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* BrownNote: The Apathy use a piercing screaming attack that drains the will to fight or struggle from anyone who hears it. Those afflicted cannot even raise their weapons to resist, and repeated screams can reduce the victims to lying helplessly on the ground, unwilling to even move.
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* MakeMeWannaShout: The Apathy use a piercing screaming attack that drains the will to fight or struggle from anyone who hears it. Those afflicted cannot even raise their weapons to resist, and repeated screams can reduce the victims to lying helplessly on the ground, unwilling to even move.
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* UncannyValley: As the characters feel increasingly lethargic, the pupils of their eyes become increasingly dilated until they look [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/2/2e/V6_06_00019.png/revision/latest?cb=20181208180011&format=original extremely creepy and zombie-like]]. The reason turns out to be a pack of Apathy Grimm trapped beneath the farmstead, which are slowly eating away everyone's will to live.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Most of the Grimm are based on real or mythic animals, but the Apathy are humanoid in shape, so thin and sinewy that they appear skeletal. Their white mask covers their face and looks like a human skull. Their bodies are capable of twisting in inhuman ways, and they twitch with bone-cricking tics when they straighten up, just like the Nuckelavee and the God of Darkness.
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* TooDumbToLive: Though he acted with the best intentions, Bartleby's final scheme to help the town overcome its hardship only ended up wiping it out. When separating a pair of Grimm from their pack, he failed to consider that the rest of the pack might try to follow the pair. These specific type of Grimm had the ability to drain the will from a living being with their sheer presence, causing its victim to either waste away or be left open to being killed. When Bartleby put the pair of Grimm in his cellar, he didn't bother to immediately seal up the tunnels, instead leaving it until the following day. This gave the pack plenty of time in which to arrive at the farm and locate their missing members. Bartleby therefore sealed in an entire horde of Apathy Grimm rather than just two. The sheer level of power emanating from such a huge pack saps the energy from the entire farmstead, killing all of them in their sleep, even Bartleby.
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Seeking shelter in an abandoned farm, the heroes ride out the blizzard and come to terms with new information about their mission.
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As darkness falls on Brunswick Farms and the snow continues to fall, Team RWBY's morale is at an all-time low. The only thing worse than being stranded, alone in the woods ... is realizing you're not alone at all.
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->''"What's wrong with you?! We can't just leave, we have to go down there! We have to get the lamp back!"''
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* DeadlyGaze: At the end of Volume 3, Qrow tells Ruby that legend claims the Creatures of Grimm are afraid of silver-eyed warriors because the warriors are capable of striking the Grimm down with a single loop. Qrow regards it as ridiculous, but Ruby did freeze a Grimm Dragon to Beacon Tower when the power of her eyes instinctively activated and Qrow isn't quite sure what happened. In this episode, Maria deliberately activates Ruby's eyes to save them all from the Apathy Grimm. Controlling her power for the first time, Ruby is able to reduce an entire room full of Apathy Grimm to particles with a single burst of silver light from her eyes. It does not destroy any Apathy Grimm that were not in the room at the time.
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* DeadlyGaze: At the end of Volume 3, Qrow tells Ruby that legend claims the Creatures of Grimm are afraid of silver-eyed warriors because the warriors are capable of striking the Grimm down with a single loop.look. Qrow regards it as ridiculous, but Ruby did freeze a Grimm Dragon to Beacon Tower when the power of her eyes instinctively activated and Qrow isn't quite sure what happened. In this episode, Maria deliberately activates Ruby's eyes to save them all from the Apathy Grimm. Controlling her power for the first time, Ruby is able to reduce an entire room full of Apathy Grimm to particles with a single burst of silver light from her eyes. It does not destroy any Apathy Grimm that were not in the room at the time.
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* OhCrap: Maria goes wide-eyed with shock when she reads Bartleby's journal and realizes the farm's tunnels are filled with Apathy Grimm. Yang, Blake, and Weiss have [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/d/dd/V6_06_00037.png/revision/latest?cb=20181208175425 much the same reaction]] when Ruby comes across the horde and screams in terror.
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** Mariagoes wide-eyed with shock when she reads spends most of her time at the farm quietly reading Bartleby's journal diaries. When she turns a page and realizes the farm's tunnels are filled with sees a picture of an Apathy Grimm. Yang, Blake, Grimm, she gasps and Weiss have her electronic eyes widen into huge pools of blue light, immediately understanding the danger they and the farm are in.
