Talk:Alone Together/@comment-28171999-20171205171054/@comment-4010415-20171206221459

Geez, this is like when people kept saying Ruby is exactly like Maka Albarn from Soul Eater.

They just look at the surface or one aspect and immediately call "copy", "knock-off", or "cheap insert".

"Ruby is a protagonist who wields a scythe, slays monsters, and is special?! She's just like Maka!" Except Maka has an entirely different personality than Ruby, even willing to violently slam a book into her partner's head for any comments he makes that she deems inappropriate or annoying. She is also rather book smart, and she lacks Ruby's degree of naive heroic ideals. I mentioned "book smart" because Ruby... is not book smart. If I recall, Miles even mentioned that Ruby's smarts are more about the battlefield than books, and the show itself has shown Ruby's weakness in book smarts through her smaller vocabulary and weaker reading skills. ("Tussles, Brussels, truffles" conversation, and "Hee... gan... bay-ee-na.")

So, here it's "A spider lady who can shoot webs from her hands. She's definitely a Spiderman ripoff!" She's just a spider Faunus who can shoot webs in a far more pleasant place than just above her butt.