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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 a [[Summer Replacement Series]] for ''[[RWBY]]'', with weekly episodes scheduled all the way until the premiere of ''RWBY'' Volume 4 on October 22, 2016. A second season began on May 13, 2017, running during the break between V4 and V5.
''[[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 a [[Summer Replacement Series]] for ''[[RWBY]]'', with weekly episodes scheduled all the way until the premiere of ''RWBY'' Volume 4 on October 22, 2016. A second season began on May 13, 2017, running during the break between V4 and V5.


Each episode is usually made up of three or so short sketches, and runs no more than five minutes.
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It's available from both the [[Rooster Teeth]] website and [[YouTube]] (delayed a week) as a series of video shorts, typically 3-4 minutes.

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It's available from both the [[Rooster Teeth]] website and [[YouTube]] (delayed a week).


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Revision as of 17:12, 25 May 2017

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 a Summer Replacement Series for RWBY, with weekly episodes scheduled all the way until the premiere of RWBY Volume 4 on October 22, 2016. A second season began on May 13, 2017, running during the break between V4 and V5.

Each episode is usually made up of three or so short sketches, and runs no more than five minutes.

It's available from both the Rooster Teeth website and YouTube (delayed a week).

Tropes used in RWBY Chibi include:
  • Aliens Steal Cattle: In episode 22, 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
  • Ambiguously Gay: Sun and Neptune.
  • American Accents: Nora takes on an inexplicable Dixie accent in episode 22 while playing a farm-themed game.
  • And Your Little Dog, Too: Invoked by Torchwick in episode 20.
  • Arc Words/Running Gag: For some reason, "Now [this is/that's] a katana" keeps showing up in all kinds of contexts.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Some of the steps in Cinder et al.'s Evil Plan are along these lines.
  • As Herself: Samantha Ireland is dual-billed as Nora and herself at the end of episode 23.
  • Ash Face: Both Roman and Neo, in episode 20.
  • Back from the Dead: Pyrrha in episode 6, to Ruby's complete bogglement.
  • 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.
  • Balloon Belly: Nora, in episode 8, after swallowing an entire cake whole.
  • Beach Episode: Off-screen, by implication, in episode 14.
  • Behind a Stick: Blake is very good at this.
  • BFG: The "Kitten-Killer 9000" rocket launcher.
  • 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 No: Yang for Ruby during the pillow fight in episode 19.
  • Black Comedy: A surprising moment in episode 6, when Ruby almost hangs herself with her cape.
  • Bucket Booby Trap: Ruby and Weiss trade these in episode 7.
  • Butler Corps: Apparently Weiss's family has dozens of specialized butlers. She mentions that they have four butlers just for serving cake.
  • Butt Monkey: Almost everyone takes turns being this trope. Special cases of this go to:
    • Blake, concerning how her cat-like nature tends work against her concerning Zwei.
    • Weiss, whose love of quiet and cleanliness are doomed to be constantly destroyed by Ruby.
    • Pyrrha, whose magnetic powers are more an albatross than a benefit.
  • Cape Snag: Ruby suffers many of the downsides of wearing a cape in episode 6.
  • Catch Phrase: Half of Pyrrha's dialogue seems to be "Hello again!" and "I'm sorry!"
  • Classy Cat Burglar: Blake, maybe...
  • 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 taking out the tea set and curling up in the box instead. The punchline is that Blake did this after being annoyed with trolling concerning her cat like nature.
  • Cross-Popping Veins: Yang in episode 4.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Ruby, at times.
  • Damsel in Distress: Nora tries desperately to get Ren to save her from "certain death" but after several false starts, all she gets from him is admiration for how well she's handling the Grimm which is supposed to be threatening her.
  • Deadly Prank: Well, not exactly deadly, but Weiss' revenge for Ruby's Bucket Booby Trap certainly isn't harmless.
  • Death Ray: Neo and Roman intend to use one on Ruby in episode 20.
  • A Dog Ate My Homework: Actively invoked in a season one episode, when Ruby walks off with Zwei saying, "C'mon, Zwei, let's go eat Weiss's homework."
  • Dramatic Gun Cock: Somehow, Ruby manages to get one out of a pillow in episode 19.
  • Dramatic Wind: Parodied during the mock "gunfight" between Weiss and Ruby in episode 5, with Zwei playing the part of a tumbleweed.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty: Nora in episode 13.
  • Drop-In Character: Jaune plays this role in Episode 24.
  • Epic Fail: Ruby's attempts to cook go so hilariously wrong in every way.
  • Evil Laugh: Torchwick gets off a couple in the space of a few seconds in episode 20.
  • Evil Plan: In Episode 18, Cinder and Emerald have an elaborate one on a large whiteboard in their room. According to it, there will be no hugs, lots and lots of Grimm, and probably no puppies.
  • Exploding Closet: Run in reverse -- or perhaps being set up for future use -- as Cinder's minions frantically stuff all evidence of their evil intent into the closet of their room in the "Cinder Who?" segment.
    • A variant occurs when Nora fills a doorway with pancakes in episode 24, and Neptune makes the mistake of poking at it.
  • Eyelid-Pull Taunt: Weiss gives one to Yang when Yang runs out of Dust rounds during a sparring session.
  • Face Fault: Blake on occasion.
  • Fall of the House of Cards: Poor Ruby.
  • Flanderization: Played for Laughs with every character.
  • Freak-Out: Ruby does this to Blake after having read her favorite trashy novel, calling it "filth". Not that she plans to give it back anytime soon or stop reading it.
  • Funny Background Event: Zwei dragging a comatose Blake past the girls' dorm room door in episode 4.
  • Good Cop, Bad Cop: Neptune and Sun have a little trouble with the roles in episode 14.
  • Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Afflicts Ruby frequently during her attempts at cooking.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Ruby is more than a little jealous of Weiss and Blake's ice sculpting abilities.
  • Hachimaki: Both Ren and Ruby wear one in episode 9, as Ren trains to be worthy of being chosen "it" in a game of Tag.
  • Hammerspace: Ruby apparently keeps at least one fire extinguisher there.
  • Hard Work Montage: A very brief one, of course, in episode 8, as Yang vigorously exercises.
  • Harmless Freezing: Don't invite Weiss to swim with you.
  • Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Zwei, in episode 14.
  • He-Man Woman Hater: Strongly implied by the presence of an elevator button labeled "Fort Port - No Girls Allowed" in episode 8.
  • Hollywood Giftwrap: Several times -- every time a present is given.
  • Homage: To the classic Road Runner cartoons in episode 20.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: Weiss believes herself the victor in a fight because Yang ran out of ammo for her weapon... and forgets Yang can simply punch her.
  • Incendiary Exponent: Yang sets herself on fire when she gets angry.
  • Large Ham: Roman Torchwick.
  • Laugh Track: The "live Studio Audience" in episode 24 is really just this.
  • Law of Inverse Recoil: Watch those gravity rounds, Ruby.
  • Living Shadow: The V1 black silhouette background characters are invoked, examined and lampshaded in one sketch.
  • Loophole Abuse: Why Weiss and Blake have better ice sculpting abilities than Ruby.
  • Magnetic Girlfriend: Literally. Don't try to use a compass around Pyrrha.
  • Mundane Utility: Blake's weapon makes a nice jump rope.
    • 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 Yang gives her a serious gift, and Blake leaps into the box after emptying it.
  • Neat Freak: Weiss, to the point of delighting in her compulsive cleaning.
  • Negative Continuity: Ruby is boggled by Pyrrha's appearance in episode 6, and alludes to her death in V3E12 of the main series. However, Nora insists it never happened. And at the same time Yang still has both her arms.
    • In episode 18, Weiss shows complete incomprehension of the very concept of cleaning, despite all the cleaning she does in earlier episodes.
    • Roman Torchwick is incinerated by a lava floor in episode 22, and returns to rob a shop in episode 23.
    • Let's just say that this show is Ruled By Funny and doesn't care to make sense if it'll spoil the fun.
  • Never Say "Die": Insisted upon by Nora in regards to Pyrrha:

