History Characters / RedwallTheTaggerung

* ArcherArchetype: Vallug [[MeaningfulName Bowbeast]].

%%* [[RaisedByOrcs Raised By Vermin]]

%%* CunningLikeAFox

* StutterStop: Not an incredibly plot-heavy example. Boorab showed him that he [[Music/ScatmanJohn doesn't ever stutter when he sings]], and the stammer goes away after that. [[InvertedTrope Actually, it comes BACK at a plot-intensive moment.]]

* TribalFacePaint: The Juska paint their face with tribal markings. The Taggerung, a special nearly supernatural warrior, has more markings.

* {{Foil}}: He's everything Deyna isn't (or Deyna is everything he isn't). Deyna's undefeatable, TheDeterminator, a master tracker, reasonably friendly, humble and likable etc. Gruven has none of his skills or personality. It's surprising Antigra kept insisting her son was the Taggerung.
* HarmlessVillain: He's one of the most cowardly villains in Redwall, and will run away from anything that has a bad temper.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: To Gruven. They're the only reason managed to survive and track Deyna so far.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They clearly despise each other and plan on killing each other eventually, but they both know that the other possesses talents that they need in order to succeed (i.e. Vallug's archery skills and Eefera's strategic thinking).

%%* TykeBomb

%%* DiscOneFinalBoss

* [[RaisedByOrcs Raised By Vermin]]
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Grown up Deyna is first shown hunting down and capturing an escaping Juska. Deyna's skills as a tracker comes up various times. He's able to track vermin, accurately recreate a battle scene, etc.

* FireForgedFriends: With Tagg. They start off pretty vitriolic, but after enduring a few adventures together they end up true friends.

* TheCreon: She's more respected than any Juska except Rath, and with good reason given her oracular abilities. But she's not interested in commanding the tribe so long as whoever ''is'' in command does a good job.

A cowardly stoat whose mother insisted that he, and not Deyna, was the Taggerung. Raised to believe that he must slay the Taggerung and take his place, Gruven spends most of the novel stumbling incompetently in Deyna's footsteps, in a failed attempt at making good on his vow.

* DirtyCoward: Spends most of the story bragging about how awesome he is only to flee at the smallest sign of danger.

* SmugSnake: He talks big, but ultimately Gruven is one of the most incompetent villains in the entire series. He [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing can’t fight]], he [[GeneralFailure can’t lead]], he [[NoSenseOfDirection can’t navigate,]] he’s [[TooDumbToLive a moron,]] and he [[NoRespectGuy completely fails to exact fear and respect from his minions]].

* KarmaHoudini: Played with. While he's one of the few villains to survive the events of the book, he and his army suffered a rather humiliating defeat at the hands of Salamandaston reinforcements, and were forced to leave Mossflower forevermore under threat of death from Russano the Wise.

* TheChosenOne: According to the Juska, he inherited the spirit of the Taggarung, and possesses supernatural fighting abilities. They might even be right, as no one ever manages to beat Deyna at anything in the whole book, and [[GreaterScopeParagon Martin]] likes him enough to make him Champion.

* KnifeNut: He uses Sawney's knife for most of the book.

* KnifeNut: Passes this on to Deyna.

* TykeBomb

* {{Expy}}: Hm... a young Abbey maid with [[WiseBeyondTheirYears more wisdom and intuition than their age would suggest,]] a subplot focused on puzzle-solving, and [[spoiler: eventually becoming Abbess?]] Sounds an awful lot like Tansy from ''Pearls of Lutra''.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Mhera is called a clever young maid, enough so that Cregga [[spoiler: wants her to be the next Abbess.]]

* PluckyComicRelief

* SuperSpeed

* BarbarianTribe

* DiscOneFinalBoss
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Slingstone On Him]]: Killed by Antigra when she notices that he's alone and distracted.

* DumbMuscle
* {{Foil}}: He's everything Deyna isn't (or Deyna is everything he isn't). Deyna's undefeatable, TheDeterminator, a master tracker, reasonably friendly, humble and likable etc. Gruven has none of his skills or personality. It's surprising Antigra kept insisting her son was the Taggerung.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain

* ArcherArchetype: Vallug [[MeaningfulName Bowbeast]]

* BadassLongcoat
* CunningLikeAFox

* {{Adorkable}}: Broggle is very shy, doesn't open up much, loves cooking and sewing. Adding to that his previous stutter, makes him all the more this trope.

