Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4927508-20180104083542/@comment-25936766-20180104180101

Mojo72400 wrote:

1) People say he takes too much screen time. Characters need to show development that's why they have a lot of screen time.

2) Some people blame him for Pyrrha's death and wished he died instead of her.

3) Some people are sexist saying "this is about the girls of Team RWBY and not about a clumsy token liar who suffers from motion sickness and happens to be a boy who is a terrible leader and let his teammate/girlfriend die" or basically "It's about Team RWBY and not about a blonde boy with no meaning to the show". 1) Except screentime is limited, and Jaune in Volume 1 and 2 was a secondary whose plot arcs had nothing to do with the plot.

In Vol.1, thanks to Miles and Kerry giving Jaune 4 episodes dedicated to him, Yang got no development whatsoever, while Weiss, Blake and Ruby only got 2 episodes. His arc in Volume 1 was also quite cliché and boring, making it worse.

And in Volume 2 he did nothing but chase Weiss around, refusing to take No for an answer, practically harrassing her to get a date for the dance. Aside from not being funny but instead obnoxious, and with his Dance plot in itself having nothing to do with the main plot, many were irritated by him.

Jaune was presented as and was supposed to be a Secondary. His whole team were secondary characters. And yet he got more screentime and development than even some members of Team RWBY.

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2) It was partially his fault though. He was supposed to guard the entrance, yet he turned around when Pyrrha screamed during the transfer.

Even if it was because he was worried about her, he failed to see Cinder even before Pyrrha screamed, and thus Cinder got the Full Maiden power, and the rest is history.

To make it worse, Pyrrha was just starting to get into protagonist level, with an interesting potential situation (the consequences of Amber's Aura transferring to her) that never came to pass.

3) No one hates Jaune because he's a guy. They hate Jaune for other reasons.

And to be fair Jaune was written in a questionable manner back in Vol.2. Harrassing Weiss all semester was one thing, but there's the line he tells Neptune during the Dance. "You can have her". Which just made people feel like they were objectifying Weiss.