Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-25764680-20191109211101/@comment-4010415-20191109211511

Her death still has meaning because Cinder used her in a plot to make people distrust Atlas.

Remember, Cinder exposed that Penny was a robot, then pointed out that Atlas doesn't need to disguise its robots as people because the Grimm don't care if they're destroying a robot or a person. Cinder implied that Atlas had a more nefarious reason to disguise Penny as an innocent girl: Attacking people, not Grimm. She follows this up with having Mercury film Atlas' robots attacking people on the hijacked live broadcast, cementing the idea in people's minds that Atlas wanted/planned to attack Vale and that Atlas might also attack Vacuo and Mistral.