YMMV / RWBY Chibi

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• Awesome Music: Now has its own page. Many would even like Rooster Teeth to release it on a disc.
• Cargo Ship: Just like he himself does In-Universe, there are many fans who ship Mercury x Cinder Puppet, or even Mercury x Cinder Puppet's Sister.
• Crack Pairing:
  • When Ruby and Yang find out about Taiyang's dating profile, they change his entry to make him more appealing to women. They succeed, although not the way they intended. Taiyang matches up with Cinder, leading to the fandom naming this ship "Tinder".
  • The fact Qrow say he "has dated worse" than her means only one thing for the fandom: He dated Salem.
• Crazy Is Cool: Nora. She's been amped up to completely bat shit crazy. Her crush on Ren is now to yandere levels and she's a Big Eater able to eat more than her body weight in pancakes.
• Epileptic Trees: Although the show is not canon, some fans still theorize that RWBY Chibi is some sort of denial by Ruby, refusing to fully acknowledge that Penny and Pyrrha are really gone.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "Mortal Frenemies":
    • Ozpin remarks "Flirting was a lot less destructive in my day". Then Volume 6 of the main show comes out and reveals that's because it wasn't the flirting that was Ozpin's problem, it was the break-up...
    • Winter (an Atlesian), recomends "A leash and random electric shocks to modify [Qrow's] behavior." Volume 8 would reveal Cinder Fall's backstory as a de-facto slave to Atlas elites who was punished with a shock collar for disobedience.
  • In Mysterious Red Button, after Roman falls into a trap, Neo signs that Roman may be a dum-dum, but he's her dum-dum. As of Volume 6 in the main show, Neo's driving goal is getting revenge for Roman's death. In the same vein, RWBY Chibi has her wearing his hat as a Running Gag. In the main series, she does the same for a far more tragic reason.
  • Just watching the wholesome interactions between Ruby and Penny considering the ends of Volume 3 and Volume 8, knowing what's going to happen to her, and how, due to numerous things, it's only in Chibi that Penny will hang out with them in Beacon.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: It's impossible to watch the interactions between Blake and Yang in Chibi without considering what happens in Volume 9.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Played for laughs when Yang tries losing weight in episode 8.
• Jerkass Woobie: Roman. He keeps on trying to get a victory over the heroes, but absolutely nothing ever goes right for him. He can't even eat ice cream without something going wrong.
• Memetic Badass: Zwei, for taking down Cinder and Roman, defusing a bomb, and being a nightmare to all Grimm. Bonus points for also managing to become a famous writer in the meantime. Some people have made jokes about Zwei secretly being the strongest in the Chibi-verse, ranging from an overlord to Remnant's Batman.
• Memetic Molester: Cinder Fall in episode 1 of season 3. Especially because of her luring Jaune and Ren into the car with promises of candy.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Now that's a katana!". ^Explanation  A suggestive line said by Ruby when a centerfold comes out of Blake's "Ninjas of Love" book. It's also resurfaced several times in the series itself.
  • "This is filth! FILTH!" ^Explanation  Ruby's comment to Blake after Blake walks into Team RWBY's room and finds Ruby with the "Ninjas of Love" book.
  • "You don't understand my vision!" ^Explanation  Zwei's butt (primarily his X-shaped anus) has become popular, resulting in an episode using it as its main joke: Episode 10 ("Zwei Painting") has Ruby change its appearance, resulting in her screaming the meme phrase when the judge, Weiss, reacts with disgust. Along with "You guys are ruining my vision!" from episode 12 (where Ruby flips out at the rest of Team RWBY pointing out plot holes in her play), many fans have taken this to mock the fans who think that Rooster Teeth is "ruining" Monty Oum's "vision" for the series.
  • Neo's signs also became memetic.
  • "Nothing Bad. Ever. Happened. EEEVEEEEEEEERRRRRR." ^Explanation  When Team JNPR first enter the Chibi show, Team RWBY react to Pyrrha with shock as an allusion to events of the main show. Nora confronts the screen and tells the audience this. As a result, any time anything potentially bad happens in the fandom relating to the shows, or within the shows, this over-exaggerated phrase becomes the memetic response.
  • Pairing Confirmed! ^Explanation  The Chibi show will tease the fandom's more popular ships, as well as making jokes out of crack ships. As a result, the fandom now exclaims "Pairing Confirmed!" whenever even minor interaction occurs between characters to the point where the fan-made subtitles for the show on You Tube also uses the phrase for any such interaction.
  • Screaming Pyrrha. ^Explanation  In Episode 8, Nora accidentally startled Pyrrha into throwing an entire kitchen of pots, pans, and appliances at her. Pyrrha's extremely shocked expression was instantly made into a meme.
