RWBY/Trivia

• The four main characters allude to fairy tales, Ruby being Little Red Riding Hood, Weiss Schnee being Snow White, Blake Belladonna being Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and Yang being Goldilocks.
• The other main team, JNPR, has four characters inspired by crossdressers: Jaune Arc is Joan of Arc, Nora Valkyrie alludes to Thor, Pyrrha was the name Achilles hid himself as a woman, and Lie Ren is based on Mulan.
• Another major influence is The Wizard of Oz: Ozpin is the wizard himself, along with the farmboy Oscar; Glynda Goodwitch has a name and surname borrowed from the Witch of the South; General Ironwood is the Tin Woodsan; and Leonardo Lionheart is the Cowardly Lion.
• The first letter of each of the four main characters name refer to the title of the series, they can also be associated with the color. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.
• Out of all four trailers "Red" does not have an opening sentence (but it could be the tombstone message). So far each could be taken literally relating to the characters backstory in the series:
  • White - has had to deal with a great loss, and even though she may (not) feel sorrow, what was lost is irreplaceable.
  • Black - is taking on someone else's ideals and becoming smothered by them. She is looking for a way to liberate herself from the burden.
  • Yellow - was judged for not being similar to the rest, but for every misstep that occurred she became internally different.
• In the "Red" trailer, the tombstone reads "Summer Rose/Thus Kindly I Scatter", an allusion to Thomas Moore's poem, The Last Rose of Summer.
• Because of how Red vs. Blue ended and because the first RWBY trailer was placed right after the credits, many fans assumed RvB had finished. However, this is not the case. In Podcast 191, Monty Oum, Gus Sorola, and Miles Luna all stated that they will be continuing to make Red vs. Blue as long as people are willing to watch it.
• People believed that the 'B' stood for Blue, in accordance with the more commonly know 'RYB' which defines the primary colors usage. This was later proven untrue when the trailer cemented it was in fact Black.
• Weiss' sword, Myrtenaster, appears to translate, from German, as 'myrtle aspen', both of these being varieties of plant.
• The characters usually have names inspired by colors, even if in other languages (Weiss is "White" in German, "Jaune" is yellow in French), an example of what Monty suggested about the naming customs of the world in RWBY.
• RWBY is the first main Rooster Teeth series to be 100% animated.
• The Black trailer is the first trailer to have fully voice-acted lines, and is also the first trailer to reveal a supporting character.
• The Yellow Trailer features remixes from the other three pieces of music, as well as Yellow's appearing during her final battle.
• The DJ in the Yellow Trailer parodies the artist's headgear of DJ Deadmau5, with it being a black bear head instead of a red mouse head.
• Miltia and Melanie could be parodies of Delia and Deidre Dennis from the Batman Beyond Universe, where the characters have the same interactions with each ending the sentences with the sister's name.
• The original voice actor for Junior was supposed to be Gavin, however Monty Oum decided that he sounded "too important" and used Jack instead, saving Gavin for a later role.
• Only two of the Rooster Teeth founders have roles in RWBY, Joel Heyman as Professor Oobleck, and Burnie Burns as Taiyang, the father of Ruby and Yang. However, Matt Hullum has auditioned for Ozpin (who was eventually played by Shannon McCormick) and the producers have said he will eventually get a major part.
• The series' convention for naming teams extended to the names used to refer to the RWBY fandom (FNDM) and the show's crew members (CRWBY).
• Roman Torchwick was supposed to appear only in the first episode, but the crew liked Gray Haddock's performance so much the character was expanded and lasted for three volumes. Afterwards, the ones planned as the original Volume 1 antagonists, Fennec and Corsac Albain, were introduced in Volume 4.