The future-fantasy world of Remnant is filled with ravenous monsters, treacherous terrain, and more villains than you can shake a sniper-scythe at. Fortunately, Beacon Academy is training Huntsmen and Huntresses to battle the evils of the world, and Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang are ready for their first day of class.
This tv show contains 97 potentially triggering events.
Two of the main characters are survivors of domestic abuse. One faces both physical and emotional abuse by her father, and the other faces emotional abuse by someone assumed to be her partner in the past.
a prominent antagonist was heavily abused as a child and grows up to be a violent and overall unpleasant person who is an emotionally abusive parental figure of sorts to another character - this other character does break away though
One of the main characters was previously in an abusive relationship, and both through flashbacks and the abuser's appearances in the current storyline we can see how the abuser gaslights her
Weiss gets hit by her father in Volume 4. Mercury mentions getting abused by his dad several times. Implications of Whitley being emotionally abused by his father. In a flashback, a 10 year old version of Cinder is repeatedly electrocuted by her step-mother.
Qrow is seen drinking or drunk in every onscreen appearance. Played for laughs in the first few volumes, but is taken more seriously later on. Weiss’s mother is stated to be an even worse alcoholic, being completely distant from her child while she grew up, while she’s constantly drinking. She is seen downing an entire bottle in Volume 7.
A talking mouse is killed on screen. They are assumed not to be permanently dead; the Afterans in volume 9 do not die so much as they "ascend" to return as a new and different version, though they apparently do not keep their actual memories or knowledge.
A dog fights a mech, but not other dogs. Said dog is not injured or killed in any way, nor does it really seem all that distressed during the situation.
Little, a talking mouse, is crushed to death by Neo. They are an Afteran, so it is assumed that they will ascend and return in a different form, but their dead body and death is visible on screen.
The main villain of Volume 9 is an evil sentient supernatural cat. After being defeated in the final episode of the volume, it’s eaten alive by a horde of monsters while screaming.
Not directly. However, there is implication that an antagonist and a main protagonist once held a romantic relationship (he calls her 'my love' and 'darling' in the third season). This seemingly ended when said protagonist started at Beacon, when she was 17. It is not far-fetched to assume the antagonist is in his mid-20s, which does have some uncomfortable implications.
One of the earliest storyline’s in the series is a character getting beat up and blackmailed by a stereotypical schoolyard bully and learning to have to stand up for himself.
A character dislocates his thumb to escape a restraint, then relocates it after. The dislocation itself isn't shown, but the result and subsequent relocation are, along with cracking noises.
Amber and Pyrrha are both shot in the chest with an arrow and briefly struggle to breathe before dying. Cinder’s step-mother gets chocked by Cinder and is shown struggling to breathe and her eyes turning bloodshot, before she snaps her neck.
From Tock's Amity Arena description "Still, she could never give up playing with her food, as that was the privilege of a predator, and nothing made Tock feel more alive- ...than dancing with Death." While Tock is not described as being a cannibal in canon I think it's certainly a valid interpretation that she may have displayed some cannibalistic tendencies towards her victims.
A Faunaus-Grimm hybrid is crushed to death by a statue. A supporting antagonist is crushed under a collapsing balcony. A talking mouse is crushed to death under an antagonists boot.
In volume 8 episode 9, Hazel holds Salem down and sets himself on fire, burning them both alive. They are both vaporised by a giant explosion after about 10 seconds. Hazel dies permanently but Salem comes back due to her immortality. In the volume 8 finale, Watts is sealed in a burning building and burned to death. Additionally although it does not result in death, In Volume 3 episode 4 a man’s head is thrown on top of a geyser which erupts as he screams. His aura protects him from any serious burns or injuries but it’s still worth mentioning.
The Hound in Volume 8. Salem has some as well during her fight in the same volume. In Volume 9 Neo is possessed by an evil otherworldly entity which gives her an unnaturally wide creepy smile with razor sharp teeth. In the next episode, the possessed Neo creates illusions of a zombified Ruby to taunt Yang
<SPOILERS> A featured character is an amputee with robotic prosthetics for legs. A main character’s arm is cut off onscreen. Another Faunus character has his tail cut off in battle. Many Grimm have their heads/limbs cut off frequently.
Not really squashed, but Hazel pummels Salem’s head while she is on the ground, leaving a massive hole in Salem’s head, which regenerates back to normal shortly after. A talking mouse is squashed to death under an antagonists foot
In V8, a character is hung by their collar and a hook in their upper back while undergoing torture. If this general imagery is sensitive to you, proceed with caution.
