Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.160.120.109-20140627184048/@comment-3146930-20140627214931

But you can't tell a story completely in song stretched over several music videos. You would need to make a new song every single week and somehow convey a message between characters with almost no dialog between characters. Not to mention that would get really boring really fast.

I would consider RWBY to be much less of a ripoff compared to shows like Once Upon a Time. At least in RWBY they give the characters their own identity and skills, instead of just relying on the stories that originally made these characters a part of culture in general. As far as RWBY characters, they based their looks on those they are based on, but their personality's and weapons all have to be built from the ground up.

Plus as many have said before, nothing is original anymore. Every personality type has been explored in one way or another and every character type has been drawn. Ruby and Margaret may have similar fighting styles, but that could just be because that type of fighting style is the coolest use of a scythe available. Even Grim from The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy would shoot magical bolts of energy from his scythe on occasion, so it isn't that unbelievable to think that someone else came up with the idea to use a gun-scythe.

The idea of basing RWBY off of story characters is a cool theme, but what they do with these characters and how they differ from their original inspirations is what really matters.