RWBY - The Hindenburg on which Rooster Teeth rests its hopes, dreams and future

[TheClorax]

What kind of character design are these? What theme are they even going for, wooden planks with nails sticking out of them? How do you fuck up character design so bad that it make both Dobson and Chris Chan look competent?

The team name is BRIR. Probably as in, "Briar thorns," which is probably why they all have spikes in their designs.
It's not clever at all.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

The team name is BRIR. Probably as in, "Briar thorns," which is probably why they all have spikes in their designs.
It's not clever at all.

I'm sure some faggot on Reddit will spontaneously have a neuron fire off, leading them to make the connection between briars and spikes and proclaim that the writers are so fucking smart for their layered designs or some stupid shit.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

I'm sure some faggot on Reddit will spontaneously have a neuron fire off, leading them to make the connection between briars and spikes and proclaim that the writers are so fucking smart for their layered designs or some stupid shit.

They seriously compared RWBYs "writing" to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

They seriously compared RWBYs "writing" to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's.

What? Where?

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

What? Where?

The RWBY subreddit. Really old post.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

The RWBY subreddit. Really old post.

Was it one of these two?
dr. arthur watts inspiration is doctor watson from sherlock holmes [Archive]
Discussion: Concerning Watts, What We've Learned About Him So Far, and his Potential Background/Roles for Future Story Arcs [Archive]

 

[HumanHive]

Watts is based on Dr Wily, which is a copyrighted character so they can’t reveal that. He has zero similarities with Watson, who was an army doctor.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I don't think that most people have actually read Sherlock Holmes and their exposure to the property is limited to those shitty Robert Downey Jr. film adaptations and memes.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

shitty Robert Downey Jr. film adaptations

How brave of you to assume they're drawing knowledge from something of a higher quality than the BBC Sherlock series with Benedict Cumberbatch.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

How brave of you to assume they're drawing knowledge from something of a higher quality than the BBC Sherlock series with Benedict Cumberbatch.

Thanks for reminding me that bullshit exists, I really don't appreciate it.

 

[LordBaron]

Overall, I think that Watts is a potentially complex character, with his name, appearance, and actions (during his very limited screen time in V4) already providing a treasure trove of clues for us to explore and consider.

Aged like milk in the sun.

 

[TheClorax]

Watts is based on Dr Wily, which is a copyrighted character so they can’t reveal that. He has zero similarities with Watson, who was an army doctor.

RWBY's Fairytale inspirations are honestly pretty useless in terms of helping a character analysis.
There's no real consistency in how the inspiration plays into the character, except maybe the Wizard of Oz ones, and few of them actually tell you anything about the characters.
How does knowing Ruby is Little Red Riding Hood affect your understanding of her character, or where it's going to go? Or Salem being the Wicked Witch? Hell some aren't even fairytales at all, Coco's a fashion designer Nazi, Neon and the rest of FNKI are memes/in-jokes, and I don't think Sherlock Holmes is a fairytale.
This is why I don't really get why people keep trying to find Neo's allusion, they seldomly matter beyond fueling fan theories.
For a setting that emphasizes fairytales and stories, they really aren't that important in the grand scheme of the plot or setting.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

I think that kinda sums up the problem with fantasy races perfectly. Writers specially with amateurs just fall in this pit where the races are just there to be some sort of checkmark for their work to qualify as fantasy. The Elves are just the race supremacists, the dwarves are just the filthy gold-hoarding drunks, the humans are just there being dumb and ignorant, and the orcs are just another subversion of the evil race trope.

I see a lot of edgy misanthrope creators have the 'human race' in their works just to emphasis all of our worst traits and how 'boring' we are. Makes me wonder why none of them leave it out entirely if they don't like humanity so much. The Matrix was kinda cool but it's like they REALLY loved that one Agent Smith quote way too much.

