#eruption fang

[qutibahalfarouqitheclonetrooper]

I still dislike Eruptionfang!

Vor.

[iamafanofcartoons]

Huh? What what? Eruption Fang is a Jacques apologist?? I've seen many of his videos where he defends Whitley's character? (By many of his videos I literaly mean I only ever watched his 'Whitley is a victim too' videos because his thirst for certain characters and defensiveness towards Raven, Harriet and Cinder make me mad). But yeah! I guess I am confused by him defending Jacques, could you elaborate please?

Eruptionfang, or Cole as he's known on Twitter, is in love with the idea of emo male sociopaths who talk about moral grayness.

A sociopath has no morals...has no virtues...but they are portrayed in media as charismatic....and people are brainwashed on that trope.

Vergil from Devil May Cry, Vicious from Cowboy Bebop, and Adam Taurus.

All three are trenchcoated men wielding katanas who are emo and hurt other people, often innocent people, and betray others for their personal goals.

Everyone attempts to defend their actions, all 3 of them.

But we first see Adam raiding train, wanting to kill all the passengers...and we see Blake stopping him.

Every single Adam Apologist began accusing Blake of being a war criminal and just as bad as Adam ...simply for standing in his way.

What's more, these people Blame Blake for Adam's actions.

So Sexism and Homophobia is something you'll find a lot of on EruptionFang's discord server...if he has one. He is basically another Adel Aka or Hero Hei...I'm not touching his channel, but word is that he IS a defender of child molester Vic Micnogna, who was Qrow Branwen's first VA.

Now as for Cinder Fall? Basically she's trying to kill the female main protagonist...for Cole, that's enough to put her in his good book.

Raven Branwen? We first meet her after her tribe wiped out a village just to plunder it...Raven began talking about Social Darwinism...which RWBY Critics ascribe to, and EruptionFang was furious to find that Raven's tribe was not as strong as her, because it meant that Raven was using social darwinism as an excuse to do what she wanted.

I like that about RWBY....they cut open "gray morality" and show how it is just an excuse for bad people to do whatever they want...and the fact that women oppose these people upset a lot of men and women who hate the female protagonists and love the male authority-fascist villains.

He loves Harriet because she's basically "Good soldiers follow orders" and we see in The Clone Wars and RWBY how blindly following orders causes problems.

As for Jacques? Despite him slapping Weiss, Cole decided that it had to be Weiss' fault for the slap, and that anything Weiss said against him, from stealing the family legacy, to changing his name as a con-man? Was Weiss needing to be disciplined.

He was also furious at Jacques Death because he wanted Jacques to get a redemption.

You'll see that RWBY Critics HATE the idea of female characters like Ilia Amitola or Emerald Sustrai getting redemptions, but cis white male characters like Adam or Ironwood or Jacques not getting redemptions is apparently character assassination.

At the end of the day, RWBY has more good POC characters than bad...and more POC live to see another day.

Which is ironic considering that the villains that the RWBY Critics defend so passionately are all white men in positions of authority.

This love of fascism, the military industrial complex, unchecked power, and men being allowed to commit whatever atrocities as long as it can be called "tough decisions" or "morally gray" is what led me to have a disdain for RWBY Critics who claim to "care about the show and want it to be better"

No...they want the show to lionize their white male character over the women protagonists.

And when people claim to be "Fixing" RWBY? Their focus is on hurting female main characters by stripping away their characteristics and overfocusing on men...especially the bad ones.

Because between female main characters with optimism vs male authority figure antagonists?

A criticism channel will always choose the male.

And I pity them.

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[dragynkeep]

Eruptionfang made another video about Raven and how he'd rewrite her in RWBY. I was about to write it off but then I watched it and it's actually good? What? Those ideas actually sound great!

i usually prefer not to watch ef’s raven videos considering his bias & i wholly admit i just don’t like her as a character but i’ll have to check it out. 👀

[cammiemacclouds]

not my meme but 😶🍵

Edit ; credit to @kaiciu for the meme since they made it

[rwbyconversations]

Name some RWBY youtubers that are good, and ones I should stay away from

Bad: Adel Aka, MuffinManDan, RegularDude, EruptionFang if he keeps his Adam boner in Volume 7.

The meh: FatManFalling (he could be great if he learned to condense his arguments and edit them into a proper order, and the sheer potential of being a good critic and having decent mic quality puts him above a lot of the bad reviewers).

