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** IronWoobie: Captain Holly in the film and especially the book. Survives his warren's destruction, gathers together a small group of survivors, only to have all but one of them die anyway, gets his ear ripped to shreds, and almost goes mad before he finally reaches Watership Down. And ''then'' he gets sent to Efrafa and just barely manages to lead his group out, though most of them are badly off. But he pulls through each trauma, shares the story for catharsis, and after he recovers he goes right back to work.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Keharr's final lines where he excitedly says he's going home to the Big Water. Zero Mostel suffered a fatal heart attack before the film was released.
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* {{Anvillicious}}: After hearing about the gassing of the warren: "Humans won't stop until they destroy the whole world!"
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** And the two nightmare warrens are both, in different ways, attempts to beat a rabbit's harsh life as a prey animal. In one, the rabbits are protected from predators and have all the food they need--and are constantly culled by the silver wires. In the other, the rabbits successfully hide from predators ''and'' humans alike, at the cost of a horrible fascism. The lesson seems to be that if you're a rabbit, you need to just embrace the fact that everything wants you dead, and do your best with it.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Bigwig and Hyzenthlay.
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* NeverTrustATitle: Hearing the title mentioned out of context can lead one to assume the story is a Sci-Fi adventure or a [[BlackhawkDown war move.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: Sandleford might end up getting flattened to make way for new housing [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-17028538 for real]].
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* {{Narm}}: Hyzenthlay telling a poem while Bigwig is spying in Efrafa is suitably dramatic and sad because it's a poem about how she can't produce a litter of kittens due to the warren being overcrowded. She finishes, and there's a moment of silence...then a bunch of bird poop drops down in front of them.
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*** "We followed [[the river]] down into a big wood; and that night, while we were still in the wood, Toadflax died. He was clear-headed for a short time before and I remember something he said. Bluebell had been saying that he knew the humans hated us for raiding their crops and gardens and Toadflax answered, "That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves."
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** WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Appearently it was.
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* NightmareFuel: The Black Rabbit of Inlé.
** Just about every one of Fiver's visions, Bigwig's encounter with the Shining Wire, and the poisoning of the Sandleford Warren, to name a few. The film tends toward either short and surreal (the visions and flashbacks) or realistic and gritty (all the violence portrayed in the present tense), while the book has longer descriptions. Pick your poison, and know this stuff can be disturbing to more than just kids.
** Just about every one of Fiver's visions, Bigwig's encounter with the Shining Wire, and the poisoning of the Sandleford Warren, to name a few. The film tends toward either short and surreal (the visions and flashbacks) or realistic and gritty (all the violence portrayed in the present tense), while the book has longer descriptions. Pick your poison, and know this stuff can be disturbing to more than just kids.
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* MarySuetopia: What Watership Down seems to have become in ''Tales''. The warren is a pioneer in democratic government, the protagonists are always ready to help any animal who comes to them with a problem, and they're always right.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: The ''reason'' why so many kids were traumatized by the animated movie.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: The ''reason'' why so many kids were traumatized by the animated movie.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The White Blindess ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis Myxomatosis.]]) Keep in mind that it was deliberately introduced by humans to control the rabbit population.
* NightmareFuel: The White Blindess ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis Myxomatosis.]]) Keep in mind that it was deliberately introduced by humans to control the rabbit population.
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* NightmareFuel: Several. The Black Rabbit of Inlé, The Hole in the Sky, the Terrible Hay-Making...
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** Several. The Black Rabbit of Inlé, The Hole in the Sky, the Terrible Hay-Making...
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** Several. The Black Rabbit of Inlé, The Hole in the Sky, the Terrible Hay-Making...
** ''The Hole in the Sky'' involves El-ahrairah hearing of the titular phenomenon and going in search of it. After losing a fight with a weasel and falling into an infection-driven fever, he unexpectedly finds it:
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* High Octane Nightmare Fuel: ''The Hole in the Sky'' involves El-ahrairah hearing of the titular phenomenon and going in search of it. After losing a fight with a weasel and falling into an infection-driven fever, he unexpectedly finds it:
-->[[spoiler: "Then he began to tremble with fear. In the blue curve of the sky he saw a great rent, a cleft which, he perceived, was an open, gaping wound. The two irregular edges were jagged as though it had been made with something blunt, something which had first cut and then ripped and torn. Here and there shreds of flesh, still attached to the edges, stuck out across the wound, obscuring whatever was behind. All that he could see in the suppurating depth of the wound was blood and pus, a glistening, viscous, uneven surface like a marsh. The edges were messy too, fringed all along with blood and yellow matter on which flies were walking. As he stared in horror, the dead body of a rabbit fell out of the wound, but disappeared as it fell."]]
