Teams

Teams are groups comprised of four individuals that are formed to fight alongside one another. Students are put into teams to learn together and practice with other teams while training to become Huntsmen.
==Concept==
Teams are made with the intentino to form emotional bonds and teamwork skills between the members included.
Team names, like the names of people on Remnant, follow a rule that they must be a color, or be reminiscent of a color. The names are acronyms of the people in the teams, with the leader's initial being the one at the beginning. Usually, the team names use the first initial, but will use last initials as well if needbe.
===Formation===
While each academy forms teams differently, a common thread between them all is that the teams are made randomly, something Alan Nomaly criticized as doing it at random would surely result in team names that aren't colors.
In RWBY: Witch Hunt, Haven Academy's initiaion is shown to be the students being taken from Haven Academy while asleep, and placed at random points throughout the kingdom, needing to make their way back to the academy. Groups of four students to return from each city are made into teams. This is not known to be canon to the actual RWBY lore.
==RWBY Canon Teams==
Team	Pronunciation	Leader 	Members
RWBY	Ruby 	Ruby Rose 	Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long
JNPR	Juniper 	Jaune Arc 	Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren
SSSN	Sun 	Sun Wukong 	Scarlet David, Sage Ayana, Neptune Vasilias
CFVY	Coffee 	Coco Adel 	Fox Alistair, Velvet Scarlatina, Yatsuhashi Daichi
STRQ	Stark 	Summer Rose	Taiyang Xiao Long, Raven Branwen, Qrow Branwen
FNKI	Funky 	Flynt Coal 	Neon Katt, Kobalt, Ivori
==BLAC==
Team	Pronunciation	Leader 	Members
BLAC	Black 	Jethro Blackstone	Dani Lancer, Alana Apocrypha, Cody Drake
==RWBY: Grimm Force==
Team	Pronunciation	Leader 	Members
TRTL	Turtle 	Ben Tennyson 	Rook Blonko, Gwen Tennyson, Kevin Levin
THMZ	Thames 	Albedo Tennyson	Hope Spellbinder, Michael Morningstar, Khyber Zaroffian
Additional teams mentioned are as follows:
*Team STRA ("Straw")
*Team TOPZ ("Topaz")
*Team STRM ("Storm")
*Team CCLA ("Clay")
*Team EKKO ("Echo")
*Team CRRY ("Curry")
*Team SWKR ("Soccer")
*Team PLLM ("Plum")
*Team TNDR ("Thunder")
==RWBY: Witch Hunt==
Team	Pronunciation	Leader 	Members
ORCD	Orchid 	Opal Matthews	Ruth Bear, Cinder Fall, Drew Ought
Additional teams mentioned are as follows:
*Team CRML ("Caramel")
==Other==
===Non-Traditional Teams===
These teams do not follow the traditional four members, or color-based name.
Team 	Leader 	Members
The Ace Operatives 	Clover Ebi (formerly)Winter Schnee	Harriet Bree, Marrow Amin, Elm Ederne, Vine Zeki
The Happy Huntresses	Robyn Hill 	May Marigold, Fiona Thyme, Joanna Greenleaf
Ozpin's Inner Circle	Professor OzpinOscar Pine 	Qrow Branwen, James Ironwood, Glynda Goodwitch, Headmaster Theodore, Rosanna Africa
===Villain Teams===
These teams are comprised of villains, without fitting the color rule seen with Team THMZ.
Team 	Leader 	Members
Salem's Inner Circle	Salem 	Cinder Fall, Tyrian Callows, Arthur Watts, Hazel Rainart, Tock, Mercury Black, Philippus Williams, Robert Brie, Reed Tempers
Cinder's Faction 	Cinder Fall	Emerald Sustrai, Mercury Black, Neopolitan, Adam Taurus, Richard Nomaly
===Temporary Teams===
These teams only existed for a small amount of times, and were not official teams.
Team	Pronunciation	Leader 	Members
BNJR	Bonjour 	Jethro Blackstone	Nora Valkyrie, Jaune Arc, Lie Ren
===Unofficial Teams===
These teams were brought up at some point, but were never officially made. As such, most of them do not follow the rules of four members, or the leader's initial being the first one.
Team 	Pronunciation	Leader 	Members
RWBYA	Rubia 	Ruby Rose 	Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Alan Nomaly
ARNJ 	Orange 	Alan Nomaly 	Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie, Jaune Arc
ORYNJ	Orange 	Yang Xiao Long	Jaune Arc, Oscar Pine (Professor Ozpin), Lie Ren, Alan Nomaly
AWBRN	Auburn 	Ruby Rose 	Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Nora Valkyrie, Alan Nomaly
==Trivia==
*Like with other RWBY related pages, only teams that have been seen in projects on this wiki counted for this page. As such, the following teams are omitted:
**Team NDGO ("Indigo")
**Team BRNZ ("Bronze")
**Team ABRN ("Auburn")
**Gillian's Team
**Team NOVA
**Team FNDU ("Fondue")
**Team ROSC ("Rosie")
**Team BYRN ("Burn")
**Team SSEA
**Team SMMK ("Smoke")
**Team SAFR ("Sapphire")
**Team BRIR ("Briar")
**Team RNJR "(Ranger")
**Team ALPN ("Alpine")
***Teams RNJR and ALPN have all their members seen, but are not present as those teams officially at any point on this wiki.
**Roman Torchwick has also been omitted from Cinder's team due to the wiki continuity principle,
*Several characters are no longer part of their teams across the different continuities on the wiki:
**In RWBYA, Cinder, Emerald, Mercury, Neo, Adam, Cinder, and Hazel die. When Richard is nearly killed, he is saved by Raven, who brings him in as a member of the Branwen Tribe. Cinder also killed Oscar.
**In The RWBYA Adventures, Adam was killed prior to the start of the series by Blake and Yang. Hazel dies during the events of Volume 2. Clover Ebi and Vine Zeki both die, losing their positions in the Ace Ops; Winter Schnee becomes the new leader. Richard, while not a member of Cinder's faction in this continuity, also is described as being killed by Alan.
**While not covered in RWBY: Witch Hunt, the canon shows that Tock died while trying to kill Maria Calavera.
*During RWBYA, Alan jokingly mentions a "Team GJSH" ("Gush") when the idea of Christmas was brought up, as that implies there was a Remnant Jesus Christ. The joke team includes God, Jesus, Satan, and the Holy Ghost.