Talk:Ruby Rose vs. Carnage/@comment-30199286-20180930234044/@comment-32507967-20181001135329

I'm about to release the full episode, but here are two things I didn't cover to answer your questions. First, Mercury and Emerald have dodged lightning - from someone they knew could use it and had literal months, perhaps years, of prep time and training to fight. And, if you watch the fight, they certainly weren't able to dodge said lightning after it began to strike - only right before it appeared. Besides, no other character from RWBY has shown that level of reaction speed anywhere else, anytime else. And Mercury has shown to be just as fast as, if not faster than, Ruby even in Rose Petal Burst form both during the Fall of Beacon and the Battle of Haven.

Second, I kept seeing claims of symbiotes surviving nuclear explosions, and I dedicated entire days to trying to find when and how. The end result is that most of it is word-of-mouth - Carnage has never taken a nuclear explosion to my knowledge. Venom took only one that I could find. It was during a fight with Wolverine, and he only survived by taking over a group of cockroaches that happened to be there, which made up for his weakness to heat and weren't affected by the radiation. So it'd be kind of silly to say he or Carnage could survive that stuff on his own - especially when Carnage has been nearly killed by a lava flow, which, at max, reaches temperatures of 2300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Okay, time to upload!