** When Ruby impulsively races off around a corner to recover the Relic that they dropped, her scream of horror so [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/d/dd/V6_06_00037.png/revision/latest?cb=20181208175425much shocks her team-mates]] that it jerks them out of the same reaction]] when Ruby comes across effects of the horde and screams in terror.Grimm-induced apathy that they'd been falling under.
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* OhCrap: Maria goes wide-eyed with shock when she reads Bartleby's journal and realizes the farm's tunnels are filled with Apathy Grimm.
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** When Ruby instinctively uses her silver eyes to prevent Blake from being killed, the activation is only momentary and barely affects the Grimm. It's enough for Maria to ask Ruby what colour her eyes are. Upon learning they're silver, Maria gasps them instructs Ruby on how to activate them, which destroys every Grimm in the room. At the end of the episode, Ruby asks Maria how she knew so much about the silver eyes; Maria tells her that it should be obvious by now that she also had silver eyes.
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** When Ruby instinctively uses her silver eyes to prevent Blake from being killed, the activation is only momentary and barely affects the Grimm. It's enough for Maria to ask Ruby what colour her eyes are. Upon learning they're silver, Maria gasps them then instructs Ruby on how to activate them, which destroys every Grimm in the room. At the end of the episode, Ruby asks Maria how she knew so much about the silver eyes; Maria tells her that it should be obvious by now that she also had silver eyes.
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Removing speculation, unnecessary emphasis, conversational language. Rewriting for context or grammar. Heroic Willpower misuse (rewritten to fit the trope). Innocently Insensitive shoehorning. Monster Of The Aesop is a Monster Of The Week trope, they don't both need to be troped. More Than Mind Control shoehorning (the Apathy aren't engaging in manipulation to change people's opinions, they're merely draining the will to live). Motivated By Fear is just pure speculation, in each case the characters were shocked, which could mean anything. Nice Job Fixing It Villain misuse. Removed Out Of Genre Experience because they've explored horror before — not in as much depth, but it's not new to the show. Outside Context Problem misuse; the heroes are kids still learning what Grimm exist in the world, and the audience learns as they do. Maria's encountered Apathy before and the diaries make it clear the hired huntsman knew all about them, too. Removed The Reveal because it's a Captain Obvious Reveal (as Maria herself points out). I've moved the example to Foreshadowing instead. Wham misuse; it's not for reveals, or anything that's been foreshadowed or set up in advance by the plot.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: Bartleby tried to use a single pair of Apathy Grimm to keep the inhabitants of the farm calm so other Grimm would stay away and he could cut costs on Huntsman protection. Unfortunately, the other members of the Apathy Grimm's pack followed their missing members, and the plan [[GoneHorriblyRight was more effective than it was supposed to be]].
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* EvilIsNotAToy: Bartleby was so worried about the farm haemorrhaging money, that he decided to cut costs on Huntsman protection. Since that required the farm-dwellers to keep calm and as emotionless as possible, he tried to use a single pair of Apathy Grimm to keep the inhabitants of the farm calm so other Grimm would stay away and he could cut costs on Huntsman protection. dull everyone's emotional responses. Unfortunately, the other members of the Apathy Grimm's pack followed their missing members, and killing everyone on the plan [[GoneHorriblyRight was more effective than it was supposed to be]].farm.
** When Ruby instinctively uses her silver eyes to prevent Blake from being killed, the activation is only momentary and barely affects the Grimm. It's enough for Maria to ask Ruby what colour her eyes are. Upon learning they're silver, Maria gasps them instructs Ruby on how to activate them, which destroys every Grimm in the room. At the end of the episode, Ruby asks Maria how she knew so much about the silver eyes; Maria tells her that it should be obvious by now that she also had silver eyes.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Bartleby tried to bring back a pair of Apathy Grimm to help keep everyone calm so he could cut costs on Huntsman protection. Unfortunately, the rest of the pack followed their missing members and ended up trapped in the waterways below the settlement when Bartleby sealed it up, causing the inhabitants of the farm to be so paralyzed with despair that they just gave up.
* HeroicWillpower: Throughout the episode, Ruby is able to consistently shrug off the [[EmotionBomb willpower-dulling effects of the Apathy Grimm]], only very briefly falling under its control. Even went subjected to the paralyzing effects of their screeches, Ruby is still able to move around when the rest of her team is unable to move. As Maria is also able to move in these situations, it may be that silver eyes offers some resistance to the effects.
