Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.44.85.110-20130806063343/@comment-10390252-20140925081435

Of course, in the end, there are two tropes apparently active in RWBY that were also active in the Harry Potter novels:


 * 1) Extranormal Institute - The main setting is a school for those with special powers and abiliities; other examples are 'The New Mutants' and 'Generation-X' in the X-Men universe;
 * 2) The Reluctant Chosen One - The primary protagonist appears to be someone selected by destiny for greatness but is totally ignorant of this or even actively does not want this role; there are so many other examples of this trope that you can't even start to list them.