History Fridge / RWBY

* Jaune's weapons and fighting style changing over the course of time can be used to reflect his mental state and growth. He starts off with a basic sword and shield with little experience on how to use them. After the fall of Becacon and the death of Pyrrha, he gets an upgrade with his bastard sword, throwing defense to the wayside and making what can be seen as suicide charges best seen in his fight with Cinder. In Atlas, he gets another upgrade to his shield and focusing more on defense while also making new friends. After killing Penny his sword breaks likely pushing him to the breaking point and he doesn't get it fixed in the everafter letting it collect rust with like him staying with the paper pleasers and falling into a routine

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* A bit of fridge tearjerker but seeing how Weiss first reacts to seeing her big sister and how she wanted bunk beds when she was younger, Weiss may have wished to have a normal and loving relationship with her big sis. Instead, Winter is very cold to her little sister and even hits her when she makes a simple mistake. The worst part is that Winter clearly loves Weiss just as much as Weiss loves her, but she can't show it in public.

* Pyrrha's last kiss with Jaune is made [[HarsherInHindsight worse in retrospect]], once Jaune's semblance is actually revealed. His ability to [[SuperEmpowering enhance the Aura and abilities of others]] would have allowed Pyrrha to unleash greater level of Ferrokenetic ability than she had before, recharged her Aura and even healed her wounds, such as the arrow straight to her heel that set her up for Cinder's killing blow. Far from being a liability that Pyrrha had to keep away from the fighting, Jaune's presence could have made all the difference between her death or survival, especially since he did unlock his Semblance the next time the heroes faced Cinder, but by refusing to fight together and not trusting Jaune enough to be capable of protecting himself, Pyrrha sealed her own fate. It's never elaborated if Jaune has since realised this, but given his feelings of inadequacy for the task faced by everybody, realising he was denied the chance to make a meaningful difference to events because of how weak others perceived him to be would only make him feel worse.

* Neo's Penny illusion's speech is very personal and much longer than any of her other illusion's lines. At first one could just assume she was using how close Ruby was to Penny to torment her... until one realizes the idea of "Someone who meant the world to you, who you failed to protect" [[PsychologicalProjection applies just as much Roman and Neo as it does to Penny and Ruby]].

* The illusion Torchwick conjured up by Neo's Semblance notably two voices that are switching back and forth if you listen carefully[[note]]This is a result of Creator/BillyKametz's pre-recorded lines and Creator/ChristopherWehkamp filling in for what Billy was unable to record prior to his death.[[/note]]. While it emphasizes his true nature as a physical illusion created by Neo, there's a slight sadness to it. By the time of Volume 9, a good amount of InUniverse years have passed since Roman Torchwick's death and the only physical thing Neo has left of him is his spare bowler hat. Taking this into factor and the Cross Continental Transmit System being offline after Volume 3, it's a high possibility that Neo has no physical recording of Roman's voice and is starting to forget what Roman once ''sounded'' like.

* Ruby's venting at Jaune over mourning for his paper friends]] takes on a whole new meaning when you remember how she barely had time to mourn for the loss of Penny and anytime she is ''given'' a chance to, it's immediately taken away either by Ever After's denizens or her own friends (who she includes in the venting). What's worse? The way WBY comforts Jaune over the loss of his paper friends, to Ruby at least, made her feel like a bunch of paper people (who they collectively agreed ''wanted'' to die just minutes prior) were more important than a close friend who risked everything to save yet ''[[SenselessSacrifice died regardless]]''.

** What made this worse is that his newfound duties were what kept him sane for literal ''decades'' while Ruby and Neo were so broken within a day of entering Ever After that [[spoiler:Ruby [[DrivenToSuicide drank poisoned tea and ascended]] while Neo became an EmptyShell ripe for possession by the Curious Cat, who Jaune was right about being EvilAllAlong.]]

* The sad thing? The one time Ruby's KirkSummation could have worked? [[spoiler:It's the one time she's too mad to even ''use'' it, as when Neo brings up her reason for wanting Ruby dead, [[DisappointedByTheMotive she just refuses to even tell Neo what happened to Roman]]]].

* While Jaune NEEDED to fill his time stopping the Paper Pleasers from Ascending to keep himself mentally occupied and as sane as possible, his increased obsession with it also prevented him from meeting up and guiding team RWBY himself, which could have prevented them from redoing parts of Alyx's story including their meeting with the Curious Cat, who wants to break Ruby into a new vessel for themmself to escape the Ever After.

* While Jaune NEEDED to fill his time stopping the Paper Pleasers from Ascending to keep himself mentally occupied and as sane as possible. His increased obsession with it also prevented him from meeting up and guiding team RWBY himself, which could have prevented them from redoing parts of Alyx's story including their meeting with the Curious Cat, who wants to break Ruby into a new vessel for themmself to escape the Ever After.

* While Jaune NEEDED to fill his time stopping the Paper Pleasers from Ascending to keep himself mentally occupied and as sane as possible. His increased obsession with it also prevented him from meeting up and guiding team RWBY himself, which could have prevented them from redoing parts of Alyx's story including their meeting with the Curious Cat, who wants to break Ruby into a new vessel for himself to escape the Ever After.

* If Jaune didn't waste all his time on stopping the Paper Pleasers from killing themselves to Ascend, he could have guided team RWBY himself and prevented them from redoing parts of Alyx's story including them meeting up with the Curious Cat, which could have prevented the events of "Tea Amidst Terrible Trouble" from happening.
** On the flipside, Jaune NEEDED to fill his time helping the Paper Pleasers to keep himself mentally occupied and as sane as possible.