Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-28099668-20171116205811/@comment-25936766-20171118204402

"Unexpected". Except:

1) Tyrian spent practically the whole fight casually blocking and countering attacks from behind and from the sides, and literally seconds before the punch he was blocking sniper shots without looking.

2) QROW. WAS. RIGHT. IN. FRONT. OF. HIM. AT. ONLY. 1. FOOT. OF. DISTANCE. AT. MOST.

How the actual fuck is it unexpected, if he was right in front of Tyrian, Tyrian could see him perfectly fine, and it wasn't even a fast punch?!

Let me explain to you why the Silver Eyes are Deus Ex Machinas:

1) They came out of nowhere. They had "foreshadowing", but it was so little, so vague and so unspecific about what they were and even less about what they did, that it's effectively worthless.

"You have Silver Eyes...". That was the least vague foreshadowing we ever got. And that simply implies that Ozpin knew Summer. NOT THAT THESE FUCKING EYES CAN SCAR MAIDENS AND PETRIFY ANCIENT GRIMM WITH ONLY A SLAP ON THE WRIST AS CONSEQUENCE.

2) When the Dragon appeared, it basically sweated Grimm to life, rising the number of Grimm in Vale exponentially just by existing. And it landed in Beacon, in the CCT.

Thanks to Ruby's Silver Eyes petrifying it, even if Grimm keep coming, Vale has an actual chance of survival because instead of dealing with 10.000+ Grimm, it only has to deal with 100+.

And because the Grimm Dragon in itself is completely incapable of doing anything, they actually have a chance of reclaiming Beacon, since they no longer have to deal with a giant kaiju Dragon potentially wrecking the city or the academy.

3) Thanks to the Silver Eyes scarring Cinder and making her a weakling even months later, Salem's plans had to wait a while, giving Ozpin time to reincarnate, and giving everyone time to actually get to Mistral before it's too late.

They came out of nowhere, and they saved the day in the long term. They are indeed a Deus Ex Machina. Because if they didn't exist and Ruby didn't blast Cinder and the Dragon, Vale would be Mt.Glenn 2.0, Salem gets a Relic, and everyone is done for.

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Also, since you're quoting TvTropes, let me tell you something: A DEM doesn't need to follow literally all of those "symptoms" to be a DEM.