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''[[Characters/RWBYTheHeroes The Heroes]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYRubyRose Ruby Rose]] | [[Characters/RWBYWeissSchnee Weiss Schnee]] | [[Characters/RWBYBlakeBelladonna Blake Belladonna]] | '''Yang Xiao Long''' | [[Characters/RWBYTeamJNPR Team JNPR]] ([[Characters/RWBYJauneArc Jaune Arc]]) | [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Ozpin and Oscar]]\\
''[[Characters/RWBYRemnant Remnant]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | [[Characters/RWBYWesternSanus Sanus (Western)]] | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]] ([[Characters/RWBYJamesIronwood James Ironwood]])\\
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''Beyond Remnant:'' [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]-]]]]]

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!!Yang Xiao Long
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Barbara Dunkelman[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Creator/AmiKoshimizu (Japanese) [[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Debut:''' Yellow Trailer

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->''"At least you two have something that drives you. I've just kinda always gone with the flow, you know? And that's fine; I mean, that's who I am, but how long can I really do that for? I wanna be a Huntress, not really because I want to be a hero, but because I want the adventure. I want a life where I won't know what tomorrow will bring and that will be a good thing. Being a Huntress just happens to line up with that."''

Ruby Rose's older sister, Yang is an energetic blonde-haired woman with an adventurous personality and a violent streak. She is proud of her baby sister's achievement in being advanced two years and her team partner is Blake Belladonna.

Yang's weapon is Ember Celica, a pair of retractable gauntlets that can fire shotgun shells. Her Semblance is called "Burn" and allows her to absorb the energy from the blows that strike her body and convert it to dramatically enhance her strength.

