Warrior Cats: Difference between revisions

Line 56:

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|All She-Cats Want Bad Toms]]: Snowfur and {{spoiler|Thistleclaw}}.

* [[All Genes Are Codominant]]: According to feline genetics {{spoiler|Hollyleaf}} should have been a tortie. There's much more, but in general cat genetics are a lot more complicated than the Erins know about. They even admit they don't know poop about cat coat genetics.

* [[Almost Dead Guy]]: {{spoiler|Yellowfang, Bluestar, Feathertail, Cinderpelt, Hawkfrost, Whitestorm}}... there has to be more.

* [[Almost-Dead Guy]]: {{spoiler|Yellowfang, Bluestar, Feathertail, Cinderpelt, Hawkfrost, Whitestorm}}... there has to be more.

* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: Dogs, great StarClan!

** Except for the pair in the ''Ravenpaw's Path'' trilogy. {{spoiler|1=At first they may be ungrateful to Ravenpaw and Barley for saving their lives (attacking them as soon as they're free), but later they return the favor to Ravenpaw, Barley, and the ThunderClan cats by helping chase off BloodClan.}}

Line 132:

* [[Call Forward]]: In ''Firestar's Quest'', Firestar wonders if there is another afterlife for evil cats.

* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: The catalog entry for ''Yellowfang's Secret'' describes the author as '''mega'''-bestselling.

* [[Can't Kill You Still Need You]]: In ''The Darkest Hour'', Tigerstar decides to spare Featherpaw and Stormpaw because he thinks they may still be useful to him.

* [[Can't Kill You - Still Need You]]: In ''The Darkest Hour'', Tigerstar decides to spare Featherpaw and Stormpaw because he thinks they may still be useful to him.

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Played straight, subverted, averted... since the vast majority of the cast is feline, it's only natural that this trope both shows up and gets turned on its head.

* [[Cats Hate Water]]: Three of the Clans do, at least. RiverClan doesn't.

Line 206:

{{quote| "What are you doing here?" Hollyleaf demanded. She could feel every hair on her pelt bristling, her tail fluffing out to twice it's size, and her belly churning with distrust of this powerful cat. "I thought you'd gone."<br />

Fury flashed in [Sol's] eyes, and his claws dug into the ground. Yet a hearbeat later he was cool and controlled again, so that Hollyleaf almost believed she had imagined the anger he had betrayed. }}

* [[~~Doctors~~ Orders]]: There are plenty of times when a medicine cat says "As your medicine cat, I'm ''ordering'' you to rest."

* [[Doctor's Orders]]: There are plenty of times when a medicine cat says "As your medicine cat, I'm ''ordering'' you to rest."

* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: The most intelligent dogs shown in the entire series had a vocabulary of about eight words, the two most frequently used being "pack" and "kill".

** It's also worth noting that the dogs mentioned above are defeated by {{spoiler|being tricked into running off a cliff}}.

Line 213:

** Don't forget the dog in ''Rise of Scourge'' who was scared of kitten Scourge's ''shadow'' (it was a rather fierce looking shadow, but still).

* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: What kittypets seem to be raised on.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me]]: Jayfeather (also his [[Berserk Button]]). Also don't be too nice to him, or he'll think you're pitying him. And don't mention his blindness, but then again, [[Hair-Trigger Temper|don't seem like you're trying to avoid it, either]].

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Jayfeather (also his [[Berserk Button]]). Also don't be too nice to him, or he'll think you're pitying him. And don't mention his blindness, but then again, [[Hair-Trigger Temper|don't seem like you're trying to avoid it, either]].

* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The forest in the second series.

* [[Double Don't Know]]: In ''The Darkest Hour'':

Line 229:

** It continues on into the fourth series, with Dovewing ({{spoiler|Who [[I Just Want to Be Normal|just wants to be normal]], because she can't handle all of the responsibility that has been thrust on her, and hates the way it has distanced her from her sister}}), and Ivypool, ({{spoiler|who is insanely jealous of her sister and wants to be noticed as much as her, to the point where her feelings of jealousy and loneliness became manipulated by the [[Big Bad]]}}).

