Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-25555436-20160218011144

64.233.172.148 wrote:Ruby having a special power was just as foreshadowed as Blake being a Fanus and Penny being a Robot.

As for being a Mary Sue, I feel the need to remind people that we the audience tend to be lacking info on how truly powerful everyone but the main characters are. Despite short glimpses of Winter,the teachers, and Ozpin's Brotherhood, we still don't have a firm concrete grasp of how powerful the average graduated Huntsmen truly is. -No. Not even a bit as much. In fact, it almost feels like they tried avoiding being too obvious, and in the process ended up being too subtle. We knew Ruby's eye color had some sort of importance. But, we were never given any hints that her eye color meant she had powers strong enough to defeat the Grimm Wyvern and a Maiden at once, in a flash.

We were never shown any foreshadowing to Ruby having those powers, the closest to that is Ruby causing the vortex, which was just Ruby showing she's getting better at using her Semblance, which is unrelated to those powers and by the way she wasn't the only one who got better at their Semblance (Weiss says hello).

Another thing, and the one that annoys me the most, is that we were given even less hints about Ruby being part of a previously non-existant line of Warriors more powerful than even Maidens. A line of warriors that had not been mentioned or hinted at existing before. "Some legends are true", you may say, and yes, the Silver Order was a legend....a legend that was never mentioned until Qrow info-dumbed it all. If we were ever told a legend about Silver-Eyed badasses before then, you'll have to tell me when.

-Not too important, but, "being absurdly powerful" is just a trait. You can be absurdly powerful and not be a Mary Sue. Or be a Mary Sue yet not absurdly powerful.