User blog comment:Stealth Cl0wn/The deaths that hit you the hardest (Massive spoilers)/@comment-2130363-20120413172534/@comment-3325589-20120415225145

"That's one of Kai Leng's character-defining moments for me, and not one that reflects well on him: he was stopped from killing his target by a guy with a debilitating terminal illness."

Seconded. And even as he lay dying, Thane still got that fantastic burn about how "if a terminally ill drell could stop him from completing his objective, he can't be that good." One of the few funny moments in that story arc, and made Thane look that much cooler. I still think Kai Leng made an effective villain, in some ways all the more so because his 'little punk' personality made him more distinctive than a lot of the more generically menacing villains in various stories. He would've made a terrible main antagonist, but it's all good since TIM was much more responsible for filling that role.