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3	'''Volume 5, Episode 11:'''
4	!The More the Merrier
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_05_23_at_95933_pm_5.png]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:The battle for Haven begins.]]
7	->Written by Miles Luna & Kerry Shawcross\
8	Directed by Kerry Shawcross, Gray G. Haddock & Miles Luna
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10	->''"Eh, you know what they say -- 'The more the merrier'."''
11	-->-- '''Qrow Branwen'''
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13	Ruby and company meet with Lionheart, who is less than thrilled to see that not only is everyone armed but there are more people than he thought.
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15	!!Tropes in this episode include:
16	* BigNo:
17	** Upon seeing Jaune and Cinder charging towards each other, Ruby gets a flashback to Pyrrha's death. Unwilling to watch another friend die at Cinder's hands, she yells "No!" as her Silver Eyes power activates.
18	** Jaune screams "No!" just before Cinder launches her spear at Weiss.
19	* BrokenFaceplate: A downplayed example. When Cinder is briefly stunned by Ruby's short-lived use of the Silver Eyes power, Jaune is able to get a strike in. Cinder moves her head just in time to avoid a killing blow, and the edge of Jaune's sword cuts a tiny chip out of the black ceramic covering of her ruined eye.
20	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: After Jaune lets loose a lengthy emotional outburst at Cinder for her remorselessness over the havoc she has wrought and the despair she has thrown him into, he starts to cry towards the end and demands that she say something. She pauses for a moment, then simply asks who he is. Jaune is frozen with shock for a moment, before his rage snaps and he charges towards her, sword first.
21	* CallBack: While Cinder's party confronts the heroes, Mercury sees Yang and mockingly claims she owes him an apology for his leg in the Volume 3 episode "[[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall Fall]]".
22	* {{Cliffhanger}}: At the end of the episode, Cinder creates a javelin that looks very similar to Pyrrha's and runs it thorugh Weiss's torso, causing the latter to slump to her knees in the exact same pose that Pyrrha died in. The final shot of the episode is the javelin burning away to cinders, reminiscent of Cinder burning away Pyrrha's body, and a slight hint of Weiss beginning to fall to the ground.
23	* CurbStompBattle:
24	** Jaune's fight with Cinder is predictably one-sided, with Cinder toying with Jaune and barely putting any weight behind her swings to knock him off balance. Even when Cinder is distracted for a moment by Ruby's Silver Eye powers, Jaune just barely strikes a glancing blow at her mask before she can dodge. All it does is enrage Cinder into ending the fight immediately, leaving him pinned underneath her foot while she rants about his audacity in fighting her.
25	** Weiss is unable to land any substantial hits on Vernal, who makes sure to get in close and destroy her summons every time she makes them, and quickly breaks Weiss's aura when she has the chance.
26	* DisproportionateRetribution: Jaune just barely scrapes the mask over the damaged portion of Cinder's face. She pins him to the ground with a foot while she rants about his audacity in thinking he could fight her. When she realizes he values his friends' lives above his own, she creates a javelin that looks similar to Pyrrha's, and impales Weiss. She deliberately evokes the way she killed Pyrrha, simply to get back at Jaune.
27	* FlamingSword: Cinder conjures up a sword of fire so she can fight Jaune.
28	* HopeSpot: During the battle, Ruby notices Jaune getting beaten by Cinder and flashes back to the death of Pyrrha. Her terror of Pyrrha's death happening again, triggers her Silver Eye power. Although it disrupts Cinder's power and forces her to her knees, Emerald knocks Ruby unconscious before anything else can happen.
29	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Weiss gets speared from behind by Cinder's javelin, in a deliberate recreation of Pyrrha's death, just to torment Jaune. The javelin looks similar to Pyrrha's and the episode ends with Weiss impaled in a kneeling position and the javelin burning away into cinders as Weiss's life appears to drain away.
30	* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: The first time Ruby's Silver Eye power activated, it froze an enormous Grimm Dragon and crippled Cinder for an entire volume. When Ruby witnesses Jaune about to suffer the same fate at Cinder's hands that Pyrrha did, she screams and her Silver Eye power activates again. As the silver light begins to flood the room, Emerald quickly knocks Ruby unconscious from behind, killing the moment. Although Cinder's power disintegrates as she collapses to her knees in pain, she is only momentarily foiled.
31	* OhCrap: When Leo sees Oscar approaching him, he attempts to convince the child to go away. Failing, he activates his weapon and fires a fiery boulder at Oscar, who tanks it with his Aura. Oscar then slowly reaches for Ozpin's cane and reveals it, prompting Lionheart to gasp in horror upon realising he's facing Ozpin's newest reincarnation.
32	* {{Overcrank}}: Cinder just barely dodging Jaune's thrusting sword after she's stunned by Ruby's Silver Eyes powers is in noticeable slow motion.
33	* PinnedToTheGround: After Ruby's use of her silver eyes leaves Cinder vulnerable, Jaune goes in for the kill trying to stab her. Cinder manages to dodge at the last moment causing Jaune to lose his balance and fall to the ground. As he tries to get back up, Cinder, angry that he almost managed to kill her, stomps on his chest pinning him back down to the ground.
34	* PrecisionFStrike: Jaune openly voices his disgust at Cinder being able to live with the destruction she has caused "all with that ''damn'' smile on [her] face".
35	* TheReveal: When Qrow learns the extent to which Leo has been working for Salem, he suddenly realises that the reason all those huntsmen he's been searching for have disappeared is because, as a member of the Mistral Council, Leo would know their identities and locations; he gave that information to Salem, who in turn had them all murdered, leaving the kingdom and Haven Academy defenseless.
36	* SmashToBlack: The episode ends with an abrupt cut to black after Weiss begins to slump over when Cinder uses her spear to stab the former through the abdomen.
37	* TitleDrop: When Lionheart comments on Qrow's group now including Weiss, Yang, and Oscar, Qrow says "You know what they say, ''the more the merrier''."
38	* TraumaButton: During Ruby's fight with Emerald she notices Jaune fighting Cinder and experiences a flashback to Cinder murdering Pyrrha. This triggers her Silver Eye powers, but she is so distracted that Emerald easily knocks her out before Cinder can be too badly harmed.
39	* UnknownRival: Pyrrha's murder left a profound impact on Jaune. But when he confronts Cinder, she doesn't even know who he is. The most she recalls from her infiltration is that he's "the dense one who didn't know when he's out of his league", and even that takes her most of their short fight to recall.
40	* VillainousBreakdown: Cinder suffers from a brief loss of control and focus after Ruby's Silver Eye power weakens her enough that Jaune gets a grazing hit in. She loses it, beats Jaune up, and angrily calls him out for thinking he could beat her. She calms down when she realises that Jaune values the lives of his friends above her own, as it gives her the idea of killing his friends to torment him. This breakdown is part of an increasingly common series of mini-eruptions that suggest Cinder is slowly undergoing a gradual villainous breakdown over the course of the volume.
41	* YouRemindMeOfX: When turning down Ruby's offer to side with the heroes and defeat Salem, Raven notes that she reminds her of Summer. She then opens a portal to allow Cinder's team to enter Haven Academy and fight the heroes.
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43	->'''Jaune:''' If I die buying them time, then it's worth it. They're the ones that matter.\

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