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** Vicky admits to hiding quotes from ''{{Rambo}}'' and ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' in some of the dialogue.
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** One of the Adventure Game chapters in ''Battles of the Clans'' is titled "[[TheBeatles Here Comes The Sun]]".
** As Vicky is a ''StarTrek'' fan, ''The New Prophecy'' was originally going to be called ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. She still has files on her computer with "TNG" in the name.
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** One of the Adventure Game chapters in ''Battles of the Clans'' is titled "[[TheBeatles "[[Music/TheBeatles Here Comes The Sun]]".
** As Vicky is a''StarTrek'' ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan, ''The New Prophecy'' was originally going to be called ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. She still has files on her computer with "TNG" in the name.
** As Vicky is a
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters : Each book features a section at the front which lists all the characters. The most recent books' Allegiances sections have OVER ONE HUNDRED characters listed. (Of course, several of them are background characters, kits, and cats who haven't even made an appearance.) There are over [[BeyondTheImpossible 700 named characters in the whole series.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters : Each book features a section at the front which lists all the characters. The most recent books' Allegiances sections have OVER ONE HUNDRED characters listed. (Of course, several of them are background characters, kits, and cats who haven't even made an appearance.) There are over [[BeyondTheImpossible [[SerialEscalation 700 named characters in the whole series.]]
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* ShutUpHannibal: Billystorm gives on of these to Sol (after he was banished from [=SkyClan=) during Sol's ReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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I don\'t know if these should go here... most pages about a forum are just fun sandbox-fests between the users and not meant to advertise the site anywhere; they\'re so different from regular work pages. If someone wants to look up the site, then fine, but I don\'t think a link should go on the top of the main page, maybe only if they\'re mentioned somewhere on the page. I\'ve never seen a work page link to a fansite\'s page like this, even though said fansite may have a page here. Plus, sites seem to have more haters than works (for example there was someone going around saying stuff about Warrior\'s Wish for a while, and I know a lot of people don\'t like the OF)... probably best just to leave them off.
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Common Fan Hangouts:
* WarriorsOfficialForum
* WarriorsWish
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Red does this for Harley in ''SkyClan's Destiny''.]]
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* YouDirtyRat: The rats in "Firestar's Quest" and "SkyClan's Destiny" are evil. In addition, the rats in "Into the Wild" and "Crookedstar's Promise" attack the cats. The portrayal of rats results in quite a few fans complaining.
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* YouDirtyRat: The rats in "Firestar's Quest" and "SkyClan's "[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny" are evil. In addition, the rats in "Into the Wild" and "Crookedstar's Promise" attack the cats. The portrayal of rats results in quite a few fans complaining.
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*** Well, [[spoiler: it only seems that way at first, and Lionblaze and Jayfeather don't seem to be completely convinced that she's really dead.]] Later on [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal she dies in a battle for real.]]]]
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*** And also the dogs in Warrior's Refuge; they seem pretty vicious to the barn cats, but once [[spoiler:Millie reveals she can speak a little dog]] it's revealed that they chase cats not to catch them, but because it's fun.
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* HotBlooded: Hollyleaf even pokes fun at this, when she says that Sorreltail is one of the rare cats in [=ThunderClan=] who isn't that.
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** Tigerpaw and his mentor Thistleclaw nearly killed a [=ShadowClan=] kit for straying onto [=ThunderClan=] territory in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', if I remember correctly. The only thing that stops them is Bluefur.
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** Tigerpaw and then-mentor Thistleclaw nearly killed a ShadowClan kit for straying onto ThunderClan territory in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', if I remember correctly. The only thing that stops them is Bluefur.
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** Tigerpaw and then-mentor his mentor Thistleclaw nearly killed a ShadowClan [=ShadowClan=] kit for straying onto ThunderClan [=ThunderClan=] territory in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', if I remember correctly. The only thing that stops them is Bluefur.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: [[http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids/2012/03/06/warriors-manga-live-on-for-now/ This article]] about the ''WarriorCats'' graphic novels includes a picture of what they call the "first and second volumes of the [=SkyClan and the Stranger=] trilogy". They ''do'' have the ''second'' volume of that particular trilogy, but what do they have as the "first" one? ''Warrior's Refuge'', the second volume in the Graystripe's Adventure trilogy, which came out four years and nine volumes earlier. You'd think that the "2" on the front of each would have tipped them off that it wasn't the first volume...
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: [[http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids/2012/03/06/warriors-manga-live-on-for-now/ This article]] about the ''WarriorCats'' graphic novels includes a picture of what they call the "first and second volumes of the [=SkyClan and the Stranger=] trilogy". They ''do'' have the ''second'' volume of that particular trilogy, but what do they have as the "first" one? ''Warrior's Refuge'', the second volume in the Graystripe's Adventure trilogy, which came out four years and nine volumes earlier. You'd think that the "2" on the front of each would have tipped them off that it wasn't the first volume...
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: [[http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids/2012/03/06/warriors-manga-live-on-for-now/ This article]] about the ''WarriorCats'' graphic novels includes a picture of what they call the "first and second volumes of the [=SkyClan and the Stranger=] trilogy". They ''do'' have the ''second'' volume of that particular trilogy, but what do they have as the "first" one? ''Warrior's Refuge'', the second volume in the Graystripe's Adventure trilogy, which came out four years and nine volumes earlier. You'd think that the "2" on the front of each would have tipped them off that it wasn't the first volume...
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In [[WarriorCats this book series]], cats run wild in large family groups, fighting each other, falling in love, and worshiping their starry ancestors.
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There are currently four six-book [[MythArc arcs]] available, all of which are complete. The first, simply called ''{{Warriors}}'' (or ''Warrior Cats'', [[MarketBasedTitle depending on where you live]]) focuses on a house cat named Rusty, who decides to abandon his comfortable life to join [=ThunderClan=] and ends up being the ChosenOne. The second arc, ''TheNewProphecy'', features the next generation of the Clans from the first series as they find a new home. The third ''[[RuleOfThree Power of Three]]'' is a mostly character driven series about another new generation of the Clan cats, this time burdened with mysterious powers and the secret of an ancient prophecy. The fourth arc, ''OmenOfTheStars'', continues to deal with the mysterious prophecy, as well as years worth of animosity that continues to lurk in the shadows and the repercussions of past actions, which threaten to break out into all-out war. A fifth arc, ''DawnOfTheClans'', which will be a prequel, has been announced. There are also plenty of [[ExpandedUniverse spin-off titles]] out and coming soon, such as the twice as long Super Editions, Field Guides, and Mangas. Its sister series, ''Literature/{{Seekers}}'', and ''{{Literature/Survivors}}'' are also worth checking out.
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There are currently four six-book [[MythArc arcs]] available, all of which are complete. The first, simply called ''{{Warriors}}'' ''[[Literature/WarriorCats Warriors]]'' (or ''Warrior Cats'', [[MarketBasedTitle depending on where you live]]) focuses on a house cat named Rusty, who decides to abandon his comfortable life to join [=ThunderClan=] and ends up being the ChosenOne. The second arc, ''TheNewProphecy'', features the next generation of the Clans from the first series as they find a new home. The third ''[[RuleOfThree Power of Three]]'' is a mostly character driven series about another new generation of the Clan cats, this time burdened with mysterious powers and the secret of an ancient prophecy. The fourth arc, ''OmenOfTheStars'', continues to deal with the mysterious prophecy, as well as years worth of animosity that continues to lurk in the shadows and the repercussions of past actions, which threaten to break out into all-out war. A fifth arc, ''DawnOfTheClans'', which will be a prequel, has been announced. There are also plenty of [[ExpandedUniverse spin-off titles]] out and coming soon, such as the twice as long Super Editions, Field Guides, and Mangas. Its sister series, ''Literature/{{Seekers}}'', and ''{{Literature/Survivors}}'' are also worth checking out.
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* Spiritual Successor: To TailchasersSong. Also to ''[[TheBookOfTheNamed the Ratha series]]'' to the point that the Ratha books have been accused of copying Warriors, except for the fact that ''Ratha's Creature'' was published 20 years before ''Into the Wild''.
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* Spiritual Successor: SpiritualSuccessor: To TailchasersSong. Also to ''[[TheBookOfTheNamed the Ratha series]]'' ''TheBookOfTheNamed'' series, to the point that the Ratha books have been accused of copying Warriors, except for the fact that ''Ratha's Creature'' was published 20 years before ''Into the Wild''.
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* SpartanWay: [=ShadowClan=]'s training while Brokenstar is the leader - even [[ChildSoldiers kits]] are forced to train in the brutal battle training, and many end up dying. Dark Forest training also counts.
* Spiritual Successor: To TailchasersSong. Also to ''[[TheBookOfTheNamed the Ratha series]]'' to the point that the Ratha books have been accused of copying Warriors, except for the fact that ''Ratha's Creature'' was published 20 years before ''Into the Wild''.
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* BigNo: Bluestar (then Bluepaw) makes one of these in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', when [[spoiler:her mother is killed in battle]].
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[[caption-width-right:340:[-"Fire Alone Can Save Our Clan", with help from [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters his friends]].-] ]]
-->''"For as long as any cat can remember, four clans have ruled the forest: [=ThunderClan=], [=ShadowClan=], [=WindClan=] and [=RiverClan=]."''
In [[WarriorCats this book series]], cats run wild in large family groups, fighting each other, falling in love, and worshiping their starry ancestors.
A lot [[BetterThanItSounds better than it sounds]]; those of you expecting sweet little stories about cats lazing about licking each other and falling in love are in for quite a shock (although that happens too, of course). The books are quite mature, thanks to {{Erin Hunter}}'s AnyoneCanDie policy, and the series can be [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence quite]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath graphic]], as they face certain death and possible annihilation at least [[OnceAnEpisode once a series, and, early on, usually once a book]]. They also grapple with questions of faith, loyalty, honor, and responsibility on a ''very'' regular basis. These books are about as child-friendly as ''WatershipDown''.
[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Yet kids are the target audience...]]
There are currently four six-book [[MythArc arcs]] available, all of which are complete. The first, simply called ''{{Warriors}}'' (or ''Warrior Cats'', [[MarketBasedTitle depending on where you live]]) focuses on a house cat named Rusty, who decides to abandon his comfortable life to join [=ThunderClan=] and ends up being the ChosenOne. The second arc, ''TheNewProphecy'', features the next generation of the Clans from the first series as they find a new home. The third ''[[RuleOfThree Power of Three]]'' is a mostly character driven series about another new generation of the Clan cats, this time burdened with mysterious powers and the secret of an ancient prophecy. The fourth arc, ''OmenOfTheStars'', continues to deal with the mysterious prophecy, as well as years worth of animosity that continues to lurk in the shadows and the repercussions of past actions, which threaten to break out into all-out war. A fifth arc, ''DawnOfTheClans'', which will be a prequel, has been announced. There are also plenty of [[ExpandedUniverse spin-off titles]] out and coming soon, such as the twice as long Super Editions, Field Guides, and Mangas. Its sister series, ''Literature/{{Seekers}}'', and ''{{Literature/Survivors}}'' are also worth checking out.
For summaries of each book, see [[Recap/WarriorCats here.]]
For the individual arcs, see:
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* ''WarriorCatsTheOriginalSeries''
* ''WarriorCatsTheNewProphecy''
* ''Literature/WarriorCatsPowerOfThree''
* ''WarriorCatsOmenOfTheStars''
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Fan works:
* ''FanFic/StarkitsProphecy'' and ''FanFic/HiddenProphices'', the ''Warriors'' equivalents of ''MyImmortal''
* [[Fanfic/WarriorsTheAbridgedSeries Various abridged series]]
* ''WarriorCatsUntoldTales'', a fan-made PC game
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* TheAbridgedSeries: [[http://hyperadam.deviantart.com/gallery/23785581 At least]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6154225/1/Warriors_The_Abridged_Series_Into_the_WTF four]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz5x5LxCMQY of]] [[http://forums.warriorcats.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7641093/m/4311046057/p/1 them]]
* AbusiveParents:
** Crowfeather to Breezepelt.
** Lizardstripe's [[FreudianExcuse treatment of]] [[CompleteMonster Brokenstar]]:
--->...a queen who did not care for her new charge, who bit it and nipped it and deprived it of milk as punishment for being born at all.
** ''Crookedstar's Promise'' gives us another example in [[spoiler:Rainflower]].
* AcidRefluxNightmare: Brambleclaw originally thinks his prophecy dream was one of these.
* ACrackInTheIce: [[spoiler: Flametail]] falls into one in ''Night Whispers.''
* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: The fandom is fond of this. Acronyms include:
** The series titles (TNP, TPOT, OOTS).
** Book titles (TDH, FQ, BP, NW, [=BotC=], [=T4A=], [=SotC=], to name a few... This created a slight issue when ''Code of the Clans'' came along, because there was already a [=CotC=] from ''Cats of the Clans''. There were even forum threads debating on what to call it - the most common form is [=C2otC=]).
** Some characters, places, etc (HF, DF, [=PoNS=]).
** Related websites (Ww, OF).
* ActionGirl: Almost every she-cat in the series besides the medicine cats.
** Heck, even the medicine cats on occasion. [[BadAss Yellowfang]] in particular.
** Also excepting permanent Queens like [[spoiler:Daisy and Ferncloud]].
*** [[spoiler:Even Ferncloud has her moments. The badger attack during Twilight comes to mind.]]
* AdventuresInComaland: in ''The Sight'', [[spoiler:Poppyfrost]] has greencough, and has a dream about being in [=StarClan=]'s forest. Jayfeather is also there, because of his power, and stops her from dying.
* AesopAmnesia: No matter how many times the clans learn the value of working together, they always divide back up once the danger has passed. Wanting to unite the clans is treated as a big red "I Am A Villain" flag. Then again, they ''are'' cats.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Sol]]. Also, [[spoiler:Tigerstar and Hawkfrost act polite at first when a cat starts visiting the Dark Forest]].
* [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys All She-Cats Want Bad Toms]]: Snowfur and [[spoiler:Thistleclaw]].
* AllGenesAreCoDominant: According to feline genetics [[spoiler: Hollyleaf]] should have been a tortie. There's much more, but in general cat genetics are a lot more complicated than the Erins know about. They even admit they don't know poop about cat coat genetics.
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:Yellowfang, Bluestar, Feathertail, Cinderpelt, Hawkfrost, Whitestorm]]... there has to be more.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Dogs, great [=StarClan!=]
** Except for the pair in the ''Ravenpaw's Path'' trilogy. [[spoiler:At first they may be ungrateful to Ravenpaw and Barley for saving their lives (attacking them as soon as they're free), but later they return the favor to Ravenpaw, Barley, and the [=ThunderClan=] cats by helping chase off [=BloodClan=].]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: A recurring theme in the books.
** Tigerstar could have easily MADE this trope.
** Brambleclaw feels the very same ambition that drove his father but, well aware of what his father became, he is determined to not allow his ambition to control him (still implying that ambition is the opposite of good, even though Whitestorm also mentions in the first series that Firestar has quite a bit of ambition himself).
