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Just random. I was scrolling through reddit and found a post on r/RWBYcritics about Ironwood. I read through the comments and a thought suddenly popped out of my head. General Ironwood and General Shepard from MW classic are somewhat similar when you think about it. Ironwood was allied with Ozpin and his round table. Shepard was a trusted general by the US military and by the Rangers and TF141. Both betrayed their respective allegiances for a different goal (Ironwood: Protecting Atlas. Shepard: Restoring America's reputation) after a giant event that mentally broke them. (Ironwood: the attack on Vale and the responsibility of keeping the peace in Solitas. Shepard: the deaths of 30,000 under his command during an attack on Basra, Iraq.) Both made huge sacrifices to achieve them (Ironwood: Leaving Mantle to the Grimm. Shepard: letting Pvt. Allen get killed by Makarov and get discovered by the Russians to start WW3.) But ultimately died doing it. (Ironwood: dies along with a falling Atlas. Shepard: dies by knife to the head trying to cement himself as a war hero.) This is just a random thought that came to my head so take this message as you see fit.