Fun fact, one of the guys who worked on the audio for this episode tweeted that the day they were recording sounds for it one of the toilets was acting up and constantly flushing, so they recorded it and used the sound for when Adam falls into the water, dude literally got flushed
I honestly love that the battle with Adam ended with Blake in tears and Yang comforting her. You’re completely right, there’s most likely a million emotions going through her head. Pain and relief and everything in between. And Yang is just there, holding onto Blake and letting her cry like she needs.
I've seen it pointed out that the leviathan was kind of Cordovin's fault. Grimm are attracted to negative emotion, the larger the emotion the larger the draw. What pulled it in? The citizens of Argus being worried and freaked out about why the mech is active and fighting so close by. Really shows how Cordovin's ego just keeps making things worse.
well there's that, but I imagine having the Grimm-attracting relic kept in this city for a good couple of days also didn't help matters, I wouldn't be surprised if it it was already en-route because of that
@@j.w.sraptorsquad982 I doubt the relic had that much of an impact. It does draw Grimm somewhat but Oz said it was faint and honestly if it was strong enough to draw the Leviathan then each of the Academies would undoubtedly be under constant direct attack from having the relics in the basement.
V3C11 An enraged Yang doesn't think and charges at a prepared Adam and it backfires catastrophically. V6C12 An enraged Adam doesn't think and charges at a prepared Yang, and it backfires spectacularly.
There is another layer to Blake reaction. Remember all of her story so far, she was born in the white fang, fighting for the rights of the faunus, she saw the battle becoming more violent and decided that it wasn't the response, especially with Adam and the way it was so easy for him to kill in "selfdefense". Now, she killed him in selfdefense. Even if she was forced to do it, there is obviously a part of her that think she fell to his level in that moment. There is of course relief and all you said, but I think there is that too.
Interesting notice, if you look in an earlier episode they tease the three major events during the finale. Look for the movie posters they show for a moment when the team first arrived at Argus. ie Tryst in the Mist = Blake and Yang vs Adam, Demon of the Deep = the leviathan grim, etc.
"You're not the hero after all." You put it so well. That was exactly Adam's last thought before passing. Anyway, this is how we said goodbye to the first voiced character.
Qrow's bird transformation, or lack there of, is an animation shortcut Qrow transforms when he's out of frame so they don't have to animate it, and the same thing happened with Raven
To be a good fight partner is not just about predict and know every strategy of your teammate, but know how to react to support them, so, no, Weiss didnt knew that Ruby were going to kamikaze on that move, she was so surprised as everyone, but the moment Ruby was at her reach to help her with her glyphs, she did, good reaction is good team work too.
I knew the killing would get a fist pump from Ken but Bethany surprised me. First time we’ve seen Yang go Full Burn since she lost her arm, a lot of restraint from the writers to have us wait this long. Ruby and Weiss work as well together as Blake and Yang. The pair ups from the Forest trial carry through into team strategies.
Qrow jumped off the cliff offscreen to change into a bird so they dont have to animate the transformation which would probably be really hard and take away from the mystique of it.
@@alexjd1278 The tribute to Monty (Indomitable) Second favorite is Nevermore (partly because there are two singers who complement each other very well as well as the song pointing out the flaws in Adam's theme song) Third favorite is One Thing
Yes, it's ridiculous. I understand wanting Adam to be a mote nuanced character, wanting to see him redeem himself, but that ship sailed a long time ago. Adam was NEVER going to stop. He was defeated, and going for a shard of a weapon to keep going after the writing was on the wall. Blake AND Yang separately warned him, gave him outs, and he refused every time. Putting him down for good would be justified in a court of law, and any would aquit them of wrongdoing. Not every heroic character is Batman. You're allowed to defend yourself to the point of ending your attacker. Losing his sword plainly didn't mean he'd surrendered. He was BARELY slower than Blake to grab that blade, and he would have gutted her just the same.
@@samuelclayhills3298people usually see murder as something planned ahead Adam wanted to murder Blake and planned to kill her when she was alone Like a killer hiding in a victim house waiting for them to drop their guard vs being jumped by a man who wants to assault you and shoving him off onto the concrete which leads to him hitting his head and dying. See how those situations are very different despite the ending being that someone died? Blake and Yang killed Adam out of self defense That’s the big difference there for a lot of people plus there’s also stuff like Manslaughter which is different from murder
@samuelclayhills3298 No, it's not murder. Did they KILL him? Yes. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, it is both intentional and unwarranted. This is self defense. Killing and murder are frequently overlapping ven diagrams, but they are distinct. And it's not about "how bad" Adam was, it's that he was ACTIVELY TRYING TO MURDER THEM. I'm not your babysitter. How about learn anything about anything first before you run your ignorant mouth.
I loved that, too. It's like they were thinking "Ok, we need a little extra touch to confirm he's dead so people won't be like 'it's a disney death, where's the body?'," so that added that satisfying CRUNCH just to confirm it 100%.
@@tona4x7 I've seen plenty of people who were still convinced he was going to somehow survive. The number of people who watched and were like "Oh well, Cinder will find him" and other nonsense was quite prevalent. No matter how obvious you make something, some just won't get it.
To be fair, they've had fake outs before. Look at Cinder. She had a massive maiden fight with Raven and was frozen solid and fell into a deep ravine...and yet she still came back like the very next episode. Some characters have plot armor and can seemingly survive things that would normally be fatal for the sake of the plot. Ya know...the whole "No body, no death" thing. Unless they can see the character's body and it's been confirmed they are actually dead...it's only obvious that people would be skeptical.
Adam Taurus was good at killing robots and defenseless civilians. Oh, and a nearly aura-depleted teenager who had spent all evening fighting Grimm before trying to save her partner.
I can bet that a least a good portion of the RWBY Community went "GrimmZilla!" when they saw that Leviathan. All I can say about the final chapter is that it will be Indominable.
@@SnKanon welcome to remnant A world where it's impossible to have bad neighbours without the worst ones coming round A world that the military is trained to clown out to stop a children crying before something else does A world where war is never just a simple 1v 1, a 3rd party will wade in and won't retreat A world where the dumbest mistake you can make is forgetting why they are called Grim but don't worry, they will most certainty remind you
Even if he appears to feel those emotions. He's already dead inside. He's not even angry. He's not even sad. All that's left of Adam is a desire to kill or break Blake
Qrow jumped off the cliff to get out of frame because they don't have a transformation animation, those tend to be gross anyways. If you want an in world explanation then jumping off the cliff quickly built up the speed for flight.
