History WebVideo / FixingRWBY

* BigWhat: Weiss shrieks out a "What?!" that can be heard across the entire Bandit Camp when she learns [[spoiler:Raven is using Myrtenaster as a rotisserie spit.]]

* WreckedWeapon: In the rewrite for Volume 4, we see why Jaune had his sword and shield reforged by a blacksmith, as both were heavily damaged in a battle with a group of [[KillerGorilla Beringel Grimm]] at a train station.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Kali interrogates Ilia about "Operation Fenrir", initially dismisses it, since it was pipe dream by the previous White Fang leader before Sienna Khan. When explaining just why it was a pipe dream, Kali breaks down that it was supposed to be a full-scale coup in Mistral, but it would have been impossible to occupy all the critical territory before Atlas or Vale could get involved... only to realize that with Atlas having closed its borders and Vale still recovering from the Fall of Beacon, this is the ''perfect'' time to try enacting the plan.

* AdaptedOut: As noted in the post-story commentary for Volume 4, Oscar was excised from the plot due to Celtic seeing no real use in keeping him around, [[spoiler:especially when he found a different host for Ozpin]].

** [[spoiler:Vernal dies, with her death effecting several characters. Namely, Yang is hurt that she never got to know her other half-sister; Weiss is even more saddened upon realizing that Vernal earnestly viewed her as a friend; and Raven's grief and attempts to obscure Vernal's death end up alienating her from her tribe.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After getting her sword back for proving her grit, Weiss [[spoiler:defiantly bites off a chunk of Raven's meat as it was still on her sword... only to spit it out since the food ''just'' came off the cook fire and was too hot to eat.]]

* AdapatationDistillation:

''Fixing RWBY'' is a video series by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT9pz6ybYhXOxas4XY19TOQ Celtic Phoenix Productions]] on Website/YouTube. As the title suggests, the videos have him air his grievances with the web cartoon series ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', and give his thoughts on how he would have tackled the series if he could.

As such, the series is essentially a FixFic without the actual fanfic. Instead, the fixing is done in more of a brainstorming/story outlining format, with each video consisting of him going over lore, revamped character arcs/backstories, and major story beats.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Naturally since this version is a DarkerAndEdgier version of the original show.
** In season 1 team RWBY has a much harder time getting along and it isn't until the season finale do they become a cohesive team.
** Nora seems to have self-worth issues that manifest as jealousy towards Pyrrha. She never got to talk or apologize to Pyrrha about their fight before Pyrrha's death.
** Arslan also has self-worth issues, constantly trying to prove her worth against Pyrrha to show that her own prowess was from hard work instead of nepotism.[[note]]Arslan is the niece of Leo Lionheart in this version[[/note]] Losing to JNPR causes Arslan to go through a total breakdown.
** Things got even worse during the fall of Beacon:
*** Penny is infected with a virus that allows Cinder to control her; during the PvP round, [[AndIMustScream Penny is fully aware that she is being controlled but can do nothing about it.]] It's also clear that there's a real chance Penny can't be rebuilt because the chip that contains her memories and personality was heavily damaged.
*** Ciel is present when Penny died and is shown mourning over her.
*** By the end of the fall Roy is presumably killed by a Nevermore[[note]]Not yet established in canon at the time[[/note]], Fox is gravely injured by Adam, Cardin loses an eye, Velvet's ear is partially cut off, and Neptune is bound to a wheelchair from being ''impaled in the spine by a Paladin mech.''
** [[spoiler:Roman Torchwick]] is revealed to have one by being the SoleSurvivor of the Apathy-induced death of Brunswick Farms.
** [[spoiler:Vernal isn't just Raven's subordinate in this version but rather ''her biological daughter''. Not only that, but a significant amount of time is spent on Weiss bonding with Vernal. Yang's realization that she had a half-sister only after she had died and Weiss finding out that Vernal actually valued the time they spent together causes both of them to emotionally break down. Raven takes it hard as well, especially when her attempts to obscure Vernal's death end up alienating her from her tribe.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: Changes to Volume 1 and 2 make the Creatures of Grimm a far more serious and dangerous threat, one that team RWBY are only barely able to fight against.

