Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24032889-20190105161936/@comment-5430952-20190110231844

RaijinRising wrote: Adam's on his last rope in terms of what he can do for the plot of the show/what kinds of conflict he can generate. He was unhinged last volume, but he's so far gone beyond any redemption this volume that there's no way back from his desperation.

I think we're going to see him be much more of a threat this volume than he was last volume (i.e. he'll fight a lot), so that's good, but I don't see anywhere he could go beyond continuing to make Blake's life miserable. But the thing is- he can't do that anymore. She's over him, or very close to it. Yang isn't, but that's going to change by the end of the volume with the way things are looking. Either he dies or he lives knowing a moral defeat he can never break out of. He dies or he lives wallowing into a drink or something. I'd rather he die just so there's no loose end, but...

Personally, I wonder if anyone is going to pull the final trigger on him. Yang might, but I don't know if that's too good of an idea? Nobody on Team RWBY has actually killed anyone before. (Ruby fought Torchwick, but a Gryphon killed him.) If he dies, I see it being by some sort of chance circumstance rather than an active trigger pull. I know they probably won't kill Adam in cold blood, that would be stopping to his level. No, I'm getting the impression that they'll spare Adam's life at first, and then turn to finish their mission. But Adam refuses to leave quietly, and makes one last ditch effort to end Blake, only for he to be ended instead. So essentially it'll be a "kill or be killed" kind of situation, though yes, having Adam's blood on their hands will be hard to live with. And like you, I also believe Adam is on his last legs, and that this will be his last hurrah in the story.