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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''Literature/SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the original Erins, it is instead written by new authors using the Erin Hunter PenName.

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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter Creator/ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''Literature/SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the original Erins, it is instead written by new authors using the Erin Hunter PenName.
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* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:Alpha]].

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* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:Alpha]].[[spoiler:Alpha and Whine]].
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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the original Erins, it is instead written by new authors using the Erin Hunter PenName.

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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''.''Literature/SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the original Erins, it is instead written by new authors using the Erin Hunter PenName.



* HoldYourHippogriffs: The dogs seem to have a lot of strange words for many stuff ''including the sun'', which had never been called another name in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''. They even called cats "sharpclaws".

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* HoldYourHippogriffs: The dogs seem to have a lot of strange words for many stuff ''including the sun'', which had never been called another name in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''.''Literature/SeekerBears''. They even called cats "sharpclaws".

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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Alpha kills Alfie]] in ''A Hidden Enemy''.

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* KilledOffForReal: KilledOffForReal:
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[[spoiler:Alpha kills Alfie]] in ''A Hidden Enemy''.



** [[spoiler:Blade and the former Alpha]] both bite the dust in ''Storm Of Dogs''.



* MeaningfulName: Lick gets [[MeaningfulRename renamed]] to Storm, most likely referring to the future last book in the series: ''Storm Of Dogs''.

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* MeaningfulName: Lick gets [[MeaningfulRename renamed]] renamed to Storm, most likely referring to the future last book in the series: ''Storm Of Dogs''.



** [[spoiler:Lucky]] becomes this in ''The Endless Lake''.

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** [[spoiler:Lucky]] Lucky becomes this the beta in ''The Endless Lake''.
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** Moon will also have her own called ''Moon's Choice''.



* AngerBornOfWorry: In the prologue for "The Endless Lake", Lucky's mother was angry about Yap (a younger Lucky) wandering off, but she's happy he's okay.



* TheBully: Alpha.



* {{Hypocrite}}: Alpha hates Fierce Dogs for what they did to him as a pup, yet he [[spoiler: was apparently mates with one]] and later [[spoiler:betrayed his own pack to be the Fierce Dogs' Omega]].



* ItsAllAboutMe: In the blurb for "The Endless Lake", Alpha declares that his own safety comes before the Pack.



** Alpha declares that Storm's Naming Ceremony was false and tells the others to call her Lick. Then he does one for real...and [[FantasticRacism calls her Savage]].

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** Alpha declares that Storm's Naming Ceremony was false and tells the others to call keep calling her Lick.Lick instead of Storm. Then he does one for real...and [[FantasticRacism calls her Savage]].



* RageBreakingPoint: The Trial Of Rage is designed to make Fierce Dogs reach their anger point and kill their opponent. Unfortunately for Blade, Storm overcomes her rage and refuses to kill her brother Fang.



* TheBully: Alpha.
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** As seen in the allegiances for ''The Broken Path'', every Fierce Dog is named after a weapon.

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** As seen in the allegiances for ''The Broken Path'', every Fierce Dog is named after a weapon. [[spoiler:Except Pup/Dog/Wolf/Alpha/Omega.]]

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Twitch has a lame left paw, which he complains about. ''The Broken Path'' reveals that [[spoiler:he chews it off, leaving him grateful for what he did]].

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Twitch has a lame left paw, which he complains about. ''The Broken Path'' reveals that [[spoiler:he chews it off, leaving helping him grateful for what he did]].get around better even if he's three-legged now]].



** [[spoiler:Storm suffers the same fate...but only one ear gets torn off.]]



* TheExile: Lucky and Twitch get kicked out of the pack in ''Darkness Falls'', the former for supposedly bring misfortune on the pack and the latter for having an injured foot. Both make it back eventually.

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* TheExile: Lucky and Twitch get kicked out of the pack in ''Darkness Falls'', the former for supposedly bring misfortune on the pack and the latter for having an injured foot. Both make Lucky makes it back eventually.while Twitch becomes the new leader of Terror's pack.



* KickTheDog: Terror beats up his pack members for only the slightest of faults.
** Alpha declares that Storm's Naming Ceremony was false and tells the others to call her Lick. Then he does one for real...and [[FantasticRacism calls her Savage]].



* LeaderWannabe: Lucky's sister Bella tries to assert herself as the alpha dog throughout the first book.

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* LeaderWannabe: Lucky's sister Bella tries to assert herself as the alpha dog throughout the first book. In the fifth book, she challenges Sweet for position to be the alpha dog of the pack.



* MamaBear: Sweet GentleGiant Martha acts aggressive towards Moon for acting hostile towards the Fierce Dog pups. Even Lucky was disturbed to see her act this way after seeing her kind nature.

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* MamaBear: Sweet GentleGiant Martha acts aggressive towards Moon Alpha for acting hostile towards the Fierce Dog pups. Even Lucky was disturbed to see her act this way after seeing her kind nature.pups.



