Are there any other RWBY characters that were based on other stories?


A lot of the RWBY characters are based on or made similar to popular storybook
characters. eg:

  * Ruby Rose - Red Riding Hood
  * Weiss Schnee - Snow White
  * Cinder Fall & Salem - Cinderella & her Fairy God Mother
  * Sun - from Journey to the West.

Are there any other characters that were based on other stories?




[This isn't a perfect
answer](http://rozalynpaige.tumblr.com/post/96151576797/who-rwby-characters-
allude-toare-based-on) but most of these seem fairly accurate.

> Basically, for some reason, I thought it’d be fun to list the current known
> characters/stories that characters are based on thus far. So, yay?
>
> First of all, before the break, just gonna point out…
>
> Neo: Not the Cheshire Cat. That’s all I know. Not the Cheshire Cat, but
> apparently someone else might be Cheshire.
>
> Team RWBY’s theme is fairy tales.
>
> Ruby Rose: Little Red Riding Hood
>
> Weiss Schnee: Snow White
>
> Blake Belladonna: Belle/beauty, of Beauty and the Beast
>
> Yang Xiao Long: Goldilocks
>
> Team JNPR’s theme is people who dressed as the opposite sex.
>
> Jaune Arc: Joan of Arc
>
> Nora Valkyrie: Thor (Apparently once crossdressed to get Mjolnir back.)
>
> Pyrrha Nikos: Achilles (Apparently once crossdressed as a red-haired woman
> named Pyrrha. Pyrrha Nikos has been noted in volume 2 to be nicknamed The
> Invincible Girl.)
>
> Lie Ren: Mulan
>
> Onto other peeps.
>
> Cardin Winchester: Henry Beaufort, the Cardinal of Winchester, who was
> responsible for Joan of Arc being burned at the stake.
>
> Velvet Scarlatina: The Velveteen Rabbit
>
> Ozpin: Oz, from the Wizard of Oz (duh?)
>
> Glynda Goodwitch: Glenda the Good Witch, from Wizard of Oz (duh??)
>
> Ironwood: Tin Man, from Wizard of Oz (Apparently?!)
>
> Penny: Pinocchio
>
> Peter Port: Peter, from Peter and the Wolf
>
> Bartholomew Oobleck: Bartholomew, from Bartholomew and the Oobleck
>
> Adam Taurus: Probably Beast, from Beauty and the Beast
>
> The White Fang: White Fang, from… White Fang, by Jack London
>
> Cinder Fall: Cinderella (Confirmed by Miles and Kerry)
>
> Roman Torchwick: Lampwick/Candlewick, from Pinocchio
>
> Mercury Black: Mercury/Hermes (note his symbol is a shoe with a wing on it)
>
> Sun Wukong: Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West
>
> Neptune: Neptune/Poseidon
>
> Junior (Hei Xiong): Baby bear, from the tale of Goldilocks (His name
> literally means Black Bear)
>
> (Bonus: Characters who we don’t know the basis of but have some ideas)
>
> Emerald Sustrai: Maybe Aladdin or Cleopatra
>
> Summer Rose: The poem The Last Rose of Summer
>
> Winter Schnee: Perhaps the Snow Queen (on which Frozen is based)
>
> Fox: Tod the fox from The Fox and the Hound, or Inari the fox god
>
> Qrow: Scarecrow, from The Wizard of Oz




[This isn't a perfect
answer](http://rozalynpaige.tumblr.com/post/96151576797/who-rwby-characters-
allude-toare-based-on) but most of these seem fairly accurate.

> Basically, for some reason, I thought it’d be fun to list the current known
> characters/stories that characters are based on thus far. So, yay?
>
> First of all, before the break, just gonna point out…
>
> Neo: Not the Cheshire Cat. That’s all I know. Not the Cheshire Cat, but
> apparently someone else might be Cheshire.
>
> Team RWBY’s theme is fairy tales.
>
> Ruby Rose: Little Red Riding Hood
>
> Weiss Schnee: Snow White
>
> Blake Belladonna: Belle/beauty, of Beauty and the Beast
>
> Yang Xiao Long: Goldilocks
>
> Team JNPR’s theme is people who dressed as the opposite sex.
>
> Jaune Arc: Joan of Arc
>
> Nora Valkyrie: Thor (Apparently once crossdressed to get Mjolnir back.)
>
> Pyrrha Nikos: Achilles (Apparently once crossdressed as a red-haired woman
> named Pyrrha. Pyrrha Nikos has been noted in volume 2 to be nicknamed The
> Invincible Girl.)
>
> Lie Ren: Mulan
>
> Onto other peeps.
>
> Cardin Winchester: Henry Beaufort, the Cardinal of Winchester, who was
> responsible for Joan of Arc being burned at the stake.
>
> Velvet Scarlatina: The Velveteen Rabbit
>
> Ozpin: Oz, from the Wizard of Oz (duh?)
>
> Glynda Goodwitch: Glenda the Good Witch, from Wizard of Oz (duh??)
>
> Ironwood: Tin Man, from Wizard of Oz (Apparently?!)
>
> Penny: Pinocchio
>
> Peter Port: Peter, from Peter and the Wolf
>
> Bartholomew Oobleck: Bartholomew, from Bartholomew and the Oobleck
>
> Adam Taurus: Probably Beast, from Beauty and the Beast
>
> The White Fang: White Fang, from… White Fang, by Jack London
>
> Cinder Fall: Cinderella (Confirmed by Miles and Kerry)
>
> Roman Torchwick: Lampwick/Candlewick, from Pinocchio
>
> Mercury Black: Mercury/Hermes (note his symbol is a shoe with a wing on it)
>
> Sun Wukong: Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West
>
> Neptune: Neptune/Poseidon
>
> Junior (Hei Xiong): Baby bear, from the tale of Goldilocks (His name
> literally means Black Bear)
>
> (Bonus: Characters who we don’t know the basis of but have some ideas)
>
> Emerald Sustrai: Maybe Aladdin or Cleopatra
>
> Summer Rose: The poem The Last Rose of Summer
>
> Winter Schnee: Perhaps the Snow Queen (on which Frozen is based)
>
> Fox: Tod the fox from The Fox and the Hound, or Inari the fox god
>
> Qrow: Scarecrow, from The Wizard of Oz