    • Screaming Nora. ^Explanation  In season 2's debut, Nora started crying when Pyrrha accidentally squashed a pair of cow toys with her shield. The fandom quickly seized on this and gave Nora the same treatment as Pyrrha last season.
  • Respect the moostache! ^Explanation  The premiere of Season 3 of Chibi included a skit where Velvet uses her copying semblance to mimic Port’s weapon and moustache, then proceeded to mock his MANLY attitude. One of the crowning moments from the above example is when Port dejectedly walks off and Velvet keeps teasing, ending in a super hammy delivery of this line.
  • Love Daddy. ^Explanation  This is the name that Taiyang used on a dating site, quickly grabbing the fans' attention. People have started referring to him as such ever since.
  • Take the shot, Ruby! ^Explanation  Yang's urgent request to Ruby in "One Shot, One Pill" to snipe a pill into Tai's mouth was tacked onto edited shots of Ruby sniping characters to ensure that ships go her way - including shooting Pyrrha.
  • Teenage Faunus Ninja Catgirl! ^Explanation  This episode of Chibi had spawned numerous parodies of the theme song from the nineties cartoon, one of the most popular being Teenage Faunus Ninja Catgirl/ Teenage Faunus Ninja Catgirl/ Teenage Faunus Ninja Catgirl/ Emo with a black bow/ KITTY POWER!
  • "I'm Yang. Let's fight. ^Explanation  Yang's line from "Kids vs Adults vs Pups" quickly became memetic among the fandom.
    • "My Feest Only Knows Paunch." ^Explanation  This once came from an edited clip by FoggyMemoryJ who made the aforementioned joke in a bad Russian accent. It's since become a Catchphrase associated with Chibi Yang.
  • "Where's Coco?" ^Explanation  Season 3 made a point of advertising that Coco would be joining the Chibi cast, complete with animating an intro for her. However soon after this announcement, Season 3 abruptly ended eight episodes before expected, leaving Coco fans in the dark. She finally made her Chibi debut in the Neon Konbini shorts, three years after her introduction was teased.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The characters tend to make rather adorable sounds from time to time during skits. Examples include: Weiss' humming when she's cleaning up in Episodes 5 and 6, Ruby's cheery "Aaaaah!" when she sidles up to Weiss in Episode 9, Weiss' cute groans when she's sick in Episode 11, the oddly endearing sounds of Mercury and Emerald laughing in Episode 21 and Ruby squeeing over raining Zweis in Episode 11 of Season 2.
• Narm Charm: The entire premise of Episode 24, The One With the Laugh Track. The episode is filled with corny sit-com jokes, complete with a laugh track.
• No Yay: The main show's canon Ship Tease between Nora and Ren is twisted into something creepy in Chibi. For example, Nora drowns Ren in a love potion and attempts to break his leg by playing nurse.
• Seasonal Rot: Season 2 has been called this by some fans, due to its predictability when building up towards punchlines, as well as its over usage of the "Junior Detectives" skits.
• Squick: During "Mortal Frenemies", Qrow pulls out a long noodle that somehow got into his ear, then teasingly offers it to a visibly disgusted Winter.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: The Lighter and Softer tone of the show, as well as the very Moe designs of the characters makes this a very charming watch, especially given the main series' turn to Darker and Edgier.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Cardin is already a widely disliked Jerkass in his home series, so many find it satisfying that he has been turned into a Butt-Monkey in this series.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Nora insisting that nothing bad ever happened when Ruby tries to point out that Pyrrha died. A lot of fans who were devastated by Pyrrha's death and refused to believe she truly died can relate with Nora's denial. The ending lyrics right after that just made it even more poignant.
  • In Episode 7 of Season 3, Blake's summary of her plight in the main show; in the main show, she doesn't easily express how her life has beaten her down. Her comments about how awful she feels about her past mistakes, and the pain she's brought others, are spoken with such gravitas that it stops feeling like a Chibi episode and more like the depth and pain the audience has seen in the main show's version. Affecting how the audience understands and interprets her character in the main show itself.
    Blake: I feel suffocated by the weight of my past mistakes and the hurt I've caused my friends. If only there was a way to atone for what I've done.
  • In Episode 2, Coco finds Velvet feeling blue and is unable to cheer her up. That stuck hard with the audience, knowing what it is like to try and cheer up someone but being unable to despite trying as hard as they can.
• Unexpected Character: Cardin Winchester appearing in Season 3 was a genuine surprise (even to his actor), since he's a minor character in the main series who only played an important role in Volume 1, and hasn't appeared at all since Volume 3.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Even among the Grimm, Floyd is despised by his brethren for being a Jerk Jock that acts disrespectful to everyone around him, even to those who've died like Larry, but the fandom loves the little guy for how much of a Large Ham he is, and come the Halloween episode, he's given a taste of his own medicine.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: For just a cute and funny spin-off, the graphic detail is impressive, given the expressive characters and complex lighting.

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