Talk:RWBY/@comment-174.21.50.232-20200103014125/@comment-25936766-20200103055801

There have been retcons, though they are mostly soft ones, like the color of Dust elements changing between seasons without explanations.

Emphasis on "mostly" though; sometimes it's not very excuseable, like EC in Yang's V5 trailer firing on full-Auto like Ren's Stormflower despite being a semi-automatic shotgun at the time.

Inconsistencies though, those are a lot more frequent. Like how the Faunus were established in V1 to be able to see in the dark, yet we still have 3 scenes at least (WF rally, Blake vs Ilia, Tyrian's killing spree to frame Penny) where lights are shut off with Faunus present and yet the writers still act like they wouldn't be able to see.

That said, most of the time things are not being inconsistent, but rather stuff is explained in such a vague, off-handed, useless way that no one knows how X usually works, so we often don't know if something is being inconsistent or if MK just explained it poorly once again. Like Qrow and Yang's Semblances activating after their Auras went down.