A/N: This review episode will set up the events and acts as the prelude to the two-part six-chapter Season 2 finale coming right after this. This, like the previous review episode with Jem and the Holograms (2015), will be split into three parts as well to match it up to 100 chapters with 25 review episodes at the end of the second season.

In Memory of Sean Connery (1930-2020).

In this fourty-eighth review episode and the prelude to the two-part six-chapter Season 2 finale, Team RWBY plan to watch and review both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, but as it turns out, they discover that it isn't the comic-book Avengers movie that they will be reviewing...

BEACON
2PM

A few hours after Blake and Weiss watched and reviewed Jem and the Holograms while their other friends went out to the city of Vale for a bit, Ruby, Yang and the others have returned from their trip.

Team RWBY had planned to watch Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as their next movies, and the four hope that it may be one of their best reviews yet.

"Hello, I'm Ruby..."

"...I'm Yang..."

"...I'm Blake..."

"...and I'm Weiss."

"We remember it so you don't have to.", the four girls said.

Ruby announced, "Guess what? We were organizing what movie we should review next, and it turns out that the next two movies we're gonna be reviewing is Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame!"

"Can you believe it? Two of the most hyped up comic book movies of all time! We didn't even know we're reviewing a MCU film for the first time! But apparently, we're gonna take a look at it and see how it holds up.", Yang surprised.

Blake anticipates, "Are you ready? I know we sure are. We're gonna see two colossal films "

"And now let's take a sneak peek at what we're in store for!", excited Weiss.

But it wasn't the movies they thought they were gonna do.

It was the 1998 British spy flick of the same name, The Avengers, based on the TV series.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", Ruby and Yang screamed in agony when finding out.

Blake and Weiss, after a moment, also yelled out in horror, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

After catching their breath for a few seconds, the four members of team RWBY all shouted, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", before dropping their heads to their knees and burying their faces with their hands in disappointment and shock.

Ruby simply signals, "Go ahead..."

Team RWBY's Commentary of The Avengers (1998) (Part 1)

"All right, a little background.", groaned Ruby, "The Avengers...is not based on one of the best-selling comic books with some of the greatest superheroes of all time and based on Marvel..."

Yang explains, "It's instead based on a British Fop-B.I. agent and his brothel of alternating hot crumpets. we guess it was sort of like a James Bond 007 meets The Prisoner sort of thing."

"And before we get any complaints, no, we've never actually seen the show.", informs Blake, "But, hey, a movie should be good despite the fact if you've seen the show at all."

Weiss doubted, "And depending on what we've heard about this film...we're screwed. Let's dive right into The Avengers..."

The Avengers (1998)

"We start off with secret agent John Steed, played by Ralph Fiennes, walking through an obstacle course training him in case anybody in the friggin' world goes fucking blood-hungry.", introduces Ruby as the film's opening showed John giving a technician a wrapped box as he mentioned he is giving macaroons for Mother, "And who is Mother, you may ask? Well, it turns out that Mother in this movie is a man! Not just referring to Psycho, but also the fact that Ralph Fiennes played as the new M after Judi Dench in the latest Bond movies."

Yang also added, "It's actually not quite that bad. But he is the head of the Ministry of Elite Intelligence. He's played by that British guy who always seems to be in everything but you never bother to take the time to figure out what his name is... Oh, yeah! Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent! He sends out a message to another agent Emma Peel, played by Uma Thurman, who's just moseying around the house in her every day ungodly expensive Chinese dress. We know ladies do that. Weiss would do it."

"Hey.", said the Schnee girl, raising an eyebrow.

Blake responds when Emma in the film opened a red box with a message instructing her to answer the telephone but it rang and she picked it up, "Did they really need to send her a package saying 'answer the phone'? Doesn't that kind of go without saying? If the phone rings, you answer it! You really needed to waste the postage to tell her this? What other basic commands do you think she has to be told? Like answer the door? Turn off the stove? Open the microwave? Tell Sean Connery it's too late for this film, but he can still back out of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?"

