Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38592229-20190620023959/@comment-4010415-20190811210343

Honestly, he really is just a dude who's doing his best with the difficult situation he was put in by a mixture of his wife's selfish actions after his death and how the God of Light decided he's totally the best person to fix the mess the gods left behind.

That, and he truly lives up to his allusion of the Wizard of Oz. He seemed, to us and Ruby, to be this great, powerful, wise leader. We believed he would be Team RWBY's Dumbledore (although Rowling actually did a better job making Dumbledore a fucked up good guy, regardless of how much or little of it was intentional). And then it turned out he's just a guy with a reincarnation curse who's been buying time for thousands of years, has no clue how to stop the big villain, and is too scared to fully trust anyone. We and the characters put him on a pedestal, and now that we see that he is truly as human as anyone else and is not as wise and heroic as once thought, our collective view of him has taken a crushing blow.

And yeah, it seems like MMK wanted Ozpin to be a morally gray good guy, and if that was their intention, they failed pretty epicly. Meanwhile, Kingdom Hearts does a better job of depicting Ansem the Wise as a morally gray good guy, and it's absolutely intentional. The more we find out about AtW, the more clear it is that he's pretty gray.