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''[[RWBY Chibi]]'' is what happens when you take ''[[RWBY]]'', throw out the plot, make the cast [[Super-Deformed]], and just decide to revel in utter comedy. It premiered online in spring 2016, and effectively served as
Each episode is usually made up of three or so short sketches, and runs no more than five minutes.
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* [[Aliens Steal Cattle]]: In S1E22, Nora hijacks Jaune's board game about making compost and turns it into one about defending and rescuing cattle from alien abductors.
* [[All CGI Cartoon]]
* [[Alt Text]]: Extra jokes and comments suitable to a [[Lemony Narrator]] can sometimes be found in the closed-captioning.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Sun and Neptune.
* [[American Accents]]: Nora takes on an inexplicable Dixie accent in S1E22 while playing a farm-themed game.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: Parodied in S3E7. And S3E15.
* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: Invoked by Torchwick in S1E20.
* [[Arc Words]]/[[Running Gag]]: For ''some'' reason, "Now [this is/that's] a katana" keeps showing up in all kinds of contexts during season 1, and continues to show up in subsequent seasons, including in the ''closed captioning'' for a S3 episode.
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* [[As Herself]]: Samantha Ireland is dual-billed as Nora and herself at the end of S1E23.
* [[Ash Face]]: Both Roman and Neo, in S1E20.
** Jaune after Ren's motorcycle blows up in S3E13.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Pyrrha in S1E6, to Ruby's complete bogglement.
* [[Bank Robbery]]: Ruby manages to commit one accidentally, off-
* [[Big Eater]]: Nora.▼
* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Zwei, though it's mostly the perspective change that make him look bigger, but Blake does not feel the same and goes to insane lengths to hide from him.▼
* [[Bad Liar]]: Blake's attempts to deny being a cat burglar would work better if she weren't stealing things ''as she makes her denials''.
* [[Badass Biker]]: They may look like it at first, but the Cousins of Chaos in S3E13 are nowhere near badass.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: Nora, multiple times, after demonstrating that she is a [[Big Eater]].
* [[Beach Episode]]: Off-screen, by implication, in S1E14.
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* [[Being Watched]]: In S3E6, Ruby asks Weiss if she ever got the feeling she was being watched.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Ozpin clearly thinks this is what's going on between Winter Schnee and Qrow.
▲* [[Big Eater]]: Nora.
* [[BFG]]: The "Kitten-Killer 9000" rocket launcher.▼
* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: Whenever Winter Schnee attacks Qrow in S3E3.
* [[The Big Board]]: Cinder and her minions have their elaborate evil plan laid out in detail on a huge whiteboard in their dorm room.
▲* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Zwei, though it's mostly the perspective change that make him look bigger, but Blake does not feel the same and goes to insane lengths to hide from him.
* [[Big No]]: Yang for Ruby during the pillow fight in S1E19.
** Mercury when Cinder Puppet is burnt to ashes in S3E5.
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* [[Black Comedy]]: A surprising moment in S1E6, when {{spoiler|Ruby almost [[Cape Snag|hangs herself with her cape]]}}.
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: S3E1, just as we learn that there's a [[Road Block]] ahead of the girls, off-screen.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: Run backwards in S3E1, when Cinder traps Jaune and Ren in the back seat of her car:
{{quote|'''Ren:''' It's a trap! She used the child safety locks! But we are neither children nor safe!}}
* [[Bucket Booby Trap]]: Ruby and Weiss trade these in S1E7.
* [[The Bully]]: Cardin Winchester makes no bones about being a bully in S3, and even tries to attach himself to Roman (who's allegedly "a legend in the bully community").
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* [[Cape Snag]]: Ruby suffers many of the downsides of wearing a cape in S1E6.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Half of Pyrrha's dialogue in S1 seems to be "Hello again!" and "I'm sorry!"
* [[The Chew Toy]]: According to the peek into Zwei's mind we get in S3E8, this is how he sees Blake. Even though Yang has firmly informed him she isn't one.
* [[Christmas Special]]: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNbG4inP8-k RWBY Chibi: Nondescript Holiday Spectacular]'' from 2020.
* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: Blake, maybe...
* [[Cold Sniper]]: In one of the few times we actually see Ruby act as a sniper in either this series or ''[[RWBY]]'', she snipes a capsule containing pet medicine right down Zwei's throat.
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* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Weiss seems to exhibit this at times.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Yang actually does try to sincerely apologize for an earlier trolling of Blake by buying her a big box with a new tea set, hoping Blake likes the gift. She does, but only after {{spoiler|taking out the tea set and [[Kids Prefer Boxes|curling up in the box instead]]. [[Hypocrite|The punchline is that Blake did this ''after'' being annoyed with trolling concerning her cat like nature]].}}
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In S3E13, Professor Ozpin is briefly shown checking out the "katana" centerfold from ''Ninjas of Love'', as seen in S1.
* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]: Yang in S1E4.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Ruby, at times.
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* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]]: Somehow, Ruby manages to get one out of a pillow in S1E19.
* [[Dramatic Wind]]: Parodied during the mock [[Showdown At High Noon|"gunfight"]] between Weiss and Ruby in S1E5, with Zwei playing the part of a tumbleweed.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: We get short views of the dreams of everyone in Team JNPR in S3E12.
** And then the same for Cinder, Roman, Emerald and Neo in S3E14.
* [[Dresses the Same]]: In one episode, Team RWBY is attending a costume party where they've all dressed as each other -- Ruby as Weiss, in particular. Cue the arrival of an irate Jaune, also dressed as Weiss, growling, "One of us is going to have to change."
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Nora in S1E13.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Ruby, in S3E11.
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* [[Face Fault]]: Blake on occasion.
* [[Fall of the House of Cards]]: Poor Ruby.
* [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]]: In Pyrrha's dream in S3E12, she and Jaune do this constantly.
* [[Flanderization]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with every character.
* [[Freak-Out]]: Ruby does this to Blake after having read her [[Covert Pervert|favorite trashy novel]], calling it "filth". [[Hypocrite|Not that she plans to give it back anytime soon or stop reading it]].
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* [[Gag Echo]]: In S3E8, Winter characterizes the girls in Team RWBY as acting much younger than they really are, ending with "I'm Yang, let's fight!" After Ruby similarly distorts the adults, we look into Zwei's mind; he characterizes the girls by what they mean to him, ending with "I'm the Yang, let's fight!"
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Neo, much of the time; sadly, being mute and only [[Talking with Signs]], no one notices or listens to her advice.
* [[The Ghost]]: Professor Peach, continuing a [[Running Gag]] from the main series; the girls mention how she is one of their favorite instructors.
* [[Girls' Night Out Episode]]: The back half of S3E5 sets itself up like this, but we only see the preparation (primping at a mirror and shooing out the boys) and the aftermath -- a building on fire, with Yang and Ruby clearly approving, Weiss disbelieving, and Blake stunned with [[Blank White Eyes]].
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Neptune and Sun have a little trouble with the roles in S1E14.
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** Neo keeps a monstrous [[Death Ray]] in hers.
* [[Hand Puppet]]: In S3E5, Mercury has a Cinder puppet with which he acts out fantasies of her finally realizing his worth as both a minion and a romantic interest. He even has a backup puppet in case the one he's using is destroyed. (Amusingly, the puppet gets its own voice credit in the cast list -- which is Mercury's actor, of course.)
** Both puppets make a re-appearance in a [[Dream Sequence]] in S3E14.
* [[Hard Work Montage]]: A very brief one, of course, in S1E8, as Yang vigorously exercises.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Don't invite Weiss to swim with you.
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* [[Homage]]: To the classic ''[[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Road Runner]]'' cartoons in S1E20.
** S2E17 includes an extended homage to ''[[Scooby-Doo]]''.
* [[How the Character Stole Christmas]]: Torchwick employs a "spirit sucker" to steal the holiday spirit from everyone in Beacon in 2020's ''Nondescript Holiday Spectacular''.
