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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. And a third season premiered on 27 January 2018, after the end of RWBY Volume 5.

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 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
• Ambiguously Gay: Sun and Neptune.
• American Accents: Nora takes on an inexplicable Dixie accent in S1E22 while playing a farm-themed game.
• 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.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Some of the steps in Cinder et al.'s Evil Plan (as seen in S1E18) are along these lines.
• As Herself: Samantha Ireland is dual-billed as Nora and herself at the end of S1E23.
• Ash Face: Both Roman and Neo, in S1E20.
• Back from the Dead: Pyrrha in S1E6, 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, multiple times, after demonstrating that she is a Big Eater.
• Beach Episode: Off-screen, by implication, in S1E14.
• 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 S1E19.
• Black Comedy: A surprising moment in S1E6, when Ruby almost hangs herself with her cape.
• 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").
• 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 S1E6.
• 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 S1E4.
• 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 S1E20.
• Department of Redundancy Department: The "Evil Chart of Evil" in S3E2.
• Dodgeball Is Hell: When Penny joins the fun in S2E1, it is. For the other team, at least.
• A Dog Ate My Homework: Actively invoked in a season 1 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 S1E19.
• Dramatic Wind: Parodied during the mock "gunfight" between Weiss and Ruby in S1E5, with Zwei playing the part of a tumbleweed.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Nora in S1E13.
• Drop-In Character: Jaune plays this role in S1E24.
• 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 S1E20.
  • He also gets one in S2E2. At the same time, Neo holds up a sign with an evil laugh written on it.
• Evil Plan: In S1E18, 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 S1E24, 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 S1E4.
• Good Cop, Bad Cop: Neptune and Sun have a little trouble with the roles in S1E14.
• 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 S1E9, as Ren trains to be worthy of being chosen "it" in a game of Tag.
• Hand Puppet: In S3, 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.)
• Hammerspace: Ruby apparently keeps at least one fire extinguisher there.
  • Neo keeps a monstrous Death Ray in hers.
• 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.
• Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Zwei, in S1E14.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Strongly implied by the presence of an elevator button labeled "Fort Port - No Girls Allowed" in S1E8.
• Hollywood Giftwrap: Several times -- every time a present is given.
• Homage: To the classic Road Runner cartoons in S1E20.
  • S2E17 includes an extended homage to Scooby-Doo.
• 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.
• Kick the Dog: The "Evil Chart of Evil" seen in S3E2 graphs "Candy Stolen" against "Puppies Kicked".
• Large Ham: Roman Torchwick.
• 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.
• Living Shadow: The V1 black silhouette background characters are invoked, examined and lampshaded in one sketch during season 1.
  • The entire Studio Audience in S1E24 is made up of them.
• Loophole Abuse: Why Weiss and Blake have better ice sculpting abilities than Ruby.
• Loveable Rogue: Qrow prefers this description to "drunken loudmouth".
• Magnetic Girlfriend: Literally. Don't try to use a compass around Pyrrha.
• Man On Fire: Mercury in S3E2, after he annoys Cinder with his demands for better working conditions.
• Mind Control: Ruby manages quite well with suggestions whispered into her sleeping teammates' ears.
• 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. 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 main series. However, Nora insists it never happened. And at the same time Yang still has both her arms.
  • In S1E18, 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 S1E22, and returns to rob a shop in S1E23.
  • 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 S1E6.
  • Nora winks at the camera at the end of S1E10. In S1E23, she presses her face up against the screen during one of the bumpers between sketches.
  • In S1E20 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 S1E24.
• Non-Fatal Explosions: Zwei causes one in S1E20.
• Noodle Incident: In S2E13, Ruby and Yang are in trouble for... something.

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.

• Not the Way It Is Meant to Be Played: What happens with the "Compost King" game in S1E22.
• 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.
• The One With...: S1E24, explicitly entitled "The One With a Laugh Track".
• Orbital Shot: Around Ren as he realizes the implications of being "It" in S1E9.
• Oven Logic: In S1E18, 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 S1E20.
• Parody Commercial: A couple, in S1E24.
• The Peeping Tom: Both Yang and Weiss try to see into the boys' showers with binoculars in S1E24.
• Perp Sweating: Neptune and Sun try to do this to Nora in episode 14, but it doesn't quite go as planned.
• Pet the Dog: Cardin Winchester cites his aversion of this trope as a reason Cinder should hire him in S3E2.
• Pillow Fight: Team RWBY has one in their own inimitable style in S1E19. 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 S1E19.
• Porn Stash: What Blake's favorite book effectively is, all by itself.

