->"Destined for greatness..."
-->--''Bluestar's Prophecy'' blurb summing up these Super Editions

The Prequel Super Editions are four installments of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' franchise that explore the world of the Clans before a young kittypet named Rusty wandered into the forest. Each book focuses on one of the four warrior Clans, showing the events of the time from four different viewpoints. Each book also contains a short manga drawn by James L. Barry that touches on the events of the main series.

The first book, ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', was released on July 28, 2009 as a follow-up to the first Super Edition, ''Firestar's Quest''. It focuses on the events that took place in [=ThunderClan=] from Bluestar's birth up to her first glimpse of Rusty.

The second book, ''Crookedstar's Promise'', was released July 5, 2011, (its creation was theorized by fans to be due to Crookedstar's [[EnsembleDarkhorse surprising performance in the 2008 Ultimate Leader Election popularity contest]]), and focuses on events in [=RiverClan=], while also showing Crookedstar's side of some of the scenes from ''Bluestar's Prophecy''. It is notably the only Prequel Super Edition to not feature Firestar, and the only Super Edition to not mention him.

The third book, ''Yellowfang's Secret'', was released October 9, 2012, and tells [=ShadowClan=]'s story. It is the only Super Edition that does not star a Clan leader (likely because Raggedstar dies four moons before ''Into the Wild'' and because Brokenstar is a villain), and also the only one where the main character's death is not shown. It also attempts to tie the first series to the [=SkyClan=] saga.

The fourth and final book, ''Tallstar's Revenge'', was released July 2, 2013, and tells the tale of [=WindClan=]. It also involves tunneling, which was mentioned in ''Battles of the Clans'', and shows the Clan cats to be aware of their roots, as a tie-in to the ''[[Literature/WarriorCatsDawnOfTheClans Dawn of the Clans]]'' arc.

A 2015 Super Edition has also been announced, and is rumoured to be another Prequel Super Edition focusing on the Tribe of Rushing Water, or Mothflight, the first medicine cat.

Some short stories featuring the characters from the Prequel Super Editions also appears in the Field Guides, and Vicky has expressed desire to do an e-book focusing on [=ThunderClan=] medicine cat Goosefeather.