** The protagonists' ambition fits into NotSoDifferent.
* AncientConspiracy: The Dark Forest, which has been plotting to destroy the clans since long before Firestar came to the forest.
* {{Animesque}}: Most of the fan-made YouTube Warriors animations. To a nauseating degree. Some of the more prominent animators out there even like to slap on a full head of human hair onto their cats. Firestar is always drawn as a brunette, and Tigerstar with black hair. Either way, it's [[{{ArtisticLicenseBiology}} anatomically incorrect]] and it looks ''awful''.
** Most fanart of Warriors has taken to adding a large tuft of hair on the cats' foreheads, even though real cats don't have such tufts. Others will draw a gold star on a cat's forehead to signify that the cat's a leader, when this is never described in the books.
** James Barry's manga also is in a more animesque style than the other artists. He tends to give cats tufts of fur on their heads too, but for the most part it actually looks like fur. The only example where it actually ''was'' hair (and yes, looked horrible) was [[http://i56.tinypic.com/35i53sx.jpg Husker]] from the Graystripe trilogy.
* AnyoneCanDie: Beyond the large amount of minor characters that get killed, even important characters like [[spoiler:Yellowfang, Bluestar, Feathertail, Cinderpelt, and Flametail]] get killed off.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Tigerheart, Sunfall, Hawkfrost, Talon of Swooping Eagle, the list goes on.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The leader ceremonies.
* ArcWords: Some of the prophecies. "''Pack, pack, kill, kill''" in ''A Dangerous Path''.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Clan Leaders, definitely
* AStormIsComing:
** In the prologue of ''Dark River'', cats feel that rain is coming. Fallen Leaves then goes to the tunnels to take his test, and lies to Rock that there are no signs of rain. [[spoiler: Turns out there is an underground river there, that floods the tunnels during the rain.]]
** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Featherwhisker forecasts rain for a few days, and it starts raining just before the [[BattleInTheRain battle with [=WindClan=]]].
* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: Mapleshade and Hollyleaf]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Cinderpelt]].
** Also, Heavystep, who died but managed to stay on the cast list for quite a while afterwards due to a ContinuitySnarl.
** The Clan Leaders probably count as well, since they literally have nine lives and spend a few moments dead after losing each one before being revived (minus the wound/disease that killed them). Once the ninth is gone though, they are KilledOffForReal.
* {{Backstory}}: Explored a lot with different characters. There's ''The Rise of Scourge'', ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', ''Crookedstar's Promise'', ''Yellowfang's Secret'', and then a number of short stories in the field guides, such as the one about Barley's past. Even the main series has some of these moments.
* BackToBackBadasses: According to Secrets of the Clans, this is a technique taught to apprentices.
* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:Honeyfern]] in ''The Fourth Apprentice''.
** The Ancients and [=StarClan=] in ''The Last Hope''.
* BadassCreed: {{YMMV}} as to how badass it is, but ''Battles of the Clans'' gave us:
--> "[=RiverClan=] ''fish''! [=RiverClan=] ''swim''! [=RiverClan=] warriors use water to ''win''!"
* BadassGrandpa: Whitestorm is one of the oldest active warriors, but he's still a powerful fighter and is popular with all of [=ThunderClan=]. [[spoiler: That is, of course, before he is killed.]]
* BandOfBrothers / FireForgedFriends: The main characters of The New Prophecy.
* BattleInTheRain: In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', battle between [=ThunderClan=] and [=WindClan=] takes place in rain.
** The battle between [=ThunderClan=] and [=ShadowClan=] at the end of ''Into The Wild'' also happens during a storm.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Most medicine cats get screwed over by this.
** Bluestar gets hit pretty hard by this trope as well: [[spoiler:allow a bloodthirsty, needlessly violent cat to become leader and destroy your Clan... or abandon your newborn kits in order to become leader yourself and prevent that tragedy?]]
** Jayfeather ''has'' to become [[spoiler:a medicine cat]] for this exact reason.
* BerserkButton:
** Don't try to say [[spoiler:Tigerheart is in the Dark Forest]] in front of Dovewing.
** Don't break the warrior code when Hollyleaf is around.
** Don't suggest to Crookedstar [[spoiler:that he is like Rainflower]].
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Tigerclaw promises that any cats that come with him will be well rewarded later on; despite this, nobody follows him into exile.
* BigBad: Tigerstar
* BigEater: The characters often joke that Graystripe is one.
* BigNo: Bluestar (then Bluepaw) makes one of these in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', when [[spoiler:her mother is killed in battle]].
* BitchAlert: Sandpaw's first appearance. She snarls that Firepaw smells revolting, and then makes a comment about how he's a kittypet.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]] fits this trope to a T.
* BlasphemousBoast: In ''The Darkest Hour'', Tigerstar claims that he is more powerful than [=StarClan=] because he changed the number of Clans in the forest from four to two.
* BlindSeer: Jayfeather.
* BloodFromTheMouth:
** [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]] coughs up clots of blood shortly before he dies at the end of ''Sunset''.
** [[spoiler:Tigerstar]] at the end of the ''Rise of Scourge'' manga.
** Non-fatal example: At one point in ''Forest of Secrets'', Graystripe has blood bubbling from his mouth.
** After he is [[spoiler:hit by a car]], blood trickles out of [[spoiler:Whitethroat]]'s mouth as he tries to speak.
** In ''Moonrise'' a doomed [[RedShirt Tribe cat]] has blood coming out of its mouth after being slammed against a wall.
** [[spoiler:Snowfur]], when she's [[spoiler:hit by a car]].
** In the short story ''The Clans Decide'', blood comes out of an injured she-cat's mouth as she tries to speak. [[UnexplainedRecovery She gets better]], but she is near death at this point.
** In ''Night Whispers,'' Jayfeather has a vision in which he sees blood spilling from the mouths of every cat in [=ThunderClan=] except [[spoiler:Ivypool]].
* BloodlessCarnage: In the Tigerstar and Sasha manga, those squirrels and frogs and hares they kill look quite clean. The illustrator, Don Hudson, even had a scene where the editors thought that even a ''clean'' dead rabbit looked too creepy.
--> I am working on the Cat book for Tokyopop and I am at an interesting point in the story. The story involves Feral cats and life in the wild. A Feral cat stops and kills a wild hare as described in the script. I drew the layout and it was approved, but at a certain point, the powers that be wanted a change. The dead rabbit looks too creepy. I understand that the pre-teen market may not be into dead rabbits, but why write it into the script? They wanted me to change the angle to obscure the hare, messing up the storytelling. My compromise was to turn the rabbit around, and closing his eyes. It's not dead, just sleeping! No trauma, just a sleepy, knocked out bunny. ([[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s0GsnDo9fJI/R1mEOA3z2lI/AAAAAAAAAvg/wEE_Fyub6l4/s1600-h/cat+layout.jpg Comparison of original and revised sketches]])
* BoringReturnJourney: The trip back from the beavers, and also the portion of the sun-drown-place journey from the Tribe back to the Clans (which was described in ''one paragraph'').
* BreakingTheFellowship: After the great journey, the chosen cats have to split and return back to their clans.
* BreakoutCharacter: Crookedstar, who stars in his own Super Edition. In the Ultimate Leader Election in late 2008, it was he who made it far enough to go up against Firestar at the end. He lost, which is understandable considering that Firestar's the main character that introduced us to the series, but Vicky said in the next Authortracker that even though she expected Firestar to win, she was surprised that out of all the leaders in the running, Crookedstar would be the one to make it so far. Perhaps this is why she decided to have a Super Edition from his point of view. Not bad for a minor character that died in book 5.
* BreakTheCutie: Any and all "cuties" will be broken, and how. [[spoiler:Ashfur]], for example, first appeared as a timid but determined apprentice [[spoiler:that soon had his mother brutally murdered by Tigerstar, lost his mate (Squirrelflight) to the son of Tigerstar (Brambleclaw), and then had to mentor their "son". Finally, in Book 5 of series 3, he goes insane, attempts to murder the main characters, has his throat bitten, thus killing him, while his body gets pushed off a cliff into a river, where his lifeless corpse gets snagged on a rock and be seen bobbing limply in the water by the rest of the Clan. Ouch.]]
** Even though it says "any and all" above, Brightheart deserves a special mention.
** The award probably goes to [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]].
** [[spoiler:Briarlight]] gets this in perhaps the most literal fashion possible.
* BrickJoke: Used in ''Twilight,'' but NOT played for laughs. Near the beginning of the book, the [=ThunderClan=] cats have to drive a badger and her cubs off their territory. Fast-forward to the climax, and [[spoiler:the cats are facing a massive ambush by the badgers that leaves many cats wounded and Cinderpelt dead.]]
* BusCrash: In ''Midnight'', we find out that [[spoiler: Willowpelt]] got killed by a badger. However, the death ceased to be a bus crash when it was depicted in ''Firestar's Quest''.
* BuryYourDisabled: [[spoiler: Snowkit]] gets killed in Dangerous Path because of his disability.
* CainAndAbel:
** Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost.
** And since WordOfGod confirmed that [[spoiler:Firestar and Scourge are half brothers]], some fans believe this applies to them too. Both are inversions, as with Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost, the older brother is the good one, the younger the evil, and with [[spoiler:Firestar and Scourge]] the younger brother is the killer. In both cases, the good brother is the killer.
** Since WordOfGod also said Graystripe's parents (Willowpelt and Patchpelt) and Darkstripe's parents (Willowpelt and Tawnyspots), that makes another pair. Of course, it is the younger, good brother that is the killer in this case as well.
* CallForward: In ''Firestar's Quest'', Firestar wonders if there is another afterlife for evil cats.
* CashCowFranchise: The catalog entry for ''Yellowfang's Secret'' describes the author as '''mega'''-bestselling.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In ''The Darkest Hour'', Tigerstar decides to spare Featherpaw and Stormpaw because he thinks they may still be useful to him.
* CatsAreMean: Played straight, subverted, averted... since the vast majority of the cast is feline, it's only natural that this trope both shows up and gets turned on its head.
* CatsHateWater: Three of the Clans do, at least. [=RiverClan=] doesn't.
* CatsHaveNineLives: The Clan leaders, usually the first eight times they die they enter a trance for a few minutes and are healed by [=StarClan=]. Though there are injuries that can take multiple lives, [[spoiler: like Tigerstar when he got his stomach torn open.]]
* CaughtInASnare:
** The climax of ''Sunset'' involves [[spoiler:Firestar getting caught in a fox trap]].
** Rabbittail in a short story in ''Battles of the Clans'' gets caught in a net meant for rabbits.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: The Tribe lives in one of these.
* CaveMouth: The Moonstone cave is called "Mothermouth" by the cats because the entrance resembles a mouth.
* CessationOfExistence: When a [=StarClan=] or Dark Forest cat is completely forgotten by living cats, they gradually fade away into nothing. However, if either recieves an injury that in life would be fatal, they just disappear instantly.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: It ain't always easy to be a Clan leader.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The Super Editions are a possessive version: ''Firestar's Quest'', ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' (which, unusually, refers to a group and not just one character), ''Crookedstar's Promise'', ''Yellowfang's Secret''.
* ChekhovsGunman: Barley, who turns out to be [[spoiler: an ex [=BloodClan=] member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Jayfeather's swimming ability [[spoiler: comes in handy when Flametail is drowning. It doesn't save Flametail from dying however.]]
* ChewToy: Percy in ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny''. Most of Stick's group gets away with just wallowing in Dodge's incredibly vague OffstageVillainy, but Percy is singled out for both having [[spoiler:[[EyeScream his eye ripped out]]]] and getting [[spoiler:[[GroinAttack fixed]]]]. In fact, he doesn't have any role in the story other than having horrible things happen to him.
* [[ChocolateBaby Chocolate Kit]]
* TheChosenOne: Or four, or three... [=StarClan=] isn't very picky about the number of cats they choose to do things.
* TheClan: Four... er, [[ExpandedUniverse Five]] of them, to be exact.
* CListFodder: Minor characters get slaughtered left and right.
* CombatByChampion: In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', one of the battles for Sunningrocks is decided like this.
* CombatMedic: The few medicine cats who were warriors before they became medicine cats are basically this. Regular medicine cats also get basic training in fighting skills, even though they usually don't end up using them much.
* ComicBookAdaptation: The mangas.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Warrior Code forbids taking mate from another clan to protect against it. Also a frequent accusation against half-clan cats.
* ContinuitySnarl: A somewhat glaring example of this: In ''The Fourth Apprentice'', Yellowfang witnesses [[spoiler:Breezepelt and Brokenstar attacking Jayfeather]] and tells him that [[spoiler:the Dark Forest is rising]]. In ''Fading Echoes'', a book written by a different author, Jayfeather tells her about [[spoiler:the attack and the uprising within the Dark Forest]] and she is shocked and apparently doesn't know anything about what he's talking about. Ummm...
** In ''Secrets of the Clans'', Raggedstar is the leader when his son, Brokenstar, is born. However, in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Brokenpaw is mentioned long before Raggedstar becomes a leader. Argh.
** Another notable one is in the short story "The Elders' Concern", from the official ''Warriors'' app. The story is about how the elders are discussing how they're not happy with Fireheart as deputy, because he's young and not Clanborn and was named after moonhigh... except in this story, he's named deputy immediately after Lionheart; it takes place the day after Lionheart's death. Uh, he was an apprentice when Lionheart died. And how could they forget about Tigerclaw and his attempts to kill Bluestar in order to become leader? It's not as if they forgot about him altogether here; one of the elders says that Fireheart isn't the best fighter of the Clan, and calls Tigerclaw a real warrior.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in The Forgotten Warrior. Millie remarks about Sol, who, despite his earlier wrongdoings, [[spoiler:seemingly]] proved himself by saving Cherrypaw and Molepaw, that "tabbies never change their stripes." Said cat was described as both a tortoiseshell and a tabby.
* CoolCat: Pretty much everyone.
* CoveredInMud: The Tribe rolls in mud to cover their fur in order to disguise their scent and blend into the rock better so that prey doesn't spot them so easily. The visiting Clan cats try this, and aren't too thrilled at the idea, but it works.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Tigerstar. [[HighPressureBlood Tigerstar]], [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Tigerstar]], [[NightmareFuel Tigerstar]]. Having his stomach torn open probably hurt a good bit.]]
* CulturalPosturing: Most cats believe that their own Clan can do no wrong, and that the other Clans are all weaklings or heartless bastards. This often works in [=ThunderClan's=] favour, since the majority of the series is from their [=POV=], but the series does occasionally show that the other Clans are NotSoDifferent. For example, the same is done with [=RiverClan=] when they become the protagonists in ''Crookedstar's Promise''.
