Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-50.189.78.215-20151229230159

Grimmstride wrote:

Two sides of the same coin really. World domination for Grimm is essentially world annihilation for humans. That actually brings up something that I've been wanting to discuss since Breach. Y'know how since the beginning of the series the Grimm have been hyped up in-universe and out as the greatest threat to humanity, but always proved to be weak sauce onscreen? Well, I've been thinking (and I think many on here have already come to this conclusion; I just want it stated outright somewhere on this Wiki) that the whole "The Grimm are the greatest threat to humanity" propaganda from earlier in the series has a hidden caveat: "The Grimm are the greatest threat to humanity as far as the general public is aware", and up until RWBY discovered Torchwick working with the WF at the end of V1, our main protagonists fell under that category of "the general public", and given how little of the situation they actually know they still kinda do.

To bring this back to what Grimmstride said about world domination and annihilation being two sides of the same coin: if, as some speculate, the evil plan's endgame is just to 'watch the world burn', then the show would essentially be following a (I kinda wanna say "classic") "humanity is its own worst enemy/humanity will be the cause of its own downfall" story. In such a scenario, the bullet that ends humanity will almost certainly be the Grimm, but humanity itself (not just Cinder's crew and the WF, but also whatever sociopolitical or other BS caused them to these extreme measures) will be what pulls the trigger,

Just a thought.

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