Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26579022-20161015161855

I haven't seen anybody talk about this theory, so I thought I'd bring it up.

Penny was fighting against Pyrrha, who was using magnetic powers. Penny is a machine and magnetic fields mess up electrical equipment. What if, by using that wave of polarity at the end of the fight, Pyrrha accidentally destroyed Penny's mind?

Also, at the end of the fight, when she's torn open, the parts you would expect to house the generator and the 'mind' are almost completely untouched, yet she dies anyway. She would only 'die' because the generator is no longer connected to the thing that controls movement, the mind. Therefore, if the magnets didn't destroy her mind, she could just be put back together and be as good as new.

The only reasoning that makes sense, at least to me, is that Mr. Polendina thought Penny could never die, so he never backed up her mind or memory, and the magnetic field from Pyrrha destroyed her mind. He would still have the blueprints for repairs, but he wouldn't have a backup of her mind.

Of course, she could come back in RWBY Chibi, but that series doesn't make any sense whatsoever, so I wouldn't be surprised. 