She was antisocial for maybe three episodes and has never been a /k/tier weapon sperg outside of that one line that tells us she built her own scythe off-screen before episode 1.
We never even had the first, it's been shit all the way down for Ruby Rose.
Don't forget that brief moment where she gushes over some weapons offscreen when she gets to Beacon.
And when she gushes about another off-screen weapon when they get to Mistral.
The whole discrimination subplot just falls apart because the faunus are biologically the superior species. They all have innate night vision alongside other animal traits. All of those would aid in survival. I recall in one of the lore videos that human-faunus offspring are always faunus. Humanity would be in the right to discriminate against the faunus because they pose a threat to the survival of humanity. This would be comparable to humans vs neanderthals, if everyone back then lived as we do.
And people wonder why Adam Taurus got compared to Magneto: They both see their kinds as superior to regular folk.
That's why they had Raven Branwen. The strong live, the weak die. Those are the rules.
Then they ignored it to make him an incel who got cucked by a bimbo.
A "Totally was always gay despite lusting after monkey man cock and your a bigot if you point out otherwise" Bimbo.
Well....Volumes 7 and 8 gotta be pretty hard on Penny fans.
Except it wasn't funny. In the slightest.
It made me laugh.
It's insane that a big criticism of Penny's "death" in Volume 3 was that she was a robot so she could be rebuilt and wasn't even badly damaged enough to not consider it and it got ignored for years. She's treated as dead for real in the show and the writers never want to actually address how dumb that is. Then suddenly she comes back having been rebuilt YEARS after the fact, only for them to bullshit turning her into a human and then killing her off again. It's like they were so butthurt about the obvious plothole they thought they could be clever (and I use that word loosely here) and bring her back to kill her off as a human just so they could go "No! She's dead! Shut up!"
I admit I wouldn't have been on the side of saying Jaune was his self insert at first because I'll at least say Jaune had a character for the first couple seasons. He wasn't perfect and suffered for misakes, and learned. But in Volume 3 Jaune suddenly felt lifeless, Volume 4 he was just there as an accessory to Ren's garbage generic backstory, then in Volume 5 he gets a stupid deus ex machina Semblance that magics Weiss out of a mortal injury and later after they gave him the banana haircut he's suddenly seen as an uber chad who all the ladies in town are thirsting after... yeah now I agree he's definitely a self insert. I guess we can attribute Jaune having a character at all to Monty being there and being the main creative force for the beginning. Monty may not be a great writer who sucks at establishing worldbuilding but damn at least when he was involved in writing characters they didn't all feel boring and/or insanely unlikable.
Whether Jaune is a self-insert or not is kinda irrelevant. Luke Skywalker is based around a lot of George Lucas’ own youth life (ffs Luke S.), hell Monty voiced Ren until he died, and because Ren has barely had any presence nobody cared.
Probably because a big speculation around the time Penny died was that since she has Aura and therefore a soul, future appearance would have her completely reset and might as well be something else completely. Penny was treated as dead for real because people genuinely believed that the Penny we know and love was gone forever.
There's also the part where in seemingly every volume, Jaune gets soomething that seems main character oriented, with maybe the exception of Volume 2.
RWBY isn’t anti-military; Winter is a Marial Law-loving girlboss who defends the realm and never bends; Marrow defects; the Ace Ops save Harriet and are uncomfortable with Ironwood’s orders, etc. It doesn’t even really closely critique the military’s power; it’s just there as a background element when they make an insufferable bad guy try taking away Ironwood’s second council seat.
