Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-25316824-20170912214731

RedBlaze025 wrote: I'm just gonna make a random prediction here and say the next villain to die is Watts, I don't know why but I just feel like he's next in line to die, I have no reasoning behind it it's just a feeling (though it's also personal want but a feeling none the less). http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SortingAlgorithmOfEvil

RWBY is this trope in spades. We met Tyrian first so he is the weakest WTCH. (Technically, we met Cinder first but she got maiden and grimm buffed). By the Sorting Algorithm of Evil the weakest Villians are introduced, defeated, and killed first. Stronger villians are saved for latter.

Cinder breaks the mold because she is a dynamic character. She is supposed to learn something over the course of the show and so she got a huge buff to survive that long. Additionally, as we go down each level of Salem's organization (i.e. Salem controls WTCH/ WTCH controls Adam, Sienna, Lionheart, Mercury, Emerald, Roman/ Adam controls Ilia, Roman controled Neo)  each level is less powerful.

The lowest hanging fruit at this point are Illia and Neo. The genre savy predict both will Heel-Face-Turn. U nless "Redemption Equals Death" then the  next villian to die is Adam imo. He has the most screentime of the villians at his level. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedemptionEqualsDeath

Additionally, a character like Adam is hard to sustain. If he doesn't do anything for 2 years in our lives then the audience forgets how bad he is and his death is less satisfying. Adam has to keep killing/wounding lest he get become dull and boring. RWBY has a lot of characters but not a lot it can spare to feed the hungry bull.

But Adam can't die until Blake and Yang reconcile and work together against Adam. Thats just how stories work. Adam harmed both their bodies and their relationship. They can't beat Adam until both their bodies and their relationship recovers and then they get even stronger. It doesn't make any sense for the heros to beat the villian in a weaker state than the first time they faced the villian. Its also really cheap if Blake defeats Adam and Yang never gets her revenge. So they have to do it together.

Until then some of Lionheart's underlings or Sienna's underlines might get introduced and die but the next known villian death is Adam sometime in V6. That said RWBY is a pretty random show and likes to fuck with the genre savy.