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Beacon Academy

Staff

In addition to the below, we know of at least one other staff member: Professor Peach, who is only mentioned once in V1E13 and has not yet (as of the end of V3) appeared on-screen.

Professor Ozpin
Voiced by: Shannon McCormick
Based on: The Wizard of Oz
Glynda Goodwitch
Voiced by: Kathleen Zuelch
Based on: Glinda, the Good Witch of the North
Professor Peter Port
Voiced by: Ryan Haywood
Based on: Peter of Peter and The Wolf
Professor Doctor Bartholomew Oobleck
Voiced by: Joel Heyman
Based on: Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Those who do not study history....are doomed to repeat it.


Teams

Team RWBY

(Pronounced "Ruby")

Tropes that apply to Team RWBY as a whole:

Ruby Rose
Voiced by: Lindsay Jones
Based on: Little Red Riding Hood, The Ruby/Silver Slippers

I know you didn't plan this;
 You tried to do what's right.
 But in the middle of this madness,
 I'm the one you left to win this fight.

  • Alliterative Name
  • Ascended Fangirl: Ruby, who geeks out over huntsmen and huntresses, manages to get into Beacon Academy two years before she normally would be old enough, on the basis of both skill and overwhelming enthusiasm.
  • Badass
  • Big Eater: At least where cookies are concerned.
  • Dramatic Wind: Even indoors, in still air, her red cape ripples and waves.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her "working clothes" have a very strong EGL flavor.
  • Everything's Better with Spinning: When Ruby really pushes her Super Speed, she appears to transform into a bright red spinning helix.
  • Friendly Sniper: She makes frequent use of a sniper rifle, however we haven't seen her use it against distant targets that much.
  • Genki Girl
  • Grave Marking Scene: She starts the "Red" Trailer with one; she also starts and ends V3 with one.
  • Hand Behind Head: Could be considered her signature gesture.
  • I Call It "Vera": Ruby with Crescent Rose (and to a lesser degree weapons in general), at least as of the start of V1. She gets better socialized with people by the end of that volume, and seems less... fetishistic about weapons by then.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Oddly enough, her primary reaction to getting moved up two years and getting into Beacon, after the initial elation wears off. This reaction vanishes pretty quickly, though, once it's apparent that her classmates (other than Weiss) don't notice or care that she's that much younger than them.
  • Lightning Bruiser
  • Little Red Fighting Hood
  • Magic Skirt
  • Magnetic Hero
  • Missing Mom
  • Motor Mouth: When she gets excited.
  • Petal Power: Ruby seems to emit showers of rose petals -- and a Dramatic Wind to carry them -- just by moving. And sometimes by standing still.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Judging by the heights of other characters, Ruby can't be any taller than about 5'2".
  • Recoil Boost: Ruby boosts her already-impressive speed by using the recoil from her Dust shells.
  • Silver Eyes: Basically the first thing Ozpin says to her is a comment on her eyes. Her eyes are related to a power she has.
  • Small Girl, Big Gun
  • Socially Awkward Hero: Or so she initially describes herself. But by the middle of Volume 1 she seems to be quite at ease with the other students around her, enough so that she can even briefly mentor Jaune on being a team leader. At one point in the manga she had a fear of large crowds. This fear is not seen in the Vytal Festival, so presumably she got over it.
  • The Southpaw: Confirmed by Word of God, but at the same time it's clear from the footage of her fights that she's functionally ambidextrous -- at least when wielding Crescent Rose.
  • Super Senses: The directors joke about it in their V3 commentary, but Ruby's ability to spot Emerald from the other side of the arena in V3E8 verges on telescopic vision. (Emerald spotting Ruby spotting her counts as well.)
  • Super Speed
  • Swiss Army Gun/Sinister Scythe: The two modes of her weapon.
  • Teen Genius: Word of God describes Ruby as a prodigy with immense natural talent, who subsequently doesn't have to work very hard to excel as she has. This is initially a source of friction between her and Weiss, who puts a great deal of effort into being as good as she is.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Upon witnessing Cinder murder Pyrrha in V3E12, Ruby essentially exploded in white light, which froze the Grimm "dragon" and may have killed Cinder. Upon recovering three days later, Ruby remembers that something happened, but not what, nor how to trigger or use whatever power it was.
  • Traveling At the Speed of Plot: Sometimes Ruby's Super Speed just isn't there when it's dramatically necessary.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Weiss.
Weiss Schnee
Voiced by: Kara Eberle
Based on: Snow White

