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An innovative [[Web Animation]] series created by the late [[Monty Oum]] of [[Rooster Teeth]], it was heralded months in advance by a series of carefully doled-out trailers ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYW2GmHB5xs "Red"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9vl8iAN5Q "White"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKCt7BD4U4 "Black"] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCw_aAS7vWI "Yellow"]), which built up a remarkable level of excitement and speculation before its premiere in July 2013.
As of
On May 7, 2016, Rooster Teeth released the first installment of the [[Spin-Off]] comedy series, ''[[RWBY Chibi]]''. In 2021, a second spin-off began, ''[[RWBY Fairy Tales]]''.
There have been three [[Manga]] adaptations so far as of the end of 2021: The first, entitled simply ''[[RWBY (2015 manga)|RWBY]]'', began publication in 2015 in ''Ultra Jump'' magazine. It was followed by ''[[RWBY: Official Manga Anthology]]'' in 2017; in 2019 a Team JNPR Anthology series was announced for release in 2021. And finally in 2018, a third manga adaptation, ''[[RWBY: The Official Manga]]'', began appearing in the English version of ''[[Shonen Jump]]''; this adaptation ended in 2020.
In 2019 [[DC Comics]] began publishing a [[RWBY (comic)|''RWBY'' comic book series]]. And in 2021 they also released ''[[RWBY x Justice League]]'', a series in which versions of DC heroes native to Remnant begin appearing. An animated version, entitled ''[[Justice League x RWBY]]'' is scheduled for release in 2023 after V9 concludes.
In 2022, a ''RWBY'' anime, ''[[RWBY: Ice Queendom]]'', was released, and it appears to be a [[Shot-for-Shot Remake]] of Volume 1, only with a [[Perspective Flip]] such that it's seen from Weiss's point of view instead of Ruby's.
In February 2023, the ninth volume of ''RWBY'' premiered on exclusively [[Crunchyroll]], instead of on Rooster Teeth's own site and YouTube as it had previously.
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* [[Almost Kiss]]: Between {{spoiler|Blake and Yang}} when the latter returns to the Schnee mansion in V8E10. They're just inches away... and then nothing.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: No argument. A broken moon in the sky, unfamiliar continents, active magic with technology, humanity besieged by hordes of monsters...
* [[Always Night]]: The Grimmlands are perpetually shrouded in darkness, and is vaguely lit by red and purple light from no particular source. The darkness isn't caused by heavy cloud cover, because the night sky and Remnant's moon are visible.
* [[Am I Right?]]: Yang says this in V2E1 as part of defending an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] on her own name.
* [[American Accents]]: In addition to the "default" accent imposed by being an American production, the two cops investigating the Dust shop robbery in V1E15 have distinct [[Joisey]]/Bronx accents.
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* [[Ancient Tradition]]: {{spoiler|Ozpin, Goodwitch, Qrow and Ironwood are revealed in V3 to all be members of nameless group which has watched over the Four Maidens for centuries, and is responsible for their history becoming [[Shrouded in Myth]].}}
* [[And This Is For]]: Ren in V4E12, {{spoiler|against the Grimm which killed his parents and practically everyone in the town where he was born}}.
* [[Androids Are People, Too]]: This is Ruby's reaction when she discovers Penny is a [[Robot Girl]] and Penny subsequently claims she isn't "a real girl", in "Painting the Town..." (V2E4):
{{quote|'''Ruby:''' Of course you are. You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me?
'''Penny:''' I don't... um... (Leans in close to Ruby's face.) You're... taking this extraordinarily well.
'''Ruby:''' You're not like those things we saw back there. (Taps her chest.) You've got a heart, and a soul; I can feel it!}}
* [[Animated Armor]]: Weiss's opponent in the "White" trailer.
* [[Animation Bump]]: Overall, Volume 2 is a vast improvement over Volume 1.
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** This is later Jossed in V7, when we see that the landmass hosting Atlas and Mantle, the city below it, is ''dangerously'' cold. Mantle is only inhabitable because of technology that renders the climate in the city temperate. (What happens when that tech is ''disabled'' is a plot point late in V7 and in V8.)
** And almost all of this may be [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the presence (up until near-historical times) of two [[Physical God]]s on the proto!Remnant, who apparently were taking an active hand in shaping the world to their liking.
* [[As You Know]]: Ozpin says this to Blake in a brief moment of exposition toward the end of V2E2.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: In V2E4, Team RWBY uses some of the [[Fan Nickname]]s for the various [[Shipping|shipping pairs]] as names for maneuvers and joint attacks.
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* [[Battle Aura]]: Demonstrated by Yang in her trailer as part of her fire powers, but also seems to be a common (but not universal) manifestation of "aura" or a "semblance" in use.
* [[Beast Man|Beast Folk]]: The Faunus, who are treated as second-class citizens.
* [[Become a Real Boy]]: Played with in the case of [[Robot Girl]] Penny Polendina. When she first appears in the series, she's convinced she's not a real girl even though she demonstrably [[Anatomy of the Soul|has a soul]]. Ruby has to reassure her that even though her construction is mechanical, that doesn't mean she isn't "real". Taken one step further in V8 when, to free her of a [[Computer Virus]] which is trying to make her self-terminate, Team RWBY uses a [[Deus ex Machina|divine artifact]] to give her an actual flesh-and-blood body, leaving the virus behind in what was now a mindless mechanical shell.
