Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-5198320-20170117025018/@comment-4010415-20170117032506

I recall an anon saying that exact same thing. Pretty sure it was Monty's idea, especially since Shane said that Monty originally planned for there to be more of a fight between Yang and Adam before he cut her arm off.

I kinda like the way they did it, though. Made it more surprising, and it was kinda devastating. They built things up in a way where we were trained to react to Yang activating her Semblance by expecting her to automatically win because that's what happened every time she activated her Semblance between the Yellow Trailer and her doubles round tournament fight. And then suddenly, what we were trained to expect... didn't happen.

Also, it caused Yang to end up having to learn a lesson and develop as a character, as shown in Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back. She now realizes that spamming her Semblance to win fights isn't a very good strategy because it doesn't work for every fight she's ever going to be in, and she had to learn that the hard way.

You can't call for someone to be fired just because something bad happens to a character you like.