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[[WMG:[[center:[-''Literature/WarriorCats'' '''[[Characters/WarriorCats Main Character Index]]'''\\
[[Characters/WarriorCatsThunderClan ThunderClan]] ([[Characters/WarriorCatsThunderclanLeadersAndDeputies Leaders and Deputies]] | '''Medicine Cats''' | [[Characters/WarriorCatsTheThreeAndTheirAllies The Three and Their Allies]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsThunderclanWarriorsAndApprentices Warriors and Apprentices]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsOtherThunderclanners Other ThunderClanners]]) | [[Characters/WarriorCatsShadowClan ShadowClan]] ([[Characters/WarriorCatsShadowClanLeadersAndDeputies Leaders and Deputies]]) | [[Characters/WarriorCatsRiverClan RiverClan]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsWindClan WindClan]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsSkyClan SkyClan]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsTribeOfRushingWater Tribe of Rushing Water]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsOthers Others]] | [[Characters/WarriorCatsDawnOfTheClans Dawn of The Clans]]-]]]]]

->"Only some leaders and medicine cats are remembered by the Clans. Their names cast long shadows over the forest; their deeds--good or evil--are told and retold by each generation until they pass from history to legend. Of the others, the ones whose names and deeds have been forgotten or, in some cases, banished from living memory, only [=StarClan=] knows."
-->--''Secrets of the Clans''

There have been many [=ThunderClan=] medicine cats in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series, and each has fulfilled their duty as both Clan healer and emissary of [=StarClan=]. This page lists those heroes.

''Beware of unmarked spoilers!''

'''Note''': Please add character tropes exclusive to ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsDawnOfTheClans Dawn of the Clans]]'' to the [[Characters/WarriorCatsDawnOfTheClans Dawn of the Clans character page]], not here.

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[[folder:Cloudspots]]
!!Cloudspots
->"Unite or die! Don't you remember the Great Battle? The spirit-cats told us afterward that we could not live without each other."

[[quoteright:440:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_7117.png]]
[[caption-width-right:440:[[labelnote:Image source]]Cloudspots in ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsFieldGuides The Ultimate Guide]]'' (Russia)[[/labelnote]]]]

The first medicine cat of [=ThunderClan=], a tom. Also see his entry under Cloudspots [[Characters/WarriorCatsDawnOfTheClans here]].
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* ChildHater: He is said to have been "not quite so keen on dealing with sickly kits."
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''Secrets of the Clans'' it's said that he is the cat who not only figured out that greencough and whitecough were different, but also identified catmint as a cure.
* TheMedic: The first ever of [=ThunderClan=].
* ShrinkingViolet: Works hard to care for cats, but likes the job of curing more than the actual interaction with, say, sick kits. Also described as shy.
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[[folder:Pearnose]]
!!Pearnose
->"You know me better than that, Morningstar. I would not walk in your paws for all the mice in the forest. Your path is lonelier than I could bear."

The medicine cat of [=ThunderClan=] during Morningstar's leadership.
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* TheMedic: Comes with the job.
* TheMentor: To Fallowpaw while alive, and after death, one to Goosefeather.
* SpiritAdvisor: Of a sort, she teaches Goosefeather about herbs.
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[[folder:Fallowpaw]]
!!Fallowpaw
->"I went along the border this morning, looking for yarrow, and I couldn't even tell where our scent marks were supposed to be."

The medicine cat apprentice of [=ThunderClan=] during Morningstar's leadership. Only appears in "The Leader Who Sought Peace".
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* AmbiguousGender: It is not known if Fallowpaw is a tom or she-cat.
* TheApprentice: To Pearnose.
* MeaningfulName: Named after fallow, which is land that isn't fertile, or unproductive. This could not describe [=ThunderClan=]'s state in "The Leader Who Sought Peace" better.
* TheMedic: To [=ThunderClan=], like Pearnose.
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[[folder:Kestrelwing]]
!!Kestrelwing
->"I believe my leader was wrong, but he won't condemn helpless kits to die. They will have a future in [=ThunderClan=], and so will you, Birdflight."

The medicine cat of [=ThunderClan=] at the time [=SkyClan=] left the forest.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Persuades Redstar to take in two kits who are too small to make a long journey, and their mother.
* TheMedic: To his Clan.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Zig-zagged. Believes the clans are wrong to drive [=SkyClan=] out, but doesn't protest. He does, however, convince his leader to take in Birdflight, Spottedkit, and Gorsekit, who cannot leave the forest with their Clan.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the medicine cat, he's very important. He also persuades Redstar to take in Cloudstar's kits, who are too young to travel, along with their mother.
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[[folder:Oatspeckle]]
!!Oatspeckle

The medicine cat of [=ThunderClan=] before Ravenwing.
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* AmbiguousGender: Oatspeckle's gender is not specified.
* TheMedic: To [=ThunderClan=], before Ravenwing.
* TheMentor: To Ravenwing.
* PosthumousCharacter: Only mentioned once, to have died two moons before Mapleshade's kitting.
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[[folder:Ravenwing]]
!!Ravenwing
->"I cannot let you lie to our Clanmates! And now that I know the truth, I cannot lie either."

[=ThunderClan=]'s medicine cat when Mapleshade was alive. He plays a pivotal role in her backstory.
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* TheApprentice: His mentor, Oatspeckle, died two moons before Mapleshade’s kits are born. He never had an apprentice of his own because Mapleshade kills him.
* CannotKeepASecret: He was the medicine cat who told the rest of his Clan about Mapleshade's kits leading into their exile.
* DeathByIrony: Mapleshade kills him at Mothermouth (a sacred location for medicine cats) and later digs up his body after it has been buried so that the hawks can eat his corpse.
* DesecratingTheDead: After he was buried by his fellow medicine cats, Mapleshade dug up his corpse and left it to be eaten by hawks, in revenge for getting her and her kits kicked out of [=ThunderClan=].
* HonorBeforeReason: When he found out that Mapleshade's kits were half-[=RiverClan=] and fathered by Appledusk, he immediately told the rest of the Clan, even though he knew it would put them in danger because Oakstar wouldn't react well to the news of Appledusk, his son's killer, having fathered kits in his Clan.
* TheMedic: Of [=ThunderClan=], and the only one at the time of his death.
* SuccessionCrisis: He had no apprentice at the time of his death, forcing Cloudberry of [=RiverClan=] to fill in.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he'd just kept quiet about Mapleshade and her kits, they wouldn't have been driven out of [=ThunderClan=], the kits wouldn't have drowned trying to cross the river, and Mapleshade wouldn't have had a reason to become the most feared cat in the Dark Forest.
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[[folder:Cloudberry]]
!!Cloudberry
->"There’s more to being a medicine cat than talking with [=StarClan=]. There are herbs and ways of healing to learn, and omens to find. The other cats must see you preparing to be a medicine cat in the ways that they expect."

