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'''''The Heroes:''''' [[Characters/RWBYTeamRWBY Team RWBY]] | [[Characters/RWBYTeamJNPR Team JNPR]] | [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Ozpin and Oscar]]\\
''[[Characters/RWBYRemnant Remnant]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | [[Characters/RWBYWesternSanus Sanus (Western)]] | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]]\\
''Antagonists:'' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | [[Characters/RWBYWhiteFang White Fang]] | [[Characters/RWBYGrimmBestiary Grimm Bestiary]]\\
''Beyond Remnant:'' [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]-]]]]]

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* SpannerInTheWorks: He stops Cinder from draining the full Maiden power from Amber, meaning she has to infiltrate Beacon to get the power. This gambit shapes the plot of the first several Volumes, with it being likely that Team RWBY would never have gotten involved. So essentially, Qrow causes the entire plot to exist.

For more information on Team RWBY, see Characters/RWBYTeamRWBY.

''[[Characters/RWBYRemnant Remnant]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | [[Characters/RWBYWesternSanus Sanus (Western)]] | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]] ([[Characters/RWBYJamesIronwood James Ironwood]])\\
''Antagonists:'' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | [[Characters/RWBYWhiteFang White Fang]] ([[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]]) | [[Characters/RWBYGrimmBestiary Grimm Bestiary]]\\

'''''The Heroes:''''' [[Characters/RWBYRubyRose Ruby Rose]] | [[Characters/RWBYWeissSchnee Weiss Schnee]] | [[Characters/RWBYBlakeBelladonna Blake Belladonna]] | [[Characters/RWBYYangXiaoLong Yang Xiao Long]] | [[Characters/RWBYTeamJNPR Team JNPR]] ([[Characters/RWBYJauneArc Jaune Arc]]) | [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Ozpin and Oscar]]\\

!!Team RWBY

The titular team of four young women who are leading the fight against Salem.

[[folder:In General]]
* AmazonBrigade: Team RWBY is comprised of four talented female fighters who are fast-tracked in Volume 7 to graduated, licenced Huntresses because Ironwood feels they've been fighting as professionals since Beacon. They are mentored by Atlas's elite Ace-Ops squad, whom they eventually defeat in battle. While Volume 8 clarifies the Ace-Ops' obsession with professionalism sabotages their team-work, Team RWBY's achievement is still regarded as unprecedented enough to cement their reputation as an elite team of female warriors.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:After Ruby makes her triumphant return, the team make quick work of the Curious Cat who was forced out of Neo’s body.]]
* FieldPromotion: While they originally went to Beacon Academy to become Huntresses and get their licenses, the fall of Beacon caused the school to close with Team RWBY and the remaining members of Team JNPR traveling the world to find the people responsible while most students transferred to other academies like Shade. By the time they reach Atlas, General James Ironwood states that the dangers they've faced during the Battle of Beacon, in the wilds of Anima, and against the forces of Salem, means they're not functioning at the level of students, they're functioning as Huntsmen. Thus, he promotes them to fully licenced Huntsmen on the basis of their field experience even though they haven't completed their schooling.
* FloralThemeNaming: The team's weapons have names shared in common with types of flowers: roses for Ruby's Crescent Rose; myrtle and aster for Weiss's Myrtenaster; golden gambol (a type of orchid) for Blake's Gambol Shroud; and celica (a type of amaryllis) for Yang's Ember Celica.
* FunWithAcronyms: The team name RWBY is made up of the member's first names and can be pronounced as "Ruby".
%%* FamilyOfChoice: The girls see each other as family after everything they've been together.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Initially a big reveal near the end of Volume 1, early Volume 4 artwork for Blake still hid the fact that she is a faunus, but post-Volume 4 material no longer attempts to pass Blake off as human.
** Post-Volume 3 material does a [[BlatantLies great job]] at hiding Yang losing her arm at the end of Volume 3.

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* '''[[Characters/RWBYRubyRose Ruby Rose]]'''
* '''[[Characters/RWBYWeissSchnee Weiss Schnee]]'''
* '''[[Characters/RWBYBlakeBelladonna Blake Belladonna]]'''
* '''[[Characters/RWBYYangXiaoLong Yang Xiao Long]]'''

!!Main Companions

These are the main cast of characters who travel with Team RWBY in their quest to save the world.
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[[folder:Team JNPR]]

For more information on Team JNPR, see Characters/RWBYTeamJNPR.

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* SoProudOfYou: After Weiss returns to Atlas, she and Winter get the opportunity to spend time together and train together. Winter ends up concluding with approval that Weiss has grown a lot as a person and has come a long way from the young girl who didn't have the strength to break free of her father.

* SoProudOfYou: After Weiss returns to Atlas, she and Winter get the opportunity to spend time together and train together. Winter ends up concluding with approval that Weiss has grown a lot as a person and has come a long way from the young girl who didn't have the strength to break free of her father.

