Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4444715-20190406160119/@comment-24018437-20190406231515

If they immidiatly showed murder after volume 2 it would have been to soon. Instead, there were steps taken towards the darker turn. RWBY gradually became darker aan it went on and it clearly showed it through various events in the show itself, most of which I already named. They did show dark stuff. Salem and Ozpin talk about how Remnant is kind of a shithole. The White Fang is revealed and shown in action. A faunus desserter is killed and his death is joked about. An entire ghost city is shown, and its revealed everyone inside was murdered by the Grimm. Many faunus died in the tunnels during the attack on Vale. Cinder literally sucked part of Amber’s soul out of her and turned her into a vegetable while Mercury and Emerald were holding her down. Mercury was seen standing in front of a burning building with his father’s corpse on the ground. Yang is tricked into ‘crippeling’ Mercury in front of the whole world. That seems like plenty of build-up to me.

If they had done the Fall of Beacon after only comedy andere laughs, it would be very odd. Dark doesn’t mean you need to go over the top with blood, guts and spelling out evil. It can be a lot more subtle and less in your face then that.

This way, when the Fall of Beacon happened, it was still a surprise. But not so much that it was unbelieveble.