[=ThunderClan=]'s medicine cat after Ravenwing was killed by Mapleshade. She was originally from [=RiverClan=].
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* TheApprentice: To Echosnout, her mentor in [=RiverClan=].
* FriendToAllChildren: Implied. When Goosefeather expresses awe and amazement at the birth of Larksong's litter, Cloudberry agrees that seeing kits be born is something she never gets tired of.
* MeaningfulName: She has white fur like a cloud.
* TheMentor: She mentored Goosefeather.
* RiddleForTheAges: It is not known why she left [=RiverClan=] to be [=ThunderClan=]'s medicine cat.
* SecretKeeper: She keeps Goosefeather's gift of prophecy a secret.
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[[folder:Goosefeather]]
!!Goosefeather
->"I may be an old fool. But at least my heart is true."

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[[caption-width-right:279:"You should tread the path you're following with care, Mapleshade. A destiny shouldn't be played with like prey."[[labelnote:Image source]]Goosefeather (right) in ''The Ultimate Guide''[[/labelnote]]]]

[=ThunderClan's=] medicine cat while Pinestar was leader, and early during Sunstar's reign. Sometimes acts insane, but is also fairly wise. However, his predictions are sometimes disastrous for the Clan. ''Crookedstar's Promise'' reveals that he's had some association with the Dark Forest, but the extent of this and his reasons for it are unclear.

Stars in a 2015 novella titled ''Goosefeather's Curse''.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a kit, the other apprentices and even a few warriors were jealous of him because he was made an apprentice and then a full medicine cat early. Aside from that, others usually deem him as lazy, weird, insane, or all three as gets older.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: While alive, it's incredibly unclear whose side he's on, due to his association with the Dark Forest.
* AntiVillain: He does some bad stuff, but who knows if it's because he's crazy, evil, or just because the road to the Dark Forest is paved with good intentions?
* TheApprentice: To Cloudberry, who joined [=ThunderClan=] from [=RiverClan=] after [=ThunderClan=] lost their previous medicine cat to Mapleshade.
* TheAtoner: After he dies, he goes to [=StarClan=], and he seems much saner and generally more of a good guy after death, even giving Bluestar her sixth life and the gift of patience.
* BackForTheFinale: Shows up again for a short time in ''The Last Hope''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts fairly crazy but benign, but he does, and orchestrates, some terrible stuff.
* BlessedWithSuck: Having accurate visions of the future isn't so great when it means you get to see all the horrible things that will happen to your Clan, [[YouCantFightFate but can't do anything to prevent them.]]
* CatsAreLazy: In his old age, he spends more time dozing around and eating than looking for herbs.
* CassandraTruth: He sees visions of the monster that Tigerkit will grow up to become, but nobody believes them because he just seems like a crazy old medicine cat cursing at a kit for no reason.
%%* TheDitz: Really spacey.
* CloudCuckooLander: He acts strange due to being a MadOracle able to see the future. In his old age, he frequently rambles about things only he can see.
* TheCuckooLanderWasRight: He was right about Tigerkit growing up to be a tyrannical dictator, and Thistleclaw being a danger to the Clan if he had become leader.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The novella ''Goosefeather's Curse'' expanded on his backstory.
* ForeseeingMyDeath: It mentions in the narration that he accurately predicted the date of his death.
* FreakinessShame: ''Goosefeather's Curse'' shows that he feels this way [[spoiler:about his ability to see dead cats.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Most medicine cats are highly respected and honored by their Clanmates, but Goosefeather becomes disliked by most of his Clan in his old age due to his laziness and the prophecies he makes which seem to cause nothing but disaster. His kind-hearted, clear-minded and hardworking apprentice Featherwhisker is liked and trusted more than he is.
-->'''Larksong''': I'll talk to him. See if I can persuade him to join us in our den. Featherwhisker is plenty able to take his place now.\\
'''Robinwing''': He’s more than able! He’s been doing most of the medicine cat duties on his own for [=StarClan=] knows how long! We should have stopped listening to the raddled old fleabag moons ago!
* GradeSkipper: [[spoiler:Due to his ability to see [=StarClan=] spirits, he is apprenticed at the age of four moons, and he's given his full medicine cat name at the age of seven moons.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: He is associated with the Dark Forest, but for whatever reason ends up in [=StarClan=].
* ISeeDeadPeople: ''Goosefeather's Curse'' reveals [[spoiler:that he has the ability to see [=StarClan=] cats walking among his Clanmates; until he's four moons old he doesn't even realize that they're ''not'' his living Clanmates.]]
* IWantMyMommy: When a badger attacks him in ''Goosefeather's Curse'' and he thinks that he's about to die, he calls his mother's name. [[spoiler:Despite having his full medicine cat name, he's only seven moons old - just barely over the age most kits leave the nursery - so he's still quite young.]]
* KeepingSecretsSucks: He feels this way about all the secrets he carries throughout ''Goosefeather's Curse'': [[spoiler:his ability to see [=StarClan=] cats, his knowledge of Sunkit's and Featherkit's future, Doestar's illness, and lastly the knowledge that Pinestar will one day abandon his leadership and leave his Clan to become a kittypet.]]
* LazyBum: Mumblefoot mentions that he naps when he says he's going to be collecting herbs.
* MadOracle: Acts nutty sometimes, but is correct fairly often, especially about Tigerstar.
* MeaningfulName: "Silly goose" is often used as a slang term for a crazy person, apt for a medicine cat who makes seemingly meaningless prophecies at random. He also has whitish-grey fur the same color as goose down.
* TheMedic: He was [=ThunderClan=]'s medicine cat before Featherwhisker.
* TheMentor: To Featherwhisker.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His sign from [=StarClan=] that said to go to battle gets his Clan weakened, causes them to lose a great deal of respect, and [[spoiler:gets his sister killed]].
* NotHelpingYourCase: By the time of ''Bluestar's Prophecy,'' most of his Clanmates think he's lazy, stupid and incompetent, giving more credit to his hardworking and better-liked apprentice, Featherwhisker. His leaving of the medicine cat duties to Featherwhisker while he naps and looks for omens doesn't do much to prove them wrong.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When he visits [=StarClan=] and the Dark Forest, both before and after death, he is a lot less crazy than the way he acts around his Clanmates.
* SecretKeeper: He knew the truth about Bluestar's kits, but didn't tell anyone.
* SeriouslyScruffy: He almost never washes himself and has extremely bad breath, possibly due to his role as the {{Mad Oracle}}, and the fact that his prophecies are often misleading.
* SkewedPriorities: When Leopardfoot is giving birth to her kits (and is clearly in pain because her wails can be heard outside the nursery), he's more concerned about looking for omens in the fresh-kill pile, even though he should be seeing to her as the Clan's medicine cat.
-->'''Snowfur''': How can he think about food ''now?''
* SitcomArchNemesis: He and Mumblefoot never agree on anything, according to Larksong.
* ThemeNaming: Goose''feather'' and his apprentice, ''Feather''whisker.
* ThirdPersonPerson: At one point in ''Crookedstar's Promise'' he says "You don't get away from Goosefeather that easily!"
* UnreliableNarrator: In ''Goosefeather's Curse'', he is certain that Stormtail tried to kill him by driving a badger toward him due to visions he's had, but as we saw in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', his visions are not always correct.
* WalkingSpoiler: ''Crookedstar's Promise'' reveals that he's apparently had something to do with Mapleshade and the Dark Forest in the past. Despite this, we still know next to nothing about him.
* WhatTheHellHero: About half of [=ThunderClan=] gives him one in the aftermath of the disastrous raid on [=WindClan=] that got Moonflower killed.
* YouCantFightFate: He comes to believe this by the end his novella, and it's why he doesn't say anything about what he knows about Pinestar.
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[[folder:Featherwhisker]]
!!Featherwhisker
->"Battles are just a very small part of our lives. A true warrior has more love in her heart than hatred. Love for her Clanmates, for the forest that shelters her, for the prey that feeds us all."

