History Literature / TheUnderlandChronicles

* [[EvilAlbino Evil]]/: The Bane and the Underland humans, respectively.

* [[EvilAlbino Evil]]/HeroicAlbino: The Bane and the Underland humans, respectively.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Apparently not. Gregor, the hero, wears black armor during the final battle, and his bond is black as well. [[spoiler:Not to mention the Bane is white.]]

* DieLaughing: Some plants in the Jungle get you so high that you don't notice the attacking vines.

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Only for the first book.]]

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Only for the first book.]]
* DividedWeFall: Ares to the max. Makes sense because [[IncrediblyLamePun bats really do hang and all.]]
* TheDragAlong: Temp and Boots, mostly. They never really do anything on the quests.
** Actually, Temp and Boots did do something in book three. Temp [[spoiler:kept on warning them, first suggested the idea that the cradle/cure might not be where they thought it was, and Boots did her dance.]]

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Rats/gnawers, mice/nibblers, bats/fliers, etc. [[{{HandWaved}} Handwaved]] as the species' names for themselves.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Lizzie. In COC, she becomes incredibly useful.

* BatOutOfHell: Averted. The bats here are friends with the humans, and they [[AccidentalInnuendo allow the humans to ride them.]] [[DragonridersofPern Sound familiar?]] Or not.

* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:Gregor and Ripred are both "ragers" -- a person with highly developed warrior skills, a natural-born killer.]]

* BadassBoast: Ripred, whom many fans think is really a [[AGodAmI a god in disguise.]]

* BondCreatures: The "fliers" here bond with the humans, using a little poem that allows them to protect each other in battle and such. Here it is:
-->[Flier's name] the flier, I bond to you
-->Our life and death are one, we two,
-->Through dark, through flame, through war, though strife,
-->I save you as you save my life

* AerithAndBob: Gregor and his sister Boots come down to the Underland, where they meet people with strange names such as Dulcet, Vikus, Solovet, Luxa, etc. and then Gregor finds out that "Here among all these strange names [is] a Henry"

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Yeah, it's still a book series aimed at older children, even though it contains a massive ammount of extreme violence such as decapitation. Wounds are even sometimes described in explicit detail. Maybe the fact that it's written media and not shown as actual pictures keeps the [[MoralGuardians Moral Guardians]] away.

''The Underland Chronicles'', abbreviated fondly as TUC, was written by author Suzanne Collins as her debut series of novels. The books consist of:

* WhamLine: That encoded message in ''Gregor and the Code of Claw''? It says [[spoiler: Twitchtip died in pit.]] Also, the entirety of Luxa's [[spoiler: declaration of war against the gnawers.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Interestingly enough, the villain gets one after his initial introduction. We first meet [[spoiler: the Bane as a baby, whose [[PleaseWakeUp cries for his mother]] make it impossible for Gregor to kill him. What could be more innocent?]] Well, in book 4, [[spoiler: we learn he killed his devoted caretaker. Still, he said it was an accident, and he's so big he might not know his own strength .. he tried to ''eat him'' to cover it up? (Though, real rats do often eat their dead to keep predators from smelling them and finding the nest.)]]

* ProphecyTwist: Pulled off most successfully in book 2.

* RealityEnsues: The ending refused to find any half-baked excuse to [[spoiler: let them back into the Underland]]... '''HOWEVER''', [[spoiler: the ending was very, very ambiguous, and there was absolutely no way to tell what would happen next.]]
* RebelliousPrincess: Luxa owns this trope completely, but makes it seem pretty cool.
** Rebellious Queen, actually.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Lizzie, for Ripred.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: The Underlanders will spend centuries meditating on the possible meanings of Sandwich's prophecies, but they won't give a second thought to whatever [[WaifProphet Nerissa]] says.Sure, Nerissa is [[TheOphelia not all there]] but her visions ''are'' accurate.[[hottip:*:The problem is she doesn't know the time her visions take place. They could be ten years into the future or five years before she was born for all she knows.]] Gregor at least gives her the respect she deserves.

* [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl White Haired Pretty People]]: All the Regalians have silver/blond hair.

* {{The Ophelia}}:Nerissa, with a side order of WaifProphet and BlessedWithSuck to boot.

* RealityEnsues: The ending refused to find any half-baked excuse to [[spoiler: let them back into the Underland]]... '''HOWEVER''', [[spoiler: The ending was very, very ambiguous, and there was absolutely no way to tell what would happen next.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Every single book, verging on DownerEnding by the fifth one.

* DontYouDarePityMe: And how. All the rats seem to be like this.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The Underlanders will spend centuries meditating on the possible meanings of Sandwich's prophecies, but they won't give a second thought to whatever [[PropheticWaif Nerissa]] says.Sure, Nerissa is [[TheOphelia not all there]] but her visions ''are'' accurate.[[hottip:*:The problem is she doesn't know the time her visions take place. They could be ten years into the future or five years before she was born for all she knows.]] Gregor at least gives her the respect she deserves.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Interestingly enough, the villain gets one after his initial introduction. We first meet [[spoiler: the Bane as a baby, whose [[PleaseWakeUp cries for his mother]] make it impossible for Gregor to kill him. What could be more innocent?]] Well, in book 4, [[spoiler: we learn he killed his devoted caretaker. Still, he said it was an accident, and he's so big he might not know his own strength .. he tried to ''eat him'' to cover it up? (Though, real rats do often eat their dead to keep predators from smelling them and finding the nest.)]]

* [[EvilAlbino Evil]]/HeroicAlbino: The Bane and the Underland humans, respectively.

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[[caption-width:210:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Yeah, it's a children's book.]] And yes, the lizard is a good guy.]]

The Underland Chronicles, abbreviated fondly as TUC, was written author [[Literature/TheHungerGames Suzanne Collins]] as her debut series of novels. The books consist of:

*** Gregor the Overlander
*** Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
*** Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
*** Gregor and the Marks of Secret
*** Gregor and the Code of Claw

The series has a small but devoted fanbase which has become slightly larger following the success of her other series, Literature/TheHungerGames.