Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33287020-20190402180057/@comment-33042871-20190701011523

Megadracosaurus wrote: @Brooklyn Kontic

Yeah...No. See, the reason why they changed that is simple: storytelling. If Adam had died during his first major appearance after the Black trailer, that would have been awful. By changing it around, it gave the Adam and the White Fang a bigger arc, and more character development. How much of a let-down would it have been if Adam, after barely any screen time or info about him revealed, was instantly killed off the moment he makes his first major appearance outside of the trailer? That was a good call.

Also, no. Adam was NEVER OP. Think about it: what do all of his opponents have in common?


 * They were weaker then him.
 * They were taken by surprise.
 * They were weakened already.

Adam never faced someone who before was his equel or superior in a situation where he couldn't take them by surprise, and they were at top strenght, in the show. His opponents are


 * groups of White Fang goons (underleveled and taken by surprise)
 * some random people in the woods (underleveled)
 * Blake in volume 3 (who was clearly so shocked by his appearance she didn't fight as well as she could)
 * Yang in volume 3 (after Adam had already absorbed a lot of damage to load up his Semblance and Yang was confirmed to have weakened Aura by CRWBY at that point)
 * old robots that were soon to be replaced
 * Atlas security guards (underleveled)
 * Sienna Khan (taken by surprise without her Aura activated.)

Yang went to a combat school for several years and had private lessons from Taiyang and possibly Qrow, and Blake had been in the White Fang for her entire life and Adam even helped her train. They both have had training.

Adam was never overpowered. People just assumed he was super powerfull because he was cool. But when you look at his actions in the actual show...He's like a bear that goes exclusively after weak bunnies or weakened deer. That's not impressive. Like I said, Adam was once mysterious and cool and stuff. People therefore made a lot of assumptions. He didn't live up to it, and as a result, they claimed he was nerfed. But he never was, if you pay close attention to the show.

Please don't pull an Eruptionfang on me, who actually thought that Adam could beat Yang, Blake, Ruby, Weiss, Jaune, Ren, Nora, Maria, Qrow and Cordovin in her mech all at once.

And no, it really isn't. This link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dleqek092RM&feature=youtu.be&t=5 talks about Bumblee. Listen closely.

Arryn: And can I mention… that my uh… my character and another character (mumble mumble, possibly sounds like “are in a lesbian relationship”)?

Miles: No, absolutely not.

The deleted cherry stem animation is talked about in the Volume 2 directors commentary. We have about half of the commentary written down, and we honestly should pick back up on writing down the commentaries.

96. Gray: We never, we never put in the cherry stone.

97. Kerry: But it, yeah.

98. Miles: Oh, do you wanna talk about that, Gray?

99. Gray: Yeah, we were right on the fence of, like, how... What, how tongue-in-cheek we wanted to get with the, the humor {Miles: Hah, hah, tongue-in-cheek.} in RWBY. (Miles laughs slightly.) Where, uh, like one shot later, {Kerry: What tongue touches cheek?} she catches the cherry right here. Uh, yeah, she'd actually be holding a cherry stem {Miles: Yeah we...} with a knot in it.

100. Miles: ...we, we posed her hand exactly that way so we could add it in-comp if we wanted to.

101. Gray: Yeah, we just didn't have the...

102. Miles: I think, I think it was like 50 percent like "Ehh" and 50 percent like "Eh, we don't have the time".

This is literally a French kissing joke. Bumblee was planned, one way or another, or at least toyed with. It was just poorly executed. Still... Adam was a dissapointment anyway. He was so interesting at first because he wasn't a psycopath in his first appearance. He was a man fighting for his species' freedom. He could have actually been a conflicting villain, while he shouldn't have been redeemed, people could sympathise with him for fighting for his poeple. AND he was confirmed to have a power level on par (if not superior) to Qrow & Winter Schnee. He could've been such a badass villain. But no... let's make him a bitchy love-craving ex-boyfriend who will slaughter his own people to get to the girl he loves.

Did you know aside from exposition and CARDIN WINCHESTER... we actually haven't ever seen anyone oppress the faunus in any way. The only exception was that one goddamn sign at a bar in volume 4 or 5 (I forget which) that said "NO FAUNUS ALLOWED". Monty was a fucking revolutionary animator, and pretty good at character designing. But he was an inexperienced writer, and could have done far better if he had hired someone professional to look at his work. God Adam was wasted, and all his death did was make Bumblebee a thing.

Also... if Bumblebee was actually planned (someone on Twitter who works on RWBY actually said that it was just meant to be), why was Blake x Sun so teased. Why did the hell was Bumblebee so poorly executed if it was actually meant to be in the story. Couldn't it have just been pushed further back, with Adam's death as the scapegoat that pushes Blake & Yang to start having feelings for each-other. Why did Yang's PTSD just disappear like it never existed. Why did Blake & Yang's relationship have to be CONFIRMED ON TWITTER to actually know it was official. A simple "I love you" in the show would have done fine. Them saying "I'll be there for you" or "You have me" is FAR TOO FUCKING VAGUE. Fucking BlackSun had both Volumes 4 AND 5, and in that time it would have been more realistic and better written if it had happened instead of Bumblebee.

I like RWBY (it's the closest thing to an american anime we have)... and I can't drop it. But it has so many problems.