Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33287020-20190402180057/@comment-24018437-20190702090048

To be fair, Monty pretty much lived by Rule of the Cool. It made many of the main characters seem extremely powerfull, and the enemies they faced (especially the Grimm) like a joke.

The most famous example would be The Breach. A group of second year students easily wipe out the vast majority of a Grimm invasion...Like many, after I calmed down from how cool the sequence looked, realized how bad it actually was from a worldbuilding and storytelling point of view. If first and second year students can so easily beat up entire Grimm hordes, why are they a threat to begin with?

Other examples include Ruby performing that final attack during the food fight (why didn’t she use that to escape the White Fang?), Penny cutting a Bullhead in two etc. Two examples that didn’t make it into the show were Blake cutting the entire train in half in the Black Trailer and Raven attacking JNPR in a bar during volume 3 for no reason.

After his death, Miles and Kerry seemed to have gone for a little more realistic approach.