Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-25936766-20190524180428

0551E80Y wrote: 1) And what you seem to miss is  that Volume 7 NEEDS irrevarsable consequences like Volume 3 had that must cement Salem as the force that Raven fears so greatly, 2) and make us understand WHY the Jinn said that she couldn't be defeated. 1) There is absolutely 0 "need" there. Vol.7 can have a big event or two with effects that can't just be fixed with a snap of the fingers like someone dying....but it doesn't need to (If they do kill someone though, I hope it's someone we can actually care about. Not another Leo or Vernal).

And similar to what Sentry said, they skipped most of the journey to Mistral to get everyone there ASAP for the "big battle", and after a whole Volume where our heroes do almost nothing but sit and talk in a house instead of walking around the city, we leave without seeing much of it at all. It would seriously suck if MK did that again with Atlas.

Though I do agree that we need to see more of Salem to see why Raven fears her enough to dump her daughter for 17+ years without even making her existence known. Team Rainbow knows via Jinn that she's literally unkillable, but there's no evidence that Raven knew that too.

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2) What is there to understand? She literally cannot die. The God of Darkness killed all life on Remnant, except her. She stabs herself with a knife, nothing happens. Ozpin blasts away nearly her entire body, and she just regenerates back to normal.

And most noteworthy of all: She jumped into a pool of Destruction Itself, and lived. And on top of that inmortality, she has Magic, the least of which includes castle-destroying blasts of energy and pretty strong telekinesis.

If anything, they should show in Vol.7 how she is not that much of a threat, or give her an actual weakness, because with Salem as she is, RWBY can easily end up like Mass Effect and the Reapers: The writers make an OP villain and can't think of a believable way of the heroes beating them, so they just throw a Deus Ex Machina.

It's rather interesting in a way. In Vol.1-3 (pre-finale) everyone complained the heores seemed too strong and the villains (especially Grimm) too weak. Now it's the other way around whenever Salem is in the equation.