Brom Bones

i watched this on youtube last night for the first time in years, and there is a difference from when you watch it as a child then watch it as an adult. Brom was a big guy, yes, did he use it to has advantage, yes, was brom a villan? I would have to say no. He got a dog to howel during ichabod's singing lesson, big deal, no harm no foul, and it was actually pretty funny, just a bit of good hearted messing around. Then Katrina arrives, the only thing that makes brom any kind of "villian" or antagonist is simply the fact that he is competing against ichabod for the hand of Katrina, and loses at every turn. Brom finally sees his chance when he finds out how much of a scaredy-cat ichabod is, and he uses his fear against him, and ends up winning the hand of Katrina.
whats the expression? "Alls fair in love and war"?
you could easily make Ichabod the "villian" if the focus of the story had been on Brom instead of Ichabod.