* CulturalTranslation: The old forest map was based on an actual forest in England, meaning the first series was set in England, which is also somewhat reflected by some of the wildlife. However, the second series featured a mountain lion, which cannot be found in the UK, and [[spoiler:had a change of location]]. Even though [[spoiler: the Great Journey in no way constitutes crossing the Atlantic Ocean]], the series is now apparently set in the United States.
** One can also argue that the series is still set in Britain due to the lack of rabies despite the cats constantly biting and being bitten by other animals.
*** This isn't entirely impossible, even in the U.S.A. [[CaptainObvious An animal needs to have rabies in the first place in order to transmit it]], so unless the bitten/biting animal had it, there's no risk. That said (assuming the series ''did'' take place in America), it would still be amazing that, in all this time, they never ''once'' addressed this danger.
** WordOfGod: "The first series was set in the county of Hampshire in the UK (on the South Coast, near where I grew up). Then I invented an imaginary setting for [[spoiler:the journey to the lake]], and when they encountered a mountain lion I realized they must have crossed the Atlantic somewhere along the line because American wildlife had started appearing! So it's a fictitious island somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic which has a unique blend of British and American flora and fauna..."
* CursedWithAwesome: The three, but most notably Jayfeather.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bluestar, Crookedstar, Yellowfang...
* DarkChick: [[spoiler: Mapleshade. And Ivypool, to some extent.]].
* DarkestHour: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named]] ''The Darkest Hour'', as well as various other points throughout the series, like ''Dawn'', or the later books in ''Power of Three''.
* DarkSecret: Many cats' forbidden relationships. The parentage of kits really born to forbidden relationships. Visiting the Dark Forest.
* DeadPersonConversation: Talking to [=StarClan=].
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Silverstream and Brightsky]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Flametail]] in ''Night Whispers''.
* DeathIsDramatic:
** Tigerstar is [[spoiler:ripped open from throat to tail and loses ''[[CatsHaveNineLives all nine of his lives]]'' from blood loss]].
** Hawkfrost [[spoiler:gets a wooden stake driven into his throat by his brother and yanked out. He stands right back up as he's gushing blood, and then falls into the lake, which turns red from his blood]].
** [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Feathertail dying after she impales Sharptooth with a stalactite]]]], also serving as her CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** [[spoiler: Bluestar's death, also a HeroicSacrifice and CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
** [[spoiler: Cinderpelt (well, even though she didn't really die in the long run) was ripped apart by badgers, let's not forget, with lotsa blood indeed. This also served as her HeroicSacrifice.]]
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Flametail's death.]]
* DeceptiveDisciple: Tigerstar, and possibly Brokenstar, who has the added bonus of killing and usurping ''[[spoiler:his own father]]''.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Stonefur.
* DemotedToExtra: The major characters in each series become less important as the focus shifts to the younger generation. One example is that fans were trying to figure out whether Graystripe, TheHero's best friend and therefore a major character in the first series, even got mentioned once in ''Sign of the Moon''.
* TheDeterminator: Tigerstar. And ''how.''
* DidNotDoTheResearch:
** The authors have admitted that they know nothing about cat genetics and just make up whatever makes sense to them when coming up with physical descriptions of characters' offspring.
** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Bluekit and Snowkit had their eyes open and were walking around the camp ''way'' too soon after birth.
*** Bluekit and Snowkit's incredibly fast development doesn't just contradict real life, it contradicts ''the rest of the books'', considering we've never seen a kit that was able to speak before the age of two moons.
** Read the births and subsequent sections involving the kits in ''Power of Three'' to any person that has actually been through cat birthing. Anyone at all.
* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Punch Out A Twoleg]]: [=SkyClan=] takes it upon themselves to [[spoiler:defeat the Twoleg who keeps abusing cats.]]
** Also averted when, in the same book, the cats [[spoiler:save a Twoleg kit with a broken leg.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath:
** Whiteclaw falls into the gorge and dies.
** Smokepaw falls to his death when a ledge breaks underneath him. This doesn't stop him from [[SeriesContinuityError coming back in later books]], though.
** A pair of [=ShadowClan=] warriors fall over the top of the quarry to their deaths in ''Starlight''.
** Ancient cat Dark Whiskers is killed this way when blown off a cliff during a storm.
* DissonantSerenity: Sol stays calm and composed all the time, even when surrounded by enemies and [[spoiler:accused of murder]]. He so calm, other cats often find it unsettling. The only times he's lost his cool is whenever he's making a speech (and he's really more "incensed" than "angry"), and when Hollyleaf apparently pushes his BerserkButton, and even then he recovers in ''less than half a second''.
-->"What are you doing here?" Hollyleaf demanded. She could feel every hair on her pelt bristling, her tail fluffing out to twice it's size, and her belly churning with distrust of this powerful cat. "I thought you'd gone."
-->Fury flashed in [Sol's] eyes, and his claws dug into the ground. Yet a hearbeat later he was cool and controlled again, so that Hollyleaf almost believed she had imagined the anger he had betrayed.
* DoctorsOrders: There are plenty of times when a medicine cat says "As your medicine cat, I'm ''ordering'' you to rest."
* DogsAreDumb: The most intelligent dogs shown in the entire series had a vocabulary of about eight words, the two most frequently used being "pack" and "kill".
** It's also worth noting that the dogs mentioned above are defeated by [[spoiler:being tricked into running off a cliff]].
** One dog in ''Sunrise'' was even stupid enough to [[spoiler:stick his head through a fence and right into the claws of a bunch of cats with a grudge]].
*** And don't we all know dogs like this? TruthInTelevision.
** Don't forget the dog in ''Rise of Scourge'' who was scared of kitten Scourge's ''shadow'' (it was a rather fierce looking shadow, but still).
* DontGoInTheWoods: What kittypets seem to be raised on.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Jayfeather (also his BerserkButton). Also don't be too nice to him, or he'll think you're pitying him. And don't mention his blindness, but then again, [[HairTriggerTemper don't seem like you're trying to avoid it, either]].
* DoomedHometown: The forest in the second series.
* DoubleDontKnow: In ''The Darkest Hour'':
--->Firestar let out a long breath. "I don't know, Bramblepaw," he admitted. "I just don't know."
* DragonInChief: Hawkfrost in ''The New Prophecy''. Tigerstar, the BigBad is just as strong and fearsome, but he's hindered by [[spoiler: his being dead.]]
* DramatisPersonae: Each book has allegiances section at the beginning, listing all characters that appear in that book and many that don't.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** [[spoiler:Hollyleaf's death. Instead of dying in a battle, she was crushed as the underground tunnel collapsed.]]
** The grand prize goes to [[spoiler:Rainwhisker]], who was killed by a falling tree branch. ''In between books''.
** What, no mention of [[spoiler:Mudclaw, who got an entire TREE dropped on him when it was struck by lightning?]]
*** Said tree was then used as a bridge, therefore [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally dropping a bridge on him...]]
* DysfunctionJunction:
** In the third series, Crowfeather is using his "mate" just to get his Clanmates to trust him, and and he [[AbusiveParents abuses his son]] (who also has related issues), and is in denial of how much he loves Leafpool and [[spoiler:that he had kits with her]], Lionblaze goes AxCrazy from time-to-time, and is usually horrified by the results, Jayfeather has some serious attitude problems, Hollyleaf is [[LawfulStupid obsessed]] with the [[WellIntentionedExtremist warrior code]] and [[spoiler:eventually [[FaceHeelTurn goes insane]]]], Ashfur is [[spoiler: trying to kill Squirrelflight's family to get revenge]], Leafpool, who can't seem to succeed at anything, is incredibly depressed [[spoiler:and possibly suicidal]], and a lot of other cats throughout the course of the series become depressed because of the the authors' cruel treatment of their characters.
** It continues on into the fourth series, with Dovewing ([[spoiler:Who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be normal]], because she can't handle all of the responsibility that has been thrust on her, and hates the way it has distanced her from her sister]]), and Ivypool, ([[spoiler:who is insanely jealous of her sister and wants to be noticed as much as her, to the point where her feelings of jealousy and loneliness became manipulated by the BigBad]]).
** Then we have Millie and her kits. [[spoiler:Millie's daughter, Briarlight, becomes paralyzed from the waist down when a tree falls on her and it keeps her from ever becoming a Warrior, having to live in the medicine den, and her main activity for each day is to drag herself to and from the fresh-kill pile. This causes Millie to become obsessive over her crippled daughter and completely ignore the fact that she has to other kits, which in turn effects Blossomfall (Millie's other daughter) to visit the Dark Forest and learn from Tigerstar because she's feeling unloved and unwanted at home all thanks to Millie. Bumblestripe, Millie's son, takes the developments surprisingly well.]]
* [[EarlyBirdCameo Early Cat Cameo]]: Thistleclaw is mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'' and shows up in ''Rise Of Scourge'' before his real debut in ''Bluestar's Prophecy''.
** Tawnyspots and Goosefeather were first mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'', though the latter not by name. In addition, Sunstar and Featherwhisker were mentioned in ''Secrets of the Clans'' before their debuts in ''Code of the Clans'' and ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', respectively.
* EarNotch: With large groups of fighting cats, someone's bound to get a ripped ear, and it does happen often. One example is Tigerstar; it's one of his more frequently noted physical characteristics.
* EitherOrProphecy: [=StarClan=] seems to give a lot of these. Take the prophecy at the top of the page, for instance. It does not say that fire ''will'' save the Clan ([[spoiler:indeed, a forest fire nearly ''kills'' the Clan in the fourth book]]). A minor prophecy in the second arc is misinterpreted as well due to this trope.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Smart is Midnight, but she no speak cat good.
* TheEmpath: Jayfeather.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Seeing as they live in Clans that do not allow intermixing... See also TangledFamilyTree below.
* EverythingsWorseWithBees: A scene in [[spoiler:[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny]].
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Tigerstar Vs. Scourge]]
* ExactWords: In ''Midnight'', after Leafpool sees Squirrelflight leave for her journey, Cinderpelt asks if she knows where Squirrelflight is. Leafpool is able to say no because she didn't know where Squirrelflight was at the exact moment.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** The publishers thought ''Cruel Season'' was [[MediaWatchdogs too depressing of a title]] (never mind the fact that said book ''was'' depressing), even though earlier books have dark names like ''A Dangerous Path'', ''The Darkest Hour'' and ''Long Shadows.'' Of course, the title change didn't stop protective parents from reacting negatively to the actual content of the book.
** ''The New Prophecy'' series was supposed to consist of three books, until the publisher decided that the series was far too profitable and made Hunter write another series - which lead to there being three more in ''that'' series.
*** There was originally only going to be one book, ''Into the Wild''. It became a trilogy, which later turned into a six-book series (followed by, let's see, four additional arcs, four super editions, four field guides, and thirteen mangas...)
* ExpandedUniverse: Manga, Super Editions, Field Guides, short stories, etc. See above.
* EyeScream:
** [[spoiler:Brightheart's face being mauled and almost completely ripped off by a dog.]] A later bit of narration in [=TPoT=] implies her parts of her skull remain visible.
** [[spoiler:Longtail going blind from an infection in his eyes after a rabbit claws them out counts, too.]]
** Brokenstar [[spoiler:gets his eyes clawed by Yellowfang and is permanently blinded]].
** And we now have [[spoiler:Percy]] in ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny''.
* FaithHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hollyleaf]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Swiftpaw, Tigerstar, Mudclaw, Hawkfrost, to name a few.]] Some of them would qualify for CruelAndUnusualDeath.
** If [[spoiler:the nightmares Tigerstar showed Lionblaze of himself murdering Heatherpaw/tail]] count, then they certainly qualify. Very much so.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Pretty much ''every single fight''. After Lionblaze [[spoiler:discovers his power of invincibility in ''Outcast'']], pretty much every fight he gets in features large amounts of this and HighPressureBlood.
* FanNickname: Kit Machine (Ferncloud), Teapot ([The] ''Power of Three''; [=tPoT=]), Oats (''Omen of the Stars''; [=OotS=]).
* FantasticRacism: From many canon characters, but also, some say, from the fans. It's another one of those things they disagree on.
* FatalFlaw: Scourge's lack of belief in [=StarClan.=]
* FearOfThunder: The official app claims that Hollyleaf has this ever since Long Shadows, when [[spoiler:Ashfur threatened to kill her and her littermates [[DramaticThunder during a storm]]]].
* FeatheredFiend: Birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, and [[OwlBeDamned owls]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since these birds are larger than they are, and can carry off a kit (or in the eagles' case, a full-grown cat).
* FightingForAHomeland: [[spoiler:[=SkyClan=]]], when they were exiled from the forest. The other four Clans, when [[DoomedHometown the forest is destroyed]] - but at least [[ThePromisedLand they know there's good territory waiting for them]].
* FirstSnow: Happens a couple times. In ''Fire and Ice'', Fireheart is amazed because he hasn't seen it before; he was shut inside as a kit when still living with Twolegs when it last snowed. He quickly learns that snow makes it difficult to move around, however. In ''The Darkest Hour'', Firestar is out with his apprentice Bramblepaw when it begins to snow. Bramblepaw chases the snowflakes gleefuly, and Fireheart wonders whether Bramblepaw's evil father Tigerstar ever played with snowflakes.
* {{Flanderization}}: [=RiverClan=]'s fish-loving tendencies (no, not like ''[[ButYouScrewOneGoat that]]''), as well as the general LoveItOrHateIt nature of fish as prey.
* FlatEarthAtheist:
** Cloudtail acts like this around the end of the first series. You'd think that seeing fatal wounds stitch up by themselves and hearing actual, accurate prophecies would be enough for the kid...
** There's also Mothwing, who is a medicine cat despite not believing in [=StarClan=], which is essentially the cats' equivalent of an atheist priest. Apparently her explanation for medicine cats knowing things [=StarClan=] has told her is that ''they subconsciously figure it out by themselves and all convince themselves that a dead cat told them it in a dream'', which is arguably more ridiculous than what she is trying to explain. It gets even worse in ''Fading Echoes'', where she sees something strange happen to Mistystar while she's receiving her nine lives and manages to figure out that Jayfeather is essentially ''reading her mind'', but she ''still'' can't comprehend that [=StarClan=] exists.
*** Another interpretation of what she says/how she acts is that she acknowledges that they probably exist, but refuses to have faith in them or try communicating with them... for some reason.
*** The reason she doesn't have faith or try communicating is probably because [=StarClan=] lie consistently, rarely help them out, and when they do send them a message, tend to do so in obscure, twisted ways when they could easily just tell them straight out.
* FlawExploitation: Tigerstar and Hawkfrost
* FlipFlopOfGod: Has happened sometimes.
* FragileSpeedster: [=WindClan=] cats in general.
* FramingDevice: In the field guides ''Code'' and ''Battles of the Clans'', the reader is a kittypet who is visiting the Clans and being told stories by the characters.
