from "ace degenerate" to "ex degenerate" his senior year, and wants to "make it work" and get his shite together. And in walks Daniel fricking Larusso, some smartass jerk from Jersey acting like he owns the place.

His long time, on-again-off-again girlfriend, Ali, is a total bitch with no regard for their history. When he tries to talk to her on the beach, she keeps turning the radio up trying to silence him and embarrass him in front of everybody. And what does Daniel do? Sticks his nose into someone else's business and horn in on someone else's girl. At one point we even see Ali's parents clearly have an established relationship with John...her mother dances with him at the country club, and her father (while dancing with her) asks something along the lines of "You two lovebirds fighting again?" There is very clearly still chemistry there to where even her parents think they are together. But that doesn't stop Daniel from trying over and over to bang her.

At one point at the Halloween dance, we see Daniel peek over the bathroom stall at John. For all he knows John could've been taking a shite. But let's ignore the obvious assholery of that...Daniel sees John trying to relax and roll a doobie on the toilet so that he can finally get a little rest and ease his mind of this new a-hole from Jersey trying to talk shite and steal his girlfriend constantly. What does Daniel do? He rigs a hose and turns the water onto John completely unprovoked. Then has the nerve to get mad when John chases him down and kicks his arse.

Then Miyagi and Daniel waltz into Cobra Kai and attempt to call a truce with Kreese and his students. And what does Daniel do the next time he sees John and his friends at school? He talks shite to them about their injuries (sustained when Miyagi kicked their asses, mind you....not him) and taunts them in front of a teacher. He even tries to sucker them into getting stuck hearing some boring arse lecture by the teacher while they are on break. So not only does Daniel get a grownup to intervene and get them to stop harassing him, he then turns around and harasses them the very next day. At one point John tells Daniel "You just couldn't leave well enough alone..." and boy was he right.

Then, in the All Valley tournament, Daniel isn't even correctly belted, and Miyagi has to literally steal a black belt to enter him into the tournament. Not only should this have resulted in a DQ, with John becoming the champion, but Miyagi should've been blacklisted for putting an unqualified kid in harm's way. I won't get into the specificity of the tournament, with different rules and shite seemingly in place for Daniel (see my thread linked above for further detail into that) in which John should have been the rightful champ. But even allowing that bullshite to stand, Daniel should have been DQ'd and the runner up should've been named champion: John Lawrence.



I'll do a separate post for my other one...

So, who you got?

ETA: Bonus points if you choose someone basically indefensible, but you make a solid case anyway.