Talk:Iron Will/@comment-25559529-20180830230634

A character who would work with a sympathetic backstory (not "I lost a friend", which is not sympathetic) would be Iron Will. He could have a backstory of how he is pretty weak compared to the average minotaur and was bullied a lot when he was younger. The assertiveness seminars would be his way of trying to make sure no one else goes through what he he went through. After Fluttershy stand up to him, he could go back and look at everyone else he "helped" and realized that he turned them into people who couldn't function properly, like "New Fluttershy" couldn't. This could work because Iron Will is not a world-ending threat, and he is the kind of character this backstory would go to.

It wouldn't work now that he has been turned into someone who takes advantage of fine print to manipulate people, but it's a hell lot better than the constant, reused, unending list of villains who lost friends in the past.