Bumble Bee Ruined RWBY Not For The Reasons You Think

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  @Dr.Awesome126 · 2 weeks ago · pinned

  Oh my god, grow up, a gay couple didn't ruin the show or had anything to do with its quality. This miserable mindset is the reason why it's so hard to take any RWBY critic seriously these days...

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• JS

  @Jstck1 · 2 weeks ago

  A not insignificant number of people decided that Sun deserved better than Blake anyway

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• AB

  @abelzerihun7985 · 2 weeks ago

  Remember when RWBY was about cool fights?

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• JA

  @jaieregilmore971 · 2 weeks ago

  Honestly Bumblebee ruin the whole sister dynamic for team RWBY that I think the creator intended purpose.

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• CH

  @chukyuniqul · 2 weeks ago

  Man, I just miss when yang was the sunny-dispositioned, boisterous big sister of the group that especially loved her little half-sister.

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• ME

  @mediman12 · 2 weeks ago

  "They hated him for he spoke the truth"

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• RU

  @ruikirisame · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  the sun section made me realise that despite everyone making their own RWBY rewrites, this is the time i&apos;ve seen someone wanting to give sun&apos;s team more screen time. i like it. <br><br>in conclussion, CRWBY are uncreative hacks that don&apos;t care about characters that weren&apos;t theirs to begin with and who are definitely scared of their fans (there&apos;s a whole fandom rant i could go on but that&apos;s not important.) or they are profitting from stringing them along, because if they had another volume lined up, the V9 won&apos;t happen. if volume 10 flops, i want then to internatize that every single thing that led to this point was their own doing.

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• SE

  @selahgray3388 · 13 days ago

  Before I get too deep into the video, I just wanna explain why I personally always thought Bumblebee was &apos;ehh&apos; at best.<br><br>Yang &quot;Abandonment Issues&quot; Xiao Long gets together with the dark-haired, anti-social swordswoman with a criminal background whose first instinct is to run away from everyone she cares about the second things get bad. And she only starts having &apos;romantic&apos; feelings for her after she literally abandons her at her most vulnerable moment. Blake is quite literally a watered-down version of Yang&apos;s mother, except a Faunus and having moral reasons for being a criminal.<br><br>And while Blake&apos;s issues aren&apos;t as blatant, the fact that after she gets over the crazed man with anger issues and a grudge against the world, she immediately starts dating the girl with anger issues whose trauma buttons she played like she was Beethoven and their newest toxic relationship was her Fifth Symphony.<br><br>Don&apos;t get me wrong, I love Yuri as much as the next guy, but when everything I know about these characters can be (reductively) boiled down to &quot;Anger issues and hates being abandoned&quot; and &quot;Abandons people and has a terrorist ex with anger issues&quot;, I think there needs to be a lot of development on both sides for them to be compatible.<br><br>The worst part is that this dynamic could absolutely work, Blake learning to hold her ground and make the best of things because she won&apos;t be the one to prove Yang&apos;s deepest fears correct would be amazing writing.<br><br>But no. For Bumblebee to be made, they had to completely defang Yang and Blake so that it could work.

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  @000Dragon50000 · 2 weeks ago

  You know what would have been a far more compelling WLW ship for RWBY? <br>Ruby herself and Penny. The weapon nerd (not that they even fucking remembered that was a character trait of hers most of the time) and the living weapon. <br>The initial spark is there, but there&apos;s also an actual arc, some some shit both of them have to overcome, Penny needing to learn to assert her personhood and, this version of Ruby would likely also need to learn to respect that.

