Adam Taurus

**Adam Taurus** is a character from the *RWBY* series.

## **Charactah Account**

One of the radical leaders of the present-day White Fang, he possesses a thin straight sword named Wilt and a shotgun-sheath hybrid named Blush. He infiltrates a train alongside Blake in the Black trailer, set some time before the events of Volume 1. He makes his first in-series appearance at the end of Volume 2, where it's confirmed he's working with Cinder Fall.

Blake described him as feeling completely justified in how he went about making the world a better place. However, his vision for a perfect future did not include everyone, and Blake began to believe that Adam himself was becoming a monster in the process of trying to obtain it. In "Necessary Sacrifice", Blake described Adam as such: "At first I thought Adam was the embodiment of 'justice', then I thought he was 'passion'. But over time, I realized... he was 'spite'... He won't accept equality, only suffering for what he feels the world did to him." Unlike Blake, he is shown to have little regard for the lives of innocent people, as he planned to blow up the train with everyone on board in the "Black" Trailer.

## **Appearance**

### **Comics**

* RWBY
* RWBY/Justice League

### **Manga**

* RWBY
* RWBY: Ice Queendom
* RWBY: Official Manga Anthology
* RWBY: The Official Manga

### **Video Games**

* RWBY
* RWBY: Amity Arena
* RWBY: Combat Ready

### **Web-Animation**

* RWBY Volume 1
* RWBY Volume 2
* RWBY Volume 3
* RWBY Volume 4
* RWBY Volume 5
* RWBY Volume 6

## **Trivia**

* Adam alludes to the Beast from *Beauty and the Beast* and stands in as Gaston to Blake's allusion to Belle from the same story.
* In Hebrew, *Adam* means "Man" and *Adom* means "Red". It is likely that Adam's name is a play on these two words. Adam is also known in Abrahamic religions as the first man created, possibly referencing the fact that he is the first male character as well as the first antagonist to appear in the series. It might also be played on the fact the Biblical Adam is human, whereas Adam Taurus is a Faunus.
* Adam's last name, *Taurus*, is a Latin word meaning "Bull".
	+ His mask has two red horn-shaped markings similar to that of a bull.
* In a picture Monty Oum posted on Twitter, the term "Moonslice" can be seen on a notes sheet regarding the "Black" Trailer, coinciding with the appearance of Adam's finishing move.

* During the *RWBY* panel at 2016's London Comic Con, Arryn Zech and Barbara Dunkelman put Adam's age as early-to-mid 20s, with a guess of about 23.
* Adam and Ruby have some traits in common, mostly their color scheme and the heavy use of red imagery in their debut trailers.
	+ Despite this resemblance to Ruby, however, Monty stated that the two are not related, the difference between them being "scatter and wilt".
* Adam's sword is based on Kagura's sword from *Ga-Rei: Zero*.
* Adam's mask appears beside Blake for a short while in the Volume 1 Opening.
* Adam appeared alongside Junior Xiong, Melanie Malachite and Miltia Malachite in a video Monty made as an alternate version of the Team JNPR dance scene in "Dance Dance Infiltration".
* In the *RWBY* Volume 3 Marathon livestream, the *RWBY* crew note that Adam's behavior toward Blake in "Heroes and Monsters" is abusive and express their discomfort with it.
* In *BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle*, one of Hazama's color swaps is based on Adam. Adam's Japanese voice actor, Yūichi Nakamura, also voiced Hazama.