History Recap / RWBYV2E12Breach

* AmbiguousSituation: TheStinger scene between Raven and Yang doesn't fit into the rest of the volume. Team RWBY's final act of the volume is to go to bed, with Yang stating that she's looking forward to sleeping. The scene starts with Yang walking down the promenade from the entrance to Beacon towards its central statue. There she finds Raven, who takes off her mask and declares they need to talk. The entire scene has an eerie, dreamlike quality that creates an air of unreality, which helps to emphasise that Yang was last seen stating she wanted to sleep. It cuts away before anything is revealed, and closes the volume on a surreal note.

* AmbiguousSituation: TheStinger scene between Raven and Yang doesn't fit into the rest of the volume. Team RWBY's final act of the volume is to go to bed, with Yang stating that she's looking forward to sleeping. The scene starts with Yang walking down the promenade from the entrance to Beacon towards its central statue. There she finds Raven, who takes off her mask and declares they need to talk. The entire scene has an eerie, dreamlike quality that creates an air of unreality, which helps to emphasise that Yang was last seen stating she wanted to sleep. It cuts away before anything is revealed, and closes the volume on a surreal note. Revelations in later volumes also cast doubt on the reality of this meeting, as it's never referenced again and even outright contradicted by Yang telling Qrow that Raven has never spoken to her before in Volume 3.

* AmbiguousSituation: TheStinger scene between Raven and Yang doesn't fit into the rest of the volume. Team RWBY's final act of the volume is to go to bed, with Yang stating that she's looking forward to sleeping. The scene starts with Yang walking down the promenade from the entrance to Beacon towards its central statue. There she finds Raven, who takes off her mask and declares they need to talk. The entire scene has an eerie, dreamlike quality that creates an air of unreality, which helps to emphasise that Yang was last seen stating she wanted to sleep. It cuts away before anything is revealed, and closes the volume on a surreal note.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Voice acting credits for the end of the volume roll in appearance order. If a new character is introduced in TheStinger, it's therefore spoiled by being the last name in the credits list before TheStinger is shown. Unlike the Volume 1 stinger, where Roman already knew who Cinder even though the audience didn't, Raven's first speaking role occurs in the Volume 2 stinger, meaning that the audience finds out her identity before Yang does, including that she shares Qrow's surname.

* InterfaceSpoiler: By a process of elimination, the credits reveal the masked woman's name to be Raven Branwen (also FiveSecondForeshadowing for TheStinger since she had no speaking lines), although her relationship to Yang is currently unclear.

* TheStinger: The end-credits scene consists of Yang confronting the masked woman who rescued her from Neo; the masked woman reveals her face, with red eyes and looking similar to Yang, and tells her they need to talk (and her apparent appearance angers Yang to the point her eyes turn red as well).

* TheStinger: The end-credits scene consists of Yang confronting the masked woman who rescued her from Neo; the masked woman reveals her face and tells her they need to talk.

%% * AudibleSharpness: Yatsuhashi's sword.
%% * {{BFG}}: The contents of Coco's bag, an enormous minigun.
%% * {{BFS}}: Yatsuhashi's sword.
%% * CasualDangerDialog: Just about everything that comes out of Coco's mouth. Her tone sets the mood that the battle in this episode is ''easy'' for the veteran Team CFVY, though they do take it seriously.

%% * DestructiveSavior: Team CFVY pull no punches when fighting the invading Grimm.
%% * DramaticUnmask: The Mystery Woman takes off her mask-- and she looks almost exactly like Yang.
%% * DynamicEntry: Nora (and then the rest of JNPR), the Atlesian Army, and then Team CFVY drop out of the sky witihin a few minutes. Even ''Zwei'' comes shooting out of a destroyed mech and headbutts a Grimm!
%% * GunshipRescue: The Atlesian Army shows up, kills a few Grimm, and drops a bunch of MechaMooks from above.

%% * FearlessFool: [[CallBack Once again]], we see Nora flying in atop her hammer and smashing giant Grimm across the face.

%% * OffhandBackhand: Glynda uses telekinesis to defeat a couple of Grimm without even looking.

* ShipTease: Coco slaps Fox's ass while complimenting him on his "hustle" and in the same shot, Yatsuhashi is protectively shielding Velvet in the background while she cuddles up to him for cover.

* TheStinger: The end-credits scene consists of Yang confronting the masked woman who rescued her; the masked woman reveals her face and tells her they need to talk.

