Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-181.95.214.36-20160303083042/@comment-24.50.7.137-20160305030840

Well, may I hit you on a technical thing?

Dues Ex Machina is generally an ass-pull. Something that the writers come up with to save their characters from a seemingly impossible situation with no foreshadowing, hinting or planning whatsoever. The importance of silver eyes was something the writers knew about from the start, and wrote it into the story. They planned for her to use it to defeat Cinder, and put it together in a way that made sense. They specifically said "Cinder will kill Pyrrha and prompt Ruby to unleash her special trait," not "How the heck are we going to get RWBY out of this one? I know! She'll have some magic eye power!"

The reason that it seems random to us is simply that we didn't know, yet. We were given foreshadowing and we were told that her silver eyes would become an important plot point. Thus, not Dues Ex Machina.

Whether or not Ruby is a Sue, however, is yet to be confirmed.