The obvious villains in this whole mess would seem to be those players who are believed to have taken steroids.

But on this corner, there are no obvious villains; there is hardly much animosity.

Even though Richard is the obvious villain, where is the opposing view of goodness?

"You must pay the rent," Peter said in an obvious villain's voice.

In that crowd, Tony is almost automatically ruled out as too obvious a villain.

Agribusiness and public apathy are the most obvious villains.

The story doesn't begin to add up, and the obvious villain is never treated as a suspect, although there's plenty of cause for suspicion.

Banks, who had missed nabbing more than one obvious villain in his career, knew how true that was.

He is definitely the most obvious villain in the story.

They are problems that lack the clear solutions and obvious villains of the civil rights movement 30 or 35 years ago in the South.