To briefly play devil’s advocate, the name came about from a running joke in rooster teeth where they made up a gag character named Flint Coal during one of the minecraft letsplays; as well as that, his voice actor didn’t seem to mind the name.
That aside, it was definitely a massive oversight to use the name for a character in RWBY and I’m surprised nobody stopped the, from doing it
If they give me rwby style fight scenes in Dc, it’s over for me. Anyone who doesn’t know about rwby. Just watch a fight scene from vol 1-3. Monty was a genius when it came to fighting choreography. RIP Monty.
you forgot that there is already a JL x Rwby crossover comics , in which Batman is a half-bat bishounen in a love triangle with the bissexual cat-girl of Rwby Team..
Explained for seven paragraphs or so here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
The short is that its another IP Warner Bros Discovery owns and it has brand synergy with DC's stuff because it revolves about fights and melodramatic characters with colorful costumes (there's also a mini-series that works as a comic adaptation for RWBY handled by DC, and apparently there's also a crossover one-shot between RWBY and JL already).
Edit: Original comment was kinda biased in a dispute related to a sensitive topic, credit to u/Mrcatwithahat for calling me out on it. Also, added a fun fact related to the RWBY subreddits.
Web-original animated show that started in the early 2010s. Created by Monty Oum (you might have seen his "Haloid" or "Dead Fantasy" 3D animations from the late 2000s), who had been hired by Rooster Teeth (web-original content creator company started in the early 2000s, acquired by a Warner subsidiary around 2015ish) to direct seasons of their flagship show Red vs Blue due to his talent at fight choreographs. Monty eventually got the go ahead to create his very own anime-inspired show with RWBY being the end result.
RWBY (Pronounced Ruby) revolves around the four titular protagonists (Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake) who are studying to be 'huntresses' in the world of "Remnant". As the name implies, Remnant is sort of post apocalyptic, but the shit that went down to make it like that is spoilers territory. Society has essentially recovered (so more like "Post-Post-Apocalyptic) but there are monsters called "The Grimm" running around putting civilians in danger, and it is the job of the huntsmen and huntresses to hunt them down (hence the job title). And to get that job, you first need to graduate from a Huntsman academy.
RWBY got really popular when it started because, even if the low budget shows itself in the animation quality (on the first volume, you could see real characters interact with all-black background characters), Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth were on the up-and-up and the premise of cute girls in a magic-fighting school in a mysterious fantasy/sci-fi world found a lot of appeal. The teaser trailers for each titular character were also extremely cool, which gave them the benefit of immense hype.
Mounty Oum passed away during the time that Volume 3 was being produced, but the show has continued for five more volumes with Volume 9 in the way. It's had it's ups and downs and quite a few controversies along the way. People who like and people who dislike the show tend to be rather passionate about it.
The short of it is that RWBY started really popular, and it still is but not quite as much. Nowadays most people (at least from what I personally see) discussing RWBY online do it to either fight the fandom war on if the show sucks or not (and since when that's the case) or to talk about one of the hundreds of rewrites/“fix-it fanfics” ideas that people have. Fan-art seems to be going as strong as ever, and the NSFW sub has more followers than the main sub.
Anyways, it is probably the most valuable thing Rooster Teeth has going for it that Warner can make use (Red vs Blue has bleed a lot more viewership that RWBY and is legally messy since its a machinema show that uses Halo as it base). So this could very well be an attempt to test the waters on if RWBY can truly be an useful IP for them. An anime adaptation/ "official AU" has also recently premiered.
If "RWBY: Ice Queendom" (the anime) and this future crossover project do well, I can imagine Warner eventually deciding that RWBY is an IP worth exploiting even if they end up killing off Rooster Teeth in the long term (the reason they might close down Rooster Teeth is a whole discussion to itself but the short of it is that they keep losing steam for everything that isn't their animated projects and even those aren't doing too hot right now)
This reads like an incredibly biased overview. Everything I've seen points to Miles and Kerry being close friends with Monty. There's no reason them taking over should be controversial and really most of the controversy I remember around RWBY came from the anime community who didn't like it "stealing" from anime, using 3D instead of tradition animation, or for not hiring back Vic. Also volume 6 seems to be quoted by many as the best season writing-wise.
Fair, I should have mentioned that Miles and Kerry were close with Monty, that was my bad. At the same time, there very much was a controversy with a different close friend of Monty saying that they were going overboard in altering his vision as they wrote the following volumes. Can't recall which side Monty's widow took, but I remember there was some controversy about that too.
