Using the Zero Punctuation metric~!
AKA, HowlingDay made some screenshot from ZP and really, REALLY wants to use them.
0/10 - Oh, precious cinnamon bun, too beautiful for this world, too pure
One character. Name ONE character in this series who looks ugly. Like, I'm giving you something easy and you're already failing!
Ruby Rose is a 14/15-year-old girl and she looks cute as a button~!
Weiss Schnee has a scar on her face, but compared to everyone else with scars, she got off pretty easy!
Blake Belladonna canonically has FOUR ears and she's still arguably one of the prettiest.
Yang Xiao Long, the brawling blonde kick boxer is a literal BOMBSHELL despite her amputation.
I know I'm sounding gross and shallow but that's only because the show isn't being gross and shallow! ...Well, they're not being gross, at least. The titular bitualars are the literal definition of "your scars are beautiful"!
5/10 - It's not that deep
V3 Finale to V4 Finale was miserable gut punch after miserable gut punch, yet despite all the misery and gut punches, RWBY still finds time to crack a joke and show the good guys getting a win. Even if they repeat themselves later on, the show still holds on to one of its core messages about hope; even in our bleakest and darkest moments, we can still find the strength to continue on. And that's beautiful...
But compared to the Grimdarkness of other franchises that go so hard they make even WH40K blush, RWBY definitely comes up short. Hell, Mafia is more GrimDark than RWBY, and it's 2/3 a racing game! Except for III, which was a racist game.
7/10 - Gains, bro. Gains.
Question: What is the difference between a Beowolf and a Cenitaur? One is an easy mob and the other is noted on the wiki as "being so skilled, it could keep up with Blake Belladonna".
Question: What is the difference between an Ursa and a Jabberwalker? One got killed by one huntsman (Jaune being .5 a huntsman and Pyrrha assisting with .5 makes 1 whole, fuck off) and the other became the crux of an ecological nightmare after Neopolitan got an upgrade and curb-stomped it so hard, even 20+ year veteran Jaune struggled to keep up.
Question: What is the difference between Roman Torchwick and Salem? One is the leader of a criminal underworld dedicated to spreading misery and chaos for their own selfish whims while the other isn't wearing a bowler hat. BUT Salem is also immortal and leads a literal army of literal monsters while Roman Torchwick became the first real casualty of the series by being eaten by them.
As the series goes on, the difficulty cranks up, albeit at a sort of leisurely pace... until V8 kicked in and cranked the nemesis system so high that you have to fucking squint to find a single win for the good guys. Seriously, at least Goku was able to destroy Cell and save the Earth, what the fuck do RWBY have that is actually, with no strings attached, going their way? I'll leave you all to fight in the comments on that one.
Starting off immediately because I already know my audience and you're already champing at the bit to tear this faux "analysis" to pieces with my poor understanding of TWO source materials at once, we have our first metric, which I'm gonna spoil right now, is a fucking F-0, and not the Falcoln Punch Kind...
8/10 - There's two things I can't stand in this world; people who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch!
I hope you were listening when watching "The World of Remnant" because, like I said before, this is going to be on the test. And lo and behold, here is your test!
The world is certainly detailed, especially since it was made from a ketchup stain, and RWBY have been exploring... I wanna say 70% of it, and that's not even including the extra-dimensional shenanigannery found in V9 and the crossovers.
Patch Island, Vale City, Beacon, Forever Fall, Emerald Forest, Mountain Glenn, Xion, Oniyuri, Kuro Yuri, Haven, Kuo Kuana, Argus, Mantle, Atlas, Shade- and there's still enough room to explore and make up your own without anything feeling out of place!
You can also see the differences in cultures if you bother opening up the books and reading them, assuming CRWBY still have them available after RT shutdown and pulled them from the shelves, you fucks!
And overall, it's the differences that really serve as the key element in the final battle between RWBY and Salem (whenever that happens). Can humanity stand united under one banner despite being made up of racists, darwinists, gangsters, isolationists, and candy-ass diplomatics? I'll let you figure out who is who in that regard. Of course, you'd know all this if you studied for the fucking test!
20/40 - You boys get an F... Minus!
Is RWBY Dark Souls? On the contrary, I feel like RWBY stands as a stark contrast to the very concept of GrimDark.
Yes, the world is literally in pieces after a god-like tantrum from the biggest pissy-babies in the entire series, both size and emotion-wise, leaving a Remnant of their works to be squandered while they play new games with their new toys in new worlds, leaving humanity to clean up after them like a role-reversal abusive home.
However, despite everything, RWBY is still about one core message: HOPE, and it is that hope that keeps RWBY from falling into the same pitfalls as Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, and Elden Ring, and Hollow Knight, and even Blue Fire (Oho! Wasn't expecting THAT cameo, were you~?): the good guys still win, humanity will triumph over evil, and victory will be found in the simple soul.
There's no alien elder gods to swoop from the heavens to consume and devour reality. There's no continuation of a cycle of abuse disguised as something as natural, or the alternative of letting everyone be soaked in barbecue sauce and ringing a Pavlovian bell. And there will be no ambiguity as to whether or not a person and their friends can put an end to an ancient evil with little more than the power of teamwork and diplomacy... or, at least, I hope.
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