Yeees! What a legendary episode. We finish up Cordovan and Adam, and are met with Godzilla. I don't know what powers having an aura gives exactly, but damn I would be tired as hell by now xD
You hit the nail on the head with Blakes crying being mostly pure relief and catharsis. Then just sprinkle in some mourning for the guy he COULD'VE been, the guy she loved, and then the added pain of him forcing her to do the thing she never wanted that she resented him for (which is killing) Adam fanboys always flood the YT comment sections on this episode with "this is such bad writing Adam shouldn't have died he was such a great character" and i have to disagree bc, while the version of Adams character we got could have been handled way better, even if it was a masterfully written spiteful villain arc i think him dying was the right choice, for the simplicity of the story AND for the characters. side note: Qrow jumps off the cliff to turn into a bird so they don't have to animate him transforming 😂 it's funny to see all the little ways they try to avoid showing that cause honestly same...i wouldn't wanna try and figure out the mechanics of that either
re: Qrow & Raven's transformations.....yeah they always cheat with these because it would be hard to animate and also saves their animation budget for more substantive scenes.
He turned out to be nothing more than a foil for Blake in the end so it's hard to even see it as a full death. Losing Torchwick on the other hand was tragic. He was so fun.
I don't mind the jealous ex psycho angle with a character but his character doesn't exist in a vaccum, he is supposedly leader of the organisation that's fighting against discrimination who turned to radical ways. So it feels really scummy to see the writers make that specific character turn into this. Because not only Adam's character suffers, Blake and Weiss's too. And even Seinna to some extent. I personally think this was just a way for the creators to write off the white fang plot line because they admitted they were too "white" to write something like this. ( I'm paraphrasing) (And to that I'm like, why not just educate yourself on topics of racism, discrimination, etc.) Which is why Blake's arc also gets sidelined and she never gets to restore the fang. Weiss never gets to see the scar, discover the practices of her company, etc. It's not unreasonable to want Adam be in the Atlas arc, explore the faunus discrimination, the dust mines and the sdc more. Like, have him be just as annoying and unbearable, but atleast not sideline the racism for jealous ex part.
@@dazaiosamu7184 I agree. I remember when the Black trailer came out, i was most excited to see Blake and Adam's future interactions after her "betrayal" (this was before we even knew the show was a school anime, before we knew the whole story about the WF, etc.). So when they met again in V3 it was super disappointing that they basically abandoned the "you betrayed our cause" angle, and while there are still bits of it here and there, it's almost entirely overshadowed by the "jilted ex" spin on their relationship. If they had managed to marry both those aspects of their relationship it could have been super complex and interesting, but either they didn't try at all or they tried and failed because Adam just generally comes across as one dimensional.
One of my most favorite ruby speeches and moments absolutely love how she has grown and how they all will and have continued/continue to grown as well. The adam vs blake and yang i think i said last episode but incase i didnt is a fav battle of mine still. Also another fav this episode is how blake broke down afterwards thank goodness yang was there for her. Love your vids until next episode ❤🌹.
Even though they are a team yeng and Blake are partners and Weiss and Ruby are partners. Because when they got launched in volume one ospin said who they see first are their partner for the next 4 years and yeng and Blake saw each other making them partner same with Weiss and Ruby Sorry I’m high hope that made sense
The big issue isn't just the destruction of the main canon of Cordovin's mech but due to the dust it's now coated in a lot of ice and rock and whatever other dust it had and it's weighing the whole thing down to the point it can't move that arm at all.
11:18 I heard so many claim that Blake was crying because of the wrong reason. She was crying, as you said, from all sorts of emotions and relief must have been the dominate one there. She hated this because he gave her no other choice....Adam was an idiot and he won't be missed. Teir teemwork will only get better from here on out, V7 even mentioning it with Blake and Yang ^^
4:50 Yep, this was the point which made it painfully clear that the animators had *no idea* how to depict Qrow turning into a bird, so they had him run *away* from the crashed ship and jump off a cliff out of view so they didn't have to come up with something.
What? It was ALWAYS clearly a visual motif of that power that he and Raven can only do it when nobody can directly see them. You wanted some freakish wild-shape werebird transformation? One... it's a free webtoon... Two... it's a sensible thing to do since it's a magical transformation. Why are you framing it like its an error or something? It's plainly deliberate. This is the shit I hate about RWBY criticism. People stop touching on REAL flaws and imperfections and attack things that are literally not a problem unless you're mad they didn't do things specifically how YOU'D have done it.
@@JJMDude First of all, I *still* like RWBY, but pointing out some of the goofier workarounds they had to do doesn't mean I'm attacking it. There were almost certainly more subtle ways they could have gone about hiding the transformation, such as when Raven flew behind a tree. I don't believe there is any indication that he needs to be out of sight in order to transform, merely that the production crew chooses to keep it from the audience. For example, earlier in the fight when they all split off to confuse Cordovan, he flies out from behind the same rock as everyone else. He was almost certainly within view of the rest of the party when he transformed that time, but was only hidden from the *audience*.
@Splungified Regardless I'm not seeing the problem. I like it as a stylistic choice, and it's never needed to be more than what they settled on. Yeah, I'm sorry, I've just heard so many permutations of bogus criticisms invented because a contingent of the internet religiously hates the series and its characters, stuff like that ticks me off, because some people will try to contextualize ANYTHING as some kind of shameful flaw.
Fun Facts Fact 1: The episode is named after the idiom of the same name, meaning "to become very angry because of something which has been said or done." It could also reference Adam Taurus's animal nature, and the common association that bulls dislike the color red and attempt to attack it. Alternately or additionally, it may reference Ruby's red outfit, Adam's red hair, and/or the overall red theme of both characters. Fact 2: Yang catching Adam's sword can be seen as a reference to the scene in Beauty and the Beast where Gaston tries to bludgeon the Beast, but the Beast catches the object Gaston was trying to bludgeon him with. Fact 3: This season had a core fight team that animated all the fights. Fact 4: The way Adam dies is apparently similar to how the death of the machine Adam in Nier: Automata plays out. Kerry had only played an hour of the game at this point so he did not know that was a thing. Fact 5: Nier: Automata was actually referenced for the mech fight (the mechanics of how the fight would work) since a robot was involved in the first boss fight. Fact 6: Some shots from the Adam and Yang fight were similar to those from Naruto, but that was also a coincidence.
