Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28792888-20140620221642/@comment-25555436-20160216001806

JadenLan wrote: Could someone explain to me what a Pyrrhic victory is? Don't know if dumb or very sheltered, it's a very well-known term. It means when one side wins, yet the victory comes with costs and losses so big that the whole victory is meaningless, not different from a loss.

They got to stop Cinder and the Dragon, a safe zone was established in Vale, Ruby gained Mary Sue powers....but Vale is in ruins, filled with Grimm, Pyrrha is dead, Penny is dead, Ozpin is possibly dead, Yang lost an arm and her partner left her up with no explanation like her mother did to her father, Weiss is taken by her father to Atlas, Blake ran away, a Maiden is dead, and the true villain is still out there and still active.

So overall, they won, but it's more of a loss when you think about it.