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Roman stayed with Cinder due to knowing that if he ever tried to betray her he would die due to the massive power gap between himself and Salem's faction. His speech explaining this to Ruby was completely unchanged in FRWBY. But gets completely thrown away due to Oz possessing him and pesters him into joining the main cast. No overcoming his fears or anything like that, just do the plot and act out of character because a voice in his head is annoying him

Lionheart is the most obvious example, as his fear of what Salem would do to him is what caused him to betray his nation and sending Mistral's huntsmen to their deaths. He's based off of the cowardly lion after all. In FRWBY he mostly keeps this motivation, but it's almost a background element due to adding in new priorities for Leo's betrayal. He hates that Oz is always lying and manipulating him, and he feels like he has all the pressure of a leader with none of the respect due to his status as a faunus

Ironwood and Raven also interact with the theme of fear, but since I have bigger posts planned for them I'll be brief. In FRWBY this is completely gutted

Raven probably interacts with the theme of fear the strongest due to her screen time and being a defining flaw in her. Raven leaving Oz went from fearing Salem, to finding out that Oz is keeping the war with Salem going forever due to not wanting her to die. Being disgusted by this of course she abandons his cause

Ironwood's paranoia which stems from his fears was a key reason for his death and Atlas' fall. Instead in FRWBY he's making ill-informed decisions based off the information available to him being incomplete which causes him to arrest WBY and shoot Ruby off of Atlas

Hell Volume 7 has an episode literally titled The Enemy of Trust. And what is that? Fear

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Salem's narration in the first episode and at the end of Volume 3 was completely cut. This removes the fun meta twist for the audience that our narrator this entire time is the series' final boss, as well as the reveal of who "she" is that Cinder refers to when talking to Ozpin

All the scenes in Salem's castle in Volumes 4&5 were completely cut for the sake of upping her mystery factor. This also has the domino effect of removing all of her round table's scenes which means Celtic has to work double time to give all of her followers new original scenes for Volume 4&5 which ends up eating more runtime than in canon. Hell Cinder Em and Merc don't even get a cameo in Volume 4

The first scene alone does a lot in its short runtime. In total it: Shows that Em and Merc aren't comfortable with this setting them up joining the heroes, shows Cinder being a total wreck from Ruby's Silver eyes setting up her grudge, introduces us to Watts Tyrian and Hazel, gives us their personalities and relationships, sets up Salem's plans for the Mistral arc, and perhaps most importantly gives us our first proper look at Salem

Due to no castle scenes, we don't get the setup of Salem giving Cinder the grimm arm, it just appears out of nowhere in the FRWBY verse

This ALSO removes the scenes of Cinder training her maiden powers, and it's never stated that she's done this in FRWBY. THIS is important because it sets up that yes maidens and magic can get stronger, which leads to Fria having full mastery over her magic in canon. Fria in FRWBY is never stated to have mastery over her powers, which on top of Cinder's training being cut, gives zero precedent that maidens can get stronger. And yet Fria completely overwhelms Cinder similar to canon, giving the impression that the Winter Maiden's magic is inherently way more powerful than the others for no reason

The scene where Lionheart and Watts use a Seer to talk to Salem was also completely cut. This completely removes the setup of Watts making Tyrian's prosthetic tail, and the Seer that kills Lionheart might as well have teleported there because it comes completely out of nowhere in FRWBY

All we get of Salem in FRWBYV4 is a few name drops. In V5 all she has is Emerald thinking of her for two seconds, the illusion she makes at the end of the Battle of Haven, and Salem killing Lionheart by proxy with the Seer

Due to ALL THESE SCENE CUTS, our first proper look of Salem in the modern day is in episode 12 out of 22 of Volume 6 of FRWBY. The one where she punishes Hazel for the complete failure at Haven followed by her angry outburst from hearing Oz is already back. Pretty bad first impression because it just makes her out to be an EVIL boss with temper problems

Our first real look at her in canon, V4ep1, does a good job establishing her. Just by appearing she makes the rest of her round table shut up and stop arguing with each other, she doesn't even need to raise her voice. She takes Cinder's failure to obtain Beacon's relic in stride because she still destroyed Beacon, got the Fall Maiden's powers, and killed Ozpin. The Crown of Choice might as well already be in her hands it just isn't right now

When Tyrian appears without Ruby, Salem doesn't get mad or raise her voice, she just says he disappointed her. And THAT hurt Tyrian way more than any sort of physical punishment. This scene was, of course, also cut because it happened in V4

Salem punishing Hazel and her outburst at hearing Oz is back is the first time we ever see her attack her subordinates, as well as getting angry. Unlike last time they completely failed in their goal of toppling Haven, and the relic is in Oz's hands now unlike at Beacon. Oz appearing finally making her lose her temper makes sense because he's the one thing that can still emotionally affect her like this due to their shared history and bad blood. Making THIS into her first on-screen appearance other than The Lost Fable completely waters her down

The final scene of Volume 6, you know the one showing that Salem is preparing to invade Atlas directly since she can't trust her subordinates to do everything after the failure at Haven, was also completely cut

I won't get into her changes in The Lost Fable because I already made a post about it, and honestly her changes in her flashback don't really play into her current behaviors

Salem's appearances in Volume 7 are altered significantly. For one thing, the Seer instantly springs after Ironwood takes out Watts meaning team RWBY are completely in the dark on this since they aren't at Amity. This also cuts Salem telling Ruby that she's the direct reason Summer's not around anymore weakening any sort of connection between our main character and final boss. In addition to threatening Ironwood about her arrival, she tries to bring him to her side since Oz is a lying sack of shit that can't be trusted. Ironwood refuses and kills the illusion of her. We don't even see Salem riding Monstra even though the whale grimm makes an appearance as the final shot of the volume