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: Grimm Force*

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*

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.

### Villain Teams

These teams are comprised of villains, without fitting the color rule seen with Team THMZ.

### Temporary Teams

These teams only existed for a small amount of times, and were not official teams.

### 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.

## 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.