RWBY illusions (taken from RWBY wiki) - Team RWBY & Penny
Ruby Rose - Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red Riding Hood)
Ruby wears a red, hooded cape, much like Little Red Riding Hood.
The "Red" Trailer, which introduces Ruby, features her walking through a forest and being attacked by a pack of Beowolves, which are wolf-like Grimm. Little Red Riding Hood traveled through a forest, followed by a wolf, which later ate her grandmother and attacked her.
Roman Torchwick's nickname for her is "Red".
During "Heroes and Monsters", Roman call her "Little Red".
She is referred to as "Little Red" again by Cinder Fall during "The Coming Storm".
Weiss Schnee - Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves)
The literal translation of Weiss' name, from German to English, is "White Snow".
The song Mirror Mirror heavily references the evil queen's use of a magic mirror, with the lyrics "Mirror, tell me who's the loneliest of all" referencing the queen's line "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" This song first plays in the "White" Trailer, which serves as Weiss' introduction.
The pendant on the necklace Weiss wears with her original battle outfit is an apple, referencing the poisoned apple that Snow White takes a bite of.
Advertisements for Schnee Dust Company merchandise bear the slogan "The finest of them all", referencing the evil queen's phrase "who's the fairest of them all".
Blake Belladonna - Belle and The Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Blake loves to read, much like Disney's version of Belle.
In the episode "The Shining Beacon, Pt.2", Blake is seen to own a candelabra, which references Lumière, the living candelabra from the Disney adaptation. According to Miles Luna, this was part of an attempt to surround her with lots of "Belle-related items".
Red Like Roses has the lyric "Black the Beast descends from shadows”.
Like The Beast, Blake has animal traits and is ostracized for them
Gambol Shroud's asymmetrical dual wield form is inspired by her duality of being both Belle and The Beast.
In BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Blake's two Distortion attacks are called Untouchable Beauty and Ferocious Beast.
Yang Xiao Long - Goldilocks (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)
The "Yellow" Trailer, which serves as an introduction for Yang, takes place in Hei "Junior" Xiong's nightclub. During the course of the trailer, she knocks out a DJ who is wearing a bear mask and fights Junior. The literal translation for Junior's name, from Chinese to English, is Black Bear. That, added with his nickname, Junior, makes him the "baby bear" to her Goldilocks.
Yang's first fight in the series proper is against a pair of Ursai, bear-like Grimm, in the episode "The Emerald Forest". This again is another allusion to the three bears in the story of Goldilocks.
Yang places great value on her long, thick, golden-blonde locks of hair.
Her Volume 4 "DGAS" outfit has a patch on the left leg of her pants depicting three Ursa masks, thus referencing the three bears.
In "Welcome to Haven", there is a fuel station called "Just Rite". In the fairy tale, Goldilocks tries the bowls of porridge, chairs and beds successively, each time finding the third "just right". In the same episode, the Shady Man and Yang herself describe her body as being "not too bulky, not too lean" but "just right".
Later during RWBY Volume 5:Yang Character Short, Yang was again seen battling another Ursa Grimm.
Penny Polendina - Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
The name "Penny" is similar to "Pinocchio". Her last name, Polendina, comes from the derogatory nickname that Pinocchio's creator, Geppetto, was given, due to his yellow wig bearing resemblance to polenta in the original story.
She is a sentient robot. Pinocchio is a sentient wooden puppet.
In "A Minor Hiccup", Penny says "I'm not a real girl." This statement is similar to Pinocchio's statements of wanting to be "a real boy".
In the same episode, Penny hiccups whenever she tells a lie, just as Pinocchio's nose would grow in length whenever he told a lie.
She manipulates her swords through the use of very thin wires, similar to how a puppet is controlled with thin strings.
Penny receiving the power of the Winter Maiden from Fria is an allusion to her finally becoming a real girl due to the power only being able to bond with Aura, similar to Pinocchio becoming a real boy upon receiving the Blue Fairy's blue magic.
Multiple instances throughout Volumes 7 & 8, Penny is referred to as a "toy" or "magical puppet".
Ambrosius making Penny a human body is another reference to Pinocchio becoming a real boy.

