** Neo, Tukson, and Team CFVY debut in Volume 1 instead of Volume 2.[[note]]In CFVY's case, Velvet appeared in canon Volume 1 as a solo character.[[/note]]

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Raven's attempt to steal the Relic of Knowledge to protect herself was a bad case of DidntThinkThisThrough, as Yang points out that Salem would dedicate ''all'' of her resources to taking it from her. In Fixing RWBY, Raven has a concrete objective for the Relic other than protecting herself. [[spoiler:She first tries to ''destroy'' the Relic with her Maiden powers. When she found the Relic is MadeOfIndestructium, she intended to go to Plan B and bury the Relic hundreds of miles down beneath the surface among ruins that ward away the Grimm in the hopes of preventing Salem from ever finding it.]]

** Weiss' initial FantasticRacism is turned up to the point where she says Faunus are naturally subservient to humans. She also states that it's childish to think that Faunus on the same level as humans. It's so offensive a rant that all her teammates get mad at her. She is also much more of an AlphaBitch initially, actively defying Ruby's orders because she wanted to be the team leader, [[NeverMyFault always pushed the blame onto her teammates]], and refused to interact with them unless she was required to, and tried to transfer into another team.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Nora. While she's still just as sweet and bubbly as her original counterpart, she harbored intense jealousy towards Pyrrha because Pyrrha always gets the praise from the crowd when JNPR appears. She straight-up tells Pyrrha that she must be addicted to the attention and that Nora is better than Pyrrha. She also lashes out at Jaune, claiming the only reason Jaune is any good as a huntsman is because Pyrrha helped him and he wouldn't have done it on his own.
** Team ABRN are more vindictive in this version instead of the blank slates that they were in the original. Special mention goes to Arslan who doesn't believe Ren, Nora, or Pyrrha are "true Mistralians" because of their backgrounds being different ethnic groups that were absorbed in Mistral.
** Leonardo Lionheart is far more bitter and resentful to Ozpin than in canon, where he regrets betraying him but was too afraid to fight Salem after learning the truth. In Fixing RWBY, Leo hated Ozpin for forcing him to bear the burden of being Mistral's headmaster, though his reasons for hating him arguably [[ZigZaggingTrope also make him more sympathetic than his canon counterpart]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Raven isn't surmised to be nothing more than a DirtyCoward like in canon. Instead, she [[BrokenPedestal became disillusioned with Ozpin]] after discovering [[spoiler:that his conflict with Salem was a ForeverWar that only killed generations upon generations of good hunters and huntresses for a cause that they didn't know was pointless.]]

** In canon both Shay D. Mann and Vernal were just subordinates in regards to Raven. In Fixing RWBY Volume 5 it's revealed that Vernal is [[spoiler:Raven's biological daughter, a fact which also makes her Yang's half-sister. And Shiloh is Vernal's father and Raven's lover]].
** Ozpin is a lot less tangentially involved with the death of Hazel's sibling, [[GenderFlip a brother named Magnus in this continuity]], this time around, being that said sibling was one of his previous hosts rather than just a student of his who was killed.

* AdaptationalSympathy: Lionheart in canon is treated as a reluctant DirtyCoward who simply didn't have it in him to face Salem. Here, it's less that he lost his nerve and more that he crossed the DespairEventHorizon. As a Faunus, half of the kingdom hated him while the other half looked to him as some kind of savior or symbol. The pressure proved too much and Leo finally reached the tipping point when he saw the futility of fighting Salem.
* AdaptationalWimp: Ruby's abilities are toned down at the start for realism.[[note]]In general the Huntsmen-in-training cannot easily take down Grimm. Coco in the original was able to mow down two Nevermores in seconds during the Breach while in this version she can only keep them at bay.[[/note]] This is done in order to make Grimm more intimidating and show that Ruby is still just at a beginner's level.
* AdaptedOut: As noted in the post-story commentary for Volume 4, Oscar was excised from the plot due to Celtic seeing no real use in keeping him around, [[spoiler:especially when he found a suitable host for Ozpin]].
* AgeLift: Cinder is more obviously older than most other characters. Instead of being disguised as a student when she infiltrates Beacon, she's disguised as a teacher.
* AlternateUniverseFic: ''RWBY'' is rewritten from the ground up with the basics kept intact.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: The first episode of Volume 5 reveals that [[spoiler:Malachite becomes this, hallucinating her sister and going absolutely mad with grief when taking her revenge on very much alive Roman]].