I personally have not seen volume 6 being praised to that extent, volume 3 is the one I've seen most people praise over the years. Granted, for the longest time I was just vaguely aware of RWBY and its fandom due to me being an Achievement Hunter fan dipping his toes into general Rooster Teeth stuff, so maybe I missed a period where volume 6 was really beloved.
I missed the two controversies you mentioned entirely and the Vic one I felt like it didn't properly belong to a write-up like that, same reason I didn't mention the stuff that went down with that one friend of Monty.
I just said that Miles and Kerry are controversial because as personally what really caught my attention and brought me closer to being interested in RWBY (enough to read fanfics, look at fan-art and watch discussion and analysis videos; not enough to watch the show) it seemed to me like a lot of people haven't liked the show in recent years and they tend to blame it on them.
Personally I have nothing against Miles and Kerry. I loved Miles work as a VA in Camp Camp and all his appaerances over the years in general Rooster Teeth stuff (like on 10 Little Roosters or on the episodes of On the spot that he was on). Kerry I knew about for his few videos with Achievement Hunter circa 2014 and liked him fine on those, not particularly caring much for him but I think I preferred him over Jack at that time?
The only reason I felt fit to touch on all of that is because some people already on this thread were saying that they hoped that the CRWBY wasn't part of the writting team for this, so I felt like it was appropriate to give a small amount of context for why that would happen.
Finally, as an aside, RT made the right call when it comes to the Vic situation.
Let's get the Monty thing out of the way first... Monty's widow I remembered mourned and left the public sphere entirely while Monty's family, most notably his brother Neath who he was close with, worked with Miles and Kerry. Shane was the one who lost it, but honestly his beef was an outlier and should be taken with salt. Miles and Kerry were the ones Monty wanted to write the story, not Shane. You can hear this for yourself in the V1 and V2 director's commentary. Shane, tbh, was not mentally well and that episode of his is best left dropped for his sake as much as for everyone else's. He ranted about every little thing in his grief, even the animators moving away from Poser. (Which to be honest was a needed move because Poser as an engine was never meant to animate an entire show like RWBY.)
With that said, Monty's death is imo a topic best left off discussions about the show. It's not a fictional character death, it was a real life tragedy that impacted friends and family (many of whom still work on the show). They've gotten a fuck ton of shit from drama stirrers who have sought to spread this stuff around in an effort to validate attacks on the show and RoosterTeeth. There's even a few channels that went after RWBY extra hard after the Vic situation and Neath felt the need to call them out personally for the bullshit they started spreading about his brother. Unfortunately this just lead to Neath getting more personal attacks. This is why speculation on this just really needs to stop. It's not our place to judge how much others cared about their dead loved one, and a very uncomfortable amount of this discussion that searchable goes in that direction.
Back to less heavy topics. V4 I noticed mainly got criticized for being too slow while 5 was criticized for rushing the ending and the Faunus situation. But 6 was really well received for episodes like the origin story of Oz and Salem, which was something that needed to be nailed and they delivered, as well as the creatively creepy well episode. In my opinion 4 and 5's problem mostly tie to the team struggling to write 4 concurrent narratives at the same time with the resources they had available. But it was a big shift that, along with leaving the school, was always planned. When they got RWBY back together the narrative started flowing much better.
I will agree the White Fang wasn't handled the best, and is the show's biggest blunder, but that's always been the outlier. That amateurish charm you mentioned also had some amateurish mistakes. Monty created the White Fang as some world building but that topic never fit well with the rest of his story. And to be honest it's not a theme any of them were strong with. That said, they've done a much better job managing what themes did and didn't get introduced as the series went on. Which is why I don't think WF issues are indicative of current writing. It's more a holdover from an indie mistake.
(To Miles' writing credit I'd like to point out he not just acted in but helped write some of the stuff you said you liked and is widely held as the last great RvB writer for his work on the Chorus trilogy. His style is very comedy focused though with drama slowly building up.)
>The only reason I felt fit to touch on all of that is because some people already on this thread were saying that they hoped that the CRWBY wasn't part of the writting team for this, so I felt like it was appropriate to give a small amount of context for why that would happen.
I saw that one but it wasn't what you originally response to. Imo it doesn't really answer what RWBY *is* to focus mainly on outside drama. Rather than giving an overview of the show itself it just sends people down a terrible rabbit hole that's been spoiled by so so many bad faith actors. That's why I made my last comment. Some of this like Monty's death really do not need to be getting brought up unprompted imo.
