User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry Movie Review/@comment-2214433-20170518100944/@comment-21119641-20170518122937

I differ on the Irene part. Considering how things sort out, she really needed that flashback. Sure it seemed a bit "Why do you need to explain this?", it was necessary to show off how she came to be as a character.

Whereas, as you also put, Acnologia is different. He is just evulz and happens to be motivated by that as shown in the movie.

It mostly depends on who the character is.