-->Embleer Frith.
** [[FridgeHorror And then you realize that Richard Adams was a soldier, and start wondering where he got the idea...]]
*** What makes it even more disturbing is that Adams offers no explanation of what the Hole in the Sky is or what it means. It is, quite simply, a rabbit thing that humans would never understand.
-->[[spoiler: "Then he began to tremble with fear. In the blue curve of the sky he saw a great rent, a cleft which, he perceived, was an open, gaping wound. The two irregular edges were jagged as though it had been made with something blunt, something which had first cut and then ripped and torn. Here and there shreds of flesh, still attached to the edges, stuck out across the wound, obscuring whatever was behind. All that he could see in the suppurating depth of the wound was blood and pus, a glistening, viscous, uneven surface like a marsh. The edges were messy too, fringed all along with blood and yellow matter on which flies were walking. As he stared in horror, the dead body of a rabbit fell out of the wound, but disappeared as it fell."]]
-->Embleer Frith.
** [[FridgeHorror And then you realize that Richard Adams was a soldier, and start wondering where he got the idea...]]
*** What makes it even more disturbing is that Adams offers no explanation of what the Hole in the Sky is or what it means. It is, quite simply, a rabbit thing that humans would never understand.
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** Just about every one of Fiver's visions, Bigwig's encounter with the Shining Wire, and the poisoning of the Sandleford Warren, to name a few. The film tends toward either short and surreal (the visions and flashbacks) or realistic and gritty (all the violence portrayed in the present tense), while the book has longer descriptions. Pick your poison, and know this stuff can be disturbing to more than just kids.
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** In the TV series, Campion also fits the bill. [[{{Wangst}} Sometimes]].
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** In the TV series, Campion also fits the bill. [[{{Wangst}} Sometimes]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[CoveredUp cover]] {{cover|edUp}} of "Bright Eyes" that was recorded for this series was performed by Stephen Gately of the Irish BoyBand [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Boyzone]]. Most fan complaints over this were promptly silenced following Gately's death in 2009, and if anything, makes the song even more of a TearJerker.
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** Fiver again, especially in the film and TV series. Then again, it's hard to imagine how an adorable little rabbit who is totally lost without his big brother and who suffers from violent hallucinations ''wouldn't'' be a Woobie.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[CoveredUp cover]] of "Bright Eyes" that was recorded for this series was performed by Stephen Gately of the Irish BoyBand [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Boyzone]]. Most fan complaints over this were promptly silenced following Gately's death in 2009, and if anything, makes the song ''[[YourMileageMayVary song even more]]'' more of a TearJerker.
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** Which is sometimes Lampshaded by the narration, as when it's pointed out that rabbits feel no guilt or shame about using physical force to push weaker rabbits around.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Frith, the Sun God and creator of the world.
** Even within the stories themselves, Prince Rainbow's role varies -- sometimes he'll be against El-ahrairah, other times he'll help him with good advice.
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* MagnificentBastard: General Woundwort.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Mike Batt, who wrote "Bright Eyes" in the film, returned to make some [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuLP50rHQ8I awesome]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Iws6jaxtU&feature=related tracks]].
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Mike Batt, who wrote "Bright Eyes" in the film, returned to make some [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuLP50rHQ8I awesome]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Iws6jaxtU&feature=related tracks]].
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* {{Hes Just Hiding}} - [[spoiler: Rabbits from Efrafa, even after joining Hazel's company, thought that about Woundwort]].
* StoicWoobie - Blackavar pretty much defines the trope.
* TearJerker - Painful tears in the film during the "Bright Eyes" sequence. Joyful tears at the end of the book, especially at Vilthuril's storytelling.
* TheWoobie - Blackavar in the book and film.
* StoicWoobie - Blackavar pretty much defines the trope.
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* CharacterDerailment - Though recasting Blackberry as a doe and Pipkin as a kitten can be considered an example of this with all adaptations in mind, it also happens internally, especially in the case of Woundwort and Silverweed, particularly in season 3.
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