User blog comment:Getsug4Cero/Pokemon reference in Ep. 2/@comment-186.188.68.63-20140119183447

You are right! Fire, Lightning and Ice. Those three completely common elements should be a direct reference to Pokemon! Since there isn't any other show (besides RWBY) where those three elements have been used, it is definetly Pokemon.

BTW, that was sarcasm.