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* [[Animal Stereotypes]]: Played straight and subverted with every species shown.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: and they usually do so via [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: "Winter is coming." Also possibly a [[Shout
* [[Badass]]: Lieam (who, early on, ''kills a snake''), Conrad and Celanawe. Most Guard Mice in general can be expected to be one.
** Lieam also kills an ''owl'' in Winter.
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* [[Battle Couple]]: Kenzie and Sadie. Saxon and {{spoiler|Gwendolyn}}.
* [[Battle in The Rain]]
* [[Bee
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' suggest that bats are untrustworthy to their faces.
* [[Berserker Tears]]: After {{spoiler|Celanawe dies}}, Lieam visibly weeps. About two seconds later, he massacres the owl responsible.
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Celanawe, and Conrad (middle-aged, whatever).
* [[Cool Sword]]: Saxon and Lieam carry swords. However, the first to actually get a Cool Sword is Lieam, who obtains a fancy gilded weapon for the last battle in Fall. In Winter, {{spoiler|Saxon gets the sword of his old mentor, which contains a little compass in the hilt.}} Cool indeed.
* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]]: Saxon and Lieam both do this at different points during the Fall story arc.
* [[Cultured Warrior]]: Kenzie, a capable if pensive fighter, is the one to give a word of advice to Lieam through a well-placed quote. He's also the one who always starts singing an old mouse ballad when the plot takes a meditative turn.
* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]: Celanawe and Conrad faced one in their younger days. [[Foregone Conclusions|They won, of course]].
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* [[Dressing As the Enemy]]: Lieam who {{spoiler|pretends to be a part of the Axe.}}
* [[Due to The Dead]]: Given in a decent funeral. Sadie wants to return to a dangerous outpost to give one for {{spoiler|Conrad}}, but Gwendolyn can't allow it until winter clears up.
* [[Early
** The June Alley Inn, which served as the setting for ''Legends of the Guard,'' was briefly shown in ''Fall 1152.''
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: In Lieam's first solo scene, he [[Let's Get Dangerous|gets dangerous]] and takes down a snake several time his size single-handedly. He only gets better after that point.
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** Maps of the world are included in the hardcovers and RPG.
** Two more cities, Sprucetuck and Darkheather, were included in Winter.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Lieam's not nearly as [[Hot
* [[First Kiss]]: Saxon and {{spoiler|Gwendolyn}}'s first kiss occurs in Winter.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: One gets put together for the winter supply run.<ref> Note that this configuration only applies to the team interactions in-universe, and not to characterization as a whole. Lieam may be the protagonist, but he's not leader material just yet, and therefore he is not [[The Hero]] of this band.</ref>
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* [[Holding Hands]]: Kenzie and Sadie do this often.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The Mouse Guard {{spoiler|except for Midnight, the blacksmith}}.
* [[Hot
* [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]]: {{spoiler|Celanawe passes the Black Axe to Lieam when he dies}}.
* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Conrad, when he is overwhelmed by crabs after his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}.
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* [[Owl Be Damned]]: Owls are one of the mice's biggest threats within their territories, and one particular owl serves as a major threat during the Winter story arc.
* [[Power Trio]]: Saxon, Kenzie, and Lieam are the main trio, but Saxon, Kenzie, and Rand also worked together in the past. A couple of trios also get formed temporarily. One thing's for sure, though...David Peterson ''really'' loves his trio tropes:
** [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]: At one point, Sadie, Kenzie, and Saxon, as a rare not-completely-female [[Power Trio]] of this type.
** [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Kenzie, Saxon, and Lieam, a somewhat rare male version.
** [[Chromatic Arrangement]]: Saxon (red), Kenzie (blue), and either Lieam (green) or Rand (yellow). The characters don't always conform to the character archtypes.
** [[Freudian Trio]]: Lieam as [[The Ego]], Kenzie as [[The Superego]], and Saxon as [[The Id]]. When Rand was around, he took Kenzie's place as [[The Superego]] and Kenzie was [[The Ego]].
** [[Knight, Knave, and Squire]]: Kenzie, Saxon, and Lieam.
** [[Two Guys and A Girl]]: Kenzie, Saxon, and Sadie again.
*** This also goes for Celanawe, Conrad, and Em in the prequel.
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* [[Redhead in Green]]: Lieam again.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Saxon and Kenzie. Their cloaks even match the colors!
* [[Red Sky, Take Warning]]: The day before the climatic battle in Fall 1152, the enemy army marches in the rain. Note the red-tinged backgrounds.
{{quote| Red sky at night, Guard Mouse's delight. Red sky in morning, Guard Mice take warning.}}
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Justified in that mice are the protagonists, and snakes generally eat mice.
* [[Save the Villain]]: {{spoiler|Gwendolyn saves Midnight from decapitation by Celanawe's reclaimed axe}} in the climax of Fall. [[Genre Savvy|Notably not due to any kindness on her part]]:
{{quote| '''Gwendolyn:''' {{spoiler|[[Averted Trope|If he dies]], [[Doomed Moral Victor|he becomes a martyr]].}}}}
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Kenzie is a competent fighter, unlike most guys in this trope. However, his true area of expertise is thinking, and he gets paired with Sadie, the biggest [[Action Girl]] the series has so far.
* [[Secret Underground Passage]]: {{spoiler|There is one in Gwendolyn's study}}.
* [[Simple Staff]]: Kenzie both speaks softly and [[Carry a Big Stick|carries a big stick.]]
* [[Shout
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Kenzie and Sadie in Winter. Naturally, Saxon makes fun of them.
* [[Snow Means Love]]: The first two romantic relationships in the comic naturally start during the Winter arc.
* [[Snow Means Death]]: The Winter 1152 cover says it all.
{{quote| This is a winter not every Guard may survive.}}
* [[The Southpaw]]: Saxon is visibly left-pawed in Fall, wearing his scabbard on his right side, even. This might be an artistic mistake, because he consistently wears the scabbard on his left side in Winter, but even then he holds his sword in his left paw. There is a possibility that he is ambidextrous, or that he learned to fight with both paws if only to say [[I Am Not Left
* [[Stone Wall]]: Rand, the captain of Lockhaven's defenses.
* [[Suffer the Slings]]: Sadie likes her ranged weapons.
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