During their fight, Yang seemingly breaks Mercury’s leg although it’s revealed in the next episode he has prosthetic legs and faked his injury to frame her. A minor character has an arm broken after it hits a tunnel while on a moving train. Tyrian intentionally dislocates his own hand in order to escape restraints, before snapping it back into place. Cinder kills her step-mother by snapping her neck.
Oscar, a kid roughly 14 years old, is tortured by villains in Volume 8. His chest is burned black by a magic beam while he screams in agony before a man walks in and starts beating him. The next scene with Oscar shows he now has a black eye and a bleeding face.
After being stabbed in the chest twice with no aura, a villain falls of a cliff and smashes their body smashes against a rock, before falling into a river. They are dead by the time they hit the water. Multiple characters presumably fall to their deaths at the end of Volume 8, but they are shown in the next volume to have survived.
In Volume 3, a character has their right eye burned off by a bright light (mostly obscured and they wear an eyepatch for the rest of the series). In Volume 6, a character has both eyes cut off by a sword. Another character has a branding burned into their eye. In Volume 8, a character’s eye is disfigured and converted into a monster.
Penny in volume 8, begs Jaune to kill her: she sacrifices herself to transfer power that would otherwise land in the hands of the enemy. Jaune does kill her.
Ruby and Yang’s mother is dead before the series began but brought up multiple times. Both of Ren’s parents deaths are seen in a flashback. Weiss’ abusive father is murdered by an antagonist.
Ruby has a deceased mother. Mercury murders his abusive father offscreen, but the body is shown onscreen. Both of Ren’s parents are killed by Monsters in a flashback. Illia mentions her parents dying in a mine explosion while she was a child and kids making fun of her for it. Cinder snaps her step-mothers neck onscreen and stabs her father figure to death. Weiss’ abusive father is shot to death by a gun that causes an explosion.
Depends on context, but (SPOILERS for season/volume 6) Ozmas kid leaves her toy dog on the ground, partially burnt. This may or may not count as destruction
Weiss is kidnaped by bandits and held for ransom back to her abusive father in Volume 5. She is rescued before anything can come from this. Oscar is kidnaped by a Grimm and taken to Salem in Volume 8.
Heavy spoilers, an evil cheshire cat takes possession of the body of an antagonist. The possession features unnatural appearances and scary smiles/body horror, and the character no longer has control over her body.
Coco spits on the ground in Volume 2. Mercury spits on his dead father in Volume 3. A trumpet player spits on the ground in Volume 7. No instances of farting.
There is a sort of secret police group in Atlas that is shown up by the main characters. Through the volume they sort of make friends, but when these people are told to arrest the main characters, they do so immediately and without question - "just following orders", despite this action inevitably being harmful to the greater citizenship of Atlas. This is not represented in a pro-police way.
No, however a trans character does recount the way her parents threw her aside when she told them she was going to help Mantle rather than Atlas, and implying that they were unsupportive and misgendering her.
In a flashback, a 10 year old version of Cinder is electrocuted by her step-mother through a collar on her neck whenever she does something wrong or performs a task inadequately. This goes on for several years until Cinder kills her. She is seen with scars on her neck from the electrocution.
An old woman is confined to a hospital bed in Volume 7. Winter is wounded and seen recovering in the hospital in Volume 8. Also, although not technically in a hospital, a dying girl is being kept alive in a pod hidden under a school in Volume 3. She is later shot to death in the pod by an arrow.
An Immortal character attempts suicide by stabbing themself through the chest with a knife (only shown as a silhouette) the knife passes straight through to her back but she barely feels pain and is completely uninjured upon pulling it back out.
A lot of people in Remnant have some sort of mental illness from traumatic experiences such as loss of a loved one, almost dying, being abused as children, witnessing deaths, being abandoned. Therapy seems to be not an option and many become obsessed with revenge or causing others unimaginable pain. Salem is one such individual, Hazel another.
Yeah Klein is a butler with seven alters, all based on the seven dwarves of snow white. The D.I.D is mostly played for laughs, except in a few serious scenes (the character is not demonized, however) and is inaccurate to reality.
yes, but it was an immortal character so the attempt is fruitless. (the action is also not depicted directly on screen, only as a silhouette)
it is *speculated* that the immortal character's ultimate goal is to finally die, too. so if that counts to you, keep that in mind.
Volume 9 is based on Alice in Wonderland. Time is seen to be manipulated by a character with a device, teleportation/sudden change in surroundings is also seen.
In Volume 4, A main character has flashbacks and anxiety attacks about the man who cut off her arm. In Volume 8, Weiss’ mother has a big anxiety attack when a Grimm attacks her house and tries to drink alcohol as a coping method, but her shaking hands keep causing her to drop the glass.
Penny gets inflicted by a virus which causes her to say that she must “open the vault then self-terminate” but she is stopped before she can commit. Qrow says If he worked for Ironwood, he would shoot himself, although this was sarcastic and not serious. Also there’s a joke early on Volume 1 where Jaune says he’s “not THAT depressed” when standing on the edge of a roof
Ruby’s mental health in Volume 9 rapidly deteriorates, further pushed along by Neo and the Curious Cat psychologically torturing her, until the point she actively despises herself and has absolutely no confidence whatsoever, culminating in her curled up on the floor crying, wishing to stop existing and be reborn as someone else entirely. After having her arm cut off in Volume 3, Yang is initially very self-conscious of their arm being gone forever, and even refuses to use a prosthetic arm for several days for this reason.
Not in the show itself, but one of the novels, RWBY After the Fall. It's also mentioned one of the main characters in said novel is claustrophobic due to an incident when she was younger.
Ruby knowingly drinks a poisoned tea to ascend to an ethereal location to “change herself.” She is resurrected with no difference to herself, although the scene when it first plays is framed like a suicide attempt. Although not outright suicide, a character enters a fight knowing fully well they will lose and won’t survive. An immortal character attempts suicide several times in Volume 6 but fails. A major character begs someone to kill them in the Volume 8 finale, which they do.
Mild offensive language use - a character calls someone a bitch in volume 5 after the latter cuts off his tail, a character calls another a bastard, there are some uses of the word "damn".
The Yellow trailer has a lot of this, as it takes place during a nightclub attack. Volume 8 episode 10 comes with an epilepsy warning at the start of the episode because of a giant strobe-like explosion that happens about 2 minutes into the episode and lasts for 45 seconds. This explosion happens suddenly out of nowhere mid conversation so be cautious while watching the start of the episode. In Volume 9 episode 6 time is rapidly rewound causing it to quickly flash between night and day, causing a strobe-like flash of light and dark for 10-15 seconds until the flow of time is restored to normal. This episode also comes with a seizure warning at the start but if you are sensitive to flashing lights, look away when Jaune approaches a tree with a clock on it.
Adam, Blake’s abusive ex, is watching Blake throughout all of Volume 6 without her realising it and attacks her the instant she’s separated from everyone else.
An external novel states that Salem’s mother died during childbirth. This fact, nor anything about Salem’s parents, are never brought up in the show itself.
No - one character is superficially based on Coco Chanel (as all characters in this series allude to either a fairy tale or a pop culture reference), who was famously a Nazi sympathizer and a fashion designer, but the character herself is not antisemitic and as far as I am aware there is no antisemitism present in the show.
A two episode arc in season two consists of a male character joking to another "if you don't get a date to the dance, i'll wear a dress" and following through on that promise. the crowd at the dance laughs at him, but he seems largely comfortable and he is not harassed during or after for it.
May Marigold mentions her family had said something about a son and she mentioned something about not being their daughter then, if they won't accept her as she is now. I'm mega paraphrasing
Neon has a big mouth and starts implying Yang needs to go on a diet. There is nothing "wrong" with Yang's figure, she's slim. Cinder goes to say "you're Little Miss Malachite?" as if to say there is nothing "little" about this woman, is swiftly put in her place
The Humans VS Faunus plotline is a pretty bad race metaphor that carries on throughout the series. Faunus are often misrepresented as violent, "filthy" criminals and animals by humans.
A bandit hits on one of the main characters (Yang) at a fuel station bar. She flatly refuses his advances twice, which he ignores. He comments on her figure saying she’s not too bulky and not too lean, and he attempts to creepily caress her hair without consent (which finally gets him punched).
A few sexual references as gags. A girl calls Yang “Top Heavy,” A joke about an inkeepers skirt length being short, A female character slaps a Male characters ass, A character accidentally see’s up a friends skirt. The most explicit thing is a mystical blue female genie-like character in Volune 6 who wears next to nothing and shows a lot of cleveage, but any genitalia is covered.
Freya from Vol. 7, an old woman and the winter maiden, talks about forgetting a lot of things, only remembering specific details. This could easily be seen as Dementia or Alzheimer's.
The series is still ongoing so no definitive answer at the moment. As for individual volumes, Some volumes do have unhappy endings, most notably Volumes 3, 7 and 8, which have really dark and depressing endings.
Several military airships get blown up or crash in Volume 3. A plane crashes in Volume 5, The main character on board survives but the pilot dies. Also a floating city crashes into another city on the ground, destroying both.
Most attacks don't cause any blood, because all the characters have magical shields that protect them. However, occasionally characters will get injured when their shields are depleted, and this will result in visible blood.