Warrior Cats/Characters/Others

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While many characters in Warrior Cats belong to a Clan or Tribe, there are some who either do not, or have an unknown affiliation.

Loners

Ravenpaw

"Just because I live outside the forest doesn't mean that I reject the warrior code. It is a noble path for cats to walk, and I would defend it as willingly as any warrior."

Formerly a ThunderClan apprentice, and a good friend of Firestar and Graystripe. Fearing for his life as Tigerclaw began turning the Clan against him, Firestar takes him to live with Barley, a farmcat on the far edge of the Clans' territory. Much preferring his life there, he never does rejoin the Clans, though he remains their ally, even joining them in the battle against BloodClan.

  • A Day in the Limelight: His manga series, Ravenpaw's Path
  • He Knows Too Much: Subverted. Tigerclaw plots to kill him because of his knowledge of Redtail's death, but Firepaw and Graypaw find out before he can, so Ravenpaw runs away.
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: With Barley. At least, that's what Word of God says...
  • Took a Level in Badass: In The Darkest Hour, he walks right into TigerClan territory and frees Mistyfoot and Graystripe's kits by pretending to be a RiverClan cat. Pretty good for someone who used to be afraid of his own shadow.

Purdy

An old cat who shows up from time to time in order to help the heroes. Now a member of ThunderClan. He enjoys telling long-winded stories and claiming that he used to have great hunting and fighting skills.

Sasha

The mother of Hawkfrost and Mothwing, and once mate to Tigerstar. Formerly a kittypet, she decided to become a rogue when her Twoleg was taken to a nursing home.

Barley

"Blood isn't everything. Loyalty is everything. And Ravenpaw has been more loyal to me than you could be in a hundred lifetimes."

A loner who lives on a farm with Ravenpaw. Also an ex-BloodClan member. He's rather quiet and shy, but is always willing to help out the Clan cats.


Kittypets

Princess

Firestar's kittypet sister. During the first series, he'd often visit her to reminisce about kittypet life, and share stories about the Clans. She is the mother of Cloudtail, and gives him to the Clan as a kit because Firestar likes his life there so much.

  • Flanderization: She starts out as level-headed and understanding, but by the sixth book has become a hysterical worrywart.
    • Alternate Character Interpretation could have it that Princess was always a ditz with that one moment of genius concerning that trap for Cinderpelt and that she only seemed so level-headed because times were good when Firestar first visited,but got worse and worse.
  • The Ditz: Her later character.

Smudge

Firestar's childhood friend before he joins ThunderClan. Unlike Rusty, Smudge would rather not try and live like a wild cat. However, he does fear for his old friend's safety.

Took a Level in Badass: Mostly subverted. Smudge is normally scared of wild cats, but thanks to having dreams about SkyClan, he ventures out into the woods to find Firestar. Once he gets ambushed by a ThunderClan patrol, he glares at them instead of fleeing. Once that's done, he's back to his normal self.

Snowdrop

A kittypet who shows up in The Fourth Apprentice. Despite not having an interest in Clan life, she does want an adventure, and helps the Clan cats solve the beaver problem.


Blood Clan

Scourge

A bloodthirsty and violent cat from the city, and the leader of a gang of strays known as "BloodClan". An excellent fighter despite his small size, he delights in killing and bloodshed, and is described more or less in terms of pure evil. He serves as the Big Bad to Tigerstar in the sixth book, and is finally killed by Firestar (his half-brother) during a war over who will own the forest: the four Clans, or BloodClan.