Good: CelticPhoenix (most often talks about RWBY as part of FMF’s reaction/podcast thing which means you do have to deal with him but I think Celtic’s worth it), Twiins Ink, Judgemental Critter, Blizzic, RemnantDudeHD, Unicorn of War. 

[kob131]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-p7bD16Fmw

Well, seeing as someone on reddit was able to sit through and deconstruct this whole thing:

I’m not gonna be outdone.

Okay so his point about Maria was fair enough but this is a point anyone vaguely aware of the show is capable of doing. 

Also: he takes a stab at Ozpin for not being Ruby’s mentor...ignoring how maria is specifically FOR the Silver Eyes AND Ozpin did mentor Ruby in how to be a Huntress and a leader. 

Which leads him to say that Ozpin was being painted as the ‘bad guy’. … No, no he wasn’t. He was portrayed as being unusually emotional and secretive. Not as someone to be opposed (ESPECIALLY after Episode 3). So no, he’s wrong.

He then talks about Salem and Ozpin and barely says anything and then calls Qrow’s portrayal as good (ignoring how he attacked a kid and we’re suppose to overlook that.) Other than that, it’s again basic but functional.

Cole then goes on to praise the Brunswick Arc like everyone else does. Not even gonna bother talking about that because, again, basic but functional. All I could say is: the setting is not unique. A fuckton of horror movies take place on farms.

We move on to Argus where...same thing you would probably say about this scenario. Again, all I could say is: Ruby nor Oscar is blindly optimistic. Also: for someone who talks about ‘wasted potential’, you sure wasted potential in pointing out how much better done Jaune’s one scene could have been.

Then we get to the part we all know he gives a shit about. The finale arc. There he tries to give three better solutions off the top of his head.

Key word being ‘tries.’

Weiss’ Summons take Aura so it would fail before reaching Atlas and even if it COULD get to Atlas, Weiss would just get arrested by her dad and most likely lose the Relic to her father and then probably the bad guys. All ignoring how Weiss doesn’t WANT to go back to her dad alone because apparently Cole doesn’t give a shit about characters and their feelings. 

Qrow doesn’t have infinite stamina, fat lot of good his flight is gonna do when he passes out in the middle of the sea, drowns and some undersea Grimm *cough* LEVIATHAN *cough* gets the Relic and brings it to Salem.

As for the final point: her father is a greedy shithole who cares about no one but himself. You know, the kind of person who would sell something for his life to someone, like say, a magical lamp to a crazy Scorpion fanaus? 

So three solutions, three failures. Great job.

Also, let I be known that Cole here thinks Weiss would be able to kill her own father. So basically, he doesn’t know a damn thing about psychology in general, let alone how abuse affects someone. 

‘Why can’t Weiss talk to Ironwood herself?’

*jabs up at the third point* because, in your own words, she’d be taken to her ‘douche’ father (you know, the guy OPPOSED to Ironwood and locked up Weiss beforehand?) Gee, sounds like you were the one who didn’t think.

And yeah, not like everyone screamed in the writer’s faces that the split up was handled poorly and the writers outright admitted they didn’t do a good job with that. Yeah, fuck knowing your limitations, not like that hasn’t been the bane of this show since Episode 1.

Then he tries to talk about the letter Qrow sent Ironwood and says that could have caused Ironwood to meet up with them. Ignoring how that would have been ‘the house’ everyone wouldn’t shut up about in Volume 5 again as well as the fact that Ruby’s letters to Yang in Volume 4 prove the service is unreliable- Ironwood is shown to be closing the borders of Atlas AND becoming paranoid. Not only wouldn’t he leave because he’d be a hypocritic but he might not even TRUST the letter. So yet another failure to add to the pile.

And so apparently the writers have to explain why other options don’t work, because treating the audience like they’re children isn’t something that would waste time for no reason (because we know he’d just ignore it) but also NOT something that detracts from the work.

And now apparently we can’t spend three episodes with a final boss of a season (so he must hate the Fall Of Beacon since that’s a whole FIVE episodes. An ACTUAL whole five episodes.)

He also tries blaming both sides for this conflict (as if Cordovon didn’t have a chance to just let them go or at least contact Ironwood for advice since SHE’S trustworthy by being one of his underlings) because...he needs it to look as ridiculous as possible. And gee, people having an internal conflict, we have I heard that before...Oh yeah, OZPIN. You know, the event YOU PRAISED because Ozpin was too stubborn and as was the rest of the cast. But hey, who cares about consistency am I right?

