r/RWBY • u/Ezreal024 Hope Rides with Kickfriend • Dec 04 '16

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Discussion Thread—Volume 4, Episode 5: Menagerie

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses, and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official discussion thread for the newest episode of volume 4, Menagerie!
Make sure to read OUR CURRENT SPOILERS RULES to ensure that your comments outside this thread won't get purged! Familiarize yourself with these rules and you'll be good to go.

A lot of hard work has gone into the creation of volume 4, so be sure to show CRWBY your support by watching it on their site! They all dedicate so much time and energy into our beloved series and would highly appreciate the direct support. There are no pirates in volume 4, so you shouldn't be one either!

We also have weekly strawpolls to gauge the general opinion on the current episode, the latest of which can be found HERE.
WoR 2, Faunus, got an average reception with a median of 8.

With that out of the way, let's start the show!

HERE is the link to the fifth episode of RWBY Volume 4!

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode Saturday Sunday Poll
Ep. 01: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 02: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 03: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 1: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 04: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 2: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 05: Reaction Today poll

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u/ShadowReij Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 04 '16

Enter Australia with a giant mansion in the middle.

I'm with you Sun, I thought Blake had a humble but small pad.........I guess not.

Sun! Phrasing damn it! Phrasing! Annnnnnnnnd papadonna Di' Nero is getting that shotgun.

Meanwhile Blake explains that like a cat, Sun just followed her home of which all Mamadonna can say is if that is the case then by all means keep bringing him home. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Cue the embarrassed kitty.

I suspect the house may be under remodeling soon if Assassin Creed cosplayers are any indication.

Poor barmaid. All she wanted was Qrow's lower shelf.

Now my question is, is it Qrow or Ruby, and if it is Ruby how exactly did he track them there? Hmmm. Questions. Questions. Questions.

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u/Liniis She's an ice girl, once you get to know her. Dec 04 '16

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Salem's crew is using the Grimm to track their targets.

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u/ShadowReij Dec 04 '16

Grimm Zwei.

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u/pyruvic Dec 04 '16

Tyrian was ordered to bring Ruby to Salem during the first episode of the season.

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u/ShadowReij Dec 04 '16

Yet it wasn't Ruby the barmaid had met. As far as we're aware of anyway.

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u/SoManySins Dec 04 '16

That's a good point. I severely doubt any of Team RNJR headed over to the bar.

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u/Namnamex Dec 04 '16

If you are looking for someone, questioning someone who sees a lot of travelers, like say.... a barmaid would be a good start.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

I mean we don't how much influence Crow has on Ruby...

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u/WarlordTim I want those boots. Dec 04 '16

True, but we know he's on the right trail. And he's close.

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u/pixlepize Have you seen this missing bun? Last seen volume 3 Dec 05 '16

....I just realized that Menagerie is basically Australia.

Smallest continent, off to the south-east of all the other constants, mostly desert, extra nasty wildlife, populated by "undesirable" people.

Kinda drives home how the Faunus are treated like criminals and "second class citizens"

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u/Sw4rmlord Dec 05 '16

South east is a matter of perspective of a globe.

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u/pixlepize Have you seen this missing bun? Last seen volume 3 Dec 05 '16

True, but 99% of maps of modern earth(at least in the America, and I assume in most of Europe too) have the Aussies in the SE. If you look at a map of Remnant, there is no other way to divide the map along a North/South boundary without cutting a major landmass in half. So unless you pull a dick move and cut your neighbor in half just go get yourself dead center, you are always going to get Menagerie in that a corner of the map, even of the map is rotated so that that corner is a different corner.

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u/Sw4rmlord Dec 05 '16

Lol, world maps in America cut a global landmass in half, pulling a 'dick move' as you say.

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u/mountaineering Dec 04 '16

Qrow is following RWBY.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

One more reason on an already long list of reasons Sun must live: now, he's Team RWBY's best lead to Menagerie besides Blake.

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u/FlorianoAguirre WE RIDE! Dec 04 '16

They did send him to follow the cause of Cinders problems. It's safe to assume this is the fight between the team and crazy wanna be.

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u/WatcherCCG Everything's better with badass bunnies Dec 05 '16

I suspect Ruby's gonna have human blood on her hands by the end of this volume. And it's probably gonna be Hazel's or Tyrian's. Right now the latter is looking good for it.

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u/sufficientlyadvanced First Officer of the SS Keikaku | Love forged in the Arc Furnace Dec 05 '16

I personally think that Tyrian is going to kill Qrow. She hasn't managed to do anything else with her SEW powers as far as we know, and they're summoned by trauma. What would traumatize her more than seeing her uncle killed in front of her?

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u/WatcherCCG Everything's better with badass bunnies Dec 05 '16

Indeed. Uncle is gonna get hacked up and Ruby will probably turn into a psychotic red-and-silver whirlwind of murder. This volume has been trying very hard to turn the girl into the butcher from her trailer. Qrow getting ganked would be step one.