* {{Foil}}: He's everything Deyna isn't (or Deyna is everything he isn't). Deyna's undefeatable, TheDeterminator, a master tracker, reasonably friendly, humble and likable etc. Gruven has non of his skills or personality. It's surprising Antigra kept insisting her son was the Taggerung.

* TribalFacePaint: The Juska paint their face with tribal markings. The Taggerung, a special nearly supernatural warrior has more markings.

* TheAce: He’s not quite an InvincibleHero—his handful of {{Near Death Experience}}s mitigate that—but he’s so phenomenally skilled at, well, ''everything'' that he’s practically unstoppable.

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Grown up Deyna is first shown hunting down and capturing an escaping Juska. Deyna's skills as a tracker comes up various times. He's able to track vermin, accurately recreate a battlescene etc.
* ThatManIsDead: Tell Gruven that the Taggerung is dead.

* FireForgedFriends: With Tagg. They start of pretty vitriolic, but after enduring a few adventures together they end up true friends.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Mhera is called as being a clever young maid, enough that Cregga [[spoiler: wants her to be the next Abbess.]]

* BigEater: as per the norm for hares.

* Adorkable: Broggle is very shy, doesn't open up much, loves cooking and sewing. Adding to that his previous stutter, makes him all the more this trope.

* StutterStop: Not an incredibly plot-heavy example. Boorab showed him that he [[Music/ScatmanJohn doesn't ever stutter when he sings,]] and the stammer goes away after that. [[InvertedTrope Actually, it comes BACK at a plot-intensive moment.]]

!!The Juska

* {{Foil}}: He's everything Deyna isn't (or Deyna is everything he isn't). Deyna's undefeatable, TheDeterminator, a master tracker, reasonably friendly, humble and likable etc. Gruven has non of his skills or personality. It's surprising Antigra kept insisting her son is the Taggerung.

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Has gold eyes to match his fur which [[TheUnblinking never blink]].

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* EyesOfGold: To match his fur. They never blink.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears

* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Stuck An Arrow In Him]]: Dies while fishing for shrimp.

* ParentalSubstitute: For Deyna,

* SmugSnake: The worst out of every villain in the series!

* TheChosenOne: According to the Juska, he inherited the spirit of the Taggarung, and possesses supernatural fighting abilities. They might even be right, as no one ever manages to beat Deyna at anything in the whole book.

* {{Determinator}}: Manages to chase down and kill a powerful assassin despite getting shot in the heart.

* VillainousValour: Deyna holds the sword of Martin the Warrior under Ruggan Bor's throat and tries to convince him to leave. Ruggan doesn't even alter his tone of voice, and continues to repeat his questions as to the Taggerung's whereabouts until he receives an answer that satisfies him.

* StutterStop: Not an incredibly plot-heavy example. Boorab showed him that he [[ScatmanJohn doesn't ever stutter when he sings,]] and the stammer goes away after that. [[InvertedTrope Actually, it comes BACK at a plot-intensive moment.]]

* GenreSavvy: “What? The [[TheChosenOne Taggerung]]'s at Redwall, you say? Screw THAT, I'm not going to attack an impenetrable Abbey that has the bones of countless dead warlords scattered around it." [[note]]Interestingly, he mentions Ferahgo the Assassin, who wasn't even AT Redwall.[[/note]]

* BigBadWannabe: He didn't even want to be it that much; his mother had been insisting he was Taggerung before he could even talk.

* {{Deteminator}}: Manages to chase down and kill a powerful assassin despite getting shot in the heart.

* KnifeNut: He uses Sawney's knife for most of the book.

* TribalFacePaint

* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Slingstone On Him]]

* KnifeNut

* DirtyCoward

* KnightOfCerebus: For ''Taggerung'', being the first villain in the novel to actually pose a threat to Deyna, or intimidate the audience.

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