And no, the show didn’t set up the Leviathan (NOT Godzilla) as this big epic battle. That was Cordovon. The Leviathan was the consequence of the epic battle, the heroes cleaning up their and Cordovon’s mess, Ruby using those Silver Eyes they’ve been talking about the whole Volume and to give Cordovon some redemption to show she isn’t a bad person. This was all telegraphed a mile away. You’d have to be pretty blind or completely ignorant to story structure and pay off to not see that coming.

And no, the Grimm aren’t scary because they’re big. They’re scary because they’re a deconstruction of the Mook trope, the trope of an endless series of low level baddies for the heroes to kill. Thing is, if there’s an infinite number of Grimm then any victory over the Grimm is meaningless. The leviathan is scary for the damage it can cause but what’s even scary is that killing it only temporarily solve the issue. Another Leviathan will show up eventually and if they survive THEN another one will show up. That isn’t even the full extent of the terror of the Grimm but I’ll just move on because I don’t want to write an essay WITHIN an essay.

Then we get his condescending ‘oh the show can’t be sad yet!’ because A. not like half of Volume 6 was already depressing as fuck but also half of Volume 5, all of Volume 4 and half of Volume 3. By my calculations, 45% of the show has been depressing as fuck. But also B. it’s not like Darkness Induced Audience Apathy, where a show becomes so depressing people stop caring, is a thing. *cough* Evangelion *cough*

‘The Grimm were already pretty damn useless without a move that wipes sthem out with the blink of an eye’-

*edits out where The leviathan was about to break free and kill Ruby.*

Can anyone say ‘intellectual dishonesty’?

Also, apparently you bitch about the show showing Ruby using her Silver Eyes AS THE SHOW ESTABLISHED SHE COULD EARLIER (in those Maria scenes you praised again). So all that tells me is that you’re selective in what you bitch about. Also not like that ability does fuck all to humans, the main threat of the serie-Oh wait...

‘Their issues at Brunswick farm are never brought up again’

*edits out the scene where everyone realizes they were wrong.*

‘Blake and Yang never question if killing Adam was the right thing-’

It was.

‘Ruby being a useless main character-’ 

Aside from her decision in Volume 3′s finale causing all of Volume 4+ to happen, getting JNR to Mistral, saving Jaune’s life, anchoring one of the Nucklevee’s arms-sure...so your points only correct if we ignore most of her scenes Real great argument.

Also she gave two speeches in Volume 6, maybe three. Less than what she gave in Volume 1. Where she had less experience and less weight behind her words. Where her dialogue was MORE awkward. After she’s already been shown to do this. Where that’s been established as a key part of her character. So yeah, just another failure for the pile.

Then he bitches about Jaune not leading the plan and...he’s never lead a plan in his life. that’s Ruby’s job. She’s always done that. Jaune is the guy who analyzes the opponent and gives a way to defeat the opponent. He’s the TACTICIAN. Ruby is the STRATIGIST. So apparently Cole is either incapable of telling the difference or his vocab is so small he doesn’t know what tactician means.

It also doesn’t help his point that he gives the role of Tactician to Oscar because he defined one weakness about the mech and not Jaune who pointed out how to deal with it. So...he’s the one stealing Jaune’s characteristics, not the show. Great.

I don't think he means a damn thing when talking about Jaune, especially since he’s never cared before. This is just him looking for bullshit.

Also: remember how Cole knew absolutely nothing about Weiss’ abuse and how it would affect her? Yeah that comes back. Now he doesn’t know how PTSD works because he thinks fear is the only response a victim of PTSD can exhibit. While that is ONE way PTSD works, another way is to trigger the fight or flight response in a person. FIGHT or flight. As in, either run away or attack the source of your fear. Which is what Yang does to Adam. The source of her fear. … This is listed on the fucking Wikipedia page for PTSD, let alone what people in the fandom have said. But hey, research is for people with integrity, Cole needs to make a point, damned be the consequences.

Also apparently Yang not losing any fights since Volume 3 is a bad thing...because ignoring her development in Volume 4 with her dad is apparently good writing. Also apparent Yang needs to lose a fight due to PTSD to count because being out of commission for a whole Volume doesn’t count as an event. Her change in fighting style and way of thinking doesn’t count. CLEAR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT doesn’t count. 

