Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38824479-20190502191634/@comment-25828821-20191022001955

BlizzardDragon wrote: ReikaTachyon wrote: Rebuttals

Qrow's death would actually have to impact the narrative, and as we are just coming off the controversy involving his former VA, it would be a poor marketing decision to suddenly decide he die because of it. They aren't going to suddenly change his fate just cause of a change in VA, otherwise Mercury would have died awhile ago. So unless he was written to die before the VA change, the VA change isn't justification.

Maria may be a "Yoda Character", but Yoda characters usually teach something before they die. Maria has barely tought Ruby anything. Until she actually teaches Ruby, she's safe.

Tyrian would have to be a contrived death since the only one able to match him at the moment is Qrow, and the Heroes don't aim to outright kill their enemies, so unless one of them deliberately foresakes this and tries to murder him, or another villain does so, he's safe.

Watts hasn't really done anything, and relying on a stereotype to justify a death isn't evidence. Plus, he isn't a moustache twirler. Those guys are "Look at how evil I am, look at my convoluted plan and how evil it is". Watts is just a snarky mad scientist douche.

The same argument could have been made for Jaune in Volume 5. Just because Cinder is there doesn't mean Jaune is doomed. And character inspiration doesn't automatically mean death. Nora hasn't been eaten by a massive snake (Thor died to Jormungandr, the World Serpent), Ren hasn't committed suicide (Mulan killed herself after the death of her father and she was almost forced into being a concubine), Qrow hasn't been gutted (The scarecrow was gutted by the flying monkeys but was put back together, something Qrow can't do), etc.

Winter appearing alone isn't justification she's gonna die.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, not every villain gets a backstory, and not having one doesn't warrant avoiding death. So Cinder is very liable to finally die, especially considering Neo is poised to backstab her, and Cinder's hubris is one of her biggest flaws, so it would themetically appropriate to have one of the decisions she made based on her hubris be her end. Also Adam died without a backstory at all (and no, the Adam Character Short doesn't count because that was just damage control at best and nothing new was revealed about Adam or any other character for that matter).