RWBY in Other Media

RWBY and its characters have made a range of crossovers and appearances into a large range of other shows, games and other media.

RT Recap


On December 1st, 2013, RWBY characters appeared in "The Animated Recap", an episode of RT Recap, a now-discontinued show that reviews the preceding week's Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter videos.

Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang appeared alongside other animated characters from Rooster Teeth, such as Sarge from Red vs. Blue and the Let's Play Minecraft personas of Geoff Ramsey and Gavin Free. They also interacted with fictionalized versions of Burnie Burns, Joel Heyman and Gus Sorola from Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures.

ScrewAttack's Death Battle


On October 21st, 2015, three days before the premiere of RWBY Volume 3, Yang appeared in an episode of ScrewAttack's Death Battle web series, which pits fictional characters from different franchises against each other in a hypothetical battle to the death. Yang fought and won against Tifa Lockhart from the video game Final Fantasy VII. The episode featured new dialogue from Yang's voice actor Barbara Dunkelman as well as original animation by ScrewAttack's animator Torrian Crawford.

Screw Attack had included a tribute to series creator Monty Oum in a previous episode of Death Battle, with whom the inclusion of a RWBY character on the show was also discussed before his passing. On November 4th, 2015, ScrewAttack announced that they were joining Rooster Teeth, which is also a partner of the Fullscreen network.

Another Death Battle, Weiss vs Mitsuru would air in 2019 after ScrewAttack has been rebranded to Death Battle.

RTX Australia 2016 Panel


At the inaugural RTX Australia in Sydney on January 24th, 2016, the second RWBY panel hosted a Q&A session with Lindsay Jones and Barbara Dunkelman in-character as Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long. The pair answered questions and interacted live with fans as their characters under the premise of a video chat conversation from Beacon Academy.

The faces of Lindsay and Barbara were captured using a GoPro, with a Kinect to capture their motion performance. The characters were then rendered in real-time in Unreal Engine 4. The technical side was set up with the help of Opaque Media using Faceware Tech software.

Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures
RWBY characters have made cameos in some episodes of Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures. Yang Xiao Long made a cameo in "Racial Super Texas" sitting at a bar. A doll of Yang Xiao Long also appeared in "Spooky Scary Ghost Stories", in which her arm was broken by a ghost.

Crusaders Quest x RWBY collaboration


On May 9th, 2017, a limited event collaboration between RWBY and Crusaders Quest was announced. The available playable characters to be obtained are Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Nora Valkyrie and Pyrrha Nikos. In the event, Roman Torchwick and Neo Politan appear as event bosses while the Grimm as regular enemies. The limited event of Crusaders Quest lasted from May 11th, 2017 until May 25th, 2017.

Battle Sloths
In Rooster Teeth's game "Battle Sloths", Team RWBY are playble characters.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle


During Evolution Championship Series, it was announced that Ruby Rose is going to be in a crossover fighting game created by Arc Systems Works and will include characters from BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In Birth. The game is set to be released in 2018. A demo of Ruby in the game was tweeted by Gray Haddock on October 3rd, 2017. On October 6th, 2017, Arc Systems Works released an early demo gameplay trailer of the crossover fighting game featuring the seven confirmed playable characters.

On October 15th, 2017, Weiss Schnee was confirmed to be in the fighting game on the second character introduction trailer of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. The game will be available on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Steam platforms.

On January 13th, 2018, Blake Belladonna was confirmed to be in the fighting game as one of 20 confirmed DLC characters on the Arc System Works Fighting Game Award 2017 show for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.

On February 7th, 2018, Blake along with Yang were confirmed to be free DLC characters on the EVO 2018 Special Promotion Trailer for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.

On February 21st, 2018, it was announced that the game will feature an original story of all four franchise's perspectives of RWBY, BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, and Under Night In Birth called "Episode Mode".

On April 19th, 2018, a first look of Yang's gameplay was featured on the Arc Nama Stream.

On January 25th, 2019, it was announced that the game will have an arcade version along with a new character that is only available in Japan. The arcade version will be release in Spring 2019.

Blue Radio NEO
On May 31st, 2018, Ruby makes a brief cameo in a segment where Sugita, Ragna's Japanese voice actor, imagines Ragna letting Ruby use his weapon while he wields Ruby's weapon, Crescent Rose.

On July 30th, 2018, Yang makes a special guest appearances in Episode 2.

On August 31st, 2018, Ruby makes a special guest appearances in Episode 3.

On October 26th, 2018, Weiss makes a special guest appearances in Episode 4.

Puzzle of Empires


On September 15th, 2017, a limited event collaboration between RWBY and Puzzle of Empires was announced. The available playable characters to be obtained are Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long. The limited event collaboration was scheduled in October. A limited event collaboration was available on October 13th, 2017 until October 30th, 2017.

Knights Chronicle


On July 4th, 2019, a limited event collaboration between RWBY and Knights Chronicle was announced. The available characters to be obtained are Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. Cinder also is confirmed to appear in the limited event. On July 5th, 2019, a limited event collaboration will be available on July 11th, 2019.