 

[Gar For Archer]

RWBY's Fairytale inspirations are honestly pretty useless in terms of helping a character analysis.
There's no real consistency in how the inspiration plays into the character, except maybe the Wizard of Oz ones, and few of them actually tell you anything about the characters.
How does knowing Ruby is Little Red Riding Hood affect your understanding of her character, or where it's going to go? Or Salem being the Wicked Witch? Hell some aren't even fairytales at all, Coco's a fashion designer Nazi, Neon and the rest of FNKI are memes/in-jokes, and I don't think Sherlock Holmes is a fairytale.
This is why I don't really get why people keep trying to find Neo's allusion, they seldomly matter beyond fueling fan theories.
For a setting that emphasizes fairytales and stories, they really aren't that important in the grand scheme of the plot or setting.

lol, RWBY characters take less from their inspirations than fucking Fate servants, and that’s really saying something.

 

[Decepticon Spy]

I see a lot of edgy misanthrope creators have the 'human race' in their works just to emphasis all of our worst traits and how 'boring' we are. Makes me wonder why none of them leave it out entirely if they don't like humanity so much. The Matrix was kinda cool but it's like they REALLY loved that one Agent Smith quote way too much.

Biggest fucking pet peeve on Fantasy shit. "Hurr-durr the humans are bad, ignorant, assholes who never learned from mistakes" it's like they're all completely blind to the fact that we aggressively adapt and learn from mistakes for millennia now. I can't for the life of me find a goddamn race-based fantasy setting aside from Tolkein's works where humans aren't the biggest strawmen.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Biggest fucking pet peeve on Fantasy shit. "Hurr-durr the humans are bad, ignorant, assholes who never learned from mistakes" it's like they're all completely blind to the fact that we aggressively adapt and learn from mistakes for millennia now. I can't for the life of me find a goddamn race-based fantasy setting where humans aren't the biggest strawmen aside from Tolkein's works.

It's even worse when humans are the brutish evil race who never learns but yet still somehow manage to be the dominant race on the continent and shit stomp all the others despite apparently being brutes and savages.

 

[WULULULULU]

The RWBY subreddit. Really old post.

As expected. Its fucking reddit. I swear that hosts some of the most braindead echo-chambers I've ever seen. In fact, every damn subreddit is an echo-chamber for similar-minded spergs.

 

[Random Internet Person]

RWBY's Fairytale inspirations are honestly pretty useless in terms of helping a character analysis.
There's no real consistency in how the inspiration plays into the character, except maybe the Wizard of Oz ones, and few of them actually tell you anything about the characters.
How does knowing Ruby is Little Red Riding Hood affect your understanding of her character, or where it's going to go? Or Salem being the Wicked Witch? Hell some aren't even fairytales at all, Coco's a fashion designer Nazi, Neon and the rest of FNKI are memes/in-jokes, and I don't think Sherlock Holmes is a fairytale.
This is why I don't really get why people keep trying to find Neo's allusion, they seldomly matter beyond fueling fan theories.
For a setting that emphasizes fairytales and stories, they really aren't that important in the grand scheme of the plot or setting.

lol, RWBY characters take less from their inspirations than fucking Fate servants, and that’s really saying something.

The allusions and refrences were always superficial. All they're really meant for is references, in jokes, and Easter Eggs. And maybe visual shit like fighting moves.

 

[WULULULULU]

I never get the appeal of naming your group based on the first letter of your name. That already screams autism when it comes to naming. Its like naming the Universal Union from Half-Life 2 as "UU". Like who the fuck actually does that?

 

[Decepticon Spy]

I never get the appeal of naming your group based on the first letter of your name. That already screams autism when it comes to naming. Its like naming the Universal Union from Half-Life 2 as "UU". Like who the fuck actually does that?

You can blame Monty for that. He has talent when it comes to fighting animations but good lord is he a massive autistic weeaboo. He wants RWBY to feel like an anime down to the superficial anime bullshit like the acronym team names, attack shout outs, and the god forsaken animal niggers faunus. He is also largely to blame with how the writing is shit too, as much as I like to shit on Miles, he's clearly the talent between the galaxy brain duo and can actually write a story continuation if given the proper guideline instead of the bullshit anime homework method Monty loves to sperg about.