Word: villainized
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...greater performers have lacked one or both of these--David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Eleanora Duse, Pauline Lord and Helen Hayes, for example." In the movies, even such "good but not great actors" as Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Garfield were not able to get anything but villain roles for a long, long time...
...feels unworthy of Troilus, until he proves his love in bed. Love's victory is Pyrrhic, however, and Cressida soon succumbs to a Prince of Greece, who can provide security and a house in Connecticut. The Greek is nevertheless the tool of Mars, who is the real villain, and provides the climax, which is tragic for Ashton and perhaps slightly comic for the audience...
...good Hamlet almost in vacuo. But a good Othello is impossible without a good Iago, and vice versa. Alfred Drake shows here that he can excel in something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect. But more than that...
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Hal Wallis; Paramount). In Hollywood westerns, as in popular legends of every age, the men's men are apt to be just big overgrown boys, and in chasing the villain they are actually running away from the woman. But in this highbrow horse opera, the lill-death-do-us-partnership is in some ways a little too close for comfort...
Your story seeks to make Dr. Wilson the villain in the integration story at our university. Under his leadership, the university has moved firmly and solidly, without fanfare, toward full integration of its students...