* FreudianExcuse: Pretty much every villain in the series. Tigerstar [[spoiler: had a father who abandoned him to become a kittypet, and a mentor who taught him to be violent and evil]]. Brokenstar was abused by his foster mother, Lizardstripe. Scourge [[spoiler: was bullied by his siblings, Ruby and Socks. They told him he would be drowned in the river if he wasn't adopted by Twolegs, so he ran away, only to be attacked almost to death by Tigerstar.]] Sol [[spoiler: had a father who neglected his kits, and a mother who always told them stories about [=SkyClan=] cats and was upset with her life. Because she couldn't take care of them, she gave them all to Twolegs. Sol thought that, if he was a [=SkyClan=] cat, his mother wouldn't have given him away.]] Mapleshade [[spoiler:was hoping to become [=ThunderClan=] leader, but they drove her out after she had kits with a [=RiverClan=] tom. She then tried taking her kits to [=RiverClan=], but they drowned on the way. [=RiverClan=] rejected her, her mate blamed her for the kits' death, and he took on another mate within his Clan.]]
* GenderBender: A ''lot'', most of them being one-time typos. Permanent/more major ones include:
** Birchstar from ''Code of the Clans'': male in first story, female in second
** Foxheart: female in ''Secrets of the Clans'' (thought by [=ShadowClan=] to be the mother of Brokentail) > male in ''Bluestar's Prophecy''
** Mosskit: male in ''Forest of Secrets'' and ''Secrets of the Clans'' but female in ''Cats of the Clans'' and ''Bluestar's Prophecy''. WordOfGod has stated that Mosskit was female.
** Mintkit and Sagekit: Mintkit was male and Sagekit was female in the allegiances of ''Firestar's Quest'', but they flipped genders in the actual text. ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' confirms the allegiances of Firestar's Quest to be correct.
** Rowanclaw: female in ''Dawn'' > male in ''Starlight'' and subsequent books. Fathers [[spoiler:Tawnypelt's kits]] and later [[spoiler:becomes deputy]].
** Rippletail: female in ''Twilight'' > male in ''The Sight''
** Pouncetail: female in ''The Sight'' > male in ''Dark River''
** Sedgewhisker: female in ''The Sight'' > male in ''Dark River'' > female in ''Sunrise''
** Gorsetail: female in ''Sunrise'' (was actually a mother of kits earler in TPOT) > male in ''The Fourth Apprentice''
** Rushpaw: male in main OOTS series > female in ''Battles of the Clans''
* GenkiGirl: Squirrelpaw, though it fades pretty quickly.
** Cinderpaw too, though that stops after [[spoiler:she gets hit by a car.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Learning that her parents broke the Warrior Code, which she'd obsessed over for the majority of her life, pretty much [[BreakTheCutie shattered what was left of Hollyleaf's sanity]].]]
* GoodShepherd: Common archetype for medicine cats.
* GRatedSex: Beyond all of the characters that have been born to the various {{Official Couple}}s throughout the series (one litter being both implied and confirmed by WordOfGod to be the result of a one-night stand), there are some specific scenes that are very noticeable:
** Bluestar and Oakheart were by far the most blatant, provoking many thoughts of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "how did they get away with this?"]]. Oakheart asks Bluestar to meet him somewhere at night, saying he wants to get to know her better. After a romantic evening, Bluestar starts begging to let herself enjoy "Just one night!". Next thing you know, Oakheart is building them a nest, and the next chapter skips to the next morning. Soon after, Bluestar is pregnant.
** Sasha and Tigerstar. Tigerstar spends a night in Sasha's den [[IntimateHealing "recovering"]]. Sasha is pregnant afterwards.
** Leafpool and Crowfeather run away together, at which point the narration switches to another character until a bit later, at which point we are informed that "they had been traveling all day even though neither of them had gotten any sleep the previous night." [[spoiler:Leafpool has Crowfeather's kits shortly afterwards]].
** Before what Firestar thinks will be the final battle with Tigerstar, he starts thinking about how many of his cats might die. He then asks Sandstorm to join him in his den.
** Daisy and Spiderleg are pretty much outright stated to have had a one-night stand.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: Some cats, particularly the elders, insist upon this when prey or herbs are low.
* GrimUpNorth: [=ShadowClan=], normally thought to be the most "evil" Clan, lives in the northernmost territory. There's even a saying in [=ThunderClan=] that the cold north wind blows over every [=ShadowClan=] cat and chills their heart.
* GrumpyOldMan: Some elders are portrayed this way, notably Mousefur and Tangle.
* HappyRain: The end of ''The Fourth Apprentice'', signifying the end of the drought.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Ivypool after seeing Tigerstar talking about destroying the forest.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Bluestar suffers a particularly nasty one after Tigerclaw's betrayal. It takes her two entire books to get over it completely... just in time for a {{Heroic Sacrifice}}.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** Firestar and Graystripe
** Ravenpaw and Barley, although pretty much every ''Warriors'' fan that doesn't hate slash (and even some who do) believes that Ravenpaw and Barley are more than HeterosexualLifePartners. It's also worth noting that [[WordOfGod the author herself said]] that she envisions them "[[HoYay like a married couple]]," and that they are ''perfectly happy with just each other'' and ''don't want any girls to boss them around''.
*** Made even more blatant by Ravenpaw's manga trilogy.
*** Let's just end it here and say that Barley and Ravenpaw's relationship is more HoYay than HeterosexualLifePartners.
* HighPressureBlood: A few instances, specifically:
** Tigerstar. Any wound inflicted on him seems to bleed twice as much as a wound inflicted on someone else. And of course, when he [[spoiler:bleeds to death ''[[CatsHaveNineLives nine times]]'']].
** [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]]'s death. It just keeps coming and coming...
** Every fight involving Lionblaze from ''Outcast'' onward.
** Firestar has been having a few of these moments lately. In ''Fading Echoes'', he's slipping in a pool of his own blood as it's still gushing out of him.
** [[spoiler:Stick's daughter Red after he accidently stabs her neck]].
* [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked By Tigerstar]]
* HissBeforeFleeing
* HoldYourHippogriffs: [[CueTheFlyingPigs Pigs aren't said to fly]], hedgehogs are. You don't split hairs, but split whiskers. And 'a load of foxdung' and 'Who made dirt in his fresh-kill?' are used as substitutes for... erm... yeah.
* TheHomewardJourney: ''Moonrise''. The journey to the sea was hard, but the journey home is just as dangerous ([[spoiler:In fact, one of them didn't make it back.]])
* HumansAreCthulhu: Much of what the Twolegs do is naturally incomprehensible to the cats, and they view Twolegs as one of the greatest threats ([[spoiler:especially after their original forest is torn down to make way for a new [[strike:highway]] Thunderpath]]).
* ICantFeelMyLegs: Used with [[spoiler:Briarpaw]] when a tree falls on her. She ends up with her hindlegs paralyzed.
* IJustWantToBeNormal:
** [[spoiler:Dovewing. She even says the phrase exactly in ''Fading Echoes''.]]
** Lionblaze, to a lesser extent. He even sympathizes with [[spoiler:Dovewing]]'s situation in ''The Fourth Apprentice''.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:Ivypool, seeing as she trains with the Dark Forest because of how special her sister is.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Sharptooth]] and [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath
* InitiationCeremony: Of the pleasant type, joining the clan requires taking an oath of loyalty in front of the clan, and adopting a clan suitable name.
* InfantImmortality: [[AvertedTrope does not exist.]] When they say AnyoneCanDie, they ''mean'' it. One particular example is Snowkit, a ''deaf kitten'', who is eaten by a hawk.
* InfoDump: The narration occasionally spouts large amounts of exposition to avoid ContinuityLockOut. It doesn't work very well.
* InstantOracleJustAddWater: Well, the medicine cats ''do'' have to touch their nose to, or drink from, the Moonpool in order to receive dreams from [=StarClan=]...
* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: [=ShadowClan=] in the first book.
* IronicEcho: In ''Beyond the Code'', "Why do things like this always happen to me?" First it's [[spoiler:Sol's mother, Cinders, in a flashback after her mate leaves her because she complained too often, and Sol was devastated. Later, in the present day, Sol says it himself when he wants to be made a warrior at the Gathering and he thinks Leafstar deliberately tried to embarrass him by refusing for the time being.]]
* Irony: In ''Outcast'', thinking about [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Crowfeather]], Hollyleaf thinks "I'm glad he's not ''my'' father!" [[spoiler:Three guesses what happens three books later.]]
* IsThatAThreat: In ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny'':
-->'''Skipper:''' "I've seen Red around a lot lately. Next time, it might be a tuft of her fur that's left beside a dead Twoleg pet."
-->'''Stick:''' "Leave Red out of this. And don't make threats you can't keep."
-->'''Misha:''' "Oh, they're not threats. They're promises."
* ISurrenderSuckers: Firestar has used this trick on several occasions to great effect, defeating opponents that otherwise had the advantage.
** This also is used by other cats. According to ''Secrets of the Clans'', this is a tactic taught to apprentices.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:Whitestorm. "I’ve been proud to serve as your deputy."]]
* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: [[spoiler:Dovewing's ability to sense events from far away]], much to the young cat's surprise.
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: [=StarClan=] thought it was a good idea to hide [[spoiler:the secret about their parents]] from Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather. ''[[BreakTheCutie It]]'' ''[[DysfunctionJunction wasn't]]''.
* [[ItsRainingMen It's Raining Cats]]: The "Skydrop" move that [=SkyClan=] developed and that [=ThunderClan=] later uses.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: [[OhMyGods Great StarClan]], does it.
* IWishedYouWereDead: [[spoiler:Lionblaze]] to [[spoiler:Heathertail]] at the end of ''Eclipse''. She doesn't actually die, but [[spoiler:Lionblaze]] spends the majority of the rest book [[spoiler:being tortured by nightmares about killing her]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Jayfeather. Not the friendliest cat in the world to be around, although that's hardly surprising, considering [[spoiler:his father is Crowfeather]], but still always does his best to help his Clanmates whenever and however he can.
** Crowfeather could also count, but Feathertail and Leafpool are the only ones who have [[HiddenHeartofGold actually seen his good side]]. It's worth a mention that Crowfeather [[spoiler: was ''a lot'' more of a pleasant cat before his first love, Feathertail died.]]
*** He was still a jerk back then. The only difference is that now he's actually abusive.
** Pretty much all of [=ShadowClan=] after the first series.
* JobTitle
* JustSoStory: There are stories in ''Secrets of the Clans'' that explain how tigers got stripes and how adders came to be.
* KangarooCourt: In ''The Darkest Hour'', what Tigerstar calls a "trial" for the prisoners. It's really nothing but whipping up hatred for the half-Clan cats so that their own Clanmates would mistrust them enough to want them driven out or killed.
* KarmaHoudini: Blackstar. He was one of the minions of two different {{Big Bad}}s, killed a [=ThunderClan=] elder while trying to kidnap some kits, and murdered the [=RiverClan=] deputy in cold blood in front of the entire Clan. He then goes on to be Clan leader, and Firestar lets him off with what can best be described as a stern warning. None of this is ever mentioned ever again.
** Blackstar was deputy of [=ShadowClan=], therefore, he succeeds Tigerstar. This is explicit Clan law, which the cats take ''very seriously''. Not allowing him to become leader would have been counter to the Warrior Code, and interfering in another Clan's business, also counter to the Code. In other words, a very serious breach of [=StarClan's=] laws.
*** That would explain why they don't just invade [=ShadowClan=] and kill him, but it doesn't explain the sheer lack of animosity any Clan shows towards him for those actions, as well as the fact that they're never acknowledged to the point of borderline {{CanonDiscontinuity}}. Not to mention that he's probably going to end up in [=StarClan=] when he dies, even though other cats have gone to the Dark Forest for doing less horrible things with the exact same justification.
*** He never was the one deciding to do those horrible things mind you. According to the warrior code, part 13 "The word of the Clan leader is law". He did, after all still follow the code. Though he really shouldn't have let the code get in the way of doing what's right. Also, he's not dead yet. Karma may yet come back to bite him.
* KissingCousins: Seeing as they're cats, and clans that don't allow intermixing, this is kind of inevitable.
** WordOfGod also confirmed one pairing that turned out to be BrotherSisterIncest. It wasn't on purpose because she didn't realize that they had the same parents (they were in different litters, a couple seasons apart), but she decided to just leave it once she found out.
* [[ChildrenAreInnocent Kits Are Innocent]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [=StarClan=] members can forget parts of their past they don't like.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Dovepaw and Ivypaw are born at the ending of ''Sunrise'' (the last book in the third series), with Jayfeather realizing that [[spoiler:one of them is the third cat in the prophecy]]. Both of them are main characters in the fourth series.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: One noteworthy example would be the way the names "Firestar" and "Tigerstar", both big spoilers for late in the first series, are being thrown around indiscriminately on this very page.
* LawfulStupid: Hollyleaf was turning into this before [[spoiler:her death.]]
** [[WordofGod The Erins]] have remained neutral on [[spoiler:whether or not Hollyleaf is dead]].
* LighterAndSofter: Fans thought this about ''Power of Three''. Then ''Outcast'' happened.
** ''Power of Three'' starting out LighterAndSofter and ending DarkerAndEdgier makes this a one arc long case of CerebusSyndrome.
* LightIsNotGood: Especially with [[spoiler:Sol]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters : Each book features a section at the front which lists all the characters. The most recent books' Allegiances sections have OVER ONE HUNDRED characters listed. (Of course, several of them are background characters, kits, and cats who haven't even made an appearance.) There are over [[BeyondTheImpossible 700 named characters in the whole series.]]
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt in early books. Who's their dad? [[BigBad Tigerstar.]]
* LostInTransmission: Whitethroat is injured, and Fireheart questions him about Runningwind's death. But just when Whitethroat opens his mouth begins to speak, a monster roars past so Fireheart can't hear him, and [[HisNameIs when Whitethroat tries to speak a second time, he dies]].
* LoveDodecahedron: Check out the main page, because we don't even want to start here.
* LoveMakesYouEvil : [[spoiler:Ashfur]]
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Luke I Am Your Mother]]: Almost abused. We have THREE counts of this so far, and one [[InvertedTrope Luke I am NOT your mother]].
* MadOracle: Goosefeather was often seen as this, and indeed, many of his prophecies and signs seem rather questionable. The problem is that there are some actual premonitions in there too, so everyone ignores him when he starts getting ''really'' bad feelings about Tigerkit's future.
* ManipulativeBastard: Tigerstar.
* MayDecemberRomance: Pinestar and Leopardfoot... he's already a ''leader'' on (or close to) his last life when she's ''born''.
* MeaningfulName: A Clan cat's name is an indicator of their rank in the Clan hierarchy: kits' names end in -kit, apprentices' in -paw, leaders' in -star... the more unique names belong to warriors and medicine cats. Further, many cats have names that reflect some aspect of their appearance: Firestar got his name from his oft-mentioned "flame-colored pelt", and as for Halftail and One-eye... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin isn't it obvious?]]
** And outside of the Clan naming conventions, there is also Sol, who is named after the Roman god of the sun, which makes sense because he [[spoiler:predicts a total solar eclipse]]. Although, he hasn't done anything sun-related since ''Eclipse''...