* TheHorde: The Apathy's numbers seem to be ''endless''. Even when Ruby wipes out a room of filled with them with her silver eyes, there's still more coming up from the tunnels. Weiss ends up setting the building on fire, and even then it's never confirmed if the fire killed the rest of them.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Apathy Grimm are by far the most humanoid Grimm seen so far, and that just makes them ''more'' disturbing, especially the way they lurch together as a mass.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Apathy easily shrugs off shots from Ruby's Crescent Rose. For point of comparison, the bullets of Crescent Rose were able to damage the ''Nuckelavee'', TheHeavy from Volume 4 that shrugged off slashes from Jaune and Ren, meaning the Apathy's hides are tougher than that.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When the flatbed's tire pops right after Qrow nudges it with his foot, Maria remarks how the group are "Clearly beacons for bad luck!" Given how Qrow feels about his Bad Luck Semblance, it hits a little too close to home and sends him into a bigger sulk than before.
* JumpScare: First, right when Ruby is in a daze, gazing at the Relic she's holding over the well, a pair of glowing red eyes suddenly appearing in the darkness below scares her so bad that she drops the Relic. Then, while the team is down in the waterways looking for the Relic, Maria is skimming through Bartleby's journal, and visibly startles when turning a page reveals a huge, nightmarish illustration of an Apathy Grimm, [[OhCrap keying her in as to what's really going on around the farm and what kind of danger they're all in]].
* HeroicWillpower: Throughout the episode, Ruby is able to consistently shrug off the [[EmotionBomb willpower-dulling effects of the Apathy Grimm]], only very briefly falling under its control. Even went subjected to the paralyzing effects of their screeches, Ruby is still able to move around when the rest of her team is unable to move. As Maria is also able to move in these situations, it may be that silver eyes offers some resistance to the effects.
* TheHorde: The Apathy's numbers seem to be ''endless''. Even when Ruby wipes out a room of filled with them with her silver eyes, there's still more coming up from the tunnels. Weiss ends up setting the building on fire, and even then it's never confirmed if the fire killed the rest of them.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Apathy Grimm are by far the most humanoid Grimm seen so far, and that just makes them ''more'' disturbing, especially the way they lurch together as a mass.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Apathy easily shrugs off shots from Ruby's Crescent Rose. For point of comparison, the bullets of Crescent Rose were able to damage the ''Nuckelavee'', TheHeavy from Volume 4 that shrugged off slashes from Jaune and Ren, meaning the Apathy's hides are tougher than that.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When the flatbed's tire pops right after Qrow nudges it with his foot, Maria remarks how the group are "Clearly beacons for bad luck!" Given how Qrow feels about his Bad Luck Semblance, it hits a little too close to home and sends him into a bigger sulk than before.
* JumpScare: First, right when Ruby is in a daze, gazing at the Relic she's holding over the well, a pair of glowing red eyes suddenly appearing in the darkness below scares her so bad that she drops the Relic. Then, while the team is down in the waterways looking for the Relic, Maria is skimming through Bartleby's journal, and visibly startles when turning a page reveals a huge, nightmarish illustration of an Apathy Grimm, [[OhCrap keying her in as to what's really going on around the farm and what kind of danger they're all in]].
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Bartleby tried to bring back a pair of Apathy Grimm to help keep everyone calm so he could cut costs on Huntsman protection. Unfortunately, He made the rest mistake of leaving it a night before sealing up the tunnels to trap the two Apathy underneath the farm. That gave the pack followed of the captured Grimm time to follow their missing members and ended up trapped in join them underneath the waterways below the settlement when farm. When Bartleby sealed it up, causing up the inhabitants of waterways, he had no idea there was an entire horde inside the tunnels, more than enough to kill everyone on the farm to be so paralyzed with despair that they just gave up.
-- including himself.
* HeroicWillpower:Throughout the episode, Ruby is able People don't have to consistently shrug off the [[EmotionBomb willpower-dulling effects of be face-to-face with the Apathy Grimm]], only very briefly falling under its control. Even went subjected Grimm to suffer the paralyzing effects of their screeches, will to live being drained. While everyone succumbs to tiredness and lethargy, Ruby is consistently shrugs off the effects. Even when in their presence and being subjected to their paralysing screams, Ruby still able to move around when finds the rest of her team is unable strength to move. As crawl. When Maria is also able to move in these situations, it may be realises that Ruby has silver eyes offers some resistance eyes, she triggers Ruby's power by teaching her how to activate it: while the Apathy Grimm drains a person's will to the effects.
point where they feel nothing and simply lie down to wait for death, Ruby's power is triggered by the very opposite: the feelings evoked by thinking of friends and family, and the will to protect all life. Although the Apathy are affected by almost nothing else, they are disintegrated to dust by Ruby's power.
