Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170126040344/@comment-25266931-20170204153617

I didn't know there were rules to follow. I know for the future. No matter what I feel about myself. I'll keep my opinion to myself and wait for other people to define me. Got it, confidence and self-respect equal uncool.

I'm not 100% sure Qrow toyed with her the whole time. Winter obviously has skill to be Ironwood most trusted soldier. And even in the intro they seem to place her like the Weiss family's version of Qrow. The family badass. That's why both say goodbye to their families and meet in the middle face to face. Not one shown as superior or more righteous than the other. The only thing that makes Winter inferior to Qrow on a more obvious level is that she's not fully in the know about Salem and that she's way more arrogant and unfriendly. Don't get me wrong Qrow's become one of my favorites (just wish he'd lose the cape) but I don't want to count out Winter's skill just because I like Qrow.

Adam was a powerhouse all thru that Black Trailer and devastated the robot soldiers and mech on that train. Now unless he's been downgraded since then or hasn't been training at all, to do that without breaking a serious sweat is still worthy of respect. I don't like the style of slashes they have him downing in the Season 4 intro, but in the Black Trailer when Oum was around he did slashes so fast it looked like her barely moved. He would mix it up so well in a fight that sword air slashes were common and effortless to him. So unless none of that was canon I say Adam is top shelf as a fight regardless of how his quick scuffle with Yang and Blake went down.

Port comes off as a fox hunt "big fish" story telling dude thru and thru. He's brave and tough enough to drop Griffon Grimm. But if he killed Salem, be honest, wouldn't you be disappointed? Hell, if he even stood toe to toe with Raven I'd be calling BS. If he's that good he shouldn't have to exaggerate stories, they should be well known. All he should have to say is "remember when I did X?" And people should be like "hell yeah!" But thru the whole series he's shown to be mostly all talk. No one denies he can teach or that he can fight. But people seems to all know that he is not the guy you look to as cool or the man for the job of saving the whole world. I'd respect him more if they showed him training, trying to live up to the legends he spins about himself. THAT would be cool.

Oobleck is a scholar 1 and a fighter 2. He will never willingly be a ride or die type. He defends people, is smart, and brave. But he's a dork. I respect him and want him to discover a way to end all Grimm forever. But he is not cool nor is he a badass. If anything I'd sad that he wasn't the one to take Oz to the side and tell him he noticed something off about Cinder's gang when they were in his class. No way a man of his smarts can see thru Cardin's bullying but is out of his element when a diva rolls thru the school flaring her eyes up and smirking to herself with that "I know something you don't know" look that's so obvious it could be see in space. He taught her and watched her on the Vytal Fest camera and never got a single hint that she was something evil? This is a man with a deep analytical mind. The closest thing to a detective other than Ozpin himself. And even he was caught off guard? What? Is his intelligence only about the study of history and Grimm? And not the study of people's emotions and body language or the ability to spot a liar mid-lie? Come on. Is Cinder a infinite genius? No matter how smart and old Salem may be, for Cinder to cover her tracks perfectly and fool a whole school and army staff must mean Cinder and Salem are the smartest people in the whole show. Seriously? Wow.