Mirror, tell me something,
 Tell me who's the loneliest of all?
 Fear of what's inside of me,
 Tell me can a heart be turned to stone?

[Ruby hugs Weiss]
Weiss: Shut up! Don't touch me!

[hugs back]
—Volume 2, Episode 2
Blake Belladonna
Voiced by: Arryn Zech
Based on: Beauty of Beauty and the Beast

Born with no life, into subjugation.
 Treated like a worthless animal,
 Stripped of all rights, just a lesser being,
 Crushed by cruel ruthless Human rule.

Yang Xiao Long
Voiced by: Barbara Dunkelman
Based on: Goldilocks

I burn! Can't hold me now.
 You got nothing that can stop me.
 I burn! Swing all you want.
 Like a fever I will take you down.

Zwei
Voiced by: Mrs. PennyApple/Penny Layne Matthews
Based on: Toto (?)

Team JNPR

(Pronounced "Juniper")

Tropes that apply to Team JNPR as a whole:

Jaune Arc
Voiced by: Miles Luna
Based on: Joan of Arc
  • Adorkable
  • Ancestral Weapon: The sword-and-shield combination called Crocea Mors ("Saffron Death" in Latin).
  • Attack! Attack! Attack!: Oddly enough, Jaune shows tendencies along these lines, continuing to attack his foes when conventional aura strategy is to retreat or defend.
  • Audience Surrogate: For much of Volume 1, Jaune is a naive innocent whose ignorance of just about everything important to the show allows the audience to learn with him everything they need to understand the show's setting and premise.
  • Badass: Takes a while for this to show.
  • Butt Monkey: During Volume 1. Once he Takes a Level In Badass, though, this ends -- though he still remains a bit insecure and goofy.
  • Casanova Wannabe: Towards Weiss, at least until about halfway through Volume Two.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Appears to be subverted with Jaune. He used falsified transcripts to get into Beacon because he felt so strongly the need to live up to his family history, but despite his self-doubts he does appear to be Beacon material.
    • Given that according to Ozpin in V2E2 all Beacon applicants have to pass a rigorous test to get in, it's pretty clear that Jaune has everything it takes except the formal training (and confidence) -- which means he got into Beacon entirely on raw talent and potential.
  • Crazy Prepared: According to Miles Luna, the reason Jaune has written "left" and "right" on the soles of his shoes is so that he can still put them on correctly in the event he is injured so badly he can't tell left from right.
  • Hair of Gold: Rare male example.
  • Incompletely Trained: Almost untrained, in fact, at the start of the series -- but Pyrrha eventually takes care of that.
  • Jeanne D'Archetype: Extremely rare male example of the trope, but he's got it -- protected by women who like him under the Dulcinea Effect, making him a Magnetic Hero, and a natural leader. Oh, and the name.
  • Legacy Hero
  • Magic Feather: Late in Volume 1, Pyrrha gives him a little unseen help in a battle with an ursa, the defeat of which allows him to really believe for the first time that he deserves to be at Beacon.
  • Oblivious to Love: Doesn't seem to notice Pyrrha's crush on him, though he does consider her a close friend. At least until about halfway through Volume 2, when he finds out directly from Pyrrha that she likes him.
  • Outnumbered Sibling: Has seven sisters.
  • Pop Culture Isolation: He gives the impression of having grown up relatively isolated from a lot of Remnant's pop culture and/or media.
  • Socially Awkward Hero
  • Unskilled but Strong: Pyrrha quickly realizes he has a lot of potential, he just doesn't know how to focus it properly.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Wears a dress at a formal ball because of a promise he made, and manages to look not too bad in it.
Nora Valkyrie
Voiced by: Samantha Ireland
Based on: Thor

Nora SMASH!