* TheHorde: TheApathy's numbers seem Apathy living underneath the farm are described as a 'pack' but the size of the pack is impossible to determine. Everywhere Team RWBY runs in the tunnels, there are groups of Apathy to be ''endless''. found. Even when Ruby wipes out a room basement full of filled with them with her silver eyes, there's them, still more coming up pour into the room from the tunnels. tunnels beyond. Weiss ends up setting the building on fire, and even then it's never confirmed if the fire killed just to give them all a chance to escape the rest of them.
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* HumanoidAbomination:The Apathy Most of the Grimm are by far based on real or mythic animals, but the most Apathy are humanoid Grimm seen in shape, so far, thin and sinewy that they appear skeletal. Their white mask covers their face and looks like a human skull. Their bodies are capable of twisting in inhuman ways, and they twitch with bone-cricking tics when they straighten up, just makes them ''more'' disturbing, especially like the way they lurch together as a mass.
Nuckelavee and the God of Darkness.
* ImmuneToBullets: When Ruby attempts to shoot the Apathy with her weapon's gun mode, she doesn't achieve anything. The Apathyeasily shrugs off shots from Ruby's Crescent Rose. For point of comparison, the bullets of Crescent Rose were able to damage the ''Nuckelavee'', TheHeavy from Volume 4 that shrugged off slashes from Jaune don't fall, aren't destroyed, and Ren, meaning the Apathy's hides are tougher than that.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When the flatbed's tire pops right after Qrow nudges it with his foot, Maria remarks how the group are "Clearly beaconskeep moving forward as if Ruby did nothing at all. The team has no choice but to turn tail and run for bad luck!" Given how Qrow feels about his Bad Luck Semblance, it hits a little too close to home and sends him into a bigger sulk than before.
their lives.
* JumpScare:First, right when When Ruby is in a daze, gazing at the Relic she's holding over looks into the well, a pair she is snapped out of her lethargic daze by the sudden appearance of glowing red eyes suddenly appearing in peering up at her from the darkness below scares depths below. She jumps back with a shriek, but accidentally loses her so bad that she drops the Relic. Then, while the team is down in the waterways looking for grip on the Relic, Maria is skimming through Bartleby's journal, and visibly startles when turning a page reveals a huge, nightmarish illustration of an Apathy Grimm, [[OhCrap keying her in as to what's really going on around which tumbles into the farm and what kind of danger they're all in]].well.
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* ImmuneToBullets: When Ruby attempts to shoot the Apathy with her weapon's gun mode, she doesn't achieve anything. The Apathy
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* MonsterOfTheAesop: The Apathy acts as a metaphor for the team’s despair. It also applies to Qrow’s alcoholism: they invited just a little bit in to take the edge off, but many more crept in and eroded their will to live until they died of apathy.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: In the greater plot, the Apathy Grimm are merely a set of EliteMook enemies, their threat only lasting this episode before Team RWBY, Qrow, Oscar, and Maria flee the farm.
* MoreThanMindControl: The Apathy’s attack is made more effective by team RWBY’s recent hopelessness. It hits Qrow especially hard since it's compounded with Qrow losing his faith in Oz and all the alcohol he's been drinking, to the point where he can barely move and has to be dragged out of the burning house by Ruby and Weiss.
* MotivatedByFear: Fear seems to be the best emotion to counteract the Apathy's effects on people. Ruby snaps out of it when she glimpses their eyes in the well, the other three snap out of it when they hear Ruby's scream, and Qrow who was the most deeply enthralled wakes up when he sees the horde of burning Grimm and realizes that his nieces are in danger and he was too busy drinking to notice.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: In the greater plot, the Apathy Grimm are merely a set of EliteMook enemies, their threat only lasting this episode before Team RWBY, Qrow, Oscar, and Maria flee the farm.
* MoreThanMindControl: The Apathy’s attack is made more effective by team RWBY’s recent hopelessness. It hits Qrow especially hard since it's compounded with Qrow losing his faith in Oz and all the alcohol he's been drinking, to the point where he can barely move and has to be dragged out of the burning house by Ruby and Weiss.
