Funny / The RWBY Loops

• The very first chapter gives us a telling hint of what's to come:
  Glynda looked Ozpin straight in the eye and opened a door to the outside. In the small park outside, Ruby was holding her dog, Zwei, over a bed of flowers. Zwei was breathing fire at the flowers. "Burn in the righteous fire of the War Corgi."
• Pyrrha's early attempts to be more approachable tend to... backfire. She can't convince Weiss to have a normal outing for ice cream, gets stuffed into a closet by Nora when she tries a more extreme training method, and apparently once got accused of having Sakura Syndrome.
• In Chapter 3, Weiss sees Penny and Ruby hanging out, and this happens:
  Weiss: "At least they make a nice couple... No! Bad Weiss! No yuri shipping!" Sees Ruby and Penny looking at her "I... said that out loud, didn't I?"
  Penny: "What's Yuri shipping?"
  Ruby: (evil grin)
  • Later on, Weiss would start to Yuri ship Ruby with herself.
• "Mister Arc's weapon isn't his sword and shield. It's a semi."
• Because of how the loops work, the specifics of things unrevealed can change from loop to loop. One such early example? Velvet's weapon.
  Yang, looking around at the blood splatters and disintegrating Grimm: Holy crap, it really was a killer bunny.
• One Loop has Freckles suddenly wake up inside the stolen Atlesian Paladin Roman was piloting. He proceeds to eject Roman and try to blast him, though Neo gets him out in time. Unfortunately for Team RWBY, he doesn't have access to his rifle mode, meaning they have to play Rock-Paper-Scissors to see whose weapon he's put in. Yang loses and gets him put in Ember Celica. At first she seems excited, but then she makes a pun...
  Yang: It'll sure throw anyone who fights me for a Loop.
  Freckles: =Commence booing vocal pattern=
  Yang: Oh, you suck.
• After awhile, the Loopers eventually decided to stop attending classes at Beacon and just goof off. Ozpin begged to differ. He began using a variety of convoluted traps to get everyone to attend class, or just to teach them lessons in a trollish manner:
  • First, he put a plate of strawberry topped cookies underneath a very obvious dangling cage. Ruby noticed, but still went for it, leading to Port giving her detention for eating in class.
  • Then, he put a variety of devices from the Star Wars loops meant to screw with Weiss and make her think there was a disturbance in the force in every classroom. She swore to replace all his coffee with decaf for that.
  • Then, he had Ironwood, who had been going AWOL and taking on various jobs while the shadow people were in Atlas, start teaching a weapons class and made him a truant officer after learning Nora skipped class. Ironwood ends up carrying Nora over his shoulder back to class where she finds Jaune also caught, having been in the middle of getting ice cream when Ironwood grabbed him. The two then proceed to bet on how long it will take him to nab the others.
  • Then, he outfitted Beacon with Hogwarts' sentient building model, forcing Yang into the class she was skipping despite initially being nowhere near that room or hallway.
  • Then, Weiss and Ruby were on their way to their next class that they didn't have in Baseline, when they ended up at the elevator to Ozpin's office with a crudely drawn sign reading "Stealth Class" over it. While Weiss isn't willing to fall for the Schmuck Bait, she charges in when it looks like Ruby did... only for Ruby to immediately jump out before the door closed. By time she got to the top, she saw another Force disturber and went to turn it off... only to see it was off and she was feeling an actual disturbance, namely Ozpin ambushing her and tying her to the wall along with everybody but Ruby. He then says they all failed Stealth Class since they fell for the Schmuck Bait, but that Ruby didn't and had actually helped him get Weiss. For that, she passes and is rewarded a cookie.
  • Lastly, Ozpin takes a tip from his teacher Eugene Krabs and decides to go fishing... in Port's classroom, sticking a Salmon on a hook and tossing it out the door while Port and the class watch with baited breath. Ozpin then proceeds to reel in Blake gnawing on the fish, now glaring at him while he just laughs.
• Somehow, Ironwood, Roy Mustang, John-117, and Levi Ackerman all got forced into playing as a jazz band for their collective loopers, playing the trombone, saxophone, piano, and cello^* That Levi managed to somehow steal from Shinji Ikari respectively. With Maes Hughes filming them, they think the worst that can happen is being humiliated. After only three seconds, they somehow crash the loop with bad jazz. When the more than 50 loopers all end up in an Eiken punishment loop, they immediately decide their situation warrants a riot.
• Chapter 105 details several loops where Qrow and Raven are both plagued by Surfin' Bird thanks to Yggdrasil. Either time one of them hears the song, it fucks with their abilities, namely triggering Qrow's Semblance or forcing Raven to transform. It eventually begins driving Raven up the wall.
  Yang: So how've you been mom?
  Raven: WILL YOU TELL THEM TO STOP BLASTING THAT DAMN MUSIC ALREADY!
  • Even funnier is Yggdrasil's continued playing of it whenever Raven least expects it. It becomes a full on Running Gag that the song is basically Raven's Berserk Button, and that the moment she hears it, she goes nuts.
