Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-17720343-20130830084857/@comment-10390252-20130830152735

ImposterParrotGrass wrote: It's his name that get's me suspicious. he's based off of the Wizard of Oz, which leads me to believe he's not all he's cracked up to be. The Wizard, at least in the movie-verse struck me as a guy out of his depth trying out of a sense of personal duty and honour to live up to the responsibilities mistakenly given to him. Unfortunately the only tools he had to hand was 1930s-level technology (bordering on technomancy to the late-medieval inhabitants of Oz) so he ended up using trickery and misdirection. His moral greyness was emphasised by his coercing Dorothy into dealing with his witch problem on a false prospectus.

If that allegory is followed up in RWBY, we might find that the 'prophecy' is planted, that Ozpin has allowed the Grimm situation and Crimson's rebellion to go beyond his ability to contain or stop and he's setting up the RWBY and JNPR kids to be his tools to solve the situation. He might not be a bad guy, but he might be light grey, willing to lie to get what he thinks the world needs.

DYING OZPIN: "The world needs heroes, Ruby.  In you and your friends, I have given them just that.  Now... I think at last... I can rest."