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[[caption-width-right:279:"Thistleclaw will teach them how to be a fierce warrior. But who will teach him that softness and strength can exist together? And that loyalty to the Clan comes from the heart, not through teeth and claws?"[[labelnote:Image source]]Featherwhisker (left) in ''The Ultimate Guide''[[/labelnote]]]]
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One of [=ThunderClan=]'s medicine cats. Apprentice to Goosefeather, mentor to Spottedleaf, and brother to Sunstar, Featherwhisker was a well-respected and hardworking medicine cat.
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* TheApprentice: To Goosefeather.
* DependingOnTheArtist: On the picture to the right, he lacks the thick mane of fur and long whiskers he has in ''Secrets of the Clans.''
* HypercompetentSidekick: Even when he's still an apprentice, most of [=ThunderClan=] views him as more competent and hard-working than his MadOracle of a mentor, and they're not entirely wrong.
* MeaningfulName: He has long, feathery whiskers.
* TheMedic: He was [=ThunderClan=]'s medicine cat before Spottedleaf, and taught her everything she knew.
* TheMentor: To Spottedleaf.
* MrExposition: After Bluestar forgets what happened at a Gathering, he shows up to give the reader a recap.
* NiceGuy: Accentuated when paired with the more unstable, lazy, and ambiguously-intentioned Goosefeather. He even passed on his kind nature to his apprentice.
* NonActionGuy: Since he's a medicine cat, he doesn't do much fighting. He knows how to hunt, though.
* SiblingTeam: With his brother Sunstar, who served the Clan as leader at the same time Featherwhisker was medicine cat.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Featherwhisker gets a lot more respect and affection from his Clanmates than his mentor Goosefeather does, because he's hardworking, diligent and kind, while Goosefeather is old, scruffy and crazy.
* ThemeNaming: ''Feather''whisker and his mentor, Goose''feather''.

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[[folder:Spottedleaf]]
!!Spottedleaf
->"''We'' are the heartbeat of the Clans, not the warrior code."

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[[caption-width-right:278:"Wherever your paws lead you, you will never be alone."[[labelnote:Image source]]Spottedleaf in ''The Ultimate Guide''[[/labelnote]]]]
%% [[caption-width-right:278:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spotted_4132.PNG[[/labelnote]] to see her appearance in the ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' manga]]

[=ThunderClan's=] medicine cat when Firestar first joined, she was also his first love. She is killed in a [=ShadowClan=] raid before the relationship has much of a chance to go anywhere, but Spottedleaf continues to show up in Firestar's and his descendants' dreams throughout the series. [[spoiler:[=Mapleshade=] killed her spirit in ''The Last Hope''.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: She's the star of the novella ''Spottedleaf's Heart'' which details her apprentice years and shows why she chose to become a medicine cat apprentice.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted in ''Spottedleaf's Heart.'' She did have a crush on Thistleclaw when she was an apprentice, but that ended when she found out he was training in the Dark Forest. Becoming a medicine cat meant she couldn't be his mate anyway.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In ''The Last Hope'', [[spoiler:she speaks to Firestar while her spirit is dying.]]
* TheApprentice: To Thrushpelt while training as a warrior, and Featherwhisker while training as a medicine cat.
* BettyAndVeronica: She's Firestar's Betty, being sweet and caring while Sandstorm is more blunt and snarky.
* BigDamnHeroes: In ''The Last Hope'' [[spoiler:she shows up to save Sandstorm from Mapleshade, dying in the process.]]
* CelibateHero: As a medicine cat, she is sworn to never take a mate. [[StalkerWithACrush Though she wishes she wasn't.]]
* DeaderThanDead: Dies in the very first book, and still appears in most of the later books. In the final book of ''Omen of the Stars'', [[spoiler:her spirit is killed by Mapleshade, meaning we have actually seen the last of Spottedleaf.]]
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: A variation. She's already dead, [[spoiler:but she gets offed by Mapleshade and ends up DeaderThanDead]].
* DoomedMoralVictor: In ''The Last Hope'', [[spoiler:although she dies facing her EvilCounterpart Mapleshade, she ultimately undermines everything Mapleshade stands for by selflessly choosing to save Sandstorm.]]
* EarlyPersonalitySigns: As a kit and apprentice, she was fascinated by Featherwhisker's knowledge of herbs and sometimes helped him prepare medicinal mixtures. He eventually took her on as a medicine cat apprentice after Goosefeather's retirement.
* EveryoneIsRelated: She and Tigerstar are distant cousins, as their ancestors Gorseclaw and Spottedpelt were brother and sister.
* FirstLove: Was this to Firestar when he first came to [=ThunderClan=], but when she died he eventually fell for Sandstorm.
* {{Foil}}: To Yellowfang, to a certain degree. Both act {{Spirit Advisor}}s, but have noticeably different temperaments.
* GoodSmellsGood: She is almost always noted to smell "sweet". Spottedleaf is also a character who is defined by her kindness.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: In the ''Code of the Clans'' story "A Dark Path Chosen", she gives up her own share of fresh-kill to the sick cats she's trying to heal.
* HeroicSacrifice: In ''The Last Hope'', [[spoiler:she permanently dies to save Sandstorm from Mapleshade, her spirit being destroyed in the process.]]
* IdenticalGrandson: Has an ancestor named Spottedpelt that looks exactly like her - it's what made Firestar realize that Spottedleaf was descended from [=SkyClan=].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In ''The Last Hope'', [[spoiler:she says that she wasn't jealous of Sandstorm, because all she wanted was for Firestar to be happy.]]
* TheLostLenore: Firestar loved her, but he lost her in the first book. However, she still lives on in his dreams. As of ''The Last Hope'', [[spoiler:she's a complete example of this trope. Her spirit was destroyed, and she's not coming back.]]
* LoveInterest: Is set up to be this for Firepaw in ''Into the Wild'', but then she dies.
* TheMedic: Very much concerned with the well-being of her Clanmates. She probably sees the least fighting of any of [=ThunderClan’s=] medicine cats, to boot.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: She died in the first book in the series, yet is still a recurring character, acting as a guide and mentor to Firestar and his descendants through dreams and visions.
* NiceGirl: Her kindness is her defining trait.
* OutOfFocus: In ''Omen of the Stars'', other than a handful of scenes, she mostly disappeared from the plot, with her role as an adviser being given to Yellowfang.
* PosthumousCharacter: Almost. She's killed toward the end of the first book, but her spirit shows up in almost every successive book, even to cats born seasons after she died.
* ThePowerOfLove: In ''Spottedleaf's Heart'', she states "You're wrong. Love is stronger than everything". This was in response to Thistleclaw when he dismisses the idea of love.
* PrecociousCrush: The plot of ''Spottedleaf's Heart'' revolves around Spottedpaw's crush on Thistleclaw.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Sandstorm's red. Both of them are Firestar's love interests, but while Sandstorm is very blunt and quick to anger, Spottedleaf is a gentle and nurturing medicine cat.
* RomanticFalseLead: Seems to be Firestar's love interest in ''Into the Wild''. Then Clawface kills her.
* SpiritAdvisor: She gives advice to Firestar, his descendants, and other medicine cats as a spirit in [=StarClan=].
* StalkerWithACrush: She spends the first series stalking Firestar, and still watches over him afterwards. Additionally, she also stalks each successive generation of his family. Although, Firestar ''does'' love her back, in spite of him also truly loving Sandstorm, who he fathered kits with (Leafpool and Squirrelflight).
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Is beautiful, young, kind, wise, sincere, hardworking, and killed off partway through the very first novel.
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[[folder:Yellowfang]]
!!Yellowfang
->"We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth."

