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- Luther Is My Homeboy: I'm not surprised that nobody talks about this one, it honestly took me awhile to figure it out, but a major dethroning moment for RWBY is the Paladin fight from Volume 2. The fight is fun to look at, don't get me wrong, but the problem arises when you realize that RWBY and company get blood on their hands from this and face zero consequences for it. Think about it, Blake and Sun led Roman onto an active highway where civilians were simply going about their lives, only to be put in danger because a bunch of dumb kids wanted to play hero. Roman even knocks several cars into the air! People were killed or injured as a result of the protagonists' recklessness! Are they rightfully condemned for reckless endangerment of civilians? Nope! Not only that, but this is never even brought up again! This show just straight-up reeks of Protagonist-Centered Morality.
- Some New Guy: To say that Pyrrha's death has split the fanbase would be a massive understatement, and I am firmly on the side that absolutely despises it. The entire second half of season 3 really turned me off due to how dark and hopeless it all was, but this was just the clincher that the RWBY I fell in love with was dead. Pyrrha was an amazing character who had so much potential and was just started to get some much needed backstory and development, but nope! Killed off in one of the most graphic and needlessly cruel ways I have ever seen. And the clincher? It didn't have to happen. The revelation of Cinder's betrayal and her role in Penny's death would have been more than enough to trigger Ruby's silver eyes, but instead she, and the fans, just had to get that final kick in the gut. In the end, Pyrrha was nothing more than a prop for Ruby and Jaune's developments, and that is absolutely sickening. Easily the single most sickening and insulting instance of killing a character for plot I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing. And no, the fact that Monty himself planned it from the start does not make it any better. If anything, it makes it worse.
- The12thDoctor: Volume 4 was not the best one for me, as its slow pace and split character arcs really took a toll on me, even when I watched it in 3 or 4 episode chunks. But there is one moment that takes the cake for me as an unwatchable season. Jaune and Ruby are alone, taking care of a poisoned Qrow. Almost in tears, Ruby tries to admit to Jaune that every bad thing that happened to team RNJR was all her fault, as she wanted to do this alone and prevent anybody else from getting hurt. This seems like the moment where the normally cheerful, simple soul should emotionally break and reevaluate her actions after all the trauma that occurred in the past three volumes... before Jaune interrupts her with a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech, bringing her back to normal. This really solidified just how little character growth Ruby has had for this volume, something that should have happened because of Pyrrha's death happening right in front of her back then!
- Psyga315: Personally, the one moment that made me decide to outright drop any care for RWBY had to be the finale of Volume 5 where, after pointless episode after pointless episode of talking and exposition, RWBY (or rather three quarters of it) finally gets back together, ready to kick ass... And then we don't see the fight. Pretty much the ultimate middle finger to anyone who cited RWBY is about girls who kick all sorts of ass when the season decides to close out on a rather rushed ending where you don't even get to see the battle in question.
- Dacool1here: Probably going to be Eaten Alive by the FNDM, but here we go. Volume 6 is the worst volume in RWBY's history. The worst of the worst, the absolute trash heap in a beacon of garbage, was Adam's death in "Seeing Red". To say I was disappointed by Adam's death is an understatement. It felt to me like Rooster Teeth was delivering the final finger to the fanbase. "Oh, you like a character with potential! Let's just kill them off horribly and brutally because we're done with the FNDM's incessant howls for — Okay, you know what? I should probably stop before I mention that OTP. But all of this has just made me having to stomach Volume 7 all the more impossible, when Volume 6 tosses in this garbage in the penultimate episode. The worst part (I am not kidding) is that there are better fanfictions out there than what was canon! The writers of fanfics are doing a better job at running the show than the actual writers themselves!
- VanillaLime: There are alot of things about RWBY that I don't like and could put on here, like Hazel's awful motivation for being with Salem's group, Roman's death, and Weiss pointing her rapier at Whitley in Volume 8 but if I had to go with one, it would be the fight between Qrow, Tyrian and Clover. The reason for why is that in this fight, Qrow decides to team up with a mad serial killer that attacked him more than once, tried to kidnap his niece, and even poisoned him against Clover, the man with a good luck semblance who Qrow got along well with. For what reason does Qrow have to do this? If the writers wanted Clover to die and Qrow to lose his mind mentally for that Wizard of Oz Scarecrow parallel, surely there are better, less stupid ways than what they went with! Heck, I can describe one potential way that I read from a Youtube comment: Qrow is stuck under debris from the plane crash, thus making him immobile, and Tyrian and Clover are the ones that fight each other. Qrow being close to the fight with his bad luck semblance is what neutralizes Clover's semblance and gives Tyrian an upper hand. Qrow's weapon could also be knocked away from him so Tyrian could still use that to kill Clover and have Qrow take the blame. I personally am continuing to watch new RWBY episodes because I am genuinely interested in how this clusterfreak of a show that started as a Monty Oum passion project will end. But moments like this and many others solidify RWBY as one of my go-to examples of good ideas with horrible execution.