* [[Behind the Black]]:
** In V1E15, Penny quickly dashes through the black to get in front of Team RWBY after they walk away from her. Lampshaded by Weiss's disbelieving and baffled response as she looks back at (and points to) where Penny was.
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* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: Ruby and Yang, the first night at Beacon in V1E3. Complete with the sound of [[That Poor Cat]].
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Blake gets one {{spoiler|in V5E13, when she shows up at Haven to stop Adam and the White Fang, at the head of [[The Cavalry|an army of faunus]].}}
* [[The Big Damn Kiss]]:
** Pyrrha kissing Jaune before heading off to confront Cinder in V3E12.
** {{spoiler|Blake and Yang}} get one when they finally admit how they feel about each other in V9E6.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Is it any surprise that the Schnees live in one that seems to be the size of a castle?
* [[Big No]]:
** {{spoiler|Ruby, upon witnessing Pyrrha's death at Cinder's hands in V3E12.}}
** Emerald in V5E14, when Yang returns with the relic moments after Emerald insisted Cinder would show up with it and beat all the good guys.
** {{spoiler|Ozpin, through Oscar, in V6E2 when Ruby asks the Relic of Knowledge what Ozpin's been hiding from them.}}
* [[Big "What?"]]: {{spoiler|Cinder when Ruby unleashes her secret power in V3E12.}}
* [[Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics]]: Blake's weapons seem to demonstrate this in the "Black" trailer.
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** Not completely, though -- Hazel does not appear to bleed from being impaled back-to-front by a Lancer's stinger in the battle at the end of V5. Justified with Weiss' wound in the same fight, as it was inflicted by a spear of fire which presumably cauterized it.
** And there is no visible blood when {{spoiler|Adam Taurus}} is run through with swords from both front and back at the end of V6.
* [[Book Ends]]:
* [[Book Ends]]: The [[Stealth Pun|Jaune arc]] late in Volume 1 begins and ends with scenes on a roof.▼
** The first three volumes -- what the fandom generally regards as the "prologue" to the greater story -- begin and end with a monologue by the "Mysterious Narrator" ({{spoiler|AKA [[Big Bad|Salem]]}}).
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* [[Bookcase Passage]]: {{spoiler|At the end of V4, Klein Sieben opens a secret passage behind a bookcase in the Schnee mansion library so that Weiss can escape her father and the house arrest he's placed her under}}.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: What seems to be happening to {{spoiler|Pyrrha starting in the middle of Volume 3, but ultimately averted -- even in defeat and death she is unbroken}}.
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* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: In V3E1, Reese Chloris supercharges her skateboard-weapon with fire Dust and is able to convert a block of ice holding a teammate to steam in a second or two -- without burning him.
* [[Conversation Cut]]: Happens during Weiss and Blake's argument about the White Fang in V1E15 -- it goes from mid-morning on a street to nighttime in their dorm room ''in the middle of a sentence.''
* [[Cover-Blowing Superpower]]: Penny's [[Bare-Handed Truck Stop]] in V2E3.
* [[Cranial Eruption]]: Happens to Weiss after her sister Winter smacks her in the head in V3E3. Ruby pokes it back in.
* [[Cool School]]: Academies, like Beacon, Haven, Shade, and Atlas, teach their students to be Huntsmen/Huntswomen, so they can fight the Grimm.
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: During early Volume 1 in 2013 Monty Oum got a blast of [[Internet Backdraft]] on names and their pronunciations: "Weiss Schnee", for instance, is more correctly pronounced something like "Vice Shnay", and "Yang" should sound like "Yong". Oum has offered a [[Hand Wave]] for this, pointing out that Remnant is not Earth and their similarity to terms in Earthly languages is a coincidence.
** Also, Casey Williams for mispronouncing [[Dragonball Z|"Super-Saiyin"]] (sounds like "super-sighin'") as "Super-Sayin'" in "I Burn".
* [[Diegetic Switch]]: Subverted. In the opening scenes of the very first episode, Ruby's clearly listening to [[
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Adam Taurus}}, after getting stabbed by both Yang and Blake in V6E12.
* [[Divide and Conquer]]: {{spoiler|Salem's plan for destroying humanity -- isolating the kingdoms, sowing distrust, and breaking down the alliances that made mankind's survival possible.}}
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* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Nora's weapon is a massive warhammer which is also a [[Grenade Launcher]]. With hearts on it.
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: In the final moments of the V3E12, Ruby's father Taiyang drops a tray of food when he comes into her bedroom and discovers that she has left home.
** In the final couple minutes of V5E6 Ruby herself drops a tray of food when she enters a room of the house she, Oscar, and team JNR are staying at and sees her sister Yang and teammate Weiss for the first time in months.
** In V8E10, Weiss drops a tray of food when {{spoiler|the not-a-nuclear-explosion set off by Oscar destroys Salem's "whale"}}.
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Pyrrha into Ozpin's office in V3E12.
