Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33287020-20190402180057/@comment-24018437-20190630223827

@Brooklyn Kontic

Yeah...No. See, the reason why they changed that is simple: storytelling. If Adam had died during his first major appearance after the Black trailer, that would have been awful. By changing it around, it gave the Adam and the White Fang a bigger arc, and more character development.

Also, no. Adam was NEVER OP. Think about it: what do all of his opponents have in common?


 * They were weaker then him.
 * They were taken by surprise.
 * They were weakened already.

Adam never faced someone who before was his equel or superior in a situation where he couldn't take them by surprise, and they were at top strenght, in the show. His opponents are


 * groups of White Fang goons (underleveled and taken by surprise), some random people in the woods (underleveled)
 * Blake in volume 3 (who was clearly so shocked by his appearance she didn't fight as well as she could)
 * Yang in volume 3 (after Adam had already absorbed a lot of damage to load up his Aura and Yang was confirmed to have weakened Aura by CRWBY at that point)
 * old robots that were soon to be replaced
 * Sienna Khan (taken by surprise without her Aura activated.)

Yang went to a combat school for several years and had private lessons from Taiyang and possibly Qrow, and Blake had been in the White Fang for her entire life and Adam even helped her train. They both have had training.

Adam was never overpowered. People just assumed he was super powerfull because he was cool. But when you look at his actions in the actual show...He's like a bear beating up bunnies. That's not impressive. Like I said, Adam was once mysterious and cool and stuff. People therefore made a lot of assumptions. He didn't live up to it, and as a result, they claimed he was nerfed. But he never was, if you pay close attention to the show.

And no, it really isn't. This link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dleqek092RM&feature=youtu.be&t=5 talks about Bumblee. Listen closely.

Arryn: And can I mention… that my uh… my character and another character (mumble mumble, possibly sounds like “are in a lesbian relationship”)?

Miles: No, absolutely not.

The deleted cherry stem animation is talked about in the Volume 2 directors commentary. We have about half of the commentary written down, and we honestly should pick back up on writing down the commentaries.

96. Gray: We never, we never put in the cherry stone.

97. Kerry: But it, yeah.

98. Miles: Oh, do you wanna talk about that, Gray?

99. Gray: Yeah, we were right on the fence of, like, how... What, how tongue-in-cheek we wanted to get with the, the humor {Miles: Hah, hah, tongue-in-cheek.} in RWBY. (Miles laughs slightly.) Where, uh, like one shot later, {Kerry: What tongue touches cheek?} she catches the cherry right here. Uh, yeah, she'd actually be holding a cherry stem {Miles: Yeah we...} with a knot in it.

100. Miles: ...we, we posed her hand exactly that way so we could add it in-comp if we wanted to.

101. Gray: Yeah, we just didn't have the...

102. Miles: I think, I think it was like 50 percent like "Ehh" and 50 percent like "Eh, we don't have the time".

This is literally a French kissing joke. Bumblee was planned, one way or another. It was just poorly executed.