User blog comment:Diyartifact/Shepard's adversaries/@comment-4888821-20120407180206

I don't think that Kai Leng was a bad villain, I think he was a fairly good foil. Many people are angry that he's absent for a lot of the game but that wasn't the point. He's a good foil because his position in relation to Shepard, he's jealous of Shepard. He works for the Illusive Man just like Shepard did, The Illusive Man even says that Kai Leng reminds him of Shepard, this sparks a rivalry between him and Shepard that is even more deep rooted than the sight of each other, there is constant competitiveness between these 2 characters, I definitely think the game could have benefited from him being in it more often but I don't think he was a bad foil. Examples of other foils, Macbeth vs Macduff, Macduff barely even makes a cameo appearance in the book however his position in relation to Macbeth makes him the foil; same goes for Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Laertes, Laertes and Fortinbras are largely absent from the entire play however because these characters have remarkable similarities with each other they are foils.