  • Badass
  • Beware the Silly Ones
  • Big Eater: When it comes to sweets.
  • Blush Sticker: They're faint, but she has two perfectly circular pink patches on her cheekbones.
  • Cleavage Window
  • Critical Status Buff: As revealed in V3E2, Nora's semblance lets her absorb electricity to boost her combat strength.
  • Cute and Psycho: Definitely seems like this at times, but it's more a reflection of the lack of a filter between her brain and her mouth. She speaks what she thinks, and sometimes it's things like "We'll break his legs!". Usually, though, her next thought is some variety of "oh, wait, we can't".
  • Drop the Hammer
  • Genki Girl: Even more than Ruby -- Ruby can at least stand still for extended periods of time. Nora, however... On the director's commentary for Volume 1, it's stated that the half-joking idea behind Nora and Lie Ren is that they share a single pool of energy between them, and Nora hogs it all.
  • Grenade Launcher: Nora's weapon is one of these, when it isn't a warhammer. With hearts on it.
  • Heart Symbol: Nora, all over. Literally -- from her weapon to the cutout on her decolletage.
  • Heartwarming Orphan
  • The "I Love You" Stigma: According to an Image Song for Nora on the Volume Two soundtrack, instead of saying "I love you" to Ren, she says "boop" because it's safer.
  • Moe Stare: The closest Smile Trope to the almost-blank-faced, wide, open-mouth smile she wears whenever she's not actively doing anything (look at her when she's just hanging in the back of the crowd in V1E8).
  • Motor Mouth
  • Perpetual Smiler
  • Platonic Life Partners: Appears to be this with Lie Ren -- but her Image Song on the soundtrack for Volume Two (track 5, "Boop") makes it pretty clear that she has, of late, fallen in love with him.
  • Rocket Jump: Nora can do this with strategic application of her grenade launcher/warhammer Magnhild.
  • Shock and Awe: Like her inspiration, Nora appears to be able to summon lightning from storms, and when charged up can add electrical effects to her attack.
  • Throw Down the Bomblet: Although she uses a grenade launcher instead of throwing them, Nora certainly demonstrates the "poor impulse control" aspect of this trope.
    • During the food fight in V2E1, she shows this behavior when throwing cans of soda as grenades.
  • Wacky Girl
Pyrrha Nikos
Voiced by: Jen Brown
Based on: Achilles
Killed by Cinder in V3E12.
Lie Ren
Voiced by: Monty Oum (V1-2), Neath Oum (V3-?)
Based on: Mulan

Team CRDL

(Pronounced "Cardinal")

Tropes that apply to team CRDL as a whole:

Cardin Winchester
Voiced by: Adam Ellis
Based on: Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester
  • Blackmail: Overheard Jaune admitting to Pyrrha that he falsified his records to get into Beacon, and briefly -- until his Break the Haughty moment -- used it to force Jaune to play lackey and dogsbody to him.
  • Break the Haughty: Got his ego cut down severely when Jaune saved him from getting mauled to death by an Ursa.
Russel Thrush
Voiced by: Shane Newville
Based on: Unknown
Dove Bronzewing
Voiced by: (no spoken lines yet)
Based on: Unknown
Sky Lark
Voiced by: (no spoken lines yet)
Based on: Unknown

Team CFVY

(Pronounced "Coffee")

Caffeine. I'm caffeine.
 Caffeine. I'm caffeine.
I'm a bad dream.
 I'm a rad scene.
 I'm a tad mean.
 But I'm not afraid to take you out.

