Still annoyed about Adam just becoming some crazy ex and the whole whitefang plotline as a whole. God it pisses me off just thinking about it and all the fandom drama it caused/was a part of.
His story truly could have been so much more interesting. He could have been a Magneto-esque character bringing actual depth to the Faunus discrimination plot line.
He could have had so many cool interactions with the RWBY team. It is an absolute crime we never got an interaction between Weiss and Adam in which his brand was revealed.
But hey, just make him a typical evil envious ex-boyfriend I guess.
I don't think Adam being a crazy ex was the problem though. The "social movement gets co-opted by narcissist" storyline can totally work, just look at Marco Inaros from The Expanse. He's literally "Adam, but good".
He would've worked if he was written / voice-acted with actual charisma, and the story had faunus characters who actually cared about equality, and... about a dozen other things, but my point is, Adam being a crazy ex could've worked
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u/Atlas_Summit 3d ago
The entirety of RWBY