User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/How to improve RWBY: an opinion./@comment-108.197.228.37-20141113052525

It's funny how you mention tropes and how this makes the characters of RWBY predictable: according to TV Tropes, many of the traditional/stereotypical roles that the characters appear to fill are seen to be subverted/deconstructed in one way or another: Jaune the lovable idiot is resentful of his inadequacy; Pyrrha has trouble socializing since she's just so 'perfect'; Weiss has family problems which influenced her callousness and racism; etc. It could be entirely possible that these stereotypical roles were portrayed intentionally, and that the writers were intending for the audience to jump to conclusions in order to surprise us with hidden/added depths that we now have the time to analyze. (or, the writers have no idea how stereotypical their characters are, and the 'depths' that I just mentioned exist purely by accident.)