• Much to Ozpin's exasperation, they have a fused loop with Wayside School. When Ruby finds him, she laughs herself sick seeing the blueprints, since its just Beacon built 90 degrees sideways. When she asks why the place is filled with cows however, Ozpin moans out that they're apparently the school's contractors and there to fix whatever breaks, making her laugh further.
• After the Volume 6 expansions explained Ozpin and Salem's Dark and Troubled Past, Roman so eloquently came to the conclusion that his own death was ultimately because Oz and Salem had a messy divorce. When Ozpin tells him to go to hell, Roman says he will and proceeds to jump into a Griffon's mouth. Several loops later, Roman walks into Ozpin's office to tell him apparently Hell doesn't exist... except Oz isn't Awake, so he calls security on Roman.
• One fused loop allows Team RWBY to meet Ichika Orimura during the attempted Fall of Beacon. After he helps them stop it, he gets worried the girls are gonna suddenly turn into an Unwanted Harem for him. This gets Weiss to giggle and causes Blake and Yang to laugh themselves sick, Ichika just worried they're gonna Dope Slap him until Weiss reassures him it won't be like that. He then reveals he was worried because he'd heard of other loops that had to deal with Unwanted Harem tropes, with the girls staring at him in disbelief over still not recognizing his own situation. It's enough to get Blake to laugh hard enough that Sun is worried she's having a break down, and causes Weiss and Yang to lament how someone can be that dense. In a later visit to Ruby's pocket, Ruby tells Chifuyu that Weiss apparently considers his density to be a wound on the Force. Ruby even admits she can't tell it Weiss was joking or not.
• After Maria started looping, the other Loopers noticed she had a Seen It All attitude and that she was practically unfazable. So, they began trying to come up with increasingly bizarre things to show her. Well, all except Zwei, who chose to visit her and establish he's a good boy and adorable pupper. So Maria decided to be a troll and tell Zwei that when this is all over, she'll pretend to be astonished at Zwei doing something simple like barking. At first Zwei wants nothing to do with it, until she offers to give him extra treats for ten loops.
• One Loop has Ruby find Penny sobbing in an alleyway, and when she goes to check on her, she learns from Penny that every bathroom in Remnant is carpeted. Ruby immediately tells Penny to call everyone that's awake, and says they're going to war. Unbeknownst to them however, Ozpin and Glynda were watching. Turns out, it's Ozpin's fault. He sarcastically told Remnant that the secret to finding happiness was through carpeted bathrooms, and they went through with it. Glynda proceeds to send a message to Ruby saying it's Ozpin's fault, with Ozpin then getting into his elevator, and rocketing into the upper atmosphere.
• During their first Loop together, Maria and Winter run into the Old Spice Man, and his actions are surreal as they can get. It ends with him turning a Sparrow into a Phoenix, then having it bless Maria with the Loop Ability to return to her age as the Grimm Reaper so long as she first sets herself on fire, shortly before leaving on his horse.
  Winter, still dumbstruck: This is quite possibly the stupidest way to get a looping power, but... sure. Good for you, Maria.
• At some point, Mercury began looping and decided to Stealth Loop while trying to figure out what was going on. In one Loop, he spared Marcus and pretends to be a Pizza Delivery guy who blindfolds himself for "customer privacy", and then delivers a bunch of pizza to Salem's Castle. One of which having pineapple on it, and labeled "From Ozpin", all to see what would happen. Within three years and after being found out by Weiss, it turns out Salem started a World War, that eventually got big enough to involve Ozpin, Atlas, the SDC, Mantle, the daughter of Shade Headmaster Theodore, the Branwen Tribe, Dr. Merlot, two different factions of the White Fang, and Jaune. There's also Roman's group offering their services for money and attacking people For the Lulz, and Raven kidnapping Whitley again. Mercury is just left gobsmacked all this happened, while Weiss is nonplussed saying the current record is 23 factions in a war.
  Weiss: Welcome to the Loops, Mercury Black. Leave your sanity at the door. Whatever's left of it, anyway.
• Mercury, again trying to screw with everyone, decides during one loop to wear a chicken suit the entire time and use a "buck-caw" Verbal Tic, thinking it would be so confusing to the other loopers that they'd write it off as a variant loop. He then proceeds to give Cardin "The Reason You Suck" Speech while claiming to be completely secure in his identity before walking off. Best part? It works. RWBY and JNPR are left baffled enough that they actually open up a betting pool over whether he's looping or its a variant, with Yang thinking variant, and Weiss, Blake and Ren thinking Looper.
