The RWBY Doodleverse is a series of short webcomics drawn by A.G. Nonsuch, who would later create Arcane Doodleverse that acts as an Affectionate Parody of RWBY, following the characters in their wacky (and sometimes sad) lives, drawn in a whimsically simple artstyle.
While it can be found on A.G.'s Twitter and Instagram, she has a section on Webtoon
dedicated to it.
As this is a fan-made webcomic parodying events of the show, unmarked spoilers for RWBY ahead.
Tropes Include
- Artstyle Dissonance: A.G. uses the same cutesy artstyle for the characters even when they start cussing or angsting.
- Audience Participation: Some comics are either commissions or fan suggestions, which have credit given to the other participating party.
- Black Comedy:
- In "Karaoke", when Team RWBY sing "All I Want For Christmas Is You", the text crosses out "you" and replaces it with "no more trauma" to create "All I want for Christmas is no more trauma".
- When the teaser for Volume 9 came out, A.G. had fun with Ruby's new companion being a sentient mouse when one of her teammates is a cat Faunus.
- In "Silver Eyed Warriors", Ruby creates a soccer team made up of silver-eyed characters, and gives Salem and Ozma's dead daughters' portrait and her mother's tombstone a jersey.
- Blatant Lies: In "Workshop", Yang goes to Coco's seminar on getting a girlfriend. When Ilia sees her, Yang hastily states she thought this was a showing of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
- Cannot Talk to Women: A lesbian variant. Ilia is very bad at talking to other girls and has a habit of camouflaging herself into thin air whenever she tries to ask someone out. It's implied this is due to self-esteem issues.
- Cerebus Rollercoaster: While most of the strips are quirky and fun, a few, such as "Cold", "My Mom", "Live", and "Sleepover", are compliant with the series' more tragic or dark moments.
- Coffee Shop AU Fic: "Always Bean You" follows Blake as a barista for Pumpkin Pete Cafe and her relationship with recurring customer Yang.
- Covert Pervert:
- In "RTX At Home", Blake snaps a picture of Yang in her underwear.
- In "Super Rubio", Weiss asks Blake, dressed as a Yoshi, if she's aware Yoshis get rid on. Blake bluntly says yes.
- In "Lesson", Weiss has a brief sexual fantasy that while giving her snowboarding lessons, Ruby leans in very close to her and grabs her hips.
- In "NSFW", Blake is reading Smut at work.
- In "Workshop Part 2", the entire RWBY cast shows up in disguise for Coco's seminar on getting a girlfriend.
- In "Hut", while Yang and Blake are having their first intercourse, Juniper is peeping through the window.
- Crossover: There are crossovers with A.G.'s Arcane Doodleverse where Yang and Blake meet Vi and Caitlyn and Ruby helps Jinx accept Cait as a future sister-in-law. There's also a one-off crossover with The Owl House and another with She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: In "Myao", Yang states in response to Blake's new more cat-themed outfit by saying she doesn't mind "the little paw print on your boobs", before realizing what she said and saying, "Which I am not looking at. Your boobs, I mean." She later notes that she's in trouble.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- "WFH" has Salem and her circle discuss their evil plans over Zoom to avoid contracting COVID.
- In "Delay", Salem chides Watts for accidentally cutting off power to Rooster Teeth themselves in Texas, as the strip was made when Texas suffered a major power crisis due to severe winter weather. Salem ends the strip with "We shall delay RWBY and world domination til everyone is safe and taken care of. And then world domination."
- In "Vaccination", Cinder agrees to get vaccinated before trying to kill Ruby after being told by Neo.
- Fantastic Racism: Played for Laughs in "Smart". Jaune's statement that Grimm aren't smart enough for battle tactics deeply offends the Hound.
- Fingerless Hands: In "Hands", Ruby points out that they "basically have sock puppet hands" to Yang. The exception is Salem, to unsettling effect.
- Furry Reminder: Quite a few strips have fun with the fact that Blake is a cat Faunus. "Pattycake" then has her meeting fellow Cat Girl Catra, and they both engage in feline behavior.
- Fusion Fic: A few of these, such as a fusion with Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Turning Red.
- Gallows Humor: In "WTF", Yang tries to make a "cat got your tongue" joke when the Curious Cat possesses Neo as an attempt to cope with her sister essentially committing suicide. It doesn't work.
