Since I have been asked to give my input in dms and some servers, I will try to grasp the idea and its counter-perspective.
So here are standards of the VSBW that are relevant to the discussion:
To understand this, I need to understand what is the verse, its plot and the issue. So this is
the verse page and this is how I understood:
RWBY follows the story of four girls who attend Beacon Academy to train to battle creatures known as the "Creatures of Grimm" in the world of Remnant. The series also revolves around a conflict between two opposing deities and the discovery of a mysterious element called Dust.
And this is
Justice league action verse. Justice League Action features short and action-packed episodes of the Justice League fighting against evil forces. The episodes are mostly standalone, except for the first four that tell one story.
Small correction, its actually
DC Comics that the movie crossover over with, not Justice League Action. The comic however doesnt cross over with anything, all of the characters are completely original to RWBY and are just based on DC characters.
Before we begin, I would like to suggest that we recognize the concept of crossovers in VSBW and familiarize ourselves with its guidelines.
Ye, in the case of these stories in particular it actually falls more under one-sided crossover:
Onesided crossovers officially take place within one continuity, but not the other. Given that some characters may be parodies of their original counterparts, they could potentially get a separate profile scaling from the other verse based on their importance to the story.
- The works must be written by a single same person. | Done
- There should not be considerable contradictions in the respective displayed power levels for the compared characters. | still in discussion
- The statements need to clearly have been intended seriously. | still in discussion
- The compared characters must share a similar nature in terms of types of powers. | still in discussion
It seems that the primary counter-argument revolves around clothing, but have there been any debates about the discrepancies in their powers and statistics? Are there any notable differences between them?
On top of clothes, like i mentioned above, half of the members of the justice league in the film are a different species than the comic versions (Diana in the comic is a robot, in the film she's a human, Barry in the comic is a tortoise/human hybrid, in the film he's human, Bruce in the comic only has bat ears, in the film he has huge bat wings, etc.) as well as Jessica Cruz being two feet shorter and a completely different skin tone, and Arthur Curry being in the comic, whileVixen takes his place in the film.
The cast in the comic are Large Building level and Hypersonic, while in the film they are Small City level and FTL, as the film takes place later in the storyline than the comic and has different scaling as a result.
Ability-wise, Bruce in the comic has the ability to hyperanalyze things in the environment, while in the film Batman can just straight up see through walls and see through illusions, and Jessica in the comic just creates green lantern constructs, while in the film her ability is the power to reset altered parts of reality
Also, I would like to ask something that someone else asked which caught my attention
- Whether the 2019 interview can be used as evidence for the 2021 comics canon status (by Deagnox)
@WeeklyBattles did they refer to something specific, or was their statement vague and general? Additionally, were the references authored by the same person (excluding the company)? Since according to guidelines, they need to be written by a single person.
All of the RWBY comics produced by DC are written by the same person, Marguerite Bennett, and are co-written and overseen by Kerry Shawcross, one of the lead writers for RWBY. The movie was written by Meghan Fitzmartin and co-written by Kerry, who also acted as both director and producer for the film.
In my personal opinion and from my perspective, it is somewhat difficult to accept the existence of three continuations, while the intermediate one was non-canonical. However, I request further input and discussion on whether they fulfill the requirements for a canon crossover as defined by VSBW.
Theyre not canon crossovers, theyre one-sided crossovers, akin to Dante being canon in Shin Megami Tensei but SMT is not canon to DMC. Summing the plots of the three crossovers up:
- The first comic takes place between seasons 2 and 3 of RWBY, features a team of huntsmen native to Remnant who are loosely based on the justice league in design and appearance (they dont even go by 'The Justice League' until the last page of the comic), and the storyline involves Team RWBY and the JL fighting off a RWBYized version of Starro from taking control of the world.
- The film takes place during a timeskip sequence in volume 7, features Team RWBY, Team JNPR. and the actual Justice League from the DC universe pulled into a simulation of Remnant, with the Justice League turned into teenagers as a result, and the storyline involves fighting Killgore, who was working with someone from Remnant to trap the teams in said simulation.
- The second comic is fully non-canon and has Team RWBY and the DC universe fused into one, with Team RWBY working with the Justice League to fix everything.
