Thread:Kookosbanaani/@comment-31622779-20180331000135/@comment-4971922-20180331104117

Thank you for the message! That is your opinion and I fully respect that. But my opinion on Bansai not counting still holds up because

a) the murder he commits isn't because of petty and personal revenge like Von Karma's

b) his abuse of Yumihiko isn't nearly as monstrous as how Von Karma treated Miles and even Bansai didn't frame his son for murder

c) the black market auctions he held didn't directly put anyone's life in danger whereas Von Karma used every dirty tactic for 40 years to get all guilty verdicts (meaning that he was responsible for countless death sentences)

d) his involvement in the SS-5 incident was done with three people and his role in making Sota the Big Bad of the entire game was minimal (it was mostly because of his own father disowning him)

e) giving Von Karma his one and only penalty might have been the catalyst of the entire series but he it was Von Karma himself who picked up from there on because of his own perfectionism. That's like saying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish would count because he kickstarted the entire war, even though people like Renly and Stannis (who can't count) kept the war going, despite knowing that it would kill thousands of people.

All in all, I just don't think he counts in terms of heinousness. And in a series that already has 6 monsters (Von Karma is a corrupt prosecutor and an obsessive perfectionist, Dahlia is a heartless serial killer of men, Kristoph is an egotistical lawyer, Alba is a leader of an international smuggling ring, Phantom is a sociopathic spy and Ga'ran is a tyrannical dictator), Bansai doesn't even stand that unique when compared to the rest.

And yes, I know that this isn't TV Tropes but I've heard many people claiming here that you stand by their policies when it comes to purely evil villains. That being said, Engarde and White were both cut recently because of TV Tropes.