24 Movie Villains Who Weren't Really Bad

15. Ed Rooney (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

I€™m not saying Rooney doesn€™t exaggerate quite a bit by breaking into Ferris Bueller€™s house (through the doggie door no less) to try and catch him red-handed, nor that he isn€™t a major-league jerk. The reality remains that his title is Dean of Students, not Lord of the Slackers. It€™s his job, as requested by demanding taxpayers, to make sure teenagers sent to him sit down, shut up and study. And very few if any of the kids under his care will try to make his job any easier. If one goofball like Bueller gets away with it all the time, every one will follow his example and NO ONE will go to school ever again. And then civilization as we know it will end. Do we really want that? Rooney's a Goddman hero (Granted, I would've never said such a thing back when I had to spend my days in a classroom).

14. Bill (Kill Bill)

How bad can a man who plays that flute thing so well really be? Sure, Bill is the head of an assassination squad who tends to overreact just a slight tad, but his parenting skills do tip the scale in the opposite direction. As for leaving his runaway bride for dead after stealing her child, let€™s chalk it up to a bad case of broken heart. After all, she DID leave him without a note for a record store manager who sports a bad bleach job. What self-respecting hitman wouldn€™t send his goon squad?!? And she's PREGNANT?!?! Bonkers, I tell you. If anything, Bill should be commended for never raising his voice or throwing hissy fits, using a soften-spoken, Zen disposition even when walking the last few steps to his 5 point palm exploding heart-induced death. THAT is how an honorable man croaks, Grasshopper.
 
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