YMMV / Ruby and Nora

• Catharsis Factor:
  • Yang punching Keter through that window. While Keter’s death and the moments leading up to it were good, that was satisfying.
    Ruby: (looks behind Keter) Oh, hey sis.
  • Pyrrha knocking Abigail’s teeth from her head after shattering her delusions of godhood.
  • Downplayed because how heartbreaking it was, but Pyrrha beating Lyra to death.
  • Ozpin feeding Scorch to the Grimm.
  • After everything the two had gotten away with, Raven and Mercury begging for their lives before being ended by Summer and Ironwood respectively. Not given the mercy they never offered their victims.
  • From the same story as the above, Salem well and truly feeling the taste of defeat for the first time.
  • Little Miss Malachite getting lobotomized by Ruby and Nora. Especially given the irony of what she did to The Spider.
  • After all of the crimes he committed against humanity and faunus alike, Jacques is drugged by Willow and torn to pieces by the loved ones of everyone he’s ever hurt or killed.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Moral Event Horizon: Every villain that’s not even remotely sympathetic crosses this at one point...
  • Keter was already a monsterous Serial Killer with zero redeeming qualities, but we never got to see any of it. After strangling his guard and escaping with Hector, Keter starts his new killing spree by killing Sally Rivers, an innocent woman who has done nothing (in fact, she helped him in a small way) to him...and he keeps crossing it from there.
  • Abigail killing over 100 people with her EMP semblance.
  • Lyra has three moments where she did this, it’s your choice a) When she killed her own husband for defying her. b) Killing that innocent Faunus woman then threatening to kill her kids to tie up loose ends. c) Killing Pyrrha’s entire team, and torturing Rachel just before executing her in front of Pyrrha.
  • Scorch had crossed before he even appeared with him boasting about the destruction of Mt Glenn. Though killing Ilia and Ren in front of their loved ones makes his death at Ozpin’s hands more then deserved.
  • Harold slaughtered his fellow villagers in droves just to get a chance to become leader.
  • Mercury murdering his parents just because cements him as truly monstrous, especially when compared to his canon counterpart’s Freudian Excuse.
  • Neo crossed it when she raped Emerald.
  • Little Miss Malachite crossed it when she gave Cinder and her group everything they needed to end Beacon. Her falling asleep to the screams of the recording of Beacon’s fall marks her as a cold-blooded Sadist.
  • Shay killing Nora’s mom.
  • Raven crashing the train to get to Ruby then having herself or her men execute any survivors.
  • Tyrian killing Taiyang.
  • Jacques crossed it so many times it’s impossible to tell when he truly did it.
  • Light and Void condemning entire universes to freeze to death so they could quench their thirst for power.
  • Cinder, who is also Salem, killing Emerald because she just assumed the latter wouldn’t be up for what was coming next.
• Realism-Induced Horror:
  • While Admah Keter is terrifying in his own right as a Serial Killer, he is Laughably Evil and ultimately still too over-the-top to think of as realistic. The villain of Weiss and Pyrrha, Nurse Abigail Lemon, is a more realistic version of a serial killer. Everything about them barring her Semblance is uncannily similar to a type of serial killer found in real life. Her methods as an "angel of death" involve using poison and picking off already vulnerable people so that no one would notice. While a more banal threat, this person could actually exist in our world.
  • A lot about Raven's sociopathy is utterly chilling, but one thing that brings it down-to-earth is how she manipulated Summer and Tai by dating them both without telling either of them. The breach of trust makes it all the more heartbreaking when Raven shows Summer that she never cared about her. The whole time, the person she trusted and loved more than anything saw her as nothing but a way to get off and would have easily discarded her without a second thought. While it is far from the worst thing she has ever done, it shows just how cold Raven can be in a very real way.

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