History YMMV / BoldoresAndBoomsticks

* BrokenBase: One of the last scenes of Chapter 37 has Hala lecture Yang about being a hothead who only uses the AttackAttackAttack fighting strategy because it works with her Semblance and never improving on it, due to Tapu Koko getting frustrated that Yang is taking his challenge for a good fight too lightly and isn't improving between challenges. How does Hala go about it? By disparaging the teachers who taught her how to use Aura and her Semblance (which includes her father) to get her riled up enough to challenge him to a fight, outmaneuvers her with his OldMaster credentials to get her to listen to him, and then finally deconstructs her fighting style with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to illustrate that when her strength fails her, she has nothing left to fall back on, which then leads in to her agreeing to train with him to fix that weakness. Reader response to the scene was divided, between disapproval that Hala seemed to be acting out of character (choosing to go for insults and disparagement instead of calm talking and wisdom) and that his approach to get Yang to listen with a show of force was completely counterintuitive and made him and the scene come off badly, and approval that Hala was able to get Yang to fix a canon flaw in her fighting style without losing her arm in the process and that he managed to stop Yang before she pushed what amounted to a [[TheFairFold fey god]] too far, using whatever social means necessary to get through to her hot, hard head.

** ''Lusamine'' might well qualify for this, even though [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she inadvertently makes things]] ''much'' worse for our heroes. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Lusamine]] has spent ''decades'' running one of the largest charity organizations in the world, despite [[Fiction500 being fabulously wealthy in her own right]]. Unfortunately, the creatures of Grimm serve as a complete OutsideContextProblem, and in her efforts to extend her charity work to them, she ends up a complete UnwittingPawn for the bad guys. Even though she's well-intentioned and one of the strongest Pokémon trainers in Alola, the number of named characters who have positive feelings about her could probably be counted on one hand. Salem and her subordinates are ''very'' amused at [[SuperGullible her gullibility]]. Team RWBY has no problems calling the entirety of the Aether Foundation idiots, because simply ''approaching'' a creature of Grimm without proper combat training would get you labelled TooDumbToLive on Remnant, let alone ''protecting'' them. And most crushing of all to Lusamine, ''her own children'' independently decided that [[YoureInsane she'd gone insane]], and left Aether Paradise rather than continue trying to reason with her. Lusamine is shown [[OcularGushers crying her eyes out]] in front of Faba, wondering what she had done to make her children leave her, while Lillie and Gladion both work on growing stronger so they can ''[[ArchnemesisMom go up against]]'' their mother to bring her to her senses. This all culminates in the Siege of Aether Foundation when [[PoisonousFriend Faba]] betrays her after decades of friendship and unleashes the Grimm all through the complex, killing several of her employees and wounding dozens more. He mocks her to her face when she confronts him then sics the Grimm on her personally, nearly killing her before Lillie, RWBY and company arrived at the last possible moment. She's left despondent in the aftermath, buoyed only by [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments the return of her children]] and fully expects to go to jail for everything that's happened.

** About two years after Grendel debuted, ''RWBY'' introduced the Hound, another hyper-intelligent canine Grimm loyal only to Salem. Only instead of being centuries old, it was recently created as an experiment.

** ''Lusamine'' might well qualify for this, even though [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she inadvertently makes things]] ''much'' worse for our heroes. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Lusamine]] has spent ''decades'' running one of the largest charity organizations in the world, despite [[Fiction500 being fabulously wealthy in her own right]]. Unfortunately, the creatures of Grimm serve as a complete OutsideContextProblem, and in her efforts to extend her charity work to them, she ends up a complete UnwittingPawn for the bad guys. Even though she's well-intentioned and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking one of the strongest Pokémon trainers in Alola]], the number of named characters who have positive feelings about her could probably be counted on one hand. Salem and her subordinates are ''very'' amused at [[SuperGullible her gullibility]]. Team RWBY has no problems calling the entirety of the Aether Foundation idiots, because simply ''approaching'' a creature of Grimm without proper combat training would get you labelled TooDumbToLive on Remnant, let alone ''protecting'' them. And most crushing of all to Lusamine, ''her own children'' independently decided that [[YoureInsane she'd gone insane]], and left Aether Paradise rather than continue trying to reason with her. Lusamine is shown [[OcularGushers crying her eyes out]] in front of Faba, wondering what she had done to make her children leave her, while Lillie and Gladion both work on growing stronger so they can ''[[ArchnemesisMom go up against]]'' their mother to bring her to her senses. This all culminates in the Siege of Aether Foundation when [[PoisonousFriend Faba]] betrays her after decades of friendship and unleashes the Grimm all through the complex, killing several of her employees and wounding dozens more. He mocks her to her face when she confronts him then sics the Grimm on her personally, nearly killing her before Lillie, RWBY and company arrived at the last possible moment. She's left despondent in the aftermath, buoyed only by [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments the return of her children]] and fully expects to go to jail for everything that's happened.