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'''Spoiler Warning:''' Because the Super Editions involve characters interwoven with the backstory of the main series and features events from the main series, this page will contain '''Unmarked Spoilers''' for ''The Original Series'' and ''Starlight''.
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!!The Prequel Super Editions contain examples of:
* AbusiveParents: In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', Crookedstar's mother Rainflower is pretty irredeemably bad where he is concerned. She dotes on him when he's a young kit, but after he is disfigured she stops loving him. Rainflower forces Stormkit to sleep in a different nest from her and his brother and also convinces Hailstar to change his name to Crookedkit.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The prequel Super Editions give spotlight to Bluestar, Crookedstar, Yellowfang, and Tallstar, who, although they have had varying degrees of importance in the main series, had never starred in a book before.
* ArcWelding: ''Yellowfang's Secret'' reveals that Brokenstar's reign was penance the Clans had to pay for driving [=SkyClan=] out. How well it works is up to the reader.
* AscendedExtra: Crookedstar was a minor character who died in book five of ''The Original Series''. In the prequel Super Editions, he gets his own book, is a major character in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', and has cameo roles in ''Yellowfang's Secret'' and ''Tallstar's Revenge''.
* BigBad: There are obviously villains, although each book contains its own villain rather than having a single central antagonist.
** ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' has Thistleclaw, whose bloodlust and desire to rule [=ThunderClan=] place him in direct opposition to Bluestar.
** ''Crookedstar's Promise'' has Mapleshade. While she appears to care for Crookedstar, she's actually very bitter and using him to fuel her own vengeance. Crookedstar overcoming Mapleshade's impact on his life is a central theme in the book.
** ''Yellowfang's Secret'' first has Marmalade, a rogue attacking [=ShadowClan=]. However, he stops appearing about halfway in, and the real villain Brokenstar is born in the last third. Brokenstar's villainous schemes allow him to become the leader of [=ShadowClan=] and Yellowfang has to fight to stop him.
** ''Tallstar's Revenge'' has [[spoiler:this subverted. Before the book was released, readers expected either Hawkheart ([=WindClan=]'s medicine cat, who killed Bluestar's mother and resides in the Dark Forest) or Sandgorse's killer (due to the blurb stating that Tallstar left [=WindClan=] to avenge his father) to be the antagonist. However, the book is about forgiveness, and Hawkheart is a rather minor character, so there actually is no main antagonist. However, if you're one of ''those'' people, you could say that the BigBad is Cedarstar, who leads plot-critical attacks on [=WindClan=] and is essentially the FinalBoss.]]
* DistantFinale:
** The last few chapters of ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' take place a while after Bluestar becomes deputy, first showing her nine lives ceremony and then skipping ahead a few more years to just before the beginning of ''Into the Wild''.
** ''Crookedstar's Promise'' skips ahead to a few moons before the Original Series for its last chapters, and then the manga skips ahead a while later to show events spanning from ''Forest of Secrets'' to halfway through ''A Dangerous Path''.
** The last chapter of ''Tallstar's Revenge'' takes place about two years or so after the end of the main story, showing his leadership ceremony. It also has the biggest gap between last chapter and manga, its manga taking place a third of the way through ''Starlight'', which is years and years after Tallstar becomes leader of [=WindClan=].
* TheEmpath: In ''Yellowfang's Secret'', Yellowfang is bizarrely revealed to be able to feel the pain of other cats. It doesn't make sense within the verse, and is only used to make her become a medicine cat.
* FreudianExcuse:
** ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' has one for its villain, Thistleclaw. He was a fairly normal, if annoying kit and apprentice, but then his sister Sweetpaw died and he became more violent. He managed to contain his grief, for the most part. However, then [[spoiler:his mate Snowfur died while on a walk with Bluestar, and Bluestar, who should have looked after Whitestorm in Snowfur's stead, completely ignored him. Then, she suddenly starts telling him that he's a bad father, causing him to hate her even more. All the while, his grief is causing him to become more and more violent.]] It's expanded on in ''Crookedstar's Promise'' where we find out that [[spoiler:Thistleclaw was training in the Dark Forest, and the other cats there were manipulating him and making him think that only the strongest would survive.]]
** ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' also has a small one for series villain Tigerstar. [[spoiler:His father Pinestar left the Clan to be a kittypet shortly after his birth. This caused Tigerstar to hate kittypets all throughout his life.]]
** ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' also touches on Scourge's freudian excuse. Bluestar witnesses Tigerpaw brutally beating a young Scourge, which lead to Scourge's burning desire for revenge.
** Near the end of ''Crookedstar's Promise'', we learn that [[spoiler:Mapleshade has one. She was once a [=ThunderClan=] warrior (fanon has her as deputy) involved in a forbidden romance with a [=RiverClan=] tom. Both of them had vowed to only ever love each other, and Mapleshade gave birth to his kits, who she thought were perfect. However, when [=ThunderClan=] learned of Mapleshade's forbidden relationship, they exiled her. She attempted to carry her kits across the river to [=RiverClan=], but they drowned and [=RiverClan=] also cast her out. As well, her former mate took another she-cat, this time from [=RiverClan=], as a new mate, all the while blaming Mapleshade for the death of the kits that had had together. Mapleshade snapped and did something horrible for revenge, causing her to go to the Dark Forest after her death. She later learned that her former mate's great-grandson was destined to become [=RiverClan=]'s leader, while her kits would be forgotten by history. Enraged once more, she tried to wreck his life as vengeance. However, we learn all this from her, so UnreliableNarrator might apply.]]
** Subverted in ''Yellowfang's Secret''. Brokenstar seems like he's going to have one, but he actually had a pretty decent life and was just a bad cat at heart.
* ManipulativeBastard:
