Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20161210130927/@comment-25396609-20161211035633

Ironwood is, in a shocking twist as compared to every powerful military leader in all of fiction, a good man who has the best interests of the world at heart and the power to help.

I get the feeling he wasn't born into wealth and power. Something about him makes me think he earned his place in the world through trials and hardship.