Thread:Kookosbanaani/@comment-31622779-20180331000135/@comment-4971922-20180331152118

It's just the catalyst part that bothers me in the end. Sure, Bansai giving Von Karma his one and only penalty was done because of his dickish attitude (not wanting to cast any suspision on himself despite forging the evidence himself), but any other than Von Karma would have just overlooked it as a simple mistake. Yutaka Kazami (who can't count) is an even greater scope of a villain since his murder of Isaac Dover kickstarted the entire series. There is a border where the chain of events doesn't hold up anymore. Someone like Kazami can't be blamed for what Blaise did to Von Karma and what Von Karma did to the Edgeworths. In the same vein, I think that the actions of Von Karma and Dahlia can't be blamed on Bansai because of the chain of events. The idea of a purely evil villain is to surpass every possible excuse they have for their actions. Von Karma getting his perfect record spoiled didn't justify his vendetta towards Gregory and Dahlia's parental abandonment didn't justify how he murdered his stepsister and two boyfriends. Both Von Karma and Dahlia affected DIRECTLY more lives than Bansai himself.