Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-26018514-20180313025415

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: ...

Really, I think the lack of finality to it is more reason to believe there is a catch. When you look at characters who have died so far, they are usually confirmed dead immediately...

Only character who has been confirmed "dead" about which there is any reason to have doubt is Penny simply because she is a robot.

Those other characters either died on-screen, were confirmed dead in the same episode after a situation where they would reasonably be expected to die, or it was something where death would have to be assumed unless they pulled out some explanation (Roman bursting out of the Griffon for example).

... 1. Except they weren't, Roman wasn't confirmed dead until the volume commentary... which V5's isn't out yet to my understanding

2. Penny's death was never in question, she died, that was and has always been indisputable, the question was and still is whether she could come back from that or have a back-up, and a big part of this is because the writers wasted time creating a line about Penny's plans(if she doesn't come back this was wasted)

3. Roman: offscreen(that single chomp shouldn't have killed him by itself), Tukson: Offscreen Leo: Offscreen Ozpin: Offscreen(he wasn't really shown dying, just disappearing)

Pyrrha, Penny, Vernal, Sienna Khan, and that unknown Huntsman are pretty much the only on screen deaths in the series.