Talk:Tipping Point/@comment-26955524-20161212225300

Oh boy, this episode kinda has me worried about Qrow. One of the tropes of Sci-Fi and Fantasy (which I would describe RWBY as both, it's a Science Fantasy to me) is that when the mentor character shows up to save the protagonist....they're pretty much marked for death. Obi-Wan sacrificed himself to Vader so Luke and Han could escape with the princess. Gandalf held off the Balrog so the Fellowship could escape (granted he did come back, but he technically died first). Dumbledore showed up at the Ministry to save Harry from Voldemort and Snape killed him a year later (which is an example of the mentor dying after saving the protagonist, but not immediately after doing so).