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[[caption-width-right:279:"I can keep a secret."[[labelnote:Image source]]Yellowfang in ''The Ultimate Guide''[[/labelnote]]]]

A former [=ShadowClan=] warrior and medicine cat, Yellowfang was exiled by Brokenstar (her illegitimate son) in the first book, and was captured on [=ThunderClan=] territory by a young Firestar. She remains in [=ThunderClan=] as a prisoner until Spottedleaf's death. Disgusted at what her birth Clan has become, she agrees to formally join [=ThunderClan=] as their medicine cat. Currently resides in [=StarClan=].
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* ActionGirl: As with pretty much all female characters, she can hold her own in a fight. Notable for being a medicine cat.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Stars in a Super Edition named ''Yellowfang's Secret''.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Survives the fire in the [=ThunderClan=] camp just long enough for Fireheart to find her, and for her to confess to him that she is Brokenstar’s mother, and that she murdered him. And also to tell Fireheart that she [[TearJerker wishes he were her son]] instead of Brokenstar.
* TheApprentice: To Deerleap while training as a warrior and Sagewhisker when becoming a medicine cat.
* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: In ''Cats of the Clans'', Rock calls her "stubborn, cranky, and the most loyal cat you will ever meet".
* BerserkButton: Better not mention her [=ShadowClan=] origins. When Jayfeather told her that she was once [=ShadowClan=], Yellowfang basically snapped at him that she was [=ThunderClan=].
* BorrowedCatchPhrase: Uses Deerleap's "Look, listen, and scent!" more than Deerleap does.
* BreakTheCutie: She started off life as a warrior before being forced into becoming a medicine cat because of her powers. She later has kits, even though she is a medicine cat, with a cat who later essentially refuses to acknowledge her existence, although it is speculated that they may have become traditional mates if her circumstances were different. Only one of her three kits, Brokenstar, manages to survive birth. Yellowfang must then give up her remaining kit to a queen who refuses to love him. Yellowfang now has to watch her son grow up without knowing of his full heritage. Brokenstar eventually kills his father and kicks his mother (though he doesn't know it) out of [=ShadowClan=], allegedly for killing her own younger siblings. Finally, Yellowfang is forced to kill Brokenstar in order to save her new Clan.
* CareerVersusMan: In ''Yellowfang's Secret'', she must choose between becoming a medicine cat and being mates with Raggedpelt. At first she breaks her vows by remaining his mate, but once she realizes she's expecting kits, she knows she must give them up and focus on her career.
* CombatMedic: She's a medicine cat, but she fights as ferociously as any warrior. ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' explains that she was a fully trained warrior before she became medicine cat of [=ShadowClan=].
* ContinuitySnarl: In ''The Fourth Apprentice'', she witnesses Breezepelt and [[spoiler:Brokenstar]] attacking Jayfeather and tells him that the [[spoiler:Dark Forest is rising.]] In ''Fading Echoes'', a book written by a different author, Jayfeather tells her about the attack and the [[spoiler:uprising within the Dark Forest]] and she is shocked and apparently doesn't know anything about what he's talking about.
* CoolBigSis: Acts like one for Cloudpelt in ''Yellowfang's Secret''.
* CoolOldLady: Yellowfang is sarcastic and jaded but always tries to help [=ThunderClan=] and advise Fireheart.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She's a medicine cat who had kits with the Clan leader (another forbidden relationship). Two of them died, and the one that lived became cruel and bloodthirsty, killing his own father and taking leadership, breaking the warrior code by [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers stealing kits from other Clans]], and even murdering kits from his own Clan and framing Yellowfang.
* DeadpanSnarker: She is rather sarcastic and blunt.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She and Firepaw get along very well after he beats her in combat.
* DiesWideOpen: In ''Rising Storm''. Fireheart gently closes her eyes for the last time.
* DrJerk: A rare female example, but Yellowfang fits this to a t. She’s grumpy and snappish and sarcastic, and, of course, the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] comes standard.
* TheEmpath: ''Yellowfang's Secret'' reveals that she can sense the pain of other cats.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler:When Brokentail demands a medicine to ease his pain, Yellowfang gives him deathberries, telling him that they'll make the pain go away for good. They do...because after he eats them, he dies.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Spottedleaf, to a certain degree. Both act as {{Spirit Advisor}}s, but have noticeably different temperaments. Spottedleaf is young, soft-spoken, and mysterious, while Yellowfang is old, sarcastic, and blunt.
* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Cat]]: She's grouchy and has a sharp tongue.
* HaveYouComeToGloat: She asks Molepelt this after she kills Brokenstar, since she had been feeling very guilty about it. To her surprise, he says he would never gloat. [=ShadowClan=] was his Clan too.
* HesNotMyBoyfriend: [[spoiler:With Raggedstar in ''Yellowfang's Secret''.]]
* ILied: Tells Squirrelflight that she lied about [[spoiler:Squirrelflight's inability to have kits in the epilogue of ''Bramblestar's Storm'', and that she can and is going to have some.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Spends a large portion of ''Yellowfang's Secret'' claiming that she wants to be a warrior, not a medicine cat.
* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: As a kit she has a dream of catching a juicy mouse and is ''just'' about to take a bite when she's awakened by Foxkit and Wolfkit crashing into her while wrestling.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Fireheart, who befriends her after bringing her into [=ThunderClan=]. Later, while Cinderpaw is staying with her while recovering from her broken leg, she takes her on as a helper and eventually a medicine cat apprentice.
* ItsAllMyFault: She feels guilt for not being able to save Mintkit and Marigoldkit.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Does everything she can to serve her Clan, and genuinely cares for her Clanmates, despite being grumpier than a badger.
