2. Sal (Dog Day Afternoon)
Make no mistake, despite a powerful and simplistic performance from John Cazale, Sal is most definitely a villain in
Dog Day, despite how sympathetic the audience may be to his character. But he's incredibly territorial, frightened, and very off-the-cuff and willing to do whatever is necessary to get out of some jail time. While he may not share Sonny's charm to appease the hostages in the bank, Sal does not have an affinity for them, either, telling his partner he's willing to shoot any of them he has to in order to get out. He's relatively quiet throughout the whole movie and would be completely lost without Sonny; making him a very reliant villain in contrast to a few of the others on the list. His character and Pacino's, both, really walk the line of characters we're not sure whether to side with or not, and many of the onlookers of the heist in the film share the same problem. But let's not forget that Sal is a trigger-happy jail-bound veteran with some pretty maternal instincts for Sonny.
"Tell the TV to stop saying there's 2 homosexuals in here."