The Underland Chronicles: Difference between revisions

[[File:scollins-210-exp-Warmbloods.jpg|frame|Yeah, it's a children's book. And yes, the lizard is a good guy.]]

 

 

 

The Underland Chronicles, abbreviated fondly as TUC, was written author [[The Hunger Games|Suzanne Collins]] as her debut series of novels. The books consist of:

* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: Averted. The bats here are friends with the humans, and they [[Accidental Innuendo|allow the humans to ride them.]] [[Dragonriders of Pern|Sound familiar?]] Or not.

* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: If it weren't for the prophecies, Gregor would not be involved in any of the Underland's battles.

** Somewhat justified in that {{spoiler|he's a [[The Berserker|rager]].}}

** [[Lampshaded]] in Book 5, when Gregor realizes that if {{spoiler|his [[The Berserker|rager skills]] fail him, he's just a twelve-year-old kid who's had a few sword lessons, and therefore in big trouble.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Every single book, verging on [[Downer Ending]] by the fifth one.

* [[Bond Creatures]]: The "fliers" here bond with the humans, using a little poem that allows them to protect each other in battle and such. Here it is:

I save you as you save my life }}

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: Rats/gnawers, mice/nibblers, bats/fliers, etc. [[Handwaved]] as the species' names for themselves.

* [[Die Laughing]]: Some plants in the Jungle get you so high that you don't notice the attacking vines.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|Only for the first book.}}

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Interestingly enough, the villain gets one after his initial introduction. We first meet {{spoiler|the Bane as a baby, whose [[Please Wake Up|cries for his mother]] make it impossible for Gregor to kill him. What could be more innocent?}} Well, in book 4, {{spoiler|we learn he killed his devoted caretaker. Still, he said it was an accident, and he's so big he might not know his own strength .. [[Complete Monster|he tried to ''eat him'' to cover it up?]] (Though, real rats do often eat their dead to keep predators from smelling them and finding the nest.)}}

* [[Divided We Fall]]: Ares to the max. Makes sense because [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bats really do hang and all.]]

** Actually, Temp and Boots did do something in book three. Temp {{spoiler|kept on warning them, first suggested the idea that the cradle/cure might not be where they thought it was, and Boots did her dance.}}

** [[Lampshaded]] by Ripred in the same book --

* [[Fandom]]: A rather small one, considering, but the [[Fanfic|fanfiction]] for the series has a few exemplary pieces that rival the original works.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Even though the crawlers/cockroaches, gnawers/rats, spinners/spiders, fliers/bats, etc. that coexist with humans in the Underland are not human, they are sentient and treated as full characters on the same level as humans. Prejudices held among human characters towards these species are even treated as equal to any intra-human bigotry.

* [[Wham! Line]]: That encoded message in ''Gregor and the Code of Claw''? It says {{spoiler|Twitchtip died in pit.}} Also, the entirety of Luxa's {{spoiler|declaration of war against the gnawers.}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|White Haired Pretty People]]: All the Regalians have silver/blond hair.

 

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