In addition to their Aura, weapons, and fighting skills, characters from RWBY get the Borderlands treatment and are way more badass than their canon selves in Boop the Snoot for Critical Damage!, which is combined with Age Lift since they're all now fully licensed Huntresses and not just students. Vice versa for major Borderlands characters as they now have Aura and Semblance.
- Team RWBY as a whole are far more combat savvy than they were in the series. Ruby is a Siren with all the power that implies, Yang is a notorious bounty hunter, Weiss has a combat drone alongside already having a firm grasp on her summoning abilities, and Blake is far more effective on her own to the point of surviving two years on a murderous island by herself with a pretty high body-count of the island's creatures. It's also a result of them being made older than they were at the start of their series, and by extension, more experienced.
- Bandits are often fighting alongside/bonded with Grimm due to being connected via their masks. They're also amplified because of them.
- Jaune is a native to Pandora and has survived living there his entire life. He's still a Butt-Monkey, but he's a much better fighter at the start.
- Pyrrha, in addition to being a champion tournament fighter with all her abilities from the series, also has multiple cybernetic enhancements.
- Handsome Jack was easily one of the biggest baddies in the Borderlands universe, but much of his time and resources were dedicated to opening the Vault on Pandora and his victories were either against bandits or when he caught his enemies off-guard. Here, he's waging war with the other corporations such as Atlas. According to Ironwood, he's winning the war on all fronts.
- Willow never showed any combat skills in canon aside from using her Summon once (not counting the comic where she also used it), though she was clever enough to have security cameras all over the house to catch her husband red-handed. Here, she's pretty deadly with her father's battle-axe and knows her way around a fight.
- After being given an Insta-Youth, Maria is restored to her physical prime at twenty years old.
- Gaige not only gets the RWBY benefits of Aura and Semblance, but she's also got more robots to summon to her aide besides Deathtrap and is working on making her own personal robot army.
- Penny was already a powerful robot (doubly so after her upgrades in V7), but here, she's an artificial Siren.