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* AllThereInTheManual: Some of Yang's official descriptions call her a "party girl", yet she never displays any attributes of it. The closest she gets is in the "Yellow" trailer and that is a deliberate facade to drop Junior's guard.
* AmbiguouslyBi: During their first night at Beacon, the students sleep in the hall where Yang voices her appreciation for the topless boys she sees. However, later volumes focus solely on her growing intimacy with Blake and the emotional rollercoaster Blake's PsychoExBoyfriend puts them both through. Their friends comment at times on just how close they are, with Nora speculating in the seventh volume there may be more going on. [[spoiler:They finally get together two volumes later.]]
* ArmCannon: Her gauntlets allow her to fight with ballistic weapons and explosions as well as close up. Her cyberarm has its own independent barrel that extends from the forearm, giving the prosthetic the same functionality as as the gauntlet it replaced. [[spoiler:By the ninth volume, Yang reveals she can still use the gun if the arm is detached when she blasts a Toy Soldier for trying to take it from her]].
* ArtificialLimbs: After Adam chops off her arm in the Fall of Beacon, Yang falls into depression as she struggles to come to terms with her loss. She only accepts the state-of-the-art cybernetic replacement that Ironwood sends her when she realizes how much a burden she is on her father. Once she puts on the arm and starts retraining, she's impressed by how light, flexible and powerful it is and paints it yellow-and-black to suit her colour scheme; a Volume 7 upgrade allows it to fire sticky bombs.
* BadassBiker: A keen motorcyclist who favours biker-influenced outfits, Yang is an elite [[HunterOfMonsters Huntress]] whose pride and joy is her orange-and-black motorcycle, Bumblebee. Junior's nightclub fears her because every time she rocks up on her bike, it's to cause trouble, and Neptune is impressed when she bursts through the club's blast doors, unfazed by the club's defences. When biking through Anima, she punches a bandit for hitting on her and later sacrifices her bike in battle against Adam to save Blake; In Volume 8, she field tests a new hoverbike by performing somersaults, and later leads the bike chase through the mountains when Oscar is kidnapped.
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: In addition to being an OfficialCouple with Blake, they are also this when they protect the Paper Pleasers and their village from the Walkers.]]
* BearHug: In the first volume, Yang is prone to giving her sister enthusiastic hugs when she's proud of her. Due to her strength, these can be painful for Ruby to experience. She smothers Ruby with one upon discovering that Ruby will be attending Beacon with her and smothers Ruby again during initiation after Weiss saves Ruby from a Giant Deathstalker.
-->'''Ruby:''' Please, stop...
* BeneathTheMask: A cheerful, compassionate and nurturing thrill-seeker, Yang's haunted by the knowledge of her biological mother Raven's abandonment. She only learns the truth after her step-mother Summer's death and becomes so obsessed with finding Raven that she almost gets herself and Ruby killed by Grimm. After that, she continues searching without letting her obsession control her or bring others to harm. By the eighth volume, Ren tells her she doesn't have to always use a cheerful, jocular façade to hide her fear.
* BerserkerTears: Once Adam stabs Blake during the Battle of Beacon, Yang angrily yells at him to get away from her while shedding tears from her eyes and activating her Semblance to power up her intended punch. Unfortunately, her rage leaves her wide-open for Adam to chop off her right arm.
* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: She and Blake finally confessed their feelings to each other and the two share a passionate kiss.]]
* TheBigGal: Yang is the power-fighter of Team RWBY, the only one to fight with her fists. She's designed her weapons to be shotgun gauntlets that increase the attacking and damge power of her strikes. Her Semblance allows her to tank damage from attacks, powering her up to able to dish out even more powerful attacks than before, meaning that she gets stronger the longer she fights and the more hurt she becomes.
* BigSisterInstinct: She always comes to Ruby's defence if she thinks her sister is in trouble, ranging from defending her from Weiss' insults in Volume 1 to trying to rescue her when attacked by Grimm. It's the need to return to Ruby's side and help her that motivates Yang to overcome the loss of her arm and return to fighting fitness; when given a choice between staying with the birth mother she's always searched for and fighting by her sister's side in Volume 5, Yang chooses Ruby over Raven.
-->'''Yang:''' Save your breath. You can spout off whatever you want, but nothing is going to keep me from my sister.
* BlemishedBeauty: Like the fire she's associated with, Yang favours asymmetry as a mark of beauty, so her fashion choices reflect this aesthetic. After coming to terms with the loss of her arm in Volume 4, she makes a feature of her plain cyberarm by painting it vivid yellow, with black accents. It doesn't stop her from being a head-turner; a bandit in Volume 5 unsuccessfully makes a pass at her because he thinks her appearance is "just right".
* BlindedByRage: After Adam stabs Blake in the Battle of Beacon, Yang recklessly charges him, fists first. He cuts off her leading arm with a single stroke, resulting in Blake having to rescue both of them. Yang spends Volume 4 learning how to cope with the loss of her arm, and the PTSD she's been left with. Her father also uses the opportunity to retrain her mentality towards both battle and her Semblance, pointing out that she treats it like a super-powered temper tantrum.
* BloodKnight: Yang is a thrill-seeker who seeks danger, enjoys picking fights, and originally trained as a Huntress because it's an unpredictable, adrenaline-fuelled career that suits her adventurous, belligerent spirit. She only begins to question this when challenged by Oobleck to consider what a Huntress is really supposed to be, and only begins to learn how to fight smarter after losing her arm. Although she still enjoys battle and adventure, she prioritises the protection of others over her own desires.
* BoisterousBruiser: A thrill-seeker who wants adventure and a high-octane lifestyle, she initially thinks becoming a Huntress will fit the bill. As she matures, she increasingly embraces the importance of being a protector of the people and rethinks her entire mentality towards battle after losing her arm. Although she retains her adventurous spirit and love of fighting, protecting others has become her priority.
* BottomlessMagazines: Yang does have to reload, but she only ever does so when she needs to switch to more powerful ammo, or whenever it's dramatically appropriate for her to pause in the middle of a fight and reload by throwing the bullet bandoliers up into the air. How much ammo she fires off before reloading is therefore inconsistent; she can go entire fights without reloading, or reload in fights where the amount of ammo she expends before and after the reload are vastly different.
* BoxingBattler: She is primarily a fist fighter. Her blocking and footwork, especially how she slides to dodge attacks, are very similar to how boxers fight and move. She also has some overall martial arts style for her leg attacks, which play a secondary role in her fighting style. Like most Huntresses, she has been formally trained in fighting from an early age, having spent her life going through the combat school system to prepare her for life as a Huntress.
* BreakTheBadass: During the tournament, she is framed on global television. Due to her predictable fighting style, Emerald tricks her into attacking Mercury on live TV; while she thinks she's being ambushed, all the world sees is her [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown attacking an opponent she's already defeated for no good reason]]. She's disqualified and her reputation left in tatters. During the Battle of Beacon that follows, she loses the school, her arm while trying to save Blake from Adam, and then Blake, who flees Vale. Yang is left devastated, bitter and lost to depression for months until she gets back on her feet and rejoins her sister in Mistral. Even so, the experience has left her with PTSD.
* BraggingThemeTune: "I Burn" is the song that plays during the Yellow Trailer, when Yang is fighting in the bar. It features the singer baiting her opponents into attacking her so she can prove just how badly she's going to defeat them.
* BrokenBird: In Volume 3, Yang is framed for mercilessly hurting a downed opponent, everyone but her close friends think ill of her, she watches several of her friends die in the Grimm attack, and loses her arm trying to save Blake. By the end of the volume, she is a blank shell who cannot get out of bed, feels betrayed by Blake, and who cannot muster a response when her own sister says she loves her. The next volume reveals she's suffering from PTSD flashbacks to the fight with Adam that cost her the arm, and at first she can't face dealing with the cybernetic arm General Ironwood has custom-made for her. Her arc in the volume concerns her overcoming this problem.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: A tough-as-nails brawler, Yang dotes on her younger sister and can crush her with {{Bear Hug}}s. She is loyal to her friends and team-mates; after the tournament fight with Team FNKI, she rushes to Weiss's side, who sacrificed herself to protect Yang, cradling her while checking if she's okay. After months of depression from losing her arm and PTSD, Yang gets back on her feet so that she can reunite with Ruby and help her. When Salem kidnaps Oscar, all her focus is on trying to find a way to rescue him.
* BurningWithAnger: Yang's Semblance can turn her hair into fire. Initially, her Semblance and temper are so closely linked that her hair catches fire whenever she becomes angry. After losing her arm in her efforts to rescue Blake from Adam, Yang learns to fight smarter and to separate her temper from her Semblance. Since then, her hair only ignites whenever she activates her Semblance and not when she gets angry.
