Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15108745-20130811001851/@comment-14610890-20131225035240

For the last time: BLACK TRAILER HAPPENED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF RWBY! She doesn't rejoin the White Fang, she isn't sent on mission as a double agent, and the forest is not the same one as the one in Beacon! Weiss mentioned a train full of dust stolen and Blake said she left the White Fang, the clear implication is that said train and Blake's departure are what is shown in the trailer. Over, done, forever, never say it happens later again!

White is a bit tricky, I can only assume that the literal events of the trailer are the she remembers a batle she once had will singing for a crowd, which would be two separate events, if I recall, she had her scar before fighting the armor so she did not get it there and I don't remember if she has it at the begining of the show. Having all the data there, which I don't would likely offer clues as to timing.

Yellow the best clue, I think, in the Yellow trailer is the presence of Torchwick near the beginning, (though we didn't know it at the time) and a comment Torchwick later said in the first episode about the men Ruby beat up (who looked the same as Junior's men) I don't remember what the line was but it was something to the effect of "money well spent" or another snide remark about how useless the men were being. I think it is reasonable to suspect that Torchwick was there in the trailer to arrange for the purchase of some of Junior's henchmen.

Red seems like it could go anywhere but I'm inclined to think it happen before as well, simply because I think they all were. To my mind the trailers likely will not need to be worked into the plot later on because, while all being canon, they all happened before the start of the series and therefore have nothing to do with the plot going forward, except of course for backstory such as Blake leaving the White Fang.