* LikeASonToMe: Claims that Fireheart is like a son to her, and a better son than Brokenstar. She also has something of a motherly relationship with Cinderpelt.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Dramatically chooses to reveal her relationship to Brokenstar right before she kills him.
* MamaBear: She defends Brokenkit from his foster brothers and sister in ''Yellowfang's Secret''.
* TheMedic: Resigns herself to becoming a medicine cat after getting her warrior name because her ability to [[TheEmpath sense what other cats are physically feeling]] cripples her ability to fight.
* TheMentor: To Runningnose and Cinderpelt.
* MentorArchetype: Although she isn't his mentor in the sense the series usually uses the word (training the character to be a warrior or medicine cat), Yellowfang serves this role to Fireheart; she's the elderly, dear friend he always goes to for advice. She later becomes Cinderpelt's actual mentor (training her to be a medicine cat) and does the same for her, and they both remember her wisdom after her death.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Both her own mentors and Yellowfang herself, as a mentor to Cinderpelt.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seems to have this realization immediately after giving birth to the kits she never should have had in the first place, even more so after her two daughters die immediately after being born and she is left with Brokenkit.
* MyGreatestFailure: She came to view her forbidden relationship with Raggedstar as this, because it resulted in the birth of Brokenstar, who grew up to become one of [=ShadowClan=]'s most tyrannical leaders. Indeed, she believes that Brokenstar being born was a punishment from [=StarClan=] for falling in love with Raggedstar.
* MySecretPregnancy: She hides her pregnancy from the rest of her Clan, but not from the father, Raggedstar. Her mentor, Sagewhisker, also knew she was pregnant.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's a formidable fighter even as an elderly medicine cat.
* TheNicknamer: In ''Into the Wild'', where she gives Firepaw the nickname, "kitty".
* NightmareDreams: She has one in ''Yellowfang's Secret'', in which she is forced to watch kits inflict damage upon each other that is far beyond what even an adult cat could. Some kits are so young that they haven't even opened their eyes yet.
* NonIndicativeName: Only [=StarClan=] knows why Brightflower would give her ''gray'' kit with ''orange'' eyes the name ''Yellow''kit.
* NotAfraidToDie: As she lays dying from smoke inhalation, she thanks Fireheart for bringing her to [=ThunderClan=] and that she will always be grateful for Bluestar to giving her a home.
* NotHisBlood: Upon finding her tiny siblings' bodies she curls around them and licks them, hoping that they'll live. When they return to camp, Runningnose thinks Yellowfang is hurt until she explains that it's the kits' blood.
* OffingTheOffspring: Kills her son Brokenstar in ''Forest of Secrets'' so that he would no longer cause harm to other cats, [[spoiler:and then kills him [[DeaderThanDead again]] in ''The Last Hope''.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Even though medicine cats aren't supposed to have kits, she had three kits. Wishkit was stillborn and Hopekit died right after birth. Yellowfang killed her son, Brokenstar, to save other cats from him.
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:To her son Brokentail, before she feeds him deathberries.]]
-->'''Yellowfang:''' [[spoiler:Here. Eat these berries, and the pain will go away for good.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: In ''Yellowfang's Secret'', she challenges [=StarClan=] for allowing Brokenstar to become leader and lead the Clan into ruin; eventually refusing to even go to the Moonstone at the half moon.
* RetiredBadassRoundup: In ''Into the Wild'', she gathers a group of elders to form a resistance against Brokenstar.
* ScratchyVoicedSenior: She is described this way a lot.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: She does not soften her opinion of anyone, ''for'' anyone.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** After Firestar fights her, then gives her some food, a [=ThunderClan=] patrol shows up and she decides to ditch him. Subverted, because her legs had stiffened up and she couldn't move.
** In ''The Last Hope'', while she complains about the Clans working together, Sunstar invokes this trope by snapping at her "''You'' can leave if you want!" Amazingly, she stays and cooperates.
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler:With Raggedstar.]]
* SneakyDeparture: In ''Into the Wild'' she sneaks away from [=ThunderClan=] camp to chase after Clawface, who she deduces has stolen [=ThunderClan=] kits.
* SpiritAdvisor: Even after her death, she hangs around to give a bit of advice to Firestar and later Leafpool. When Jayfeather shows up, she becomes much more involved.
* StoppedCaring: After her exile in ''Yellowfang's Secret'', she doesn't care whether she lives or dies.
* StormingTheCastle: In the climax of ''Into the Wild'', she leads a [=ThunderClan=] patrol into the heart of [=ShadowClan=]'s territory to confront Brokenstar.
* StrikeMeDown: In ''Into the Wild'' she tries to convince Firestar to kill her when they first meet, because she is shamed by being defeated (and, as we see in her Super Edition, feels she doesn't have much to live for at this point.)
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has the same face shape and eyes as her mother Brightflower.
* {{Tsundere}}: She is often characterized as grumpy and obstinate, with a tongue described as "sharp as thorns." However, she holds a surprising amount of inner compassion in her heart despite her rough exterior; her softer side was usually brought out through her relationships with Cinderpelt (her apprentice), Raggedstar (former mate), Brokenstar (son) and Firestar (who she claimed was like a son to her while on the verge of death).
* UndyingLoyalty: To [=ThunderClan=] after they take her in and give her a place to stay. She becomes their medicine cat after Spottedleaf's death, and remains with them for the rest of her life.
-->'''Rock:''' Brave, loyal Yellowfang, who fought enough battles for nine lifetimes.
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[[folder:Cinderpelt]]
!!Cinderpelt
->"We cannot change our destiny. We just have to have the courage to know what it is, and accept it."