* NumberTwo: [[spoiler:Sweet]] to Alpha.

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* NumberTwo: [[spoiler:Sweet]] Sweet to Alpha.Alpha. [[spoiler: She becomes the alpha dog after he joins the Fierce Dogs]].
** [[spoiler:Lucky]] becomes this in ''The Endless Lake''.



* [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Wild Dogs]]: The Wild pack adopts three Fierce Dog pups, and one of them still lives with the pack. Wiggle dies and Grunt [[IFightForTheStrongestSide joins the Fierce Dogs]], but Lick (the only female) stays.

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* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:Alpha]].
* [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Wild Dogs]]: The Wild pack adopts three Fierce Dog pups, and one of them still lives with the pack. Wiggle dies and Grunt Fang [[IFightForTheStrongestSide joins the Fierce Dogs]], but Lick Storm (the only female) stays.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Alpha gives Lucky one of these about his wavering loyalty to the pack.

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* TheBully: Alpha.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Alpha gives Lucky one of these about his wavering loyalty to the pack.pack...which becomes hypocritical two books later when he [[spoiler:joins the Fierce Dogs]].


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** Lucky finally gives one to Alpha for [[spoiler:betraying the Wild Pack while making them think he was dead]].
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** Fiery gives one to him while challenging him for leadership, calling him out on making bad decisions for the pack and treating the pets like crap while not recognizing their potential.

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** Fiery gives one to him Alpha while challenging him for leadership, calling him out on making bad decisions for the pack and treating the pets like crap while not recognizing their potential.
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* TheCaligula: Terror, who will beat on his own Pack for no good reason and claims to be the chosen one of Fear-Dog to keep them in line. Lucky even notes that his pack will fight to the death for him because they're so terrified.
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** Being Omega basically makes this your position in the pack.


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* FantasticRacism: Oh, where to begin. Fierce Dogs despise every other dog as weak, and all the other dogs think Fierce Dogs are sadistic brutes. Wild Dogs look down on Leashed Dogs as weaklings and City Dogs as traitors. Leashed Dogs dislike the roughness of Wild Dogs and City Dogs. Alpha was the recipient of scorn in his former wolf pack for being half-dog. The pack is mostly Wild Dogs, but contains former Leashed, City, and Fierce Dogs.


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* NatureSpirit: The Spirit-Dogs.
* NatureVsNurture: Lick. She was born a Fierce Dog, and clearly still has their instincts, [[spoiler:evidenced by her ripping off Terror's jaw and later killing him]], but is fighting to become a Wild Dog.

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* TheAloner: Lucky, the series' main protagonist, is proud to be on his own. But there may come a day when he would have to accept being accepted into a pack.

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* TheAloner: Lucky, the series' main protagonist, is proud to be on his own. But there may come a day when he would have to accept being accepted into a pack.This changes later.


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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How pack hierarchy works. Firmly deconstructed with Alpha, who has the skills to get into that position but is otherwise a terrible leader.


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* EarAche: [[spoiler:Grunt's ears are crudely mutilated into points by the Fierce Dogs]].


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* FreudianExcuse: Alpha's need to always be in control stems from growing up as a half-dog in a wolf pack, and vowing to never be a victim again.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Alpha gets his own E-Book story called ''Alpha's Tale''.
** Sweet will be getting one of her own called ''Sweet's Journey''.
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* RavensAndCrows: A crow appears at key moments in Lucky's life.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Twitch has a lame left paw, which he complains about. ''The Broken Path'' reveals that [[spoiler:he chews it off, leaving him grateful for what he did]].



* EnemyMine: A pack of foxes join [[spoiler:Bella and her pack]] in attacking the wild pack for more territory. It does not end well.

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* EldritchAbomination: Lucky sees Terror as this, having strange wide yellow eyes, sores all over his body, and having seizures that make him believe in the "Fear Dog".
* EnemyMine: A pack of foxes join [[spoiler:Bella and her pack]] in attacking the wild pack for more territory. It does not end well.well, leaving both packs to fight them off together.



* TheExile: Lucky and Twitch get kicked out of the pack in ''Darkness Falls'', the former for supposedly bring misfortune on the pack and the latter for having an injured foot. Both make it back eventually.



** Also [[spoiler:Fiery]] in ''the Broken Path''. First, [[spoiler:he gets captured by humans and poisoned]]. Next, [[spoiler:He gets attacked by Terror's pack and later dies from his wounds.]]
* LeaderWannabe: Lucky's sister Bella tries to assert herself as the alpha dog throughout the book. However, she messed it up when it came to confronting the Fierce Dogs.

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** Also [[spoiler:Fiery]] in ''the Broken Path''. First, [[spoiler:he gets captured by humans and poisoned]]. Next, [[spoiler:He [[spoiler:he gets attacked by Terror's pack and later dies from his wounds.]]
* LeaderWannabe: Lucky's sister Bella tries to assert herself as the alpha dog throughout the book. However, she messed it up when it came to confronting the Fierce Dogs.first book.

