So what I saw as evil tendencies, you all see as simply him at a breaking point?
I'm not sure I'm kosher with that. Considering that, in my opinion, anything that happened to him, he brought on himself by one action or another, I'm not really keen on that. What, during the main series, ever made him push past a breaking point? Yes, he would enter an AR, but the attacks usually wouldn't carry through the arc, much less any attack be something to go batshit over. They don't get really dead set on it until the very end, when he had already made it clear that he was the destroyer.