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[[caption-width-right:279:"There are times when a storm is just a storm."[[labelnote:Image source]]Cinderpelt in ''The Ultimate Guide''[[/labelnote]]]]

Firestar's first apprentice, Cinderpelt was hit by a car early in the series, badly breaking and twisting her leg. Because of this, she was unable to become a warrior, and instead trained under Yellowfang as medicine cat. She remains a close friend and confidante of Firestar throughout the series. She is killed during the badger attack, but [=StarClan=] reincarnated her as Cinderheart, who is now able to live the life of a warrior that Cinderpelt had to give up.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: She talks to Leafpool for a little bit before dying.
* TheApprentice: To Firestar before her accident, then to Yellowfang.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: She dies shortly before her niece Cinderkit is born.
* BreakTheCutie: As an apprentice, she severely injures her back leg after an accident on the Thunderpath and walks with a limp for the rest of her life. She also has crush on Firestar, but she can never act on it because she is a medicine cat.
* CallBack: In ''The New Prophecy'', she asks Leafpool, "Do you think I talk just to hear my own voice?" Yellowfang asked her the same thing in The Original Series.
* CannotSpitItOut: Is never able to confess to Firestar about her love for him.
* CareerEndingInjury: Dreamed of being a warrior until she was hit by a car.
* CelibateHero: Comes with the territory of being a medicine cat. Unlike several cats throughout the series, she succeeds in keeping her vow.
* CharacterTics: Her special paw twitch that Leafpool mentions in ''The Sight''.
* DreamCrushingHandicap: As a young apprentice, she gets hit by a car, leaving her permanently crippled and destroying her dreams of becoming a warrior. After spending some time recovering in Yellowfang's den, she learns about healing herbs from her and eventually becomes a medicine cat apprentice instead.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Does anybody remember that blue-eyed, gray-furred kitten that Firepaw picked up in Brokenstar's camp? You know, in the first book?
* FaceDeathWithDignity: She foresaw her own death in a vision that [=StarClan=] showed her, but chose to die saving Sorreltail.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: She has pale blue eyes like her brother, Thornclaw.
* ForeseeingMyDeath: [=StarClan=] showed her a vision of her death in the prologue of ''Twilight'', [[spoiler:which happened when she dies defending a kitting queen from badgers.]]
* GenkiGirl: Back when she was Firestar's apprentice, he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't control her energy.
* HeroicBSOD: Has one when [[spoiler:she fails to keep Silverstream from dying in kitbirth]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Dies preventing the badgers from harming her brother's newborn kits. [[spoiler:She actually gets reincarnated ''as'' one of those kits]].
* ILetGwenStacyDie: She blames herself for not being able to save [[spoiler:Silverstream]], and despite Yellowfang explaining that every medicine cat loses patients from time to time, she resolves to do her best to never let another cat die again.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Up until her accident, that is. After that, she is a lot more serious.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Yellowfang, who ends up training her to become a medicine cat.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Presumably why she tells the oblivious Fireheart that Sandstorm loves him, despite clearly liking him as well.
* JustFriends: This is what Firestar [[ObliviousToLove thought of their relationship]]. According to WordOfGod, however, Cinderpelt had feelings for him, but due to her position as medicine cat, couldn't act on them.
* LookBothWays: Was hit by a car in ''Fire and Ice''. She didn't die, but she did break a leg.
* LoveInformant: She tells Fireheart that Sandstorm loves him (and that [[EveryoneCanSeeIt it's obvious to everyone else]]).
* LuredIntoATrap: One that wasn't even meant for her! [[spoiler:When Tigerclaw plans to kill Bluestar by leading her onto the thunderpath so a monster will hit her, his plan is foiled because the leader is ill with greencough at the time...so Cinderpaw slips away to retrieve the message for her without telling anyone, leading for her to get hit instead and permanently damage her leg via a horrific bone fracture.]]
* TheMedic: She serves as a [=ThunderClan=] medicine cat from ''Forest of Secrets'' to ''Twilight''.
* TheMentor: To Leafpool.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: She was Leafpool's mentor and then dies at the end of ''Twilight''.
* OnlySaneMan: Among the Clan cats on the subject of [=StarClan=]. While she does believe in their power, she also points out that not everything is controlled by them.
-->'''Cinderpelt''': "Sometimes a storm is just a storm."
* {{Reincarnation}}: She's alive and well even after her death, as Cinderheart. [[spoiler:She doesn't remember her past life until ''The Forgotten Warrior'', though (at least, not while awake).]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: In ''Rising Storm'', she treats two sick [=ShadowClan=] warriors, even though she would be punished if she was found out, and there was a risk that she herself would be infected.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: She receives one from [=StarClan=] to determine if she will be allowed to be reborn and live as a warrior. When they [[YourDaysAreNumbered give her a vision of her death,]] she faces her fate with dignity and dies heroically to save Sorreltail from a badger. She passes, and is reincarnated as one of Sorreltail's kits.
* SecretlyDying: In ''Twilight'', an unknown cat in the prologue is told by [[DeadPersonConversation StarClan]] that they are going to die soon. This cat ends up being Cinderpelt, and she never tells anyone until her death. Turns out that being told in advance was a test, and since she kept it secret she is rewarded by being [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] as her own niece, who was born the same instant Cinderpelt died.
* ShipperOnDeck: She ships Firestar with Sandstorm... even though she's also in love with the former. But in the end, she decides that [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Sandstorm is a better choice for him]].
* SharedUnusualTrait: She evidently would always flick her paw a certain way when grooming, and later on her reincarnation, Cinderheart, would do the same; this is one of the first times that other characters notice a resemblance between the two.
* SiblingYinYang: When she and Brackenfur were first apprenticed to them, both Fireheart and Graystripe lampshaded how energetic Cinderpaw was to the more responsible Brackenpaw.
* SneakyDeparture: In ''Fire and Ice'', Tigerclaw claims to have found evidence of an invasion that the Clan leader Bluestar needs to see. (It's actually a trap he set to kill Bluestar so that he can take over.) However, Bluestar is too sick to go and see, so Fireheart's apprentice Cinderpaw offers to go instead. Fireheart forbids her from going, but she sneaks out of camp anyway and walks into Tigerclaw's trap, causing her to get hit by a car and break her leg.
* SpannerInTheWorks: She accidentally ruins Tigerstar's attempt to get Bluestar run over by a car, by running into the trap herself.
* TeacherStudentRomance: One-sided on her part, in that she was in love with her (first) mentor, Firestar.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: In ''Fire and Ice,'' Tigerstar sets a trap for Bluestar by the Thunderpath, intending for her to get hit by a car and die, but Cinderpaw runs into it instead, leaving her with a permanently crippled leg.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Towards Firestar.
* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: A case of this towards Firestar. She loved him but never acted on her feelings, pushed him towards Sandstorm to let him be happy with her instead, and died tragically. [[spoiler:Though, she also got reincarnated]].
* YouDidEverythingYouCould: In ''Forest of Secrets'' she gets this lesson from Yellowfang after she fails to prevent Silverstream's DeathByChildbirth (though she does save the kittens). In this case, Cinderpaw's worries were compounded by the fact that Silverstream is from a rival Clan, and having another Clan member's death on your hands is not a very good place to be in this world.
* YouShallNotPass: Does this in ''Twilight'' to protect Sorreltail and her kits from badgers. She dies in the process, [[spoiler:but is reincarnated as one of Sorreltail's kits.]]
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[[folder:Leafpool]]
!!Leafpool
->"It's all right. I'll stay here and take good care of the Clan, I promise. One day we'll meet again, walking among the stars."

