Trivia / Redwall

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The mole characters Diggum and Gurrbowl switch genders between books. This was clearly an error as this fact wasn't known at the time, but "female" moles are in fact intersex, changing between outwardly male and female outer appearances due to hormone changes depending on whether they're ready to breed or not.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: The animated series features the prolific and versatile Tim Curry as the voice of Slagar the Cruel.
• Creator's Favorite: Brian Jacques named Gonff as his favorite character overall and Cluny the Scourge and Tramun Clogg as his favorite villains.
• Died During Production: Brian Jacques died of a heart attack before he could complete the series' 23rd book (and by extension the series, as he'd never intended to stop writing).
• Edited for Syndication: When the Animated Adaptation aired on PBS Kids, it added in-between segments featuring Brian Jacques talking about something like how he came up with one of the characters or a group of kids engaging in a re-enactment of a medieval scenario.
• Fake Brit: The animated series stars Canadian actors all doing British accents.
• Fake Russian: Bizarrely, the Guosim shrews in the Nelvana animated series speak with Russian accents (performed by Canadian voice actors). While the books are known for having characters with diverse accents (such as the German-sounding ferrets in Triss), there is no indication in them that shrew culture is inspired by Russia in any way.
• Only So Many Canadian Actors: The Nelvana adaptation features numerous actors who have appeared in other Nelvana cartoons, as well as a large number of actors who are actually better know for live-action roles in stage theater or popular Canadian TV shows. Notably, many of them voice different characters throughout the three seasons and you can often tell, mostly notably with Diego Matamoros as Cluny the Scourge and Badrang the Tyrant (the Big Bads of seasons 1 and 3 respectively.
• The Other Darrin: In the French dub of the animated series, Matthias is voiced by Emmanuel Garijo in the 1st season and by Alexandre Gillet in the 2nd season.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There's one about the title of the 23rd planned book being "Pondicherry".
• Recycled Script: The animated series has a weird example. Season 1 is adapted from the first book, but it includes an episode titled "Cluny's Clowns" in which Cluny the Scourge attempts to infiltrate and take over Redwall Abbey by disguising his goons as circus performers. This didn't happen in the original book, but a similar scenario did happen in the book's direct sequel, Mattimeo, when Slagar the Cruel disguises himself and his goons as circus performers to infiltrate the Abbey and kidnap the children. The show would later adapt Mattimeo for Season 2, making it seem like they were reusing the Circus Episode plot when, in reality, Mattimeo actually did it first.
• Shrug of God: When Brian Jacques was asked about the identity of Sam Squirrel's Disappeared Dad Mr. Squirrel, he simply said "no particular story is attached to Mr. Squirrel."
• What Could Have Been:
  • It is likely that a 23rd book, with a title of Pondicherry, was in the works at the time of Jacques' death: there had been a contest to create a character to appear in the books. The winning character was Reisa Kartwell, a haremaid cartographer from Salamandastron. The winner was sent an illustration of the character. As this character did not appear in The Rogue Crew (the only book to come out after the contest), it's assumed that this character was meant to be in the next book after that. It also makes some wonder what Brian Jacques was planning next.
  • A fourth season of the TV series was to have been in production, adapting the Mossflower book, but was cancelled for unknown reasons.
• Write Who You Know: Word of God is that Jacques based Gonff the Mousethief on his younger self, and Constance the badger was based on his grandmother. If that's true, Jacques must have had an impressively badass grandmother...

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