One day this fanbase will finally realise how stupid the idea is that they had this huge amazing uber morally grey arc for a villain that they decided to throw away to...give a significant arc and story to half of the titular cast? Like wow, shock horror, the main characters are more important than a secondary villain who barely appeared in the first 3 seasons, how could that be possible?
Let’s be honest, Adam was a pretty good villain. A delusional, manipulative narcissist on a mission to destroy anyone who (in his eyes) wronged him, only to be killed due to his own self destruction. He’s the kind of villain that we need to see more in shows like RWBY.
@@revolvingzyclon6901 I wouldn't say they ruined him with it. He was on a downward spiral BECAUSE he's such a narcissist. He lost everything bc of it. It was the only real conclusion for him. Sure, he could've gone and become a major villain or whatever. But his spitefulness wouldn't let him see beyond his own ego. And so, he died a petty, crazy, jealous ex bf.
@@revolvingzyclon6901 He was never a crazy jealous ex boyfriend? He was never looking to get Blake back. He was more so enraged that she would go befriend the species who has enslaved and abused their people for centuries. She was a "race traitor" if that makes sense. She promised him she'd always be on his side (cause she was young and naive) then betrayed him for the oppressors. He's no Incel. Just a spiteful, vengeful, monster created by human abuse. Like a rabid dog who needs to be put down.
Good for what was left, but there could've been so much more than this. I really believe he should've been in Atlas for his final dance, and for him to really go crazy with the Schnees to draw that connection.
@@willowisp90 The dude had SDC braded on his face and his best friend Blake left him to become friends with the Schnee heiress. I doubt you would be sane if you were in his shoes. Let's not act like his case is something normal. 🙄
It’s kind of disappointing that the show makes Adam so unlikeable that the plight of the White Fang and Faunus is seen as an afterthought. Because if Adam wasn’t such an awful person the main focus of these last few episodes would probably be the people like Cordovan that exist. People that have insane allegiances to Atlas and treat the other kingdoms like they’re lesser for a number of reasons that are at best discriminatory. I mean, Adam was branded by a dust company and people still can’t gather why he would hate humans to the point of wanting to kill them.
0:59 Although you are correct, there are some people out there that say he is a good villain and that defend him. One thing all his fans have in common is that they're the same type of bad person that he is. I'm sure there's probably an exception to that somewhere... I just haven't seen it.
Hey man we all agree that racism is a good thing and should be encoraged. Well anyway anyone who actually likes RWBY must be a morally bad person because the show is bad. Good logic right here.
Shame he couldn't focus that angry twords Jacques ,get some revenge for that brand.welp coming up on the last episode after this im flying blind gave up on this series ages ago apart from snipets here an there an friends telling me stuff.
11:03 Look. I hate Adam as much as any rational person does but thinking that anything he does is out of a desire to be "The Hero" or "The Good Guy" is just plain wrong. He is just a victim who wants revenge so that he won't have to stay the victim. He's seen and lived Faunus abuse at it's worst (the initials for the Schnee Dust Company was not burned into his face by accident) and is fighting to get revenge on the species who wronged him. There's no illusion in him that he is the Hero of the Faunus, he might talk a big game but he just wants the metaphorical scales of Faunus dead by Human hands and Humans dead by Faunus hands to be more evenly balanced. Him chasing after Blake is not because he's some Incel who thinks he deserves her love or wants her back. He wants her *dead* because she betrayed him and "their people" to go gallivanting around helping their oppressors after she promised she would be by his side through everything. It's just another case of a victim who wants revenge on the ones who victimized him. it just upsets me when people boil him down to an Incel who thinks he deserves the woman. At least hate him for the right reasons, he's just a scared monster made by cruel people who needs to be put down.
Adam is tragic, I swear the thought of being in his position in life and all he's experienced i dont think I'd end up being a functional member of society after going through all that, but what he did to Blake can never be forgiven but I can say that I understand his rage, him wanting to lash out racism hurts and it definitely hurt for him he has no family no actual place besides the white fang he mistook Sienna's defending of him killing a human to protect Ghira as a way for him to get praised by others taking out his rage on every human he killed it's sad that Adam was (seemingly) the only Faunus that has proof of being hurt by racism and his character wasn't about that, while I love a master manipulator type character with the lack of representation of the racsim we see in the show I was hoping Adam's story eould be somewhat related to it but it was never brought up and is overlooked i am a little disappointed but cant say im unhappy
@@pumpkinwarrior7138 yes I’m aware but when illa says “what about my parents who died in the slave mines” I feel that is also never really talked about or brought up
@@wootcat like I mentioned to another person illa talking about her parents dying in a slave mine kinda sold it for me but to not have anyone mention his logo I think is kinda ignorant of the subject of him being a slave
@@wootcatFunny thing is that the sdc branding never gets brought up after this. It's like the writers didn't wanna explore that angle but also wanted the credit for hinting at it.
My biggest annoyance is we didnt see adams back story i wanna see what made him so evil and how he got the sdc logo seared into his eye i was pretty disappointed into the logo
His psychology got spelled out pretty clearly throughout the course of the show and the Adam character short. He was a faunus in the Atlas mines who suffered abuse at the hands of the SDC. He reacted to that abuse by becoming an abuser himself, at first "freedom fighting" for a noble cause but quickly descending into "screw everyone else, I'm only looking out for me because I'm owed something by the world" -- as Blake put it, "the embodiment of spite". And unfortunately Sienna encouraged that behaviour at a crucial tipping point where he might have gone the other way. These things don't excuse his behaviour -- he's definitely a piece of crap for the entire show -- but they do explain it.