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* [[Elevator Buttons Mash]]: Described but not seen in V2E8, when Ruby arrives in Ozpin's office for a debrief after Cinder's infiltration of Beacon Tower:
{{quote|Ah! Sorry it took so long. Someone accidentally hit all the buttons in the elevator on the way up here. [[Beat|[Beat]]] [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|It wasn't me.]]}}
* [[Empathic Environment]]: In the first few episodes of V9, the Everafter seems to respond to Ruby's mood, raining when she gets depressed or discouraged, and turning sunny when she cheers up.
* [[Empathy Doll Shot]]: In the wake of Ozpin and Salem's first battle during Jin's account in V6E3, a stuffed animal belonging to {{spoiler|one of their daughters}} is shown amid rubble and dust clouds.
* [[Epic Flail]]: Son's pistol-chucks.
* [[Every Scar Has a Story]]: The story behind Weiss's scar is found in the "White" trailer.
* [[Everyone Is Armed]]: The world of Remnant at first glance ''looks'' like this, but the sample is biased by virtue of the story being focused mostly on professional warriors, military, students and staff of combat schools, and criminals. The average person in the street does not ''appear'' to be armed, at least in the protected Kingdoms. Settlements in the wilderness, however, may be a different story.
* [[Everything's Worse with Bees]]: Lancers, first seen in V5, are bear-sized [[Gosh Hornet|wasp Grimm]], whose stingers are [[Grappling Gun]]s.▼
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Pretty much the entire world outside of the kingdoms in a nutshell. And more than a few spots ''inside'' them, as well.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]:
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: Weiss emits one as part of a rant once she thinks she's figured out how to win the tabletop game the team is playing in V2E2.
** Torchwick gives one after shooting Ruby in V1E16.
* [[Evolving Credits]]: Volume 9 changes its opening credits slightly in episode 6. Up until that point the Rusted Knight had made his brief appearances with his helmet on. However, his face was revealed at the end of episode 5, and after that he is shown in the credits with his helmet off.
* [[Exact Words]]: What some viewers think is in play with {{spoiler|Jin's answer to Ozpin's question in a previous life: "How do I destroy Salem?" "You can't." Ozpin takes it to mean that Salem cannot be destroyed at all. It could simply mean someone else other than him will be the one to destroy her.}}
* [[Exactly What I Aimed At]]: In the battle with Tyrian in V4, he grins when Ruby apparently misses him with a rifle shot and hits one of her teammates -- only to discover it was a lightning dust round ''deliberately'' aimed at Nora to give her a [[Power-Up]].
* [[Exposition Party]]: The Remnant-themed, ''[[Risk]]''-like [[Board Game]] -- called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|''Remnant: The Game'']] -- played by Team RWBY in V2E2 seems like a subtle way to establish some of the geopolitics of the world.
* [[Expy]]:
** Almost everyone in the cast is an Expy of a figure from a [[Fairy Tale]], [[Mythology]], [[Literature]] or even [[History]]. These are covered in detail on the [[RWBY/Characters|Characters page]].
** The Everafter in V9 is filled with characters who are Expies of characters from ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', and Alyx was an Expy of Alice. And her brother Lewis is probably an expy of ''Alice'' author [[Lewis Carroll]].
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: Most if not all of the female cast.
* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]:
** Volume 3 seems to take place entirely within the space of about a week, maybe less -- until the final minutes of the last episode, when a very quick [[Time Passes Montage]] shows us the passage of at least two or three months, leaving the scene in mid- to late-winter.
** Volume 5 is an odd case. It has [[Two Lines, No Waiting|two narrative threads]] running out of synch with each other. The Menagerie thread takes place over the course of at least a month and possibly more -- but the Haven thread appears to take place in less than two weeks, possibly even in one week. (If these estimates are correct, virtually all of the Menagerie thread takes place ''before'' the Haven thread actually starts!)
** Similarly, Volume 6 seems to take place in the space of a week or at most two, aside from flashbacks.
** According to Kerry Shawcross in [https://www.cbr.com/interview-rwby-vol-8-kerry-shawcross-lindsday-jones/ a November 2020 interview with CBR.com], Volume 8 all takes place within the space of a day or two.
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* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The transformation into {{spoiler|Salem's Hound}} suffered by an unidentified silver-eyed man. {{spoiler|Ruby and Yang suspect Salem did the same to their [[Missing Mom]], and intends on doing the same to Ruby}}.
* [[Feather Flechettes]]: The [[The Raven (poem)|Nevermore]] fires its immense feathers in this manner.
* [[Fictional Document]]/[[Show Within a Show]]: An [[In-Universe]] book from Remnant critical to the events of V9, ''The Girl Who Fell Through the World'', is itself a twisted version of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.
* [[Finishing Move]]: Ruby, in the [[Food Fight]] in V2E1.
* [[Fireball Eyeballs]]: A tear-shaped aura of flame around each eye is the indication that a Maiden is using her power.
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* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: Team naming at Beacon (and possibly elsewhere) takes the first initials of the four members of a team and puts them in an order (usually with the team leader's initial first) that can be pronounced as -- or is just similar enough to justify pronunciation as -- a word that is or evokes a color: RWBY (ruby), JNPR (juniper), NDGO (indigo), CRDL (cardinal) and so on.
** V4 practically starts with an argument between Ren and Nora about whether they should be Team JNRR ("Junior") or Team RNJR ("Ranger"). Somehow both ignore the obvious RRNJ ("Orange").
