Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-128.62.79.67-20161212005341

MetallicArcher wrote: 94.11.254.182 wrote: I can't be the only one who is really liking Ironwood a lot more since Volume 4 started. Like, he is seriosuly the only reasonable person in Atlas, bar Weiss, and the only one who is taking the situation seriously. I maintain my opinion from previous volumes that Ironwood is an idiot... but V3 has let it clear to me he is at the very worst a well intentioned idiot.

This comment. However, I would say the Fall of Beacon has wisened him up/humbled him.