** Then we have Millie and her kits. {{spoiler|Millie's daughter, Briarlight, becomes paralyzed from the waist down when a tree falls on her and it keeps her from ever becoming a Warrior, having to live in the medicine den, and her main activity for each day is to drag herself to and from the fresh-kill pile. This causes Millie to become obsessive over her crippled daughter and completely ignore the fact that she has to other kits, which in turn effects Blossomfall (Millie's other daughter) to visit the Dark Forest and learn from Tigerstar because she's feeling unloved and unwanted at home all thanks to Millie. Bumblestripe, Millie's son, takes the developments surprisingly well.}}

* [[Early Bird Cameo|Early Cat Cameo]]: Thistleclaw is mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'' and shows up in ''Rise Of Scourge'' before his real debut in ''Bluestar's Prophecy''.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo|Early Cat Cameo]]: Thistleclaw is mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'' and shows up in ''Rise Of Scourge'' before his real debut in ''Bluestar's Prophecy''.

** Tawnyspots and Goosefeather were first mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'', though the latter not by name. In addition, Sunstar and Featherwhisker were mentioned in ''Secrets of the Clans'' before their debuts in ''Code of the Clans'' and ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', respectively.

* [[Ear Notch]]: With large groups of fighting cats, someone's bound to get a ripped ear, and it does happen often. One example is Tigerstar; it's one of his more frequently noted physical characteristics.

* [[Either or Prophecy]]: StarClan seems to give a lot of these. Take the prophecy at the top of the page, for instance. It does not say that fire ''will'' save the Clan ({{spoiler|indeed, a forest fire nearly ''kills'' the Clan in the fourth book}}). A minor prophecy in the second arc is misinterpreted as well due to this trope.

* [[Either/Or Prophecy]]: StarClan seems to give a lot of these. Take the prophecy at the top of the page, for instance. It does not say that fire ''will'' save the Clan ({{spoiler|indeed, a forest fire nearly ''kills'' the Clan in the fourth book}}). A minor prophecy in the second arc is misinterpreted as well due to this trope.

* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: Smart is Midnight, but she no speak cat good.

* [[The Empath]]: Jayfeather.

Line 258:

* [[Fear of Thunder]]: The official app claims that Hollyleaf has this ever since Long Shadows, when {{spoiler|Ashfur threatened to kill her and her littermates [[Dramatic Thunder|during a storm]]}}.

* [[Feathered Fiend]]: Birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, and [[Owl Be Damned|owls]]. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], since these birds are larger than they are, and can carry off a kit (or in the eagles' case, a full-grown cat).

* [[Fighting ~~for~~ A Homeland]]: {{spoiler|1=SkyClan}}, when they were exiled from the forest. The other four Clans, when [[Doomed Hometown|the forest is destroyed]] - but at least [[The Promised Land|they know there's good territory waiting for them]].

* [[Fighting For A Homeland]]: {{spoiler|1=SkyClan}}, when they were exiled from the forest. The other four Clans, when [[Doomed Hometown|the forest is destroyed]] - but at least [[The Promised Land|they know there's good territory waiting for them]].

* [[First Snow]]: Happens a couple times. In ''Fire and Ice'', Fireheart is amazed because he hasn't seen it before; he was shut inside as a kit when still living with Twolegs when it last snowed. He quickly learns that snow makes it difficult to move around, however. In ''The Darkest Hour'', Firestar is out with his apprentice Bramblepaw when it begins to snow. Bramblepaw chases the snowflakes gleefuly, and Fireheart wonders whether Bramblepaw's evil father Tigerstar ever played with snowflakes.

* [[Flanderization]]: RiverClan's fish-loving tendencies (no, not like ''[[But You Screw One Goat!|that]]''), as well as the general [[Love It or Hate It]] nature of fish as prey.

Line 267:

*** The reason she doesn't have faith or try communicating is probably because StarClan lie consistently, rarely help them out, and when they do send them a message, tend to do so in obscure, twisted ways when they could easily just tell them straight out.

* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: Tigerstar and Hawkfrost

* [[Flip Flop of God]]: Has happened sometimes.

* [[Flip-Flop of God]]: Has happened sometimes.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: WindClan cats in general.

* [[Framing Device]]: In the field guides ''Code'' and ''Battles of the Clans'', the reader is a kittypet who is visiting the Clans and being told stories by the characters.

Line 313:

* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: [[Cue the Flying Pigs|Pigs aren't said to fly]], hedgehogs are. You don't split hairs, but split whiskers. And 'a load of foxdung' and 'Who made dirt in his fresh-kill?' are used as substitutes for... erm... yeah.

* [[The Homeward Journey]]: ''Moonrise''. The journey to the sea was hard, but the journey home is just as dangerous ({{spoiler|In fact, one of them didn't make it back.}})

* [[Hot Blooded]]: Hollyleaf even pokes fun at this, when she says that Sorreltail is one of the rare cats in ThunderClan who isn't that.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Hollyleaf even pokes fun at this, when she says that Sorreltail is one of the rare cats in ThunderClan who isn't that.

* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Much of what the Twolegs do is naturally incomprehensible to the cats, and they view Twolegs as one of the greatest threats ({{spoiler|especially after their original forest is torn down to make way for a new <s>highway</s> Thunderpath}}).

* [[I Can't Feel My Legs]]: Used with {{spoiler|Briarpaw}} when a tree falls on her. She ends up with her hindlegs paralyzed.

Line 336:

** 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."}}

* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]]: {{spoiler|Dovewing's ability to sense events from far away}}, much to the young cat's surprise.

* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That!]]: {{spoiler|Dovewing's ability to sense events from far away}}, much to the young cat's surprise.

* [[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]]''.

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

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

* [[It Sucks to Be The Chosen One]]: [[Oh My Gods|Great StarClan]], does it.

* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: {{spoiler|Lionblaze}} to {{spoiler|Heathertail}} at the end of ''Eclipse''. She doesn't actually die, but {{spoiler|Lionblaze}} spends the majority of the rest book {{spoiler|being tortured by nightmares about killing her}}.

Line 347:

** Pretty much all of ShadowClan after the first series.

* [[Job Title]]

* [[Just So Story]]: There are stories in ''Secrets of the Clans'' that explain how tigers got stripes and how adders came to be.

* [[Just-So Story]]: There are stories in ''Secrets of the Clans'' that explain how tigers got stripes and how adders came to be.

* [[Kangaroo Court]]: In ''The Darkest Hour'', what Tigerstar calls a "trial" for the prisoners. It's really nothing but whipping up hatred for the half-Clan cats so that their own Clanmates would mistrust them enough to want them driven out or killed.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Blackstar. He was one of the minions of two different [[Big Bad|Big Bads]], killed a ThunderClan elder while trying to kidnap some kits, and murdered the RiverClan deputy in cold blood in front of the entire Clan. He then goes on to be Clan leader, and Firestar lets him off with what can best be described as a stern warning. None of this is ever mentioned ever again.

Line 357:

* [[Children Are Innocent|Kits Are Innocent]]

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: StarClan members can forget parts of their past they don't like.

* [[Last Episode New Character]]: Dovepaw and Ivypaw are born at the ending of ''Sunrise'' (the last book in the third series), with Jayfeather realizing that {{spoiler|one of them is the third cat in the prophecy}}. Both of them are main characters in the fourth series.

* [[Last-Episode New Character]]: Dovepaw and Ivypaw are born at the ending of ''Sunrise'' (the last book in the third series), with Jayfeather realizing that {{spoiler|one of them is the third cat in the prophecy}}. Both of them are main characters in the fourth series.

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: One noteworthy example would be the way the names "Firestar" and "Tigerstar", both big spoilers for late in the first series, are being thrown around indiscriminately on this very page.

* [[Lawful Stupid]]: Hollyleaf was turning into this before {{spoiler|her death.}}

Line 398:

* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: Most main characters will end up appearing with StarClan ({{spoiler|or in Tigerstar and Hawkfrost's case, the Dark Forest}}) at some point after they die. The best example of this trope is {{spoiler|Spottedleaf}}, who has appeared in almost every single book in the series, even though she died in the very first book.

** {{spoiler|1=And now it seems that Brokenstar has attacked Jayfeather from beyond the grave. Yellowfang hints that a massive war between StarClan and the cats of the Dark Forest is coming, and that the living cats will be heavily involved.}}

* [[My Master Right or Wrong]]: Leaders have supreme authority, and their orders are followed, no matter how insane or evil they are.

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Leaders have supreme authority, and their orders are followed, no matter how insane or evil they are.

Line 406:

* [[The Napoleon]]: Scourge.

* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]]: Tigerstar towards the end of the first series.

* [[Never Say Goodbye]]: Fireheart does this to {{spoiler|Yellowfang}} when he finds her [[Almost Dead Guy|dying]]. She starts to tell him something she wants him to hear before she dies, and he stops her, insisting she isn't going to die. She knows she is, though, and continues speaking.

* [[Never Say Goodbye]]: Fireheart does this to {{spoiler|Yellowfang}} when he finds her [[Almost-Dead Guy|dying]]. She starts to tell him something she wants him to hear before she dies, and he stops her, insisting she isn't going to die. She knows she is, though, and continues speaking.

* [[Never Trust a Title]]: The title is ''Firestar's Quest'', but back when it was released and wasn't ''quite'' what readers were expecting, it was often said by fans that {{spoiler|''Firestar and Sandstorm's Quest''}} would be a more accurate title.

* [[Never Trust a Trope]]: The Clans often say this about each other. "You can't trust a ThunderClan cat!"

Line 472:

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Both Rosetail and Larksong are [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|Platonicshippers]] (BlueXThrush).

** In ''The Forgotten Warrior'', Whitewing, Ivypool and Cinderheart all start shipping Dovewing with Bumblestripe.

* [[Shout Out]]:

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Vicky admits to hiding quotes from ''[[Rambo]]'' and ''[[Gladiator (Film)|Gladiator]]'' in some of the dialogue.

** Macgyver in ''SkyClan's Destiny'' is named after the [[MacGyver|television show of the same name]], as Vicky is a fan.

** Fuzzypelt is named after [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Felt~~ Fuzzy Felt], a toy Vicky remembers playing with when she was little.

** Fuzzypelt is named after [[wikipedia:Fuzzy Felt|Fuzzy Felt]], a toy Vicky remembers playing with when she was little.

** The magazine ''[~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Cat_Fancy_~~(magazine) Cat Fancy]'' makes an appearance in the first volume of the SkyClan manga, on page 82.

** The magazine ''[[wikipedia:Cat Fancy (magazine)|Cat Fancy]]'' makes an appearance in the first volume of the SkyClan manga, on page 82.

** One of the Adventure Game chapters in ''Battles of the Clans'' is titled "[[The Beatles|Here Comes The Sun]]".

** As Vicky is a ''[[Star Trek]]'' fan, ''The New Prophecy'' was originally going to be called ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation|The Next Generation]]''. She still has files on her computer with "TNG" in the name.

Line 490:

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Mapleshade. She can make Ivypool feel like [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Daisy]] is with her, right before {{spoiler|trying to drown her.}}

* [[Small Town Boredom]]: The reason Rusty decides to stop being a kittypet and become a warrior.

* [[Smart People Speak the ~~Queens~~ English]]: The last three audiobooks in the ''The New Prophecy'' series are read by Nanette Savard, an American actress. The narration and most of the characters are read with an American accent - except, for some reason, the [[The Medic|medicine cats]], who are read with a British accent. They're regular Clan cats, born and lived with their Clanmates all their lives, and just chose a different job - so where did the accent come from? Are they born with it and for some reason all cats with this accent take the medicine cat's job? Or does healing cats suddenly give you a different accent somehow?

* [[Smart People Speak the Queen's English]]: The last three audiobooks in the ''The New Prophecy'' series are read by Nanette Savard, an American actress. The narration and most of the characters are read with an American accent - except, for some reason, the [[The Medic|medicine cats]], who are read with a British accent. They're regular Clan cats, born and lived with their Clanmates all their lives, and just chose a different job - so where did the accent come from? Are they born with it and for some reason all cats with this accent take the medicine cat's job? Or does healing cats suddenly give you a different accent somehow?

* [[Spartan Way]]: ShadowClan's training while Brokenstar is the leader - even [[Child Soldiers|kits]] are forced to train in the brutal battle training, and many end up dying. Dark Forest training also counts.

* [[Speak in Unison]]: StarClan is described as sounding like every cat Firestar has ever known, all speaking at once in one clear voice.

Line 534:

* [[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}}.

* [[Training From Hell]]: Both figuratively and literally with training in the Dark Forest.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

** {{spoiler|Ashfur}} after ''Long Shadows'', and {{spoiler|Tigerstar}} after he is exiled in ''Forest of Secrets''.

Line 570:

** Stormtail was this when Bluestar was a young warrior.

** Rainflower was always this to Crookedstar.

* [[Wham Episode]]: ''Long Shadows''. Hoo boy...

* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''Long Shadows''. Hoo boy...

** ''The Fourth Apprentice'' is also a ''massive'' one.

** As is ''Night Whispers''.