* [[Functional Magic]]: V6E3 revealed that "Humanity Version 1" was universally gifted with magic. Ozma/Ozpin and Salem, as the only survivors of that generation of humanity, both still retain their sorcerous gifts. Salem's power, if V8 is anything to go by, is undiminished. Ozpin, on the other hand, still uses his magic, but the empowerment he has given various individuals, most notably the Four Maidens, Raven and Qrow, appears to have permanently reduced his strength and supply, and he apparently relies on an energy supply in his cane for anything of significant power.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: A very quick, very deliberate one: In V3E6, Ruby wishes Yang good luck in her one-on-one match in the tournament with the traditional "break a leg!". By the end of the episode, {{spoiler|Yang has been framed for crippling Mercury's leg with an unprovoked blow after the match ended.}}
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Blake literally climbing the walls of their dorm room to stay away from Zwei when he first appears in V2E12.
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* [[Give Me Back My Wallet]]: Perpetrated several times in V2 by Emerald, particularly to Mercury and Roman Torchwick.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: The Grimm, especially starting in V4.
* [[God Couple]]: After they reunite in the wake of his first reincarnation, Ozma and Salem set themselves up as the god-rulers of an empire in ancient Remnant, according to Jin's vision in V6E3. It doesn't end well.
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: Blake and Sun's attempts to recruit citizens of Menagerie to help them stop Adam and the White Fang from blowing up Haven Academy in V5. Sadly, no one who is able wants to. {{spoiler|At least, not until the White Fang attempts to assassinate the Belladonas and fail, which prompts Blake to give the people of Menagerie a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] that shames them into joining up.}}
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: In V6, the plan by the founder of Brunswick Farms to calm the other inhabitants down and keep them from attracting Grimm.
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* [[Hand Wave]]: Monty Oum's explanation why some names are mispronounced compared to their source languages.
* [[Happy Dance]]: Nora can be seen doing one after retrieving the artifacts but before the battle with the Deathstalker and the Nevermore in V1E8.
* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: In V1E1, Ruby fails to notice the shop she's in is being robbed by Roman Torchwick because she's reading a magazine while listening to [[
▲* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: In V1E1, Ruby fails to notice the shop she's in is being robbed by Roman Torchwick because she's reading a magazine while listening to [[Theme Tune Cameo|the season's theme song]] on a large pair of headphones.
* [[Heart Drive]]: In V7 we learn that Penny's soul {{spoiler|was originally part of her father Pietro's soul. And that he's donated part of his soul to her ''twice'' by that point}}.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Both Hazel and Emerald, in V8.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]:
** {{spoiler|Ruby late in Volume 3 after Penny is accidentally killed by Pyrrha in the arena.}}
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* [[Hope Spot]]: Inverted in V3E1 when Nora starts speculating about "the worst that could happen" with and after their upcoming bout in the tournament.
* [[Hover Board]]: Reese Chloris of Team ABRN, who first appears in V3E1, has one that's also a couple varieties of weapon.
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: In a time lost to memory, the ancient humans had magic, which gave them the power to fight off the Grimm and make wonders. Other than a single immortal individual, though, they were completely wiped out by their gods after that individual persuaded them to ''attack'' the gods. After the gods abandoned the planet, humanity eventually reappeared on Remnant along with the Faunus (although exactly how has yet to be revealed as of V8), but without the presence of the gods they had no magic. They did have Dust, though -- which some viewers believe is the fossilized magic of Humanity V1.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The "Paladin" battlesuit presented in V2E3, several of which were stolen by Torchwick.
* [[I Have Brothers]]: [[Gender Flip]]ped in V2E7 when Jaune explains that it's because he has seven older sisters that he can dance as well as he does.
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'''Ruby:''' (turns to her, confused) Can y--
'''Weiss:''' (offended) Of course I can!}}
* [[It's a Long Story]]:
*
*** Also an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], as it would be a story about Yang Xiao Long, after all.
** When Team RWBY finally reunites at Haven Academy at the end of V5, Blake asks the others how they came to be there. Ruby replies, "It's a long story".
** In V8E1, when Oscar is asked how he ended up in the slums of Mantle, all he says is "It's a long story".
** The phrase is used often enough that it counts as [[Arc Words]].
* [[Jittercam]]: Oddly used in V3E2 to represent Qrow's drunken lack of equilibrium as he leaves a bar -- from an outside POV.
* [[Jump Scare]]: {{spoiler|Blake (and the audience) gets one while exploring the closed dust mine in V7E3.}}
* [["Just Joking" Justification]]: In V3E1, when Nora's summation of Team JNPR's strengths for their upcoming tournament match is less than complementary about Jaune, she says, "I'm kidding, he knows I'm kidding." Subverted in that Nora has absolutely ''no'' filter between her brain and her mouth, so it's practically certain that she ''was'' teasing him.
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* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Although through the end of Volume 1 this trope seemed to be in play, with all we'd seen anyone own being just three outfits (combat wear, school uniform, and sleepwear), by halfway through Volume 2 it was being fully averted, with formalwear, alternate battledress and casual wear, and things like Nora's "BOOP" T-shirt. V4 revealed even more outfits for some of the characters, while at the same time reinforcing the trope for others new and old. For instance, Qrow and Oscar appear to sleep in their clothes even when not on the road.
