History DarthWiki / TheBrothersBrave

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: ''Deconstructed like hell''.
* BloodlessCarnage: ''Averted like hell''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Averted hard with Lewis' death. Its effective because before it happens, you are given no reason to expect it.]]

* NeverSayDie: Averted like crazy. The stakes aren't shallow, they're nailed in real deep.

* AccesoryWearingCartoonAnimal

* TomboyPrincess: Charlotte is strong-willed, confident, and stubborn, but not in an obnoxious or cruel way.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: More like Walking Nude Scene, as all the main characters lack clothes apart from some items unique to their persons.

* WorthyOpponent: Malona invokes the trope purely to mock it, when she says that she doesn't consider Agatha a worthy foe as part of her Badass Boast.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Please give us a minute to stop laughing.

* BondVillainStupidity: There's definitely an element of that in Malona murdering the last of her race, thus making her truly the [[LastOfHerKind Last of Her Kind]]. But again, she's forging for herself a tragic circumstance to justify her desire to subjugate the kingdom. So she's not being flat-out stupid, she's just freaking insane.

* BondVillainStupidity: There's definitely an element of that in Malona murdering the last of her race, thus making her truly the Last of Her Kind. But again, she's forging for herself a tragic circumstance to justify her desire to subjugate the kingdom. So she's not being flat-out stupid, she's just freaking insane.

* {{Jerkass}}: Oscar, thanks to having a deep dislike for rules and excessive altruism. Both of which James represents to him. He gets better, though.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Averted. Lewis aint getting up. But played straight with James, when Oscar finds him in the snow after having fallen on a mountain summit. Turns out the snow cushioned him enough, but he was still knocked out by the fall.]]

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted. Part of the tragedy of Malona is that she on a certain level understands how her actions look evil to others, but she feels from her position, its only just. She is not in denial about her evil: Malona just thinks she's allowed to be out of a sense of self-pity and a 'righteous' need to avenge her people.

--> '''Malona:''' I do not consider you a worthy foe, General Cattington. You may have given the orders that killed hundreds of my kin, but you have never, never faced a serpent like me.

Then Oscar, who is about as far from that as you can get. Cynical, stubborn, gets a thrill from fighting and confrontation, and with a strong distaste for authority and his brother constantly ruining his fun. He can feel for others, but you really gotta earn it.

* ShoutOut: The fox overseeing Oscar and Lewis' execution at one point says they deserve a 'short drop and sudden stop.' Which is a term used by James Norrington in the first [[PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Pirates of the Caribbean]] film.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Malona is motivated by vengeance for her race as her big achievement in life before she herself dies and snakes become extinct. But she made herself the last, and its strongly suggested that its precisely so that her quest for vengeance would have more of a tragic spin to it. She's deliberately invoking the trope!

* Let'sGetDangerous: [[spoiler:Oscar, when he resolves to go back and help his brother.]]

* ShoutOut: The fox overseeing Oscar and Lewis' execution at one point says they deserve a 'short drop and sudden stop.' Which is a term used by James Norrington in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film.

* BigDamnHeroes: Oscar returning to save James and Charlotte. Also, and probably an even more impressive example, James rescuing his brothers from the gallows in the flashback section.

** Lewis is killed with impalement by a thrown sword. The narrative goes out of its way to describe ''blood seeping from the wound into the ground''.

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Between Oscar and James, after Lewis' death finally (and violently) brings to the surface all of their frustrations with the other. Later, Oscar feels remorse and returns in the climax to help save Jim and Charlotte.

* CirclingMonologue: Malona gets up to this, once James and Charlotte are her captives. Then again, during the brief break in her fight with James, when she's trying to, um, 'reason' with him. James doesn't have it, of course, and when he throws logic back at her and calls her out for her evil, she totally loses it and begins to fight him with all her raw power.
* ComingOfAgeStory: It could be read as one for Oscar in a way, since he finally gets over his petty prejudice against James and comes to appreciate his sacrifice. So he, in a way, ''grew up.''