- Supreme-X15: I am fully aware that RWBY's plot makes no sense half the time, but I still find myself enjoying some of its value. However, there's one consistent problem that plagues the series as a whole, that being the titular team not getting as much Character Development or screen time as the side characters. It's frustrating because I want to see the protagonists succeed, but when the show wants me to pay attention to side characters I don't care about, that becomes difficult. I mean, sure I like some of these side characters, but the main characters are the ones who are supposed to carry the story, not the side characters. One of the worst offenders of this issue for me is Jaune Arc, who has gotten far too much exposure for a supporting side character, and Volume 8's conclusion cements why I've come to dislike him. The volume ends with Jaune being forced to Mercy Kill Penny to prevent Cinder from getting the Winter Maidens powers. To be honest, the entirety of the climactic fight of Volume 8 annoys me because of how mindless it was, and dramatic events during the fight only happened out of convenience for the writers to make the plot work, but Penny's death is infuriating due to Jaune being there to do it in place of, oh I don't know, Ruby Rose, who has had the most interactions with Penny, who hasn't learned how to make hard choices, who got thrown into the abyss before Jaune?! How does it make sense for Jaune to be the one to kill Penny and be the last to fall in the abyss, despite not being the most important character, which is supposed to be Ruby, who is the show's namesake? I ask... why is Jaune still in the show? He's hasn't contributed too much of anything, but the writers insist on making him important when he really isn't. As a result of Volume 8's conclusion, I'm thoroughly convinced that Jaune is a Creator's Pet and a spotlight stealer, and he should have been written out of the show a long, long time ago.
- Tropers/aster2560: In retrospect RWBY can be summed up as wasted potential the moment that wasted the most potential is when Oscar leaves the group, and has a crisis of identity of who he is. Now how will the show deal with something so complex for a character to resolve by not showing how Oscar dealt with his identity crisis, and instead focus on Jaune because clearly he would be the most affected by Oscar’s identity crisis. The writer obviously favor Jaune, but this should have been focused on Oscar dealing with the fact he might lose his body to a guy that’s fighting a never battle.
- Rebel Falcon: Never thought I'd have to make an entry for this series, but here goes. Volume 8 pretty much killed any enjoyment I had for the series with it's treatment of Penny. Penny is one of my favorite characters,* so to see the shit she had to go through this volume was just hard to watch. Not only was it pointlessly cruel, and I do mean cruel since the commentary makes clear they were deliberately writing things to put Penny through hell before giving a Hope Spot and then killing her, but it does nothing but undermine her existing character arc and waste a bunch of time. Despite already having the affirmation that she was a "real girl" even if she is a Robot Girl, she's given a human body to justify Cinder killing her and stopping Pietro from reviving her, simultaneously ignoring that plot point, making his character redundant, and removing the notion Penny was already a "real girl" even with a mechanical body. Then there's the fact that a good portion of Volume 8's plot is making sure Penny doesn't have to die in any manner, the cast going to so much effort to protect her, only to become a "Shaggy Dog" Story, meaning all the hoops they jump through to protect her amounted to nothing, same for bringing her Back from the Dead in the first place if they were kill her again so soon after. Even her death itself makes no sense, as characters start making stupid decisions so that the plot can even occur like not sending her through to Vacuo despite that being the main goal, her desire to make a choice for herself came up only once before, and the person who kills her, Jaune, is the cast member with the least connection to her, and felt like it was only him because he's the only one who'd be able to go through with it rather than keep trying to save her, simultaneously being needless torture for him after he'd just gotten back to a good place mentally. It's just horrible treatment of her character, and after nearly two years of sitting through a Series Hiatus, made me realize there's little point in being invested in the characters if, at any point, they could meet the same fate as Penny: being killed off arbitrarily for shock value or cruelty.
- Meta Master 54610: I despise this show. I was once a fan, but now I just plain loathe it. Originally my entry was the Yellow trailer, but now I can safely say Ironwood shooting a man dead is the worst part of this already horrendously awful series by far. Let me put this in context: Ironwood is in an extremely bad and difficult situation. He basically has the fate of the world on his shoulders, and he has to make hard decisions in order to minimize casualties as much as possible. He welcomes Team RWBY with open arms, upgrades their weapons, gives them training under the best huntsmen in the kingdom, and gives them their licenses. He even trusts them enough to let them in on highly classified information. How do they repay him? By refusing to trust him, lying to his face, going behind his back and telling a wanted criminal all of his plans, and just all around betraying him at every turn. And we're supposed to see him as the bad guy all the while, just completely unreasonable and cruel for not siding with Team RWBY when they've lied to and deceived him all volume after all he did for them. The writers saw that Ironwood garnered far more sympathy than they had anticipated. So what do they do about it? They completely assassinate his character and turn him into a moustache twirling cartoon supervillain, with no subtlty or nuance whatsoever! It's very clear that they just doubled down on him being the bad guy in a desperate attempt to force you to side with Team RWBY because they didn't know how to make his shift from good to bad even remotely believable. The way this man was treated by the writers is genuinely disgusting, and it was what made me realize that RWBY is legitimately my most hated show of all time.