* [[Liquid Assets]]: The transfer of {{spoiler|Amber's power as the Autumn Maiden -- in the form of ''her soul'' -- to Pyrrha}} in V3E11 definitely looked like this, with glowing conduits that "flowed" from the one to the other.
* [[Literal Genie]]: Ambrosius, the spirit who resides in the Relic of Creation, not only will create things [[Exact Words|''exactly'' per insufficiently detailed or specific instructions]], he will gladly take stray comments made outside the specific context of describing what's wanted as an excuse to twist the results.
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Basically what defines faunus. Different varieties have different "distinguishing features" -- small horns, tiny antlers, tails, and more traditionally pointed ears are common alternatives or additions to the standard "animal ears on top of head" look. Despite this, they are interfertile with "normal" humans.
** According to [[Word of God|Miles Luna]], faunus normally possess a ''single'' animal trait (although they all also have keen night vision, if we are to believe Blake and Oobleck). He also acknowledges the possibility of faunus whose only defining animal characteristic is ''internal''.
** Mocked by the production staff during the making of V5 with the creation of a joke faunus character who was a Little Bit Human -- a giant hamster with one (unidentified) human trait.
* [[Little Boy Blue Note]]: [[Casey Lee Williams]], the distinctive female voice on many songs for ''RWBY'', performed the songs for its original four trailers (2012-
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Just about every girl in the cast who isn't a [[Badass Adorable]].
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: {{spoiler|No sooner is Torchwick killed in V3E10 than the Atlesian battleship he was controlling begins blowing up.}}
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: According to Miles Luna, 56 named characters with speaking roles were in play by the end of Volume 3.
* [[Love Epiphany]]: In V9, a "punderstorm" in the Everafter forces {{spoiler|both Blake and Yang}} to simultaneously admit to themselves and each other that they love each other.
* [[MacGuffin]]: "The Relic" (mentioned by Salem in V4E3 and Raven in V4E4) is a MacGuffin even though we learn more about what makes it important in V4E8.
* [[Machinima]]: Averted. The animation was produced in Poser for V1-3, and in a dedicated digital animation package starting in V4. Neither is a game, which means ''RWBY'' is an [[All CGI Cartoon]], not a [[Machinima]].
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* [[Magic Skirt]]: Implemented almost accidentally in V1-3 as a result of using Poser as the render engine -- any clothing that wasn't a texture applied to a figure (as is painfully obvious with Dr. Oobleck toward the end of V2) was immobile except at the body articulation points.
** With V4 this starts being averted thanks to the new animation engine -- rather dramatically and deliberately so in the V5 opening credits, when Nora is briefly seen hanging from (presumably) the ceiling of Team RNJR's quarters in Mistral with her skirt flopping down to her hips (and positioned such that any resulting [[Panty Shot]] remains off-screen).
* [[Magical Land]]: The "Everafter", the setting for V9.
* [[Magical Security Cam]]: Several instances of footage reused as cam views can be seen in V1. Possibly justified by the (perhaps literal) [[Magical Computer]]s in use.
** In V4E3, part of the TV news Yang watches includes the footage of Glynda Goodwitch failing to repair a building from V3E12.
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* [[Mouth Cam]]: A variation: in V3E8, we see part of {{spoiler|Penny's (first) death from a point of view ''inside her torso as it is ripped apart''}}.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Professor Port and Dr. Oobleck both become this trope in V3E1, when as part of their roles as hosts and [[Combat Commentator]]s for the Vytal Festival tournament, they explain "to those just tuning in" how the tournament bracketing works.
** Penny plays this role in a V8 episode where she explains what Ruby's Semblance ''really'' is and how it works.
* [[Multicultural Alien Planet]]: By V4 we see that Remnant has a variety of different cultures; not everything looks like early-21st century America.
* [[Multiple Head Case]]: The monstrous snake-based Grimm called the King Taijitu has a head at each end.
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* [[No Peripheral Vision]]: Played with in V1E1. The opponent Ruby is fighting seems to have disappeared -- she looks left and right, but still can't find him. Then she looks up...
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Happens in "I Burn", the pre-Volume 1 [[Image Song]] for Yang -- a line referencing ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' says "I'm Super-Saiyin now". As many will know, "Saiyin" should be pronounced like "Sighin'". Sadly, vocalist Casey Lee Williams was not one of those many, and Yang became "super-sayin".
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** Just ''how'' did Ruby and Weiss end up clinging to the Nevermore in V1E8?
** All we know about how Nora unlocked her semblance is "Got hit by lightning. Didn't die. Craaaaazy Thursday."
* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: The entire tone of the show changed in the last third of the third volume. Prior to the volume's [[Tournament Arc]], it was a (mostly) happy-go-lucky series about a group of super-powered girls at a school for heroes. By the end of the third volume, though, two fan-favorite characters had been killed, the school had been destroyed, and the biggest bad in the series had been revealed after [[You Can't Thwart Stage One|the success of the first stage of her master plan]]. [[Mood Whiplash|The entire series took on a darker tone]], and the focus changed from "hero high" to "save the world". The shift in the series had been planned from the start, with the characters who were killed created expressly to be [[Sacrificial Lamb]]s, which caused the production team some concern when they discovered the early seasons of the show had picked up a [[Periphery Demographic]] of children that they had never anticipated.