Tropes that apply to Team CFVY as a whole:

Coco Adel
Voiced by: Ashley Jenkins
Based on: Coco Chanel/Chocolate
Fox Alistair
Voiced by: (no spoken lines yet)
Based on: Fox Hunter's Pie
Velvet Scarlatina
Voiced by: Caiti Ward
Based on: The Velveteen Rabbit/Red Velvet Cake
  • Badass Adorable
  • Beast Folk
  • Breakout Character: According to the behind the scenes videos, a single scene where she was designed just to be an example faunus led to an expanded role. And hundreds of fan-submitted designs for her in battle garb.
  • Hair-Raising Hare: Despite being cute and sweet-tempered, Velvet is a dangerous fighter. At the end of V2, after Coco tells her not to use her weapon, Velvet starts taking out Grimm with only close-range melee attacks (mostly kicks, befitting a rabbit faunus).
  • Swiss Army Weapon: Her weapon, which is known only as "Velvet's Weapon", is a camera which allows her to manifest an energy version of any other weapon that she's taken a photo of with it, and apparently gives her the skill to use it properly. In V3E11, we see her use almost a dozen different "ghost weapons" including all of Team RWBY's gear, Nora's hammer/grenade launcher, and Penny's swords. May have limited charges or use, or be of incredible power, given Coco's warning in V2E12 that she'd "spent all semester building that up" and that she shouldn't "waste it". It looks like a wood-and-brass lunchbox.
Yatsuhashi Daichi
Voiced by: Joe MacDonald
Based on: Yatsuhashi Kengyo/yatsuhashi, a regional confection from Kyoto
  • Acrofatic: For a guy who's seven feet tall, heavily muscled, carrying a five-foot-long sword and wearing armor, he is surprisingly agile and acrobatic, tumbling, dodging and leaping like Spider-Man.
  • BFS: To go with being The Big Guy.
  • The Big Guy: At seven feet tall even, he's the largest person in RWBY.
  • Meaningful Name: Depending on the kanji, "daichi" can mean "great" or "large" in Japanese.
  • Samurai: Or has the same basic look, at least.

Atlas Academy

Team SSSN

(Pronounced "Sun")

Tropes that apply to Team SSSN as a whole:

  • Shout-Out: Each member of the team is inspired in some way by a member of the K-Pop group Big Bang.
Sun Wukong
Voiced by: Michael Jones
Based on: Either Daesung or Seungri of Big Bang/Sun Wukong
Scarlet David
Voiced by: Gavin Free
Based on: G-Dragon of Big Bang/Peter Pan (as he appears in the authorized 2006 sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet)
  • Ambiguous Gender: Confirmed to be male, though.
  • Expy: Of G-Dragon from the K-pop group Big Bang.
  • Mythology Gag: When flung across the arena during the fight against Team NDGO, he briefly takes Peter Pan's trademark arms-spread flight pose.
  • Pirate: He carries a cutlass and a flintlock, and in the image to the right is wearing a jacket not unlike that worn by Captain Hook. When we see him fight in V3, it is mostly among the rigging of a sailing ship.
  • Sword and Gun: See Pirate, above.


Sage Ayana
Voiced by: Joshua Ornelas
Based on: Taeyang of Big Bang/Aesop
  • Badass Longcoat
  • BFS: Wields a blade that's at least five feet long, and is almost a foot across at the hilt and five or six inches wide just before it narrows to a tip.
  • Motifs: Sage seems to have a clock motif -- his sword has half a clock face (with Roman numerals) inscribed on the blade just above the hilt, and he has a repeating pattern of the Roman numerals "V" and "I" tattooed on his neck.
    • Feather Motif: He also has green wings emblazoning the back of his longcoat, and wing tattoos on his chest.
Neptune Vasilias
Voiced by: Kerry Shawcross
Based on: T.O.P of Big Bang/Poseidon


Bad Guys

Roman Torchwick

Voiced by: Gray G. Haddock
Based on: Romeo Candlewick/Lampwick
Killed by a Grimm in V3E11.

