r/Multifandom • u/AgitatedOne57 TAWOG, TADC, Cuphead, DW, 5SOS(BS), SPRUNKI, MLP, and NNSG • 6d ago

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