History Fanfic / WarOfRemnantARWBYAnthology

* SaneBossPsychoHenchmen: Salem's inner circle contains Watts, [[AxCrazy Tyrian]], [[SerialKiller the Wendigo]], and [[CardCarryingVillain Blackheart]], all of which are maniacs in their own ways. ''Volume 5'' adds Cinder thanks to her SanitySlippage.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Owing to the fic being canceled for a year, most of it's villains initially got away with their crimes completely, and when it was revived they continued to still do so for the time being. Volume 5 finally sees that change in some cases, with Damian Void and Mercury Black both getting killed while Adam Taurus gets bloodily beaten by Ghira and loses a hand courtesy of Kali.
* KnightOfCerebus: Adam Taurus, despite not being very present in the first two volumes, causes a lot of pain in Winter’s life, causing her to be cynical and jaded.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Owing to the fic being canceled for a year, most of it's villains initially got away with their crimes completely, and when it was revived they continued to still do so for the time being. Volume 5 finally sees that change in some cases, with [[spoiler: Damian Void and Mercury Black]] both getting killed while Adam Taurus gets bloodily beaten and [[spoiler: loses a hand courtesy of Kali]].

FaceDeathWithDignity:

** Subverted with [[spoiler:Summer; while recounting her death, Raven tells Ruby that she died taking a fatal hit for Raven and proclaiming her love for her children with her dying breath. In reality, Summer died in terrified agony, crying that she didn't want to die and that she was scared]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: Adam killed Winter’s ''wife and baby'' because she called him a coward.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Disturbingly deconstructed with Winter. The reasons she’s so dignified in moments of near-death are because she's a DeathSeeker, and being so stoic is presented as a part of her suicidal depression and most certainly ''not'' a good or noble quality.

** Jacques to Weiss and her siblings, as expected. It started with {{Gaslighting}}, and eventually turned to full-on physical and verbal abuse.

** Fox and his boyfriend Ink’s parents were firm believers in Vacuo’s MightMakesRight mentality, and abused their sons until they were “strong”.

* BigBad: Cinder was this for the first three volumes, and now Salem has taken the reigns.
* BigBadWannabe: Jax Asturias and The Crown as a whole. While a group of loathsome, monstrous bastards, they are ultimately run by a completely delusional child who was only allowed to run around for as long as he did because his sister couldn’t work up the nerve to rat him out. When people become aware of them and have the nerve his sister lacks, they crumble rather quickly.

** Jack is a friend of the Happy Huntresses who provides them their hideout and a place to hold their rallies.

* CurbStompBattle: Cinder and co absolutely ''annihilate'' Team CARD to the point it wasn’t even funny. Cinder had hacked into the Vytal Tournament’s match set up and picked her crew to fight them knowing they wouldn’t be able to take them.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Almost '''everyone''' had ''something'' bad happen in their past. Whether it’s AbusiveParents, lost loved ones, and any number of tragedies.

* DeathSeeker: Though she occasionally has suicidal thoughts and has attempted to kill herself, Winter is more content with getting herself killed then doing the deed on her own.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Both Weiss and Winter, respectively. Though both needed some serious dressing downs before either of their processes start.

* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Adam killed Winter’s ''wife and baby'' because she called him a coward.
** Yang beats Mercury in a fight, so he [[spoiler:drops Sapphire to her brutal death by the Grimm in front of her]].
* TheDitz: Adrian is stupid to a [[LethallyStupid lethal degree]]. Apparently it's InTheBlood, as seen with his and Canvas' parents, and he reveals in a [[SmartBall moment of lucidity]] that Canvas' bloodline have been watching over his since Atlas was founded.

* DysfunctionJunction: As mentioned above in DarkAndTroubledPast, pretty much every single character is traumatized by something in their past, leaving them with severe issues. Some of them deal with their issues better then others.

* FaceDeathWithDignity:
** Disturbingly deconstructed with Winter. The reasons she’s so dignified in moments of near-death are because she's a DeathSeeker, and being so stoic is presented as a part of her suicidal depression and most certainly ''not'' a good or noble quality.
** Subverted with [[spoiler:Summer; while recounting her death, Raven tells Ruby that she died taking a fatal hit for Raven and proclaiming her love for her children with her dying breath. In reality, Summer died in terrified agony, crying that she didn't want to die and that she was scared]].

