Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.160.173.208-20130420133315/@comment-4010415-20141005223613

Christopherweeblingjr wrote: Zwei is based of Ein from Cowboy Bebop.

Tuskon is based of Sabertooth from the X-men.

And the retelling of the tails with a twist is awesome! It basically like 'What if all these fairy tails lived in the same world?' And it's better than what Monty made. Zwei makes reference to Ein from Cowboy Bebop, as sort of a nod to him. His appearance is based on Junkers, a corgi who belongs to one of Monty's friends. It's not like Zwei is a supergenius dog. Then he'd be based on Ein.

Yeah, Tukson's appearance is probably based on Sabertooth, but they probably didn't feel like putting too much effort into his design since he was just a throwaway character.

With "retelling fairy tales," I didn't mean taking characters from tons of fairy tales and putting them in the same place like Once Upon A Time does. I meant taking only characters from one fairy tale and telling the same exact story, but slightly differently. That can be pretty fun (except in Hoodwinked. That movie was just plain cheesy). I kinda liked the Cinderella movie that Selena Gomez was in.

But if he retold the fairy tales in the RWBY world, it would be kind of a clusterfuck. Instead, he's going along a theme where each character is based on/alludes to a classic story, and their name has to follow a color rule.