Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.194.169.97-20170317010428/@comment-26018514-20170319093945

Pyrrha's death had nothing to do with her allusion...and it was decided early. Her VA was told about it around the time they cast her after all.

The problem is Pyrrha was so powerful she stunted other characters growth just by being there. Look at the Nuckavee fight for example, Jaune was essentially battlefield control/tank, If Pyrrha were there;

A. She would have been able to slice 'n dice it with the weapons impaled into its body.

And

B. she would have been battle field control

not to mention

C. the main characters wouldn't have as much drive to go to Mistral in the first place

I loved Pyrrha as a character(she was my favorite, with Nora a close second) but I always suspected she would need to die for the plot because she made it so safe and Boring... there are reasons well adjusted, undefeatable characters are so rare in fiction... they generally aren't interesting, and when they are it tends to be because they are either stealing the focus or the danger level of their universe scales to meet them... this is why characters like Superman have their flaws thrown in your face every episode, despite how rare Kryptonite is mentioned to be in almost every iterative use it has(save Sometimes in "Smallville"), villains seem to aquire it like candy... And we all knew this wasn't "Pyrrha and friends", so she had to go... but would leaving her friends all the time for any reason be in character? No, So they had to kill or cripple, and when you're rocking magneto like abilities... Crippling doesn't really work(admit it, she'd have still outshone Jaune as a Quadraplegic strapped into a wheelchair).