History Literature / Silverwing

* GeniusBruiser: Goth.

* OwlBeDamned: Pretty nasty guys, the owls are.

* AerithAndBob: Shade and Marina, their son Griffin, and the villain Goth. Most bats are named after "mythical" beings like Shades mother Ariel and Zephyr or have a name related to nature, like Shade himself, and Mistral. Others have names that are used as normal human names like Frieda and Penelope. This goes for the other animals as well.

* LeaveYourQuestTest: The banded cult offer one up to Marina. Luna also gets one in ''Firewing''.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Goth uses this.
* OneForSorrowTwoForJoy

* TookALevelInBadass: Shade

* AerithAndBob: Shade and Marina, their son Griffin, and the villain Goth

* BackFromTheDead: Luna, Griffin, Goth

* BigBad: Goth in the first two books, Cama Zotz himself in the third.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: Used in ''Firewing''; see TheHeroDies.

* ContinuityCameo: Frieda and Throbb are seen again in the Bat Underworld in ''Firewing''.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Goth gets swallowed briefly by Cama Zotz as a YouHaveFailedMe. Goth doesn't stay there permanently, but for other bats this is their eternal punishment...

* HaveYouSeenMyGod: Where's Nocturna? Oh, Cama Zotz killed her.
* TheHeroDies: Shade at the end of ''Firewing'', so his son Griffin and his friend could feed off his life force and become living beings again.
** Combines with TheBadGuyWins: Goth stole Griffin's life force and used it to successfully return to life.

* HeroicBastard: Shade's missing father plays a big role in his motivations for the first two books. At the end of ''Sunwing'', they are finally reunited.
* HeroicSacrifice: Shade pulls this one off near the end of ''Sunwing'', where he tries to stop a bomb from falling ''using only sound''. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better...]] only to do a real HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Firewing''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Goth and Throbb in ''Silverwing'', when their metal bands cause them to be struck by lightning; Voxzaco in ''Sunwing'' when his last-ditch bomb plan fails

* JokerImmunity: Goth. He survives getting ''struck by lightning'' in the first book, and manages to ''literally [[DeathIsCheap cheat death]]'' in the third.

* ManipulativeBastard: Goth & Cama Zotz.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: With names like Goth and Throbb, they ''have'' to be evil. Subverted with Murk.

* NotQuiteDead: Goth ''should'' have died after getting struck by lightning, but lucky for him ''a god'' was watching out for him.

* SequelHook: Goth just can't stay dead, can he? At the end of ''Firewing'' he got out of the Underworld and began gathering followers for Zotz.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Goth gets swallowed briefly by Cama Zotz as a YouHaveFailedMe. Goth doesn't stay there permanently, but for other bats this is their eternal punishment...]]

* HaveYouSeenMyGod: Where's Nocturna? Oh, [[spoiler: Cama Zotz killed her]].
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]: [[spoiler: Shade at the end of ''Firewing'', so his son Griffin and his friend could feed off his life force and become living beings again.]]
** [[spoiler:Combines with TheBadGuyWins: Goth stole Griffin's life force and used it to successfully return to life.]]

* HeroicBastard: Shade's missing father plays a big role in his motivations for the first two books. At the end of ''Sunwing'', [[spoiler: they are finally reunited]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Shade pulls this one off near the end of ''Sunwing'', where he tries to stop a bomb from falling ''using only sound''. [[spoiler:[[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better...]] only to do a real HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Firewing''.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Goth and Throbb in ''Silverwing'', [[spoiler: when their metal bands cause them to be struck by lightning]]; Voxzaco in ''Sunwing'' [[spoiler: when his last-ditch bomb plan fails]]

* JokerImmunity: Goth. He survives [[spoiler:getting ''struck by lightning'']] in the first book, and [[spoiler:manages to ''literally [[DeathIsCheap cheat death]]'' in the third]].
* KillerRabbit: The soricids in ''Darkwing'' are first said to be harmless. [[spoiler:Then it turns out they're actually very aggressive. And have venomous bites. And there are ''[[ZergRush a lot]]'' of them. They even end up killing ''two'' ''Hyaenodon'', which are large predatory mammals.]]
* KillItWithFire: How the owls [[spoiler:destroy Tree Haven.]]

* NotQuiteDead: Goth ''should'' have died after [[spoiler: getting struck by lightning, but lucky for him ''a god'' was watching out for him]].

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Goth just can't stay dead, can he? At the end of ''Firewing'' he got out of the Underworld and began gathering followers for Zotz.]]

* TheAmazon: The Vampyrum Spectrum specifically come from Brazil. [[spoiler: It is also where the bats and owls forced to carry bombs by humans are sent to destroy Rio De Janeiro.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Luna, Griffin, Goth]]

* BigBad: Goth in the first two books, [[spoiler: Cama Zotz himself]] in the third.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler:Used in ''Firewing''; see TheHeroDies.]]

* ContinuityCameo: [[spoiler:Frieda and Throbb]] are seen again in the Bat Underworld in ''Firewing''.
** And in ''Sunwing'', [[spoiler:Shade isn't sure what to do next on his adventure, so he uses sound to call Zephyr from ''Silverwing'' to help. Note that Zephyr is ''on a different continent.'']]

* EnemyMine: The bats, rats, and owls [[spoiler: captured by the Vampyrum Spectrum in South America team up to fight their captors]].

* [[spoiler: TheEvilPrince]]: [[spoiler: Goth, until later when he becomes king.]] Averted with Orestes.