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* BigGuy: Bruno and Martha.

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* BigGuy: Bruno Bruno, Martha, and Martha.Fiery.



* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler:Alpha kills Alfie]] in ''A Hidden Enemy''.

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* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Alpha kills Alfie]] in ''A Hidden Enemy''.Enemy''.
** Also [[spoiler:Fiery]] in ''the Broken Path''. First, [[spoiler:he gets captured by humans and poisoned]]. Next, [[spoiler:He gets attacked by Terror's pack and later dies from his wounds.]]


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** Don't forget Moon herself. Losing one of her puppies to foxes makes her fight even harder.
* MeaningfulName: Lick gets [[MeaningfulRename renamed]] to Storm, most likely referring to the future last book in the series: ''Storm Of Dogs''.


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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Fiery. Although he respects Alpha, he's a lot calmer and more friendly than he. When he challenges Alpha for the position of leadership, Lucky even lampshades how different the pack would be under Fiery's rule.


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** Fiery gives one to him while challenging him for leadership, calling him out on making bad decisions for the pack and treating the pets like crap while not recognizing their potential.

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** As seen in the allegiances for ''The Broken Path'', every Fierce Dog is named after a weapon.



* [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Wild Dogs]]: The Wild pack adopts three Fierce Dog pups, and one of them still lives with the pack. Wiggle dies and Grunt [[StartMyOwn leaves the pack]], but Lick (the only female) stays.

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* [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Wild Dogs]]: The Wild pack adopts three Fierce Dog pups, and one of them still lives with the pack. Wiggle dies and Grunt [[StartMyOwn leaves [[IFightForTheStrongestSide joins the pack]], Fierce Dogs]], but Lick (the only female) stays.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Alpha gives Lucky one of these about his wavering loyalty to the pack.

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* [[BigBadassWolf Big Badass Wolf-dog]]: Alpha the wolf-dog in ''A Hidden Enemy''.
** [[TheBigBadWolf The Big Bad Wolf-dog]]: He's not friendly.


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* CatsAreMean


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* [[NobleWolf Noble Wolf-dog]]: Alpha the wolf-dog in ''A Hidden Enemy''.
** [[TheBigBadWolf The Big Bad Wolf-dog]]: He's not friendly.
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* EnfanteTerrible: Grunt.
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* MamaBear: Sweet GentleGiant Martha acts aggressive towards Moon for acting hostile towards the Fierce Dog pups. Even Lucky was disturbed to see her act this way after seeing her kind nature.
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Erica, the executive editor for all Harper Collins Children\'s books, is the only editor we know to be the same - Kate said it was an entirely new team, and Erica when asked if it was the same team only spoke about herself. That said, I\'m keeping the edit from \"actual\" erins to \"original\" Erins, because they are indeed \"actual\" Erins now.


''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the original Erins, it is instead written by new authors using the Erin Hunter PenName and edited by the same editors.

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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the original Erins, it is instead written by new authors using the Erin Hunter PenName and edited by the same editors.
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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the actual Erins, it is instead written by a new author using the Erin Hunter PenName.

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''Survivors'' is the third series from the bestselling author ErinHunter (actually several authors working under the same pen name), after ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and ''SeekerBears''. Instead of being written by the actual original Erins, it is instead written by a new author authors using the Erin Hunter PenName.
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* BearsAreBadNews


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* [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Wild Dogs]]: The Wild pack adopts three Fierce Dog pups, and one of them still lives with the pack. Wiggle dies and Grunt [[StartMyOwn leaves the pack]], but Lick (the only female) stays.
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* FailO'Suckyname: One assumes a name like 'Whine' only starts to look good when you've had your identity replaced with the word 'Omega' for long enough.

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* FailO'Suckyname: FailOSuckyname: One assumes a name like 'Whine' only starts to look good when you've had your identity replaced with the word 'Omega' for long enough.
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* FailO'Suckyname: One assumes a name like 'Whine' only starts to look good when you've had your identity replaced with the word 'Omega' for long enough.

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* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Sweet]] to Alpha.


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* NumberTwo: [[spoiler:Sweet]] to Alpha.
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* AngryGuardDog: In a series of talking dogs, these are bound to happen often. The most notable ones are the Fierce Dogs from ''The Empty City''.

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* AngryGuardDog: In a series of talking dogs, these are bound to happen quite often. The most notable ones are the three Fierce Dogs from ''The Empty City''.
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* AngryGuardDog: In a series of talking dogs, these are bound to happen often. The most notable ones are the Fierce Dogs from ''The Empty City''.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Whine (the Omega) in the wild pack. He arranges for an innocent yet whiny dog named Mulch to be framed for eating before the pack so that he could move up a rank.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: BitchInSheepsClothing / EvilGenius: Whine (the Omega) in the wild pack. He may look meek and useless, but he arranges for an innocent yet whiny dog named Mulch to be framed for eating before the pack so that he could move up a rank.
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* TheSmartGuy: Mickey.

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