History Characters / RWBYWhiteFang

''World of Remnant:'' [[Characters/RWBYWorldOfRemnant Remnant Mythos]] | [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Grimm Bestiary]]-]]]]]

''Antagonists:'' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | [[Characters/RWBYWhiteFang White Fang]] ([[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]])\\

''Beyond Remnant:'' [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]\\
''World of Remnant:'' '''Remnant Mythos''' | [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Grimm Bestiary]]-]]]]]

''Antagonists:'' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | '''The White Fang''' ([[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]]) | [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Creatures of Grimm]]\\
''World Building:'' [[Characters/RWBYWorldOfRemnant World of Remnant]] | [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]-]]]]]

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: He is the chieftain of Menagerie and the previous leader of the White Fang when it was a peaceful protest group. These days, he lives in a big house with lots of security guards to protect him. When his house is invaded, however, his armed guards struggle to repel the threat and die under the onslaught. Meanwhile, he's dropping assassins with his bare hands.

* VillainHasAPoint: Ilia makes a valid point when she insists to Blake that humans either hate Faunus or [[BystanderSyndrome stand back]] and let the hate happen. Her words serve as a CallBack to Volume 1 when Velvet was being harassed by [[TheBully Cardin Winchester]]; although both Teams RWBY and JNPR all expressed disgust with Team CRDL's behaviour and sympathy for Velvet's plight, none of them intervened to help her -- not even Blake. While Blake still doesn't condone Ilia's actions, she cannot refute it either. She eventually uses Ilia's point to chastise Menagerie for their [[ApatheticCitizens lack of interest]] in saving Haven Academy, pointing out that they're standing by and letting the hate happen, just like the humans they condemn, by turning a blind eye to the atrocities carried out elsewhere in their name. Ilia's decision to support Blake at that point galvanises the rest of Menagerie to throw in their support as well.

* WouldHitAGirl: He doesn't care whether he hits a boy or a girl, so long as it's a Schnee.

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* CreepyTwins: Between the CreepyMonotone and adherence to the White Fang cause they give very creepy vibes. As a result, [[ObviouslyEvil Sun realizes they're up to something from the first meeting]].

* EasilyForgiven: When Blake and Sun try to stop Ilia from spying on them for the White Fang, she stabs Sun. Despite that, all Blake wants to do is save Ilia from the moral cliff edge instead of punishing her. Despite being complicit in the plan to kill Sienna, kidnap Blake and assassinate Blake's parents, Blake manages to turn Ilia from Adam's path. When Ilia offers to stand with Blake at Haven to protect the humans from the White Fang, Blake immediately forgives her and accepts her offer. Sun then takes his revenge for Ilia stabbing him by pinching her arm and calling them even; when the police chief, Sabre Rodentia, demands to know why Ilia's being let off so easily given all she's done, Ghira lectures him on the strength of forgiveness. Ilia herself lampshades this trope in "Argus Limited", stating she doesn't feel like she deserves freedom after all her misdeeds.

* GoodParents: While he's a bit of an OverprotectiveDad, he does love his daughter. When Blake returns to Menagerie years after having left, he greets her with a warm smile. His claims that he wasn't worried for Blake's safety when hearing the news of the Fall of Beacon are rebuffed by his wife Kali, a {{Good Parent|s}} herself, who retorts that he was pacing the floor when he heard the news. In "A Much Needed Talk", he eagerly invites Blake into his study for tea and conversation, and [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre puts Blake's worries]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation that she doesn't deserve his or Kali's love for running away and joining the White Fang]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre to rest]] by saying he loves her unconditionally and [[SoProudOfYou he's proud of her]] for returning to the right path in life. Even though the Faunus have been oppressed by humans for years, he supports Blake's choice of friends, and was about to ask Blake why she left them before Sun [[MomentKiller breaks the door]] he was eavesdropping against and unintentionally ruins their family moment.

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'''Antagonists:''' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | '''The White Fang''' ([[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]]) | [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Creatures of Grimm]]\\
'''World Building:''' [[Characters/RWBYWorldOfRemnant World of Remnant]] | [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]-]]]]]

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!White Fang

* PragmaticVillainy: While they are utterly behind Adam's [[TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies philosophy]], even they are notably unnerved by Adam's AxCrazy obsession with causing Blake pain and [[TactfulTranslation often try to spin his insanity into something a lot more pragmatic.]] Both being examples of VillainWithGoodPublicity means that they ''know'' killing Blake's parents is dangerous for [[DontCreateAMartyr varying reasons]], but they follow Adam's agenda anyway while making sure Adam's goals and agenda looks a lot better than it really is.

* WhipItGood: Her weapon is a collapsible whip capable of using a variety of different kinds of Dust that are contained in a rotating chamber at the base of the handle. The weapon lashes out with great speed in the same way as a chameleon's tongue striking out at an insect when the chameleon is hunting for food. As with most RWBY weapons, it also includes a gun component, which she uses in the Volume 5 Blake short to knock down some crates between herself and Blake.

* BadassBaritone: Has a very deep voice, and is one of the most dangerous members of the White Fang.

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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: He's the beloved chieftain of Menagerie, loved and respected by the inhabitants. Adam's attempt to have Ghira assassinated to spite Blake is what finally convinces the Faunus of Menagerie to overcome their BystanderSyndrome and form a militia to protect the humans of Haven Academy from Adam's assault.

* BareYourMidriff: Her new outfit in Volume 6 shows her stomach.

