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I wouldn't consider Omar to be a villain in The Wire. Omar is a criminal, but he's a clear protagonist on the show, and he's usually (in his own way) on the same side as the cops. He frequently helps them and they help him from time to time as well. There are quite a few criminals on the show that I wouldn't consider to be villains, like D'Angelo Barksdale.
Stringer, though, is definitely a villain, although in this instance it's probably better to use the term antagonist because The Wire has a lot of gray area.
Bodie probably wasn’t a villain either in the grand scheme of things. Michael Lee’s transition into Omar at the show’s conclusion was one of the best closing dynamics ever.
There I go again, slipping through a crack to gush about the Wire