** Instead of being a sign of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness and being a bit gag, Yang's friends in episode 2 have designs and have plot relevance.
** CVFY are introduced in Volume 1 and act as mentors to team RWBY.
** Neo is a reoccurring villain from Volume 1 and [[spoiler:manages to get much more screen time in the Mistral saga]].

** Roman Torchwick also gets a little more screen time, [[spoiler:especially in his flashbacks and reveal]]. [[spoiler:He graduates to being a full-blown member of the main supporting cast in Volume 5.]]

** In the rewrite, instead of threatening Junior with a GroinAttack, Yang threatens him with blackmail. She has a picture of him talking with Roman that she's more than happy to let slip to the police and media.
** Cardin blackmails Jaune into doing stuff for him in exchange for not telling that Jaune faked his way into the school. Later Jaune gets back at Cardin by blackmailing him with Blake's help.

* BullyBrutality: Cardin's bullying goes as far to cause Velvet physical harm. This is Blake's last straw. She stands up to Velvet against Cardin.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Yang takes up Sun's role in Volume 1.
** A plot twist reveals that [[spoiler:Roman ends up being Ozpin's Reincarnation instead of Oscar]].
** Melanie Malachite ends up taking the place of [[spoiler:Neo Politan in canon as the revenge driven woman who hunts the protagonists. Where Neo wanted to kill Cinder and then later Ruby to avenge Roman, Melanie wants to kill Roman to avenge her twin Miltia.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: Neptune suffered a spinal injury in the Fall of Beacon that left him paraplegic. He was given an Atleasian implant to repair the damage and let him walk again after months of physical therapy.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In canon, Volumes 1 and 2 are pretty tame. ''Fixing RWBY'' adds more drama and darker themes to them.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: [[spoiler:Roman]] is shocked to find out that Ren is actually a guy when they get into the hot spring, to Ren's bafflement. They spend the next scene arguing about it with Ren listing off all the clues that he is a guy and [[spoiler:Roman]] defending his assumption with examples of women with those same traits.

* EurekaMoment: As the Lieutenant keeps fighting during the Breach, he bellows out that humanity will fall against the White Fang. This inspires Ruby to call for the team attack "Forever Fall" to launch the Lieutenant over the blockades and into a horde of Grimm who finish him off.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Kali interrogates Ilia about Operation Fenrir she claims that it was pipe dream by the previous white fang leader before Sienna Khan. She explains that it was a full size coup in Mistral that was declared a pipe dream due to it being impossible to occupy all the territory, she then goes on saying that it would be stopped by Atlas and Vale only to realize that Atlas closed it boarders and Vale still recovering from the Fall of Beacon meaning that no longer have anyone who could stop the operation.
* FalseFlagOperation: Roman gets the idea to use the White Fang as a scapegoat for his own crimes, hiring Faunus to help in his latest heist and providing them fake uniforms to pass them off as White Fang members. This lands him in hot water when the ''real'' White Fang surround him after Season 1.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Cinder here is imagined as a straighter version of this in the first three volumes compared to her mainline counterpart, behaving less like an overt schemer and all around malicious villain and more like a skilled manipulator capable of acting casual around Mercury and Emerald when she's in the mood. After being horribly scarred by Ruby, this veneer drops entirely, and she acts more like her canon counterpart going forward.
* FixFic: To the point where he has two videos tackling the revised mythology and history of the new story alone.

