Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-26168584-20180727183751

Going to say something controversial:

Mercury outshines basically the other antagonists in RWBY so far and while it may be a matter of writing, I think how he is potrayed so far makes him more spectacular.

First of all: It takes guts to intentionally lose in public matches, one even being broadcasted globally. He intentionally lost to Pyrrha to analyze her style and semblance while keeping up appearances of being worlds apart. That later worked very well for the bad guys with the Penny incident. The second loss was against Yang to publically shame her as well as triggering the Grimm by it. It shows Mercury has no issue to lose for the greater goal they have in mind. He put his own ego to win behind him for the bigger plan to succeed.

Speaking of Ego:

It shows it Volume 5 when Cinder's group lost how mad he was for losing. Back then, all I could think was: "You are part of a group that messed up Beacon, killing god knows how many with a smile on your face, yet you lost nobody in this fight and get mad, while they lost Pyrrha, Penny, Amber and Principal Ozpin." That is just heinous and hypocritical of him. And I love it. Even more when I look back at how he intentionally threw two matches and now that they lost, he got mad.

Let us also not forget how ruthless he was when he found Ruby crying over Penny and he just left her there to deal with it. Not a word but just totally no remorse or guilt were shown.