Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl/YMMV/The Great Big Cyrus Effort Post (2)/reply (6)

He was definitely more Knight Templar than WIE (that would be more what Archie, Maxie, Zinnia, or N are, and Lysandre up to an extent) and his personal displeasure was certainly at the heart of his cause no matter how he might have denied it to himself, but a key factor of his character was that he was going by what he'd gathered about the displeasure, suffering, and strife-filled life experience of others (either people still living or long dead) to lend validity to his cause. In both the manga, it took the view points he'd made for himself getting challenged and proven wrong for him to begin to turn himself around.