->''"Many of these animals had already been written about, and most of them were reasonably cuddly: [[Literature/BlackBeauty horses]], [[Literature/{{Redwall}} mice]], [[Literature/{{Babe}} pigs]], [[Literature/WatershipDown rabbits]], even [[Literature/CharlottesWeb spiders]]. [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute But will kids be able to identify with bats?]]"''

->''"Many of these animals had already been written about, and most of them were reasonably cuddly: [[Literature/BlackBeauty horses]], [[{{Redwall}} mice]], [[{{Babe}} pigs]], [[WatershipDown rabbits]], even [[CharlottesWeb spiders]]. [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute But will kids be able to identify with bats?]]"''

* GuileHero: Shade.

->''"Many of these animals had already been written about, and most of them were reasonably cuddly: [[BlackBeauty horses]], [[{{Redwall}} mice]], [[{{Babe}} pigs]], [[WatershipDown rabbits]], even [[CharlottesWeb spiders]]. [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute But will kids be able to identify with bats?]]"''

The ''Silverwing'' trilogy is a series of books written by Kenneth Oppel, which is a sort of {{Goth}}-esque fantasy adventure about bats. The first book appeared in 1997. The main character, Shade, is a small Silverwing bat, who is frequently mocked and called "Runt". After breaking one of the animal world's biggest rules and becoming a fugitive, and getting lost at sea during a migration, Shade goes on a wild adventure with a new friend, street-smart {{Tomboy}} Marina Brightwing. Things [[ItGotWorse get worse]] when Goth and Throbb, two giant carnivorous bats from Brazil, escape a research facility and begin killing birds and other creatures at will. The little bats get blamed for it, landing Shade and his colony in a battle for the rights of all their kind.

* KillerRabbit: The soricids in ''Darkwing'' are first said to be harmless. [[spoiler:Then it turns out they're actually very aggressive. And have [[ItGotWorse venomous bites]]. And there are ''[[ZergRush a lot]]'' of them. They even end up killing ''two'' ''Hyaenodon'', which are large predatory mammals.]]

->''"At the dawning of the ages, the birds and the beasts banished us. We were forbidden from ever glimpsing the sun again..."''
-->Frieda's OpeningMonologue that starts each episode of the animated series

* MeaningfulName: Many. To name a few, there's Marina, who's named such because she's introduced on an abandoned island, and Griffin, who's a HalfBreed Silverwing/Brightwing.

* HalfBreed: Griffin, half-Silverwing and half-Brightwing. He doesn't get too much flak over his mixed heritage from the other bats, though.

* HeroicSacrifice: Shade pulls this one off near the end of ''Sunwing'', where he tries to stop a bomb from falling ''using only sound''. [[spoiler:UnexplainedRecovery He gets better... only to do a real HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Firewing''.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Shade pulls this one off near the end of ''Sunwing'', where he tries to stop a bomb from falling ''using only sound''. [[spoiler:UnexplainedRecovery He gets better...]] only to do a real HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Firewing''.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Shade pulls this one off near the end of ''Sunwing'', where he tries to stop a bomb from falling ''using only sound''. [[spoiler:[[IGotBetter He gets better...]] only to do a real HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Firewing''.]]

The ''Literature/{{Silverwing}}'' trilogy is a series of books written by Kenneth Oppel, which is a sort of {{Goth}}-esque fantasy adventure about bats. The first book appeared in 1997. The main character, Shade, is a small Silverwing bat, who is frequently mocked and called "Runt". After breaking one of the animal world's biggest rules and becoming a fugitive, and getting lost at sea during a migration, Shade goes on a wild adventure with a new friend, street-smart {{Tomboy}} Marina Brightwing. Things [[ItGotWorse get worse]] when Goth and Throbb, two giant carnivorous bats from Brazil, escape a research facility and begin killing birds and other creatures at will. The little bats get blamed for it, landing Shade and his colony in a battle for the rights of all their kind.

->''"Many of these animals had already been written about, and most of them were reasonably cuddly: [[BlackBeauty horses]], [[{{Redwall}} mice]], [[{{Babe}} pigs]], [[WatershipDown rabbits]], even [[CharlottesWeb spiders]]. But will kids be able to identify with bats?"''

* BloodyBowelsOfHell: ''Firewing's'' idea of the Bat Underworld is actually pretty nice. But piss off Cama Zotz [[spoiler:and you get a one-way ticket down his digestive tract.]]

* JacobMarleyApparel: {{Lampshaded}} in ''Firewing'', where one bat in the Bat Underworld, Yorick, died by smashing into a tree while strong gusts of wind were blowing, and he has to spend his eternity in the Underworld with a half-broken wing, and demands to know where the justice in that is.

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Averted; the main characters are bats, which most people don't find cute at all.

* AirVentEscape: This is how Goth and Throbb got out of the artifical jungle. Justifed as they are much smaller than people and have to fly verticaly.

The ''{{Silverwing}}'' trilogy is a series of books written by Kenneth Oppel, which is a sort of {{Goth}}-esque fantasy adventure about bats. The first book appeared in 1997. The main character, Shade, is a small Silverwing bat, who is frequently mocked and called "Runt". After breaking one of the animal world's biggest rules and becoming a fugitive, and getting lost at sea during a migration, Shade goes on a wild adventure with a new friend, street-smart {{Tomboy}} Marina Brightwing. Things [[ItGotWorse get worse]] when Goth and Throbb, two giant carnivorous bats from Brazil, escape a research facility and begin killing birds and other creatures at will. The little bats get blamed for it, landing Shade and his colony in a battle for the rights of all their kind.