Talk:Iron Will/@comment-76.221.140.211-20120424061045

His role in the narrative is more of a "catalyst" than an "antagonist". He could be interpreted as an antagonist at the end of the episode when he comes to collect on Fluttershy's debt, as he does provide a source of conflict in that scene. He is definitely not a villain. He simply is a symbolic manifestation of the episode's crucial theme which in turn leads to conflict. Ultimately, assertion is deemed an ambiguous trait (debatably).