24 Movie Villains Who Weren't Really Bad

17. Bruce the Shark

Imagine having a bunch of loud, agitated tourists invading your front yard wearing nothing but a Speedo. Then once you chased them away, a crazy loon, a geek and a scaredy cat bust down your front door with a rusty boat, harpoon you and try to haul you out of the house. Wouldn€™t you feel like biting their friggin guts out? The shark isn€™t a bad guy in €œJaws€, he€™s just a grumpy ocean dweller who wants those pesky swimmers out of his damn water. But the mayor dude who wouldn€™t close down the beach to save his cash-happy tourists from a gruesome grinding, what€™s up with that?

16. HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Artificial intelligence maybe, yet the spirit of the Odyssey is still no more than the sum of his parts, a machine that thinks but cannot feel. His actions are thus in no way motivated by any sort or mischievous desire but by a no-holds-barred determination to get the job done. In this day and age we call that telemarketing, an admittedly-different kind of evil. As far as HAL goes, the poor computer was simply following his program. He was taking care of a Billion-dollar spacecraft, after all, making the margin for error quite narrow. Why demonize him for that? Plus, he's a pretty decent singer.
 
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