RWBY Thread III: Time To Say Goodbye

Stop: So gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
so gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
We get a lot of reports from this thread. A lot of it is just a series of people yelling at each other over arguments that have been rehashed hundreds of times since the end of the recent Volume. And I get that the last Volume - and RWBY in general, really - has some controversial moments that people will want to discuss, argue about, debate, etc.

That's fine. We're not going to stop people from doing that, because that's literally what the point of the thread is. However, there's just a point where it gets to be a bit too much, and arguments about whether or not Ironwood was morally justified in his actions in the recent Volume, or if RWBY and her team were in the right for withholding information from Ironwood out of distrust, or whatever flavor of argument of the day descend into insulting other posters, expressing a demeaning attitude towards other's opinions, and just being overall unpleasant. That tends to happen a lot in this thread. We want it to stop happening in this thread.

So! As of now the thread is in a higher state of moderation. What that means is that any future infractions will result in a weeklong boot from the thread, and repeated offenders will likely be permanently removed. So please, everyone endeavor to actually respect the other's arguments, and even if you strongly disagree with them please stay civil and mindful when it comes to responding to others.

In addition, users should refrain from talking about off-site users in the thread. Bear in mind that this does not mean that you cannot continue to post tumblr posts, for example, that add onto the discussion in the thread, with the caveat that it's related to RWBY of course. But any objections to offsite users in the thread should be handled via PM, or they'll be treated as thread violations and infracted as such.
 
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What I find concerning is the way that DC-native Semblances seem to be universally going horribly wrong.

None of the Semblances we've seen in regular canon are that self-destructive. Even Qrow's Semblance isn't this bad.
Somewhere up in the meta-layer of the DC universe there is a dial marked 'high drama'. And at some point somebody cranked it all the way up to 11 and then broke off the dial.
 
Counterpoint they're in gotham.

Gothamite Semblances being a personal hazard makes too much sense.

Considering what they fight as part of their day-job, an Aura-less man in a bat costume isn't that scary. Yes, he is well trained and has a bunch of tricks but they probalby have to be careful not to break him in a fight. I mean consider what Yang casually did to that idiot bandit. A normal human wouldn't rag-doll/bounce like that; they'd splatter/break.

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Heck a better example is shown in the comic itself. From the looks of it, Batman was fighting a single Creep and it was portrayed as a dangerous opponent that he needed to take seriously etc etc.
Compare this to RWBY where Creeps, Ursa and Beowolves are the freaking cannon fodder. Where the only hope they have to even inconvence a Huntress is to drown them in pure numbers and the team slaughters these Grimm whole-sale in a manner of seconds.

I'd bet on Batman in a fight (I wouldn't be happy about it, mind you), given that realistically, he'd be somewhere between Qrow and Oz in terms of combat field experience. No matter how much I'd adore seeing him being kicked shitless by teenagers in colorful outfits.
 
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I'd bet on Batman in a fight (I wouldn't be happy about it, mind you), given that realistically, he'd be somewhere between Qrow and Oz in terms of combat field experience. No matter how much I'd adore seeing him being kicked shitless by teenagers in colorful outfits.
Stephanie Brown could sneak up on Batman by accident with nothing but her own self done training. Also in terms of training VS life experience, I mean, Yang & Ruby have been training for this since they were young, so they aren't as far behind in terms of years as one would think. Plus realistically he can't even hurt Aura users. Then again DC's weird about how super strong Batman or any of the none powered heroes are meant to be, but as others noted, he struggled with a Creep so I'm not giving him a win XD

I do like the idea that girls are basically infecting the DC Universe with their own universe.
Same, its an interesting way to do a crossover, and the fact both sides are being influenced by the proximity makes it even more intriguing and dangerous for all involved, as well as providing good reason to force things back to normal.
 
Batman 'winning' would depend on if he manages to get them with a sleep gas bomb or something special like that.

On the other hand in terms of brute force combat unless he starts running them over with the batmobile multiple times, he isn't subduing them. See the Paladin fight in V2 where Weiss (the weakest in terms of damage resistance) takes a near-explosion form mini-missile barrage and just got the wind knocked out of her since she was back in the fight pretty quick; to Yang getting smashed through multiple highway support pillars and then punched thorugh another only to just get back up mad.

