[quote=@Lugubrious]
I don't mind Jaune.  He was worse early on but now I think he's a good character.  He's a deconstruction of the Butt Monkey archetype put into a setting where he really doesn't want to be one.  He's also completely pivotal to Pyrrha's character.  If not for him, Pyrrha would have just remained on her pedestal and seemed, to everyone else, to be a personality-devoid top fighter.  It's because of his interaction with Pyrrha, and making her seem more approachable by being a Butt Monkey that is somehow interacting with the star pupil, that Pyrrha is able to make friends at all.
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I personally think it's the other way around. Pyrrha was a vehicle to advance Jaune into something competent - JNPR as a whole is kind of co-dependent that way (and I'd say SSSN, too) whereas RWBY can kind of develop individually. I don't like the way it looks like it's being done for next volume, but at least they can.