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[[caption-width-right:280:"Destiny isn't a path that any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest."[[labelnote:Image source]]Leafpool in ''The Ultimate Guide''[[/labelnote]]]]
%% [[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leafpool2_8842.bmp[[/labelnote]] to see her on the cover of ''Starlight'']]

One of Firestar and Sandstorm's daughters, and a protagonist of ''The New Prophecy''. Leafpool takes the opposite path her sister does, and becomes [=ThunderClan's=] medicine cat. She is described as being her sister's complete opposite, polite and soft-spoken where Squirrelflight is loud and brash.
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* AllLovingHero[=/=]NiceGirl: Kind to most cats, and rarely loses her temper.
* TheApprentice: To Cinderpelt.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Crowfeather. She can't stand him at first, but she slowly grows to love him.
* BreakTheCutie: Hoo, boy. She has a ''bad'' day, to say the least. [[spoiler:First she falls in love with Crowfeather, but ultimately can't be with him and he goes off to have a mate and a kit of his own. She ends up having his kits, but has to give them off to her sister to raise. Then when the truth about her being their mother comes out, her daughter goes insane and tries to murder her, her sons get angry with her for lying to them, and then she has to step down from her medicine cat position in disgrace. Yeesh]].
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: She's the gentle girl to Crowfeather's brooding boy.
* CelibateHero: As a medicine cat, she can never take a mate. However, she breaks this rule when she falls in love with Crowfeather.
* ChasteHero: In ''Starlight''.
* TheChiefsDaughter: She is a daughter of Firestar, leader of [=ThunderClan=].
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In ''The New Prophecy'' she is a medicine cat apprentice, rather than a warrior apprentice, following an entirely different path in life from her father.
* CoolAunt: She acts this way to Squirrelflight's kits, bringing them the softest moss and sweetest honey. [[spoiler:She is revealed to be their actual mother in ''Sunrise''.]]
* TheCutie: She's adorable, but she goes through a lot of breaking.
* DeadGuyJunior: She may be partially named after Spottedleaf.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:An unintentional version, as she is apparently killed suddenly between books. She does get a proper, dramatic death scene in ''Squirrelflight's Hope'', but that book was published ''after'' ''Lost Stars'', leading to it seeming like this trope.]]
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: In ''Cats of the Clans'' she is compared to a calm pool of water and Squirrelflight to a burning fire.
* FreudianTrio: In ''The New Prophecy'' she, Feathertail and Tawnypelt were the Superego to Brambleclaw and Stormfur's Ego and Squirrelflight and Crowfeather's Id.
* FromHeroToMentor: From a protagonist in the second series to the mentor of third series protagonist Jayfeather.
* GoodSmellsGood: Her scent is said to have a hint of wildflowers in it.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies saving a litter of kits that belonged to a rogue. One of those kits is named Leaf after her.]]
* {{Irony}}: She starts off as TheDutifulDaughter in comparison to her rebellious, hotheaded sister, but [[spoiler:is the first to break the warrior code by having kits in secret as a medicine cat]].
* KeepingSecretsSucks: Keeping the secret about Brambleclaw's prophecy puts Leafpaw in a position where she's strained by loyalty to her sister and loyalty to her father.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Died in between ''A Vision of Shadows'' and ''The Broken Code'' from a rockslide.]]
** Though her death was shown in ''Squirrelflight's Hope''.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In ''Sunrise'', [[spoiler:she reveals that she is the mother of Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf.]]
* MamaBear: She's extremely fussy and protective over her sister's kits Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze, [[spoiler:even before it's revealed she's their real mother. When receiving his medicine cat name, Jayfeather senses a powerful emotion of love coming from her. After it's revealed in ''Sunrise'', she still tries to protect them, even when her daughter tries to kill her.]]
* TheMedic: Serves as [=ThunderClan=]'s medic starting before ''Midnight''. [[spoiler:She steps down for a while after it's revealed that she had kits with Crowfeather, but she officially takes back her post later, working alongside Jayfeather as an equal.]]
* TheMentor: Briefly to Hollyleaf before she decided it wasn’t for her. Also to Jayfeather, Alderheart (shared with Jayfeather) and Puddleshine.
* MeaningfulName: Named after Leafstar and possibly Spottedleaf.
** The "-pool" suffix of her name was given to her because she found the Moonpool.
* MundaneUtility: At one point she uses her TwinTelepathy with Squirrelflight to check the weather outside.
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:She hides her pregnancy from everyone but Squirrelflight, who then raises the kits as her own. Also, the father was from [=WindClan=].]]
* NonActionGuy: Due to having been trained to be a medicine cat, she's a poor hunter and fighter, [[spoiler:as noted by Jayfeather when she steps down from her medicine cat position after the events of ''Sunrise'' and becomes a warrior]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Like Yellowfang, she had kits even though it was forbidden. [[spoiler:Her daughter, Hollyleaf, was killed in the Dark Forest battle.]]
* PoisonIsEvil: This is what she believes.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Squirrelflight. Squirrelflight is sharp-tongued and energetic, and becomes a warrior, while Leafpool is calm and more reasonable, and becomes a medicine cat.
* PrincessClassic: Technically, as Clan Leader's daughter. She's fairly refined as reserved. However, she starts getting rebellious tendencies as early as ''Midnight''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Squirrelflight's Red. She's calm and thoughtful, while Squirrelflight is hot-tempered and flighty. They're explicitly compared to water and fire.
* RescueRomance: Crowfeather admits he loves Leafpool after saving her from falling off a cliff at the end of ''Starlight'', causing Leafpool to admit her own feelings for him.
* SecondLove: To Crowfeather, after his first love interest Feathertail dies.
* SecretKeeper: She's the only cat back in the Clans that knows why the traveling cats left, and she also is trusted with keeping the fire-and-tiger sign secret. [[spoiler:She also figures out later that Hollyleaf killed Ashfur, and keeps this secret as well.]]
* SecretRelationship: With Crowfeather in ''The New Prophecy'', due to being from different Clans and Leafpool being a medicine cat.
%%* ShrinkingViolet: After she [[spoiler:stops being a medicine cat.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her sister Squirrelflight. Leafpool was once compared to water and Squirrelflight to fire.
* SneakyDeparture: In ''Twilight'', Leafpool and Crowfeather sneak away from their Clans to meet up, and eventually run away with each other. Since they didn't tell anyone, their Clans each think that they went to the other Clan.
* StarCrossedLovers: How her relationship with Crowfeather turns out, as they're forced apart.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Though it's not specifically pointed out, she strongly resembles her paternal aunt, Princess, with light brown tabby fur, a white chest, and white paws.
* SupportingProtagonist: She is the protagonist of ''The New Prophecy'', but Brambleclaw is the hero.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Squirreflight's Tomboy.
* TwinTelepathy: She can tell what Squirrelflight is feeling at all times.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B towards Crowfeather, she originally tended toward tsun before they got together.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Had this with Crowfeather during ''Starlight'' before Crowfeather confesses his feelings for her at the end of the book.
* WhamLine: From ''Sunrise'':
-->'''Leafpool''': [[spoiler:"Hollyleaf, why did you kill Ashfur?"]]
* WhatTheHellHero:
** In ''Sunset'', it's subtly implied that she disapproved of Squirrelflight's decision to leave Ashfur.
** In ''The Forgotten Warrior'', she also disapproved of Jayfeather [[spoiler:telling Cinderheart about being Cinderpelt]].
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[[folder:Hollyleaf]]
!!Hollyleaf (Former Medicine Apprentice)

->See Characters/WarriorCatsTheThreeAndTheirAllies
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[[folder:Jayfeather]]
!!Jayfeather

->See Characters/WarriorCatsTheThreeAndTheirAllies
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[[folder:Alderheart]]
!!Alderheart
-> "Embrace what you find in the shadows, for only they can clear the sky."

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[[caption-width-right:250:"We need to find [=SkyClan=]!"[[labelnote:Image source]]Alderheart on the cover of ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsAVisionOfShadows The Apprentice's Quest]]''[[/labelnote]]]]

Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight's son. He tends to worry and overthink things a lot. While he started out as a warrior apprentice, both his lack of skill and Leafpool's vision had him become a medicine cat apprentice, where he excels at more.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Has a bit of a chip on his shoulder because his sister is TheAce, and he is not.
* TheApprentice: First to Molewhisker while training to be a warrior. Then he got both Leafpool and Jayfeather after switching over to be a medicine cat.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alderheart is a quiet, kind, and empathetic tom. But, in ''Veil of Shadows'', Alderheart tells off the imposter (who is currently feigning the identity of Bramblestar) for his poor leadership and demanding the blind obedience of the Clan, telling him that perhaps it's right to question orders. This got the imposter angry enough to exile Alderheart from the Clan then and there. This occured once more in ''Darkness Within'', where at a medicine cat meeting, Alderheart gets angry and practically screams that [[spoiler: Ashfur should never have been allowed to steal Bramblestar's body.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: A variation of ginger/black/gray:
** Ginger Alderheart, black-and-white Violetshine, and gray Twigbranch.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In ''The Apprentice's Quest'', he quotes one of Jayfeather's favorite phrases: "You're fine when I say you are."
* CharacterDevelopment: Learns to have faith in himself and stop worrying so much in ''The Apprentice's Quest''.
** He learns to speak his mind and stand up for what's right in ''Thunder and Shadow''.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Compared to other protagonists, he is far more sensitive, anxious, and uncertain of himself; he blames himself for everything that goes wrong.
* DeadpanSnarker: Spending time around Jayfeather helps him pick up some of his cheek, apparently.
* {{Expy}}: Pre-character development Alderheart was very similar to Ravenpaw in ''Into the Wild''.
* FloralThemeNaming: Named after a type of plant alongside his littermates, Juniperkit and Dandelionkit.
* GuiltComplex: His grandmother Sandstorm sums it up nicely.
-->'''Sandstorm:''' Sparkpaw thinks she can solve every problem, while you think you cause every problem.
* LovedINotHonourMore: He develops a crush on the kittypet Velvet when she temporarily shelters with [=ThunderClan=]. Despite wavering internally a few times, he ultimately decides to cut any friendship short so it won't tempt him. The last time he sneaks away to visit her is only to return her toy and get closure. Notably, this makes him the ''first'' [=ThunderClan=] medicine cat since Cinderpelt to actually turn down romance.
* MeaningfulName: The bonus scene from ''The Apprentice's Quest'' implies that he is named after the alder tree Squirrelflight used to save Bramblestar from a fox, when she realized what being a mother means to her.
* TheMedic: He's a medicine cat.
* NervousWreck: He frequently second-guesses himself and worries about the consequences of every decision he makes--even for something as small as which way to leap while hunting. He gradually grows out of this though...even if he reverts to this behavior when Twigpaw is involved.
* NiceGuy: He's genuinely compassionate for cats from other Clans, and privately vows not to end up as snarky and grumpy as Jayfeather.
* NonActionGuy: Even when he was in training to be a warrior, he had much more trouble with training than his sister.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Alderheart rarely, if ever, loses his patience and breaks off from his quiet and reserved nature. That changed when he got tired of the imposter's poor leadership and reprimanded him for demanding the unquestioned obedience of the Clan. This happened again in ''Darkness Within'', where Alderheart gets angry at a medicine cat meeting and yells that [[spoiler: Ashfur, the cat possessing Bramblestar's body, should never have been able to steal it in the first place.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: He essentially acts as Twigpaw's father, offering her advice, comforting her when she's sad, playing with her when she's a kit, and panicking whenever something may have happened to her.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue oni, both to Sparkpelt's red and Needletail's red.
* RomanticFalseLead: Seems to be Needlepaw's love interest until it's revealed in ''Thunder and Shadow'' that [[spoiler:she's in love with the rogue, Rain]]. The fact that Alderheart is a medicine cat sure doesn't help.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Has this dynamic with the more cheeky Needlepaw, as well as his sister.
* ShipSinking: The ShipTease he has with Needlepaw in ''The Apprentice's Quest'' results in unrequited love on his part when Needlepaw is revealed to have feelings for [[spoiler:the rogue, Rain]]. Not to mention the whole 'medicine cats can't have mates' thing...
* ShipTease: With Needlepaw. More than a few times he thinks about her with admiration, and notes that his "chest hurts" whenever he sees her laughing with another tom.
* ShrinkingViolet: He's very shy and withdrawn, and has a hard time socializing at the Gathering.
* SiblingYinYang: Basically the opposite of his sister Sparkpelt.
* SilkHidingSteel: A male example, post CharacterDevelopment. It's best showcased in ''Daisy's Kin'', where he politely but firmly tells Smoky that he is a fully-trained medicine cat, these kits are dying, they ''will'' bring them to the Clans at least for now so they can have milk, and he ''is not'' going to hear any argument otherwise.
* TangledFamilyTree: He trains as a medicine cat under Jayfeather, who is both his adoptive brother and first cousin. Squirrelflight and Bramblestar are the adoptive parents of Jayfeather and his siblings ([[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo while being their aunt and uncle by blood]]), and the biological parents of Alderheart and Sparkpelt.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Constantly worries about making his parents proud, even though they're [[GoodParents much kinder and loving]] than the ones usually seen in this trope.
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