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Question❓ Fandom you feel is like this?

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Nobody gets to make fun of my ms paint drawings shhh

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u/nowaunderatedwaifngl 6d ago

I've never watched an episode of RWBY but literally every piece of engagement/art/gifs/etc., I've seen of it as an outsider has been of one of the female characters. To the point where I was pretty much under the impression it was an all-female cast.

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u/NoGround 6d ago

Jaune is pretty well-known inside the fandom for being a self-insert and taking up a ton of attention for whenever he's in a scene. He and Ruby are the two characters with some of the deepest developments.

Also, many of the big favorite characters are male. Crow, Roman, Ironwood, Oz. The female cast outside of the main group are definitely powerful but they never seemed to have the same audience pull except for maybe Crow's sister, Neo, and Salem.

I'm shocked I remembered any of these names, tbh. I fell off that show in Season 5 when it was clear that they wouldn't reach the same heights as Season 3 ever again.

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u/TheBrownestStain 6d ago

Jaune is not a self insert. He’s one of the main characters, but not a self insert.

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u/Rebound101 6d ago

Creators Pet would be a better description.

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u/TheBrownestStain 6d ago

Eh, I’m not even sure I’d call him that. I just see him as the secondary protagonist to Ruby being the primary, with their teams being supporting protagonists. I’m not sure if they’ve ever talked about it but I just assume him being voiced by one of the writers is more just because basically everyone early on was voiced by people they already had in the office.

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u/AnArcticJackalope 4d ago

Jaune in early seasons could be viewed as an “audience insert” to slowly introduce the viewers into the rules and worldbuilding of the show, but the entirety of the promotional material focused on Team RWBY as the protagonists and very clearly showed Team JNPR as secondary protagonists. And yet nearly 1/3 of Volume 1 puts Jaune as the lead and many fans were a little upset by that. The fact that he was voiced by one of the writers (neither of which had any experience writing), and was written very similar to how other shows would write main male protagonist, gives off the impression that he was supposed to be a main character when he very much was not. Hence why he’s being brought up in this trope.

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u/Full_Contribution724 5d ago

The secondary protagonist should be Weiss, Blake and Yang

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u/Koreaia 5d ago

Dudes will call Jaune a self insert while ignoring Blake and Yang.

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u/BlackMaskKiira 6d ago

It's honestly funny how much attention Jaune gets, considering how anti-male the show can get at times *cough* Ironwood *cough*.

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u/Shock-Robin 6d ago

Eh, I feel it gets better after seasons 4 and 5

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u/Aryzal 6d ago

Well, depends.

If you are there for the fight choreography and animation, you know, the things that made RWBY popular in the first place, no it doesn't. Season 4 is one of the worst seasons for fights, and it doesn't pick up until season 7 and 8, in which case it is still animated worse than seasons 1-3 because legendary animator and showrunner Monty Oum has died in the production of season 3, and most of the actually good animators were let off, namely Shane Newell and Dillion Goo. Even back when season 3 was airing, people were already saying the fight quality dropped, because Monty wasn't there for half of it.

If you are there for the story, TECHNICALLY yes. But it is like getting a C instead of a C- on a test. You still barely passed, congrats on slightly not failing better. Season 4 was one of the worst boring slogfests, IIRC Season 5 was memed because the characters mostly sat in a room and discussed things for most of the show, season 6 was kind of a transition season with a ton of lore dump that people seem to treat as good storywriting for some unknowable reason, 7 was actually pretty good, and season 8 had no logic and butchered a fan favorite character who has done nothing but be helpful to the main cast, because the writers made a trolley problem but wanted the protagonists to win no matter what, so the logical step to make the guy who has selflessly sacrificed everything to save his people and be kind to random strangers who he had no obligations to (who are also the main characters)... shoot someone for political power (he already had the political clout needed) and take over as dictator. Because miliarism bad (even though there is a horde of monsters trying to kill everything in your city).

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u/NoGround 6d ago

Probably, they lost me though.

Did it ever finish before RT shut down?

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u/CrystalDragonCynzi 6d ago

It got to Volume 9 and then some epilogue shorts. Supposedly Volume 10 is in pre-production, but I'm not holding my breath.

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u/The_Final_Gunslinger 6d ago

That's heartening. I lost track/interest during season 4. It dropped hard after Monty. I'll have to pick it back up some time.

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u/Shock-Robin 6d ago

Yeah, 4 and 5 are ROUGH, ngl. But 6 is one of my personal favorites, and everything after that varies from "okay" to "great", imo

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u/RynnHamHam 6d ago

Yeah Robin should’ve been given a little more badassery. Because I want to like her but she feels very… boring. Like cool power, cool motivations, I like her as a person. But for the life of me I can’t remember if she actually does anything beyond that one instance of her using her power as a lie detector.

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u/LuckyLilypad 3d ago

I mean, referring to Raven only as “Crow’s sister” is wild

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u/stnick6 6d ago

It’s been a while since I watched it but I remember jaune and Oscar taking a lot of focus in the later seasons

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u/TheOneAndOnlyABSR4 6d ago

Happy cake day

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u/Spare_Cow5160 6d ago

It could be with time..

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u/AgitoKanohCheekz 6d ago

My first introduction to the series was the….Schneenis…..