"But I digress, we have already acknowledged the sad passing of the James Bond actor Sean Connery, just to let you guys know.", Weiss said, "It was...one day before what happened weeks ago back on Halloween. We're...very saddened to see the classic James Bond actor go, since he was the one that started it all... Rest in peace, 007.", saying this saddeningly with her fellow teammates paying their respects for a few moments, "Still, The 1998 Avengers movie was quite of an underwhelmer for him.", continuing, "So Emma enters into the gentlemen's club, which is most unorthodox!"

The red-black-haired leader of team RWBY says, "She then meets up, at least it's probably up now, with John Steed.", as she and her teammates watch when John read the newspaper in the steam room with only a towel, who comments to Emma that she's not someone who plays by the rules, "Oh, you mean like the direct rule she was given to meet up with you, even though women aren't allowed in this place? How's that breaking the rules? It's not her fault you chose a location that makes no fucking sense.", resuming, "So as they drive off to meet Mother, you may notice something very odd about the people of London in this movie... There's no people of London in this movie! What is this, 28 Days Later? I've never seen the place so abandoned! Maybe they heard they were filming this shithole and evacuated the city to save on therapy bills."

"Or maybe they enlisted a curfew during filming of this movie... Or maybe everyone stayed indoors for the filming like it's a global pandemic. But this is seriously getting 28 Days Later references.", suggested the blonde sister of Ruby, "So Peel talks about how she was working on a weather shield that was being built as a defense mechanism. The only problem is the research lab has been blown up by an all-too-familiar face.", as the film exampled Mother showing Emma security footage of her as a chief suspect to the case and gives her an objective to find the real culprit, "Really. You have...video evidence that she is the culprit, and you're actually gonna let her solve the case? This seems...a tad...backwards."

The black-haired Faunus said when John informs Emma that Mother wants them to work as a team while the latter questions if she can trust him, "Trust you-? It's your face that got caught on the video camera, you dumb broad! HE SHOULD HAVE A HARD TIME TRUSTING YOU!", before being surprised as a woman named Father informed Mother about the suspicions if Emma was dangerous, "Wait, wait, w-w-w-w-wait. Father. The woman's name is Father.", hesitating by this discovery, "Let me see if I understand this ministry correctly. You have a woman named Father, a man named Mother, a package instructing agents how to pick up a phone, a message telling a woman to meet in a place where no women are allowed, and most likely letting a criminal with hard evidence against her SOLVE HER OWN CRIME?! DOES ANYTHING IN THIS AGENCY MAKE SENSE?! EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FRIGGIN' UPSIDE DOWN!"

"Hell, while we're at it, why don't we throw in some more confusing names!", issues the white-haired heiress, "It's like saying, 'Ah, yes, after you have the information, drop it off to an old man codenamed Agent Sister, who will then drop it off to a teenage girl named Agent Brother, right after handing it over to a dalmatian codenamed Agent Cat, who will relay the message to a tabby cat named Mr. Dog, and Mr. Dog will confirm it with a guy codenamed Agent Black. I'm so glad things work so sensibly around here!'", as she then continued, "So John and Emma talk about what they're going to do to solve the case while sword fighting. Why? Well, see if you can guess.", as the next part has Emma and John having a friendly conversation during their swordplay.

Ruby explained, "If you haven't figured it out yet, this whole entire movie is based on one frigging joke: They're polite. They perform incredibly dangerous stunts and react with a calm, friendly retort. That's it! That's where all the humor in this movie comes from.", as they watched more of the scene, "Now, let's take out the fact that this is all based on one joke—and a particularly weak one at that—and ask one question: If nobody in this movie becomes passionate or excited about what they're doing, why should we? Why should we care if they make it out of a situation when clearly they have as much energy and drive as Victorian senior citizen porn? Do they ever become interested in anything? Nope! They just talk politely about it throughout the entire movie, like Mac and Tosh from the Looney Tunes cartoons.", imagining this during their viewing of the film, "Actually, their conversation reminds us of them, don't they?"

To be continued...