** Salem has been mentioned as the superior to Cinder and Watts.

* InterruptedSuicide: Unintentional example. In the "Yellow" arc Yang attempts to kill herself, but is interrupted by a knock on the door by a postal worker, which she decides to answer instead of going through with it because she think it’s important.

** Watts is a smug, arrogant man who openly believes he’s better then everyone he talks to.

* JerkassHasAPoint: DeconstructedTrope. Blake agrees with Weiss that the White Fang are bad, but also tears into her for the gall of comparing an ''entire race'' to a single supremacy movement, especially when none of the Faunus do that to humans despite Jacques’ actions against them.

** Weiss is the most blatant example, coming off as more cruel, petulant and bigoted despite keeping her noble goal from canon. She gets a series of very ''vicious'' {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es before facing the fact she'll need to become nicer.

** Fox is constantly scolded for his snarky and rude behavior, and gets a dose of LaserGuidedKarma in the "Scary Stories" one-shot when he goes too far in mocking the others and ends up ridiculed to point that he needed to leave the room.
** Qrow is far bigger jackass when it came to starting his fight with Winter, assaulting two Atlas soldiers and hitting Weiss over the head to provoke Winger. The CurbStompBattle and subsequent scolding from allies with not even a word of negativity tossed in Winter's direction is thoroughly earned.

* NeverMyFault: Weiss believes everyone hates her because of her father, but Blake bluntly spells it out to her that no one cares about her dad and hate her because of the person ''she'' is.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Adam, of course. Winter flat out calls out how he’s only using the claim of fighting for Faunus rights to cover for the fact he’s using it as an excuse to kill people.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not only is Team CRDL [[FantasticRacism prejudice against Faunus]], Russel goes out of his way to make a joke about Ciel's skin color.

** Winter calls Adam out on this when he calls her up to petulantly demand she take back calling him a coward. He proves her correct in the worst way imaginable by killing her family when she refuses to take it back.

*** The second is when she belittles Jaune by saying Pyrrha is so much better than him and she shouldn't be hanging out with someone beneath her status. This causes her to [[BewareTheNiceOnes slam Weiss against a locker]] and call her out as a selfish, elitist sack of garbage who has no business telling her who she can and can't hang out with. Weiss says that he's nothing for Remnant, and Pyrrha retorts by saying "If Jaune is nothing to Remnant, then I can safely say you are to its detriment." [[ArmorPiercingResponse This causes Weiss to break into tears.]]
*** The third and final one is when Blake pulls the FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse card on her. After Blake has to deal with Weiss' blatant racism, she finally has enough. While Weiss tries to claim that no one knows what she's been through, Blake chews her out by saying that she doesn't even bother to understand what anyone else has been through. When Weiss claims that they all hate her because of her father, Blake bluntly tells her that they don't hate her because of who her father is. They hate her because of who ''she'' is. She acts spoiled, haughty, and spiteful, but then makes herself a victim to throw a pity-party for herself. Blake lets her know that being the victim of suffering doesn't give her the right to hurt others in return. While it doesn't get through to her initially since she still says that Faunus should essentially be treated like slaves, Blake bolting out of there is what makes her start to realize her errors.
* SerialKiller: Nightwalker was this with a nasty blend of SpreeKiller.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Adam killed Winter’s ''wife and baby'' because she called him a coward.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Disturbingly deconstructed with Winter. The reasons she’s so dignified in moments of near-death are because she's a DeathSeeker, and being so stoic is presented as a part of her suicidal depression and most certainly ''not'' a good or noble quality.

** Winter's FreudianExcuse is treated much more sympathetically than Weiss', but her DrillSergeantNasty treatment of Penny isn't presented as justified in anyway, and she deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Penny dishes out to her after reaching her RageBreakingPoint.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29842323/chapters/73427712 War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology]]'' is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fan fiction that functions as a retelling of the canon events of ''RWBY'', though this time characters and story arcs are established much earlier than they were in the show. After being orphaned, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41569611/chapters/104863989 Volume 3]]'' was released a year later.