User blog:Gundam Legilis/What if the Black Trailer was better?

Hello everybody!

Today on "What if RWBY was Better?", we have the Black Trailer.

My initial assessment was that it was flawless, until I saw Heroes and Monsters.

This was the flaw: Here, Adam for the most part seems like a sane, mentally competent man, but in Heroes and Monsters, instead of making him insane and deranged, he comes off like a wangsty Straw Misogynist that was put in there just because they needed a Hate Sink. Additionally, the line "What you want, is impossible", can easily be interpreted as sympathetic due to implying that Adam's past is a living hell, thanks to the delivery of the line, thus contradicting some of the theories that he's a complete monster - he's getting close, but not exactly there.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm willing to accept simpler, classically vile villains, but there has to be a higher standard of establishment, execution, and consistency when creating and utilizing these characters. And yes, I know that Adam comes from a mythos that makes him a douchebag.

They say he's "abusive" in the livestream, but I see no evidence of that in the trailer. He is willing to save Blake, and while he tells her all sorts of things, it can be easily interpreted as "mentor instructs pupil because mentor knows what he/she is doing." He was even willing to absorb a fully charged hit (and enjoy it along the side), instead of letting Blake get in Harm's way.

Now, one can argue that he's insane because he's willing to blow up a train full of human employees that just are there to transport the train. But the problem is, he doesn't seem insane. No psychotic laughing or deranged behavior whatsoever. It can be seen as him just displaying behavior of your typical disgruntled Faunus pushed to the edge and is willing to resort to violence/and/or apathetic to humans, which I would expect, but not justify from them. And there's not enough evidence to suggest that the cackle he does at the end makes him any different from a Blood Knight.

So, what would be the solution?

There are two ways of handling this:

A: If we were to make him the abusive Yandere, we need to have his behavior sound like one - an evil laugh, or some other irregular movements and whatnot.

B: We could also forgo the romantic subtext and instead, treat their relationship as a platonic betrayal.

C: Or, we could have a meet me halfway, and have Adam be seen as visibly broken and deranged, with a "you betrayed me" kind of anguish, until he snaps completely.

Whatever option is chosen, they should stick with it in subsequent appearances. And subtle hints such as facial expressions should be used in the trailer to establish this.

Stay tuned for next time, where we take on the Yellow Trailer.

Thoughts?

-GL