Cinder Fall

Voiced by: Jessica Nigri
Based on: Cinderella
  • Archery: The ranged form of her weapon is a bow, and she is a dead shot with it.
  • The Baroness: Sexpot version.
  • Bifurcated Weapon: She wields a pair of scimitars which fit together to form a bow.
  • Big Bad
  • Cat Smile: Does this quite a bit.
  • Dutch Angle: Cinder is unique among characters in RWBY for the number of shots that are made from the vicinity of her right foot and its anklet of black crystals.
  • Evil Is Sexy
  • Evil Sorceress: Seems to fit this archetype very neatly right from her first appearance in V1E1.
  • Eyes of Gold
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Her hair is noticeably shorter during the flashbacks in V3E7.
  • Face Framed in Shadow: When we first see her and in the first season opening.
  • The Man Behind the Man: Her initial appearance in V1E1 suggested she was Torchwick's flunky; the Stinger on V1E16 revealed that instead she was his boss.
  • Master Swordswoman
  • Mythology Gag: When infiltrating the communications tower during the formal dance in Volume 2, Cinder is told she needs to get back to the ball by midnight.
  • Older Than They Look: She is at least in her twenties and possibly older, but is able to pass (at close inspection) as a 17- to 20-year-old.
  • Playing with Fire: Stolen from the Autumn Maiden and not originally part of her power set.
  • Power Floats/Flight: Once she has all of the Autumn Maiden's power.
  • Power Tattoo: The triangular marking on her back, between her shoulder blades, is a manifestation of the Autumn Maiden's power.
  • Professional Killer
  • Spy Catsuit: Has donned one on occasion.
  • The Tease: Flirts with just about everyone.
  • Vampiric Draining: In conjunction with some kind of Grimm insect with which she seems to have a symbiosis, Cinder can drain a person's powers. Whether it was a special attack intended only for the person so drained (in V3E7) or a generalized ability has yet to be seen.

Mercury Black

Voiced by: J.J. Castillo (V2), Yuri Lowenthal (V3-?)
Based on: Mercury

Emerald Sustrai

Voiced by: Katie Newville
Based on: Aladdin, Cleopatra

Neopolitan, aka "Neo"

Voiced by: (no spoken lines yet)
Based on: Unknown
Blown off an Atlesian battleship in V3E11, possibly dead
  • Adorable Evil Minion
  • Badass Adorable
  • Cane Fu: As part of her combat style using her umbrella.
  • Enigmatic Minion
  • Kaleidoscope Eyes: Neopolitan appears to have complete voluntary control over her eye color. In what is presumably her "normal" appearance, she usually has one pink and one brown eye, matching her hair colors but in counterpoint. In V3E1, we see her in disguise with bright green eyes, although they shift back to her usual pink and brown right before she delivers a Coup De Grace. She appears to lose control over their color and they revert to white when she is surprised or shocked.
  • Kick Chick
  • Master of Illusion: Has a confirmed (by Word of God) but as yet mostly-undefined illusion power that unlike Emerald's apparently mental ability produces actual visual images that can be seen by many people at great distance (and is considerably less taxing than Emerald's power as well).
  • Multicolored Hair: Has hair in colors reminiscent of Neapolitan ice cream, hence her name (probably) -- one side is pink with white streaks, and the other is chocolate brown.
  • Older Than They Look: Strongly hinted at by Word of God
  • Parasol of Prettiness/Parasol of Pain: Carries a delicate, lacy parasol which can block energy blasts and deflect blows, and which has a blade hidden in its shaft. While she does use it as a weapon, it's almost secondary to her kicks.
  • Perpetual Smiler
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Confirmed as the smallest character in RWBY by Word of God, but capable of effortlessly defeating Yang.
  • Silent Antagonist: For the moment. Gray Haddock has confirmed that she has a voice actress, and that the character is not mute.
  • Sword Cane: She has an epee-like blade hidden in the shaft of her parasol, and was about to use it to perform a Coup De Grace on Yang after defeating her in V2E11, until Raven interfered.
  • Teleportation: Appears to be her primary non-combat ability, possibly her Semblance, and possibly in combination with some kind of illusion/image power.
  • Waif Fu: Easily below 5 feet in height, slender, flawlessly acrobatic and graceful, and took out Yang without getting a scratch on her.

