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0551E80Y wrote: The reason why I'm saying she is like Hela is because Hela had proved herself more powerful then what Asgard could throw at her as she slaughtered its army with ease, crushed Mjolnir with no difficulty and even after Thor awakened his true power. He was still no match for her.

The comparison with Salem for this, is that I believe Salem will do the same to whatever Atlas will throw at her. If she fights Ironwood, Winter, Qrow and even Team RWBY personally and I believe she will. She will mop the floor with them, with ease. Even if they all gang up on her at once.

Even with Ruby's silver eye power. If they fight. I am confident that Salem will have the upper hand.

And in the end she will take Atlas' relic and perhaps kill Ironwood and even Winter.

Volume 7 needs to have irreversible consequences to cement the apocaylptic threat that Salem represents. This is also why I think Atlas has to lose and the Kingdom be destroyed to feed that belief. You see, that is what I am talking about. It is not saying she is weak to say she is not that strong. There is a reason she is amassing an army of Grimm to potentially use in some future assault. You pulled a quote from Thanos and that may well be closer to accurate as Thanos nearly got beat multiple times even when he had several Infinity Stones. Main reason he didn't get killed is because he had an army backing him or certain mistaken choices like not aiming for the head. Were Thanos to try and fight the entire army of Wakanda and the Avengers at the same time alone without a complete Infinity Gauntlet, he would have got curb-stomped, his stupid gauntlet ripped away, and probably killed. Salem doesn't even have Infinity Stones or Chaos Emeralds or Exodia or anything except magic that literally everyone had at one point, so you know it can't be that strong.