User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-11188061-20130816132659

Before I start countering your points, I'd like to lay out one example. Say that we have an school. Say that we're in a fantasy world and we're now training adventurers. These adventurers would enter dungeons, slay monsters, and loot great treasures. If I remember correctly, every single goddamn game or anime I've played/watched with this kind of setting did not send their recruits to fight goddamn people disguised as monsters or stupid test dummies, they outright send them into dungeons and let them fight, oh my god why is this so hard to understand, MONSTERS even though it's mostly stupid easy shit like Slime. Is this so hard to understand? Seriously? Just as I would LAUGH if a newbie adventurer fall prey to a level 1 Slime, I would LAUGH LIKE HELL if these students are so incompetent that they couldn't even fight a bunch of level 1 Beowolves.

1) I have every confidence even though I don't have evidence, that the graduation test in Signal Academy involves fighting real monsters, being the fact that it is a place where warriors train to slay monsters. In fact I would be incredibly surprised if Signal simply let's their students fight a bunch of robot dummies as their final test and call it a day, because that would be plain terrible. Also, no one knows when exactly Red Trailer takes place; it could very well be an event in the future.

And if it happened in the past like you suggested, OH MY GOD RUBY JUST SLAYED AN ENTIRE GROUP OF BEOWOLVES SINGLEHANDEDLY WITHOUT SUFFERING A SINGLE SCRATCH. But of course the other students are stupid, useless bastards who can't even take out a single Beowolf for life.

2) You seemed to have forgotten what she said about, 'only the best of the best can enter Beacon Academy'. Even if we ignore that line you seemed to have completely forgotten that she was spiting the hell out of Ruby for blowing her up, and looking down on her completely for being young. Also Ruby is two years younger than everyone in Beacon. It's natural for Weiss to doubt her ability to fight monsters. Everyone else however, wasn't.

3) Exactly. Ozpin knows that his students won't get suddenly wiped out in masses because none of the Beowolves poses a serious threat to any of them. It's getting incredibly obvious that the young and happy-go-lucky appearances are affecting your judgment, but this is like elite soldiers taking special commandos courses, not some sniffling young recruit who needs to be told how to handle a gun.

And I sincerely doubt there would be Dust nets to break their fall. I'm 100% incredibly sure that Jaune can slam head first to the ground, cause a 2 meter wide crater, and then stand up complaining only about a sore neck. Simulated foe? Yeah right, don't fight a Beowolf kids, just ignore the fact that we're super elite monster slaying school and go fight, say, that paper dummy over there so you won't get hurt. In fact, don't ever fight a monster ever and get killed since your parents would then complain, and then the school would be in serious trouble. Where's Weiss? For the first time I felt like I appreciated her character, and I need her here now because her sarcasm is awesome. Weiss??

You know what? You're sounding more and more like an instructor who tries to teach people how to drive a car, but make them sit inside a toy car instead because a real car would be oh, TOO DANGEROUS, and then start persuading them to drive the toy car instead of a real car to drive around since it would be MUCH safer. I pity your kid if you have one, sincerely.

4) The students' BODY LANGUAGE? I'm sorry, where did you get that from? I'm going to call bullshit if you say you can interpret what those black silhouettes' are about. You're talking about the sloppy, show off attitude a night before the initiation? DUDE. THEY'RE TEENAGERS. GIRLS AND BOYS SLEEPING TOGETHER IN ONE BIG HALL. WHAT THE HELL.

Also, try getting this into your THICK head, this is a WARRIOR TRAINING, MONSTER SLAYING ACADEMY. GUNS. SWORDS. SPEARS. EXPLOSIVES. EVEN GOD DAMN SCYTHES. EVERYTHING is already POTENTIALLY LETHAL the moment they stepped into the Academy (and FOUR YEARS BEFORE THAT, TOO), GOOD GOD.

5) From now on, this is how we're going to train soldiers, people. We're going to let them live at luxury suites. We're going to let them handle some guns but with a guy watching over their backs and steady their arms every time, because it might misfire and hurt them. We're going to setup mock battles but we're not going to use air bullets because it could potentially harm people, so instead we're just going to go by voice calling and the one's shooting would yell BANG BANG BANG with their fingers or tap and people's shoulders - oh, we can't hand them real weapons, not even empty ones, what if they accidentally injure each other! - whereas the ones getting shot will keel over and fake death. It will be fantastic. Wooden knives? Are you stupid? They're going to hurt themselves if they hit each other! No, we should use hard paper knives instead, and get that medical box ready in case they scratched some blood. No one will get hurt, everyone will graduate with flying colors, and our country is completely safe form the claws of our enemy! HURRAH!

If my above sarcasm isn't obvious enough, let's see exactly how tough RWBY humans are:

- Weiss taking multiple punches from a huge ass golem, with her worst injury being a bleeding scratch on her forehead.

- Adam and Blake getting shot directly by a charged Dust energy, does not suffer a single visible scratch. And them soloing an entire group of robots, but NAH, THAT DOESN'T COUNT SINCE IT'S TOO EASY.

- Ruby soloing an entire group of Beowolves, and the ONE TIME she got hit was blocked perfectly.

- Students like Yang FOOLING AROUND THE SKY AND SUPER SPEEDING BEFORE CRASHING THROUGH TREES TO SLOW HERSELF.

- PHYRRA literally DISINTEGRATING ANY TREES IN HER WAY.

... And a Beowolf is supposed to scare these students? These freaking scarily powerful students?