Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl/YMMV/The Great Big Cyrus Effort Post (2)/reply (2)

If it was one unrelated manga, I wouldn't have felt it mattered much, but it being two different ones by two different authors (both official works licensed and approved by the company rather than fanfiction), to me, says something about the capacity to turn himself around that the Cyrus character has. He didn't act upon that in the games' plot, but neither did Giovanni (in FRLG that is, since HGSS had him still hoping to bring Team Rocket back stronger than ever in order to dominate the world) or Lysandre, both also villains who did despicable deeds yet still have redeeming qualities. The only main game villain to show no redeeming qualities or acts of decency prior to his Redemption Rejection was Ghetsis. Also the fact that Cyrus' end point in the games was pretty open ended, as opposed to the close ended fate that anime!Cyrus got after proving himself to lack the redeeming features of his game and manga incarnations.

BTW I didn't mean to re-post this but something went wrong and I had to delete the old one and put this back up immediately afterwards.