History FanFic / Emergence

* AntiClimax: [[spoiler:Cinder and her minions are attacking RTX, killing numerous innocent civilians and fighting Teams RWBY and JNPR. How are they stopped? The military just unloads their arsenal at them [[VillainBall because Cinder did not at all consider that the Terran humans would be much more of a threat than they appear]].]]

* ZergRush: Earth's biggest advantage over Remnant - the latter may have incredible technology and superpowers, but Earth has a ''vast'' numerical advantage that would quickly drown any invasion under the sheer weight of numbers and an equally huge economic and military infrastructure that dwarfs Remnant's.
** Best seen in Unending when Raven comments how her trjbe of bandits attacked Earth settlements to score some easy loot. They killed everyone and got away with it all right... and then the air raids started. She was forced to cut a deal with the government just to make it stop.

* AntiClimax: [[spoiler:Cinder and her minions are attacking RTX, killing numerous innocent civilians and fighting Teams RWBY and JNPR. How are they stopped? The military just fires weapons at them [[VillainBall because Cinder did not at all consider that the Terran humans would be much more of a threat than they appear]].]]

** [[spoiler:As they also attempted to gauge population via Aura presence, their population expectations are also wildly off.]]

* ZergRush: Earth's biggest advantage over Remnant - they may have incredible technology and superpowers, Earth has a ''vast'' numerical advantage that would quickly drown any invasion under the sheer weight of numbers and an equally huge economic and military infrastructure that dwarfs Remnant's.
** Best seen in Unending when Raven comments how her group attacked Earth settlements to score some easy loot. They got it all right and were able to kill everyone... and then the air raids started. She's forced to cut a deal with the government just to make it stop.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Cardin saying that the Terran-Humans "can kill each other to death" for all he cares.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10625065/1/Emergence Emergence]]'' (Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/emergence-rwby-inverted-si.308628/ discussion thread]]) by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1378826/Chris7221 [=Chris7221=]]]/XCVG is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Reverse SelfInsertFic[[labelnote:explanation]]as in, instead of the author entering the events of the work, the work's characters enter the real world[[/labelnote]].

That in turn has its own sequel, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12094359/1/The-Remnan-Exchange The Remnan Exchange]]''. It will also have its own section and unmarked {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s for those that came before. The first Act is called Homecoming.

See also the author's companion piece, [[http://fanfiction.net/s/10718187/ Emergence: Asides]] (also in the SpaceBattles thread), for amusing (but usually canonical) side-stories. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10899553/1/A-Christmas-Emerging A Christmas Emerging]] is a series of drabbles about Team RWBY's first Christmas on Earth.

* DramaticIrony: In ''A Christmas Emerging'', a little girl mistakes Weiss for [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Queen Elsa]] and happily [[TheGlomp glomps]] her. Her mother apologizes and then scolds her daughter for being silly enough to think fictional characters could come to life. Weiss gets very uncomfortable.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Based on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/19623551/ this piece of Word of God]], Emergence!Cinder is missing a few more marbles than her canon self.

* BoringButPractical: Namedropped in relation to Earth technology compared to Remnant's SchizoTech.

* MythologyGag:
--> “The way she moves gives it away. Like a princess.”\\
“It's heiress, actually,” Weiss echoed.

* WeHaveReserves: Earth's biggest advantage over Remnant - they may have incredible technology and superpowers, Earth has a ''vast'' numerical advantage that would quickly drown any invasion under the sheer weight of numbers and an equally huge economic and military infrastructure that dwarfs Remnant's.

* WhatTheHellHero: Invoked by Qrow when he [[spoiler: calls out Ironwood for his foolhardy (and aborted) plan to invade Earth right off the bat without even bothering to try and communicate with the Terrans first.]]

** It happens again later when [[spoiler: the Kingdom of Atlas prepares to invade Earth to seize what they assume is a "primitive" world ripe for the taking, only to stop dead in their tracks when they receive a radio message from the Terrans asking for peace. Later on, the Atlesian soldiers studying the portal start noticing anomalies that resemble scouting patterns. As they far exceed anything Remnant has ever produced, the commanding officer chooses to ignore them. This comes to bite him later when his airship squad crosses over to Earth and is promptly asked by Vancouver air control to turn back.]]

* GeneralFailure: [[spoiler:The Atlesian officer who chose to disregard the Vale report on the Terran technology level, as he found it unbelievable ([[PoorCommunicationKills didn't even tell his own officers]]), and had his airship squad enter Earth and begin recon, only to be shown direct proof in the form of an attack squad boxing his.]]

* WeHaveReserves: Earth's biggest advantage over Remnant - they may have incredible technology and superpowers, Earth has a ''vast'' numerical advantage that would quickly drown any invasion under the sheer weight of numbers.

* SchizoTech: Remnant's odd tech tree leads the scientists studying Earth to make some foolish assumptions. Most importantly, how the total absence of Dust would (or rather, wouldn't) cripple technological advances. Earth's technology is far more diverse and focused on efficiency while being generally less powerful. Meanwhile, Remnan material science and computer engineering far exceed their counterparts, but are terminally dependent on Dust and are mostly focused exclusively on fighting the Grimm. As they also attempted to gauge population via Aura presence, their population expectations are also wildly off.

* GeneralFailure: [[spoiler:The Atlesian officer who chose to disregard the Vale report on the Terran technology level, as he found it unbelievable, and had his airship squad enter Earth and begin recon, only to be shown direct proof in the form of an attack squad boxing his. And ''then'', his second-in-command asks him why he didn't tell anyone...]]

* GeneralFailure: [[spoiler:The Atlesian officer who chose to disregard the Vale reports stating the Terran technology level because he found it too unbelievable and decided to have his airship squad enter Earth and begin recon, only to be shown direct proof in the form of an attack squad boxing his. And ''then'', his second-in-command asks him why he didn't tell anyone...]]

* GeneralFailure: The Atlesian officer who chose to disregard the Vale reports stating the Terran technology level because he found it too unbelievable until he was shown direct proof in the form of an attack squad boxing his own. And ''then'', his second-in-command asks him why he didn't tell anyone...

** It happens again later when [[spoiler: the Kingdom of Atlas prepares to invade Earth to seize what they assume is a "primitive" world ripe for the taking, only to stop dead in their tracks when they receive a radio message from the Terrans asking for peace.]]

* SchizoTech: Remnant's odd tech tree leads the scientists studying Earth to make some foolish assumptions. Most importantly, how the total absence of Dust would (or rather, wouldn't) cripple technological advances. Earth's technology is far more diverse and focused on efficiency while being generally less powerful. Meanwhile, Remnan material science and computer engineering far exceed their counterparts, but are terminally dependent on Dust and are mostly focused exclusively on fighting the Grimm.

* SchizoTech: Remnant's odd tech tree leads the scientists studying Earth to make some foolish assumptions. Most importantly, how the total absence of Dust would (or rather, wouldn't) cripple technological advances. Earth's technology, unconstrained by the Grimm, is far more diverse and focused on efficiency while being generally less powerful. Meanwhile, Remnan material science and computer engineering far exceed their counterparts, but are terminally dependent on Dust for both energy requirements and materials.