Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-4010415-20170918054138

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 1. Penny was literally created to be a killing machine, so her being so ridiculously powerful makes sense.

2. Coco's weapon being powerful makes sense in a way since it is a minigun. One of the inherent disadvantages is you can't be especially mobile while using it. That makes it perfect for taking out a few big ones when you're in a group, but it would be terrible in a close-up fight with a bunch of the smaller ones.

3. Whole point is that Breach was a rushed, smaller-scale attack than planned. It was easy to say she was OP until Battle of Beacon. 1. That's exactly why Miles calmed down and said that it's okay for Penny to do that because she is powerful. His problem was that Shane having her cut airships in half stemmed from a running theme where Shane and Monty kept jabbing at Miles with jokes about having characters cut ridiculous things in half, such as Ruby cutting the entire world of Remnant in half. This stemmed from Miles telling Monty not to have Blake cut the actual train itself in half in the Black Trailer because, although it would be cool, Blake is not powerful enough to do something like that.

2. Coco cut a giant Nevermore in half and made a Death Stalker explode, but she couldn't shoot through trees. She shot at trees in her tournament match, and those trees were unscathed.

In Volume 1, Ruby easily cut a tree down with her scythe and also beheaded a giant Nevermore with that same scythe, though she had to use momentum to get the blade through. It should be easier to damage a tree than a giant Nevermore, shouldn't it?

Ruby could not shoot through a Death Stalker's armor with her sniper rifle, but Coco shooting a Death Stalker of the same exact size instantly resulted in said Grimm falling to pieces like a smashed watermelon.

3. The impression I get is that the show tries to treat Breach like it was actually a big deal, where the Beacon students were supposed to have been having trouble getting the breach under control, only for the Atlas military to save the day. That seemed to be the whole point of the Vale council being upset with Ozpin, saying that they can't broadcast the Vytal Festival if the citizens' safety can't be ensured. They placed Ironwood in charge of the festival's security and said that they were going to have a discussion about Ozpin's position as headmaster after the festival ended. And then, in Volume 3, Cinder said this: "Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the Tournament would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets."