Arthur Watts

### Most Entertaining Features

He has an epic moment in "Ultimatum" where he calls out Cinder Fall on her entitled hubris and failures.
He has a great battle against James Ironwood of all people in Volume 7.
He is known for his personal partnership with Tyrian Callows, which has been recognised by fans as one of the best relationships in the series.

### Most Detestable Traits

He tried to freeze Mantle and its citizens to death all because of a petty rivalry with James Ironwood.
He is generally a hypocritical and childish bully who resorts to extreme crimes for small reasons and has a spiteful excuse to show how cruel he really is.

### Type of ED

Sophisticated Scientist

**Arthur Watts**, also known simply as **Dr. Watts**, is a devious and sophisticated scientist who was one of Salem's minions and the arch-nemesis of James Ironwood. He is a major antagonist in *RWBY* and served as the main antagonist of Volume 7.

He was voiced by Christopher Sabat.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* Probably the biggest reason why he is so likable (despite being Pure Evil) is because he had an awesome moment in the episode "Ultimatum" where he roasts Cinder Fall by ranting about her sense of entitlement and poor planning skills. He points out her failure to defeat James Ironwood, her villainous deal with Raven Branwen to kill all of her enemies (who happen to be the main heroes of the story like Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Oscar and many others) and her refusal to get on with her life and stop being so incompetent and bad at things. He also states that she isn't entitled to everything just because she suffered throughout her childhood and she has to be less strong and more smart to be recognised as a role model. He also tells her that she has to be less deserving and more worthy.
* Unlike Cinder Fall and especially Adam Taurus (who are both Pure Evil like Arthur himself), Arthur usually keeps his composure and is usually a very calm and sophisticated man, and the only time where he drops his cool is when he is in the presence of James Ironwood (his archenemy).
* Even if they don't detract from his heinousness, he still has a few moments in the series where he can be quite comedic, even though he is played dead seriously in-universe and his "comedic" moments are purely funny to the audience.
* He masterfully helped Tyrian to murder most of the attendees at Robyn Hill's victory party by switching off the lights to make sure that no one would see Tyrian so that he could start his killing spree in the party and frame Penny Polendina for the mass murder in hopes that Penny would be arrested.
* He has a memorable rivalry with Cinder Fall, and in spite of this, he has accepted her help on multiple occasions even if this isn't a redeeming quality since Arthur shows no disgust towards Cinder's actions. Even when arguing with Cinder and getting threatened with death by her, Arthur showed no cowardice and maintained his calm and patient demeanor.
* Unlike Tyrian who is unhinged and psychotic, Watts is always in his normal senses and knows what to do.
* He always comes up with a backup plan in case any of his ideas go wrong.
* Despite trying to freeze the entirety of Mantle out of spite, Watts is nowhere near as bad as Cinder (who destroyed Beacon Academy and cancelled all the upcoming semesters, leading to the temporary disbandment of Team RWBY) and Adam (who is a petty, xenophobic and cruel psychopath who wants revenge on Blake for an insanely small reason and endangers people just to keep himself safe).

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* Despite his cool qualities, Arthur is not without his hateable traits. One of his unlikable traits is his petty motive in general, as he simply wants to get revenge on James Ironwood for rejecting him and choosing Pietro over him due to Pietro's creation of Penny (his daughter) being more appealing than Watts' intelligence.
* He is indirectly responsible for the Fall of Beacon, as he created the Black Queen virus that was used by Cinder to rig the tournament matches in Vytal, cause an army of Grimm to invade Vale by hacking the communications of the kingdoms to spread panic amongst its civilians, and hack the Atlas drones to attack innocent people on live TV.
* He has the most personal villainy towards James, as he tried to kill him during their battle, insults him many times and trapped his flesh and blood left arm in a hard light shield, which led to Ironwood pulling his arm out and feeling a lot of pain until he got another cybernetic arm.
* He switched off the heating grid in Mantle just to spite James and taunt him over losing a city that is very important to him as Mantle's citizens could have all frozen to death if it wasn't for them finding shelter and protection. This also allowed Salem to order a team of Grimm to come and endanger the city.
* He hacked Penny Polendina with a command to "self-terminate" and kill herself after opening the Atlas Vault, and this is due to the fact that she was no good to him.
* He assisted Cinder and Neo in murdering a room full of unarmed Atlesian faculty workers who were all innocent.
* He attempted to kill Qrow, Robyn, and the Ace-Ops before hacking into Ironwood's bomb and levelling the city of Mantle, even though the citizens were still in the process of evacuating to safety.

## Trivia

* Watts was the first icon for the Spoilers template on this wiki, but he was later replaced by Junko Enoshima.

## External Links

* Arthur Watts on the Villains Wiki
* Arthur Watts on the *RWBY* Wiki
* Arthur Watts on the Pure Evil Wiki

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