Hei "Junior" Xiong

Voiced by: Jack Pattillo
Based on: Baby Bear
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: Goes about his business wearing a three-piece suit without the jacket.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": As of V2E12, no one has actually called him anything other than "Junior".
  • Groin Attack: Got one thanks to Yang in Yellow trailer.
  • Mooks: Has a good-sized band of minions who all share the same fashion sense. Sadly, he's not all that impressed with their quality.

Junior's Mooks

Melanie and Miltiades "Militia" Malachite

Voiced by: Margaret Tominey
Based on: Uncertain. The Three Bears' porridge (too hot and too cold), Cinderella's wicked stepsisters, and the German fairy tale "Snow-White and Rose-Red" (in which the titular sisters befriend a bear, i.e. Junior) have all been suggested.
Melanie, who is this girl?
—Miltiades, about Yang, in the Yellow trailer

Salem

Voiced by: Jen Taylor
Based on: The Wicked Witch of the West (?)

The White Fang

Adam Taurus

Voiced by: Garrett Hunter
Based on: Beast from Beauty and the Beast
  • Ax Crazy: To quote Gray Haddock: "Adam is not the most stable of individuals."
  • Beast Folk
  • Colourful Theme Naming: Although it is not obvious, his name does fit the color theming of character names -- "Adam" is a Hebrew name meaning "Red Earth".
    • Which, when combined with his last name gives us a possible Punny Name: "Red Bull".
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Despite being painted an obvious villain in the "Black" trailer, as well as being clearly aligned with Cinder as of the end of Volume 2, he has an Estrogen Brigade among the RWBY fandom -- although the events of the end of V3 may well change that.
  • Heal It with Fire: Adam's sword apparently is hot enough to cauterize the wounds it causes. It definitely appears to cauterize the stump of Yang's arm.
  • Ki Attacks
  • Mask Power
  • Psycho Ex-Boyfriend: To Blake.
  • Stalker with a Crush: His possessiveness about Blake has a very strong flavor of this trope.
  • We Can Rule Together: Almost word-for-word one of the things he says to Blake in V3E11.
  • Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: While not said exactly in those words, Adam certainly seems to lay responsibility for his mistreatment of her at Blake's feet.

Unnamed White Fang Lieutenant

Voiced by: Gray G. Haddock

Other

Shopkeep

Voiced by: Patrick Rodriguez

Penny Polendina

Voiced by: Taylor Pelto McNee
Based on: Pinocchio
Accidentally killed by Pyrrha in V3E9.
  • Alliterative Name
  • Become a Real Girl: An unusual and inverted case, in the Penny claims she's not a "real girl", but Ruby assures her that she actually is.
  • The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
  • Catch Phrase: Penny appears to have one in "I'm combat-ready!" Strongly supported by its appearance on the Penny T-shirt available in Rooster Teeth's online shop.
  • Children Are Innocent: It's entirely likely that Penny is the chronologically youngest foreground character in the show, and despite being a robot built for combat is also easily the most innocent character we meet. Which makes her death all the much harder to take; as a character she was almost certainly created specifically to be killed as a harbinger of the show's tone shift at the end of Volume 3.
  • Dance Battler: When we finally see Penny in action in V3, her moves are very dancelike; this is some of the last of Monty Oum's animation cues that were used.
  • Hand Blast: Her Wave Motion Gun, with extra bonus swords.
  • Heart Drive: By implication. Something is different enough about Penny's construction that she possesses a genuine soul, unlike other Atlesian robots, which (while they possess artificial intelligence) are mere automatons.
  • Idiot Hair
  • No Sense of Personal Space: During Volume 1. She seems to have gotten much better about it by Volume 2.
  • Pinocchio Nose: She hiccups when she lies.
  • Required Secondary Powers: Averted. While she is super-strong Penny not completely resilient -- stopping a truck from hitting Ruby tears the skin off her hands, revealing her Robot Girl nature.
  • Ridiculously-Human Robot: Justified, in that she is a gynoid with a soul.
  • Robot Girl
  • Set Swords to Stun: Despite being all about flying swords, none of Penny's attacks actually draw blood, and her Wave Motion Gun only damages property, not people.
  • Strange Girl: Although by Volume 2 she seems to have become more "normal", possibly due to her exposure to Team RWBY and other people outside of the complex where she was built.
  • Super Strength
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Especially if you're controlling a couple dozen or so...
  • Uncanny Valley: Penny lived there during her first appearances in Volume 1, but at some point between Volumes 1 and 2 moved to a much better neighborhood.