- Heel–Face Turn: Discussed in "Reformed", where Emerald and Ilia talk about their former evil bosses and yet how they stay away from the heroic team because they're "too cool for that main hero-nonsense".
- Hypocritical Humor: In "Awestruck", Raven states she can't believe she has "portals for those two puppy-dog eye fools" (Qrow and Yang). Then it's revealed she's sitting on the couch with Taiyang while in raven form.
- Idiot Hair: Yang's hair has a ahoge that also occasionally shifts to match her emotions.
- Irony: Blake doesn't react well to her voice actress Arryn Zech's dogs in "CRWBY meets RWBY".
- It Can Think: Parodied in "Smart". It turns out the Hound received an education and even went to college.
- Lame Pun Reaction: "Cliff" has Yang jump off a cliff for Blake to fearfully try to save just so she can make a "falling for you" pun and reference their ship name Bumblebly. Blake's reaction is to get a pair of scissors to cut Gambol Shroud.
- Mood Whiplash: Some strips utilize this, either Played for Drama or Played for Laughs:
- "My Mom" is a cute montage of Summer taking care of a young Yang and then ends with Yang asking "Mama?" in shock at Summer's funeral.
- "Red Heads" shows the characters mourning the redheaded people in their lives they've lost (a reference to the meme that the writers seem to kill off redheads), and then the last one is Yang and Blake high-fiving to their killing of Adam.
- "Sleepover" is a heartwarming montage of Ruby and Penny's friendship, and then it cuts to Ruby waking up on Ever After after Penny's death, with the last thing Penny says being "Hey Ruby, thank you."
- Mundane Utility: In "Toast", Emerald and Nora take advantage of Winter's newfound flaming eyes as the latest Winter Maiden to toast some marshmallows.
- Never Mess with Granny: In "Manners", Cinder tries to take the Winter Maiden powers from Fria, only for Fria to discipline her and rope her into a tea party with Penny and Winter.
- No Fourth Wall: Quite a few strips have the characters acknowledge that they're in an animated series with volumes/seasons.
- Only Sane Woman: Weiss often takes this role to her teammates' shenanigans.
- Parental Abandonment: "Feather" shows Raven's reasoning for her abandoning Yang as a baby, but also indicates she feels uncertainty about her actions.
- Rage Against the Heavens: In the Fourth of July strip "Herstory", Salem, in a parody of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, simply writes, "Fuck you Gods".
- Shipper on Deck: In a few strips, Weiss acts as one to Yang and Blake.
- Shout-Out:
- "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" has Weiss sing to the titular song from The Lion King (1994) when seeing Blake and Yang's reunion. She then agrees to see Frozen II with Jaune and Oscar.
- "Car" is a recreation of a scene from Ben 10: Ultimate Alien but with RWBY characters.
- "Workshop" has Yang excuse her presence at Coco's workshop on getting a girlfriend by claiming she thought it was a screening of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
- Stable Time Loop: In "Delorean 8", Zwei somehow ends up in the past, whereupon he takes his past puppy self and places him right beside a toddler Ruby, which is how Zwei came into the family in the first place.
- Take That!: Like Arcane Doodleverse after it, one of the strips released for Pride Month takes a jab at corporations superficially supported the LGBT community for one month by changing their logo to a rainbow.
- "V9C8: Ads" has one towards bots that had been spamming an advertisement for a shopping service that had been spammed throughout various Tweets made in regards to Volume 9 episodes.
- Toilet Humour: "Real Girl Pt. 2" has Penny, in her newfound human body, joyously eats a hamburger. Then we cut to her in the bathroom, and she just as joyously shouts "I MADE A POO!!!"
- Unusual Euphemism: The "Censored" three-parter has characters use fruit names in place of swear words, while reacting like they actually swore.
- Wasteful Wishing: In "Questions", Salem uses Jinn's last question for 100 years to ask if hotdogs are sandwiches.Jinn: Fuuuuuuck sake.
- What If?: The aptly named "What if...?" two-parter, inspired by Marvel's What If…? (2021), shows a world where Team RWBY never went to Beacon and thus took went on totally different paths, yet still managing to meet one another.
- You Do Not Want To Know: In "Cursed", when Weiss asks Ruby what odd thing they needed to do to entertain fans during the hiatus (currently bald caps), Yang walks in with a horse mask and Ruby states "You don't wanna know."
