Anonymous asked: What's with the RWBY fandoms utter hatred towards Jaune? Just want to get an opinion so I can write a TV Tropes example...
kurozu501:
Frankly i dont think jaune is hated enough tbh, he’s got plenty of stans.
To answer you though. Why is jaune disliked? Well I’m gonna give you the full list, all my thoughts, so strap in, this will be a bit long. Ive been looking for a chance to talk about this.
First,
- He’s treated like a main character even though he wasn’t billed as one
When RWBY was just getting started, there were four amazing, cinematic trailers for it. One for each main character. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang. These four ladies will be our protagonists as they go to monster fighting school and become a team!!
That’s the premise the show sold itself on.
Then what actually happened is that immediately once the show begins, Jaune is introduced. And the show focuses on him a lot…… even more then most of the main characters………
But the majority of (female and many male) viewers didn’t come to the show named RWBY for “the jaune arc show.” They came to see Team RWBY. They came to see a show with all female protagonists, not another scrawny white dude with a sword and shield like every other fantasy show ever made.
At first it wasn’t so bad. Jaune was mainly used for exposition, and being the guy who didn’t know anything so that there would be a reason for things to be explained to him, and through him the audience. He was likeable and seemed to be getting set up to be a tactician leader.
Then………
Keep reading
Long but good read about RWBY’s problems with writing male characters displaying problematic behaviour in a show about females, supposedly targeted at females.
The problem isn’t that they are showing a variety of behaviours and personalities - a show with all white knights is boring - the problem is that the writing doesn’t seem to realise how problematic it is toward women.
You can have a Jaune, you can have Qrow. You can have them be on the side of the angels, that’s cool. But their faults are glossed over and they are always shown to come out on top, often at the expense of the female characters. They are never shown to have need of growth or improvement.
So really, they shouldn’t be saying RWBY is a show about females for females, unless you’re trying to reinforce bad stereotypes about how women should be.