General James Ironwood

Voiced by: Jason Rose
Based on: The Tin Woodsman
  • Ancient Tradition: Member of a nameless organization which has supported the Four Maidens through the centuries, and is responsible for their history becoming Shrouded in Myth.
  • Cyborg: V3E12 revealed that most if not all of the right side of his body is cybernetic.
  • Four-Star Badass: And is perfectly willing to lead the charge into battle at the front if he had to.
  • General Ripper: Dangerously close to this trope, as it would be his first impulse to Zerg Rush his enemies and overwhelm them with sheer firepower.
  • Man in White: Possibly applies; the council's transfer of responsibility from Ozpin to Ironwood certainly doesn't look good, despite Ironwood's apparently sincere intentions.
  • Morality Pet: Both Ozpin and Glinda (whom he is well acquainted with) have called him out on his gung-ho tendencies and have attempted to temper his rashness with appeals to logic and caution.
  • More Dakka: Firm believer in this.
  • Mythology Gag: In Volume 3, one character references his "metal head", and there is some discussion whether or not he has a heart.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: To an extent. Is supportive of Ruby when she takes the initiative to stop a break-in at Beacon and commends her, but is also incredibly gung-ho and impulsive.
  • Shout-Out Theme Naming: To The Wizard of Oz -- it's pretty clear he's based on the Tin Woodsman.
  • Super Strength: Effortlessly tosses around an alpha beowulf -- almost twice his height and four times his weight -- when he finally cuts loose in V3.
  • Tin Man: Initially seems to be a cold, pragmatic military man -- in fact, he's set up to look like the villain of volumes 2 and 3. But he turns out to be a lot nicer and more heroic than he seems at first.

Winter Schnee

Voiced by: Elizabeth Maxwell
Based on: Unknown (Snow White, Rose Red or other "alternative" Snow Whites from Grimm's Fairy Tales, maybe?)

Weiss's elder sister, and it's obvious they're related -- they have many traits in common. She and Qrow appear to have some kind of history.

Team STRQ

(Pronounced "Stark")

Tropes that apply to Team STRQ as a whole:

  • Colorful Theme Naming: "Stark" as in "Stark White".
  • Theme Naming: There is some debate on this. There is at least one confirmed Wizard of Oz reference in Qrow, and two others have been proposed for Summer Rose and Taiyang, but they are far from certain. Alternately, "Poems" has been suggested, what with Summer Rose's very explicit reference to "The Last Rose of Summer" and the Branwen siblings' correspondence to Odin's ravens, as seen in the Elder (Poetic) Edda. Either way, we have one member apparently left out of the pattern. Until such time as either, both, or something else is confirmed, we'll show all the possibilities.

Summer Rose

Voiced by: (no spoken lines yet)
Based on: The poem "The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore, Dorothy Gale (?)
Deceased, circumstances unknown.

Taiyang Xiao Long

Voiced by: Burnie Burns
Based on: The Cowardly Lion (?)
  • Battle Couple: Twice: first with Raven Branwen, and after her disappearance with Summer Rose.
  • Heroic BSOD: In the wake of the loss of both his wives.
  • Overprotective Dad: Described as such by both Ruby and Yang, and probably justified by the incident where they were nearly slaughtered by Beowolves, as recounted to Blake by Yang in V2.

Raven Branwen

Voiced by: Anna Hullum
Based on: Muninn

Qrow Branwen

Voiced by: Vic Mignogna
Based on: Huginn, The Scarecrow

Ruby and Yang's uncle, Raven Branwen's brother. He and Winter Schnee appear to have some kind of history.

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