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[[File:Warriors logo 2 9586.jpg|frame|"Fire Alone Can Save Our Clan", with help from [[Loads and Loads of Characters|his friends]]. ]]

 

{{quote|''"For as long as any cat can remember, four clans have ruled the forest: ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan and RiverClan."''}}

* ''[[Starkit's Prophecy]]'' and ''[[Hidden Prophices]]'', the ''Warriors'' equivalents of ''[[My Immortal]]''

* [[Warriors the Abridged Series|Various abridged series]]

* ''[[SSS Warrior Cats]]'', a fan anime adaptation

 

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== Tropes A-C ==

* [[Abusive Parents]]:

** Crowfeather to Breezepelt.

** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Featherwhisker forecasts rain for a few days, and it starts raining just before the [[Battle in the Rain|battle with WindClan]].

* [[Axe Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Mapleshade and Hollyleaf}}

** Also, Heavystep, who died but managed to stay on the cast list for quite a while afterwards due to a [[Continuity Snarl]].

** The Clan Leaders probably count as well, since they literally have nine lives and spend a few moments dead after losing each one before being revived (minus the wound/disease that killed them). Once the ninth is gone though, they are [[Killed Off for Real]].

{{quote|I am working on the Cat book for Tokyopop and I am at an interesting point in the story. The story involves Feral cats and life in the wild. A Feral cat stops and kills a wild hare as described in the script. I drew the layout and it was approved, but at a certain point, the powers that be wanted a change. The dead rabbit looks too creepy. I understand that the pre-teen market may not be into dead rabbits, but why write it into the script? They wanted me to change the angle to obscure the hare, messing up the storytelling. My compromise was to turn the rabbit around, and closing his eyes. It's not dead, just sleeping! No trauma, just a sleepy, knocked out bunny. ([http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s0GsnDo9fJI/R1mEOA3z2lI/AAAAAAAAAvg/wEE_Fyub6l4/s1600-h/cat+layout.jpg Comparison of original and revised sketches])}}

* [[Boring Return Journey]]: The trip back from the beavers, and also the portion of the sun-drown-place journey from the Tribe back to the Clans (which was described in ''one paragraph'').

** Even though it says "any and all" above, Brightheart deserves a special mention.

** The award probably goes to {{spoiler|Hollyleaf}}.

** {{spoiler|Briarlight}} gets this in perhaps the most literal fashion possible.

* [[Brick Joke]]: Used in ''Twilight,'' but NOT played for laughs. Near the beginning of the book, the ThunderClan cats have to drive a badger and her cubs off their territory. Fast-forward to the climax, and {{spoiler|the cats are facing a massive ambush by the badgers that leaves many cats wounded and Cinderpelt dead.}}

* [[Bus Crash]]: In ''Midnight'', we find out that {{spoiler|Willowpelt}} got killed by a badger. However, the death ceased to be a bus crash when it was depicted in ''Firestar's Quest''.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Jayfeather's swimming ability {{spoiler|comes in handy when Flametail is drowning. It doesn't save Flametail from dying however.}}

* [[Chew Toy]]: Percy in ''SkyClan's Destiny''. Most of Stick's group gets away with just wallowing in Dodge's incredibly vague [[Offstage Villainy]], but Percy is singled out for both having {{spoiler|[[Eye Scream|his eye ripped out]]}} and getting {{spoiler|[[Groin Attack|fixed]]}}. In fact, he doesn't have any role in the story other than having horrible things happen to him.

* [[The Chosen One]]: Or four, or three... StarClan isn't very picky about the number of cats they choose to do things.

* [[The Clan]]: Four... er, [[Expanded Universe|Five]] of them, to be exact.

* [[Cool Cat]]: Pretty much everyone.

* [[Covered in Mud]]: The Tribe rolls in mud to cover their fur in order to disguise their scent and blend into the rock better so that prey doesn't spot them so easily. The visiting Clan cats try this, and aren't too thrilled at the idea, but it works.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: {{spoiler|Tigerstar. [[High-Pressure Blood|Tigerstar]], [[Family-Unfriendly Death|Tigerstar]], [[Nightmare Fuel|Tigerstar]]. Having his stomach torn open probably hurt a good bit.}}

* [[Cultural Posturing]]: Most cats believe that their own Clan can do no wrong, and that the other Clans are all weaklings or heartless bastards. This often works in ThunderClan's favour, since the majority of the series is from their POV, but the series does occasionally show that the other Clans are [[Not So Different]]. For example, the same is done with RiverClan when they become the protagonists in ''Crookedstar's Promise''.

** [[Word of God]]: "The first series was set in the county of Hampshire in the UK (on the South Coast, near where I grew up). Then I invented an imaginary setting for {{spoiler|the journey to the lake}}, and when they encountered a mountain lion I realized they must have crossed the Atlantic somewhere along the line because American wildlife had started appearing! So it's a fictitious island somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic which has a unique blend of British and American flora and fauna..."

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: The three, but most notably Jayfeather.

 

== Tropes D-M ==

* [[Genki Girl]]: Squirrelpaw, though it fades pretty quickly.

** Cinderpaw too, though that stops after {{spoiler|she gets hit by a car.}}

* [[Good Shepherd]]: Common archetype for medicine cats.

* [[G-Rated Sex]]: Beyond all of the characters that have been born to the various [[Official Couple]]s throughout the series (one litter being both implied and confirmed by [[Word of God]] to be the result of a one-night stand), there are some specific scenes that are very noticeable:

* [[Happy Rain]]: The end of ''The Fourth Apprentice'', signifying the end of the drought.

* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|Ivypool after seeing Tigerstar talking about destroying the forest.}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Bluestar suffers a particularly nasty one after Tigerclaw's betrayal. It takes her two entire books to get over it completely... just in time for a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]:

** This also is used by other cats. According to ''Secrets of the Clans'', this is a tactic taught to apprentices.

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: {{spoiler|Whitestorm. "I’ve been proud to serve as your deputy."}}

* [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time]]: StarClan thought it was a good idea to hide {{spoiler|the secret about their parents}} from Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather. ''[[Break the Cutie|It]]'' ''[[Dysfunction Junction|wasn't]]''.

* [[It's Raining Men|It's Raining Cats]]: The "Skydrop" move that SkyClan developed and that ThunderClan later uses.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] : Each book features a section at the front which lists all the characters. The most recent books' Allegiances sections have OVER ONE HUNDRED characters listed. (Of course, several of them are background characters, kits, and cats who haven't even made an appearance.) There are over [[Beyond the Impossible|700 named characters in the whole series.]]

* [[Loser Son of Loser Dad]]: Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt in early books. Who's their dad? [[Big Bad|Tigerstar.]]

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Check out the main page, because we don't even want to start here.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]] : {{spoiler|Ashfur}}

** Jayfeather and Hollyleaf. {{spoiler|Their suffixes are references to their real parents, ''Leaf''pool and Crow''feather'', and Jayfeather's prefix is a further reference to his father, since jays and crows are different species of bird within the same family. Hollyleaf's prefix relates to poisonous holly berries, a reference to her trying to force feed Leafpool deathberries in ''Sunrise''}}.

* [[Meaningful Rename]]: Names are changed quite often, usually indicating [[Rite of Passage|change of status]](promotion to apprentice or warrior), more rarely because of some physical change, e.g. Halftail, One-Eye, Lostface or Crookedkit.

* [[The Medic]]: Medicine cats, of course.

* [[Mercy Kill]]: Littlecloud uses Deathberries to save dying cats from pain.

* [[Totally Radical]]: Every so often, a young cat will call something "cool" or say "totally", which sticks out when compared to the fairly formal speech most of the Clan cats use.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Jayfeather in ''Long Shadows'' when he {{spoiler|goes back to the time of the Ancients and can only go home after influencing them to go to the mountains}}.

* [[Treachery Cover-Up]]: {{spoiler|When Hollyleaf dies in the tunnels after trying to escape from her Clan and everything that had gone wrong, Lionblaze and Jayfeather cover up her treachery by telling the Clan she had died chasing a squirrel into the tunnel, so that she would be remembered as a brave hunter rather than Ashfur's killer.}}

** It's hard to judge whether or not they did this for {{spoiler|Hawkfrost}}. They did cover up the fact that {{spoiler|Brambleclaw}} killed him, but there is conflicting evidence on whether or not they covered up why he was killed. In ''The Sight'', some warriors have a conversation about the mysterious circumstances of his death, and say that his Clanmates mourned him, and RiverClan seems relatively ignorant of his treachery in other books, which would suggest he did get a cover-up. But then in ''After Sunset: We Need To Talk'', Cloudtail says to a WindClan patrol {{spoiler|that Hawkfrost tried to kill Firestar}}, which suggests everyone knows about it.

* [[Tuckerization]]: Done several times...

** Vicky has admitted to using fans' warrior names. Some of them, she has said, are from fans she met on tours, or from letters sent to her - none of these are known by anyone except her at this point. Some of them also came from online fans' names, notably from the sites [[Wands and Worlds]] and Warrior's Wish - confirmed ones include Lakestorm, Quailfeather, Flintfang, and Blizzardstar (tribute to [[Big Name Fan|Blizz]], creator of Warrior's Wish, the largest fansite.)

** Ivypool, a current main character, is named after a person too. While Ivy herself, as a toddler, is too young to have read the books, her family has gone to see the author on every single one of her tours, earning them the nickname "FarDrivingClan" from Vicky. They have become good friends with her, and she decided to name the character after the youngest member of the family. Vicky has recently confirmed her warrior name to be {{spoiler|Ivypool, because Ivy's full name is Ivy Poole.}}

* [[Tunnel Network]]:

 

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