%% * TheStinger: The face and voice of the Mystery Woman: [[MissingMom Raven Branwen]].

* XanatosSpeedChess: Done by the villains. Emerald's comment that the breach is "Too soon" implies that Torchwork was supposed to crack open Vale's defenses later. But rather than use the chaos for some nefarious goal, Cinder's team play the good guys and help defend the city, and observant viewers will note that it's Emerald and Mercury who turn Torchwick over to the cops. While the day is saved, tomorrow is now in question; Torchwick is now the PlayAlongPrisoner, relations between Ironwood and Ozpin are soured, and Adam is going to get more White Fang for the end game.

Grimm are attacking Vale, and it's up to team RWBY and friends to defeat them.

->'''Mercury:''' You still think the White Fang's gonna listen to us?\\
'''Adam:''' No, but they'll listen to me.

* TheUnreveal: Velvet wants to use the contents of her box, but Coco stops her from doing this, with a huge lampshading this trope.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pewpewpew.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"[[SeriousBusiness You just destroyed my favorite clothing store.]] '''''[[PrepareToDie Prepare]] [[PreAsskickingOneLiner to]] [[DisproportionateRetribution die.]]'''''"]]

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* TheUnreveal: The contents of Velvet's box. With a huge lampshade by Coco.

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'''Volume 2, Episode 12:'''
!Breach

* AmbiguousSituation: The circumstances surrounding TheStinger mentioned below. The entire scene has an eerie, dreamlike quality that lends it an air of unreality. It cuts away before we learn anything and Volume 3 picks up without any hint or mention of this scene. Did it even really happen?

* AudibleSharpness: Yatsuhashi's sword.
* {{BFG}}: The contents of Coco's bag, an enormous minigun.
* {{BFS}}: Yatsuhashi's sword.
* CasualDangerDialog: Just about everything that comes out of Coco's mouth. Her tone sets the mood that the battle in this episode is ''easy'' for the veteran Team CFVY, though they do take it seriously.

* DestructiveSavior: Team CFVY pull no punches when fighting the invading Grimm.
* DramaticUnmask: The Mystery Woman takes off her mask-- and she looks almost exactly like Yang.
* DynamicEntry: Nora (and then the rest of JNPR), the Atlesian Army, and then Team CFVY drop out of the sky witihin a few minutes.
** Heck, even ''Zwei'' comes shooting out of a destroyed mech and headbutts a Grimm!
* GunshipRescue: The Atlesian Army shows up, kills a few Grimm, and drops a bunch of MechaMooks from above.

* FearlessFool: [[CallBack Once again]], we see Nora flying in atop her hammer and smashing giant Grimm across the face.

* OffhandBackhand: Glynda uses telekinesis to defeat a couple of Grimm without even looking.

* ShipTease: It's not made clear what it means, if anything, but Coco slaps Fox's ass while complimenting him on his "hustle".
** And in the same shot, Yatsuhashi is protectively shielding Velvet in the background while she cuddles up to him for cover.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Discussed; [=CME=] confer on what [=RWBY=]'s interference means; Plainly, Torchwick wasn't supposed to invoke the breach so soon. While Cinder feels that they managed to wrap up the day's events nicely (With Torchwick a PlayalongPrisoner), Emerald and Mercury worry that the deaths of so many Faunus on the train tunnels will cause the White Fang to withdraw support from their Master Plan.
* TheStinger: The face and voice of the Mystery Woman: [[MissingMom Raven Branwen]].

* WeHaveReserves: Averted. As it turns out, some faunus didn't survive falling off the train, and those that did were mauled by the incoming horde of Grimm. After this loss, the remaining mooks aren't keen on continuing to follow Cinder's orders.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Literally. [[ThoseTwoGuys Sun and Neptune]]'s arrival has the coolness taken out of it when a series of massive {{Cool Airship}}s come flying overhead, casting a huge actual shadow over them, and let out their MechaMooks to help deal with the encroaching Grimm.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Sun and Neptune arrive and jokingly flash their Junior Detective badges. Due to the arrival of the [[OvershadowedByAwesome Atlas military]], that is their entire on-screen performance barring a fist bump at the end.

-->'''Coco:''' You've been building that up all semester, don't waste it here.

** Heck, even "Zwei" comes shooting out of a destroyed mech and headbutts a Grimm!

* TheStinger: The face and voice of the Mystery Woman: Raven Branwen.

** Heck, even _Zwei_ comes shooting out of a destroyed mech and headbutts a Grimm!