Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27265101-20170131070502/@comment-26018514-20170131205442

Arkantos95 wrote: Honestly I was genuinely surprised they didn't sacrifice Ren or Nora back in V3 for cheap emotional appeal for characters we had yet to have a real reason to give a shit about considering fan favorites were dropping like flies in the last couple episodes. See that is the illogical part of that statement.

Pyrrha died because she was too OP to be a member of the group that couldn't be separated, Ren gets knocked out often and Nora is easily distracted, Jaune is Jaune. As a team that made Pyrrha like 50~75% of their firepower, and she was better than any one member of RWBY. If you kill a main character there are pretty much only 2 reasons outside of random chance, and only by killing a more powerful character do you get both at the same time.

Penny was dead the moment they pitted Pyrrha against her... the only surprise is they haven't released a new model yet.

Torchwick was a Bane on the writing of RWBY... the writers just couldn't stop writing him, so they killed him off before he became randomly injected in stories he had no reason to be in.

None of these were cheap emotional impact, Torchwick's didn't really have anything to do with emotional impact, Pyrrha's death was for deeply scarring the main characters and giving the impression anyone can die, and Penny's death was about making Remnant question their authority figures.

None of these have anything to do with Nora or Ren at all.