@@Mirality yes i agree he was still a t**t, im more saying it'd been nice to see him have more story especially considering they then went to atlas like it'd been perfect to see him there as a third party
@@AztechHydra I kinda agree, it was a wasted opportunity that Adam didn't interact with Weiss or get angry at Blake befriending the (ex) heiress of SDC plus all the way back in S1 Weiss mentioned people she knew going "missing", the set-up was there but yeah most RWBY fans do agree the whole White Fang and discrimination sub-plot was pretty weak. Honestly I'm indifferent to Adam as a character but I do enjoy watching folks react to RWBY (it's pretty much the only enjoyment I get from RWBY these days after what happened to RT).
if I may make a constructive criticism, the music overpowers the dialouge(spelling?) in the videos. It was realy bad in your last video, and while its not quite as bad here, it's still pretty noticable. Not sure what changed, but it never used to be an issue before.
5:18 Who was Qrow looking at here? 🤔 11:17 Let's not gloss over the fact a man just died. Self-defense 100%, but Blake was close to him at one point in her life (that you later touched on). She killed him. I don't think even she knows what she's feeling.
Honestly it's for the best for Adam to die at this point in the show 😢. They turned him into a abusive ex trope from what could have been a good story about a morally grey character fighting for what he believed
*turned him* he was always meant to go this route x3 he was willing to kill innocent civilians all the way back in the Black trailer my dude, he was never morally grey, he's been the abusive ex since vol 3 and was the reason Blake ran away in the trailer
he was never going to be that character They didn’t even have Blake get an apology from Weiss for her racism why on earth would you think this show would make Adam complex and gray if they couldn’t even handle violent protest in v1 with tact
@@OnyxheartWolf She ran away in the trailer because she didn't want to be a murderer like him. Had nothing to do with the cringe bad relationship self insert crap they added later.
I know people don't like Adam, heck I'm one of them after these past two vol. but I didn't wish death on him, I wanted him to have redemption bit not that kind of thinking in my opinion is just wicked.
True He had wasted potential, the writers gave up and made Yang and Blake not talk their way into being girlfriends just so the fans to see their lesbian ship they insisted on be in the show
@@OnyxheartWolf im just saying that he was a good villain and he shouldnt have died and still be part of the Show and maybe even some Kind of redemption arc or anything because killing him off was really just wasted potential.
i get why they killed him off but adam was leageus above them in volume 3 i dont think even with all that training they could beat him also say hi to lenny that giant grimm
It’s been two years since v3 and Adam has lost a lot of his confidence But I really do think Yang’s training is the most important because she didn’t even fight Adam last time, she didn’t think and just left herself open Here her whole fighting style has changed
@@pumpkinwarrior7138 yang her training did indeed help but even when she lost her hand he sliced trough her aura we never saw her lose it so thats a thing that made him so much better and even tho he lost like everything it should make him so much weaker imo but again killing him off was like the better thing cuz he lost like i said everything he would not join salem in any way
who had Adam beaten in an actual 1v1 up to this point? Sienna got surprise stabbed, Blake had been running round Beacon all night, most-to-all of his other Ws were against mooks, robots, and mook robots
Fun fact, one of the guys who worked on the audio for this episode tweeted that the day they were recording sounds for it one of the toilets was acting up and constantly flushing, so they recorded it and used the sound for when Adam falls into the water, dude literally got flushed
no wayyy, legendary
I honestly love that the battle with Adam ended with Blake in tears and Yang comforting her. You’re completely right, there’s most likely a million emotions going through her head. Pain and relief and everything in between. And Yang is just there, holding onto Blake and letting her cry like she needs.
Also this is the first time they blatantly killed a person, it makes sense it'd be traumatic
I've seen it pointed out that the leviathan was kind of Cordovin's fault. Grimm are attracted to negative emotion, the larger the emotion the larger the draw. What pulled it in? The citizens of Argus being worried and freaked out about why the mech is active and fighting so close by.
Really shows how Cordovin's ego just keeps making things worse.
The citizens definitely had huge pull there. But also Cordovin herself was severely enraged in multiple ways, so even her personal attitude "helped"
Well Ruby and her team didn’t make it any better. Last thing you do with someone with a huge ego is disrespect them.
the mech was also shaking the city which made people stressed
well there's that, but I imagine having the Grimm-attracting relic kept in this city for a good couple of days also didn't help matters, I wouldn't be surprised if it it was already en-route because of that
@@j.w.sraptorsquad982 I doubt the relic had that much of an impact. It does draw Grimm somewhat but Oz said it was faint and honestly if it was strong enough to draw the Leviathan then each of the Academies would undoubtedly be under constant direct attack from having the relics in the basement.
V3C11 An enraged Yang doesn't think and charges at a prepared Adam and it backfires catastrophically.
V6C12 An enraged Adam doesn't think and charges at a prepared Yang, and it backfires spectacularly.
More like angry Yang underestimates Adam, then angry Adam underestimated Yang lol
Adam: "so I wasn't enough..."
Me: I mean, have you seen yang? She is both awesome and gorgeous
You KNOW an idea is bad when NORA says it's crazy!
She's not nuts so much as not ever thinking
At this point, Cordovan deserves to be court-martialed for her gross misuse of Atlas military assets to settle a personal vendetta...and she knows it.
And yet she is the ONLY one who cares for the people
There is another layer to Blake reaction. Remember all of her story so far, she was born in the white fang, fighting for the rights of the faunus, she saw the battle becoming more violent and decided that it wasn't the response, especially with Adam and the way it was so easy for him to kill in "selfdefense". Now, she killed him in selfdefense. Even if she was forced to do it, there is obviously a part of her that think she fell to his level in that moment. There is of course relief and all you said, but I think there is that too.
Interesting notice, if you look in an earlier episode they tease the three major events during the finale. Look for the movie posters they show for a moment when the team first arrived at Argus. ie Tryst in the Mist = Blake and Yang vs Adam, Demon of the Deep = the leviathan grim, etc.
Adam: whats even see in you?.
Fandom: Does Yang's new arm have a...?
I'm just remembering that question being asked and the actresses saying "No spoilers!"
@@marieporter9488
Really because instead she said
"DOES IT?!"
@@Zapper-Zac You're right! I'm probably thinking of a different interview that might not be RWBY related at all
What does Blake see in Yang, Adam asks.
A strong willed girl with a big heart.
Someone who also gives her all.
11:12
A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY!