** ''Good Lord'', Lewis. Dies from a sword being thrown into his chest–and a sword originally meant for Oscar, too. See BloodlessCarnage averted above.
** Randall, in the end, gets stabbed in the heart by Agatha...using one of his severed arms still clutching onto a sword.
** Malona finally dies when James tackles her off the summit of the mountain in his attempt at a HeroicSacrifice. But the fall doesn't kill her...it's James' sword landing blade-first on her after she's hit the snow, impaling her to death.

* DarkestHour:

* {{Determinator}}: Malona will stop at nothing to accomplish her plan of vengeance. In fact, she tells James during their duel that their fight is to the death, as there is no way in hell either of them will allow the other to live. She to him, because James is a threat to her plan, and James to her, because James would be a fool to spare someone as dangerous as her. There's only one way this can end...

* DisneyDeath: Averted. Lewis aint getting up. But played straight with James, when Oscar finds him in the snow after having fallen on a mountain summit. Turns out the snow cushioned him enough, but he was still knocked out by the fall.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. Malona is tackled off a mountaintop by James in an attempted suicide attack, but we see her body minutes later, impaled by James' sword.

* EvilIsPetty: Malona is so frightening as an enemy because her reasoning and rationale for her actions are based on a sick mixture of entitlement, self-pity, and an overblown caricature of 'justice.' In reality, her actions are horribly petty, and when James tries to alert her to this, she is infuriated by it, which makes one wonder if such comment struck a nerve and she is aware of this fact deep down, but doesn't like to think about it...

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Lewis, Randall and Malona all get quite nasty fates.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Averted hard with Lewis' death. Its effective because before it happens, you are given no reason to expect it.

* HeroicBSOD: James goes through a truly epic one with the death of Lewis, which was in a sense partially his own fault. Then Oscar himself, when he nearly kills his last brother.

* KilledOffForReal: Lewis is deader than dead. As is Malona and Randall. Of the three, only Randall's death lacks any tragic undertone to it. Because he was just such a bastard.

* Let'sGetDangerous: Oscar, when he resolves to go back and help his brother.

* MoodWhiplash: Lewis just successfully took out a robber by himself, and is jokingly chatting with the others....and then he gets impaled by a sword thrown by one of the robber's lackeys whom they missed.

* NotSoDifferent: Simba as a kid has the mentality that when they become king, they could do anything they want and no-one would be able to stop them (although when young Simba says this, Mufasa immediately advises him against this). Scar later says the exact same thing.

* PleaseWakeUp: Oscar to James' motionless body after finding him at the bottom of the mountain.

* RagtagBandOfMisfits: The Brothers Brave, a trio of dynsfunctional cat brothers...and Charlotte, an enigmatic and amoral vixen.
* RedemptionInTheRain: Not rain but snow, as it starts to lightly come down as Oscar gives his emotional speech to James.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Lewis, who basically amounts to the closest the book comes to a comic relief character, is brutally killed before the third act. And from that point on, things get very, very serious.

* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Oscar, very cruelly blaming James for Lewis' death.

** And Oscar telling James he'll never forgive him for Lewis' dying thanks to James' insistence on getting involved in the carriage attack.

* NeverSay"Die": Averted like crazy. The stakes aren't shallow, they're nailed in real deep.
* Not-So-HarmlessVillain: Please give us a minute to stop laughing.

* Shout-Out: The fox overseeing Oscar and Lewis' execution at one point says they deserve a 'short drop and sudden stop.' Which is a term used by James Norrington in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film.

* Family-UnfriendlyDeath: Lewis, Randall and Malona all get quite nasty fates.
* Family-UnfriendlyViolence: In the same vein, the fights can sometimes get quite brutal.

* EvilWillFail: The heroes all seem to think Malona's plan will not succeed thanks to simple matters of practicality, but they still want to stop her, as at the least, her plot ''will'' result in a decent amount of pointless deaths and suffering.

* Elephant'sGraveyard: The mountain range where Malona resides is actually nicknamed “the Boneyard” for being the place where the snakes were annihilated in the final battle of the Serpent War.

