History Fanfic / Goodbellas

* KickTheSonOfABitch: What [[spoiler:Emerald]] does to [[spoiler:Tyrian]] at the end of "Roman Invasion".

* JustForPun: The work itself is a reference to ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}'', with the gang's name also inspired by the Ballas gang in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV. Also, the first chapter's title is "The Mancunian Candidate" - a pun classic film buffs [[Film/TheManchurianCandidate would pick instantly]] - and the eighth's title is a ShoutOut to the Doobie Brothers ("Watts The Fool Believes").

* MurderInc: Ren's gang is this.

* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:Hazel and Port]] are this to the cops. [[spoiler:Thanks to Ruby and Velvet, it doesn't last]].

* FiveManBand: This gets invoked twice.
** First, the Bellas leadership follows this pretty conventionally, for a group of anti-villains.
*** BigBad: Blake, [[TheDon naturally]].
*** TheDragon: Jaune. TheConsigliere and legal eagle of the group, was originally co-underboss with Nora.
*** EvilGenius: Nora and Weiss. The former is the underboss and accountant for the gang, and co-owns a nightclub with Blake that serves as HQ for the trifecta. The latter was the first of the gang to found a front business, and she's intelligent enough to recruit the four best drug makers in the Vale and have them make drugs, plant them on drug dealers/cartels who muscle in on their hometown, and then tip the cops off about them.
*** TheBrute: Ren and Ruby. The former leads the standover/murder squad, used to take out or report small-fry murderers and rapists. The latter, by contrast, is the chief spy and designated hitwoman, a role evidenced when she tracks down and ''[[spoiler:brutally]]'' [[spoiler:murders Adam for raping her sister]].
*** DarkChick: Pyrrha and Yang. The former leads the thieving/repossession crew, and is responsible for (amongst other things) providing alibis for the other members and keeping vigil over them if they get attacked. Also, [[spoiler:Pyrrha covered for Nora as underboss when the latter was in recovery]]. The latter leads a crew that (in addition to arson and explosions) destroys evidence of the gang's lesser crimes, and both women founded the car dealership/mechanic shop that proved to be a big revenue-raiser for the Bellas.
** As for the villains, it breaks down like this:
*** BigBad: Roman. He's the one with the designs on the Vale, and is clearly the leader of the bunch.
*** TheDragon: Dr. Watts. An accountant in this setting, he's responsible for advising (and presumably funding) Roman's efforts.
*** EvilGenius: Mercury. The group's lawyer, he was responsible for getting Adam off a possession charge.
*** TheBrute: Adam, at first. [[spoiler:He's the one who traps Nora and Yang, and is the one who initiates their rape]]. After [[spoiler:he gets killed, Tyrian]] cements himself as this when he [[spoiler:shoots Qrow in "Roman Invasion"]].
*** DarkChick: Emerald.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Definitely. RWBY and JNPR lead the group; Weiss, Ren, Yang and Pyrrha all lead four-man squads (teams ABRN, CRDL, BRNZ and NDGO respectively), and most of the villains have already made appearances. And as of chapter six, we get the police: [[spoiler:teams SSSN and CFVY]], along with [[spoiler:Ozpin, Glynda, Penny, Oobleck, and Oscar]]. The only major characters who ''haven't'' appeared yet are the Schnees, General Ironwood, and Salem - whether they ''will'' show up is yet to be seen.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played dead straight in the cases of Nebula and Reese (from teams NDGO and ABRN). In the former's case, she dyed her hair purple after it went grey prematurely.

* AdaptationalVillainy: this version of Roman Torchwick are far Worse then His Canon Web Animation Counterpart.
* AdaptationalHeroism: This Version of Cinder Fall of all people is not Her Canon Web Animation Counterpart.

* AdaptationHeroism: This Version of Cinder Fall of all people is not Her Canon Web Animation Counterpart.

AdaptationHeroic: This Version of Cinder Fall of all people is not Her Canon Web Animation Counterpart.

* JustForPun: The work itself is a reference to ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}'', with the gang's name also inspired by the Ballas gang in GrandTheftAutoV. Also, the first chapter's title is "The Mancunian Candidate" - a pun classic film buffs [[Film/TheManchurianCandidate would pick instantly]] - and the eighth's title is a ShoutOut to the Doobie Brothers ("Watts The Fool Believes").

* FromCamoflageToCriminal: Ruby, Ren and team CRDL all have this in their backstories.

* FiveBadBand: This gets invoked twice.

** "Fall Of The Roman Empire" has the deaths of [[spoiler:Mercury[[note]]bashed and impaled with his leg braces[[/note]], Emerald[[note]]crucified and burnt into a sludgy meatsack[[/note]], and Roman[[note]]shot several times, then blown up inside a house rigged for demolition[[/note]]]] at the hands of [[spoiler:the Bellas]].