* MotivatedByFear: Fear seems to be the best emotion to counteract the Apathy's effects on people. Ruby snaps out of it when she glimpses their eyes in the well, the other three snap out of it when they hear Ruby's scream, and Qrow who was the most deeply enthralled wakes up when he sees the horde of burning Grimm and realizes that his nieces are in danger and he was too busy drinking to notice.
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* MonsterOfTheAesop: The team finds the farm while still reeling from the revelation of Ozpin's secret. They're angry, confused, upset and they don't know what to do next, or even if they should keep protecting the Relic. The Apathy acts as a metaphor for Grimm exacerbate the team’s despair. It also applies to Qrow’s alcoholism: they invited just a little bit emotions they're feeling, resulting in to take apparently out-of-character behaving making sense given the edge off, but many more crept in stress recent revelations have had on them and eroded their will to live until they died of apathy.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Inmorale. While the Apathy do not serve the greater plot, the Apathy Grimm are merely a set of EliteMook enemies, their threat only lasting this episode before Team RWBY, Qrow, Oscar, and Maria flee the farm.
* MoreThanMindControl: The Apathy’s attack is made more effective by team RWBY’s recent hopelessness. It hits Qrow especially hard since it's compounded with Qrow losing his faith in Oz and all the alcohol he's been drinking, to the point where he can barely move and has to be dragged outthey do act as an exploration of the burning house by Ruby characters are currently feeling and Weiss.
* MotivatedByFear: Fear seemsto be the best emotion to counteract the Apathy's effects on people. Ruby snaps out of it when she glimpses their eyes in the well, the other three snap out of it when they hear advance Ruby's scream, and Qrow who was the most deeply enthralled wakes up when he sees the horde knowledge of burning Grimm and realizes that his nieces are in danger and he was too busy drinking to notice.her special abilities.
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* MoreThanMindControl: The Apathy’s attack is made more effective by team RWBY’s recent hopelessness. It hits Qrow especially hard since it's compounded with Qrow losing his faith in Oz and all the alcohol he's been drinking, to the point where he can barely move and has to be dragged out
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Early own Ruby was coming dangerously close to succumbing to The Apathy's effects and throwing away the lamp before The Apathy's JumpScare gives her enough of a shock to snap her out of it.
* NighInvulnerable: The Apathy Grimm are lean and sinewy, but can take a lot of punishment. Bullets fired from Crescent Rose do nothing, and being lit on fire merely slows them down. It took a sample of Ruby's power to merely ''stun'' them, and a full display to bury them for good.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Apathy Grimm are clearly partially based off of zombies, with their slow, lurching gait, their appearance being like emaciated humanoids with exposed bones, and a tendency to function as a group.
* OutOfGenreExperience: This episode plays unlike most RWBY episodes. There is no comedy aside from a snide remark by Oscar at the beginning and little action that the team can do against the enemy, playing more like a dramatic horror movie about a group of friends lost in an abandoned place.
* OutsideContextProblem: The Apathy Grimm. While other Grimm have shown more esoteric abilities such as possessing objects or a BreathWeapon, those were clearly an extension of their biology. The EmotionBomb that the Apathy can use is something closer to a species-wide Semblance or even outright magic which no other Grimm seen yet have demonstrated.
* ThePowerOfLove: To activate her Silver Eyes, Maria encourages Ruby to "think about the people who love you" and to think about protecting them.
* TheReveal: When the Apathy Grimm begin to overwhelm team RWBY and Maria in the cellar, Maria asks Ruby what color her eyes are, which the audience already knows is silver. She then tells Ruby to focus on her loved ones, and wanting to protect them. Ruby then lets out a blast of light from her eyes that wipes out the entire pack of Grimm. When Ruby asks Maria later how she knew how to tap into the power of the silver eyes, Maria answers that she used to have them.
* RunOrDie: Once Team RWBY discovers the Apathy Grimm, this is effectively the situation they're in. They easily shrug off bullets from Crescent Rose, and they have the power to drain willpower to the point their victims lose their will to live with just their presence alone, if the team's mood sans Ruby before the discovery of the Grimm is any indication. Add in their ludicrous number in the waterway, Team RWBY and Maria have no choice but to get out of there.
* StoneWall: The Apathy Grimm species is not particularly fast or strong from what we see (heck, Bartleby managed to get a pair into his cellar with little apparent difficulty besides the apathy effect, apparently single-handedly), but their hides are tough enough to shrug off Crescent Rose's bullets, which even the ''Nuckelavee'' from Volume 4 couldn't boast. Combined with their EmotionBomb ability, and even if a foe faces them up close or tries to run, they can be paralyzed by the effects of their scream and be helpless while the Apathy closes in.