• One loop causes Remnant to be beset by one of the worst nightmares imaginable: Billy-Grimm. Billy ended up in Salem's domain and fell into the Pools of Destruction, contaminating them and giving all the Grimm it spawned a huge nose and red hat. They don't attack people, they just cause destruction through their sheer stupidity. The problem is enough to make even Ozpin want to whimper. It also causes Oscar to lock himself in his own head since he refuses to deal with a Billy loop, forcing Ozpin to do it instead. Much to his, RWY, JNR, and Qrow's surprise however, Salem and all of her enforcers show up at Leo's office, visibly exhausted. And while Ozpin thinks Salem did this purposely and Qrow and Yang say they need to kill Billy to hopefully end this, Salem informs them he fell in. Yang's response is to basically say Screw This, I'm Outta Here, and Ozpin begins hoping for the sweet embrace of death when Ruby mentions Billy-Apathy. Luckily for him, the tree cut them a break and ended the loop there.
• Zwei decided to spend several loops stopping the villains before they could do anything... by pissing cannonballs at them. Among his exploits included:
  • Hitting Cinder with one as she got out of the elevator at the Vault under Beacon, with a bemused Ozpin calling him a good dog.
  • Blasting Tyrian with one in Oniyuri, with a bemused Qrow and Ruby denying teaching him that.
  • Hitting Cinder again, this time in the Spring Vault before she can attack Vernal. When Yang gets down there, she starts praising Zwei with Baby Talk, with even Raven admitting Zwei is a Badass Adorable.
  • Blowing up the fireball the Sphinx fired at the tracks, with Weiss entering Cuteness Proximity and carrying him the rest of the way while giving him ear scritches.
  • Blasting Tyrian again, this time before he can run off after attacking Fiona, adding insult to injury by biting into his hamstrings and refusing to let go, before then knocking him out with a headbutt. Ruby is left baffled saying they left him on Patch, causing Joanna and May to question how the hell a dog got from Patch to Mantle by himself.
• One loop has RWBY and JNR all Wake Up in a null-loop wearing cuffs and in prison cells at Atlas, with their last memory being missions with the Ace-Ops.
  • This makes Ruby suspect that they all got in a fight with the Ace-Ops, only for Vine to chime in and reveal they're in the cell across from them, someone closing the shutters in their room and gassing them, much to Harriet's anger.
  • That makes Ruby think Watts hacked the room remotely... only for him to chime in and reveal he's in the cell next to the Ace-Ops.
  • Ruby then thinks it might be Cinder and Neo, only for Cinder to start yelling and lampshade how Ruby's basically going down the line rather than checking her surroundings, revealing them both in a cell by the corridor.
  • This makes Ruby think Ironwood's baseline Sanity Slippage was even worse... only for Ironwood and Winter to reveal they're in a cell too, and oddly enough that Ironwood is clean shaven. Winter, with a completely deadpan and serious expression on her face, says it was Ironwood's beard that was responsible, having gained sentience and torn itself off his face before staging a hostile takeover. Everyone is remarking on the incredulity of it, except for Nora who is instead saying I Knew It! and claiming you never trust a beard, making everyone sigh.
  • Ironwood says that Penny, Pietro, Oscar, and Maria managed to escape and meet up with Qrow and Robyn, who have started up a resistance movement against the beard.
  • And before anyone can despair over the airtight restraints they're all stuck in, Ruby activates her eyes... and unlocks her cuffs with them. When everyone looks at her in surprise and bemusement, she says it wasn't the first time she's had to use them to pick electronic locks on something.
• Ruby gets summoned by Ritsuka in the Grand Order branch and is introduced to Lakshmi Bai, whose luck instantly reminds her Qrow's. Naturally, Qrow himself ends up getting summoned, and when her own bad luck results in the complete destruction of an alcohol Qrow and Moriarty were working on, the two get into a heated fight that creates a singularity of bad luck.
  • Not only do planes start crashing on top of them out of nowhere, Morgan, Habetrot, and Miss Crane are all randomly summoned via flood of alcohol from the Lostroom with no idea how they got there, dozens of Berserkers get killed jumping into the wreck out of sheer stupidity, and Ritsuka is eventually left with no choice but bringing in The First Hassan to get rid of it.
    • For that matter, most of Team RWBY's incredulous reaction to Gramps being able to kill a concept like bad luck. While initially only Ruby is baffled, Weiss and Blake join in once Yang tells them about a prior loop where she saw him kill the concept of communication.
  • The kicker in all this is that the Admin of the Nasuverse branch, Manu, shows up in person dragging Qrow and Lakshmi with him while scolding them. Everyone had thought the two had died, but Manu had actually grabbed them when he was alerted to damage to Yggdrasil created by their bad luck field, damage that could be potentially permanent had he not intervened. Specifically, the remains of the field manifesting as... a kitchen sink. A fully functioning one at that, completely unaffected by the freezing cold surrounding it. Yang can't stop herself from snorting while commenting about how she knew something was missing from the clusterfuck.
    • And while Manu stopped it from damaging Yggdrasil, no one can get rid of the damn thing. da Vinci spent two hours trying, Morgan couldn't get rid of it, and Gramps flat out refused to try. She was all set to call in Heracles to try had Manu not shown up.