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Bravura.117 wrote:

3. There's a question at this point of who is still alive that was on the train. Neo had already abandoned ship. Torchwick had been knocked out, so it's possible he didn't survive. We should all be concerned for Oobleck and poor little Zwei as well.

4. What was the goal here? Probably to create a distraction so that while every Hunter and soldier in the city is busy with Grimm, Cinder and her faction can launch some kind of plan. They have the information from the Communications Tower and they have a "list" of people, which includes Pyrrah Nikos.

Why did they fill the train with ammo and weapons just to crash the whole thing into a wall? That part doesn't make any sense, but they did say it "wasn't ready yet," which also means Cinder and her group may not be fully prepared to take action so soon. It actually wasn't supposed to be this early, although some would say it's more logical to launch such an attack at a time when most students and professors have left. 3. I a team of huntresses in training could improvise to survive the crash then I'm sure a full fledged trained hunter can survive it too. As for Zwei, aside from the fact that it is clearly tougher than we had given it credit for and has some sort of combat training, during the AfterBuzz, the possibility that something had happened to him was brought up and the voice actresses brushed it off. Torchwick might have either been helped by the Lt. that kind of HAS to have seen him knocked out when he walked in the wagon tossing Weiss... Or Neo went for him after she flee away from Lady Ninja, which is also logic considering Neo was theoretically created as a character with the purpose of being Torckwick's right hand.

4. During the Afterbuzz it was also brought up how Vale is conveniently low on Dust thanks to Torchwick's robberies, so they don't have ammo to fight the incoming Grimm... And one of the interviewers pointed out that well, yeah, but Ironwood brought his robots to help and the voice actresses kind of implied that might not be precisely a good thing.

Torchwick was supposed to be driving the train, it's possible that if Blake had not knocked him out, they would have used something to blow up the entry to the city just like they were blowing up holes behind them to lead the Grimm in.