Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-213.96.249.189-20160808035623/@comment-4010415-20160808054908

The entire point was for Mercury to lose against Yang. Which scenario would the general public watching the tournament be angrier about seeing during a tournament that's supposed to be about peace and friendship between the kingdoms?


 * Yang winning and then breaking Mercury's leg for absolutely no reason. Bonus: She shouted "That's what you get, you little-" at him, which made it look like she was punishing him for being weaker than her.


 * Yang losing and apparently being a sore loser by throwing a tantrum and shooting at Mercury, who can take the hit perfectly fine because he still has at least 16% Aura left.

Cinder's goal was for the people watching the tournament to get as angry as possible to attract the Grimm. Of course it was part of the plan for Mercury to lose. Even if Yang didn't actually take him down to 0% Aura, Cinder probably would have used the Black Queen virus to hack the scoreboard and make it say he had 0 Aura.

He's definitely not a spy for Ironwood and Ozpin. They wouldn't need Qrow to spy on Cinder if they already had Mercury. They wouldn't have sat around wondering what the bad guys were doing if Mercury was on their side.

It's heavily implied that Marcus (Mercury's father) physically abused Mercury. I mean, some of Mercury's lines in I'm the One are "I'm the one that was born in a nightmare a murderer's son" and "Overrun by the hate and the beatings, defiled by a father." It seems that Marcus is the reason that Mercury ended up with prosthetic legs. The writers have even said that Mercury has a pretty dark backstory.

It's not odd at all that he killed Tukson. Mercury's father was an assassin who was raising and training him to be an assassin. He was probably taught not to care about the lives he ends.