Next episode: Pacific Grimm!
"You're not the hero after all." You put it so well. That was exactly Adam's last thought before passing.
Anyway, this is how we said goodbye to the first voiced character.
Qrow's bird transformation, or lack there of, is an animation shortcut
Qrow transforms when he's out of frame so they don't have to animate it, and the same thing happened with Raven
Better than pulling an Ace Cooper. The Magicia. look it up
To be a good fight partner is not just about predict and know every strategy of your teammate, but know how to react to support them, so, no, Weiss didnt knew that Ruby were going to kamikaze on that move, she was so surprised as everyone, but the moment Ruby was at her reach to help her with her glyphs, she did, good reaction is good team work too.
I had been waiting for you to get to this EP with how visceral her face was every time Adam was on screen or they mentioned him
I knew the killing would get a fist pump from Ken but Bethany surprised me.
First time we’ve seen Yang go Full Burn since she lost her arm, a lot of restraint from the writers to have us wait this long.
Ruby and Weiss work as well together as Blake and Yang. The pair ups from the Forest trial carry through into team strategies.
Actually it was a technical reason. They were struggling with the hair after they moved to the new animation style.
THe brand is SDC. Schnee Dust Company. He wasn't likely always the villain. And he was a villain created by other villains.
Also meet Lenny the Leviathan!
I thought his name was Bubbles
What's next Carl the crocodile?
Qrow jumped off the cliff offscreen to change into a bird so they dont have to animate the transformation which would probably be really hard and take away from the mystique of it.
I loved this episode. I can't wait for the soundtrack reaction and the finale.
Volume 6 has my favorite song in the entire show!
Agreed! Volume 6 has a bunch of my favorites in it. Miracle, Nevermore, Indomitable, etc. The whole album is amazing!
@marieporter9488 Miracle is mine what's yours? Also One Thing
@@jessc.994yeahh exactly!
@@alexjd1278 The tribute to Monty (Indomitable)
Second favorite is Nevermore (partly because there are two singers who complement each other very well as well as the song pointing out the flaws in Adam's theme song)
Third favorite is One Thing
Oh my god some people are so stupid about Blake and Yang killing Adam, they kept calling them "murderers" and it's so stupid
Yes, it's ridiculous. I understand wanting Adam to be a mote nuanced character, wanting to see him redeem himself, but that ship sailed a long time ago.
Adam was NEVER going to stop. He was defeated, and going for a shard of a weapon to keep going after the writing was on the wall. Blake AND Yang separately warned him, gave him outs, and he refused every time. Putting him down for good would be justified in a court of law, and any would aquit them of wrongdoing.
Not every heroic character is Batman. You're allowed to defend yourself to the point of ending your attacker. Losing his sword plainly didn't mean he'd surrendered. He was BARELY slower than Blake to grab that blade, and he would have gutted her just the same.
Yeah that's dumb lol. I have my complaints about this scene, mainly the character writing that led to it, but it's so obviously self defense.
No matter how bad a person that is still murder just because well it is. Are you really going to argue about it not being murder.
@@samuelclayhills3298people usually see murder as something planned ahead Adam wanted to murder Blake and planned to kill her when she was alone
Like a killer hiding in a victim house waiting for them to drop their guard vs being jumped by a man who wants to assault you and shoving him off onto the concrete which leads to him hitting his head and dying. See how those situations are very different despite the ending being that someone died?
Blake and Yang killed Adam out of self defense
That’s the big difference there for a lot of people plus there’s also stuff like Manslaughter which is different from murder
@samuelclayhills3298 No, it's not murder. Did they KILL him? Yes. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, it is both intentional and unwarranted.
This is self defense. Killing and murder are frequently overlapping ven diagrams, but they are distinct.
And it's not about "how bad" Adam was, it's that he was ACTIVELY TRYING TO MURDER THEM.
I'm not your babysitter. How about learn anything about anything first before you run your ignorant mouth.
Adam hitting the rocks when he fell into the water was the icing on the cake 👌 Well deserved death for such an evil character
I loved that, too. It's like they were thinking "Ok, we need a little extra touch to confirm he's dead so people won't be like 'it's a disney death, where's the body?'," so that added that satisfying CRUNCH just to confirm it 100%.
@@tona4x7 I've seen plenty of people who were still convinced he was going to somehow survive. The number of people who watched and were like "Oh well, Cinder will find him" and other nonsense was quite prevalent. No matter how obvious you make something, some just won't get it.
@@Hawk_of_Battle too true lol
Rooster teeth killed his character before this
To be fair, they've had fake outs before. Look at Cinder. She had a massive maiden fight with Raven and was frozen solid and fell into a deep ravine...and yet she still came back like the very next episode. Some characters have plot armor and can seemingly survive things that would normally be fatal for the sake of the plot. Ya know...the whole "No body, no death" thing. Unless they can see the character's body and it's been confirmed they are actually dead...it's only obvious that people would be skeptical.
Adam Taurus was good at killing robots and defenseless civilians. Oh, and a nearly aura-depleted teenager who had spent all evening fighting Grimm before trying to save her partner.
I can bet that a least a good portion of the RWBY Community went "GrimmZilla!" when they saw that Leviathan.
All I can say about the final chapter is that it will be Indominable.
All that negativity from the battle, all the hate from Adam, all the rivalry, it's no surprise the grim came
Man, it must suck to live in a world where you can't be sad or angry because a freaking monster is coming to kill you and everyone around...
@@SnKanon welcome to remnant
A world where it's impossible to have bad neighbours without the worst ones coming round
A world that the military is trained to clown out to stop a children crying before something else does
A world where war is never just a simple 1v 1, a 3rd party will wade in and won't retreat
A world where the dumbest mistake you can make is forgetting why they are called Grim but don't worry, they will most certainty remind you
Even if he appears to feel those emotions. He's already dead inside. He's not even angry. He's not even sad. All that's left of Adam is a desire to kill or break Blake
Weiss is such a great support class she is always covering and protecting Ruby and the team.
Qrow jumped off the cliff to get out of frame because they don't have a transformation animation, those tend to be gross anyways. If you want an in world explanation then jumping off the cliff quickly built up the speed for flight.
And that’s the end of Adam Taurus. Finally out of his misery.
out of OUR misery, too lol.