* CannotSpitItOut: When exposed to a "punderstorm" in Volume 9, Yang is forced into a situation where she has to figure out the right thing to say to escape from the mental and emotional puzzle the storm has put her in. Even when she finally figures out what she needs to say, she's initially not confident in how she tries to express it. [[spoiler:The punderstorm puts her and Blake on a precarious rope bridge where they have to make it to a safe platform in the centre of an abyss. To solve it requires full honesty about their feelings, something Yang struggles with more than Blake. Eventually, Blake gently saying "just say it, Yang" encourages Yang to admit she's in love with her, and is instantly reciprocated by Blake saying the same. This automatically transfers them to the safe platform where they have [[TheBigDamnKiss their first kiss]]; transforming the [[RelationshipUpgrade nature of their relationship]] frees them from the storm.]]
* CasualDangerDialogue: She's willing to engage in cheerful, casual conversation in the middle of fight if she feels comfortable about the odds being in her favour of victory. She will address her foes with a smile or wink, and make light-hearted jokes when the stakes aren't very high, such as when Pyrrha gets knocked across the ruins by a Giant Deathstalker. Even when her opponents are the voiceless Grimm who don't talk back, she strikes up a conversation, only relenting once she loses a strand of her hair. If the stakes are high, or she's struggling, she doesn't engage in small-talk. After the Battle of Beacon, she stops using casual dialogue in battle completely.
-->'''Yang:''' Great, the gang's all here, now we can die together!
* CleavageWindow: Yang usually wears a low cut top and then uses layering at her neck to create a cleavage window. Her Volumes 1-3 outfit uses a scarf, her alternative Volume 2 outfit uses a strap across her collarbone, her Volumes 5-6 outfit uses a belted neck collar, and her Volume 7-9 outfit uses a neckerchief.
* ContraltoOfStrength: Her voice is the lowest on Team RWBY, and she also serves as their muscle, being a tough, fight-loving BoxingBattler.
* CoolBigSis: Yang helps Ruby to break out of her shell, connect with people, and supports Ruby's instincts and leadership. In Volume 5, she chooses reuniting with her sister over spending time with the birth mother she's spent her life search for. Three volumes later, Yang's loss of faith in Ruby's leadership unsettle the heroes because they've never seen the pair fall out; the sisters, however, are so confident about their relationship that neither of them take the fall-out personally.
* CoolBike: Yang's mode of transportation is a fast, sleek yellow-and-black motorbike called Bumblebee. She uses it whenever she goes to Junior's club and rides it across Anima in Volume 5 in search of Ruby. She thrashes a group of bandits when they try taking it from her. In the next volume, she sacrifices the bike so she can rescue Blake from Adam, having learned from her reckless charge three volumes earlier where she lost her arm. The move knocks Adam flying but sends the bike crashing into the rapids below. In the eighth volume, Pietro gives her a Rhino hoverbike; she immediate tests its ability to perform somersaults.
* CooldownHug: When Yang talks to Blake about her obsessive hunt for the White Fang, Yang shoves her down on the desk to prove Blake can't fight. She then wraps her arms around Blake, hugging her tightly and pleading with her not to self-destruct. It works; Blake finally starts sleeping and eating properly, and agrees to go to the ball she'd previously been refusing to attend.
* CoolShades: During initiation, the new Beacon students are launched off a cliff and have to use their own landing strategy to avoid falling to their deaths. Yang whips out a pair of aviators that she puts on just before she's sent flying into the air. They protect her eyes when she crashes through the treeline as part of a controlled descent to slow her fall.
* CripplingOverspecialization: When critiquing Yang's tournament fights, Taiyang observes she's a predictable fighter who rushes into battle, relying on her Semblance to tank her hits, effectively using it like a super-powered temper tantrum to get her out of trouble; this is how she lost an arm. She spends Volume 4 learning how to fight smarter instead of harder, and to stop using her Semblance as a crutch.
-->'''Tai:''' But you gotta keep your emotions in check, keep a level head, and think before you act! Your Semblance is a great fall-back, but you can't let yourself rely on it. It won't always save you... obviously.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When Yang and Ruby lost their mother as children, their father fell into depression and then had a busy schedule at Signal Academy, leaving Yang to raise Ruby. When she learns Summer is her step-mother and her biological mother abandoned her at birth, Yang becomes obsessed with finding Raven, almost getting herself and Ruby killed in the process. In Volume 5, Yang tells Weiss that she still has lingering resentment about the loneliness and pressure she felt at having to raise Ruby while still only a child herself.
* DeadpanSnarker: Yang sometimes shoots off very blunt put-downs to her often sillier friends, most notably Jaune, Weiss, and Neptune. When Weiss says she doesn't trust Jaune with her card deck, Yang replies "You attacked your own forces three times in a row".
* DeconstructedTrope: HotBlooded. Her Semblance makes her [[EnergyAbsorption stronger the more kinetic energy]] she takes from damage, often leaving her BurningWithAnger. She's an expert in brawls and come-from-behind victories, but her predictable, anger-fuelled style makes her easy to frame as well as easy for Adam to maim when she charges him in an attempt to save Blake. While recovering in Volume 4, her father directly addresses this to teach her to fight smarter and only use her Semblance as a last resort. Volume 6 then revisits the fight with Adam to show she's learned her lesson.
* {{Determinator}}: As a child, Yang was obsessed with finding Raven, following up every clue no matter how exhausted the pursuit left her, and almost getting herself and Ruby killed in the process. After Adam maims her, she learns how to pick herself up and keep going, despite her PTSD, so that she can protect her sister in the fight against Salem. In her final fight with Adam, she shakes off the PTSD he tries to trigger to help Blake end his threat forever.
* DisownedParent: An implied example. While fighting Salem at Monstra, Yang says Summer is her real mother instead of Raven, her biological mother who re-abandoned Yang to continue saving herself from Salem.
* DramaticGunCock: When Yang prepares to enter battle, she activates the guns on her gauntlets with a twist of her wrist. Her cyberarm contains the same function, allowing her to keep activating her weapons this way after losing her arm. In the middle of battle, if she needs to reload, she will toss ammo into the air, hold out her arms and dramatically cock the gauntlet guns to reload them.
* DualWielding: Yang's weapon consists of gauntlet guns that are strapped to her wrist, allowing her to fire ammunition while punching. She can also fire at range by effectively punching the air to pump out the bullets. When she loses her arm, her cyberarm is designed with her gauntlets in mind, thereby replicating the function of her gauntlet guns.
* ElementalHairColors: She has shining blonde hair which reflects her connection to the sun and fire. It even catches fire whenever her Semblance activates. Until she learns to separate her temper from her Semblance in Volume 4, her hair ignites when she's angry, too.
* EnergyAbsorption: Yang can absorb kinetic energy from the damage she takes. Her Semblance converts that attack power into strength, empowering her to strike back even harder than before. The longer a battle goes on, the more she absorbs, and the stronger she becomes. When powered up this way, she can wreck hardened objects like an Atlesian Paladin with just a punch.
* EveryBulletIsATracer: During the Yellow Trailer, some of the ammunition Yang fires at Melanie and Miltia look like little comet streaks and are accompanied by a whistling sound like a firework launching through the air.
* ExtremityExtremist: She rarely uses her legs for anything other than running and jumping, preferring to let her fists and shotgun gauntlets do the talking. This can get her into trouble with leg-specialists, such as Melanie or Mercury, or with anyone who can counter her habit of attacking fist-first, such as Adam. From Volume 4, she starts learning to fight smarter and think more about how she's fighting, but her primary skill remains fist-fighting.
* EyeColorChange: Whenever Yang becomes angry or her Semblance activates, her eyes change from their normal purple colour to the same red shade as her mother's vivid red eyes.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Yang always makes she her fashion is asymmetrical. In her Volumes 1-3 outfit, she wore one stocking higher than the other, an asymmetrical hem on her skirt and a purple scarf on one leg. In her Volumes 5-6 outfit, she retained the purple scarf around her one leg, and more a jacket with an asymmetrical buttoning design. While in Atlas, her otherwise symmetrical jumpsuit has an unzipped leg fold, exposing the skin of her right thigh, and she wears a belted pouch on her left thigh. Her purple leg-scarf is worn closer to the ankle and on a different leg to previous outfits.
* FatalFlaw: Her impulsive personality makes her impatient, quick to anger, and prone to thrill-seeking, obsession and dangerously thoughtless acts. As a child, she almost got herself and Ruby killed by Grimm while obsessively searching for her birth mother. While she now controls her obsession, her predictable, temperamental fighting style allows her to win fights quickly, but makes her so predictable that the villains frame her as someone who will hit an opponent who is already down, and Adam cuts her arm off when she charges him. Her father addresses this flaw during her Volume 4 recovery; while she hasn't fully outgrown the flaw, she manages it much better.
