User blog comment:Warmachine375/Will there be character deaths in RWBY?/@comment-26018514-20150524171323/@comment-26018514-20150530213801

@Diego:

3. I have to agree with Live... you are essentially equating Character development with plot armor by putting Pyrrha on the same level as RWBY... You almost have a point with Ren and Nora, but RWBY? That's just stupid.

Killing professors would be so much easier at this point, the question is: Why would that come close to being as good a choice?

1. We have seen 2 professors truly fight... Oobleck is currently the leading info-dump character, and self professed inferior fighter

2. Port; our resident perv, comes off as an exaggerator of his own abilities.

3. Peach; yes... because she is so well developed...

4. Glynda/Ozpin, both are way too OP to kill this soon, mobilizing RWBY around one of their deaths would be like sending Krillin to beat the big bad after Goku dies and no canon Saiyans are left... afterthought/stalling for time.

and much of this ignores the fact Pyrrha is developed(for the most part) more than all of them. She has been shown to be friends with all of RWBY/JNPR, not just Jaune's mentor, that she hasn't done much on screen doesn't mean it hasn't been heavily implied in their interactions.

@Live, I admit replacing her with Penny is my least probable argument, I just don't see them not getting a replacement if she dies before they leave Beacon, and I don't see Penny's test run working out(though I doubt she will die because that would be too convenient/tidy for Atlas).