@@tona4x7 Indeed! 😊
Yeees! What a legendary episode. We finish up Cordovan and Adam, and are met with Godzilla. I don't know what powers having an aura gives exactly, but damn I would be tired as hell by now xD
If you watch the original Beauty & the Beast Disney movie, it plays out very similar to this fight
Yang is beast of battle
Blake is here beauty
You hit the nail on the head with Blakes crying being mostly pure relief and catharsis. Then just sprinkle in some mourning for the guy he COULD'VE been, the guy she loved, and then the added pain of him forcing her to do the thing she never wanted that she resented him for (which is killing)
Adam fanboys always flood the YT comment sections on this episode with "this is such bad writing Adam shouldn't have died he was such a great character" and i have to disagree bc, while the version of Adams character we got could have been handled way better, even if it was a masterfully written spiteful villain arc i think him dying was the right choice, for the simplicity of the story AND for the characters.
side note: Qrow jumps off the cliff to turn into a bird so they don't have to animate him transforming 😂 it's funny to see all the little ways they try to avoid showing that cause honestly same...i wouldn't wanna try and figure out the mechanics of that either
re: Qrow & Raven's transformations.....yeah they always cheat with these because it would be hard to animate and also saves their animation budget for more substantive scenes.
He turned out to be nothing more than a foil for Blake in the end so it's hard to even see it as a full death. Losing Torchwick on the other hand was tragic. He was so fun.
I don't mind the jealous ex psycho angle with a character but his character doesn't exist in a vaccum, he is supposedly leader of the organisation that's fighting against discrimination who turned to radical ways. So it feels really scummy to see the writers make that specific character turn into this.
Because not only Adam's character suffers, Blake and Weiss's too. And even Seinna to some extent.
I personally think this was just a way for the creators to write off the white fang plot line because they admitted they were too "white" to write something like this. ( I'm paraphrasing)
(And to that I'm like, why not just educate yourself on topics of racism, discrimination, etc.)
Which is why Blake's arc also gets sidelined and she never gets to restore the fang. Weiss never gets to see the scar, discover the practices of her company, etc.
It's not unreasonable to want Adam be in the Atlas arc, explore the faunus discrimination, the dust mines and the sdc more. Like, have him be just as annoying and unbearable, but atleast not sideline the racism for jealous ex part.
@@dazaiosamu7184 I agree. I remember when the Black trailer came out, i was most excited to see Blake and Adam's future interactions after her "betrayal" (this was before we even knew the show was a school anime, before we knew the whole story about the WF, etc.). So when they met again in V3 it was super disappointing that they basically abandoned the "you betrayed our cause" angle, and while there are still bits of it here and there, it's almost entirely overshadowed by the "jilted ex" spin on their relationship.
If they had managed to marry both those aspects of their relationship it could have been super complex and interesting, but either they didn't try at all or they tried and failed because Adam just generally comes across as one dimensional.
The whole point is that by this point Blake and Yang had fallen in love. There was no way Adam could win her back
Qrow's changes into a crow are purely stylistic, I think both as a show and as Qrow personality lol
One of my most favorite ruby speeches and moments absolutely love how she has grown and how they all will and have continued/continue to grown as well. The adam vs blake and yang i think i said last episode but incase i didnt is a fav battle of mine still. Also another fav this episode is how blake broke down afterwards thank goodness yang was there for her. Love your vids until next episode ❤🌹.
Even though they are a team yeng and Blake are partners and Weiss and Ruby are partners. Because when they got launched in volume one ospin said who they see first are their partner for the next 4 years and yeng and Blake saw each other making them partner same with Weiss and Ruby
Sorry I’m high hope that made sense
Well Yang and Blake are partners in EVERY term
Lenny the leviathan!
I thought he was Bubbles
@@PheonixFireThat's Mr. Bubbles to you.
@@PheonixFire I've seen both be used so I just defaulted to Lenny
been waiting for you guys to see 10:35 forever.. and it's such a good payoff 💛🖤
Time for Team RWBY vs Godzilla- I mean, the Leviathan!
'Twas Beauties that killed the Beast
And if you couldn't tell where these two were going from HERE.... wow....
The big issue isn't just the destruction of the main canon of Cordovin's mech but due to the dust it's now coated in a lot of ice and rock and whatever other dust it had and it's weighing the whole thing down to the point it can't move that arm at all.
11:18 I heard so many claim that Blake was crying because of the wrong reason. She was crying, as you said, from all sorts of emotions and relief must have been the dominate one there. She hated this because he gave her no other choice....Adam was an idiot and he won't be missed. Teir teemwork will only get better from here on out, V7 even mentioning it with Blake and Yang ^^
Ruby in the next ep will be amazing!!
folks like you keep rwby alive
Bubbles is here!!!
4:50 Yep, this was the point which made it painfully clear that the animators had *no idea* how to depict Qrow turning into a bird, so they had him run *away* from the crashed ship and jump off a cliff out of view so they didn't have to come up with something.
What? It was ALWAYS clearly a visual motif of that power that he and Raven can only do it when nobody can directly see them. You wanted some freakish wild-shape werebird transformation?
One... it's a free webtoon... Two... it's a sensible thing to do since it's a magical transformation. Why are you framing it like its an error or something? It's plainly deliberate.
This is the shit I hate about RWBY criticism. People stop touching on REAL flaws and imperfections and attack things that are literally not a problem unless you're mad they didn't do things specifically how YOU'D have done it.
@@JJMDude First of all, I *still* like RWBY, but pointing out some of the goofier workarounds they had to do doesn't mean I'm attacking it. There were almost certainly more subtle ways they could have gone about hiding the transformation, such as when Raven flew behind a tree.
I don't believe there is any indication that he needs to be out of sight in order to transform, merely that the production crew chooses to keep it from the audience. For example, earlier in the fight when they all split off to confuse Cordovan, he flies out from behind the same rock as everyone else. He was almost certainly within view of the rest of the party when he transformed that time, but was only hidden from the *audience*.
@Splungified Regardless I'm not seeing the problem. I like it as a stylistic choice, and it's never needed to be more than what they settled on.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I've just heard so many permutations of bogus criticisms invented because a contingent of the internet religiously hates the series and its characters, stuff like that ticks me off, because some people will try to contextualize ANYTHING as some kind of shameful flaw.