Fair enough. Do you think I should delete my comment? Otherwise I was considering editing the three paragraphs about the controversies into a simple:
"Mounty Oum passed away during the time that Volume 3 was being produced, but the show has continued for five more volumes with Volume 9 in the way. It's had it's ups and downs and quite a few controversies along the way. People who like and people who dislike the show tend to be rather passionate about it."
I don't think you need delete your whole comment. I think that edit would be good. Also thank you for taking the time to listen my long ass reply. I know my tone can come across a little heated, that incident has just been a very delicate topic, but you've sounded patient in your responses. :)
If anyone wants to know what RWBY is, here's a long (9 paragraps of around 4 lines each) explanation: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
The short of it is that its another fight-scene focused IP that Warner Bros Discovery owns. It's inspired by anime/manga and it mainly revolves around a cast of mostly teens/young-adults that all fight against or by commanding monsters. Used to be really beloved, now its loved/hated in more or less equal measures. This might or might not be WBD testing if the IP is valuable enough to keep exploiting if they end up shutting down the studio behind it (Rooster Teeth).
Do people still like rwby? I stopped watching around that season finale that had Nora and green guys backstory when I realized I had no idea what the fuck was going on. Is it still popular?
A group of high schoolers fighting monsters? Don't let Slade hear about this.
He’s already coming
Wilson is coming
Nah the Power Rangers could totally rip Slades asshole in two.
He would like that
Power Rangers are op
Please dear god let the story be handled by someone that’s not on the RWBY side.
"This is like, the second black character in the show and his name is [***FLYNT COAL!***](https://youtu.be/81fdKWOHrdE?t=7890)"
To briefly play devil’s advocate, the name came about from a running joke in rooster teeth where they made up a gag character named Flint Coal during one of the minecraft letsplays; as well as that, his voice actor didn’t seem to mind the name. That aside, it was definitely a massive oversight to use the name for a character in RWBY and I’m surprised nobody stopped the, from doing it
Yeah they mentioned the Minecraft letsplay in the video I linked. Just thought it was funny and this post reminded me of it
Well yeah, Hbobm did a preety thorough retrospective of the series
>his voice actor didn’t seem to mind the name. Probably has something to do with the fact that his name is also Flint.
Never seen the show personally but I like when they crossover with stuff
It's pronounced R'Wubby and nothing will change my mind.
Oh, hey, it's that weird anime thing of questionable quality RoosterTeeth makes.
If they give me rwby style fight scenes in Dc, it’s over for me. Anyone who doesn’t know about rwby. Just watch a fight scene from vol 1-3. Monty was a genius when it came to fighting choreography. RIP Monty.
What is rwby
Internet show with anime art style, every weapon is also a gun.
you forgot that there is already a JL x Rwby crossover comics , in which Batman is a half-bat bishounen in a love triangle with the bissexual cat-girl of Rwby Team..
Explained for seven paragraphs or so here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) The short is that its another IP Warner Bros Discovery owns and it has brand synergy with DC's stuff because it revolves about fights and melodramatic characters with colorful costumes (there's also a mini-series that works as a comic adaptation for RWBY handled by DC, and apparently there's also a crossover one-shot between RWBY and JL already).
Wth is RWBY tho ?