* [[How We Got Here]]: Multiple instances in S3E11, starting with an explanation for Ruby's [[Drives Like Crazy]] sequence, and stepping back several more times to show how we got to each previous point.
* [[Hugh Mann]]: Marty and Mike, two Grimm attempting to [[Paper-Thin Disguise|masquerade]] as a pair of [[Totally Radical]] dudes in S3E4, utterly fail to be convincing.
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* [[Laugh Track]]: The "live [[Studio Audience]]" in S1E24 is really just this.
* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]: Watch those gravity rounds, Ruby.
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Whoever writes the subtitles/closed captions. S3E15 is a good one for that.
* [[Les Yay]]: There seems to be some between Ruby and Penny.
* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: When the Red Huntress interrupts the Huntsman's peril at the hands of Torchwick and Neo in S3E11, the Huntsman treats her as a supervillain. Actually a subversion, since he knew she'd come to rescue him, but he'd wanted to see Torchwick's new [[Death Trap]] in action first and she wouldn't wait. And subverted in that she welcomes his "undivided attention" and oath to chase her day and night.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: In S1E22, Ruby insists the floor of their dorm room is deadly lava, despite (still) looking like a rug. The rest of the team indulges her, getting from the door to their beds without walking on it. Then Roman Torchwick throws open the door, and despite Ruby's earnest (and the rest of the team's bored) warning that the floor is lava, he rushes in. Cue shocked expressions from everyone ''but'' Ruby when he sinks in and burns.
{{quote|'''Ruby:''' I tried to warn him.}}
* [[Literal-Minded]]: Ren, [[Rule of Funny|when it's funny]]:
{{quote|'''Jaune:''' C'mon, Ren, let's go raise the roof!
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** The entire [[Studio Audience]] in S1E24 is made up of them.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Why Weiss and Blake have better ice sculpting abilities than Ruby.
* [[
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]:
* [[Magnetic Girlfriend]]: Literally. Don't try to use a compass around Pyrrha.
* [[Man on Fire (trope)|Man on Fire]]: Mercury in S3E2, after he annoys Cinder with his demands for better working conditions.
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** And the flames Yang emits when angry are great for roasting marshmallows.
* [[My Instincts Are Showing]]: Subverted. Blake doesn't even get to finish telling off Yang for getting her a ball of yarn as a joke gift before Ruby is rolling on the ground playing with it. Played straight as a [[Brick Joke]] when {{spoiler|Yang gives her a serious gift, and Blake leaps into the box after emptying it}}.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: During his interview in S3E2, Cinder insists on calling Cardin Winchester "Carin". He tries to correct her, but gives up after an intimidating show of
* [[Neat Freak]]: Weiss, to the point of delighting in her compulsive cleaning. [[Negative Continuity|Except when she's not.]]
* [[Negative Continuity]]: Ruby is boggled by Pyrrha's appearance in S1E6, and alludes to her death in V3E12 of the [[RWBY|main series]]. However, Nora insists it never happened. And at the same time Yang still has both her arms.
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{{quote|'''Professor Ozpin:''' The good news is that the fire is finally under control, and the cats are expected to regrow most of their fur.
'''Qrow:''' Well. You gotta admire their ambition.}}
** In S3E1, Ruby ''accidentally'' [[Bank Robbery|robs a bank]] off-screen. Even ''she's'' not quite sure how it happened.
* [[Not the Way It Is Meant to Be Played]]: What happens with the "Compost King" game in S1E22.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Cardin's claim when Roman sticks him with a bag of stolen lien after robbing a shop.
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The most we see of the giant Grimm monster in S3E15 is its shadow.
* [[Offscreen Inertia]]: Subverted in one S1 episode. Ruby spies Zwei sleeping in the middle of the floor and makes a comment about how lazy he is. We then follow him through a busy day of rescuing other characters and thwarting the plans of evil-doers. He has barely returned to the dorm room and laid back down again in the same spot when Ruby returns and comments on how he "hasn't moved all day."
* [[Oh Crap]]: Ruby's response to Yang's reaction upon discovering her game controller has "disappeared" in S1E4.