Fun Facts
Fact 1: The episode is named after the idiom of the same name, meaning "to become very angry because of something which has been said or done." It could also reference Adam Taurus's animal nature, and the common association that bulls dislike the color red and attempt to attack it. Alternately or additionally, it may reference Ruby's red outfit, Adam's red hair, and/or the overall red theme of both characters.
Fact 2: Yang catching Adam's sword can be seen as a reference to the scene in Beauty and the Beast where Gaston tries to bludgeon the Beast, but the Beast catches the object Gaston was trying to bludgeon him with.
Fact 3: This season had a core fight team that animated all the fights.
Fact 4: The way Adam dies is apparently similar to how the death of the machine Adam in Nier: Automata plays out. Kerry had only played an hour of the game at this point so he did not know that was a thing.
Fact 5: Nier: Automata was actually referenced for the mech fight (the mechanics of how the fight would work) since a robot was involved in the first boss fight.
Fact 6: Some shots from the Adam and Yang fight were similar to those from Naruto, but that was also a coincidence.
To be fair Cordo was about to answer the radio when the base first tried to call then she got interrupted
One day this fanbase will finally realise how stupid the idea is that they had this huge amazing uber morally grey arc for a villain that they decided to throw away to...give a significant arc and story to half of the titular cast?
Like wow, shock horror, the main characters are more important than a secondary villain who barely appeared in the first 3 seasons, how could that be possible?
He's gone!!!
Forever!!
WOOOO!!!
Freedom is finally here!
He had it coming, definitely
@@armzngunz 1000%
@@marieporter9488I can’t wait for them to listen to Nevermore!
@@jessc.994 Right!? It's my second favorite song from Volume 6!
Let’s be honest, Adam was a pretty good villain. A delusional, manipulative narcissist on a mission to destroy anyone who (in his eyes) wronged him, only to be killed due to his own self destruction. He’s the kind of villain that we need to see more in shows like RWBY.
They kinda ruined him with the crazy jealous ex-boyfriend trope though
@@revolvingzyclon6901 I wouldn't say they ruined him with it. He was on a downward spiral BECAUSE he's such a narcissist. He lost everything bc of it. It was the only real conclusion for him. Sure, he could've gone and become a major villain or whatever. But his spitefulness wouldn't let him see beyond his own ego. And so, he died a petty, crazy, jealous ex bf.
@@revolvingzyclon6901 He was never a crazy jealous ex boyfriend? He was never looking to get Blake back. He was more so enraged that she would go befriend the species who has enslaved and abused their people for centuries.
She was a "race traitor" if that makes sense. She promised him she'd always be on his side (cause she was young and naive) then betrayed him for the oppressors.
He's no Incel. Just a spiteful, vengeful, monster created by human abuse. Like a rabid dog who needs to be put down.
Good for what was left, but there could've been so much more than this. I really believe he should've been in Atlas for his final dance, and for him to really go crazy with the Schnees to draw that connection.
@@willowisp90 The dude had SDC braded on his face and his best friend Blake left him to become friends with the Schnee heiress. I doubt you would be sane if you were in his shoes. Let's not act like his case is something normal. 🙄
Next episode, "Indomitable" A song that is tribute to Monty Oum
My favorite song in the show!
It’s kind of disappointing that the show makes Adam so unlikeable that the plight of the White Fang and Faunus is seen as an afterthought. Because if Adam wasn’t such an awful person the main focus of these last few episodes would probably be the people like Cordovan that exist. People that have insane allegiances to Atlas and treat the other kingdoms like they’re lesser for a number of reasons that are at best discriminatory. I mean, Adam was branded by a dust company and people still can’t gather why he would hate humans to the point of wanting to kill them.
I paused my life to watch you watch this😂❤❤
0:59 Although you are correct, there are some people out there that say he is a good villain and that defend him. One thing all his fans have in common is that they're the same type of bad person that he is. I'm sure there's probably an exception to that somewhere... I just haven't seen it.
Hey man we all agree that racism is a good thing and should be encoraged. Well anyway anyone who actually likes RWBY must be a morally bad person because the show is bad. Good logic right here.
Shame he couldn't focus that angry twords Jacques ,get some revenge for that brand.welp coming up on the last episode after this im flying blind gave up on this series ages ago apart from snipets here an there an friends telling me stuff.
11:03 Look. I hate Adam as much as any rational person does but thinking that anything he does is out of a desire to be "The Hero" or "The Good Guy" is just plain wrong.
He is just a victim who wants revenge so that he won't have to stay the victim. He's seen and lived Faunus abuse at it's worst (the initials for the Schnee Dust Company was not burned into his face by accident) and is fighting to get revenge on the species who wronged him.
There's no illusion in him that he is the Hero of the Faunus, he might talk a big game but he just wants the metaphorical scales of Faunus dead by Human hands and Humans dead by Faunus hands to be more evenly balanced.
Him chasing after Blake is not because he's some Incel who thinks he deserves her love or wants her back. He wants her *dead* because she betrayed him and "their people" to go gallivanting around helping their oppressors after she promised she would be by his side through everything. It's just another case of a victim who wants revenge on the ones who victimized him.
it just upsets me when people boil him down to an Incel who thinks he deserves the woman. At least hate him for the right reasons, he's just a scared monster made by cruel people who needs to be put down.
Damn, Adam is such a good manipulator that he manipulated you in the real world into believing his lies
Adam is tragic, I swear the thought of being in his position in life and all he's experienced i dont think I'd end up being a functional member of society after going through all that, but what he did to Blake can never be forgiven but I can say that I understand his rage, him wanting to lash out racism hurts and it definitely hurt for him he has no family no actual place besides the white fang he mistook Sienna's defending of him killing a human to protect Ghira as a way for him to get praised by others taking out his rage on every human he killed it's sad that Adam was (seemingly) the only Faunus that has proof of being hurt by racism and his character wasn't about that, while I love a master manipulator type character with the lack of representation of the racsim we see in the show I was hoping Adam's story eould be somewhat related to it but it was never brought up and is overlooked i am a little disappointed but cant say im unhappy
volume 6 continues being the best volume
Hi 😅❤
The fact the logo imprint is never brought up again imo is wasted because what was the point of showing it
The point is to drive home that the Schnee Dust Company is worse than you've been shown so far.
it was to show that Adam had genuine reasons to go off the deep end like he did imo
@@pumpkinwarrior7138 yes I’m aware but when illa says “what about my parents who died in the slave mines” I feel that is also never really talked about or brought up
@@wootcat like I mentioned to another person illa talking about her parents dying in a slave mine kinda sold it for me but to not have anyone mention his logo I think is kinda ignorant of the subject of him being a slave
@@wootcatFunny thing is that the sdc branding never gets brought up after this. It's like the writers didn't wanna explore that angle but also wanted the credit for hinting at it.