Either way, the fight gets put on hold by Ruby and I doubt the girls were putting their all into it since their goal was to hunt down the Grimm in the city, not beat J Random edgelord into the ground.
 
J Random edgelord into the ground.

Now now, Batman is THE edgelord!

Stephanie Brown could sneak up on Batman by accident with nothing but her own self done training. Also in terms of training VS life experience, I mean, Yang & Ruby have been training for this since they were young, so they aren't as far behind in terms of years as one would think. Plus realistically he can't even hurt Aura users. Then again DC's weird about how super strong Batman or any of the none powered heroes are meant to be, but as others noted, he struggled with a Creep so I'm not giving him a win XD

Yeah, but DC baseline humans are pretty much metahumans, so frankly he'd be closer to them physically than he should be anyway. Having trouble with a Creep I took partly as having non-lethal weapons and general unfamiliarity with fighting Grimm.

And Stephanie is more awesome than the Ninja-Pirate-Bat anyway.
 
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Yeah, but DC baseline humans are pretty much metahumans, so frankly he'd be closer to them physically than he should be anyway. Having trouble with a Creep I took partly as having non-lethal weapons and general unfamiliarity with fighting Grimm.

And Stephanie is more awesome than the Ninja-Pirate-Bat anyway.
I'm concurring with @jwolfe_beta also I think Jason Todd would disagree on Batarangs not being lethal, hahah, haa.. ha... (Sobs)

On this we concur!

girls holding items of the fallen
Dang your eyes, I was gonna post that one XD
Seriously though, am I gonna have to do another Ruby parallels its villain and heroes episode now?
Oh this, I like this!
 
I was mostly just referencing that time Bruce slit his sons throat over trying to make a real point XD

I know you were


Under The Red Hood, the storyline that brought Jason back from the dead. Jason had the Joker at gunpoint and was going to kill him unless Bruce stopped him. So Bruce, because he's the sort to try and stop even a justified murder happening in front of him, threw a batrarang at the gun, which then hit Jason in the throat because of fucking course it did. Unless DCs had him do it again deliberately in one of their 'edgy' moments, which wouldn't shock me. They like pointing out Batman doesn't kill in the dumbest ways possible, usually blaming him for the Joker and such in the process, and they ADORE shitting on Jason.
 
so i read dc/rwby 1 on kindle, decent though blake made a couple of faunus references that were a little hamfisted might've been just to introduce the concepts to the dc side of the audience though.

Also ruby's eyes either change colour a few time or are simply more reflective than they're usually depicted.


 
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More or less what Matrix said, though the slice was actually a rebound, but yeah it basically ripped Jason's neck wide open and got blood everywhere.

so i read dc/rwby 1 on kindle, decent though blake made a couple of faunus references that were a little hamfisted might've been just to introduce the concepts to the dc side of the audience though.

Also ruby's eyes either change colour a few time or are simply more reflective than they're usually depicted.
Can I ask where you are reading it?
Hmm, good question!
 
The Ruby eye color thing is weird because her eyes are clearly silver at some points


There's a line that gets me, "that means he has a soul". Did RWBY see someone just get wrecked by a Grimm, realized they had no Aura, and thought most people in this universe had no souls or something?

Also apparently Ruby got one look at the Gotham Police and decided ACAB, I enjoy this

Can I ask where you are reading it?
I found it on Amazon
 
so i read dc/rwby 1 on kindle, decent though blake made a couple of faunus references that were a little hamfisted might've been just to introduce the concepts to the dc side of the audience though.

Also ruby's eyes either change colour a few time or are simply more reflective than they're usually depicted.


No, I've seen that fanfic before. It means she's becoming part Grimm.
 
So first issues tend of comics tend to be a bit strange and this maybe me reading to much into things but I think to RWBY, Batman kind of makes no sense since you wouldn't really want a crime fighter in Remnant who created terror, even among villains. So I think to RWBY, someone like Batman basically inherently has to be a villain because a hero pulling what Batman does would just create more problems.
 
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