* TooDumbToLive: {{Well Intentioned|Extremist}} he may be, Bartleby's decision to use Grimm, beings drawn to negativity and compelled to destroy anything with life, as a means to calm the townspeople in place of huntsmen was a rather poor choice, especially with no huntsman capable of fighting them off should they get loose. Turned UpToEleven with the knowledge that Apathy are pack Grimm, meaning the others would come for the two he took, swarming the farm with them and leading to its demise.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Maria''': Well, isn't it obvious, girl? I had silver eyes.
* NighInvulnerable: The Apathy Grimm are lean and sinewy, but can take a lot of punishment. Bullets fired from Crescent Rose do nothing, and being lit on fire merely slows them down. It took a sample of Ruby's power to merely ''stun'' them, and a full display to bury them for good.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Apathy Grimm are clearly partially based off of zombies, with their slow, lurching gait, their appearance being like emaciated humanoids with exposed bones, and a tendency to function as a group.
* OutOfGenreExperience: This episode plays unlike most RWBY episodes. There is no comedy aside from a snide remark by Oscar at the beginning and little action that the team can do against the enemy, playing more like a dramatic horror movie about a group of friends lost in an abandoned place.
* OutsideContextProblem: The Apathy Grimm. While other Grimm have shown more esoteric abilities such as possessing objects or a BreathWeapon, those were clearly an extension of their biology. The EmotionBomb that the Apathy can use is something closer to a species-wide Semblance or even outright magic which no other Grimm seen yet have demonstrated.
* ThePowerOfLove: To activate her Silver Eyes, Maria encourages Ruby to "think about the people who love you" and to think about protecting them.
* TheReveal: When the Apathy Grimm begin to overwhelm team RWBY and Maria in the cellar, Maria asks Ruby what color her eyes are, which the audience already knows is silver. She then tells Ruby to focus on her loved ones, and wanting to protect them. Ruby then lets out a blast of light from her eyes that wipes out the entire pack of Grimm. When Ruby asks Maria later how she knew how to tap into the power of the silver eyes, Maria answers that she used to have them.
* RunOrDie: Once Team RWBY discovers the Apathy Grimm, this is effectively the situation they're in. They easily shrug off bullets from Crescent Rose, and they have the power to drain willpower to the point their victims lose their will to live with just their presence alone, if the team's mood sans Ruby before the discovery of the Grimm is any indication. Add in their ludicrous number in the waterway, Team RWBY and Maria have no choice but to get out of there.
* StoneWall: The Apathy Grimm species is not particularly fast or strong from what we see (heck, Bartleby managed to get a pair into his cellar with little apparent difficulty besides the apathy effect, apparently single-handedly), but their hides are tough enough to shrug off Crescent Rose's bullets, which even the ''Nuckelavee'' from Volume 4 couldn't boast. Combined with their EmotionBomb ability, and even if a foe faces them up close or tries to run, they can be paralyzed by the effects of their scream and be helpless while the Apathy closes in.
* TooDumbToLive: {{Well Intentioned|Extremist}} he may be, Bartleby's decision to use Grimm, beings drawn to negativity and compelled to destroy anything with life, as a means to calm the townspeople in place of huntsmen was a rather poor choice, especially with no huntsman capable of fighting them off should they get loose. Turned UpToEleven with the knowledge that Apathy are pack Grimm, meaning the others would come for the two he took, swarming the farm with them and leading to its demise.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Maria''': Well, isn't it obvious, girl? I had silver eyes.
to:
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Apathy Grimm are
* OutOfGenreExperience: This episode plays unlike most RWBY episodes. There is no comedy aside from a snide remark by Oscar
* OutsideContextProblem: The Apathy Grimm. While other Grimm have shown more esoteric abilities such as possessing objects or a BreathWeapon, those were clearly an extension of their biology. The EmotionBomb that the Apathy can use is something closer
* ThePowerOfLove:
* TheReveal: When the Apathy Grimm begin to overwhelm team RWBY and Maria in the cellar, Maria asks Ruby what color
* RunOrDie:
* StoneWall: The Apathy Grimm species is not particularly fast or
* TooDumbToLive:
* WhamLine:
-->'''Maria''': Well, isn't it obvious, girl? I had silver eyes.