Talk:Bansai Ichiyanagi

I'd say that Bansai is insufficiently heinous to count as purely evil and here's why. Sure, he is way more corrupt and amoral than Von Karma, but the list of his crimes just pale in comparison. First of all, he is emotionally abusive towards his son, but his treatment towards him doesn't come even close to how monstrously Von Karma treated his foster son Miles Edgeworth. Second, he used his status as the Chief Prosecutor to auction vital evidence in the black market several times and is known for "creating his own truths". This is bad, but it is noteworthy how Von Karma maintained his decades long win streak by any means necessary, which means that he personally sentenced countless people to death, guilty or not. Then finally, he commits one murder and only because he was about to get caught. Von Karma's murder of Gregory Edgeworth, on the other hand, was far more personal as he shamed Von Karma's otherwise perfect record with a penalty. And that wasn't even enough for him, as he had to take the extraordinary mile by taking his son under his wing and twist him into a ruthless prosecutor himself. Then, he was about to throw him under the bus anyways by manipulting Yanni Yogi to murder Robert Hammond and framing Miles as the culprit. And just in case if that didn't work, he had manipulated Miles to believe that he himself was the one who killed his own father. Bansai just pales in comparison and it's also worth mentioning how his involvement in the SS-5 incident (which claims the life of the president of Zheng Fa) is diminished by the fact that he conspired it together with his body double and Mari Miwa. There are implications that Bansai  murdered his own wife and there are also hints that he might have abused his son sexually too, but neither of these are outright confirmed. Bansai might be the more greater scope villain of the two as he gave Von Karma his one and only penalty, but his role in the DL-6 incident is way too indirect to count. Overall, he is a terrible person with no redeeming qualities, but more of a jerk when compared to Von Karma himself. Not even TV Tropes consider him purely evil as doesn't strike out as unique in a series that already has six especially monstrous villains. Thoughs? Kookosbanaani (talk) 17:38, March 30, 2018 (UTC)