** Jayfeather and Hollyleaf. [[spoiler:Their suffixes are references to their real parents, ''Leaf''pool and Crow''feather'', and Jayfeather's prefix is a further reference to his father, since jays and crows are different species of bird within the same family. Hollyleaf's prefix relates to poisonous holly berries, a reference to her trying to force feed Leafpool deathberries in ''Sunrise'']].
* MeaningfulRename: Names are changed quite often, usually indicating [[RiteofPassage change of status]](promotion to apprentice or warrior), more rarely because of some physical change, e.g. Halftail, One-Eye, Lostface or Crookedkit.
* TheMedic: Medicine cats, of course.
* MercyKill: Littlecloud uses Deathberries to save dying cats from pain.
* MightyGlacier: [=ThunderClan=] and [=RiverClan=] cats.
* TheMigration: The plot of ''Dawn''.
* MindScrew: Probably the best way to describe trying to create an accurate family tree of every named character in the series.
** [[http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8792/familytree80.png It's been done.]]
** Jayfeather's visions in ''Night Whispers''. You can't even tell they're visions until they're over.
* MirroredConfrontationShot: The [[http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/harperchildrensImages/isbn/large/1/9780060525651.jpg cover]] of ''A Dangerous Path''.
** And [[http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv237/Flametail_von_Karma/Book%20Covers%20and%20Official%20Art/chinesetdh.jpg the Taiwanese version]] of ''The Darkest Hour''.
* TheMissingFaction: [=SkyClan=].
* MonsterIsAMommy: The badger and her cubs in ''Twilight'', and the dead fox and its cubs in ''The Sight''.
* MoralityPet: Snowfur for Thistleclaw.
** Honeyfern and Poppyfrost wind up being this for Berrynose. He's still [[spoiler: not exactly ready to be having kittens]] but, hey, at least he's trying to act decent.
** Brightheart for Cloudtail.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Hawkfrost. [[SarcasmMode Who most definitely]] ''[[SarcasmMode didn't]]'' [[SarcasmMode want to take over [=RiverClan=] and eventually rule the whole forest]].
* MotorMouth: Crookedstar's apprentice Sedgepaw.
-->Crookedstar's head was spinning. "Slow down," he meowed.\\
"Sorry!" Sedgepaw flattened her ears. "I know I talk too much but I just want to be the best apprentice. I'm so glad you're my mentor. You're the strongest cat in [=RiverClan=], except Rippleclaw, but he's old - not an elder or anything - but you're younger and you remember what it's like to be a 'paw. And I'm going to listen to everything you tell me..."
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The climax of ''The Fourth Apprentice'', where [[spoiler:Jayfeather breaks his stick]]. It is the most dramatic scene about [[spoiler:a cat breaking a piece of wood in half]] that you will ''ever'' read.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Most main characters will end up appearing with [=StarClan=] ([[spoiler:or in Tigerstar and Hawkfrost's case, the Dark Forest]]) at some point after they die. The best example of this trope is [[spoiler:Spottedleaf]], who has appeared in almost every single book in the series, even though she died in the very first book.
** [[spoiler:And now it seems that Brokenstar has attacked Jayfeather from beyond the grave. Yellowfang hints that a massive war between [=StarClan=] and the cats of the Dark Forest is coming, and that the living cats will be heavily involved.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Leaders have supreme authority, and their orders are followed, no matter how insane or evil they are.
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* TheNamesake: [[spoiler:Midnight]].
* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom: Tribe cats, although most of the time they use shortened versions of their names.
* TheNapoleon: Scourge.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Tigerstar towards the end of the first series.
* NeverSayGoodbye: Fireheart does this to [[spoiler:Yellowfang]] when he finds her [[AlmostDeadGuy dying]]. She starts to tell him something she wants him to hear before she dies, and he stops her, insisting she isn't going to die. She knows she is, though, and continues speaking.
* NeverTrustATitle: The title is ''Firestar's Quest'', but back when it was released and wasn't ''quite'' what readers were expecting, it was often said by fans that [[spoiler:''Firestar and Sandstorm's Quest'']] would be a more accurate title.
* NeverTrustATrope: The Clans often say this about each other. "You can't trust a [=ThunderClan=] cat!"
* NewEraSpeech: Tigerstar gives one at a Gathering in ''The Darkest Hour'' when he announces the formation of [=TigerClan=].
* [[SpringIsLate Newleaf Is Late]]
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: A bit of subversion with Lionblaze, since his power covers the incredibly wide umbrella of "[[spoiler:being ''really'' good at fighting]]", meaning the authors are able to make them take the shape of whatever they're in the mood for writing. [[spoiler:What to show how crazy and out off control he is? He is invulnerable and bloodthirsty to the point where he bathes in his enemies' blood. Need something heavy held up? He has super strength. Bullet time is fun to write? He fights in bullet time]].
* NewSeasonNewName: Each series has a different subtitle: ''Warriors'', ''Warriors: The New Prophecy'', ''Warriors: The Power of Three'', ''Warriors: Omen of the Stars''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hey, [[spoiler: Ivypool]] we know your intentions were good, but [[spoiler: trusting the Dark Forest caused Firestar to lose a life and Russetfur to die. Hope the worthless territory was worth it.]]
* NoAntagonist: ''Power of Three''.
* TheOmniscient: Rock. ''Cats of the Clans'' makes it clear that he knows everything about the clans and tribe.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]] at the end of the third arc. Not explicitly invoked, though, so a little less clear odds of coming back than usual.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Scourge]] manages to [[spoiler:[[OneHitKill kill Tigerstar in one hit]]]] by [[spoiler:doing so much damage that Tigerstar dies ''nine times''.]]
* OhCrap: Billystorm pulls this when Leafstar [[DeathGlare gives him a death glare]] when their kits tell her that [[spoiler:their dad wants to take them to his Twoleg's place to stay safe for a while]].
* OldDog: In ''The Rise of Scourge'', an old dog called Sam is sleeping in an alley. Tiny is afraid it'll eat him, but it's too old to chase him, and it loses a tooth as it gets up. As Tiny tries to use the tooth to get his collar off, it gets stuck, and then he claims he got it by ''killing'' a dog. So it's thanks to Sam the OldDog that Tiny became Scourge, leader of [=BloodClan=].
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There have been three different cats named Birchstar, two Ashfurs, three Rocks, and each healer of the Tribe of Rushing Water adopts the name of Stoneteller, among other examples.
* OneWordTitle: The entirety of the second series. Also, ''Outcast'', ''Eclipse'', and ''Sunrise''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two Tribe of Endless Hunting ancestors named Fall and Slant are mentioned in ''Sign of the Moon''. We never hear their full Tribe names, just their nicknames.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Leaders stay dead for a few minutes before getting the wound that killed them healed and waking up.
* OpposedMentors: In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', the titular character is taught by his real mentor, Cedarpelt, but, unknown to other cats, he also is trained in his dreams by the deceased warrior Mapleshade. Mapleshade focuses more on combat skills, while Cedarpelt tries to explain that being a warrior is about more than just being a good fighter. Even their advice on battle moves differs, though that can be explained by the fact that [[spoiler:Mapleshade came from another Clan]].
** In addition, Firestar has a split mentorship for two moons between Lionheart and Tigerstar. As you would expect, they argue a lot. However, two moons into his apprenticeship, he gets Bluestar as his permanent mentor.
* OverlyLongName: Most of the cats of the Tribe of Rushing water have these, like Brook Where Small Fish Swim or Teller of the Pointed Stones.
* OwlBeDamned: Owls are often thought of as ill omens. Justified, since an owl seems quite large to a cat, and owls have been known to carry off kits. However, [=ThunderClan=] does occasionally look for owls at night, because if it's windy and they're having trouble scenting prey, they can follow an owl and find prey that way.
* PanickyExpectantFather: [[TheScrappy Berrynose]] of all cats. Of course, being Berrynose, he is this in the most annoying and bossy way possible.
* PastLifeMemories: Cinderheart has memories of her past life as Cinderpelt, but she has only ever shown signs of remembering them in her dreams, or recalls her past life subconsciously; for example, Cinderpelt's former apprentice Leafpool notes Cinderheart flicks her paw in the same way Cinderpelt did, as well as another character once thinking she was acting WiseBeyondHerYears, and Cinderheart remembering the distance between the Great Sycamore and [=ThunderClan's=] camp in the Forest, even though she had been born after the Clans had left the Forest. [[spoiler:Eventually she does recover ''all'' her memories of being Cinderpelt.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Scourge. '''AND FUCKING HOW.'''
** Any apprentice who's worth their salt in battle counts, particularly Thistlepaw from ''Bluestar's Prophecy.''
* PowerTrio: Firepaw, Graypaw, and Ravenpaw formed one in ''Into the Wild'' before Ravenpaw left. In Power of Three, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf formed one before [[spoiler:Hollyleaf supposedly died]]. [[spoiler:She]] was then replaced by Dovewing.
* {{Prequel}}: ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', ''Crookedstar's Promise'', ''Yellowfang's Secret'', the planned fifth series (though that will take place much earlier in time than the Super Editions).
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Just about all of the Clan cats at one point or another, but probably [=ShadowClan=] most of all, considering how often their pride is pointed out. They consider themselves to be superior to pretty much any cat that doesn't live in a Clan. Even then, they generally consider their birth Clan to be better than the other three. Outsiders who have joined Clans often have to deal with prejudice against them due to not being "Clanborn".
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Every medicine cat, actually.
** And [[TheChosenOne Firestar]], or any of the other [[TheChosenOne Chosen Ones]].
*** The ''Warriors'' app reveals that his mother had one before he was born. Maybe it runs in the family?
* PublicExecution: Stonefur's death.
* PublisherChosenTitle: ''Sunrise''. Vicky wanted it to be called ''Cruel Season''.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Chosen cats from New Prophecy join back together to scout the lake in Starlight and to help the tribe in Outcast.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:Bluestar attempts to after Tigerclaw betrays her--the bad luck that [=ThunderClan=] receives afterwards]] causes her to declare war on her ancestors. She comes around [[spoiler:as her children forgive her as she's dying]].
* RageAgainstTheMentor
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dovewing gives one to Ivypool after Ivypool pushes one too many [[BerserkButton berserk buttons.]]
** Leafstar herself gives one to Sol after [[spoiler:he steals her kits to rescue them so that he can prove to be a warrior.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Squirrelflight and Leafpool, anyone?
* ReformedCriminal: Blackstar. After doing things against the warrior code (stealing kits from another Clan, killing other cats needlessly), he lived as a rogue for a while, but eventually rejoined the Clan, became its leader, and hasn't done anything like that since.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: It is considered to be a huge honor to be mentored by the Clan leader or, to a lesser degree, the deputy. It occurs only a couple times in the series, most notably in the first book when Bluestar chooses Firepaw as her apprentice. It is also considered an honor to train as the medicine cat's apprentice, because it is such an important position; each medicine cat only trains one apprentice in their lifetime. In that case, however, it usually isn't a surprise because the younger cat already has an interest in healing and helps out the medicine cat for a while before officially being apprenticed.
* {{Retcon}}: Since the first book in the series, Blackstar has had black paw''s''. However, as of ''Sign of the Moon'', he only has one black paw.
** Bluestar's Prophecy and Crookedstar's Promise were set in the same timeline. In one shared scene between the two books, in a gathering, the cats' dialogue was retconned to reference an event in Crookedstar's Promise (which was the later released of the two).
* {{Retronym}}:
** The first set of six was called simply ''Warriors'', but that became the series name altogether. To distinguish the first six from the rest, fans usually use "the first arc", or "the original series".
** The Graystripe manga trilogy never had its own trilogy subtitle like the others; perhaps they weren't originally planning on doing more manga after his? The boxed set of his three now calls the trilogy "Graystripe's Adventure".
* RiteOfPassage: Quite a few, apprenticeship represents the end of childhood, becoming a warrior is a mark of adulthood. Getting your first apprentice is also a meaningful and awaited mark, since it allows a cat to become a deputy.
** Pretty much any time there is a ceremony going on, it's a rite of passage.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Kind of. Rats are basically just normal-sized rats, but are fearsome and universally loathed by cats. And, of course, rats are much bigger compared to cats than to humans.
* RomanticFalseLead: Ashfur in ''Twilight''.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Rogue" is a term that is used regularly in the series. Cue bad fanfiction authors spelling it wrong all the time.
** Also expect to occasionally find people asking others what their favourite "[[StoryArc arch]]" is, or what "[[{{Canon}} cannon]]" pairings they like.
** The most frequently misspelled names are probably "[[AChristmasCarol Scrouge]]" (Scourge) and "[[GroinAttack Loinblaze]]" (Lionblaze).
* RuleOfThree: The ''third'' series, ''Power of Three'', with ''three'' protagonists.
* RunningGag: Almost every time [[MeaningfulName Runningnose]] makes an appearance, one of the main characters will remark that he can't be that great of a medicine cat since he can't even cure his own cold.
** To add to that, in the French version [[{{Woolseyism}} his name literally means "hay fever"]].
** Even ''dying'' isn't enough to stop him from being the butt of this joke...
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]], and to a [[BreakTheCutie lesser extent]], her brothers.
** [[spoiler: Bluestar]] after ''Forest of Secrets''.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: This seems to be the attitude of a good many elders. WordOfGod has admitted that the influence of one of their older pet cats had something to do with it.
* SecondPersonNarration: Several stories - or the narration between the stories - in the [[ExpandedUniverse field guides]] are written this way. Occasionally it will be as if the reader is a cat interacting with the characters. Other times, it will be from one character speaking this way to another specific character that appears in the books. At times - notably the "so-and-so speaks" portions - the identity of the "you" isn't necessarily clear.
* SecretRelationship: [[OnceAnEpisode Everywhere, all the time]]. [[spoiler:Raggedstar/Yellowfang, Bluestar/Oakheart, Graystripe/Silverstream, Crowfeather/Leafpool, Lionblaze/Heathertail, Dovewing/Tigerheart]]... Great [=StarClan=], the list is endless. [[spoiler:[[StarCrossedLovers And they never end well]]]].
* SecretUndergroundPassage: The tunnel under the Thunderpath in [=ShadowClan=] territory.
* ShipperOnDeck: Both Rosetail and Larksong are [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Platonicshippers]] ([=BlueXThrush=]).
** In ''The Forgotten Warrior'', Whitewing, Ivypool and Cinderheart all start shipping Dovewing with Bumblestripe.
* ShoutOut:
** Vicky admits to hiding quotes from ''{{Rambo}}'' and ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' in some of the dialogue.
** Macgyver in ''[=SkyClan's Destiny=]'' is named after the [[{{Macgyver}} television show of the same name]], as Vicky is a fan.
** Fuzzypelt is named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Felt Fuzzy Felt]], a toy Vicky remembers playing with when she was little.