Ruby: How are you even here?
Pyrrha: What do you mean?
Ruby: I mean, I watched you d...
Nora: NOPE! Neeeeever happened!

  • No Fourth Wall: When Ren asks if the cast wants to keep doing comedy segments after an unexpectedly serious moment passes in episode 6.
    • Nora winks at the camera at the end of Episode 10. In Episode 23, she presses her face up against the screen during one of the bumpers between sketches.
    • In episode 20 Roman Torchwick swears his revenge on Ruby for moving on to a comedy spin-off without him.
    • Ruby explicitly addresses the "Studio Audience" several times in episode 24.
  • Non-Fatal Explosions: Zwei causes one in episode 20.
  • Not the Way It Is Meant to Be Played: What happens with the "Compost King" game in episode 22.
  • Oh Crap: Ruby's response to Yang's reaction upon discovering her game controller has "disappeared" in episode 4.
  • The One With...: Episode 24, explicitly entitled "The One With a Laugh Track".
  • Orbital Shot: Around Ren as he realizes the implications of being "It" in episode 9.
  • Oven Logic: In episode 18, Ruby makes the mistake of leaving Weiss to watch over a baking cake. Weiss gets curious about the controls and five minutes later, Ruby walks back in on a kitchen on fire and the cake already bunt to a crisp.
  • Parasol Parachute: Neo, in episode 20.
  • Parody Commercial: A couple, in episode 24.
  • The Peeping Tom: Both Yang and Weiss try to see into the boys' showers with binoculars in episode 24.
  • Perp Sweating: Neptune and Sun try to do this to Nora in episode 14, but it doesn't quite go as planned.
  • Pillow Fight: Team RWBY has one in their own inimitable style in episode 19. Later, when Ruby spies Son, Neptune and Ren engaged in a more traditional pillow fight, she dismisses them as "amateurs".
  • Pillow Spam/Pillow Hell: Yang's tactic during the pillow fight in episode 19.
  • Porn Stash: What Blake's favorite book effectively is, all by itself.

Ruby: Now that's a katana.

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