Ruby: Now that's a katana.

• Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat: Jaune ends the magic show he puts on in S2E3 by pulling Velvet from his hat.
• Rattling Off Legal: An announcer at the end of Roman and Neo's ice cream commercial in S1E24.
• Rule of Funny: Pretty much excuses everything in this show.
• Rule of Pool
• Scooby-Dooby Doors: During S2E17's Homage to Scooby-Doo, naturally enough.
• 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.
• Share Phrase: Everybody shares everybody else's Catch Phrases, especially in S1E24.
• Shout-Out: The Elevator Gag is a blatant Final Fantasy VIII reference. And the room they find even looks like an exact mockup of Master NORG's chamber from the same.
  • In S1E20, Roman says, "It's time to destroy those meddling kids once and for all. And their stupid dog, too."
  • At the start of S1E24, the show's theme is played on a bass, apparently in reference to Seinfeld.
• Showdown At High Noon: Parodied in S1E5 with a fight between Weiss and Ruby, complete with Spaghetti Western music and Zwei bouncing by like a tumbleweed.
• Sit Com: S1E24 is structured as a classic sitcom, complete with a "live" Studio Audience and fake commercials.
• Something They Would Never Say: Weiss does this to herself, sort of, in S2E13:

Weiss: I agree with Yang. ... Oh! That felt strange to say.

• Spin-Off: Of RWBY. Duh.
• Spin the Bottle: RWBY and JNPR play it (briefly) in S1E13.
• Squeaky Eyes: Neo.
• 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.
• Stop Poking Me: Yang doesn't say it, but she does burst into flame...
• Studio Audience: S1E24 has one.
• Summer Replacement Series: For RWBY during Summers 2016, 2017 and 2018, and probably for the foreseeable future as well.
• Super-Deformed
• Suspiciously Similar Song: An arrangement of Yang's Image Song "I Burn" made to sound like "Eye of the Tiger" in S1E8.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Cinder's reflexive declaration "We're not evil!" when Ruby and Nora burst in the room she shares with Emerald and Mercury.
  • 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 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.
• That's What I Call X: "Now that's a katana!" from season one.
• Training from Hell: Ren puts himself through this upon becoming "it" in a game of Tag in S1E9.
  • In S1E13, Nora puts Yang, Blake and Ruby through her own version of it.
• Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: In S1E11, Ruby declares that her favorite video game is Kung Fu Ninja Slayer Ultimate Death Battle 2.
• Unstoppable Rage: From Jaune, of all people, after his attempts to call Weiss for a date suffer apparent Epic Fail.
  • He's not too happy about tripping over Blake's candlestick, either.
• Useful Book: In a season two episode, Yang and Ruby as Blake for some books. Blake, being the bibliophile she is, goes wild handing out cherished and favorite volumes from her collection. And then we see that Ruby and Yang are using them to build forts and fight a mock battle.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Weiss utters "Today couldn't possibly get worse" in S1E24, triggering the appearance of Drop-In!Jaune.
• When You Snatch the Pebble: How Ruby knows Ren is ready to be "it" in Tag.
• Wingding Eyes/Blank White Eyes: Blake, after various mishaps.
  • Weiss on occasion, too.
  • Yang, after witnessing Nora swallow an entire cake whole.
  • Ruby, after sheer boredom causes her to belly-flop on top of Weiss' study materials.
  • Let's just say everyone at one time or another.
• Wimp Fight Weiss and Ruby decide to settle their differences in S1E5 with a bunch of hand slaps.
• Wire Dilemma: Zwei helps Ren defuse a bomb by choosing the right wire in S1E19.
• Yandere: As of S2E15, Nora's starting to show signs of becoming one.
• You're Just Jealous: Jaune's interpretation of Team RWBY's reactions when they come upon him trying all their weapons.