** The magazine ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Fancy_(magazine) Cat Fancy]]'' makes an appearance in the first volume of the [=SkyClan=] manga, on page 82.
** One of the Adventure Game chapters in ''Battles of the Clans'' is titled "[[TheBeatles Here Comes The Sun]]".
** As Vicky is a ''StarTrek'' fan, ''The New Prophecy'' was originally going to be called ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. She still has files on her computer with "TNG" in the name.
* SiblingRivalry: Dovewing and Ivypool, especially in ''Night Whispers''.
* SicklyGreenGlow: The Dark Forest. Fits well, having to do with both evil ''and'' death.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Several.
** ''Into the Wild'' [[IntoTheWild by Jon Krakauer]]
** ''Twilight'' [[Literature/{{Twilight}} by Stephenie Meyer]]
** ''The Sight'' [[TheSight by David Clement-Davies]]
** ''Eclipse'' [[Literature/{{Twilight}} by Stephenie Meyer]]
** ''Into The Woods'' [[IntoTheWoods the musical]]
* SlashedThroat: The most commonly used method of killing someone. One of the more realistic, messy examples.
* SlasherSmile: Mapleshade. She can make Ivypool feel like [[TastesLikeDiabetes Daisy]] is with her, right before [[spoiler: trying to drown her.]]
* SmallTownBoredom: The reason Rusty decides to stop being a kittypet and become a warrior.
* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: The last three audiobooks in the ''The New Prophecy'' series are read by Nanette Savard, an American actress. The narration and most of the characters are read with an American accent - except, for some reason, the [[TheMedic medicine cats]], who are read with a British accent. They're regular Clan cats, born and lived with their Clanmates all their lives, and just chose a different job - so where did the accent come from? Are they born with it and for some reason all cats with this accent take the medicine cat's job? Or does healing cats suddenly give you a different accent somehow?
* SpeakInUnison: [=StarClan=] is described as sounding like every cat Firestar has ever known, all speaking at once in one clear voice.
* StalkerWithACrush: Spottedleaf.
** Of course, Firestar actually loves her back. Unfortunately, she has to stop stalking him because he already has another mate. [[spoiler:Also, she is dead.]]
*** Not that she can't continue to stalk every generation of his family thereafter, of course. [[CrackPairing Jayfeather/Spottedleaf]], anyone?
*** Not that this stops her from expressing the desire to give anything to be with him, in spite of her devotion to her fate in ''Firestar's Quest''.
**** ''Spottedleaf's Honest Answer'', anyone?
* StartMyOwn:
** Some remnants of [=BloodClan=] decide to try and start their own Clan in Ravenpaw and Barley's barn.
** Sol, after [[spoiler:parting ways with [=SkyClan=]]], starts his own Clanlike group of cats.
* StartOfDarkness:
** ''The Rise of Scourge'' for Scourge.
** ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'', for Sol.
* StoppedCaring: Bluestar, in books 4 and 5 of the first series.
* StormingTheCastle: The characters will, on rare occasions, attack another Clan's camp instead of just fighting somewhere in the territory. This can be risky, though, as the home Clan knows the best way to defend it, will be fighting more fiercely and desperately to protect the defenseless kits and elders, and the raiding Clan is usually outnumbered. It's worked about as often as it has failed.
* StrangeSalute: The Tribe's greeting gesture: extending one paw while bowing the head.
* SuccessionCrisis: Happens a couple times, despite the fact that the Clans' hierarchy is set up in a way to avoid it.
** In the second series, Tallstar, leader of [=WindClan=], announces with his dying breaths that [[spoiler: Mudclaw is no longer his deputy: Onewhisker now is]]. Since deputy succeeds leader, and Tallstar managed to announce his decision only to [[spoiler: Onewhisker and the leader of [=ThunderClan=], who is Onewhisker's friend]], many [=WindClan=] cats don't believe it, and start a civil war supporting the old deputy.
** [[ExpandedUniverse The guidebook]] ''Code of the Clans'' explains how this setup came to be, after two specific crises: The deputy-becomes-leader rule started after there was a case where a leader selected his son as his successor. The son led his Clan into a needless fight, where half the cats disagreed with his choice and those that did listen nearly drowned. He realized that the deputy, due to her rank, had more experience in being in charge of the Clan. The rule that states that the new deputy must be chosen before moonhigh was created after a new leader waited too long to choose her deputy. She died of sickness, leaving the Clan leaderless and with two more dead cats who had attempted to fight for leadership. Eventually the spirit of the previous leader [[DeadPersonConversation tells the medicine cat in a dream]] to choose who the new leader will be.
* SpartanWay: [=ShadowClan=]'s training while Brokenstar is the leader - even [[ChildSoldiers kits]] are forced to train in the brutal battle training, and many end up dying. Dark Forest training also counts.
* SurprisePregnancy: Bluestar is unaware that she is pregnant until another she-cat points it out.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: At one point in Night Whispers, Tigerheart asks Dovewing how she always manages to get to their meeting place first. Dovewing mutters back that she [[BlatantLies totally doesn't listen for when he leaves his nest]].
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Red does this for Harley in ''SkyClan's Destiny''.]]
* TalkingInYourDreams: [=StarClan=] does this all the time, and so does [[spoiler:Tigerstar]] in the second series and onward. Jayfeather is the only living character who can do this. Some experiences with dreamwalking has also shown that characters who are wounded in dreams sustain the same injuries in the waking world - it is even possible to be killed in a dream.
* TangledFamilyTree: [[http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8792/familytree80.png Just look at it!]]
* TeasingCreator: Vicky Holmes, soooooo much.
--->'''Vicky''' ''(after a fan asked what Yellowfang's Secret would be about)'': [[ShrugOfGod Yellowfang will be in it. She will have a secret. Bad things will happen.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Battles are relatively common, but killing is seen as dishonourable, and is generally avoided, [[spoiler:except by Tigerstar and Scourge]]. In fact, the main characters of the first two series have only killed one cat each. Oddly enough, they both killed [[spoiler:their own half brothers]].
** Although Firestar becomes a pacifist in the second and third series, in the first series he showed absolutely no aversion to killing. For example, when Whitestorm has to restrain him from killing Clawface, him believing that he and Tigerstar were destined to fight to the death, and saying that Brokenstar deserved to die.
*** This could be justified as CharacterDevelopment. Firestar was young at the time and probably didn't fully realize what the ramifications of his actions could be if he killed Clawface, and he was absolutely ''horrified'' by Tigerstar's death.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: In ''Beyond the Code''. They're at a Gathering with the full moon shining down between a couple sparse clouds. The cats comment on how the drought might end since the air's cooler. An argument starts, Sol runs away in anger. Next panel: [[DramaticThunder lightning flash and a KABOOM!]] Next panel: Downpour. The rain is even enough to flood ''almost the entire gorge'' that same night.
* TitleDrop: In the prologue for the fifth book of ''Power of Three'', Rock makes a reference to "the power of three", and in ''Omen of the Stars'', Yellowfang mentions "an Omen of the Stars" (capitalized like a title) in the prologue of ''the very first book''.
** There are no less than three echo related metaphors used in ''Fading Echoes''.
** In ''Sign of the Moon'' (which isn't even in the ''Power of Three'' series), after Jayfeather realizes that [[spoiler:Lion's Roar and Dove's Wing are reincarnations of Lionblaze and Dovewing]], he says that the Power of Three has begun. And it is capitalized.
** ''The Last Hope'', however, takes the cake. It gets dropped at least ''five times'' in the book, two of them from the prologue alone.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tawnypelt in [=ShadowClan=].
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In his manga trilogy, Ravenpaw gets his tongue stuck to some ice in a gutter on the barn roof.
* TonightSomeoneDies: ''And one more warrior may be lost forever...'', which likely referred to [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]]. Although, many fans believe that [[spoiler:she survived, in which case, the word "lost" is probably meant to be taken literally, since she is indeed lost. It could also refer to how she has "lost" her sanity, or "lost" her status as a warrior because she has turned her back on the Clans and the warrior code.]]
** Also, ''Twilight'' opens with an unidentified cat being told that [[YourDaysAreNumbered they will die soon]], leaving the reader in suspense over who it will be. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Cinderpelt.]]
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: The eclipse in... err... ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Eclipse]]''.
* TotallyRadical: Every so often, a young cat will call something "cool" or say "totally", which sticks out when compared to the fairly formal speech most of the Clan cats use.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Jayfeather in ''Long Shadows'' when he [[spoiler:goes back to the time of the Ancients and can only go home after influencing them to go to the mountains]].
* TreacheryCoverUp: [[spoiler:When Hollyleaf dies in the tunnels after trying to escape from her Clan and everything that had gone wrong, Lionblaze and Jayfeather cover up her treachery by telling the Clan she had died chasing a squirrel into the tunnel, so that she would be remembered as a brave hunter rather than Ashfur's killer.]]
** It's hard to judge whether or not they did this for [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]]. They did cover up the fact that [[spoiler:Brambleclaw]] killed him, but there is conflicting evidence on whether or not they covered up why he was killed. In ''The Sight'', some warriors have a conversation about the mysterious circumstances of his death, and say that his Clanmates mourned him, and [=RiverClan=] seems relatively ignorant of his treachery in other books, which would suggest he did get a cover-up. But then in ''After Sunset: We Need To Talk'', Cloudtail says to a [=WindClan=] patrol [[spoiler:that Hawkfrost tried to kill Firestar]], which suggests everyone knows about it.
** [[spoiler:Ashfur]] after ''Long Shadows'', and [[spoiler:Tigerstar]] after he is exiled in ''Forest of Secrets''.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Done several times...
** Vicky has admitted to using fans' warrior names. Some of them, she has said, are from fans she met on tours, or from letters sent to her - none of these are known by anyone except her at this point. Some of them also came from online fans' names, notably from the sites {{Wands and Worlds}} and Warrior's Wish - confirmed ones include Lakestorm, Quailfeather, Flintfang, and Blizzardstar (tribute to [[BigNameFan Blizz]], creator of Warrior's Wish, the largest fansite.)
** Brightspirit, Shiningheart, and Braveheart are based on ten-year-old fan Emmy Cherry and her parents Jimmy and Dana, who all died in a tornado in February 2008. [[http://www.wandsandworlds.com/community/node/3487 Vicky sent a message to Wands and Worlds]] so that the members there could offer words of support and comfort to Emmy's family. They gave Emmy and her parents warrior names to honor them. Vicky decided to use those names in the next book, ''Long Shadows'', which she also dedicated to them.
** Ivypool, a current main character, is named after a person too. While Ivy herself, as a toddler, is too young to have read the books, her family has gone to see the author on every single one of her tours, earning them the nickname "[=FarDrivingClan=]" from Vicky. They have become good friends with her, and she decided to name the character after the youngest member of the family. Vicky has recently confirmed her warrior name to be [[spoiler:Ivypool, because Ivy's full name is Ivy Poole.]]
* TunnelNetwork:
** [=WindClan=]'s tunnel system in the forest.
** The caves in the lake territory.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Scourge turning against Tigerstar, although ''Rise of Scourge'' actually gives him an ulterior motive for killing him.
** Hawkfrost turning on Mudclaw might count, too. [[spoiler:Although, it is highly likely that Hawkfrost was actaully pulling the strings, which would mean he was the master, making this more a case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Brambleclaw.
* TwinTelepathy: Squirrelflight and Leafpool, while not identical twins, were of the same litter, and exhibit some signs of this: they can sense each other's emotions, and have shared dreams and sensations on occasion.
* TwistEnding: The very last line of ''Rising Storm''.
** And few saw the ending of ''Long Shadows'' coming.
* UnbrokenVigil: When Brightpaw gets attacked by dogs, after staying with her a full night, Cloudtail still refuses to eat or sleep, until Cinderpelt finally orders him to.
* UnfortunateNames: A lot:
** Some have strange given names. Kinkfur, Runningnose, Foxheart (ItMakesSenseInContext, as "fox-heart" is a feline team meaning treacherous and cowardly), Sneezekit, Deadfoot, Mudpuddle, Maggottail...
*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Outcast'' when the apprentices joke about what kind of horrible name Firestar could give Berrypaw. They come up with Berrystumpytail, [[FanNickname which has now been adopted as a nickname for him.]]
** A lot of the characters' names in ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' and the [=SkyClan=] manga trilogy, are ''meant'' to be horrible, to point out how [=SkyClan=] is different from the other Clans - they're nothing but a kittypet name with a warrior ending added on: Billystorm, Harveymoon, Harrykit.
** Some characters' names were picked by other characters and meant to be cruel: Lostface and Crookedkit.
* UnknownRival: [[spoiler: Tigerstar is Scourge's archnemisis. Tigerstar however, doesn't remember Scourge.]]
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Naturally this will happen from time to time, since having more than one kit in a litter isn't out of the ordinary for cats.
* VaguenessIsComing
* VerbingNouny: ''Rising Storm'', ''Fading Echoes''
* VillainBall: Tigerstar apparently has nothing better to do in the afterlife than harass the descendants of a cat whose worst crime against him was to foil an evil scheme or two. He shows less resentment toward the cat who killed him ''nine times.''
** Tigerstar actually has more than bothering Firestar in mind, as shown as his plans become more clear in ''Omen of the Stars''. As for why he doesn't resent [[spoiler:Scourge]]... well, it's kind of hard to resent someone who's soul doesn't exist in any known afterlife, isn't it? This still doesn't justify his only recently broken long streak of lackluster villainy, though.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Tigerclaw in the first series.
* TheWatcher: [=StarClan=] very pointedly state that they give advice, and watch over the living cats, but they do not interfere directly (they've bent that rule once or twice, but it's extremely rare). This makes it seem a bit silly when the Clans are constantly worried about incurring the "wrath of [=StarClan=]". Cinderpelt even has to remind the [=ThunderClan=] cats at one point that not every inconvenient natural phenomena is necessarily a sign from their ancestors: "There are times when a storm is just a storm."
** Oddly enough, everyone seems to hate Sol because he tells them this. True, he does go overboard by [[spoiler:telling [=ShadowClan=] to ignore the warrior code]], and [[spoiler:some of his actions in ''Sunrise'' suggest that he is a villain]], but it is kind of weird that everyone hates him for saying [=StarClan=] isn't all powerful, even though that's ''exactly'' what they've been telling us for pretty much the ''entire'' series.
*** They haven't been telling ''everybody'' this. That was just Firestar, and rather grudgingly, too. But of course, the whole sky-is-falling mentality is still firmly there.
**** But the fans know what Firestar was told, so they should know that [=StarClan=] isn't all powerful. However, they still bash Sol for this reason.
* WellDoneSonGuy:
** Stormtail was this when Bluestar was a young warrior.
** Rainflower was always this to Crookedstar.
* WhamEpisode: ''Long Shadows''. Hoo boy...