Yeah sure, he doesn’t mean any disrespect. And me and Dudeblade can tolerate each other’s presence in the same room.

Also, he tries talking about the animation and how the animators can’t express the same personalities like Monty did (ignoring things like Cinder and Raven’s fights that portray Cinder’s power hungry nature and Raven’s character of being a cocky, brutish asshole) and that all the characters can’t fight without their Semblances, citing Tock (a one off villain) and Adam (who lost more to his own reckless) (Also ignoring how Yang has been on a winning streak as Cole already said WITHOUT using her Semblance except against Adam.)

He then tries talk about the stakes, saying they’re too damn high all the time (almost as though the tone of the show shifted) before citing Volume 3 as a good example of high stakes (the Volume that CAUSED this tone shift.)

Also: apparently one shot of characters standing there shooting at opponent for a quick second is comparable to a build up shot of them shooting weapons and thus there’s no effort in the animation...ignoring how they did that EXACT SAME THING EARLIER with the Cordovon fight but again, Cole’s just doesn't care about what’s true at this point.

Also apparently not having an overarching villain in a Volume makes villains shit...so Volumes 1 and 2 are shit. You know, since there was no overarching villain in those Volumes either. He also tries to say that since we didn't follow Adam’s perspective, he’s shit. Again, never followed Torchwick’s perspective aside from once in Volume 3 nor Cinder except once in Volume 2. And then tries to say the show never told us that Adam was gonna be in the show because there was no Chekvok’s Gun...ignoring Blake’s vision of Adam and his own appearance in Episode 1, Yang;s vision of him in Episode 5 and his FUCKING CHARACTER TRAILER. Yeah, bet that Chekvok’s Gunshot Wound is hurting pretty bad now huh Cole?

‘Why is Adam doing what he is doing?’

...Because he’s a fucking obsessive asshole. That’s his character. He outright said before he’d keep hunting her down. They established this THREE YEARS AGO.

*BANG!*

Ouch, that shot really looked like it hurt. Not that I feel sorry for someone who fires a gun into their own face though...

Also: don’t try saying ‘a good villain is the hero of their story’ while showing a DC poster. You know, the group whose biggest villain (The Joker) is DEFINED BY HAVING NO MOTIVATION OTEHR THAN MALICE. AKA your exception is far more well known than the rule. Doesn’t help that your try to use movie Thantos as your ‘hero of his own story’ when the guy is known as the MAD TITAN. And don't try using comic book Thantos, he just wanted to fuck Death.

This is all ignoring how there are OTHER villians. You mentioned Red Vs. Blue earlier right? So you must be aware of Felix right? The guy who knows what he is doing is wrong but doesn’t care? The guy who goes out of his way to be sadistic? The guy whose motivated by his feelings of inadequacy and ego? Sound familiar?

That’s Adam. that’s Adam with a dash of pity and some better backstory. You ignore a fuckton of character archtypes that have proven themselves on par with the Well Intention Extremist if not SURPASSING it just so you could make a bullshit point about how Adam should have been your headcanon. Never asking if that was where Adam was going as a character or if it would have helped the themes and message of the story. You know, as a critic SHOULD.

Hm, plot device to make main characters grow, that sounds familiar...

Oh yeah, one of if not THE most iconic villians in fiction. Great job there, making the Adam you hate look as good as the best Dragon Ball villain.

And then he talks about Mercury and Emerald, saying the same shit everyone does. Then he bitches about Neo being in the Volume for no reason (*cocks Chekvok’s Gun*)

Also he says the villains just keep losing...ignoring how he directly SHOWS Volume 3 (and how the villains aside from Cinder have been given NO set backs so far) so better add that to the Mount Olympus of failure that is this video.

he then bitches about Yang not adhering to on specific version of PTSD (and if he makes that stupid ‘Strong female protagonist’ bullshit again, I’m gonna trap him in a room with rabid Bumbleby shippers) and says that Adam should have been treated as a main villain (ignoring how he has NO relevance to anyone else aside from Blake and Yang), and basically have Adam fight with Cordovon and the others alongside Blake and yang (ignoring how many people bitched about they couldn’t handle multiple fights in the previous Volume. Also not like Qrow would just knee Adam in the balls and cut his head off due to the sheer power difference between them) and have Adam destroy the mech (because...reasons. Totally not Cole has a yaoi boner for Adam.)

