Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-62.155.208.107-20170917200212/@comment-4010415-20170921194534

While that's true, the White, Black, and Yellow Trailers also have story elements in them that actually play into the show proper and get referenced by the show proper.

So, while they are mainly just character intros that show off the kind of action the show would have, they also tell us a few things about the characters' pasts, and the show doesn't bother to recap what was shown in those trailers. Instead, it just assumes that you've seen them.

In Volume 2, we see a drawing of Adam in Blake's journal in Best Day Ever, and then she later briefly talks about him and mentions how she ran away when she realized he'd become a monster. Then, Adam shows up to say a single line at the end of Breach. They actually did pretty well with that, at least, because you can assume that the guy Blake drew in her journal is Adam... if you remember that detail when she's talking about him toward the end of the Volume.

Yang's visit to Junior's nightclub in Volume 2 serves no purpose other than to make a callback to the Yellow Trailer. If you haven't seen the Yellow Trailer, you have no idea who Junior or the Malachite twins are, and you don't know why Yang had visited him before or why everyone there is terrified of her. If you watch the Yellow Trailer, you know that she seen Torchwick talking to Junior when she went there, she was there for info about a photo of a dark-haired woman (Raven), and that she ended up kicking the asses of everyone there because they didn't like her taking Junior's manhood hostage.

The show has yet to mention or recap how Weiss got her scar or how she got her Arma Gigas summon. Instead, the summon just pops up and it's like "Hey, she can summon a giant suit of armor with a huge sword, so cool!" The only thing about the White Trailer that the show actually references is "She's a great singer lol".

They chose to have the WBY Trailers show important pieces of those girls' pasts, which is story-related. They could've shown them in action in any other situations that don't have such a significant connection to past events that helped mold them into who they are now, and in the Yellow Trailer's case, they didn't have to show an event with a slight tie in to the plot. But they did.