* [[Obligatory Joke]]: The girls on Team RWBY seem to be consciously choosing to make this a habit.
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** Penny does it during her first appearance in V1E15, moving from half a block behind Team RWBY to just in front of them; also lampshaded when Weiss has a mild [[Freak-Out]] over it. (Possibly justified in this case by Penny being a [[Robot Girl]] capable of feats beyond human limits; she may have just run very quickly.)
* [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]]: Averted with Salem, when we see the creation of Grimm at the start of V4.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Every character developed sufficiently to have a name has a ''unique'' name. There seem to be ''no'' "common" or "ordinary" personal names in Remnant, despite there being far more humans than there are possible color references to name them with.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Thoroughly averted, especially in Volume 3.
** Qrow tries to claim this after {{spoiler|getting hit with Tyrian's poison stinger}} in V4E7. He's not able to hold up the facade, though, making this a clear aversion.
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: {{spoiler|When Cinder's faction takes control of the Atlesian robots, their faces/optical sensors/heads turn red.}}
** Also, any time Yang's eyes turn red -- such as in the Volume 5 Trailer.
* [[Reforged Into a Minion]]: Late in v8, Ruby and Yang discover that Salem has been capturing humans with silver eyes (and the anti-Grimm empowerment that goes with them) and turning them into Grimm "hounds" she uses to pursue her targets. They fear that this was the likely fate of their long-[[Missing Mom]] who, like Ruby, had those same silver eyes.
* [[Regenerating Shield, Static Health]]: This seems to be the basic mechanism by which awakened Aura functions, acting as a large but finite damage shield protecting a significantly smaller quantity of health. It's not the only way Aura works, as it seems to [[Regeneration|regenerate health]] when it is present in sufficient amounts, as well as fueling Semblances; but once awakened it appears Aura immediately starts acting like a shield.
* [[Repeat Cut]]: Used when Qrow blocks Tyrian's stinger strike on Ruby in V4E6.
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** Also, this is basically Neo's reaction to Raven's appearance in V2E11 -- she takes one look at Raven and immediately teleports out.
* [[Sea Monster]]: A sea-dragon-like Grimm appears in V4E3.
* [[Self-Mutilation Demonstration]]: Although they're usually seen via [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]s, during Jin's account of her origins in V6E3 this one of the ways how Salem would demonstrate her (cursed) immortality when recruiting the rulers of Humanity V1.0 to attack the gods.
* [[Separate Scene Storytelling]]: We get this several times (always accompanied by a change in animation style), most notably Yang's story of looking for her mother when she was very young, the tale of the Four Maidens, and Qrow's account of the creation of Remnant and humanity.
* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: Jaune tries this in V2 as a way to ask Weiss to the dance. It doesn't work.
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* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Pyrrha gives one to Jaune in V3E12.
* [[Shy Finger-Twiddling]]: Ruby during the first time she meets Weiss.
* [[Sigil Spam]]:
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** It's fairly subtle at first, but Jaune has the "Pumpkin Pete" rabbit-head logo on a lot of his belongings, including his pajamas and the hoodie he wears under his armor.
* [[Signature Colors]]: Huntsmen and Huntresses appear to have signature colors. It's more pronounced in the main characters -- Ruby's red and black, Yang's brown and saffron, Weiss's white and pastel blue, Nora's pink and white -- but it appears to be present in the stylings of the older generation as well. Ruby and Yang's father, Taiyang Xiao Long, seems to have a similar color scheme to Yang's, for instance.
* [[Single Phlebotinum Limit]]: Dust; it seems to be the only thing allowing humans to have a civilization at all in the face of the Grimm.
* [[Slow-Motion Pass-By]]: When Blake and Sun Wukon first see each other in V1E15.
* [[The Slow Path]]: {{spoiler|Jaune}} seems to have been [[Time Travel|sent back in time]] upon his arrival in the Everafter, and waited ''years'' to meet back up with Team RWBY.
* [[Smoke Shield]]: During Weiss's fight with the Lancers in V5, she detonates every bit of dust her airship was carrying in the face of the queen Lancer, only to have the giant Grimm insect appear, unharmed, through the resulting cloud of smoke.
* [[Snot Bubble]]:
** Nora while sleeping in the Beacon library, V2E2.
** Also Nora, in V7E2, when she's asleep on her feet after a far-too-long tour of Atlas Academy.
** Little while sleeping in Ruby's collar in V9E1.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Clearly in play: Volume 1 is mostly [[Mooks]] and low-level bosses. Volume 2 begins upping the ante with mid-level boss {{spoiler|Cinder}}. Volume 3 ends by revealing {{spoiler|Salem, the apparent Grimm Queen}}. Volume 4 begins by revealing that Salem has a whole organization infiltrating the human nations, not just Cinder and her minions.
* [[Spent Shells Shower]]: The "Red" trailer ends this way. Also in the "Yellow" trailer when Yang reloads Ember Celica.
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** Ghira Belladonna is able to catch and support a large wooden balcony that falls more than a story when one of its support columns is shattered in V5E10.
* [[Super Window Jump]]: Ruby performs one in the V4 teaser shown at RTX 2016.
* [[Sweat Drop]]: Appears occasionally, such as Ruby in V9E6, as the series embraces its anime inspirations and aspirations.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Most of the weapons we see in the series. The few exceptions include Jaune's sword (although his shield might count), Ren's pistols (which while combining blades and guns haven't yet shown ability to change shape), and Torchwick's cane-gun Melodic Cudgel.
* [[Sword Sparks]]: Multiple examples when Dust-using weapons are involved.
* [[Tabletop Game]]: In V2E2, the girls of Team RWBY play a Remnant-themed game that seems to be half ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' and half ''[[Risk]]''.
* [[Talking Animal]]: "Little", a talking mouse (from an entire tribe of talking mice, voiced by [[Luci Christian]]) befriended by Ruby in V9E1.
* [[Talking to the Dead]]: V3E1 starts with Ruby at her mother's grave site, updating her on the events of the first two volumes.
* [[Tenement Clotheslines]]: Several clotheslines are seen strung overhead between the buildings on either side of the street down which Roman Torchwick and his thugs stroll in the first few minutes of the very first episode. Interestingly, we never see such clotheslines in Vale ever again.
* [[That Was the Last Entry]]: {{spoiler|"I'm tired", in the journals of the founder of Brunswick Farms in V6. It's a sign of a plan [[Gone Horribly Right]].}}
* [[Theme Naming]]: All over the place.
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:* The members of Team JNPR are all named for historical or mythological figures who [[Crossdresser|crossdressed]] at one point or another. For instance, Achilles tried to duck out on the Trojan war by disguising himself as a woman named "Pyrrha".
:* Across teams, we have the historical theme naming between Jaune Arc and Cardin Winchester. (Henry Beaufort, the Cardinal of Winchester, interrogated and presided over the trial of [[Joan of Arc]].)
:* This is eventually revealed to be a deliberate in-universe ''political'' choice among the peoples of the world in defiance of the ultimately losing side of the great war eighty years earlier, who sought (among other goals) to "protect" people from the Grimm by suppressing and destroying anything that inflamed extreme emotion -- including all individuality and artistic expression.
* [[Theme Song Reveal]]: The Volume One theme, "This Will Be The Day", was warning about the events of Volume 3 and beyond from the start:
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''So someone else can claim a victory?''}}
** And the Volume Three theme, "When It Falls", makes no bones about what's going to happen by the end of that volume.
** The songs from the four [[Trailers]] also are clearly implying things; all of them have turned out to reference events in the girls' lives prior to the start of the series, and save for the "Red" trailer (as of the start of
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* [[There Is a God]]: According to Qrow, Ozpin insists that two of Remnant's many gods are in fact real: a god of light and creation, and a god of darkness and destruction, who were brothers and who fought over the state of Remnant. This is confirmed by Jin and the Relic of Knowledge near the start of V6.
* [[They Walk Among Us]]: The Faunus.
* [[Thick Line Animation]]: It's not consistent across all the artwork, but in general the show has this kind of look. It's especially noticeable with things like the Deathstalker in V1E8, and character faces.
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** Also multiple instances in the space of seconds in the opening credits for V2.
* [[Throat Light]]: The Grimm, starting after the change in animation engines in V4.
* [[Throw It In]]: The animators at Rooster Teeth are encouraged to come up with bits of "business" to add to scenes. For instance, the sequence where Torchwick silently mocks Emerald and Mercury as Cinder reprimands them in V2E1, ending with a mimed throat-cutting, was the invention of the animator who worked on that scene. Another created an entire sequence with a detailed set for use late in V3 with spare bits of render time here and there during the preceding year.
** The Crow Bar in V3E2 gained its name from an off-the-cuff name for its model file.
** The entire Four Maidens subplot was created during Volume 2 by Monty Oum, and added to the pre-existing master plot.
* [[Thwarted Coup De Grace]]: Neo is about to administer a [[Coup De Grace]] to Yang in V2E11 when she is interrupted -- not by Yang's death, but by {{spoiler|the arrival of Yang's mother Raven Branwen through a portal}}.
* [[Time Skip]]: V4 opens some six to eight months after the end of V3.
* [[Time Travel]]: In a [[Flashback (trope)|Flashback]] in V9E6, it appears picking a clocklike fruit after his arrival in the Everafter sent Jaune an unspecified number of years into its past, which [[The Slow Path|he has to live through]] in order to meet up with Team RWBY again.
* [[Timmy in a Well]]: In V2E10, Zwei rushes back to the team's camp to alert them that Ruby's fallen through a crumbling road and into a cavern beneath.
* [[Toilet Humour]]: Ruby's scribbled drawing of Professor Port calling him "Professor Poop" (made in V1E9).
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* [[Train Job]]: The "Black" trailer is about one, which becomes a plot point late in Volume 1.
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Team RWBY and Dr. Oobleck fight one with Torchwick's White Fang forces in V2E11.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: The central trope of Volume 9.
* [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot]]:
** Ruby seems to forget she has [[Super Speed]] whenever she needs to be in peril, at least in the first volume or two.
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* [[Vestigial Empire]]: We are told explicitly by the unknown narrator that all four modern civilizations are this. Which is why the world is called "Remnant".
* [[Victory Dance]]: Sun and Neptune perform one after they defeat team NDGO in V3.