* FeedItWithFire: With every hit she takes, her Semblance converts it to SuperStrength. The more she gets hit, the stronger she becomes. This only works for as long as her Semblance can convert hits. If a hit is too powerful for her Semblance or Aura to cope with, she'll take damage like a normal person, which is how she loses her arm during the Battle of Beacon.
* FlamingHair: Whenever Yang's Semblance activates, her hair transforms into fire. The more power Yang receives from her Semblance, the brighter her hair burns and glows.
* FrameUp: During the tournament, she's framed for breaking Mercury's leg after she wins their fight. Cinder's machinations ensure that while Yang witnesses Mercury attacking her, all the stadium and television audience sees is her brutally attack an unsuspecting, passive combatant after the fight was already over and without provocation.
* TheGadfly: Yang likes screwing with her friends every now and then for kicks. She uses a laser pointer to entice Blake to follow it over to her. When playing board games, she explains the rules of the game to Weiss, states Weiss has the upper hand and is about to win the game... then pulls out her trap card to destroy Weiss' forces. When arm-wrestling with Nora, she releases her prosthetic into Nora's grip, which freaks Nora out. She later pulls the same trick on Penny, too.
* GirlishPigtails: During a flashback to when she was a small child searching for her mother, she wore her hair in pigtails on either side of her head.
* GroundPunch: She initiates the fight at the nightclub by punching the ground, creating a shockwave that knocks over a lot of goons at once. She also does it to knock Mercury off his balance when he attacks her, though without success.
* GrinOfAudacity: During the Yellow Trailer, she grins viciously when she successfully sucker-punches Junior across the room after tricking him into thinking she's going to kiss him. She grins aggressively when she spots Junior's men preparing to attack her and continues to display fierce grins throughout the fight whenever she's about to attack or gain the upper hand against an opponent.
* HairTriggerTemper: She goes from calm to extremely angry with minimal provocation just from getting {{trash talk}}ed, not having things go her way during a fight, or [[NobodyTouchesTheHair having her hair damaged]]. It gets to the point where she can easily destroy everything in her area.
* HeroineWithBadPublicity: After Yang and Mercury's battle ends, Cinder's machinations ensure the entire world witnesses Yang suddenly shoot Mercury in the leg for no apparent reason. The stadium crowd's reaction is so ugly, it causes a spike in Grimm activity, and Yang's apparently vindictive action doesn't just damage her reputation but also Beacon's and Ozpin's, too. Ironwood is therefore forced to disqualify her.
* HeroicBSOD: After being framed and disqualified from the tournament in Volume 3, Yang morosely stays in her room until the school is attacked. After losing her arm in the ensuing battle, she spends Volume 4 struggling to overcome depression and PTSD. Initially, she can't face the cybernetic arm Ironwood sends her, but she begins to get back on her feet once she realises that her father was forced to choose which of his daughters to help. She retrains with the new arm, rebuilding herself physically and mentally to reunite with Ruby in Volume 5.
* HotBlooded: Yang is a boisterous, care-free thrill-seeker, who's also quick to anger. While it powers up her Semblance in battle, it makes her predictable and easily exploited by enemies. Neo, Neon and Cinder are all able to exploit her for their own advantage, leading to her being framed and disqualified in the tournament, and losing an arm in the Battle of Beacon. This is lampshaded by Taiyang in Volume 4, who trains her to fight smarter not harder, and to separate her temper from her Semblance.
* HypocriticalHumor: During initiation, Yang witnesses the following in quick succession: her sister randomly falls out of the sky, a girl rides in on an Ursa before killing it, and another girl is chased into view by a giant Death Stalker. The random madness blows her fuse, and she demands that everyone just chill out for two seconds. In the background, a clock ticks down and, two seconds later, Weiss rides in on a Giant Nevermore. Yang slumps in defeat.
-->'''Yang:''' I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again!?
* ImageSong:
** "Gold", one of the Volume 1 ending credits song, is about Yang's love for her little sister Ruby and her desire to protect her.
** "Armed and Ready", the Volume 4 finale song, sings about how Yang has overcome her fears, now stronger for the experience, and how she's coming back better than ever.
** "Ignite", featured in her Volume 5 character short, is all about how Yang will decimate her opponents.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: When battling with her opponent, Yang offers him only one last chance to give up and walk away. When Adam spots her left hand trembling, he laughs and asks her if she really believes that, or whether she's really hoping he'll just leave so that she doesn't have to die trying to protect Blake from him.
-->'''Yang:''' Leave. Us. Alone. This is your last chance.
* ImprovisedWeapon: During the food fight, she uses a pair of roasted turkeys as {{Power Fist}}s in exactly the same way she'd use her gauntlet guns.
* IncendiaryExponent: Yang's Semblance absorbs attack energy and converts it into SuperStrength. To make this more visible and visually interesting, her hair bursts into flames while her Semblance is active, and her eyes turn red.
* InHarmsWay: A {{discussed|trope}} example: Yang wants an adventurous life where she lives for the moment and doesn't know what tomorrow will bring. She thinks being a Huntress will help her achieve that. It's not until their first mission to Mountain Glenn that she begins to understand how serious the job really is. However, it's during her Volume 4 convalescence that she retrains her mentality. While she still enjoys adventure, she has fully embraced the responsibility of a Huntress to protect the people.
* InterspeciesRomance: Her feelings for Blake become increasingly clear over time, making her love interest a Faunus rather than a human. [[spoiler:In Volume 9, the EmpathicEnvironment they're trapped in forces them to profess their love for each other, upgrading their relationship to an OfficialCouple.]]
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* JigglePhysics: As the character with the biggest breasts on the team, Yang's more prone to jiggling breasts than the others. Any time she moves suddenly, folds her arms, or fights, her breasts tend to move a lot. The production team admitted the physics on Yang's model is too sensitive and they're normally toning it down rather than adding it.
* {{Kiai}}: In the Japanese dub, Yang shouts out ''oraoraora'' when she fights.
* LeaningOnTheFurniture: Parodied in Volume 7 when Ironwood interrupts the heroes' training to instruct them. While the rest of the group are serious and attentive, Yang interjects an air of casual attentiveness by using Oscar's shoulder as a leaning prop, much to his silent surprise. He doesn't object, so they remain in this position for the entire conversation. Yang lost some of her adventurous, thrill-seeker personality after losing her arm, but this moment is one of several scenes in Volume 7 that show she has recovered enough for some of this personality to return.
* LegFocus: In the Yellow Trailer, there is a close-up of Yang's legs as she gets off her motorcycle. The camera then pans to behind her, producing an upshot of her legs and backside as she walks into the nightclub.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The straight-forward, hard-rock version of "I Burn" is about her belief she will not be stopped, even if people get in her way. It can very often be heard playing in various guises as a signature of Yang and her actions.
* MeaningfulName: Yang (阳) is the Chinese character for sun and/or light. Xiao (小) Long (龙) means "Little Dragon". Her hair catches fire whenever her Semblance activates, and her father's nickname for her is "my sunny little dragon".
* MegatonPunch: In the Volume 5 premiere, "[[Recap/RWBYV5E1WelcomeToHaven Welcome to Haven]]", she punches a drunken creep who approaches her and touches her hair so hard that he loses a tooth and bounces around the room like a pinball.
* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: In Volume 4, Yang is the only main character who remains behind at home to recover from the trauma she experienced in the previous volume. She struggles with PTSD and depression as she comes to terms with her situation and begins the journey to reunite with her sister at the end of the volume. She still suffers from PTSD, occasionally experiencing trauma flashbacks or hand tremors in high-stress situations. However, she refuses to let it define her, and keeps working through it, despite it leaving her more cynical and mistrustful than she used to be.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Yang initially wants to become a Huntress because she's a thrill-seeker, but Beacon slowly forces her to start lamenting her aimlessness and lack of altruism. After losing an arm, her father bluntly tells her she lost it because she thought she could charge her way through any problem, using her Semblance as a crutch. He teaches her to fight smarter instead of harder. By the time she's recovered, her priorities have shifted to the protection of those in need, even if means opposing the mother she's always wanted to meet, or friends like Ironwood and the Ace-Ops.
* MissingMom: Raven Branwen abandoned Yang at birth; initially obsessed with find her to learn why, Yang learns to control the desire when she almost gets herself and Ruby killed. Though she still wants an answer, she won't prioritise it at any cost. While searching for Ruby, Yang only visits Raven because her Semblance can teleport her straight to Qrow and her sister. Yang eventually realises and call out Raven's cowardice, causing Raven to flee in tears; she also breaks down once Raven is gone.
