User blog comment:Waters Knight/Kara AMA Compliation - 6.6.2014/@comment-4010415-20140607022651/@comment-3257939-20140607155751

@Zolnir: I'll give you an example. Yang gets a boyfriend and he defends her from Mercury because she's not strong enough to fight him and becomes a damsel in distress..... Doesn't that sounds lame?

I mean the characters are growing up and I totally agree with you about the main character being weak compared to the person they will eventually be as the show progresses. But in this kind of series, watching someone falling into the pitiful "I need someone to defend me" kind of thing is against the show's rules. I'm not saying that is wrong (and I really wanna see a character who is stronger than Team RWBY) but nah, we don't wanna see our favorite girls depending on a stronger male. Now, a teacher (Glynda) or family (Qrow) will be acceptable since it's not focus on romantic things and just a more experienced adult defending a headstrong teenager (episode 1).

So yeah, you can have more muscle than your girl and she can have more brains than you but in RWBYverse, it's all about who can make the largest combo and beat tons of enemies without getting hit, in simply words: Who is the most badass?