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• TW

  @TwilightWolf032 · 2 weeks ago

  The problem with Bumblebee:<br>1. It undermines the characters involved in the ship;<br> &nbsp; 1.a. Blake is no longer the freedom fighter with a complicated past having to deal with the consequences of what she ran away from, now she&apos;s just the lesbian girlfriend;<br> &nbsp; 1.b. Yang is no longer the &quot;shoot first, ask questions later&quot; fun-loving mother of the group having to face the new reality that she has lost a part of herself that is never coming back, now she&apos;s just the lesbian girlfriend Nº2.<br><br>2. It undermines he situations they&apos;re in, as they need to divorce themselves from the events they are currently facing to make it all about their relationship;<br> &nbsp;2.a. Being chased by a group of monsters that can suck out your will to live? Gotta hold hands;<br> &nbsp;2.b. Being stuck in a parallel world of fairy tail and forced to face your inner demons? Better officialize that we&apos;re a couple now;<br> &nbsp;2.c. Having to fight the leader of the terrorist organization that destroyed your school and cut your arm off? Better make it out to be a love triangle where the lesbians stab the toxic ex-boyfriend. <br><br>3. It undermines their relationships with the other characters, especially Ruby and Sun;<br> &nbsp;3.a. Yang acts motherly over Ruby, trying to get her to make friends on her own and even chastising Crow for making dirty jokes around her, both because Yang was the only one who ever got to experience having mothers between the two of them and as a form of atonement for having put her baby sister in danger when she tried looking for Raven. Now Yang won&apos;t even pay attention to Ruby&apos;s descent into despair and depression that eventually led her to commit suicide with a magical tea because she&apos;s too busy being lesbian!;<br> &nbsp;3.b. Sun chased Blake because he had utmost trust in her that she would take on the White Fang all by herself, and once he realized she was running away forced her to face the reality that doing so would only make things worse and helped her grow by giving her the courage she needed to face her deepest fears - Blake became a better person because of Sun believed in her when she herself couldn&apos;t. Now we just kick Sun out of the cast permanently because she needs to be lesbian, and having a character with whom she has infinitely better chemistry with would be a hindrance, so he has to let her go and even say &quot;it was never about that&quot; as a handwave to the audience DESPITE THEIR FILRTING ON SCREEN FOR 4 &nbsp;WHOLE VOLUMES!<br><br>4. The toxic part of the fanbase (which is most of it, nowadays) labels critics as &quot;Homophobes&quot; for pointing out writing inconsistencies and let downs with the executions of their relationship, even if you argue that if the writers really wanted to make a better written lesbian relationship between two of the main four girls, Ruby and Weiss are there! Criticizing Bumblebee gets you labeled as a homophobic and nothing you say, no amount of evidence you provide and no quality alternatives you provide will ever reach their brains because you just spoke against the &quot;message.&quot;<br><br>5. There was a much better alternative that I already pointed out - White Rose! Ruby and Weiss started not being able to stand each other, had to learn to respect each other&apos;s perspective in life and accept the position they were placed in the team despite each initially wanting to be in each other&apos;s shoes, Ruby had to learn to be a leader and Weiss had to learn to play a supporting role and eventually grew close enough to hang out by themselves and play off each other&apos;s personalities and quirks naturally. All they needed was one extra step for them to be in a healthy romantic relationship. But you can&apos;t have that because Bumblebee distorts everyone&apos;s minds into sucking its dick off while much better alternatives exist!

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• CE

  @ceddiebear · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  Tbh the problem with Blang for me is that they&apos;re &nbsp;just... bland. Blake and Yang saw their worst people in each other (Adam and Raven) that they feel that they can fix this time to feed each other&apos;s broken complexes. &nbsp;Their chemistry is genuinely only tied to how Blake is the Raven that will never leave and Yang being the Adam that obeyed. They barely were involved with each other&apos;s arcs or barely bond beyond that tbh. And knowing RT they ninja dodge every single realistic and even PERSONAL conflcit Blang has and concider them as true love and a possible paragon of Faunus-Human relations thus part of the good whenever the Gods will judge them.<br><br>No one would actually mind Blang if there was genuine chemistry or if they were heavily involved with each other&apos;s big arcs. Instead we have Sun and Weiss be their benchwarmers where they got no more problems with their own arcs once they get together.<br><br>Also it&apos;s mostly because Arryn (Blake&apos;s VA) wanted the ship badly and everyone else orbiting her demanding it until it exists upon itself.

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  @OnaxcliiFreiheit · 2 weeks ago

  This was made with the passion of a Leonardo painting the mona lisa, but the skill of a hamster.<br>10/10

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