Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170112165458/@comment-10380701-20170127001947

KNN005 wrote: It boggles my mind that a young adult and two teens out-smarted professional verteran specialists at their own game. I think that's the general idea of the first three volumes. It shows how complacent mankind has gotten over the almost-centuries since the Great War ended.

Sometimes stupidity happens because that's just how man works. I mean, just look at how our own planet is doing and you'll see similar stupidity.

In this case, because no one but the Oz posse (and technically, only Ironwood since Ozpin was chillaxing in his office) expected a large scale outbreak in Vale, they done fucked up.

From a narrative point of view, that's fine. There's no such thing as a perfect defense.

If you flip the sides around, this is the exact same method heroes used to invade the evil empire in other fictions.