Now, I'm not saying Adam should have been 100% like Grievous.

What I mean is this:

Magneto is someone you empathize with. He's a tragic villain whom you can even admire.  
Grievous, on the other hand, is extremely evil. To the point that you love to hate him. But you actually love him quite a lot because he is so cool. 

Why? Because he has his charm and charisma.

He's badass despite being a coward. And despite making a fool of himself sometimes, you know he'll be a real headache for our heroes.   
He also has a tragic past that makes him more interesting and cool.

That's what I would have liked to see in Adam. Not someone to sympathize with, but someone to love to hate.

For example, we already have Adam's backstory.

"Adam Taurus used to look up at the sky with bright blue eyes whenever he could, between shifts in the dust mines, dreaming of the day he would leave the tunnels behind to find his place in the world. But what he found instead was himself... on the ground, staring up at the three letters that damned him now and forever.

Scarred. Despised. Cold. Adam's heart grows black, his hatred red hot. The final traces of love, the beauty he let go, never returns, and as the last petal falls, Adam is cursed to forever remain a beast. Because, in this tale as old as time, there is no happy ending.

In this story... HE is the monster.

Adam Taurus had finally found his place, and he would watch humanity... burn."

In this case, Adam would have participated in a rebellion in the mines where he and the rest of the faunus were enslaved. (In a part of the outskirts of Solitas). Just as Jacques arrived to inspect. Due to the rebellion, Jacques called in the Atlas military and Huntsmen.

The Huntsmen and soldiers quickly subdued the rebel Faunus, and to discipline them, Jacques ordered the Faunus to be branded like cattle.

All while the soldiers and Huntsmen did nothing.

That's why Adam now hates humanity and the Huntsmen. But above all, he hates Atlas and the Schnee.

Basically, replace the Huk with the SDC. The Galactic Republic with Atlas. And the Jedi with the Huntsmen.

Furthermore, like Grieovous, Adam would only be a pawn for the mastermind behind it all, Salem.   
At least in Legends, Grieovus was used as the terrifying monster that justified the rise of the Empire and Palpatine's anti-alien policies.   
In this case, Adam would be the terrifying monster that justifies the political campaigns of human supremacists. Which in turn would help divide Remnant.  
In Salem's case, she doesn't desire power over Remnant; she desires to divide humanity and gather the relics.

Anyway, I feel that in this way Adam could be even more imposing, since he would be the commander-in-chief of the villains' troops, just as Grievous was the leader of the Separatist forces.

Of course, the White Fang would only be Salem's plastic soldiers, just as the droids were Sidious's plastic soldiers.



But anyway, what do you think? I, as I said, prefer Adam to be more like Grievous than Magneto. Someone with a tragic past, yes, but who ultimately became a monster blinded by revenge.   
I'm not saying that Adam should be 100% like Grievous, I just mean that he should be similar to that type of villain. Just as Eren is similar to Magneto despite being quite different from him. 

I'll eventually make a post about how Lionize presents the best version of Adam. But for now, I think this explains quite a bit about how I see Adam.



The obsession with Blake? Yes, let's forget about that. 

More than Magneto, what about Grievous for Adam's character?