History YMMV / Emergence

* HilariousInHindsight: Ashlie Atkinson's guest appearance as Benny's hacker friend came around the same time that she was playing a much less heroic hacker in ''Series/MrRobot''.

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* AcceptableTargets:
** '''ISIS'''. During Weiss's trip through Ukraine, the Russian soldiers she killed were seen as poor guys who didn't know who they were dealing with. The Islamic State's members deaths at the explosive hands of Yang? '''[[AssholeVictim No sympathy at all]].'''
** There are a couple of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' jokes since Blake Belladonna's identity on Earth is "Bella Blake".
* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Cinder and her associates spend all of 3 chapters in the overall series before being killed (or arrested, in the case of Roman and Neo).]]
%%* ArcFatigue:
* BrokenBase:
** The mention of current world affairs and ISIS, in particular. Some see it as TooSoon, others see it as adding a shade of realism to the fic.
** Some people think [[spoiler:Cinder and co.]] got killed too anticlimactically, never mind just how much firepower was put into doing so.
*** What people didn't like about [[spoiler:Cinder and her associates]] getting killed wasn't that it didn't take enough weapons to do so, it was that [[spoiler:Cinder and co.]] acted like the Terrans could not possibly be a threat to them and it just seems like the reason for [[spoiler:their]] deaths was due to having a firm grasp on the VillainBall. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:the villains]] did not even get to spend more than a few chapters on Earth before being killed.
** The pairing of Yang and Gavin, and indeed, any Remnant-Terran pairing at all. Some view it as okay, but a VocalMinority seems to be against the idea due to the two races having never been meant to mix at all and a Terran-Remnan hybrid being against the natural order. There's even some hate for Rosalind/[[spoiler:Summer Rose's]] child for being half-Terran.
** There is much disagreement over the author using low-end calculations for the Remnans. It is because of said calculations that Earth is capable of taking on Remnant which has also lead to some debate.
* CanonDefilement: Yang's portrayal as a DumbBlonde HardDrinkingPartyGirl, especially in ''Aliens Among Us''. This characterization comes from making very shallow assumptions about Yang's character even though nothing from canon supports this. While most of the fic was written when only Volume 1 was out and Volume 2 was still in progress, that is still no excuse since the Yellow Trailer opens with a quote which clues in viewers that there will be more to Yang than just surface-level assumptions and Yang's ditzy flirtatious behavior demonstrated in said trailer was just an act to extract information.
%%* ClicheStorm:
%%* CriticalResearchFailure:
* DesignatedLoveInterest:
%%* EightDeadlyWords:
%%* FightSceneFailure:
** Gavin Lloyd to Yang Xiao Long.
** Connor Lloyd (Gavin's younger brother) to Ruby Rose.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Weiss getting drunk becomes this after Volume 5 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' confirms that Weiss' mother is an alcoholic. The same goes for Yang drinking since Volume 6 [[CerebusRetcon would stop playing her Uncle Qrow's drinking for comedy]].
* HilariousInHindsight: This series' acknowledgment of the Bumbleby ship, but Yang ending up with a male love interest becomes this with the increased {{Ship Teas|e}}ing of Blake and Yang in the later volumes of ''RWBY''.
* {{Main/Narm}}: [[Narm/{{Emergence}} Has its own page.]]
* {{Padding}}: There are quite a few chapters where nothing plot-relevant happens.
* StrangledByTheRedString:
** Yang and Gavin. Gavin initially has no attraction to Yang outside of the physical, but then suddenly they get together and their relationship is suddenly treated like it has more depth; the most Gavin says about what he likes about Yang is that she's a hot girl who doesn't like stereotypically feminine things. Not helping matters is that Gavin only appeared a few chapters at a time in ''Aliens Among Us''.
** [[spoiler: Blake and Weiss. They just decide to get together when there was hardly any indication that they were attracted to each other in that way.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Despite WordOfGod saying near the start of ''Aliens Among Us'' that the human characters [[HiddenDepths would have more depth than they would appear]], [[AvertedTrope this doesn't happen]]. [[JerkJock Jason]] and [[RichBitch Lisa]] in particular are just [[FlatCharacter one-note bullies]]. And the characters who do have [[InformedAttribute "depths"]] have them [[ShowDontTell explained in narration rather through character interaction]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[spoiler: Cinder and her associates are only on Earth for a few chapters before being killed or arrested.]]
%%* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
%%* WhatAnIdiot:
* ValuesDissonance: There are a few rather insensitive comments at LGBT+ people, no one ever is called out for doing so. [[LoveInterest Gavin]] in particular comes across as horribly insensitive when it comes to such topics.
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!!The Fanfic

%%* EightDeadlyWords:
%%* FightSceneFailure:
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Weiss getting drunk becomes this after Volume 5 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' confirms that Weiss' mother is an alcoholic. The same goes for Yang drinking, since Volume 6 [[CerebusRetcon would stop playing her Uncle Qrow's drinking for comedy]].