** Cardin telling Jaune that he can't protect his friends forever in Volume 1 foreshadows Pyrrha's death in Volume 3.

** [[spoiler:Neo Politan, finding herself unable to assassinate Yang like she intended, spends time with and even befriends her as they both recovered in physical therapy. When they both fully recover, Neo joins her in traveling to Anima.]]
* HotSpringsEpisode: A BreatherEpisode in season 5 is set in "Onsen Onsen Onsen", a Mistrali bathhouse, where the heroes all relax in hot springs heated by fire dust. Weiss, Yang, and Ruby have their conversations about Blake as in canon, while in the men's bath [[spoiler:Roman is surprised to discover Ren's actually a man and the two argue about it.]]
* InternalReveal: Blake being a cat Faunus is changed into one of these. She doesn't have her bow in the ''Black'' trailer, so viewers know she's a Faunus passing as a human from the get-go.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Bolin realizes most of his team were knocked out of the ring and JNPR outnumbering him, he quietly drops his staff and surrenders.

* TheMentor: Professor Ozpin assigns Team CVFY to mentor Team RWBY after realizing the direction they were going. Coco is especially keen on mentoring Ruby as they're both responsible as team leaders.
* MixAndMatchCritter: Dangerous squirrel/monkey (or squirrel/ape) hybrids are mentioned in the third episode. They attack the characters.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Averted. Unlike in canon, the Grimm leave behind skeletons when they die, their flesh dissolving off of their bones. Scientists study the remains to try and learn about the Grimm and Huntsmen use the bones to prove the worth of the creatures they killed for bounty payments.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: [[InvokedTrope Raven attempted to invoke this]] by [[spoiler:destroying or burying the Relic of Knowledge, hoping to keep it out of Salem's hands forever. Unfortunately, the Relic is MadeOfIndestructium and Team RWBY come to take the Relic away from her.]]
* NoSell: Sun gets knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly by some human crewmembers of the airship he stowed away on. But because they are normal people while Sun has Hunstman training, his aura's so powerful that their kicks do absolutely no damage. He keeps up his casual banter while they futilely try to hurt him.

** Invoked by Cinder in-universe and without by Phoenix. Rather than a lengthy BreakingSpeech after Penny's death, Cinder plays a garbled message as if she were being hunted for trying to reveal some dark truth, leaving the terror to people's imaginations.
** Unlike canon having a decent amount of time focus on Salem's castle and having her appear fairly often, the first time she's ever ''appeared'' was Emerald's frantic hallucination at the end of Season 5, playing up the horror as all we know about her personality is Emerald's obvious fear of the Queen of the Grimm.
* RetiredBadass: Season five reveals that [[spoiler:Kali Beladonna]] was the captain of the Menagerie Militia twenty years ago, but stepped down over matters of the heart.
* TheScapegoat: In Volume 4, Sienna Khan as only recently become the new High Leader of the White Fang. Her predecessor, Kin Onyurio, was deposed and handed over to the authorities for the White Fang's involvement in the Fall of Beacon.

* TheSpeechless: Neo is mute.[[note]]This was not established in canon at the time ''Fixing RWBY'' was produced.[[/note]]

* StreetSmart: Yang is portrayed as streetwise, which is implied in canon but isn't given much emphasis.

* WhamShot: The stinger for Volume 4's rewrite reveal just who Ozpin's new host is: [[spoiler:It's Roman Torchwick]].

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Raven's attempt to steal the Relic of Knowledge to protect herself was a bad case of DidntThinkThisThrough, as Yang points out that Salem would dedicate ''all'' of her resources to taking it from her. in Fixing RWBY, Raven has a concrete objective for the Relic other than protecting herself. [[spoiler:She first tries to ''destroy'' the Relic with her Maiden powers. When she found the Relic is MadeOfIndestructium, she intended to go to Plan B and bury the Relic hundreds of miles down beneath the surface among ruins that ward away the Grimm in the hopes of preventing Salem from ever finding it.]]

* MundaneUtitily: Raven uses a sword as a spit to cook her dinner. [[spoiler:Weiss is outraged because it's ''her'' sword and family heirloom Myrtenaster.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After getting her sword back for proving her grit, Weiss [[spoiler:defiantly bites off a chunk of Raven's mealt as it was still on her sword... only to spit it out since the food ''just'' came off the cookfire and was too hot to eat.]]