He tries to say the world of RWBY doesn’t revolve around Team RWBY in a show called RWBY...even though this is centered around a single character (adam) where the changes would do nothing since his reveal conveys the exact same information but with less time.

And then he tries to defend his bullshit by saying he actually does like RWBY, and that his bias is okay because everyone has biases...

*cracks neck*

Cole, there is a very clear difference where someone is trying to remove their biases from their work in order to prioritize the well being of the show and help improve the creator’s abilities and what you do. Someone whose actually trying to help the show wouldn’t base their complaints on their own personal opinion but rather what the creator was trying to accomplish and how well they did that. You did not do that, with how you keep complaining about how the show doesn’t do what you want even though it would either be repeating previous mistakes, making new or just wasting time. Someone whose trying to support the creators try to understand what the creators want to accomplish and give them directions on how to do that. You instead try to force them down the path you want them to go down, even though that is not their goal. Someone who actually accepts the show for what it is and enjoys it for what it is wouldn’t outright lie about the show, edit out information, constantly contradict themselves just to make it look bad, throw tantrums when things don’t go their way, throw in a bunch of bullshit and try to pander to a group for views/ego. You most certainly did all that, as the rest of my post showcases.

You don’t like RWBY, you like your HEADCANON of RWBY and react badly when your script isn’t followed. You’re no different than FMF except he sticks to his standards, unlike you.

In short, the only thing that was terrible here was you, Eruption Fang AKA Cole Palleman. You could have brought up some actual points (like how information is conveyed to the audience or how Adam’s character wasn't clearly communicated) but nope, you just pushed your bullshit.

My, how the mighty have fallen.

[mightyjensblog]

On Adam Apologists and Bumblebee.

I already made a post on my Thoguts on Adam earlier but I felt this was important, Especially seeing videos like Adel Akas or Eruption Fang. Many may disagree but I think it's fine that people were disappointed with How Adam turned out. I personally Agree that the Abuser thing kinda came out of nowhere in Volume 3.

But with that said? While it's fine to have wanted a charachter to turn out Differant. DO NOT defend Adam himself as he turned out. Blake and Yang killed him in self defense, after giving him MULTIPLE chances to go back. Don't claim that this is a Broken Aesop because "They killed him, wasn't the whole Aesop that Adam killing was bad". Adams killing was because he Enjoyed it. Becuase he hated humans. Blake and Yang took no pleasure in what they did. Even feeling bad for him in Nevermore. The only time you could Eqaute This to one of Adams actions was his first kill in His charachter short Wich was done in self defense. And Adam wasn't portrayed as a bad guy for that, it was what happned the later that made him evil

Oh and too all Adel Akas BS about how Adams abuse of Blake was informed and not told? He claims repeatedly that it isn't the same as an Abuser lying or manipulating there victim because Adam believed in everything he told Blake. That is the Whole point of Adam, he dosent just lie to others. He lies to HIMSELF. He thinks he's the hero of the story, he thinks Blake only ran Away cause she's an ungrateful Coward. The most dangerous lies are the ones you believe in.

And dear God will people please shut up about how "Forced" Bumblby was? Harry and Ginny from Harry potter, THAT was forced Because the charachters weren't really connected and then suddenly were in love. With RWBY Blake and Yang were clear friends sense volume 1, and in Volume 3 Blake directly compares her relationship with Yang to her relationship with Adam before Adam was consumed by his Rage.

If you think more Could have been done with Adam? Fine. But don't shame his victims or Claim that a ship you don't like is becoming canon is "Bad Writing".

[masterofwolfe]

I honestly have to give EruptionFang points for posting an unpopular opinion, knowing that some would disagree. I aspire to have that same type of courage to post these kinds of opinion videos.

And honestly, I have to agree that Ilia really did steal Adam’s character and he was left a boring yandere. I also agree that the whole Blake and Adam romance thing wasn’t done very well either. Adam’s problem was that he had potential and it was wasted.

Adam Taurus in V1-V3 was the perfect definition of Anti-Villain, a character with heroic intentions but goes about gaining results in an evil way. He believed in uplifting the Faunus and stopping the mistreatment of Faunus by the SDC, but he went about it by blowing up trains and attacking Beacon. Then in V4-V5 he just becomes a yandere and then he dies in V6, great job.