My biggest annoyance is we didnt see adams back story i wanna see what made him so evil and how he got the sdc logo seared into his eye i was pretty disappointed into the logo
Godzilla!!!
GODZILLA!
Dragon ball when
I agree Adam needed to die but i really wanted to see more of his character and dive into his psychology
His psychology got spelled out pretty clearly throughout the course of the show and the Adam character short.
He was a faunus in the Atlas mines who suffered abuse at the hands of the SDC. He reacted to that abuse by becoming an abuser himself, at first "freedom fighting" for a noble cause but quickly descending into "screw everyone else, I'm only looking out for me because I'm owed something by the world" -- as Blake put it, "the embodiment of spite". And unfortunately Sienna encouraged that behaviour at a crucial tipping point where he might have gone the other way. These things don't excuse his behaviour -- he's definitely a piece of crap for the entire show -- but they do explain it.
@@Mirality yes i agree he was still a t**t, im more saying it'd been nice to see him have more story especially considering they then went to atlas like it'd been perfect to see him there as a third party
@@AztechHydra I kinda agree, it was a wasted opportunity that Adam didn't interact with Weiss or get angry at Blake befriending the (ex) heiress of SDC plus all the way back in S1 Weiss mentioned people she knew going "missing", the set-up was there but yeah most RWBY fans do agree the whole White Fang and discrimination sub-plot was pretty weak.
Honestly I'm indifferent to Adam as a character but I do enjoy watching folks react to RWBY (it's pretty much the only enjoyment I get from RWBY these days after what happened to RT).
if I may make a constructive criticism, the music overpowers the dialouge(spelling?) in the videos. It was realy bad in your last video, and while its not quite as bad here, it's still pretty noticable. Not sure what changed, but it never used to be an issue before.
5:18 Who was Qrow looking at here? 🤔
11:17 Let's not gloss over the fact a man just died. Self-defense 100%, but Blake was close to him at one point in her life (that you later touched on). She killed him. I don't think even she knows what she's feeling.
Honestly it's for the best for Adam to die at this point in the show 😢. They turned him into a abusive ex trope from what could have been a good story about a morally grey character fighting for what he believed
*turned him* he was always meant to go this route x3 he was willing to kill innocent civilians all the way back in the Black trailer my dude, he was never morally grey, he's been the abusive ex since vol 3 and was the reason Blake ran away in the trailer
he was never going to be that character
They didn’t even have Blake get an apology from Weiss for her racism why on earth would you think this show would make Adam complex and gray if they couldn’t even handle violent protest in v1 with tact
@@OnyxheartWolf She ran away in the trailer because she didn't want to be a murderer like him. Had nothing to do with the cringe bad relationship self insert crap they added later.
@@CampaignerSC I like how they made no mention of any shipping but you have to whine about it anyway
@@hi-viz Learn to read you ADHD npc.
I know people don't like Adam, heck I'm one of them after these past two vol. but I didn't wish death on him, I wanted him to have redemption bit not that kind of thinking in my opinion is just wicked.
Justice....that's Adam got for hurting 2 women and pretending to care....
Yeah hurting 2 women is the most evil thing anyone has ever done in any media. Then everyone clapped.
I might get hate for this but...
Adam shouldnt have died.
*Trying to hold back the enraged rioting mob*
Explain your reasoning! ARRGH! I can't hold them off for much longer!
True
He had wasted potential, the writers gave up and made Yang and Blake not talk their way into being girlfriends just so the fans to see their lesbian ship they insisted on be in the show
@@Zapper-Zac exactly
Man y'all Adam stans just keep on keeping on, it'd be admirable if it wasn't in defense of such an almost universally hated villain
@@OnyxheartWolf im just saying that he was a good villain and he shouldnt have died and still be part of the Show and maybe even some Kind of redemption arc or anything because killing him off was really just wasted potential.
Now that you're almost done with V6, watch "So This is Basically RWBY" by Jelloapocalypse.
How about they don't
How about they watch something of quality, like grass growing?
i get why they killed him off but adam was leageus above them in volume 3 i dont think even with all that training they could beat him also say hi to lenny that giant grimm
It’s been two years since v3 and Adam has lost a lot of his confidence
But I really do think Yang’s training is the most important because she didn’t even fight Adam last time, she didn’t think and just left herself open
Here her whole fighting style has changed
@@pumpkinwarrior7138 yang her training did indeed help but even when she lost her hand he sliced trough her aura we never saw her lose it so thats a thing that made him so much better and even tho he lost like everything it should make him so much weaker imo but again killing him off was like the better thing cuz he lost like i said everything he would not join salem in any way
He was no such thing.
Without monty's animation, everyone's abilities just gets nerfed.
@@dazaiosamu7184 you know the battle of adam vs yang was made by monty before he died during volume 3
He could have survived…
Because of plot I will accept they beat him but come on lmao
Yeah, two highly competent women surely can't beat one man.
Spare me.
who had Adam beaten in an actual 1v1 up to this point? Sienna got surprise stabbed, Blake had been running round Beacon all night, most-to-all of his other Ws were against mooks, robots, and mook robots
By this logic Luke shouldn't have beaten Vader in Episode VI
@@Citadel_Of_My_Thoughtsthat’s not the point I was tryna make don’t make it sexist lmao
@@FixTheWi-Fihe was literally 2 v 1 them here lol he didn’t win sure but Adam was absolutely too 5 fighters in they show
Why cheer for Yang Adam, is like the biggest victim here of shitty writing
Womp womp
LMAO