Eccentric Mentor: Rafiki looks like a crazy old monkey, but has great wisdom (and kung-fu skills).
* ElephantsGraveyard: The mountain range where Malona resides is actually nicknamed “the Boneyard” for being the place where the snakes were annihilated in the final battle of the Serpent War.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: Among many examples, Charlotte definitely tries to act seductive in the bar scene. Even acknowledged a little while later. That, and Oscar telling James “You keep using all your energy trying to keep us in line, instead of using it in the barn.” Barn being an obvious euphemism for bed.

* DynamicEntry: James leaps from a hilltop onto a passing carriage in the opening, kicking a badger off the roof as he does so.

* 0ApprovalRating: The king of the kingdom in which the book takes place in (both left unnamed, oddly) is not popular at all with the lower-class, thanks to being incompetent mixed with arrogant. He also has zero approval from Malona, seeing as he led a war to exterminate her species, and almost did. Malona herself finished that job...

* Armor-PiercingStatement: A ton of them, since many of the characters end up being called out for various actions.

* 0%ApprovalRating: The king of the kingdom in which the book takes place in (both left unnamed, oddly) is not popular at all with the lower-class, thanks to being incompetent mixed with arrogant. He also has zero approval from Malona, seeing as he led a war to exterminate her species, and almost did. Malona herself finished that job...

* AerithandBob: Inverted, in that most characters' names are fairly modern, normal human names (itself subverting lots of fantasy works' tendency to have their cast made up of bizarre foreign names), but then there's Malona, a nonsense word. Though that's meant to indicate she came from a species with their own naming conventions.

* ANazibyAnyOtherName: Malona certainly has some elements of Hitler in her, but interestingly for the most part she either deconstructs or subverts most of the typical traits.

* ArmorPiercingStatement: A ton of them, since many of the characters end up being called out for various actions.

--> '''Malona:''' I do not consider you a worthy foe, General Cattington. You may have given the orders that killed hundreds of my kin, but you have never, never faced a serpent like me.\\

* BlackandWhiteMorality: ''Deconstructed like hell''.

The novel focuses on this trio, now infamous thieves in the kingdom (though, infamous really only to the royalty, as the lower-class general populace love them as RobinHood-style rebels against the corrupt government) as they discover a plot to wage war on the kingdom by an enemy belonging to a thought-dead race, who intends to gather an army of animals all under her hypnotic control. When the cats' own mother, Agatha, becomes one of the latest kidnapped, that's when the Brothers Brave must team up with an enigmatic vixen named Charlotte and not only stop the BigBad's plan, but save their mother...and finally come to terms with their strained relationship with each other..

''The Brothers Brave'' is either a Darker and Edgier Sequel or an Adaptation Expansion of The Three Little Kittens MotherGoose rhyme (though the book itself never overtly makes a connection), re-imagined as an epic swashbuckling adventure story. The titular kittens of that story (provided with the surname Cattington) are now mature, outlaws from the kingdom the story takes place in, and are very much a DysfunctionalFamily.

''The Brothers Brave'' is either a Darker and Edgier Sequel or an Adaptation Expansion of The Three Little Kittens [[MotherGoose]] rhyme (though the book itself never overtly makes a connection), re-imagined as an epic swashbuckling adventure story. The titular kittens of that story (provided with the surname Cattington) are now mature, outlaws from the kingdom the story takes place in, and are very much a [[DysfunctionalFamily]].

The novel focuses on this trio, now infamous thieves in the kingdom (though, infamous really only to the royalty, as the lower-class general populace love them as [[RobinHood]]-style rebels against the corrupt government) as they discover a plot to wage war on the kingdom by an enemy belonging to a thought-dead race, who intends to gather an army of animals all under her hypnotic control. When the cats' own mother, Agatha, becomes one of the latest kidnapped, that's when the Brothers Brave must team up with an enigmatic vixen named Charlotte and not only stop the [[BigBad]]'s plan, but save their mother...and finally come to terms with their strained relationship with each other..