** Leonardo Lionheart is far more bitter and resentful to Ozpin than in canon, where he regrets betraying him but was too afraid to fight Salem after learning the truth. In Fixing RWBY, Leo hated Ozpin for forcing him to bear the burden of being Mistral's headmaster. As a faunus, half of the kingdom hated him while the other half looked to him as some kind of savior or symbol. The pressure proved too much and Leo finally reached the tipping point when he saw the futility of fighting Salem.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Roman is shocked to find out that Ren is actually a guy when they get into the hot spring, to Ren's bafflement.

** Team ABRN are more vindictive in this version instead of the blank slates that they were in the original. Special mention goes to Arslan who doesn't believe Ren, Nora, or Pyrrha are "true Mistralians" because of their backgrounds being different ethnics groups that were absorbed in Mistral.

* DeathByAdaptation: Saber Rodentia is killed in the Belladonna assassination attempt.

* HeelFaceTurn: Cardin, unlike his canon counterpart, grows to respect the Faunus after being chewed out for his bullying numerous times. During the Fall of Beacon, he goes to look for Velvet on the basis that he feels indebted to her, and protects her and Fox from Adam.

* AdaptationalWimp: Ruby's abilities are toned down at the start for realism.[[note]]In general the Huntsmen-in-training cannot easily take down Grimm. Coco in the original was able to mow down two Nevermores in seconds during the Breach while in this version she can only keep them at bay.[[/note]] This is done in order to make Grimm more intimidating and show that Ruby is still just at a beginner's level.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Raven isn't surmised to be nothing more than a DirtyCoward like in canon. Instead, she [[BrokenPedestal became disillusioned with Ozpin]] after discovering [[spoiler:that his conflict with Salem was a ForeverWar that only killed generations upon generations of good hunters and huntresses for a cause that was ultimately pointless.]]

** In canon both Shay D. Mann and Vernal were just subordinates in regards to Raven. In Fixing RWBY Volume 5 its revealed that Vernal is [[spoiler:Raven's biological daughter, a fact which also makes her Yang's half-sister. And Shiloh is Vernal's father and Raven's lover]].

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Ozpin is a lot less tangentially involved with the death of Hazel's sibling, [[GenderFlip a brother named Magnus in this continuity]], this time around, being that said sibling was one of his previous hosts rather than just a student of his who was killed.

** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Nora. While she's still just as sweet and bubbly as her original counterpart, she harbored intense jealousy towards Pyrrha because Pyrrha always gets the praise from the crowd when JNPR appears. She straight-up tells Pyrrha that she must be addicted to the attention and that Nora is better than Pyrrha. She also lashes out at Jaune, claiming the only reason Jaune is any good as a huntsman is because Pyrrha helped him and he wouldn't have done it on his own.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Ozpin is a lot less tangentially involved with the death of Hazel's sibling, [[GenderFlip a brother named Magnus in this continuity]], this time around, being that said sibling was one of his previous hosts rather than just a student of his who was killed.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Faunus are not considered a single species, rather a blanket category for many different species.

* FantasticRacism:
** The speciesism between Faunus and humans originates both from jealousy of each other's traits and because they were rivals during early history. Speciesism against Faunus also differs from region to region and sub-species to sub-species.
** Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren suffer from discrimination by Mistralians because they're not "pure" Mistralian. They're descended from ethnic groups that were dissolved into Mistral.
* FalseFlagOperation: Roman gets the idea to use the White Fang as a scapegoat for his own crimes, hiring Faunus to help in his latest heist and providing them fake uniforms to pass them off as White Fang members. This lands him in hot water when the ''real'' White Fang surround him after Season 1.

* NothingIsScarier: Invoked by Cinder in-universe and without by Phoenix. Rather than a lengthy BreakingSpeech after Penny's death, Cinder plays a garbled message as if she were being hunted for trying to reveal some dark truth, leaving the terror to people's imaginations.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Ozpin is a lot less tangentially involved with the death of Hazel's sibling, [[GenderFlip a brother named Magnus in this continuity]], this time around, being that said sibling was one of his previous hosts rather than just a student of his who was killed.

** Roman Torchwick also gets a little more screen time, [[spoiler:especially in his flashbacks and reveal]].