* MostCommonSuperpower: In part two of the Justice League/RWBY crossover film, Yang's already curvy figure is transformed into a [[https://twitter.com/AlbertC97408719/status/1697434538266226942 classic superheroine physique]], including visible arm musculature and a vastly increased bust size.
* MsFanservice: Yang's Beacon outfits show off her tall, athletic figure, long legs and cleavage, whether through hotpants or mini-skirts, low-cut tops, or thigh-high boots. It's averted in Volume 4, where she wears a grunge style as she struggles with depression and PTSD, and then becomes more downplayed in future volumes, where she shows off some cleavage or other skin, but not excessively.
* MsViceGirl: Yang's desire to become a Huntress originally stems from a love of battle, not a desire to save lives, and she's the team's most ruthless fighter. She eventually learns to prioritise the protection of the people over her adventurous spirit and is horrified to learn that Qrow and Raven originally joined Beacon to learn how to kill Huntsmen to protect the bandit tribe that raised them; she's also disgusted when she realises her mother killed the Spring Maiden years ago.
* MyGreatestFailure: During her childhood, Yang was obsessed with finding Raven to the point where she almost gets herself and Ruby killed when chasing clues lead her straight into a nest of Beowolves. They were rescued by Qrow, and she learned to never let obsession control her again.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: When a sleazy bandit at the Just Rite gas station starts hitting on Yang, he leads into his compliment by calling her "not too bulky, not too lean, you're--", Yang finishes his pick up line of "just right" in a bored, unamused tone, indicating she thinks his attempt to pun the place's name is obvious and awful.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: It is really not a good idea to mess with Yang's hair. Every time her hair gets damaged, she snaps at the person who has damaged it. If it happens in battle, she reaches a new level of power and strength and pummels the opponent. Taiyang regards her first haircut as a particularly memorable experience.
* NoJustNoReaction: After the fight with Roman's Paladin, Roman escapes with the help of Neo's Semblance, which shatters the illusion of Neo like glass to reveal where she and Roman really are. Weiss comments that Neo "really made our plans fall apart". Yang's response is "No. Just no" before explaining to an offended Weiss that the timing of the joke was fine, it was just a terrible pun.
* NotSoSimilar:
** As discussed by Taiyang, he is proud to see something of Raven in Yang but is relieved that he doesn't see all of Raven in her. He implies Yang inherited her strength of will from Raven, but suggests she should avoid her mother's mistake of bulldozing through problems instead of learning how to work around them. He vaguely mentions that Raven's flaws tore Team STRQ apart and caused much of the emotional fall-out for their family; when Yang confronts Raven in Volume 5, she learns that she has courage while her mother's flaw is cowardice.
** Yang and Adam have both been Blake's mission partners, permanently scarred by others and share a [[EnergyAbsorption power-up Semblance]]. However, Yang is a thrill-seeker who learned to protect the people, rise above her scars, and gains strength by tanking physical damage. Adam gains power by absorbing energy through his sword and is a manipulative abuser who descended from Faunus rights activist into a vengeance-obsessed monster. In Volume 3, Blake observes that Adam's violence was a pattern while Yang's tournament disqualification was a genuine one-off. During their Volume 6 fight, Yang rejects Adam's gaslighting of Blake, accusing him of lying to Blake about his true self -- something she's never done.
* NotQuiteFlight: When launched into the air, Yang can use her weapons to prolong her movements through the air, by creating bursts of forward motion from the recoil generated by her ammunition. This enables her to effectively fall through the air in a controlled manner rather than actually flying.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: In Volume 9 she becomes one with Blake, after they profess their feelings to each other.]]
* OnlyFriend: She defies the trope. Ruby says that she's fine with Yang being her only friend at Beacon, but Yang knows that's an unhealthy way for Ruby to think and encourages her to socialize, even dragging her off to talk to Blake just because Ruby said she'd encountered her once before.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother Raven left her just after she was born. Years later, her adopted mother Summer disappeared. While Summer is presumed dead, Raven is very much alive and is the leader of a bandit tribe in the wilds of Anima. Yang doesn't know the details of Summer's disappearance nor Raven's abandonment.
* ParentalNeglect: When Yang was a child, Taiyang became depressed over Summer's death and he also frequently worked at Signal Academy instead of being there for his daughters. These events forced Yang to personally become Ruby's parental figure.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Throughout Volume 4, Yang is sidelined while she learns how to deal with the trauma of losing her arm and comes to terms with her PTSD. She experiences nightmares of Adam coming for her, where she desperately tries to fight back against him but finds herself stripped of her abilities, too powerless and terrified to stop him.
* PatchworkKids: Her physical appearance is a general mix and match of that of her father's and mother's appearances. She has Raven's long voluminous hair, Taiyang's exact shade of blond hair and Raven's facial structure and skin tone; her eyes are purple, a shade that's supposed to be a mixture of her mother's blood-red eyes and her father's baby-blue eyes.
* PlayingWithFire: Yang is themed on fire and the sun. Her Semblance acts as a SuperMode, powering up her punches and shotgun rounds by absorbing attack energy so that she can redirect it back to the enemy. When her Semblance activates, her hair bursts into flames. As part of this theme, she favours Fire Dust ammunition in her gauntlet guns, producing explosive effects whenever she punches. From Volume 7, she starts incorporating sticky bombs that explode her enemies from a distance.
* PowerFist: Her gauntlet guns are introduced in a close-up that reveals how they work. They appear as wrist bracers until activated, whereupon they extend to cover her arm from elbow to knuckles. With an ammo belt around each wrist, she can augment her punches with explosive bullets and reload with a flick of her wrists.
* PromotionToParent: Following Summer's disappearance, Taiyang suffered a HeroicBSOD and wasn't around much to raise his daughters because he worked at Signal Academy. Because of these events, Yang was forced to become Ruby's mother figure.
* RecoilBoost: She can use her weapon's recoil to improve her mobility. During initiation, she achieves NotQuiteFlight from the recoil alone, allowing her to soar over the forest canopy before making a controlled descent through the trees to land safely. Using recoil from her weapons is always a primary part of her landing strategy by boosting her against gravity to control and slow her descent.
* RedOniBlueOni: Yang is the Red Oni to Blake's Blue. Yang is a brightly-coloured sun-themed, brash, physical fighter who appears to be carefree and light-hearted. Blake is a shadow-themed, acrobatic fighter who is aloof, brooding and burdens herself with society's problems. Yang learned to address her issues the hard way, making her much more confident in both combat and social situations, as well as capable of helping Blake to gain control of her problems when she's wallowing in feelings of obsession, inadequacy and cowardice.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Whenever she gets really mad or has taken enough hits to activate her Semblance on its own, her eyes will turn bright red and her hair will catch on fire. Even when moderately angry, her eyes can turn a paler shade of red.
* RetractableWeapon: When not in use the gauntlets appear as braces on her wrists. When extended for use, they cover the lower arm and back of the hand.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: She tends to go on an angry warpath when her friends get injured. During the tournament, seeing Weiss sacrifice herself to take out Flynt causes Yang to furiously take out both Flynt and Neon by herself. However, when she tries this again after Adam stabs Blake, her reckless charge leaves her wide open for him to chop off her arm.
* RocketJump: She can use the shotguns in her bracers to launch herself into the air.
* RocketPunch: After splattering the incoming watermelons during the foodfight, she promptly puts Jaune down by launching the turkeys she's using as gloves right off her fists and into his stomach.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: During the first three volumes, she wears an orange scarf around her neck. In the Yellow Trailer, she busts up a mob-owned nightclub, beating up the owner and all his henchmen. As the team's power-fighter, she represents her team during the Vytal Festival Tournament because she has the better fight record. Her Atlas outfit also has a scarf, where she graduates to fully-licensed Huntress years before she's scheduled to.
* SchmuckBait: She tricks Junior into letting his guard down by offering to kiss him as an apology in the Yellow Trailer, giving her a chance to punch him.
* SecondLove: [[spoiler:She becomes one to Blake after the confess their true feelings to each other in the Ever After.]]
* ShesBack: Yang spends the first half of Volume 4 struggling with PTSD and depression in the wake of losing her arm. Once she learns her father can't protect Ruby while looking after her, she decides to address the situation and begins training to get back on her feet. She transitions from being unwilling to wear her cybernetic arm, to discovering how impressive it is to use. By the end of the volume, she's given the cybernetic arm an artistic make-over, changed her signature clothing, and set off in search of Ruby.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the fourth volume, Yang is traumatized by the events of the Battle of Beacon; simply dropping a glass on the floor causes her to flashback to the moment she lost her arm to Adam. Even after she gets back on feet, some of it lingers; in Volume 6, she hallucinates Adam while searching Brunswick Farms and panics, visibly shaking afterwards.
