Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161222004503/@comment-25936766-20161225061127

Arkantos95 wrote:

1) It's literally the structure of the plot of 90% of shonen ever made, just a series of progressively stronger villains.

2) If the Grimm are able to improve at a rate similar to humanity, how has humanity managed not only to survive, but thrive in their world? 1) But in the case of all those shonen animes and mangas, it's the main villains who are replaced by stronger main villains each arc. The Big Bads, the masterminds.

In this case, we're instead talking about the Grimm. The mooks. And, we have both seen and been told that stronger Grimm have been appearing since after the Fall of Beacon. So either coincidentally or naturally, they have been improving. Or alternatively, the stronger ones make themselves more known than before, but the end result is the same.

2) This is, assuming they improve at around the same rate humanity does. They don't need to improve at the same rate. Or rather, not to the same extent.

Also, I seriously question when you say "thrive in their world". Because they obviously don't. Atlas being the arguable exception because the cold saved them from most Grimm, they were smart with the Dust, and Nickel was a badass.

And while it wasn't 100% the Grimm's fault alone, Beacon and part of Vale still got wrecked in just 1 day, and 6 months since then, still hasn't recovered, even with a Jedi Master helping rebuild things.

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If anything, something you could've argued with KNN, is the fact that we have been getting stronger, superior Grimm who have been tougher than past ones. The Beringel kicked Ruby's ass for most of the fight, the Geist gave them all a hard time, and Ao Kuang kept Blake, Sun and the Ship's crew on their toes the whole fight.

Sure, the heroes won in the end, but the point is, the Grimm have indeed been improving.