Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-93.205.77.104-20180117113731/@comment-26397825-20180117114615

Ruby is Little Red Riding Hood.

Weiss is Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Blake is Beauty and the Beast

Yang is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Ozpin is The Wizard of Oz.

Salem is not confirmed, but pretty muh everyone thinks she's the Wicked Witch of the West

Jaune is Joan of Arc

Pyrrha is Achilles from Greek Mythology

Nora is Thor

Ren is Mulan from Chinese History.

All known characters have their allusion written up and explained in the Behind the Scenes tab on their character page. If you want to know who alludes to what, read that page. We even cover characters just as Cardin Winchester, who alludes to Cardinal Henry Beaufort, and Penny Polendina, who alludes to Pinocchio.