Talk:Roman Torchwick/@comment-26499992-20160208013008/@comment-4010415-20160208015551

We're questioning if he survived because other characters have gone through shit that's equally as bad or worse, and also he was swallowed whole and had almost full Aura.

Weiss got hit so hard with a watermelon that she flew across the cafeteria and slammed into a pillar hard enough to destroy it.

Yang got slammed through multiple pillars and then punched through another one by a mech, and then she stood right the fuck back up.

Also, there's a trope where someone gets swallowed whole by a monster (or predatory animal) and then cuts or blasts their way out from inside of it, and we all know that RWBY loves its tropes. The Griffon's body could've shielded Roman from the explosion.