Awesome / Weiss Reacts

• WARNING: UNMARKED SPOILERS.

Volume 1

• Blake in general. In addition to taking notes from Kamina, here is a list of what Blake pulls off during the course of the Reactsverse:
  • Created two Humongous Mecha just because she could- the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Nirvash. Then, she proceeds to have them fight for the purpose of testing which one is stronger.
  • Created a Persocom that also happens to be a Ninja Maid.
  • Channeled Spiral Power to survive through a Seven Swell. The Retcon done by the author further makes it awesome- one of her eyes went into a spiral during this. Considering what happened the LAST time someone did that....
  • Used a Giga Drill Break without the aid of the Gurren Lagann, three times- once on a Mary Sue.
  • Out-Gambitted Yang, the Queen of Antics herself.
  • The above Sue incident? It was a Curb-Stomp Battle. Blake casually deflects a hail of bullets before quoting Touma AND Kamina, before using the above mentioned Giga Drill Break.
    Blake : WHO.....THE HELL....DO YOU THINK I AM?!
    Later...
    Blake: I'm going to have to destroy this screwed illusion of yours!
  • In short, whenever Blake gets involved, awesome is sure to follow.
• Cardin also gets some Badass moments:
  • Basically, whenever his Berserk Button (insulting his mother, friends or Melanie) gets pushed. He channels Kanji during these moments and often ends the fight just as soon as it starts with a Megaton Punch. This works even on a Gary Stu.
  • His Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Dove when he writes a hurtful darkfic about Weiss. This appearance pretty much sets Cardin's characterisation in the Reactsverse. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • 'A Blackbird in Flight' is his journey for atonement after the events of canon. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • His being the Big Damn Heroes during The Xiao Long Incident and being the only student apart from Jaune and Weiss unaffected by the Pheromone Dust.
  • Simply put, Cardin is up there with the Reactsverse local badasses. It's to the point that his own teammates are scared of him.
  • Also, his response almost every time he sees any sign of his former self resurface in fanfic is essentially a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. If anyone was unconvinced he was The Atoner in the Reactsverse, the events of the Xiao Long Incident and Weiss Reacts chapter 21 proved he was, in fact, a good guy.
• In 'Weiss Reacts to TV Tropes', Velvet refuses to kill her friends to get at Weiss, even when Yuno, the goddess of Yanderes herself, told her it was possibly the only way she'd ever have Weiss to herself. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment - as much as Velvet loves Weiss, she also loves her friends.
• The second Mary Sue chapter- the Mary Sues that find themselves in the Reactsverse end up in a Humiliation Conga courtesy of the main cast.
  • Blake's dispatching of her copycat, already mentioned above, as well as Cardin's.
  • Nora's deserves special attention- against a dragon, she dual wields Magnhild and her mother's weapon Gungnir, a railgun. The battle is over in one hit.
  • Pyrrha calmly beats the Relationship Sue after Jaune, demonstrating why a Damsel in Distress type of Sue would fail epically in RWBY.
• Velvet thrashing the Self-Insert in 'Weiss Reacts to Self-Inserts' counts. Why? The insert had Ea, Gilgamesh's sword and still lost to a girl with a massive, albeit mundane, chainsaw axe.
  • It helps that the insert had no clue how to activate Ea, and that Velvet is a trained Huntress- the boy is very simply, a boy from real world Earth plopped with an overpowered weapon he doesn't know how to use.
• A Melodic Comedy:
  • Chapter 2: Team MLDY goes up against a Mary Sue. This is what they do:
  • Fionn outfighting the Sue, who turned into a large Beowolf with Mors Certa, a Swiss-Army Weapon. He splits the spear into two, throwing one half. It misses the Sue, but he uses his Semblance to land a hit. Later, he then turns both halves of Mors Certa into rifles and opens fire.
  • Lukas absolutely stomping the Sue with his Semblance and his gunblades. He then manages to hit the Sue so fast, using his agility and Semblance that he seems like he's teleporting.