** Yang and Gavin. Gavin initially has no attraction to Yang outside of the physical, but then suddenly they get together and their relationship is suddenly treated like it has more depth. What probably doesn't help is that Gavin only appeared a few chapters at a time in ''Aliens Among Us''.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Despite WordOfGod saying near the start of ''Aliens Among Us'' that the human characters [[HiddenDepths would have more depth than they would appear]], [[AvertedTrope this doesn't happen]]. [[JerkJock Jason]] and [[RichBitch Lisa]] in particular are just [[FlatCharacter one note bullies]]. And the characters who do have [[InformedAttribute "depths"]] have them [[ShowDontTell explained in narration rather through character interaction]].

* CanonDefilement: Yang's portrayal as a {{Book|Dumb}} DumbBlonde HardDrinkingPartyGirl, especially in ''Aliens Among Us''. This characterization comes from making very shallow assumptions about Yang's character even though nothing from canon supports this. While most of the fic was written when only Volume 1 was out and Volume 2 was still in progress, that is still no excuse since the Yellow Trailer opens with a quote which clues in viewers that there will be more to Yang than just surface-level assumptions and Yang's ditzy flirtatious behavior demonstrated in said trailer was just an act to extract information.

* HilariousInHindsight: This series' acknowledgement of the Bumbleby ship, but Yang ending up with a male love interest becomes this with the increased {{Ship Teas|e}}ing of Blake and Yang in the later volumes of ''RWBY''.

* HilariousInHindsight: This series' acknowledgement of the Bumbleby ship, but Yang ending up with a male love interest becomes this with the increased {{Ship Teas|e}}ing at Blake and Yang in the later volumes of ''RWBY''.

* ValuesDissonance: There are a few rather insensitive comments at LGBT+ people, no one ever is called out for doing so.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Weiss getting drunk becomes this after Volume 5 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' confirms that Weiss' mother is an alcoholic.
%%* HilariousInHindsight:

%%* VillainDecay:

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Weiss getting drunk becomes this after later Volume 5 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' confirms that Weiss' mother is an alcoholic.

* {{Main/Narm}}: A lot of narration due to how the story seems to think that its characters are more interesting [[FlatCharacter than they actually are]].
** [[ObligatorySwearing The swearing]]. The characters swear nearly other sentence. It's probably to make the dialogue more "realistic", but after awhile they just sound like middle school children who swear constantly to sound "cool".
** Sam, Issac, and Ben just assuming that Ruby Rose is just a very in-character cosplayer becomes this when you ask yourself these questions: 1. If Ruby is a cosplayer, what is she doing nowhere near any sort of 'con? 2. If she is an in-character cosplayer, don't you think its kind of creepy that she's stayed in-character for this long?
** Aaron thinking that Ruby Jones, Anna Weiss, Bella Blake, and Linda "Yang" Anderson could actually be the real Team RWBY at the slightest hint can get tiring really quickly.
** Same goes for Ruby/Weiss and Blake/Yang being MistakenForGay.
** Gavin's insistence that Yang can't be sexually attracted to women because... she's too feminine. It's probably supposed to be DeliberateValuesDissonance, but his reasoning can just come across as ridiculous since he never elaborates on it.
** The chapter dedicated to Creator/MontyOum's death suffers some serious MoodWhiplash, when Connor, completely out of nowhere, brings up the superficial resemblances Ruby Jones, Anna Weiss, Bella Blake, and Linda "Yang" Anderson have to Team RWBY and thinks that they could be the same people.
** [[spoiler:The fact that the way Cinder and her subordinates are defeated can be summed up as: "Just shoot at them enough times and they can apparently do nothing about it.]]
** [[FantasticRacism Cardin]] saying that the Terran humans can [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment "kill each ot]][[ShapedLikeItself her to death"]] for all he cares. If that wasn't enough, the statement can bring to mind [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Superboy-Prime's]] [[{{Wangst}} whining]].

** Sam, Issac, and Ben just assuming that Ruby Rose is just a very in-character cosplayer becomes this when you ask yourself these questions: 1. If Ruby is a cosplayer, what is she doing nowhere near any sort of 'con? 2. If she is an in-character cosplayer, don't you think its kind of creepy that she's stayed in-character for this long.

* {{Main/Narm}}: