#Justice League X RWBY: Heroes and Huntsmen

[bobauthorman]

Just re-watched Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One, and this part

At this point, WBY and Diana rejoined RNR and the League. Did Bruce seriously wait until the last moment just to reveal himself dramatically like that? Yes, yes he did. He's such a drama queen.

Also, Jaune's reaction

Look how the stars haven't replaced his eyes, but are inside them.

[davidmann95]

So almost 3 years later it turns out Superman (and the Justice League) getting teleported into the RWBYverse without his/their usual capabilities is in fact how it's happening after all. I demand their means of isekaification be Doomsday running them all over with a truck.

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One arrives on digital, 4k and blu-ray in the spring. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Cyborg, Green Lantern and Vixen are transported to the strange world of Remnant, and find themselves turned into teenagers. Meanwhile, Remnant heroes Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang must combine forces with the Justice League to uncover why their planet has been mysteriously altered before a superpowered Grimm destroys everything.

Tbh I assume it'll get pretty straight to the team-up, but it really would be fun if everybody reacted to "Okay we LOOK like teenagers who have the same kinds of things going on as the rest of you but actually we're adult superhero pan-dimensional exiles here to save the entire cosmos!" with more than a little skepticism and the League have to fight to prove that no, they really for real are magical superheroes from the magical superhero dimension here to save the world.

Also, I approve that Dark Crisis: Young Justice writer Meghan Fitzmartin is writing this, because as if this crossover wasn't already absurdly aimed at the niche intersection of my interests alone, putting the writer of an illustrated anti-fandom essay on the need to take 90s DC out behind the woodshed that I am I assume the only person on this platform to have enjoyed? Beautiful. Cannot fathom why they're making this for a target market of literally solely me. Anyway it's extremely funny Superman is going to meet Ruby from RWBY in an official licensed product before he meets Goku.

So, here's the big question: How do you thibk various RWBY characters react to and interact with Superman? Not just the main teams, but anyone you think would be interesting: supporting cast, antagonists etc.

(Not Superman but the only remotely professional-looking DC/RWBY art I could find. Since, oddly, this is actually an official poster?)

That’s an interesting question, because much more than when I was previously asked what Superman meeting the Kingdom Hearts leads would look like, making that happen would require navigating that RWBY and the DC universe are built around entirely different storytelling engines. For the average superhero, they’re the masters of their domains so to speak - Batman watches over Gotham, Green Lantern oversees Sector 2814, and so forth. They protect their territory from threats within and without with consistent effectiveness, and as such their capabilities are scaled up appropriately so as to be able to plausibly face off successively greater threats. RWBY however past the setup of the first few seasons is a quest, and for that quest to be constantly filled with peril and be of any length, there’s a degree of necessary vulnerability. Hunters are absolutely super, but they have to fight to survive against essentially wild animals, and trekking across a world that’s already mapped-out and filled with assorted advanced civilizations still takes months. That’s what they’re built around: they have a journey to grow across the duration of, whereas superheroes by and large have established base personalities and concerns with the challenge of the story being to find new nuances to dig out of them. Have RWBY and JNPR graduate Beacon without incident and start functioning on basically superheroic terms as Hunters (i.e. they have a base of operations and a clearly-delineated ongoing task) you either start telling a totally different kind of story with them or they remain basically static; put a superhero on a quest and it’s typically gonna be a single story arc where you have to contrive some sort of special circumstance, as in the recent Superman: Up In The Sky where he’s solving a mystery with almost no leads spanning the entire universe, to justify why they aren’t doing at least the ‘journey’ part of this instantly.

(Kingdom Hearts is something of an exception since I brought that up: they’re on a quest, but it and therefore their capabilities are so mythically scaled-up and abstracted, and the heroes’ goals on any given world are superheroey enough, that them meshing with DC or Marvel wouldn’t have the same practical or narrative complications.)

Therefore, if Superman and RWBY met - and I realize this was just a character-interaction question, but the first character interaction past confused introductions would probably be ‘hey, can you help out?’ - on Remnant, the only way Superman doesn’t just take half a second to dash over to Salem and yeet her into orbit so she can take a metaphorical deep breath and rethink her decisions is if they mention the Brothers and he flies into space to sort them out first. And if RWBY ends up on Earth DC, I see there’s a sizable and popular fanfic titled Hunters of Justice exploring that very possibility, and at a glance I’m not surprised to see they apparently mostly hang out with the Bat-Family and the Teen Titans rather than Superman or the Justice League; besides their popularity, that’s much more the scale they tend to operate on as opposed to battling alien armies and mad gods. The latter obviously opens plenty of story possibilities in a way the former doesn’t, but either way they’re not going to be in a position to chat much with Superman beyond “Wow, you’re a superhero!” + “I like your cape!” + “Keep up the good work!/You too!”

Fortunately however, there’s a preexisting mode with Superman that not only largely circumvents these concerns, but opens up avenues all its own.

However you might contrive to put Superman on a t-shirt and jeans level again it not only puts him on a ‘power level’ comparable to the RWBY crew that means they could hang out and work together for a bit, it adds a complication that would deflate his aura of Superman-ness for awhile that might otherwise bar them interacting as equals: they would have every reason to think he’s just a crazy guy. Dude shows up in a weird shirt saying he’s an alien superhero from a parallel dimension and he needs their help to get home? Sure, he’s got some kind of strength Semblance that’s pronounced even by Yang and Nora’s standards, and that cape he carries with him is tough, but not even Ozpin’s fairy tales matched up against the yarns this man is trying to spin. Yet as they get to know him while trekking across Remnant, he sure seems to have the goods as a hero, and there are moments - the times he, as Wally West once said, smiles that one smile that reminds you he’s not really from here - where they really have to ask themselves if he’s the deluded fanboy who might get them all killed all logic screams he must be, or if as impossible as it may seem, he might just really be the miracle they need to give them a fighting chance.

As for the character interactions that would crop up, there are some obvious ones to be had with Ruby and farmboy Oscar, and he’d probably find Weiss, Ren, and Qrow each reminding him a bit of Bruce in their own ways. The main character I think he’d really hit it off though is actually Blake if he ever learned about her bow: that was essentially Clark Kenting, and there’d likely be a whole discussion to be had between them on the cultures they come from, their different relationships to them, passing, their commitments to justice, and being really into cocky adventurous women who don’t take any shit and have complicated relationships with their parents.

[wonderbatpanels]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two (2023)

"But Batman should know about Gotham--"

"No. He needs sleep. Let's check in with everyone else."

[frie-ice]

These are some of the films, characters, mangas, games, shows, comics and ships I'm a fan of.

The Deviantart meme template I filled in to make these was created by Arvin-CuteAnimalFan.

Part One _ Part Two

[weisscoldglare]

Book Quotes

[dcmultiverse]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One (2023) Dir. Kerry Shawcross

[joshuasumter]

In excitement of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two coming soon, here is the Justice League/RWBY crossover-ness we have so far.

- RWBY/Justice League - DC/RWBY - Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen (Parts One and Two)

Now we'll have to wait for the Deluxe Edition of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen that combines both parts into one epic saga with a new epic cover art and their special features!

[short-wooloo]

I think we are going to see Pyrrha in the RWBY/Justice League movie, they're just hiding her appearance in the promos

We know per recent V9 episodes that they have a fully rigged Maya model Pyrrha

[doamarierose-honoka]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two | Extended Preview | Warner Bros. Ent.

[satoshi-mochida]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part Two releases today on digital platforms, and releases on Blu-ray on October 31st.

[historyhermann]

Yuri and Beyond: LGBTQ+ Representation in Animation in 2023

2023 began with a bang, with the premiere of the yuri anime The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady a.k.a. MagiRevo on January 5th, Velma on January 12th, The Legend of Vox Machina on January 20th, and Princess Power on January 30th. It went far beyond those which premiered last year, despite less yuri anime airing in 2023. [1] As a warning, there will…

[argentarachnids]

I would like to see Kilg%re and Watts return mentally fused into Kil%Watts

[bobauthorman]

It's Weiss' birthday.

So I would like to remind the ladies and gentlemen of the jury that when Team RWBY went to the DC universe (Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen) she was the only member of Team RWBY that didn't get a superpower version of her Semblance. And this is probably a problem, since she uses her Semblance the most out of all of Team RWBY.

Especially when she has to fight a Death Stalker all by herself.

So, we've got a girl, whose fighting style that revolves predominantly around her Semblance, now forced to fight, on her own, against a giant scorpion monster. And now an ordinary scorpion monster, but one that's been bred for the mother&@^#$ DC universe. Oh, and her fancy ice gun doesn't work.

And she wins.

She beats the Super Death Stalker with just her wits. (And a really big crane)

Our little ice queen truly has become the Best Girl (tm).

[wonderbatpanels]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)

[Clip 1/2]

"Maybe with these abilities, I can do more. I can be like you... a warrior."

[frie-ice]

Being a WonderBat supporter this moment from part one of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen got to me. Specially when Bruce said that he wanted to be more like her, while Diana is there to remind him that he is special with or without powers.

[tumblingxelian]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two Trailer Analysis