User blog comment:Argulor/Should species really determine whether a character is a villian or not?/@comment-3462718-20170821140643/@comment-9946467-20170821184545

While the leader may make bad decisions, it is clearly because he is torn apart by the death of his mother. How does that not make him at least a little sympathetic? He clearly needed help.

As for the flock as a whole, we don't know enough about them other than the fact that they are scared of their leader. Not enough to put them in the villainous category.

And as for categorizing in general... it's a good thing to be careful with, but just because it's more convenient for a wiki shouldn't mean characters should just be categorized as villains.

And I know this categorizing shouldn't be taken like a group rights thing. But as someone who likes crows and like that Mr. Jacques introduced a group that weren't outright bad guys, it's sad seeing them listed as being as bad as Ironbeak's flock, just because they're crows.