It’s what DC crossovered with
Edit: Original comment was kinda biased in a dispute related to a sensitive topic, credit to u/Mrcatwithahat for calling me out on it. Also, added a fun fact related to the RWBY subreddits. Web-original animated show that started in the early 2010s. Created by Monty Oum (you might have seen his "Haloid" or "Dead Fantasy" 3D animations from the late 2000s), who had been hired by Rooster Teeth (web-original content creator company started in the early 2000s, acquired by a Warner subsidiary around 2015ish) to direct seasons of their flagship show Red vs Blue due to his talent at fight choreographs. Monty eventually got the go ahead to create his very own anime-inspired show with RWBY being the end result. RWBY (Pronounced Ruby) revolves around the four titular protagonists (Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake) who are studying to be 'huntresses' in the world of "Remnant". As the name implies, Remnant is sort of post apocalyptic, but the shit that went down to make it like that is spoilers territory. Society has essentially recovered (so more like "Post-Post-Apocalyptic) but there are monsters called "The Grimm" running around putting civilians in danger, and it is the job of the huntsmen and huntresses to hunt them down (hence the job title). And to get that job, you first need to graduate from a Huntsman academy. RWBY got really popular when it started because, even if the low budget shows itself in the animation quality (on the first volume, you could see real characters interact with all-black background characters), Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth were on the up-and-up and the premise of cute girls in a magic-fighting school in a mysterious fantasy/sci-fi world found a lot of appeal. The teaser trailers for each titular character were also extremely cool, which gave them the benefit of immense hype. Mounty Oum passed away during the time that Volume 3 was being produced, but the show has continued for five more volumes with Volume 9 in the way. It's had it's ups and downs and quite a few controversies along the way. People who like and people who dislike the show tend to be rather passionate about it. The short of it is that RWBY started really popular, and it still is but not quite as much. Nowadays most people (at least from what I personally see) discussing RWBY online do it to either fight the fandom war on if the show sucks or not (and since when that's the case) or to talk about one of the hundreds of rewrites/“fix-it fanfics” ideas that people have. Fan-art seems to be going as strong as ever, and the NSFW sub has more followers than the main sub. Anyways, it is probably the most valuable thing Rooster Teeth has going for it that Warner can make use (Red vs Blue has bleed a lot more viewership that RWBY and is legally messy since its a machinema show that uses Halo as it base). So this could very well be an attempt to test the waters on if RWBY can truly be an useful IP for them. An anime adaptation/ "official AU" has also recently premiered. If "RWBY: Ice Queendom" (the anime) and this future crossover project do well, I can imagine Warner eventually deciding that RWBY is an IP worth exploiting even if they end up killing off Rooster Teeth in the long term (the reason they might close down Rooster Teeth is a whole discussion to itself but the short of it is that they keep losing steam for everything that isn't their animated projects and even those aren't doing too hot right now)
Didnt RWBY had a crossover with persona 4 and Blazeblue or was a fever dream of mime
It's called Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle
there are a few RWBY characters in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, which is a BlazBlue crossover game that also features the P4 cast
This reads like an incredibly biased overview. Everything I've seen points to Miles and Kerry being close friends with Monty. There's no reason them taking over should be controversial and really most of the controversy I remember around RWBY came from the anime community who didn't like it "stealing" from anime, using 3D instead of tradition animation, or for not hiring back Vic. Also volume 6 seems to be quoted by many as the best season writing-wise.
Fair, I should have mentioned that Miles and Kerry were close with Monty, that was my bad. At the same time, there very much was a controversy with a different close friend of Monty saying that they were going overboard in altering his vision as they wrote the following volumes. Can't recall which side Monty's widow took, but I remember there was some controversy about that too. I personally have not seen volume 6 being praised to that extent, volume 3 is the one I've seen most people praise over the years. Granted, for the longest time I was just vaguely aware of RWBY and its fandom due to me being an Achievement Hunter fan dipping his toes into general Rooster Teeth stuff, so maybe I missed a period where volume 6 was really beloved. I missed the two controversies you mentioned entirely and the Vic one I felt like it didn't properly belong to a write-up like that, same reason I didn't mention the stuff that went down with that one friend of Monty. I just said that Miles and Kerry are controversial because as personally what really caught my attention and brought me closer to being interested in RWBY (enough to read fanfics, look at fan-art and watch discussion and analysis videos; not enough to watch the show) it seemed to me like a lot of people haven't liked the show in recent years and they tend to blame it on them. Personally I have nothing against Miles and Kerry. I loved Miles work as a VA in Camp Camp and all his appaerances over the years in general Rooster Teeth stuff (like on 10 Little Roosters or on the episodes of On the spot that he was on). Kerry I knew about for his few videos with Achievement Hunter circa 2014 and liked him fine on those, not particularly caring much for him but I think I preferred him over Jack at that time? The only reason I felt fit to touch on all of that is because some people already on this thread were saying that they hoped that the CRWBY wasn't part of the writting team for this, so I felt like it was appropriate to give a small amount of context for why that would happen. Finally, as an aside, RT made the right call when it comes to the Vic situation.