-->'''Yang''': I was just seeing things. I'm sorry. I still get flashes from that night.
* ShockwaveStomp: By using [[GroundPunch her fists]], she can hit the ground so hard that it causes shockwaves which knock people over. She first uses it in the Yellow Trailer to knock all her opponents over at once.
* ShutUpHannibal: In "Seeing Red", after Blake tells Adam that she made a promise to her friends that won't leave them, he tries to make Yang distrust Blake by pointing out she once made that promise to him and didn't keep it. Yang's response is simply to ask him if Blake was making that promise to Adam or to the person Adam was pretending to be.
* ShowgirlSkirt: In the first three volumes, she wears hotpants surrounded by a skirt that doesn't fully wrap around her body, showcasing her legs.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Yang has only ever fallen in love with a single person. [[spoiler:Blake is [[WordOfGod Yang's first love]]; she doesn't even know she was attracted to women before meeting Blake.]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Yang is looking for a partner who isn't intimidated by her, who has strong moral fibre and is determined to help those in need. [[spoiler:A same sex example is in Volume 9, her LoveConfession reveals these are the qualities she admires in Blake, who is willing to help those in need if even they've hurt her. She's shocked and deeply touched when Blake lists the positive qualities about Yang that she in turn has fallen in love with.]]
* SinkOrSwimMentor: To force Ruby to socialise in Beacon, Yang abandons Ruby in the courtyard and runs off with her friends. According to Dunkelman, Yang's the sort of person "who would teach someone to swim by pushing them in the water".
* SoProudOfYou: Yang is extremely thrilled that Ruby got into Beacon two years early, and proud of her leadership instincts. She admires how Ruby had a driving ambition from an early age, and how selflessly she helps people. In the fifth volume, her faith in Ruby's instinct for doing the right thing keeps her on board with Ozpin's mission despite his habit of obfuscating the truth. When she loses faith in Ruby's leadership three volumes later, it unsettles the heroes and splits them into two teams. However, although they disagree on what to prioritise, they never view the argument as a threat to their relationship.
* SoreLoser: A PlayedForLaughs example. After losing to Neptune in a board game, she angrily storms through her room and grumpily remarks that they never should've let him play. She similarly reacts negatively when she loses a match in a video game after Qrow distracts her with a perverted comment.
* StandardPowerupPose: A deconstructed example. In the first three volumes, Yang activates her Semblance by entering the power-up pose, activating her gauntlets while bringing her arms into power fists, then charging. In Volume 4, Taiyang points out this style is just a temper tantrum designed to fix her problems, making her predictable. He teaches her to fight smarter instead of harder, and to only use her Semblance as a last resort. She learns her lesson and stops broadcasting when she's about to use her Semblance.
* StuffBlowingUp: Yang's weapons are gauntlet guns that fire explosive Fire Dust, which explode on impact. In Volume 7, she gets the upgraded to fire timed grenades which she can stick to a target and then blow them up like bombs when she's cleared the blast radius.
* StealthPun: If her hair is damaged, she explodes with rage. If her hair is damaged in battle, she puts a major beat down on the opponents who dared to strike it. She therefore has a ''hair-triggered'' temper.
* StrongAndSkilled: While all of Team RWBY are exceptionally skilled fighters, Yang's Semblance makes her exceptionally tough as she can tank the damage taken from attacks and redirect it into empowering herself. After her father spent Volume 4 teaching her to fight smarter instead of harder, she becomes even more skilled to balance her strength.
* SuperMode: Her Semblance allows her to power up, with her eyes turning red and her hair catching fire. The more energy she is hit with, the stronger she becomes.
* SupermodelStrut: Yang walks into Junior's nightclub with a sassy, hip-swaying walk. While Junior's henchmen are afraid of her and see her as trouble, Junior is implied to be a little besotted with her.
* SuperRugPull: Despite being made of glass, the dance floor at Junior's club uncharacteristically flexes to [[ShockwaveStomp the shockwave]] from Yang's powerful fist strikes, rather than shattering on impact.
* SuperStrength: Yang's Semblance converts attack damage into super strength, so that she becomes stronger the more damage she takes. As a result, she can destroy a Paladin after it's thrown her around like a ragdoll. She also shows some feats of strength when not using the Semblance, such as carrying an enormous sound system on her shoulders that's even bigger than she is.
* TellMeAboutMyMother: While Taiyang tells Yang about her mother's positive traits, he glosses over Raven's flaws. Once Yang finally meets her, she learns Raven is a coward who puts herself above everyone, and will put people in harm's way to protect herself. She lampshades the discrepency between what her father told her and what her mother really is.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: During her fight against Team FNKI, a jazz remix of "I Burn" plays as she turns the tide and wins the match.
* ThemeNaming: Ember refers to fire and Celica is from the Latin Coelica meaning Heavenly or Celestial. Like Yang, her weapons are named after the Sun.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's a crude, rowdy, tough, aggressive BloodKnight who rides a motorcycle. In Volume 8, she is briefly shown to have enough skill as a mechanic to know how to fix a hoverbike model she's only had access to for a few hours. However, she also adds impractical girly twists to her outfits such as a fine, frilly half-skirt to her main outfit and huge delicate bows to her secondary outfit. From Volume 4, the girly twists disappear and her outfits become entirely practical, but her love of her cascading, golden hair is life-long.
* TraumaCongaLine: In Volume 3, Yang is framed for assault on global television, is told her mother cares very little for her, is forced to witness her team partner Blake get stabbed, loses her arm and two friends, and then the person she lost an arm for flees Vale with no explanation. By the end of the volume, she's bedridden with depression and has given up the fight. It takes her the whole of Volume 4 to recover enough to get back on her feet again, and until the end of Volume 6 to emotionally recover enough for her relationship with Blake to fully heal.
* UnorthodoxReload: She reloads by throwing a belt of ammunition in the air before swinging her gauntlets back into them with a dramatic gun cock.
* UnwittingPawn: Yang's predictable fighting style makes her an easy pawn for framing Ozpin and Beacon Academy; Emerald tricks her into thinking Mercury is attacking, leading to the expected response of Yang's Semblance exploding into action as she hits him hard. All global television sees is her attacking a defenceless person while he's down. This triggers world-wide negativity spikes, riling up Grimm. It's the first stage in triggering a Grimm invasion and turning people against the Huntsmen Academies as part of the BigBad's long-term machinations.
* VagueAge: The way Yang discusses when Summer Rose died introduces vagueness about her and Ruby's ages at the time. On two separate occasions, she claims that Ruby was too young to understand Summer's death and couldn't talk yet, even calling Ruby a "toddler", while also stating that she had to pick up the pieces given their father's situation; as Yang is only two years older than Ruby, she effectively implies that they were much older than she's detailing in order to have been capable of looking after a house and sibling in their father's absence.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Her battle strategy consists of charging opponents and [[RapidFireFisticuffs punching the crap out of them]] in combination with her shotgun shells for [[RecoilBoost extra power]]. That fails? Get angry and hit it even harder with flames added on. ''That'' fails? Take enough damage to power up to the max and blast it away. She wins nearly every fight this way, but her defeats to Neo and Adam have been catastrophic. Her father deconstructs this because relying on strength alone wears people out quickly, leaving them weak, tired and vulnerable. If Yang is fighting someone stronger than her, it'll get her killed. Taiyang feels her lost arm proves his point.
* WreathedInFlames: As she powers up in battle, her golden hair takes on the quality of flame, as if she's catching fire. Also, when she's angry enough for her eyes to turn red, her hair will also appear to catch fire. In the Yellow trailer, she powered up to "white hot" and her hair correspondingly became white flame.
* YouAreNotAlone: Yang's advice to Blake about handling obsession ends with her embracing Blake and telling her that there are people who want to help her and care about her. While this solves the immediate problem, Sun has to repeat the same lesson to her two volumes later. Once she does accept that it's okay to rely on friends' support, she is able to reunite with Team RWBY in Volume 5 with a much improved attitude towards sharing, although it takes her until the end of Volume 6 to fully understand it.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Yang's an outgoing, fun-loving person who destroyed a Paladin and singlehandedly took out multiple members of opposing teams during Team RWBY's fights in the Vytal festival tournament, earning her team a victory. Port even announces that Team FNKI wouldn't like Yang when she's...[[LastSecondWordSwap upset]].
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->''"Look, blind optimism isn't great, but no optimism means we've already lost. We need hope. We need to take risks."''

