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Volume 4
- During the opening credits, Adam and Blake are fighting. Adam appears to gain the upper hand and charges at Blake, who raises her hand defensively, making a horrified scream. Because she looks like someone who's scared of a mouse instead of being in a dangerous fight, the dramatic fight sequence ends on a hilarious note.
Volume 5
- Raven portrays Ozpin giving her and Qrow the ability to transform into birds in a way that is meant to paint him in a morally grey light despite not detailing any downside to actually having the ability. When Qrow later reveals that he and Raven volunteered for this, thereby revealing that Raven was misleading Yang, the way Yang attacks Ozpin with such anger for giving them this shapeshifting was treated by the fans as being hilariously disproportionate to the situation. Characters being shocked by shapeshifting comes across as Arbitrary Skepticism, given that Semblances are treated as Mundane Fantastic.note
- In the final battle of Volume 5, it's revealed that Hazel hates Ozpin because his sister Gretchen enrolled at Beacon Academy only to die on a training mission. Hazel holds Ozpin responsible for her death. During the fight, Hazel's deep voice makes him sound rather comical when he rants about how he's going to kill Ozpin.
Volume 6
- Qrow punching Oscar upon finding out the truth behind Salem is supposed to be serious. However, the punch is slowed down so that Oscar's face is forced towards the camera with a goofy expression on his face. This style of animating a punch to the face is usually used for slapstick comedy instead of drama, so the scene stops being dramatic and becomes comedic instead.
Volume 7
- In Volume 7, Robyn Hill yells "ONLY?"
and throws a chair to the side. She does this in response to Jacques protesting that he was only trying to win the election. What makes this scene funny is that Robyn waits until after Jacques has not only finished his sentence but has started a new one. It gets even funnier when everyone pauses to stare at Robyn as though she had just grown a second head, then proceed to ignore her. - At the end of Volume 7, Salem finally arrives in Atlas to take matters into her own hands, an event foreshadowed since The Stinger for Volume 6 and one that spells bad news for Remnant as a whole. However, the fact that she emerges from a storm riding on a massive, flying sperm whale of all things, is so over the top and ridiculous it's hard not to laugh a little.