  • Yukari forcing the Sue into human form with Twin Heavens, a pair of bokken. Bonus points for fighting with a pair of wood weapons when her teammates use guns and a spiked yoyo.
  • Melodia channeling Chie and using a Galactic Punt on the Sue, leaving him a Twinkle in the Sky.
  • Melodia managing to keep up with Ruby earlier in the chapter also qualifies. Ruby is using Crescent Rose to fight. Melodia's weapons? A spiked yoyo and her legs. And she manages to hold her own against one of the best Huntresses in the academy, successfully. Put it this way- there's a reason why Melodia is the leader of team MLDY.
• The 'Weiss Reacts to Music Festivals' arc:
  • Freya Schnee, her mother and an Idol Singer, finally seeing her daughter again after four years. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • The way by which Kamina achieved reincarnation as Andreas Arc- he flirted with Death. The reason he did this? He was bored.
  • An Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Yang acquires her Persona by beating her Shadow. If you know how Shadows in Persona work, you'll know why this is a moment of awesome.
  • Weiss and Ruby absolutely nailing God Knows without even having practiced it once after they lost the sheet music for Magia due to Dove.
  • The Big Damn Kiss. After seventy-two chapters of Unresolved Sexual Tension, Weiss and Ruby FINALLY get together.
• 'Blake and the Great Mecha Battle':
  • The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny with the Nirvash of Eureka Seven and the eponymous Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann going up against each other. The Gurren Lagann only wins because of its pilots being better and Blake's channeling of Spiral Power.
  • Hell, the fact that Weiss and Ruby LITERALLY were shoved into the cockpit with barely any clue of HOW to use the thing and figured out how to use the Nirvash effectively, to the point that they were beating back even the combined Gurren Lagann.
  • The air battle, and later, the Mutual Kill due to a Giga Drill Break and a Seven Swell colliding with each other at the same time.
  • An Atlesian Paladin versus the Gurren. There is no contest. Yang dispatches the Paladin- much to Cinder's disappointment- with one punch.
• The Nanako Incident:
  • Yu absolutely smashing Dove and Russell. Bonus points for using Izanagi-no-Okami.
  • Nanako herself gets one for verbally owning Yang. By calling her weird. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
• A backstory example: Siegfried Schnee taking down his father and replacing him as CEO of the Schnee Dust Company. Why? He abused Weiss.
• Pyrrha. Freaking. Nikos. Despite being turned into a Stalker with a Crush for Jaune, she is STILL a Badass Adorable capable of, among other things:
  • Subjecting a Mary Sue to a Curb-Stomp Battle, also a Single-Stroke Battle.
  • Making Yang too scared to prank her or take Jaune away from her.
  • Making Nora scared of her with a Death Glare.
  • Fighting Velvet over Jaune. And nearly winning, if it wasn't for Jaune's Semblance going off at the wrong time.
• Tohru Honda has joined the fray. Specifically, by slapping Dove for bullying a Faunus.
  • To put this in perspective, Tohru is a fairly scrawny person who has no weapons or training against a pair of combat-trained, muscular bullies with large weapons. Tohru wins and scares them into running away.
  • "Carefully, the girl wrote 'Minako Arisato'." The amount of hype over the FeMC appearing in Weiss Reacts is.... not small, to put it lightly.
• Blake Reacts to Music Standoffs:
  • Blake channels Kamina, Domon Kasshu and Ronnie James Dio to help her play Mirror, Mirror with Fuckslayer using a Core Drill as a pick. While in a Badass Cape and Triangle Shades. All to make Yang dress like Nia and buy her sandwiches. If Blake wasn't considered pure awesomeness in the eyes of the readers, she is now.
  • The Metal Oath.
  • Earlier, Yang performing Through the Fire and Flames and handing Blake a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• My name is Pyrrha Nikos! You stole my date! Prepare to die!
  • The entire Beacon Dance arc has more:
  • Minako blazing through the doors of the hall on a rocket propelled shopping cart.
  • Neo, Emerald and Mercury have joined the fray. Neo's appearance alone was one of the main draws for the first part of the Dance.
  • Pyrrha and Minako duelling over Jaune, after Pyrrha repeats the above Trope Namer.
• Latte pulling a Big Damn Heroes on Jaune, followed by challenging Yang herself to battle during the Civilization chapter. She loses, but it's the thought that counts.
• The Great Antic War qualifies because Weiss, after ninety chapters of suffering under Yang's antics, is finally striking back with her own antics. And winning.
  • Also, Tukson's appearance.
  • The whole final battle. To wit:
  • The Gurren Lagann and Nirvash being hauled out to fight together.
  • Tukson being revealed to be a badass martial arts master with attacks from Dragon Ball Z and Street Fighter and owning the Reactsverse version of the Lazengann. He's confirmed to be an expy of Lordgenome, Kenshiro, Ryu and Udyr.
  • Team RWBY pulling a similar speech to the Dai-Gurren Brigade in their own climax, and Weiss getting Hot-Blooded, of all people
  • The air battle between the Gurren Lagann, the Nirvash, an Atlesian Paladin piloted by Cinder and the Lazengann, then a showdown between team RWBY and Tukson/Glynda.
  • AND THEN Weiss pulls off the same trick Yang used to beat her fifty chapters ago to beat Glynda; using an adorable animal to distract them. Doubles as a Funny Moment.

Volume 2

• The fact that the school has been organising Kyubey hunts almost every year and succeeding. Also, the fact that Kyubey has developed fear from being hunted by everyone so long, especially Nora, who it fears for trying to eat it.
• The Slender Man saving Weiss and Jaune from being abducted, before revealing his true colors.....as a bonafide badass who has no small love for anime.
• Hokuago Tea-Time vs Team RWBY. That is all. Especially when Hokuago Tea-Time wins, forcing Blake into a Heroic BSoD caused by her favoured manliness being beaten horribly by the power of moeblobs.
• Raven versus Adam during Animecon. Bonus points for the Big Damn Heroes moment from teams RWBY and JNPR.
  • Props to Adam for, using nothing but a quickdraw, parrying what was essentially the Tsubame Gaeshi. To add some context: the Tsubame Gaeshi is essentially a sword strike from multiple directions at the same time with one slash. Raven managed to replicate it with her Semblance. Adam, without using a Semblance or Dust, parried it.
  • Props to Minako, too, for blocking the blindingly fast Adam's sword with an even faster summon of Orpheus Telos.
• The Tankery Club versus the Mecha Club. The entire thing.
  • Nora being a Combat Pragmatist with Miltiades and taking out the Nirvash and Shinkiro before they can do anything, leaving Blake to face a Spiral-buffed Panzer IV, Tiger I and the Edelweiss.
  • Isara's smoke shells fooling Blake into an ambush that she would have outright lost if it wasn't for Giga Drill Maximum.
  • The fact that a bunch of WWII-era tanks beat a Humongous Mecha- and the Gurren Lagann of all giant mecha, using nothing more than tank shells, smokescreens and pragmatism.
  • Nora throwing back Blake's Borrowed Catchphrase before engaging her in battle is awesome, as well as Nora replacing it with PANZER VOR!.
  • The fact that it was also a Curb-Stomp Battle on the part of the Tankery club, who took out the other two mecha before they could fight, and nearly beat Blake if it wasn't for Giga Drill Maximum counts. Not only that, but the Gurren Lagann is outright wrecked by the end, while the Tiger and the Panzer are only missing pieces of armor and one tread, and the Edelweiss is barely scorched- making it an outright loss for Blake overall.
  • Finally, an ordinary Panzer IV standing up to the Edelweiss is also a moment of awesome, even if overshadowed by their Enemy Mine against Blake.
• Beth subverting Karma Houdini and forcing Yang to face a detention during the Yangilocks chapter by judicious use of a grappling hook.
• The Cockerel Festival, even if the Reality Subtext is a Tear Jerker, is still full of this.
  • Yang versus Weiss: Weiss outfights Yang with sheer skill and using her sheer speed against her. Despite Yang's Semblance and greater strength, manages to pull off a victory by ring out, using Yang's superior strength against her.
  • Ren versus Nora: Curb-Stomp Battle. Ren beats Nora the moment she drops Magnhild- and beats her with one hit.
  • Velvet versus Norn: In order: Velvet and Norn have a high speed clash of weapons, before Norn reveals her wings, has another clash with Velvet, before divebombing her, heavily damaging her servos in the process. Velvet survives, whips out Unlimited Yandere Works, and nearly beats Norn back, only for a heavily damaged Norn to pull it out with a lucky axe throw, and only collapsing after she's sure Velvet is knocked out. She even gets a victory in a meta fashion- going by the reviews, Norn ended up being more of an Ensemble Dark Horse than Velvet ever was. That was how badass Norn was.
  • Blake versus Adam: Blake ends up outclassing him WITHOUT using Spiral Power until Adam breaks out his Semblance and proceeds to utterly crush Blake. Blake then whips out Giga Drill Break and ends the fight in awesome fashion by parrying his unblockable Charged Attack and proceeding to counter with said Giga Drill Break.
  • Ozpin gets one without doing anything:
  For a moment, as Blake studied Ozpin's expression, she was reminded not of a kindly, eccentric mentor, but of a far older, ancient warrior, his will to fight tempered by years upon years of endless battles, unintimidated by anything that would attempt to make him feel fear. This was not Ozpin the headmaster of Beacon, this was Ozpin, the Huntsman of old, feared throughout the Four Kingdoms and even amongst the Magus Association, the fighter of battles known and unknown, whose name was still whispered in hushed whispers though he had exchanged his battle armor for the robes of a scholar.

  And in all her obsession with manliness, Blake realised that even her beloved Kamina paled in the calm fury Ozpin was hiding underneath the surface.
  • Ren versus Ruby: Ren and Ruby beat each other around the city hard, fight through a falling pile of rubble until Ren wins and gets to a superior position. He then pulls off Monty's Badass Armfold pose before using his Lotus Palm- a Shout-Out to Kung Fu Hustle- to beat Ruby- only for Ruby to retort with her own Finishing Move, Petal Storm.
  • Ren also deserves kudos for not only surviving the attack but never losing until the finals despite basically everyone being stronger than him. He is only ultimately beaten by ring-out- compare to Blake, who loses by total knock-out.
  • Siegmund versus Weiss- the fact that Weiss holds out so long against Siegmund - who, by the way, ended up being implied to have killed Ruby's mother and fought off the likes of Ozpin, Glynda and Cinder- is impressive in itself. The fact that she does this while giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech can't hurt. Hell, Siegmund deserves some credit himself, for simply making even Ozpin tremble at his name.
  • Siegmund versus Team RWBY- the former never even stood a chance the moment team RWBY pulled a Big Damn Heroes. He ends up having all four of the team's Finishing Moves being thrown at him before being subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. And that's not even going in to the Bolivian Army Ending where he now has to face the incredibly angry parents of team RWBY- where he proves himself badass again by still standing up to face all of them, knowing full well how it will end.
  • Said Finishing Moves: aside from the Giga Drill Break and Petal Storm, Yang's Torchlight Breaker, and Weiss' Omnislash. Again, the fact that Siegmund survived all four of these- when one was used to finish most of the fights- turns him into the dark sort of badass.
  • Earlier in the chapter, the whole of the student cast of Beacon rally to team RWBY's side- even Isara, who admits she doesn't even know Weiss, and Dove, who spends most of his story time bullying Weiss, despite knowing full well Siegmund's reputation. Sun and Isara deserve one for managing to hack together a working program to help unscramble the teleportation trails left by Siegmund in a matter of several hours.
  • If you read the above, you have read the plot synopsis for the entirety of the Cockerel Festival. That is how packed full of awesome the arc is.