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* LateArrivalSpoiler: Post-Volume 3 material does a [[BlatantLies great job]] at hiding Yang losing her arm at the end of Volume 3.

* {{Determinator}}: As a child, Yang was obsessed with finding her missing birth mother, following up every clue no matter how exhausted the pursuit left her, and almost getting herself and Ruby killed in the process. After Adam maims her, she learns how to pick herself up and keep going, despite her PTSD, so that she can protect her sister in the fight against Salem. During the final fight with Adam, she shakes off the PTSD he tries to trigger to help Blake end his threat forever.
* DisownedParent: Implied. When Yang confronts Salem at Monstra, she deems Summer Rose to be ''her Mom'' instead of Raven, her biological mother who re-abandoned Yang to continue saving her own skin from Salem.

* DisownedParent: Implied. When Yang confronts Salem at Monstra, she deems Summer Rose to be ''her mother'' instead of Raven, her biological mother who re-abandoned Yang to continue saving her own skin from Salem.

* BurningWithAnger: Yang's Semblance can turn her hair to fire. Initially, her Semblance and temper are so closely linked that her hair catches fire whenever she becomes angry. After losing her arm in her efforts to rescue Blake from Adam, Yang learns to fight smarter and to separate her temper from her Semblance. Since then, her hair only ignites whenever she activates her Semblance and not when she gets angry.

