User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/A lot headcanons were confirmed today/@comment-10390252-20140829110540/@comment-173.58.251.107-20140830035936

Well let's think, four, supposedly trained young men who supposedly have run of the mill go running away tails between their legs when some crazed, psychopathic teddy bear shows up trying to kill them, and their leader has to be saved by the most inept, bumbling guy in the entire show.

That would have been humiliating and a wake up call, like you said. So maybe they realized "hey, being inept jerks picking on people isn't working, we should back this stuff up first."