"White" Trailer
♫ Mirror, tell me something
Tell me who's the loneliest of all? ♫
Tell me who's the loneliest of all? ♫
Directed by Monty Oum
"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable."
The second promotional trailer for Rooster Teeth's web series, RWBY.
Weiss Schnee sings a song about her loneliness, and reminisces about her fight against a giant armored knight.
Tropes in this trailer include:
- Blade Run: The Knight's blade is so huge and wide that Weiss is able to run along it a few times while fighting.
- Dance Battler: The trailer introduces Weiss's fighting style; she uses ballet moves and ice to fight like a trained figure skater.
- Elemental Weapon: The weapon is designed to be able to channel Dust. When the revolving chamber is full, the weapon can produce a variety of elemental effects, such as ice or fire.
- Foreshadowing: Weiss's defeat of the White Knight becomes very important for her fighting abilities in the main show.
- Instant Runes: The White Trailer introduces Weiss's ability to produce circles of glyphs that she can use as platforms, to bounce off, and to increase her speed.
- One-Handed Zweihänder: The Knight is using a two-handed sword that is easily as big as it is. While it sometimes fights two-handed, it spends most of the fight using the weapon one-handed to make itself more effective at keeping up with Weiss's speed.
- One-Woman Wail: When Weiss gets punched to the ground by the Knight, and the scene suddenly shifts back to Weiss in real time, standing on the stage and singing. The song changes as Weiss begins a melancholic wail, bowing her head as a broken moon slides out from behind the clouds and bathes her in moonlight. The scene shifts back to the fight and the wail only ends as Weiss staggers back to her feet and faces the Knight again, this time bleeding from a wound across her left eye.
- Royal Rapier: Weiss's weapon is introduced here, a rapier that has a revolving Dust chamber, and which possesses elegant glyphs carved into the hilt and blade.
- Sad Battle Music: Weiss's song starts off as she sings a solo in front of a packed auditorium, becoming a full-blown, energetic beat as her fight begins and progresses. However, throughout the fight, her voice carries clearly, singing about being desperately lonely and trying to understand her inner self as she begs to know whether she can turn her heart into stone and run away from all the things about herself that she can see. Why she's fighting isn't clear, but she's remembering the fight as she sings on the stage and how it left her with the scar that's visible as she sings.
- Sword and Fist: The Knight isn't limited to fighting with just a sword. Weiss ends up so focussed on his sword that she neglects his other weapons and punched to the ground by his armoured fist. Her eye is left scarred by his armoured punch, not by the sword.
- Weird Moon: The moon was whole in the Red Trailer, so this trailer is the first one to establish that Remnant's moon is broken. When Weiss rises in the air, mimicking the moment in the Red Trailer where Ruby does the same, the moon is clearly broken on the right-hand side.
- Whole Episode Flashback: Weiss is singing to an audience, and sports a faint scar over her left eye. While she sings, she thinks back to the fight the caused the scar. She's so absorbed in the memory that, at the end of the trailer, she has to take a moment to remember where she is.
♫ I'm the loneliest of all. ♫