Ruby's older sister, Yang is an energetic blonde-haired woman with an adventurous personality and a violent streak. She is proud of her baby sister's achievement in being advanced two years and her team partner is Blake.

* MostCommonSuperpower: No surprise, since she already had the exceptionally attractive looks of your average superhero, she's hit with this the most upon arriving in the [[https://twitter.com/AlbertC97408719/status/1697434538266226942 DC universe,]] in part two of the Justice League/RWBY crossover.

''[[Characters/RWBYRemnantMythos Remnant]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | [[Characters/RWBYWesternSanus Sanus (Western)]] | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]] ([[Characters/RWBYJamesIronwood James Ironwood]])\\

''Kingdoms:'' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | [[Characters/RWBYWesternSanus Sanus (Western)]] | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]] ([[Characters/RWBYJamesIronwood James Ironwood]])\\
''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:'' [[Characters/RWBYRemnantMythos Remnant Mythos]] | [[Characters/RWBYGrimmBestiary Grimm Bestiary]]-]]]]]

* MostCommonSuperpower: No surprise, she's hit with this the most upon arriving in the [[https://twitter.com/AlbertC97408719/status/1697434538266226942 DC universe,]] in part two of the Justice League/RWBY crossover.

* MostCommonSuperpower: No surprise, she's hit with this the most upon arriving in the [[https://twitter.com/AlbertC97408719/status/1697434538266226942 DC universe]], in part two of the Justice League/RWBY crossover.

* MostCommonSuperpower: No surprise, she's hit with this the most upon arriving in the DC universe, in part two of the Justice League/RWBY crossover.

* NeverMyFault: In the later volumes, Yang starts to display this behavior, holding others accountable for their mistakes while often justifying or ignoring her own.
** At the start of Volume 8, Yang seemingly blames Ruby for their current predicament. Firstly, despite Yang being unsure of lying to Ironwood, she didn't truly protest and went along with it like everyone else. Secondly, it was Yang and Blake's unilateral decision to tell Robyn Hill about Amity that destroyed Ironwood's trust in the group.
** When Lie Ren brings up their numerous mistakes and how they've contributed to endangering Atlas and Mantle as well as losing the Relic of Knowledge, Yang deflects everything and doesn't address any of his points, instead accusing him of simply brooding.
** In the Ever After, [[spoiler: after Ruby's mental health starts to deteriorate and she runs off, Yang claims Ruby could've just told them of her issues, forgetting that she was more concerned about her growing relationship with Blake than making sure Ruby was okay.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: During their first night at Beacon in Volume 1, the students sleep in the hall where Yang voices her appreciation for the topless boys she sees. However, future volumes focus solely on her growing intimacy with Blake and the emotional rollercoaster Blake's PsychoExBoyfriend puts them both through. Their friends comment at times on just how close they are, with Nora speculating in Volume 7 that there may be more going on. [[spoiler:They finally get together in Volume 9, although without commentary on whether Yang is gay or bi]].
** It's in fact justified: the commentaries for volume 9 give us an answer: [[spoiler: Yang never really knew her own sexuality and she never fall in love until she met Blake (unlike Blake who knew she was bisexual for a long time)]]
* ArmCannon: Her gauntlets allow her to fight with ballistic weapons and explosions as well as close up. Her cyberarm has its own independent barrel that extends from the forearm, giving the prosthetic the same functionality as as the gauntlet it replaced. [[spoiler:In Volume 9, Yang reveals she can still use the gun if the arm is detached when she blasts a Toy Soldier for trying to take it from her]].

* BeneathTheMask: A cheerful, compassionate and nurturing thrill-seeker, she is haunted by the knowledge that Raven, her biological mother, abandoned her at birth. Yang only learns the truth after her step-mother Summer's death and becomes so obsessed with finding Raven that she almost gets herself and Ruby killed by Grimm. After that, she continued searching without letting her obsession control her or bring others to harm. In Volume 8, Ren tells her that she doesn't have to always use a cheerful, jocular façade to hide her fear.

** It's in fact justified: the commentaries for volume 9 give us an awnser: [[spoiler: Yang never really knew her own sexuality and she never fall in love until she met Blake (unlike Blake who knew she was bisexual for a long time)]]

* SingleTargetSexuality: Yang has only ever fallen in love with a single person. [[spoiler:Blake is [[WordOfGod Yang's first love]]; she didn't even know she was attracted to women prior to meeting Blake.]]

* SingleTargetSexuality: Yang is only seen having romantic feeling for [[spoiler: Blake and no one else. WordOfGod explain Yang never fell in love with anyone else until she met Blake. She didn't even know she was attracted to women before meeting Blake.]]

** It's in fact justified: the commentaries for volume 9 give us an awnser: [[spoiler: Yang never really knew her own sexuality and she never fall in love until she met Blake (unlike Blake who knew she was bisexual for a long time)

* SingleTargetSexuality: Yang is only seen having romantic feeling for [[spoiler: Blake and no one else. WordOGod explain Yang never fell in love with anyone else until she met Blake. She didn't even know she was attracted to women before meeting Blake.]]

* SingleTargetSexuality: Yang is only seen having romantic feeling for [[spoiler: Blake and no one else. WordOGod explain Yang never fell in love with anyone else until she met Blake. She didn't even know she was attracted to womens before meeting Blake.]]

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

''[[Characters/RWBYTheHeroes The Heroes]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYRubyRose Ruby Rose]] | [[Characters/RWBYWeissSchnee Weiss Schnee]] | [[Characters/RWBYBlakeBelladonna Blake Belladonna]] | '''Yang Xiao Long''']] | [[Characters/RWBYTeamJNPR Team JNPR]] ([[Characters/RWBYJauneArc Jaune Arc]]) | [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Ozpin and Oscar]]\\

''Beyond Remnant:'' [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]\\

''[[Characters/RWBYTheHeroes The Heroes]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYRubyRose Ruby Rose]] | [[Characters/RWBYWeissSchnee Weiss Schnee]] | [[Characters/RWBYBlakeBelladonna Blake Belladonna]] | '''Yang Xiao Long''' | [[Characters/RWBYTeamJNPR Team JNPR]] ([[Characters/RWBYJauneArc Jaune Arc]]) | [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Ozpin and Oscar]]\\

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

* BoobsOfSteel: She can take down a whole mafia-style organisation and takes a brute-force approach to combat, shrugging off blows and returning fire with stronger attacks. Her Semblance draws its power from the damage she takes, allowing her to benefit from an aggressive, attack-oriented style. In keeping with her physical prowess, she has the biggest breasts on the team.