User blog comment:SilencedSkies/The Illusive Man: Good, Evil or just bad writing?/@comment-1407247-20120415003607

3 words: Mass Effect: Evolution http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect%3A_Evolution

Ever wonder how he got his freaky eyes? What's to say his descent into madness wasn't Reaper meddling from the beginning? He was always aware of them, always obsessed with them, and could certainly have played to their intentions the whole time.