Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-92.18.13.89-20161226120304/@comment-27394867-20161228084023

Typically tyrants tend to die of natural cause, not by the intervention of external forces or treason. Out of the 13 most notorious tyrants of the last century, only a few of them died by the hand of men. However, a recurring pattern for those who have not died while in power is that as soon as they lost their position, they quickly spiraled down in standing.

So the realist point of view would be for Mr. Schnee to leave the Schnee Corp as old age creeps too much on him and leaves the company to whomever is the heir/heiress at the time (as of V4E7, the heir is Whithley). Then a few years later he would die in his home surrounded by a few loyal followers, his daughters most likely not being part of said entourage.

However it is to note that RWBY is a show and most shows prefer more dramatic ends to tyranic characters. Given the beloved aesop of karmic retribution, he will most likely die at the hand of a faunus workers uprising. That, however, would be hard to happen given that we know that faunus are employed mainly in mining operations. The quarries of the SDC are outside of Atlas (see joined picture). So for faunus workers to be present in Atlas for this uprising, something would need to happen to move them to this location. Perhaps they are refinned in Atlas? In which case their may be faunus workers at the refinnery who could participate in said uprising and get to him.

That said, it is more likely for an organized White Fang strike group to assassinate Jake than it is for a workers uprising. It would require less complex story-telling to justify how a team of assassins got to his location than to explain how workers from other continents managed to organize the logistic means to get to him.