Actually, if Cinder or Mercury do somehow survive all of this, I could see one of them going the route of Vegeta in terms of "redemption" and end up as a morally questionable anti-hero/anti-villain that slowly becomes more and more selfless over the course of the show.
If that happens, I'd wager it'd be Cinder though. Just a hunch there, especially if the lyrics to the Vol. 2 song "Sacrifice" are indeed about her.
Obviously, Cinder, Emerald, Mercury and Adam will survive and form their own Anti-Hero Team. :V
edited 7th Feb '16 3:05:36 PM by BlackYakuzu94
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Ayy, Mercury's an asshole and people love him :V
I kinda feel bad for liking Adam because I know he's going to be public enemy number 1 for quite literally, cutting down Bumblebee. But damn, Iaijutsu Practitioner is a favorite trope of mine. It hits all of the points for Rule of Cool.
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edited 7th Feb '16 3:05:20 PM by BlackYakuzu94
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Well, I could also see at least an Alas, Poor Villain if Adam dies without redemption.
Though maybe he could survive....
"Ship sinker?" Are you kidding? I may hate Adam's guts, but he helped provide one of the most blatant moments in favor of Bumbleby in the show's history!
I can appreciate a great villain, which is what Adam is. Dude's quantum leaped from being a non-factor to being arguably the most terrifying villain on the show so far in the timespan of literally one episode.
That said, I think it'd be a wrong move for the writers to try and redeem him before he bites the dust.
edited 7th Feb '16 3:11:44 PM by ChainedPrometheus
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Yeah, they really need to remind us why the White Fang exists within the next volume. In Vale at least, Faunus don't seem to face much discrimination, nothing that would merit such a massive militant movement unless they have aspirations of carving out an independent Faunus nation from territory held by humans, presumably which was once theirs.
Which, as I've said, would be the most logical agenda for White Fang.
The only way I could see it working would be sacrificing his life for Blake, rather than out of legitimate remorse; he's clearly got some elements of a Yandere, and that's the obvious path to redemption for that character archetype.
edited 7th Feb '16 3:14:19 PM by CaptainCapsase
The fact that people even felt the need to put that trope on there shows that they care, so no its not really fitting.
Like really people, things get a little tense and everyone suddenly freaks the fuck out. Its not even like this came out of nowhere either, literally the entire season was building this up, its your own fault if you were blind-sighted.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Not at all.
The series descent in darkness was gradual, and people were just caught off guard since the initial teasers were generally dark, but the series itself remained deceptively light.
I wasn't fooled, personally.
Watch Symphogear
Yang, still have her mom arc, in fact who is going to react Taiyang and Raven to all this is...intersting to thing.
In fact I feel Taiyang could be a regular in the next season, since otherwise he would be head to head with Raven in most dickish father of animation
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"![]()
Statistically speaking, there's about a 30% chance that one of the main characters would be LGBT (9% for two which is necessary for any of those ships); a major (secondary or otherwise) character or two would be good, anything beyond that starts to become increasingly implausible.
I'd say they absolutely were a couple; Adam certainly seems to think so.
edited 7th Feb '16 3:34:32 PM by CaptainCapsase
I'd say Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy doesn't fit. The trope's about shithole places filled with shitheel characters that don't inspire sympathy for viewers. Our protagonists are hardly assholes that most people wouldn't care for.
There's also the variant of the protagonists being so doomed to failure their actions are pointless, but it's been a few freakin' episodes for things to go completely not their way, that's jumping the gun for sure.

Given how every antagonist so far has been an unrepentant dick, redemption is the last thing I'm thinking about at the moment. Even Emerald's brief moment of clarity was less My God, What Have I Done? and more "Holy shit, this is actually pretty fucked up".
So let's give our antags some grey traits then we can start thinking about redemption.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.