!!All spoilers for Volumes 1-8 are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MonicaRial [EN], Sayaka Kinoshita [JP]

!!!'''Corsac voiced by:''' Creator/DerekMears [EN], Hiroshi Shirokuma [JP]
!!!'''Fennec voiced by:''' Creator/MikeMcFarland [EN], Tomoya Yano [JP]

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KentWilliams [EN], Masafumi Kimura [JP]

!!!'''Voiced By:''' [[Creator/TaraPlatt Tara Platt]] [EN], Creator/MegumiToyoguchi [JP]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CheramiLeigh [EN], Creator/MariyaIse [JP]

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* GoodCounterpart: To Adam. Both have suffered at the hands of humanity and desire revenge, supporting the White Fang's violent terrorism. However, Ilia genuinely cares about the Faunus' plight and eventually comes to her senses, whereas Adam is a [[EvilIsPetty spiteful]] {{Jerkass}} who just wants to lash out at the world that hurt him, [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares]] about himself and what he wants, and uses his race's plight [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist as an excuse]] to get away with murder and pursuit of his own power.

* VagueAge: She's heavily implied to be around Blake's age, but she's seen in the Adam Character Short serving under Ghira's regime looking the same as in the present. Ghira left the role of leading the White Fang roughly five years before the series began, so either she's five years older than Blake, Ghira's time leading the White Fang was {{retcon}}ned, or [[OccamsRazor Ilia wasn't given an appropriate character model]].

* TrappedInVillainy: Ilia is not a fan of the extreme methods that the White Fang employ and doesn't relish the idea of hurting people. However she has long since crossed the DespairEventHorizon and genuinely doesn't know how else to help the Faunus aside from violence. During their fight in "True Colors", Blake tells Ilia that she is not a bad person but that she just keeps making the wrong choices. Eventually Ilia breaks into tears during their fight and asks Blake what she is supposed to do. She finds her answer after stopping Corsac from attacking the Belladonnas, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn.

* OverprotectiveDad: While listening to Sun describe the battle of Beacon, Sun compliments Blake's fighting skill by stating "she's got some moves." Ghira instantly gets suspicious about Sun's word choice and quickly comes to dislike the boy.

* BombDisposal: In "Downfall," Adam tries to set off bombs to kill Blake's group and his own in a TakingYouWithMe attempt. It fails because Blake had Ilia disarm the bombs ahead of time.

* TheCorruptible: Discussed; Blake has come to view Adam as the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification embodiment]] of [[EvilIsPetty spite]] and describes his way of thinking as "[[TheCorrupter dangerously contagious]]." She can see that Adam's views are starting to rub off on Ilia, and wants to save her before she is corrupted fully and becomes exactly like him. As of "True Colors," she's succeeded in pulling Ilia back from the brink.

* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: In "Welcome to Haven," she pleads with Blake to just leave Menagerie before it's too late for her. Blake refuses, stating outright that Ilia will have to ''make'' her do so.

* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: In "True Colors," after every other attempt to convince Ilia that what she's doing is wrong falls on deaf ears, Blake asks her if her parents would approve of what she's doing it or would have wanted her to go down this path. Ilia bursts into tears and admits she doesn't know what else to do. By the end of the episode, she's pulled a HeelFaceTurn.

* TrappedInVillainy: Ilia is not a fan of the extreme methods that the White Fang employ and doesn't relish the idea of hurting people. However she has long since crossed the DespairEventHorizon and genuinely doesn't know how else to help the Faunus aside from violence. During their fight in "True Colors" Blake tells Ilia that she is not a bad person but that she just keeps making the wrong choices. Eventually Ilia breaks into tears during their fight and asks Blake what she is supposed to do. She finds her answer after stopping Corsac from attacking the Belladonnas, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn.

* WhatIsEvil: In "Alone Together," when Blake demands to know how Ilia can possibly think that attacking innocent people is the right thing to do, Ilia retorts that there's no such thing as innocents. She dismisses humans as either being those who hate Faunus or those who let the hate happen, which is a CallBack to Volume 1 when the protagonists (notably including Blake herself) did just that.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Fennec's fate at the end of ''True Colors''. Firstly he attempts to stab Ghira in the back with both of the brothers daggers while Ghira is trying to keep the upper level of the Belladonna estate from falling on top of him. When he tries to do so Blake uses Gambol Shroud to pull Ghira out of the way right before Fennec was going to stab him which causes the upper level to fall on top of Fennec's head. Then to add insult to injury both of the wands explode afterwards no doubt destroying the rest of his body.

* AntiVillain: Ilia has admitted her distaste for using violence, but has simultaneously admitted that it has been the only way to help the Faunus that she's seen. She sees humans as either outright aggressive towards faunus or complacent about the abuse they receive, and perceives that the only way to stop this is by inspiring fear in the human's hearts. She has clearly been led to believe that these actions, as much distaste as she has for them, are the only option she has to achieve justice for the Faunus, unaware the Albains are just using her and that Adam doesn't want the same thing she does. In ''True Colors'' she shows her, uh, true colors when Blake bests her in combat: really her anger is a mask to cover her feelings of sadness, fear and helplessness over not really knowing how to save her people. Once this mask is broken, she ultimately makes the right decision and [[HeelFaceTurn defects from the White Fang]], opting to instead help her friend.

* LivingMoodRing: Occasionally, her colors change based on her mood, such as turning red and yellow when she's angry, green and blue when she's sad, or pink when she's embarrassed or lustful.

* TrappedInVillainy: Ilia is not a fan of the extreme methods that the White Fang employ and doesn't relish the idea of hurting people. However she has long since crossed the DespairEventHorizon and genuinely doesn't know how else to help the Faunus aside from violence. During their fight in ''True Colors'' Blake tells Ilia that she is not a bad person but that she just keeps making the wrong choices. Eventually Ilia breaks into tears during their fight and asks Blake what she is supposed to do. She finds her answer after stopping Corsac from attacking the Belladonnas, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn.