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{{quote| ''"For as long as any cat can remember, four clans have ruled the forest: ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan and RiverClan."''}}
 
In [[Warrior Cats|this book series]], cats run wild in large family groups, fighting each other, falling in love, and worshiping their starry ancestors.
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** Crowfeather to Breezepelt.
** Lizardstripe's [[Freudian Excuse|treatment of]] [[Complete Monster|Brokenstar]]:
{{quote| ...a queen who did not care for her new charge, who bit it and nipped it and deprived it of milk as punishment for being born at all.}}
** ''Crookedstar's Promise'' gives us another example in {{spoiler|Rainflower}}.
* [[Acid Reflux Nightmare]]: Brambleclaw originally thinks his prophecy dream was one of these.
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** The Ancients and StarClan in ''The Last Hope''.
* [[Badass Creed]]: ''Battles of the Clans'' gave us:
{{quote| "RiverClan ''fish''! RiverClan ''swim''! RiverClan warriors use water to ''win''!"}}
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Whitestorm is one of the oldest active warriors, but he's still a powerful fighter and is popular with all of ThunderClan. {{spoiler|That is, of course, before he is killed.}}
* [[Band of Brothers]] / [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: The main characters of The New Prophecy.
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** In ''Night Whispers,'' Jayfeather has a vision in which he sees blood spilling from the mouths of every cat in ThunderClan except {{spoiler|Ivypool}}.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: In the Tigerstar and Sasha manga, those squirrels and frogs and hares they kill look quite clean. The illustrator, Don Hudson, even had a scene where the editors thought that even a ''clean'' dead rabbit looked too creepy.
{{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'').
* [[Breaking the Fellowship]]: After the great journey, the chosen cats have to split and return back to their clans.
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** Ancient cat Dark Whiskers is killed this way when blown off a cliff during a storm.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Sol stays calm and composed all the time, even when surrounded by enemies and {{spoiler|accused of murder}}. He so calm, other cats often find it unsettling. The only times he's lost his cool is whenever he's making a speech (and he's really more "incensed" than "angry"), and when Hollyleaf apparently pushes his [[Berserk Button]], and even then he recovers in ''less than half a second''.
{{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. }}
* [[Doctor's Orders]]: There are plenty of times when a medicine cat says "As your medicine cat, I'm ''ordering'' you to rest."
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* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The forest in the second series.
* [[Double Don't Know]]: In ''The Darkest Hour'':
{{quote| Firestar let out a long breath. "I don't know, Bramblepaw," he admitted. "I just don't know."}}
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Hawkfrost in ''The New Prophecy''. Tigerstar, the [[Big Bad]] is just as strong and fearsome, but he's hindered by {{spoiler|his being dead.}}
* [[Dramatis Personae]]: Each book has allegiances section at the beginning, listing all characters that appear in that book and many that don't.
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* Irony: In ''Outcast'', thinking about [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Crowfeather]], Hollyleaf thinks "I'm glad he's not ''my'' father!" {{spoiler|Three guesses what happens three books later.}}
* [[Is That a Threat?]]: In ''SkyClan's Destiny'':
{{quote| '''Skipper:''' "I've seen Red around a lot lately. Next time, it might be a tuft of her fur that's left beside a dead Twoleg pet."<br />
'''Stick:''' "Leave Red out of this. And don't make threats you can't keep."<br />
'''Misha:''' "Oh, they're not threats. They're promises." }}
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: Firestar has used this trick on several occasions to great effect, defeating opponents that otherwise had the advantage.
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* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]]: Hawkfrost. [[Sarcasm Mode|Who most definitely]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|didn't]]'' [[Sarcasm Mode|want to take over RiverClan and eventually rule the whole forest]].
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Crookedstar's apprentice Sedgepaw.
{{quote| Crookedstar's head was spinning. "Slow down," he meowed.<br />
"Sorry!" Sedgepaw flattened her ears. "I know I talk too much but I just want to be the best apprentice. I'm so glad you're my mentor. You're the strongest cat in RiverClan, except Rippleclaw, but he's old - not an elder or anything - but you're younger and you remember what it's like to be a 'paw. And I'm going to listen to everything you tell me..." }}
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: The climax of ''The Fourth Apprentice'', where {{spoiler|Jayfeather breaks his stick}}. It is the most dramatic scene about {{spoiler|a cat breaking a piece of wood in half}} that you will ''ever'' read.
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* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: [http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8792/familytree80.png Just look at it!]
* [[Teasing Creator]]: Vicky Holmes, soooooo much.
{{quote| '''Vicky''' ''(after a fan asked what Yellowfang's Secret would be about)'': [[Shrug of God|Yellowfang will be in it. She will have a secret. Bad things will happen.]]}}
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Battles are relatively common, but killing is seen as dishonourable, and is generally avoided, {{spoiler|except by Tigerstar and Scourge}}. In fact, the main characters of the first two series have only killed one cat each. Oddly enough, they both killed {{spoiler|their own half brothers}}.
** Although Firestar becomes a pacifist in the second and third series, in the first series he showed absolutely no aversion to killing. For example, when Whitestorm has to restrain him from killing Clawface, him believing that he and Tigerstar were destined to fight to the death, and saying that Brokenstar deserved to die.
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