  • Asskicking Equals Authority: He's the most lethal combatant in the series, and that's why he's leader of BloodClan.
  • Axe Crazy: Is very quietly insane.
  • Blue Eyes
  • Cain and Abel: With Firestar
  • Co-Dragons: He and Blackfoot take this role during The Darkest Hour.
  • Dragon Ascendant: Becomes the Big Bad after killing Tigerstar.
  • Evil Is Cold: His blue eyes are described as "chips of ice, untouched by even the slightest warmth of StarClan."
  • Final Boss: He's not really the Big Bad, but he takes Tigerstar's place as the main physical threat in the sixth book.
  • Freudian Excuse: He was bullied by his siblings, and, fearing that he was unwanted by humans and therefore going to be drowned in the river, ran away to the forest, where he was nearly killed by Tigerpaw. He went to the city, where he was still picked on until he made a name for himself through violence.
  • Large and In Charge: Inverted. Scourge is the smallest cat in the group, barely larger than an apprentice.
  • Moral Event Horizon: According to him, ripping out a cat's throat.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Although he's said he'd rather be as tall as his reputation implies, his small stature also means it's very difficult to even lay a paw on him.
  • Runt
  • Social Darwinist: If you're strong you live, if you're weak, die and get out of everyone else's way.
  • The Unfavorite: He thinks his mother likes his siblings better, even if she doesn't say it.
  • Used To Be A Sweet Kit: Compare Scourge to Tiny.

Bone

A huge, black and white cat who serves as Scourge's right-hand man and enforces his will throughout BloodClan. Uniformly hated by anyone who has to deal with him.

Willie's Gang

A group of villains who were former members of BloodClan. They take over Ravenpaw's barn and serve and the main antagonists of Ravenpaw's Path. From left to right: Pounce, Snapper (Willie's bruiser), Willie (the leader of the gang and the main villain of the Ravenpaw's Path trilogy), Minty (Willie's mate), Tess.

In general they provide examples of:

Snake and Ice

"The lesson for today is, weak and feeble cats must die!"

Barley's brothers from BloodClan. While he left, they stayed and eventually became the leaders of Neo BloodClan.

Snipe

"Thanks for catching all this, BlunderClan! We'll take it off your paws now!"

A high ranking member of BloodClan who was one of Scourge's top advisers. He is in charge of stealing food from ThunderClan when Neo BloodClan starts up.

  • The Dragon: To Snake and Ice.
  • Filler Villain
  • The Heavy: Most of the villainous acts done by Neo BloodClan are led by him.
  • Remember the New Guy?: He doesn't appear in The Rise of Scourge or The Darkest Hour, but Barley assures that he was always there as a high ranking BloodClan member.


Villains

Sol

A mysterious and charismatic cat who has recently appeared in Clan territory. He is extremely persuasive, his voice being described as "hypnotic". Exactly what he's after is not known, but he has several times attempted to turn the Clan cats away from their beliefs in StarClan, and is not very well trusted.

  • Affably Evil
  • Amber Eyes
  • Creepy Monotone: He's always calm, even when being accused of killing Ashfur.
  • Dissonant Serenity: He shows so much calm all the time that Hollyleaf freaks out when she sees a bit of anger in his eyes for half a second.
  • Freudian Excuse: His mother didn't care about her kits, not even bothering to name them, and complained often. His father was never around, and ended up leaving them for a new mate. His mother ended up abandoning them at Twoleg nests. He dreamed all his life of being a "sky warrior", but SkyClan (unfairly, from his point of view) refused to make him a warrior.
  • Lazy Bum: If there's a way to get other cats to get food for him or fight for him, he'll use it.
  • Meaningful Name: Sol shares his name with the Roman god of the sun, as well as meaning sun in, most notably, Latin and Spanish. In the book where he first appears, he predicts a solar eclipse.
  • Revenge: He tries to get revenge upon the Clans in Power of Three and Omen of the Stars because SkyClan wouldn't make him a warrior.

Mapleshade

"Can you imagine what it feels like? To be rejected twice? To be a loner when all you tried to do was love?"

The main villain of Crookedstar's Promise, and one of the most insane and respected members of the Dark Forest. Driven completely by revenge, she is such a psychopath she sometimes scares the other villains. Currently residing in The Place Of No Stars.

  • Action Girl: You know the drill.
  • Amber Eyes
  • Ax Crazy
  • Dark Chick
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Actually hates this trope and says that while she has a traumatic backstory, she earned her place in the Dark Forest.
  • Evil Matriarch: She obviously has an evil mom theme, it's just not clear who her kits are. In Crookedstar's Promise, it's revealed that part of what drove her to revenge was her kits drowning in the river after she was exiled from ThunderClan.
  • Evil Mentor: To Crookedstar and Ivypool
  • Freudian Excuse: She fell in love with a RiverClan cat, and ThunderClan kicked her out, even though she aspired to be leader. When crossing the river, her kits drowned, and her mate and RiverClan blamed and rejected her. Her mate took on a new mate within his own Clan and had kits with her.
  • Love Makes You Evil
  • The Man Behind the Man: Ivypool believes Mapleshade is this.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Her causing the deaths of Crookedstar's loved ones.
  • Slasher Smile

Shredtail

You're not here for praise. Leave that to your precious Clanmates. You're here to fight. If you survive, count yourself lucky."

A Dark Forest warrior who has made minor appearances in Omen of the Stars and Crookedstar's Promise.

Snowtuft

Another minor Dark Forest warrior, he has appeared several times in Omen of the Stars.

Dodge

The leader of a gang in SkyClan's Destiny. He's fairly new to the city where Stick's group lives, but isn't afraid to try and take over the territory. His son, Harley, becomes Star-Crossed Lovers with Stick's daughter, Red.

  • Big Bad: Of SkyClan's Destiny.
  • Expy: Seems to be a Scourge ripoff.


Misc

Midnight

A badger who lives by the ocean, Midnight is, unusually for her species, friendly towards cats and knows StarClan quite well. It is she who delivers the prophecy that the Clans must move to a new territory, and also helps the Clans out when her fellow badgers make an attack on the Clans.

  • Dead All Along: Word of God reveals in the enhanced ebook edition of The Last Hope that Midnight is a ghost.
  • Eloquent in My Native Tongue
  • Hulk Speak: Midnight is highly intelligent and in fact speaks about four animal languages or more... but that doesn't mean she's mastered them.
  • My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Most badgers are natural enemies of cats, and are angered by the Clans moving into their old territory by the lake. Midnight, by contrast, is friendly towards almost everyone and speaks against her kin, arguing for a peaceful solution.
  • Omniglot: Can speak Badger, Rabbit, Fox, and several types of cat. Why and how she managed to learn all of these languages is never explained.

Jay's Wing

One of the ancients. He looks exactly like Jayfeather because he was reincarnated as Jayfeather.

Stick

A cat whose first appearance was in Firestar's Quest, when he helped Firestar when the hero got seperated from Sandstorm. He appeared again in SkyClan's Destiny as a much more important character - and he even gets his own point of view during the flashback portions of the book.

Red

Stick's daughter, who appears in SkyClan's Destiny, mostly in the flashback portions.

Rock/Teller of the Pointed Stones

"I am no cat's friend. I know too much for friendship. Be glad that you will never be burdened with the knowledge that I have. My curse is to live forever, knowing what has been and what has yet to be, powerless to change anything."

A mysterious blind cat who lives in the tunnels. He often shows up to help Jayfeather, or at least hint at some sort of secret. Sign of the Moon reveals that he was the first Stoneteller.

  • Blind Seer: If Cats of the Clans and Sign of the Moon are any indicator, he is omnipotent.
  • Companion Cube: His stick. Then Jayfeather breaks it.
  • Death Seeker: In The Last Hope, he explains that the Clans should have let him fade away to nothing.
  • Meaningful Name: His name is Rock, and he is the first Stoneteller.
  • The Omnipotent: He knows everything, and seems to be the creator of the three.
  • The Omniscient: Cats of the Clans. He knows everything that happens to the clans and tribe.
    • It is revealed in The Last Hope that he and Midnight have known every prophecy ever since they saw them reflected in the lake at the dawn of time.
  • Prophet Eyes: Evidently has these.
  • Spirit Advisor: Except possibly not a ghost. Word of God and the books have kind of flip-flopped on this.
  • Time Master
  • The Watcher: He watches over every single character in the series.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Maybe. He acts like this, and seems to be alive in Dark River during the Distant Prologue, which gives him a long lifespan since he is the first Stoneteller. However, it is not clear whether he is alive or dead.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: One of his beliefs. It comes from having watched the world follow the prophecies since the dawn of time.
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