** ''The Fourth Apprentice'' is also a ''massive'' one.
** As is ''Night Whispers''.
** But ''The Forgotten Warrior'' easily beats them all.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Despite being the sole reason for the Clans' misery, [[{{HumansAreSpecial}} humans are never harmed in the books]]. In fact, every time a particular human is involved, they usually get ''saved'' by the cats. Special mention goes to when a child falls into [=SkyClan's=] territory and breaks her leg. The cats go out of their way to help the kid and bring her home safely, when the more pragmatic approach would be to simply kill her, or leave her to die. It doesn't make sense that cats would sympathize with a species other than their own. Especially not a species that poses a constant threat to the very standing of the Clans.
** Well, it makes more sense when you consider that most of the cats in that situation were [[spoiler:daylight warriors, meaning they lived with twolegs during the day and presumably loved their owners. They wouldn't want to see a Twoleg get hurt.]] In the same book, the reason they didn't attack [[spoiler:Petalnose and Shrewtooth's old Twoleg]] was because they were warned by the [[spoiler:kittypets]] how dangerous it is to attack a Twoleg. Considering how uptight people are about getting rid of pests and potentially rabid animals, this was probably a smart move.
** On the other hand, prey animals are killed ''en masse'' for the sake of feeding the Clans, and nobody complains about that the way they'd complain about killing a human.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Elders claim this on occasion - for example, Fireheart gets into a small argument with one in ''Forest of Secrets'' when the elder claims that young cats nowadays don't know what hardship is.
* WhereItAllBegan: When the Clans leave, they end up settling by a lake. Turns out their distant ancestors (way before the Clans formed) once lived there, and that that's where the ''Power of Three'' prophecy originated.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jayfeather and water.
** Can't forget Bluestar. The prophecy about her even said ''the only thing that could destroy her was water''.
** Also, [=SkyClan=] and rats.
* WorkingTitle:
** When the second series was set to be just a trilogy, the working title for the trilogy was Warriors: The Next Generation
** "The Curse" for ''Dark River'', as seen in advanced-release copies of ''The Sight''
** "Cruel Season" for Sunrise (changed because [[PublisherChosenTitle apparently it was too depressing for the end of a series]])
** "The Fourth Apprentice" was the working title for the whole fourth series, with "Ambush" as the first book
** "Strangers in the Snow" for ''Shattered Peace'', according to illustrator James Barry
** "Betrayal" or "Dark Betrayal" (Vicky and the US editor Erica were "fighting most sweetly" about it, according to Kate) for ''Night Whispers''
** "Crookedstar's Secret" for ''Crookedstar's Promise''
* WorldOfBadass
* WouldHurtAChild: Tigerstar kills Gorsepaw in ''The Darkest Hour'' for no other reason than to bring fear to [=WindClan=]. Darkstripe also attempts to kill Sorrelkit because she caught him meeting Blackfoot on their territory.
* TheXOfY: ''Secrets of the Clans'', ''Cats of the Clans'', ''Code of the Clans'', ''Battles of the Clans''
** A few non-Field Guide books as well: ''Forest of Secrets'', ''Sign of the Moon'', ''The Rise of Scourge'', ''The Heart of a Warrior''
* YouDirtyRat: The rats in "Firestar's Quest" and "SkyClan's Destiny" are evil. In addition, the rats in "Into the Wild" and "Crookedstar's Promise" attack the cats. The portrayal of rats results in quite a few fans complaining.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Cinderpelt]].
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[[caption-width-right:340:[-"Fire Alone Can Save Our Clan", with help from [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters his friends]].-] ]]
-->''"For as long as any cat can remember, four clans have ruled the forest: [=ThunderClan=], [=ShadowClan=], [=WindClan=] and [=RiverClan=]."''
In [[WarriorCats this book series]], cats run wild in large family groups, fighting each other, falling in love, and worshiping their starry ancestors.
A lot [[BetterThanItSounds better than it sounds]]; those of you expecting sweet little stories about cats lazing about licking each other and falling in love are in for quite a shock (although that happens too, of course). The books are quite mature, thanks to {{Erin Hunter}}'s AnyoneCanDie policy, and the series can be [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence quite]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath graphic]], as they face certain death and possible annihilation at least [[OnceAnEpisode once a series, and, early on, usually once a book]]. They also grapple with questions of faith, loyalty, honor, and responsibility on a ''very'' regular basis. These books are about as child-friendly as ''WatershipDown''.
[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Yet kids are the target audience...]]
There are currently four six-book [[MythArc arcs]] available, all of which are complete. The first, simply called ''{{Warriors}}'' (or ''Warrior Cats'', [[MarketBasedTitle depending on where you live]]) focuses on a house cat named Rusty, who decides to abandon his comfortable life to join [=ThunderClan=] and ends up being the ChosenOne. The second arc, ''TheNewProphecy'', features the next generation of the Clans from the first series as they find a new home. The third ''[[RuleOfThree Power of Three]]'' is a mostly character driven series about another new generation of the Clan cats, this time burdened with mysterious powers and the secret of an ancient prophecy. The fourth arc, ''OmenOfTheStars'', continues to deal with the mysterious prophecy, as well as years worth of animosity that continues to lurk in the shadows and the repercussions of past actions, which threaten to break out into all-out war. A fifth arc, ''DawnOfTheClans'', which will be a prequel, has been announced. There are also plenty of [[ExpandedUniverse spin-off titles]] out and coming soon, such as the twice as long Super Editions, Field Guides, and Mangas. Its sister series, ''Literature/{{Seekers}}'', and ''{{Literature/Survivors}}'' are also worth checking out.
For summaries of each book, see [[Recap/WarriorCats here.]]
For the individual arcs, see:
[[index]]
* ''WarriorCatsTheOriginalSeries''
* ''WarriorCatsTheNewProphecy''
* ''Literature/WarriorCatsPowerOfThree''
* ''WarriorCatsOmenOfTheStars''
[[/index]]
Fan works:
* ''FanFic/StarkitsProphecy'' and ''FanFic/HiddenProphices'', the ''Warriors'' equivalents of ''MyImmortal''
* [[Fanfic/WarriorsTheAbridgedSeries Various abridged series]]
* ''WarriorCatsUntoldTales'', a fan-made PC game
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!!This series provide examples of:
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* TheAbridgedSeries: [[http://hyperadam.deviantart.com/gallery/23785581 At least]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6154225/1/Warriors_The_Abridged_Series_Into_the_WTF four]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz5x5LxCMQY of]] [[http://forums.warriorcats.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7641093/m/4311046057/p/1 them]]
* AbusiveParents:
** Crowfeather to Breezepelt.
** Lizardstripe's [[FreudianExcuse treatment of]] [[CompleteMonster Brokenstar]]:
--->...a queen who did not care for her new charge, who bit it and nipped it and deprived it of milk as punishment for being born at all.
** ''Crookedstar's Promise'' gives us another example in [[spoiler:Rainflower]].
* AcidRefluxNightmare: Brambleclaw originally thinks his prophecy dream was one of these.
* ACrackInTheIce: [[spoiler: Flametail]] falls into one in ''Night Whispers.''
* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: The fandom is fond of this. Acronyms include:
** The series titles (TNP, TPOT, OOTS).
** Book titles (TDH, FQ, BP, NW, [=BotC=], [=T4A=], [=SotC=], to name a few... This created a slight issue when ''Code of the Clans'' came along, because there was already a [=CotC=] from ''Cats of the Clans''. There were even forum threads debating on what to call it - the most common form is [=C2otC=]).
** Some characters, places, etc (HF, DF, [=PoNS=]).
** Related websites (Ww, OF).
* ActionGirl: Almost every she-cat in the series besides the medicine cats.
** Heck, even the medicine cats on occasion. [[BadAss Yellowfang]] in particular.
** Also excepting permanent Queens like [[spoiler:Daisy and Ferncloud]].
*** [[spoiler:Even Ferncloud has her moments. The badger attack during Twilight comes to mind.]]
* AdventuresInComaland: in ''The Sight'', [[spoiler:Poppyfrost]] has greencough, and has a dream about being in [=StarClan=]'s forest. Jayfeather is also there, because of his power, and stops her from dying.
* AesopAmnesia: No matter how many times the clans learn the value of working together, they always divide back up once the danger has passed. Wanting to unite the clans is treated as a big red "I Am A Villain" flag. Then again, they ''are'' cats.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Sol]]. Also, [[spoiler:Tigerstar and Hawkfrost act polite at first when a cat starts visiting the Dark Forest]].
* [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys All She-Cats Want Bad Toms]]: Snowfur and [[spoiler:Thistleclaw]].
* AllGenesAreCoDominant: According to feline genetics [[spoiler: Hollyleaf]] should have been a tortie. There's much more, but in general cat genetics are a lot more complicated than the Erins know about. They even admit they don't know poop about cat coat genetics.
* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:Yellowfang, Bluestar, Feathertail, Cinderpelt, Hawkfrost, Whitestorm]]... there has to be more.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Dogs, great [=StarClan!=]
** Except for the pair in the ''Ravenpaw's Path'' trilogy. [[spoiler:At first they may be ungrateful to Ravenpaw and Barley for saving their lives (attacking them as soon as they're free), but later they return the favor to Ravenpaw, Barley, and the [=ThunderClan=] cats by helping chase off [=BloodClan=].]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: A recurring theme in the books.
** Tigerstar could have easily MADE this trope.
** Brambleclaw feels the very same ambition that drove his father but, well aware of what his father became, he is determined to not allow his ambition to control him (still implying that ambition is the opposite of good, even though Whitestorm also mentions in the first series that Firestar has quite a bit of ambition himself).
** The protagonists' ambition fits into NotSoDifferent.
* AncientConspiracy: The Dark Forest, which has been plotting to destroy the clans since long before Firestar came to the forest.
* {{Animesque}}: Most of the fan-made YouTube Warriors animations. To a nauseating degree. Some of the more prominent animators out there even like to slap on a full head of human hair onto their cats. Firestar is always drawn as a brunette, and Tigerstar with black hair. Either way, it's [[{{ArtisticLicenseBiology}} anatomically incorrect]] and it looks ''awful''.
** Most fanart of Warriors has taken to adding a large tuft of hair on the cats' foreheads, even though real cats don't have such tufts. Others will draw a gold star on a cat's forehead to signify that the cat's a leader, when this is never described in the books.
** James Barry's manga also is in a more animesque style than the other artists. He tends to give cats tufts of fur on their heads too, but for the most part it actually looks like fur. The only example where it actually ''was'' hair (and yes, looked horrible) was [[http://i56.tinypic.com/35i53sx.jpg Husker]] from the Graystripe trilogy.
* AnyoneCanDie: Beyond the large amount of minor characters that get killed, even important characters like [[spoiler:Yellowfang, Bluestar, Feathertail, Cinderpelt, and Flametail]] get killed off.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Tigerheart, Sunfall, Hawkfrost, Talon of Swooping Eagle, the list goes on.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The leader ceremonies.
* ArcWords: Some of the prophecies. "''Pack, pack, kill, kill''" in ''A Dangerous Path''.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Clan Leaders, definitely
* AStormIsComing:
** In the prologue of ''Dark River'', cats feel that rain is coming. Fallen Leaves then goes to the tunnels to take his test, and lies to Rock that there are no signs of rain. [[spoiler: Turns out there is an underground river there, that floods the tunnels during the rain.]]
** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Featherwhisker forecasts rain for a few days, and it starts raining just before the [[BattleInTheRain battle with [=WindClan=]]].
* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: Mapleshade and Hollyleaf]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Cinderpelt]].
** Also, Heavystep, who died but managed to stay on the cast list for quite a while afterwards due to a ContinuitySnarl.
** The Clan Leaders probably count as well, since they literally have nine lives and spend a few moments dead after losing each one before being revived (minus the wound/disease that killed them). Once the ninth is gone though, they are KilledOffForReal.
* {{Backstory}}: Explored a lot with different characters. There's ''The Rise of Scourge'', ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', ''Crookedstar's Promise'', ''Yellowfang's Secret'', and then a number of short stories in the field guides, such as the one about Barley's past. Even the main series has some of these moments.
* BackToBackBadasses: According to Secrets of the Clans, this is a technique taught to apprentices.
* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:Honeyfern]] in ''The Fourth Apprentice''.
** The Ancients and [=StarClan=] in ''The Last Hope''.
* BadassCreed: {{YMMV}} as to how badass it is, but ''Battles of the Clans'' gave us:
--> "[=RiverClan=] ''fish''! [=RiverClan=] ''swim''! [=RiverClan=] warriors use water to ''win''!"
* BadassGrandpa: Whitestorm is one of the oldest active warriors, but he's still a powerful fighter and is popular with all of [=ThunderClan=]. [[spoiler: That is, of course, before he is killed.]]
* BandOfBrothers / FireForgedFriends: The main characters of The New Prophecy.
* BattleInTheRain: In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', battle between [=ThunderClan=] and [=WindClan=] takes place in rain.
** The battle between [=ThunderClan=] and [=ShadowClan=] at the end of ''Into The Wild'' also happens during a storm.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Most medicine cats get screwed over by this.
** Bluestar gets hit pretty hard by this trope as well: [[spoiler:allow a bloodthirsty, needlessly violent cat to become leader and destroy your Clan... or abandon your newborn kits in order to become leader yourself and prevent that tragedy?]]
** Jayfeather ''has'' to become [[spoiler:a medicine cat]] for this exact reason.
* BerserkButton:
** Don't try to say [[spoiler:Tigerheart is in the Dark Forest]] in front of Dovewing.
** Don't break the warrior code when Hollyleaf is around.
** Don't suggest to Crookedstar [[spoiler:that he is like Rainflower]].
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Tigerclaw promises that any cats that come with him will be well rewarded later on; despite this, nobody follows him into exile.
* BigBad: Tigerstar
* BigEater: The characters often joke that Graystripe is one.
* BigNo: Bluestar (then Bluepaw) makes one of these in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', when [[spoiler:her mother is killed in battle]].
* BitchAlert: Sandpaw's first appearance. She snarls that Firepaw smells revolting, and then makes a comment about how he's a kittypet.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]] fits this trope to a T.
* BlasphemousBoast: In ''The Darkest Hour'', Tigerstar claims that he is more powerful than [=StarClan=] because he changed the number of Clans in the forest from four to two.
* BlindSeer: Jayfeather.
* BloodFromTheMouth:
** [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]] coughs up clots of blood shortly before he dies at the end of ''Sunset''.
** [[spoiler:Tigerstar]] at the end of the ''Rise of Scourge'' manga.
** Non-fatal example: At one point in ''Forest of Secrets'', Graystripe has blood bubbling from his mouth.
** After he is [[spoiler:hit by a car]], blood trickles out of [[spoiler:Whitethroat]]'s mouth as he tries to speak.
** In ''Moonrise'' a doomed [[RedShirt Tribe cat]] has blood coming out of its mouth after being slammed against a wall.
** [[spoiler:Snowfur]], when she's [[spoiler:hit by a car]].
** In the short story ''The Clans Decide'', blood comes out of an injured she-cat's mouth as she tries to speak. [[UnexplainedRecovery She gets better]], but she is near death at this point.