** ''Lusamine'' might well qualify for this, even though [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she inadvertently makes things]] ''much'' worse for our heroes. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Lusamine]] has spent ''decades'' running one of the largest charity organizations in the world, despite [[Fiction500 being fabulously wealthy in her own right]]. Unfortunately, the creatures of Grimm serve as a complete OutsideContextProblem, and in her efforts to extend her charity work to them, she ends up a complete UnwittingPawn for the bad guys. Even though she's well-intentioned and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking one of the strongest Pokémon trainers in Alola]], the number of named characters who have positive feelings about her could probably be counted on one hand. Salem and her subordinates are ''very'' amused at [[SuperGullible her gullibility]]. Team RWBY has no problems calling the entirety of the Aether Foundation idiots, because simply ''approaching'' a creature of Grimm without proper combat training would get you labelled TooDumbToLive on Remnant, let alone ''protecting'' them. And most crushing of all to Lusamine, ''her own children'' independently decided that [[YoureInsane she'd gone insane]], and left Aether Paradise rather than continue trying to reason with her. Lusamine is shown [[OcularGushers crying her eyes out]] in front of Faba, wondering what she had done to make her children leave her, while Lillie and Gladion both work on growing stronger so they can ''[[ArchnemesisMom go up against]]'' their mother to bring her to her senses. This all culminates in the Siege of Aether Foundation when [[PoisonousFriend Faba]] betrays her after decades of friendship and unleashes the Grimm all through the complex, killing several of her employees and wounding dozens more. He mocks her to her face when she confronts him then sics the Grimm on her personally, nearly killing her before Lillie, RWBY and company arrived at the last possible moment. She's left despondent in the aftermath, buoyed only by [[HeartwarmingMoments the return of her children]] and fully expects to go to jail for everything that's happened.

** ''Lusamine'' might well qualify for this, even though [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she inadvertently makes things]] ''much'' worse for our heroes. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Lusamine]] has spent ''decades'' running one of the largest charity organizations in the world, despite [[Fiction500 being fabulously wealthy in her own right]]. Unfortunately, the creatures of Grimm serve as a complete OutsideContextProblem, and in her efforts to extend her charity work to them, she ends up a complete UnwittingPawn for the bad guys. Even though she's well-intentioned and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking one of the strongest Pokémon trainers in Alola]], the number of named characters who have positive feelings about her could probably be counted on one hand. Salem and her subordinates are ''very'' amused at [[SuperGullible her gullibility]]. Team RWBY has no problems calling the entirety of the Aether Foundation idiots, because simply ''approaching'' a creature of Grimm without proper combat training would get you labelled TooDumbToLive on Remnant, let alone ''protecting'' them. And most crushing of all to Lusamine, ''her own children'' independently decided that [[YoureInsane she'd gone insane]], and left Aether Paradise rather than continue trying to reason with her. Lusamine is shown [[OcularGushers crying her eyes out]] in front of Faba, wondering what she had done to make her children leave her, while Lillie and Gladion both work on growing stronger so they can ''[[ArchnemesisMom go up against]]'' their mother to bring her to her senses.

** Faba releases the Grimm in the Aether enclosures and uses the Ultra Wormhole Generator to summon more in an attempt to kill everyone. The Grimm maim several people and kill one of them before Team RWBY and the others arrive. When Weiss tries to call him out on the damage he had done, he proves just how evil he is with this chilling line: "Yes, yes, death, destruction, and ''nothing of value was lost''."

* NightmareFuel: The existence of [[TheDreaded Grendel]], a Beowulf Alpha that's ''centuries'' old and is basically feared throughout all of Vale. 10 feet tall, lightning-fast and agile in a fight, able to easily predict and counter Team RWBY's attacks and beat them senseless (they only survive because he ''lets'' them live), and also intelligent, calculating, and patient, able to organize aimless mobs of bloodthirsty Grimm into a coherent fighting force that uses military-style tactics. He's known as "the Grimm General".

** The fight between Machoke and Yang in the Golden Fist Tournament ends when Machoke uses Counter on Yang's punch, only for her to use her semblance to counter the Counter and win the fight. Later on in ''[[Recap/PokemonS22E47EnterTheChampion Enter the Champion!]]'' [[spoiler: Ash's Lycanroc strikes Gladion's Lycanroc with Accelrock and when Gladion's Lycanroc uses Counter, Ash's Lycanroc uses its own Counter to knock out Gladion's Lycanroc and win]].

* NightmareFuel: The existence of [[TheDreaded Grendel]], a Beowulf Alpha that's ''centuries'' old and is basically feared throughout all of Vale. 10 feet tall, lightning-fast and agile in a fight, able to easily predict and counter Team RWBY's attacks and beat them senseless (they only survive because he ''lets'' them live), and also intelligent, calculating, and patient, able to organize aimless mobs of bloodthirsty Grimm into a coherent fighting force that uses military-style tactics. He's known as "the Grimm General".