* [[Visual Pun]]:
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Deliberately averted with Ozpin and Oscar in V5. According to the writers' V5 commentary track, the production team felt that having Shannon McCormick's Ozpin voice coming out of Oscar's mouth would have been ridiculous. Instead, they lucked out in that Aaron Dismuke, Oscar's voice actor, could ''perfectly'' mimic Ozpin's cadence and delivery in Oscar's voice. Even so, the aversion wasn't ''total'' -- several times ''both'' performers' voices were carefully blended together for special moments.▼
** A pair of (golden) crowbars are mounted on the wall of the bar in which Qrow is getting drunk early in V3. And the official name of the establishment is eventually revealed to actually ''be'' "The Crow Bar".
** The Curious Cat from V9 has a body that doesn't seem to be to concerned about being all in one piece all the time. During his first appearance his front half is talking with Team RWBY, and at a moment of hesitation from one of the girls he says, "I feel a 'but' coming on" -- just as his back half emerges from the grass behind him and reattaches itself.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]:
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** When the Curious Cat [[Demonic Possession|possesses]] [[Cute Mute]] Neo in V9E8, he still speaks with his own voice.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Jaune, off-screen at the end of V1E1, and onscreen into a trash can at the start of V1E2.
** Nora gets one in V3E8 after Ren feeds her a green "health drink" that seems to be made from algae.
* [[Waking Non Sequitur]]:
** Nora blurting "Pancake!" upon being awakened, V2E2.
** Jaune
* [[Walk and Talk]]: The scene in V3 where Pyrrha is brought down to the vault under Beacon and has matters explained to her as they walk down the long, torchlit gallery.
* [[Was Once a Man]]:
* [[Was Once a Man]]: {{spoiler|Salem's Hound from Volume 8 turned out to have been "built" around a man possessing the same mystical silver eyes as Ruby. After its defeat, Ruby and Yang speculate that Salem probably turned their mother Summer Rose into such a creatureand that it's why she wants Ruby captured alive.}}▼
** Salem, thanks to the combination of divinely-imposed immortality and whatever the Dark God's Grimm pools did to her, is much closer to a [[Humanoid Abomination]] than she is to a human being now.
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* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: {{spoiler|Penny's big beam attack.}} To a lesser degree, Coco's man-portable minigun.
* [[Web Animation]]
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The modern incarnation of the White Fang is full of these, but there are hints that they are being manipulated for some sinister purpose.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: The version of the White Fang seen in V1-5 is somewhere between Type VII and Type VIII. They started out as a non-violent [[Civil Rights Movement]] for [[Beast Man|Faunus]], but there was a change in leadership about five years before the start of the series, and their methods turned violent. There are hints that they are being manipulated by someone else for more sinister purposes.
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Torchwick uses these exact words
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened to the Rapier Wasps?]]: ''Someone'' should have gotten stung in V1E14, but they basically vanished.
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: What their encounter with the Herbalist forces Team RWBY to face in V9E4. Yang, Blake and Weiss come out the stronger for it, but Ruby ends up with a crisis of confidence and growing doubt about her calling as a huntress.
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
** Volume 3, Episode 6, "Fall".
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** Volume 6, Episode 4: {{spoiler|"I ... don't have one."}}
* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]: In a [[Mythology Gag]] for Cinder, she's informed in V2E6 that she has to get ''back'' to the ball by midnight.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]/[[Fable Remake]]: Volume 9 as a whole, twice over. The events echo an [[Fictional Document|in-universe book]], ''The Girl Who Fell Through the World'', which itself is a twisted version of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: According to a story told by Port and Taiyang in V4E4, Qrow (as a student) was tricked into wearing a skirt in public.
* [[A Wild Rapper Appears]]: Lamar Hall, in the full version of "I Burn" from the "Yellow" trailer/Volume 1, "Caffeine" from Volume 2,
* [[Wild Take]]: Ruby's reaction to seeing Jaune's "Pumpkin Pete" hoodie in V4E1 includes gales of raucous laughter, an exaggeratedly enlarged head filling much of the screen, and finally falling over onto the floor, giggling, with her feet in the air.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]] {{spoiler|At the end of V4 it looks like Ren and Nora are finally ''really'' together.}}
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* [[World of Action Girls]]: Most of the females with a name are very capable fighters.
* [[World of Badass]]: Almost ''every'' named character is a [[Badass]] in some way.
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* [[Wutai]]: The Asian-flavored towns and villages that Team RNJR encounters on the continent of Anima in V4. Oddly, their inhabitants aren't ethnically Asian, but everything else about the places ''is''.
* [[X-Ray Sparks]]: In V5E13, {{spoiler|Nora's skeleton is briefly visible through her flesh when the enraged Hazel is unknowingly charging her up with his electrical attack}}.
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* [[You Monster!]]: When an ursa presses Yang's [[Berserk Button]] by slicing a single strand of her hair from her head in V1E7, she screams [[Captain Obvious|"You monster!"]] at it before literally exploding into flame and then pummeling it to death.
* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]: What the current version of White Fang thinks of itself, of course.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Blake's stockings in her battle garb
** Weiss's "casual wear" revealed in V2E3 has her rocking Rank A stockings and [[Thigh-High Boots]].
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