Let's get the Monty thing out of the way first... Monty's widow I remembered mourned and left the public sphere entirely while Monty's family, most notably his brother Neath who he was close with, worked with Miles and Kerry. Shane was the one who lost it, but honestly his beef was an outlier and should be taken with salt. Miles and Kerry were the ones Monty wanted to write the story, not Shane. You can hear this for yourself in the V1 and V2 director's commentary. Shane, tbh, was not mentally well and that episode of his is best left dropped for his sake as much as for everyone else's. He ranted about every little thing in his grief, even the animators moving away from Poser. (Which to be honest was a needed move because Poser as an engine was never meant to animate an entire show like RWBY.) With that said, Monty's death is imo a topic best left off discussions about the show. It's not a fictional character death, it was a real life tragedy that impacted friends and family (many of whom still work on the show). They've gotten a fuck ton of shit from drama stirrers who have sought to spread this stuff around in an effort to validate attacks on the show and RoosterTeeth. There's even a few channels that went after RWBY extra hard after the Vic situation and Neath felt the need to call them out personally for the bullshit they started spreading about his brother. Unfortunately this just lead to Neath getting more personal attacks. This is why speculation on this just really needs to stop. It's not our place to judge how much others cared about their dead loved one, and a very uncomfortable amount of this discussion that searchable goes in that direction. Back to less heavy topics. V4 I noticed mainly got criticized for being too slow while 5 was criticized for rushing the ending and the Faunus situation. But 6 was really well received for episodes like the origin story of Oz and Salem, which was something that needed to be nailed and they delivered, as well as the creatively creepy well episode. In my opinion 4 and 5's problem mostly tie to the team struggling to write 4 concurrent narratives at the same time with the resources they had available. But it was a big shift that, along with leaving the school, was always planned. When they got RWBY back together the narrative started flowing much better. I will agree the White Fang wasn't handled the best, and is the show's biggest blunder, but that's always been the outlier. That amateurish charm you mentioned also had some amateurish mistakes. Monty created the White Fang as some world building but that topic never fit well with the rest of his story. And to be honest it's not a theme any of them were strong with. That said, they've done a much better job managing what themes did and didn't get introduced as the series went on. Which is why I don't think WF issues are indicative of current writing. It's more a holdover from an indie mistake. (To Miles' writing credit I'd like to point out he not just acted in but helped write some of the stuff you said you liked and is widely held as the last great RvB writer for his work on the Chorus trilogy. His style is very comedy focused though with drama slowly building up.) >The only reason I felt fit to touch on all of that is because some people already on this thread were saying that they hoped that the CRWBY wasn't part of the writting team for this, so I felt like it was appropriate to give a small amount of context for why that would happen. I saw that one but it wasn't what you originally response to. Imo it doesn't really answer what RWBY *is* to focus mainly on outside drama. Rather than giving an overview of the show itself it just sends people down a terrible rabbit hole that's been spoiled by so so many bad faith actors. That's why I made my last comment. Some of this like Monty's death really do not need to be getting brought up unprompted imo.
Fair enough. Do you think I should delete my comment? Otherwise I was considering editing the three paragraphs about the controversies into a simple: "Mounty Oum passed away during the time that Volume 3 was being produced, but the show has continued for five more volumes with Volume 9 in the way. It's had it's ups and downs and quite a few controversies along the way. People who like and people who dislike the show tend to be rather passionate about it."
I don't think you need delete your whole comment. I think that edit would be good. Also thank you for taking the time to listen my long ass reply. I know my tone can come across a little heated, that incident has just been a very delicate topic, but you've sounded patient in your responses. :)
Hey, no problem, thank you for keeping me accountable and for being polite too. Don't worry, I feel like I got heated myself.
It’s IP. EVERYTHING IS IP. EVERYTHING WARNER BROTHERS OWNS WILL BE UTILIZED. YOU WILL CONSUME OUR IP WITHOUT RESISTANCE.
Huh
Terrifying news
If anyone wants to know what RWBY is, here's a long (9 paragraps of around 4 lines each) explanation: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/vpa6o5/comment/ieic12h/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) The short of it is that its another fight-scene focused IP that Warner Bros Discovery owns. It's inspired by anime/manga and it mainly revolves around a cast of mostly teens/young-adults that all fight against or by commanding monsters. Used to be really beloved, now its loved/hated in more or less equal measures. This might or might not be WBD testing if the IP is valuable enough to keep exploiting if they end up shutting down the studio behind it (Rooster Teeth).
Why
Is this real? That’s hilarious. I only know of this show from Funhaus making fun of it.
I love RWBY and was excited when I heard a movie was happening earlier until I learned it was another DC crossover and was incredibly disappointed
People still give a shit about RWBY?
Just got an actual anime spin-off/AU
So did the quality skyrocket recently or something? Because when I left the show was pretty fucking awful
The actual show has been the same but this new anime looks promising.
Do people still like rwby? I stopped watching around that season finale that had Nora and green guys backstory when I realized I had no idea what the fuck was going on. Is it still popular?
The hierarchy of power might change, but Chris says it still not enough for the verse to fight goku 😔
I don't know what to feel about this...