IDW Comics - Story Discussion (Spoilers)

I think those with concerns about including Iron Will in this story don’t need to worry: Jeremy Whitley doesn’t consider him evil.
 

@Background Pony #9786  
That makes sense.

@MrXemnas1992
 
Chrysalis is easy.
 
Hope: Hey bugbutt, you still hate Twilight and friends?
 
Chrysalis: Completely.
 
Hope: Well have I got an offer for you.
 
Tirek would be just as easy to convince. The only hard part is breaking him out of Tartarus and not have him hijack the entire plot the exact moment he’s strong enough to do so. Both points being why I’m skeptical he’ll play a role.

@Dustcan
 
I’m still hoping my prediction of Hope offering to heal the Changelings’ holes in exchange for their cooperation comes true.

@dynamicv  
Seems kinda peanuts for taking on their mortal enemies, don’t you think?
 
Also, expecting Chrys to be dumb evil backstabber.

The entire backstory for the Changelings is not one that I enjoy, but I do like seeing different interpretations of Chrysalis.

Oh come on, you’re seriously implying that Iron Will is an antagonists when he did absolutely nothing wrong in his episode?
 
God fucking damn it, this comic is going to suck ass too, won’t it?

@441TheSecond  
To be fair, this seems less and less like a club for supervillians and more a support group for people who had their lives ruined by the main characters.

@441TheSecond  
Let’s not push it in the spike pit just yet, maybe they’ll show some awareness of Will’s personality before the end.

@Trickquestion  
Oh just watch it, she’s going to form some sort of supervillain force to fight the Mane Six and it’s going to be dumb.
 
I don’t know why the fuck I am holding even the slightest bit of hope that this arc will turn out to be good.

@441TheSecond  
Whitley implied that Iron Will wasn’t evil, he just wanted something enough to not care how he got it.
 
Please calm down.

@441TheSecond  
Whoa! Hey! Stop…just stop, breathe.
 
Where pray tell did it ever imply he was a villain? If anything, he’s being recruited because his life was (indirectly) screwed up by the Mane Six [not intentionally, but the Mane Six getting him to mellow out obviously hurt his image].
 
You’re just setting yourself up for disappointment with that talk.  

 
At this point, I’m just waiting for the MCU jokes to roll in (mysterious stranger shows up to one by one recruit certain folk to the team their forming…)

@Itsthinking  
I just want for this arc to be good! That’s all I’m asking! Yet I am so certain that it won’t, because IDW hasn’t published a good comic since April.

So, regarding Iron Will, I guess that finding his inner pony was about as much of a croc as it sounds on it’s own, aye?

@PonyPon  
It’s like trying to making a lion go vegan. It’s just not in their nature.  

I can buy Iron Will joining the villain’s side out of desperation. Desperate people seldom make good decisions. It’s the part about him operating by fear and all minotaurs once being feared that I don’t buy. I get the feeling they’re trying to awkwardly insert lore about minotaurs so Iron Will has a motivation to restore the honor of his race or something.

@kleptomage
 
It’s not like we know much about Minotaur’s anyway.

The cartoon showed that Iron Will was a man of honor, and the comic showed he had a very clear concept of what’s correct and what’s wrong.  
Having him join a team of villains so he could be feared and boost his self improvement seminars is just dumb no matter how hard one tries to justify it.

@Anonycat  
Like keptomage said, “Desperate people seldom make good decisions.” I doubt he seriously knows what he’s signing up for…and if so, it’s likely he’ll make a Heel-Face turn by issue four.
 
…what IS he signing up for anyways? Why is Radiant Hope trying to destroy the Mane Six? Sombra was defeated and the Crystal Empire was restored…isn’t that something she’d be happy for?

@MrXemnas1992  
Could be revenge for blowing him up. Maybe she spent years trying to look for a cure for him, found it, only to see him explode right in front of her eyes.

Yeah, figured she was mad that she failed Sombra, someone she cared about so much. And she might be mad that the Mane Six defeated Sombra in any form.
 
…shouldn’t she actually just be mad at most towards Twilight and Spike? They’re the ones who defeated Sombra.

@Itsthinking  
Maybe she’s done her homework and knows even if you target them, the rest come running.
 
Not to mention Cadance might remind her of the last pink keeper of the heart that failed her as much as Sombra.

@PonyPon  
Wonder if Hope blames Amore in the slightest, like maybe she blames her neglectful handling of Sombra for his fall into darkness.

So, is Hope going of the deep end? If so, that’s kinda sad(in the sense of the story).
 
Imagine having a guy you love turn evil, enslave an entire city, banish you to aimlessly wonder the earth, them when you try to help him, he dies.

I can understand if Iron Will agree since he have a wife and kids to feed and he would be desperate for customers. I just hope that he won’t be turned into generic evil henchman and break any law.  
Flim and Flam are just greedy for money, even Applejack would be able to hire them if she offer enough bits. Evil have nothing to do with it.  
Lightning Dust may be driven by her personal vendetta against Wonderbolts and Rainbow Dash, it doesn’t mean that she like to strangle kitties in her free time.  
None of them is really a villain and it will be really OOC if they all agree to work with creatures like Tirek, Chrysalis and Sombra and doing it by their own free will.