• Chapter 98 has Yang use herself as bait to lure off a large pack of Grimm, seemingly performing a Heroic Sacrifice... Only to have -offscreen- delivered a beatdown to the extent the pack makes her ALPHA in time to pull a Big Damn Heroes against the Grimmfather in the next chapter.
• Chapter 99 reveals Jaune's true Semblance, Aura Amplification. The reason people are attracted to him is because his Semblance makes everyone around him feel mentally and physically better than they did before. He proceeds to use this to break out of the illusions created by the Grimmfather, and even it seems surprised by this.
• Chapter 100. Gretchen stated the best she could do when first fighting the Grimmfather was seal it away to another world. The Grimmfather is now dead, and it's because of ten teenagers and a plushie. Ozpin states that if they weren't students, he'd be awarding them the highest possible award for killing it.

Volume 3

• Ladies and gentlemen, Demeter Rose. Let us count the ways.
  • So strong, skilled and revered that Weiss didn't believe Yang and Ruby when they said Demeter was their grandmother.
  • Blake states she's fought five Goliaths at once, and participated in something called the Siege of Vale.
  • She's the entire inspiration for Yang becoming a Huntress, and somewhat influenced Ruby's decision to.
  • Demeter is apparently in the Antic Order, and is high ranked enough to basically order Quirinus Albus- confirmed to be only taking orders from either the very head of the Antic Order itself or Reflet, herself a high-ranked member- to move aside so she can investigate.
  • When the above doesn't work, she pulls out her rank of Hunter-General, which is implied to be very high.
  • She also seems to be one of the only people not afraid of Professor Faust.
  • Both Ruby and Yang don't believe that she'd pull her rank just for some blackmail. Demeter seems to be one of the few people Yang won't make fun of, too.
  • When talking about keeping the item in Faust's basement, Cinder mentions that Demeter might want it. Ozpin is completely unsure about if anybody can stop her. This bears emphasis: Ozpin is a personal friend of the most badass Hunters and Huntresses of the kingdom, such as the Four Horsemen and the aforementioned Professor Faust, and he is unsure any of them can stop Demeter if she wanted the item.
• Weiss Reacts to Newspapers. After the school newspaper, the Daily Light, posted an article speculating on Weiss and Ruby's relationship, the Antic Order subtly pushes Weiss to start her own newspaper. Not only does the new paper, the Schnee Herald, completely devastate the old paper, Weiss reveals that she knew that the Antic Order was trying to manipulate her. At the end of part 2, Ren pulls out a folder labeled "Evidence for Antic Order Expose".
  Yang: ...oh. Oh. Weiss, you sneaky little minx.
  • Part 3 has Weiss reveal her whole plan. When the Order tries to stop the article getting out, Weiss reveals that they have to let her go, or the article is released, their pranking supplies will be ruined, and their reputation destroyed. Ren, an Antic Grandmaster, is actually forced to admit defeat.
• A huge one for Ozpin is seen in the The Stinger for the Volume 3 Reaction. It reveals that he and every other adult character mentioned thus far AND the Antic Order have actually been working behind the scenes to prevent the events of canon from happening. Roman and Cinder actually watched the series to ensure that this plan went off without a single hitch, which it did.
• The Mandatory Training Arc:
  • Ruby gets one really significant one. She uses her silver eyes to nuke the Grimm when she thinks Weiss has been killed at their hands. The explosion inadvertently saves Pyrrha when she uses the distraction to attack the poachers first and Winter when the Grimm run away from the explosion.
  • Jaune's Big Damn Heroes moment, tanking the tanking the armor-piercing hit with his shield and then beating the stuffing out of the poacher attempting to kill Pyrrha. Coupled with a Heartwarming Moment due to his Anguished Declaration of Love and then him more or less throwing down the gauntlet against destiny itself by challenging it to Go Through Me.
  • Shortly after, Jaune and Pyrrha's first fight as a Battle Couple, pretty much countering every hit from the poachers for each other and ending up with a dual Finishing Move from both of them.