Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140404003915/@comment-24831427-20140421232201

108.38.193.5 wrote:                                                                                                   as this is a international tournament and I doubt cannon fodder would make the cut. Yeah, I agree with that. I'm quite fed up with supposedly "skilled" opponents being reduced to little more than cannon fodder. In various media we've seen supposedly "skilled" or "powerful" allies and opponents wiped out in droves with little resistance (ie. they'd be lucky to inflict so much as a scratch on their opponents).

We have examples such as the Soul Reapers and Menos Grande in Bleach, Stormtroopers in Star Wars, any large group of ninjas in Naruto, almost any form of law inforcement or military in worlds with superpowers that go down like flies, even if the soliers are specifically trained and armed to deal with these threats.... the list goes on...

Even in RWBY, we have the Grimm (creatures supposedly meant to be intimidating that rarely live up to that reputation) and Junior's henchmen and memebers of the White Fang (You'd expect organised crime syndicates to have men who aren't so useless in battle, or who would at least attack their opponents with even a semblance (pun intended) of common sense).

We really don't need entire droves of trained combat students losing 100 against 1 fights against opponents that are still in their league.