YMMV / War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology

• Catharsis Factor:
  • Miranda Spot’s Cruel and Unusual Death is very satisfying considering she’s quite possibly the most depraved villain in the entire series.
  • Seeing Damian Void finally meet his end at Ghira and Kali's hands also counts after all the atrocities he committed, ultimately being given the same lack of mercy he dished out to his victims.
  • The death of Mercury Black at Yang's hands qualfies too, especially since she deliberately kills him the same exact way he murdered Sapphire.
  • While he escapes alive unlike the above examples, Adam Taurus getting beaten to a bloody pulp by Ghira and getting his hand shot off by Kali is still cathartic after countless chapters of him getting away with his crimes unscathed.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Magnificent Bastard (Volume 4's "Yellow" arc): Hector Blaze is an older Patch detective who, after his son is killed by Carter Pillar and saving an infant Sapphire Ensley from him, became a vigilante. If his targets confess to their crimes and turn themselves in, he lets them live. If they refuse or they are Beyond Redemption, he simply kills them. After Yang comes to him after learning of Carter's part in the murder of Sapphire's parents, he teams up with her to take down Carter and his operations. Even in his old age, he's able to brutally and effortlessly kill off several of Carter's men without a scratch when taking out Carter's drug lab. Helping Yang get her drive back while playing the devil on her shoulder, they kill Carter and put an end to his operations for good, ending the night burning every single one of his properties down.
• Narm: Volumes 3 and 4 of the fic up the ante on the gore and death involved, which unfortunately sometimes goes a bit too far to take seriously.
  • Just about every woman in the cast has a dead wife or girlfriend and the ones who don't gain one during the fic itself. The first time it happens with Winter, it's tragic; the second time with Ruby and Penny, it's repetitive; by the ninth time, it just makes you roll your eyes. By the time Sun's cousin Starr works her dead wife into a completely unrelated conversation and then everyone moves on with barely any acknowledgment, it's both downright hilarious and borderline offensive.
  • Some of the graphic scenes are so needlessly over-the-top that they circle back to being accidentally funny. The biggest example is Alessandro's death; it's not just enough that Atwood raped him, but Atwood also cut off his limbs, gouged out his eyes, sliced out his tongue, and kept him alive long enough for his parents to find him. It should be Nightmare Fuel, but it's so insanely brutal for no reason that there's no way to take it seriously.
• Tear Jerker: Summer's death hits very hard, especially because she wasn't even the Wendigo's target. As Raven tells Ruby that she died proclaiming her love for her children, we see that she actually died in horrible agony, terrified at her impending death and crying that she didn't want to die.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The author got criticism of this due to Volume 4 being so much Darker and Edgier than the previous two volumes. The author assured this was because it was fresh off the Darkest Hour that was the Fall of Beacon in Volume 3, and things will lighten up in Volume 5. They did not; every volume is just as dark as the last, with no sign of slowing down. Heroic characters drop like flies, become horrifically traumatized, or ultimately turn out to be awful people, villainous characters commit the most heinous acts you could possibly imagine and continue to get away with it (and the second a villain actually does get their comeuppance, another just as bad or even worse villain replaces them immediately), and the state of the world shows absolutely no sign of getting any better. It means that even major character deaths like Jaune, Sun's team, and Velvet come and go so fast and so often that they lack any pathos, and anytime villains accomplish another major goal (usually involving the deaths of countless people), rather than feel like a movement towards a climax it just feels like another step in an endless chain of misery. This ultimately culminated in the fic being canceled permanently when the author came to agree with the criticisms aimed at the dark tone.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The series adapts the Volume 6 arc wherein Yang struggles to forgive Blake for running away after the Battle of Beacon, and the fic keeps the show's message that Blake can't force Yang into the mental state to be ready to forgive her mistake. There's just one problem: while Yang did lose her girlfriend that night (unlike in the show), the narrative seems to completely forget that Blake was raped that night by her ex-boyfriend with his gun (also unlike in the show), giving her infinitely more reasons to run away beyond just fear for Yang's life. Just to top it off, Yang has had months to grieve Sapphire's death in various (usually violent) ways, including killing the one responsible, while Blake's trauma has gone unaddressed and Adam is still out there ready to strike. The result is that instead of Yang coming off as a grieving woman struggling to forgive her friend's mistake, she (and the rest of Team RWBY, for that matter, who ultimately side with her) comes off as a whiny bitch who expects Blake to cater to every aspect of her now-healed trauma while condemning Blake for daring to have any problems of her own.

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