Villains who aren't really villains

I can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head but I believe some of James Cagney's portrayals of gangsters would fit this category.

I don't view Hannibal Lecter as a villain. I mean who hasn't wanted to eat some twenty something punk who won't silence their cell phone in a movie theater or some other matter of rude person.

I've got a feeling westerns will feature prominently in this topic.

A couple I thought of have been nabbed -
The Searchers - but I'll add Scar to Ethan Edwards as they are 2 sides of the same coin.
12 Angry Men - Juror number 3 seeks to "burn" a possibly innocent young man because of his own failings.

The Big Country - The Hannasseys are painted as villainous from the start but ultimately the civilized Henry Terrill is at least as responsible for the conflict.

Bridge on the River Kwai - Saito could have been a simple villain but in a film loaded with subtext he is so much more complex.

One-Eyed Jacks - When even the "hero" is deceitful, manipulative and amoral, how to we pick the main villain in a film packed with awful human beings? Dad Longworth is not a nice man but have Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens ever portrayed such slimy characters in their careers? And Longworth strikes me as the inspiration for Hackman's sheriff in Unforgiven, perhaps another entry in this list.

Was Keefer a deliberate or an un-intentional villain in The Caine Mutiny ?

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Serious question. Not really familiar with the motivational details.

I mostly remembered Horrible and Meatball  and that storm until I re-watched it a year or so ago. 

Ah, now that's a question! Two, in fact: intentional on Keefer's part or on that of the screenwriters? 

In its abbreviated form of the story, neither the screenplay nor Keefer himself make any secret of his contempt for military order and chain-of-command. But recognizing that he's stuck with it for the duration and that anything disrupting it jeopardizes the crew and himself, he's more than willing to share his concerns about Queeg with Maryk. What he lacks is the courage of his convictions, so is also willing to let Maryk (and Willie) take the heat for what he instigated. In the end: weasel, yes; villain, no (IMO).

To anyone who hasn't read the novel but plans to, SPOILERS as oblique as I can make them AHEAD. 

Herman Wouk took it a step further in his novel, in which Keefer, having succeeded Queeg in command of the Caine, comes face to face with both that lack of conviction and his own weakness in a position of responsibility - similar to that of Queeg - when the survival of the ship hangs in the balance during the Okinawa campaign. Because Keefer is able to face truths about himself that Queeg couldn't, his humiliation is orders of magnitude more abject, and in spite of his weasel-ness, a reader almost wants to weep for him.         
        

Oh, I wouldn't say "coward" as a description is out of line. When he backs out of the meeting with Adm. Halsey at the last minute, he pretty much admits it: "Behind this eloquent exterior, I've got a yellow streak 2 miles wide." But because he couches it in facetious terms, Willie doesn't buy it: "I don't get it. Tom's no coward." Maryk's a bit more suspicious: "I don't know what Tom is ... now." 

Darth Vader is one of the most notorious villain on screen, yet after Return of the Jedi, the story had people feel kind of sorry for him. Return of the Jedi had me look forward to the Prequel and ultimately disappointed by those three movies not able to deliver the multidimensional humanity of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader that was hinted in the original trilogy.

Lord Beckett - Pirates of the Caribbean

When you mentioned Psycho, I think of the policeman also. She was a thief & Hitch seems to sway that act of the film as if she's being wrongly pursued by the cop. Well, she'd still be alive if he'd found her out. Had the cop been a friendly neighbourhood variety, might we'd have given up on being along with her?