** Mapleshade in ''Crookedstar's Promise'', who manipulates Crookedstar so that he falls into the depths of despair.
** Sagewhisker in ''Yellowfang's Secret''. She constantly tells Yellowfang that she can't be a warrior because of her power, and has to become a medicine cat. She berates Yellowfang for "selfishly" staying a warrior and not becoming a medicine cat every time she sees her. And when Yellowfang finally caves to her and becomes a medicine cat, Sagewhisker's first lesson is how to control her power so that it doesn't distract her.
** Raggedstar in ''Yellowfang's Secret'' manipulates Yellowfang's emotions to get her back together with him.
* MeaningfulRename:
** In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', we find out that Crookedstar's original name was Stormkit, but it got changed to Crookedkit when he broke his jaw.
** ''Tallstar's Revenge'' reveals that Deadfoot was named Hopkit as a kit, but his apprentice name was Deadpaw, after his, well, dead paw.
* {{Prequel}}: Well obviously. They take place before ''The Original Series'' and explain how the situation their became what it was. Amusingly, each successive book starts at an earlier point that the book before it, and eventually culminating in ''Tallstar's Revenge'', where the main story ends before Bluestar is even born.
* RashomonStyle: ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' tells events from [=ThunderClan=]'s point of view, and features scenes involving [=ThunderClan=] and [=RiverClan=]'s eternal fight over who gets Sunningrocks and Bluestar's friendship with Crookedstar. ''Crookedstar's Promise'' shows the fights over Sunningrocks from [=RiverClan=]'s point of view, and retells the Crookedstar scenes from his perspective. Yellowfang doesn't feature very much in either of those books, however, so ''Yellowfang's Secret'' only gets to mention [=ShadowClan=]'s view on certain events (such as [=ThunderClan=]'s attack on [=WindClan=]'s medicine supplies). It's completely subverted with ''Tallstar's Revenge'', as while Tallstar appears in ''Crookedstar's Promise'' and ''Yellowfang's Secret'', and everyone was expecting to see his point of view in [=ThunderClan=]'s attack on [=WindClan=], his book actually takes place earlier than the other three and doesn't involve their events.
* {{Revenge}}:
** In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', [[spoiler:Mapleshade reveals that her goal is to get revenge on the descendents of her former mate, who rejected her and took another mate.]]
** ''Tallstar's Revenge'' has this in the title, so it's obviously. The eponymous revenge is [[spoiler:Tallstar leaving [=WindClan=] to hunt down Sparrow, who he blames for the death of his father.]]
* RevengeRevealStory: At the end of ''Crookedstar's Promise'', Mapleshade tells her story: [[spoiler:her mate had cheated on her while she was pregnant with his kits, and then blamed her for their deaths when her Clan had exiled her and she tried to bring them across the river to him. She reveals that the reason she's been tormenting Crookedstar is because she wants revenge on her ex-mate and his bloodline, and Crookedstar is her mate's great-grandson by the other she-cat.]]
* SecondLove:
** In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', [[spoiler:it's revealed that the great-grandmother of Crookedstar and Oakheart was one for their great-grandfather. He was originally together with Mapleshade, but he left her after their relationship was exposed and dissolved.]]
** In ''Tallstar's Revenge'', [[spoiler:Palebird gets together with Woollytail after losing her mate Sandgorse to a cave-in.]]
* SecretRelationship: They wouldn't be ''Warriors'' books without it.
** ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' and ''Crookedstar's Promise'' both have Bluestar and Oakheart, cats from different Clans, having an affair in secret.
** In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', we find out that the [=WindClan=] deputy Reedfeather and the [=RiverClan=] warrior Fallowtail were secretly together.
** ''Crookedstar's Promise'' also reveals that [[spoiler:Mapleshade was in one with Crookedstar's great-grandfather, and became a villain when things went sour.]]
** And in ''Yellowfang's Secret'', there's Yellowfang and Raggedstar.
* SeriesContinuityError: Plenty. Some of the worse ones:
** In ''Yellowfang's Secret'' Mudfur becomes Brambleberry's apprentice when he's Mudpaw. But in ''Crookedstar's Promise'' he becomes her apprentice as an adult, after fighting [=ThunderClan=] for Sunningrocks after his mate dies.
** In the same book, when [=WindClan=] and [=ShadowClan=] are fighting, Talltail and Shrewclaw are present, but Shrewclaw is called Shrewpaw, despite those two becoming warriors at the same time.
** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' One-eye and Dappletail are younger than Speckletail, but in ''The Prophecies Begin'' they're older than she is.
* SnowMeansDeath: In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', [[spoiler:one of Bluefur's kits, Mosskit, freezes to death in the snow when Bluefur is taking them to [=RiverClan=] to stay with their father, Oakheart.]] Later in the book, Goosefeather also accurately predicts that he'll die on the day of the first snowfall.
* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The prologue of ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' is about Bluestar's HeroicSacrifice in ''A Dangerous Path'' from her own point of view. The book then moves back and explains how she became Clan leader.
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