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* [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat]]: Jaune ends the magic show he puts on in S2E3 by pulling ''Velvet'' from his hat.
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Mercury in S3E5, briefly, when Cinder Puppet's sister asks what happened to her twin.
** Also various characters during the [[Dream Sequence]]s in S3E12 and S3E14.
* [[Rattling Off Legal]]: An announcer at the end of Roman and Neo's ice cream commercial in S1E24.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Ruby and Penny at times.
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* [[Screen Tap]]: Nora rubs her face against the screen during her inter-sketch bumper sequence.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Nora, as she "explains" at the end of S1E6.
* [[Shapeshifter Mashup]]: Qrow, unintentionally, in S3E12.
* [[Share Phrase]]: Everybody shares everybody else's Catch Phrases, especially in S1E24.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Several:
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** Ruby finds a copy of [[Cthulhu Mythos|the ''Necronomicon'']] buried under a dead oak tree in S3E7.
** S3E10 has Jaune doing [[Transformation Sequence]]s copied from [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]] and [[Sailor Moon]].
** S3E13 opens with a [[Dr. Seuss]] pastiche, complete with Professor Ozpin wearing [[The Cat in the Hat]]'s hat.
*** During this segment Ozpin's briefly shown checking out the centerfold in ''Ninjas of Love''; while a [[Continuity Nod]] to several gags in S1, as he's doing it while wearing the hat it's also a reference to a scene in the 2003 [[The Cat in the Hat (film)|''Cat in the Hat'' film]] starring [[Mike Myers]].
** The "Cousins of Chaos" biker gang in S3E13 is an obvious reference to ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]''
* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: Parodied in S1E5 with a fight between Weiss and Ruby, complete with [[Spaghetti Western]] music and [[Dramatic Wind|Zwei bouncing by like a tumbleweed]].
* [[Sit Com]]: S1E24 is structured as a classic sitcom, complete with a "live" [[Studio Audience]] and [[Parody Commercial|fake commercials]].
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* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: Weiss does this to herself, sort of, in S2E13:
{{quote|'''Weiss:''' I agree with Yang. ... Oh! That felt strange to say.}}
* [[Spice Up the Subtitles]]: It's not uncommon to get extra jokes in the closed captioning, or even see the captioner acting as a [[Lemony Narrator]].
* [[Spin-Off]]: Of ''[[RWBY]]''. [[Captain Obvious|Duh.]]
* [[Spin the Bottle]]: RWBY and JNPR play it (briefly) in S1E13.
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* [[Stage Magician]]: Jaune tries to show his chops as one in S2E3, but is constantly upstaged by Ruby.
* [[Sticky Fingers]]: Demonstrated by Blake even as she protests being suspected of being a cat burglar.
* [[Stock Parodies]]: 2020's ''Nondescript Holiday Spectacular'' is a case of [[How the Character Stole Christmas]], but ends with half the cast showing up late and dressed for a ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas|Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' parody.
* [[Stop Poking Me]]: Yang doesn't ''say'' it, but she ''does'' burst into flame...
* [[Studio Audience]]: S1E24 has one.
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** Torchwick's claim in a fake commercial in S1E24 that "Neo's Neo" brand ice cream is ''definitely'' not poisoned. The announcer [[Rattling Off Legal]] at the end of the commercial begs to differ.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Ruby, to the point that she may well run out of ingredients for chocolate chip cookies before she can finish mixing them.
* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]: Jaune at the end of his [[Dream Sequence]] in S3E12. And Mercury in S3E14.
* [[Talking with Signs]]: Neo.
** Nora waves the occasional "Notice Me!" sign -- once at Ren during a S1 episode, subsequently in one of her inter-skit bumpers.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Weiss asking "How can this day get worse?" in S1E24.
** Everyone
* [[That's What I Call X]]: "Now ''that's'' a katana!" from season one.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: Taiyang in the Escape Room in S3E14.
* [[Too Stupid to Live]]: Both Jaune and Sun at times.
* [[Training from Hell]]: Ren puts himself through this upon becoming "it" in a game of Tag in S1E9.
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