Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-26018514-20170913021414

Nikoli the rebel wrote:

RedBlaze025 wrote: I'm just gonna make a random prediction here and say the next villain to die is Watts... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SortingAlgorithmOfEvil

RWBY is this trope in spades. We met Tyrian first so he is the weakest WTCH.....

Cinder breaks the mold because she is a dynamic character....

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.

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But Adam can't die until Blake and Yang reconcile and work together against Adam....

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.

That was really long and not too many paragraphs. Sorry. here's the thing though:

Tyrian was already defeated, that he is weakest is immaterial at this point, villains die when they face the heroes, and he won't be facing them again anytime soon because he is recovering and his tracking skills are unneeded, Cinder is also recovering, which also means Emerald and Merc won't die any time soon by extension.

I wouldn't call that Neo's expected trope... for her it's more that she is a mercenary element and may help the MC's... especially since we have such a diverse cast it need not be Ruby.

So then it comes down to Adam, Watts, Ilia, Sienna, or Hazel.


 * Ilia; Blake seems to have decided not to kill(as evidenced in the short), so pretty much she needs to fall into both of the tropes you described for Neo and Emerald above in order to be the next death


 * Adam; may seem likely to die but... he's in too many MC's shit list's to die... he needs to face Blake, Yang, Blake's parents, and Sun, and once dead, the WF ceases to be an antagonistic force under Salem's thumb... which means an entire problem entity is solved... which leads us to...


 * Hazel; Salem's intermediary, most likely headed back to Salem by now, if encountered by RWBY becomes their lead to Salem, which would skip Watt's arc as they would want to leave mistral to face her, which leaves...


 * Sienna; history with Blake, Ghira, Kali, the WF in general, if killed The WF becomes Adams... and Blake can have a further journey by claiming the rest, having to lead when that is what she is presently bad at, which makes Adam a further threat to her without requiring he maim anyone for a couple volumes


 * Watts; He should be the next big foe RWBY as a whole faces, the WF are Blake's quest, while if RWBY join the Academy, they will all have to face Watts sooner or later