* SternTeacher: Her methods of testing and teaching Weiss are very stern. In Weiss's Volume 5 trailer, she throws a nonstop horde of Beowolf avatars at her sister, and eventually steps it up to using waves of ice and snow to disarm her and leave her vulnerable... and then lets the Beowolves begin to swarm Weiss while she's pinned down. It's only when Weiss calls out for her to stop that Winter dismisses them and in the moments leading up to it the look on her face was one of ''[[https://imgur.com/JbGBMSC absolute terror]]''. Afterward, Winter reminds Weiss that she won't always be there to protect her, and that she'll have to get much better if she ever hopes to be able to leave the safety of her home.

* PermaStubble: He doesn't seem concerned with his appearance. He has a somewhat wild appearance, emphasized by his unshaven look. Mercury comments that he has bad hair and smells like his dad after a long day. He is, however, clean shaven in the picture of his team during the opening of Volume 3.

* FalseFriend: She acts friendly towards Team RWBY in the second and third Volumes, but she's actually their enemy and admits to Mercury that she hates them because she can't understand why they're so happy all the time. In Volume 8, she defects to join the heroes when they are at their lowest point. She complains that she's going to be super-pissed if they finally decided to give up just as she's decided to switch sides. After that, she and the heroes begin getting along much better.

* GunTwirling: Seen when she pulls out her weapons during the Volume 2 finale before opening fire.

** In Volume 8, Episode 7, unpleasant information results in Emerald and Mercury exchanging a long look with each other as he leaves for Vacuo with Tyrian. She is frightened and melancholic and he gives her a tiny nod to acknowledge why she's afraid.
** In Volume 8, Episode 9, an unpleasant situation results in Emerald and Hazel exchanging a long look with each other. To enable Emerald, Oscar, Jaune, Ren and Yang to escape from Salem's clutches, Hazel decides to fight her, leaving Emerald almost in tears. He just gives her a tender, fatherly smile and tells her to run.
* MasterOfIllusion: Her Semblance allows her to project lifelike hallucinations into the minds of others, and is first seen when she unnerves Coco with an illusion that resembles Yatsuhashi. Although she initially struggles to fool two minds at the same time in Volume 3, she begins learning to hone her ability, eventually producing illusions that can fool multiple targets, disguise individuals as someone else, make her targets appear invisible to even the Grimm, and stack multiple different effects at the same time.
* MeaningfulName: "Sustrai" likely derives from the Spanish "Sustraer" which means "to take away", "to rob", or "to subtract". Emerald is a street rat who has become an exceptionally-skilled thief. Put together, her name essentially means "to steal jewels" and on at least one occasion she made her living by stealing priceless jewelry. "Sustrai" is also the Basque word for "root", "basis", or "foundation", which is rather appropriate given how many plans are built on her semblance. Put together that way, her name could be interpreted as "jewel root", a hint at her being a much better person deep down. A diamond in the rough you could say.
* MustMakeAmends: When Yang's team and Emerald escape from Salem, Emerald initially considers going her own way rather than staying with the heroes. Yang and Jaune's determination not to let her escape means that she gets to see all the Atlesian refugees huddled in the subway, terrified for their lives. As they walk through the crowd, Emerald shows increasing signs of shame and remorse until she becomes visibly horrified upon seeing two young children trying to comfort each other. Oscar notices and tells her that they could really use someone with her abilities. She accepts his suggestion and becomes an active participant in the fight against Salem, starting by helping the refugees get safely to Vacuo.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: To Cinder. Though Cinder only recruited Emerald for her Semblance, Cinder was the first person in her life to reach out to her and offer her something better than a life of poverty. Because of this, Emerald has since become Cinder's most loyal ally. While she does display a hint of remorse during the fall of Beacon, it isn't enough for her to leave Cinder's side. During her fight with Ruby in "The More The Merrier", she outright tells Ruby that she doesn't care about Salem or her goals, but she owes Cinder everything.
* NoSympathy: After murdering Tukson, Emerald casually jokes about about him with Mercury, and only feels bad about disappointing Cinder when she chews them out for not following her orders. It's only when she witnesses from a distance the invasion of Vale in Volume 3 that she begins to start feeling pathos for their victims. However, it's not until Volume 8 when she learns Salem's true end-game and sees up close the plight of Atlas' refugees that she feels enough shame and remorse to join the heroes and actively fight against Salem.

* NotWhatISignedOnFor: At Haven, Emerald makes it clear she's only working for Salem because of her loyalty to Cinder. Thus, she's unsure of her place within the faction, and experiences doubts about remaining while Cinder is ostracised. She eventually reaches her limit in Volume 8; upon discovering Salem's intentions to destroy Remnant, she helps Oscar escape from Salem and sides with the heroes.

* MeaningfulName: "Sustrai" likely derives from the Spanish "Sustraer" which means "to take away", "to rob", or "to subtract". Emerald is a street rat who has become an exceptionally-skilled thief. Put together, her name essentially means "to steal jewels" and on at least one occasion she made her living by stealing priceless jewelry. "Sustrai" is also Basque word for "root", "basis", or "foundation", which is rather appropriate given how many plans are built on her semblance.

* MeaningfulName: "Sustrai" is Basque for "thief". Emerald is a street rat who has become an exceptionally-skilled thief. Put together, her name essentially means "jewel thief" and on at least one occasion she made her living by stealing priceless jewelry.