** In ''Night Whispers,'' Jayfeather has a vision in which he sees blood spilling from the mouths of every cat in [=ThunderClan=] except [[spoiler:Ivypool]].
* BloodlessCarnage: In the Tigerstar and Sasha manga, those squirrels and frogs and hares they kill look quite clean. The illustrator, Don Hudson, even had a scene where the editors thought that even a ''clean'' dead rabbit looked too creepy.
--> I am working on the Cat book for Tokyopop and I am at an interesting point in the story. The story involves Feral cats and life in the wild. A Feral cat stops and kills a wild hare as described in the script. I drew the layout and it was approved, but at a certain point, the powers that be wanted a change. The dead rabbit looks too creepy. I understand that the pre-teen market may not be into dead rabbits, but why write it into the script? They wanted me to change the angle to obscure the hare, messing up the storytelling. My compromise was to turn the rabbit around, and closing his eyes. It's not dead, just sleeping! No trauma, just a sleepy, knocked out bunny. ([[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s0GsnDo9fJI/R1mEOA3z2lI/AAAAAAAAAvg/wEE_Fyub6l4/s1600-h/cat+layout.jpg Comparison of original and revised sketches]])
* BoringReturnJourney: The trip back from the beavers, and also the portion of the sun-drown-place journey from the Tribe back to the Clans (which was described in ''one paragraph'').
* BreakingTheFellowship: After the great journey, the chosen cats have to split and return back to their clans.
* BreakoutCharacter: Crookedstar, who stars in his own Super Edition. In the Ultimate Leader Election in late 2008, it was he who made it far enough to go up against Firestar at the end. He lost, which is understandable considering that Firestar's the main character that introduced us to the series, but Vicky said in the next Authortracker that even though she expected Firestar to win, she was surprised that out of all the leaders in the running, Crookedstar would be the one to make it so far. Perhaps this is why she decided to have a Super Edition from his point of view. Not bad for a minor character that died in book 5.
* BreakTheCutie: Any and all "cuties" will be broken, and how. [[spoiler:Ashfur]], for example, first appeared as a timid but determined apprentice [[spoiler:that soon had his mother brutally murdered by Tigerstar, lost his mate (Squirrelflight) to the son of Tigerstar (Brambleclaw), and then had to mentor their "son". Finally, in Book 5 of series 3, he goes insane, attempts to murder the main characters, has his throat bitten, thus killing him, while his body gets pushed off a cliff into a river, where his lifeless corpse gets snagged on a rock and be seen bobbing limply in the water by the rest of the Clan. Ouch.]]
** Even though it says "any and all" above, Brightheart deserves a special mention.
** The award probably goes to [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]].
** [[spoiler:Briarlight]] gets this in perhaps the most literal fashion possible.
* BrickJoke: Used in ''Twilight,'' but NOT played for laughs. Near the beginning of the book, the [=ThunderClan=] cats have to drive a badger and her cubs off their territory. Fast-forward to the climax, and [[spoiler:the cats are facing a massive ambush by the badgers that leaves many cats wounded and Cinderpelt dead.]]
* BusCrash: In ''Midnight'', we find out that [[spoiler: Willowpelt]] got killed by a badger. However, the death ceased to be a bus crash when it was depicted in ''Firestar's Quest''.
* BuryYourDisabled: [[spoiler: Snowkit]] gets killed in Dangerous Path because of his disability.
* CainAndAbel:
** Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost.
** And since WordOfGod confirmed that [[spoiler:Firestar and Scourge are half brothers]], some fans believe this applies to them too. Both are inversions, as with Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost, the older brother is the good one, the younger the evil, and with [[spoiler:Firestar and Scourge]] the younger brother is the killer. In both cases, the good brother is the killer.
** Since WordOfGod also said Graystripe's parents (Willowpelt and Patchpelt) and Darkstripe's parents (Willowpelt and Tawnyspots), that makes another pair. Of course, it is the younger, good brother that is the killer in this case as well.
* CallForward: In ''Firestar's Quest'', Firestar wonders if there is another afterlife for evil cats.
* CashCowFranchise: The catalog entry for ''Yellowfang's Secret'' describes the author as '''mega'''-bestselling.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In ''The Darkest Hour'', Tigerstar decides to spare Featherpaw and Stormpaw because he thinks they may still be useful to him.
* CatsAreMean: Played straight, subverted, averted... since the vast majority of the cast is feline, it's only natural that this trope both shows up and gets turned on its head.
* CatsHateWater: Three of the Clans do, at least. [=RiverClan=] doesn't.
* CatsHaveNineLives: The Clan leaders, usually the first eight times they die they enter a trance for a few minutes and are healed by [=StarClan=]. Though there are injuries that can take multiple lives, [[spoiler: like Tigerstar when he got his stomach torn open.]]
* CaughtInASnare:
** The climax of ''Sunset'' involves [[spoiler:Firestar getting caught in a fox trap]].
** Rabbittail in a short story in ''Battles of the Clans'' gets caught in a net meant for rabbits.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: The Tribe lives in one of these.
* CaveMouth: The Moonstone cave is called "Mothermouth" by the cats because the entrance resembles a mouth.
* CessationOfExistence: When a [=StarClan=] or Dark Forest cat is completely forgotten by living cats, they gradually fade away into nothing. However, if either recieves an injury that in life would be fatal, they just disappear instantly.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: It ain't always easy to be a Clan leader.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The Super Editions are a possessive version: ''Firestar's Quest'', ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' (which, unusually, refers to a group and not just one character), ''Crookedstar's Promise'', ''Yellowfang's Secret''.
* ChekhovsGunman: Barley, who turns out to be [[spoiler: an ex [=BloodClan=] member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Jayfeather's swimming ability [[spoiler: comes in handy when Flametail is drowning. It doesn't save Flametail from dying however.]]
* ChewToy: Percy in ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny''. Most of Stick's group gets away with just wallowing in Dodge's incredibly vague OffstageVillainy, but Percy is singled out for both having [[spoiler:[[EyeScream his eye ripped out]]]] and getting [[spoiler:[[GroinAttack fixed]]]]. In fact, he doesn't have any role in the story other than having horrible things happen to him.
* [[ChocolateBaby Chocolate Kit]]
* TheChosenOne: Or four, or three... [=StarClan=] isn't very picky about the number of cats they choose to do things.
* TheClan: Four... er, [[ExpandedUniverse Five]] of them, to be exact.
* CListFodder: Minor characters get slaughtered left and right.
* CombatByChampion: In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', one of the battles for Sunningrocks is decided like this.
* CombatMedic: The few medicine cats who were warriors before they became medicine cats are basically this. Regular medicine cats also get basic training in fighting skills, even though they usually don't end up using them much.
* ComicBookAdaptation: The mangas.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Warrior Code forbids taking mate from another clan to protect against it. Also a frequent accusation against half-clan cats.
* ContinuitySnarl: A somewhat glaring example of this: In ''The Fourth Apprentice'', Yellowfang witnesses [[spoiler:Breezepelt and Brokenstar attacking Jayfeather]] and tells him that [[spoiler:the Dark Forest is rising]]. In ''Fading Echoes'', a book written by a different author, Jayfeather tells her about [[spoiler:the attack and the uprising within the Dark Forest]] and she is shocked and apparently doesn't know anything about what he's talking about. Ummm...
** In ''Secrets of the Clans'', Raggedstar is the leader when his son, Brokenstar, is born. However, in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Brokenpaw is mentioned long before Raggedstar becomes a leader. Argh.
** Another notable one is in the short story "The Elders' Concern", from the official ''Warriors'' app. The story is about how the elders are discussing how they're not happy with Fireheart as deputy, because he's young and not Clanborn and was named after moonhigh... except in this story, he's named deputy immediately after Lionheart; it takes place the day after Lionheart's death. Uh, he was an apprentice when Lionheart died. And how could they forget about Tigerclaw and his attempts to kill Bluestar in order to become leader? It's not as if they forgot about him altogether here; one of the elders says that Fireheart isn't the best fighter of the Clan, and calls Tigerclaw a real warrior.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in The Forgotten Warrior. Millie remarks about Sol, who, despite his earlier wrongdoings, [[spoiler:seemingly]] proved himself by saving Cherrypaw and Molepaw, that "tabbies never change their stripes." Said cat was described as both a tortoiseshell and a tabby.
* CoolCat: Pretty much everyone.
* CoveredInMud: The Tribe rolls in mud to cover their fur in order to disguise their scent and blend into the rock better so that prey doesn't spot them so easily. The visiting Clan cats try this, and aren't too thrilled at the idea, but it works.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Tigerstar. [[HighPressureBlood Tigerstar]], [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Tigerstar]], [[NightmareFuel Tigerstar]]. Having his stomach torn open probably hurt a good bit.]]
* CulturalPosturing: Most cats believe that their own Clan can do no wrong, and that the other Clans are all weaklings or heartless bastards. This often works in [=ThunderClan's=] favour, since the majority of the series is from their [=POV=], but the series does occasionally show that the other Clans are NotSoDifferent. For example, the same is done with [=RiverClan=] when they become the protagonists in ''Crookedstar's Promise''.
* CulturalTranslation: The old forest map was based on an actual forest in England, meaning the first series was set in England, which is also somewhat reflected by some of the wildlife. However, the second series featured a mountain lion, which cannot be found in the UK, and [[spoiler:had a change of location]]. Even though [[spoiler: the Great Journey in no way constitutes crossing the Atlantic Ocean]], the series is now apparently set in the United States.
** One can also argue that the series is still set in Britain due to the lack of rabies despite the cats constantly biting and being bitten by other animals.
*** This isn't entirely impossible, even in the U.S.A. [[CaptainObvious An animal needs to have rabies in the first place in order to transmit it]], so unless the bitten/biting animal had it, there's no risk. That said (assuming the series ''did'' take place in America), it would still be amazing that, in all this time, they never ''once'' addressed this danger.
** WordOfGod: "The first series was set in the county of Hampshire in the UK (on the South Coast, near where I grew up). Then I invented an imaginary setting for [[spoiler:the journey to the lake]], and when they encountered a mountain lion I realized they must have crossed the Atlantic somewhere along the line because American wildlife had started appearing! So it's a fictitious island somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic which has a unique blend of British and American flora and fauna..."
* CursedWithAwesome: The three, but most notably Jayfeather.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bluestar, Crookedstar, Yellowfang...
* DarkChick: [[spoiler: Mapleshade. And Ivypool, to some extent.]].
* DarkestHour: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named]] ''The Darkest Hour'', as well as various other points throughout the series, like ''Dawn'', or the later books in ''Power of Three''.
* DarkSecret: Many cats' forbidden relationships. The parentage of kits really born to forbidden relationships. Visiting the Dark Forest.
* DeadPersonConversation: Talking to [=StarClan=].
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Silverstream and Brightsky]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Flametail]] in ''Night Whispers''.
* DeathIsDramatic:
** Tigerstar is [[spoiler:ripped open from throat to tail and loses ''[[CatsHaveNineLives all nine of his lives]]'' from blood loss]].
** Hawkfrost [[spoiler:gets a wooden stake driven into his throat by his brother and yanked out. He stands right back up as he's gushing blood, and then falls into the lake, which turns red from his blood]].
** [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Feathertail dying after she impales Sharptooth with a stalactite]]]], also serving as her CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** [[spoiler: Bluestar's death, also a HeroicSacrifice and CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
** [[spoiler: Cinderpelt (well, even though she didn't really die in the long run) was ripped apart by badgers, let's not forget, with lotsa blood indeed. This also served as her HeroicSacrifice.]]
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Flametail's death.]]
* DeceptiveDisciple: Tigerstar, and possibly Brokenstar, who has the added bonus of killing and usurping ''[[spoiler:his own father]]''.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Stonefur.
* DemotedToExtra: The major characters in each series become less important as the focus shifts to the younger generation. One example is that fans were trying to figure out whether Graystripe, TheHero's best friend and therefore a major character in the first series, even got mentioned once in ''Sign of the Moon''.
* TheDeterminator: Tigerstar. And ''how.''
* DidNotDoTheResearch:
** The authors have admitted that they know nothing about cat genetics and just make up whatever makes sense to them when coming up with physical descriptions of characters' offspring.
** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Bluekit and Snowkit had their eyes open and were walking around the camp ''way'' too soon after birth.
*** Bluekit and Snowkit's incredibly fast development doesn't just contradict real life, it contradicts ''the rest of the books'', considering we've never seen a kit that was able to speak before the age of two moons.
** Read the births and subsequent sections involving the kits in ''Power of Three'' to any person that has actually been through cat birthing. Anyone at all.
* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Punch Out A Twoleg]]: [=SkyClan=] takes it upon themselves to [[spoiler:defeat the Twoleg who keeps abusing cats.]]
** Also averted when, in the same book, the cats [[spoiler:save a Twoleg kit with a broken leg.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath:
** Whiteclaw falls into the gorge and dies.
** Smokepaw falls to his death when a ledge breaks underneath him. This doesn't stop him from [[SeriesContinuityError coming back in later books]], though.
** A pair of [=ShadowClan=] warriors fall over the top of the quarry to their deaths in ''Starlight''.
** Ancient cat Dark Whiskers is killed this way when blown off a cliff during a storm.
* DissonantSerenity: Sol stays calm and composed all the time, even when surrounded by enemies and [[spoiler:accused of murder]]. He so calm, other cats often find it unsettling. The only times he's lost his cool is whenever he's making a speech (and he's really more "incensed" than "angry"), and when Hollyleaf apparently pushes his BerserkButton, and even then he recovers in ''less than half a second''.
-->"What are you doing here?" Hollyleaf demanded. She could feel every hair on her pelt bristling, her tail fluffing out to twice it's size, and her belly churning with distrust of this powerful cat. "I thought you'd gone."
-->Fury flashed in [Sol's] eyes, and his claws dug into the ground. Yet a hearbeat later he was cool and controlled again, so that Hollyleaf almost believed she had imagined the anger he had betrayed.
* DoctorsOrders: There are plenty of times when a medicine cat says "As your medicine cat, I'm ''ordering'' you to rest."
* DogsAreDumb: The most intelligent dogs shown in the entire series had a vocabulary of about eight words, the two most frequently used being "pack" and "kill".
** It's also worth noting that the dogs mentioned above are defeated by [[spoiler:being tricked into running off a cliff]].
** One dog in ''Sunrise'' was even stupid enough to [[spoiler:stick his head through a fence and right into the claws of a bunch of cats with a grudge]].
*** And don't we all know dogs like this? TruthInTelevision.
** Don't forget the dog in ''Rise of Scourge'' who was scared of kitten Scourge's ''shadow'' (it was a rather fierce looking shadow, but still).
* DontGoInTheWoods: What kittypets seem to be raised on.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Jayfeather (also his BerserkButton). Also don't be too nice to him, or he'll think you're pitying him. And don't mention his blindness, but then again, [[HairTriggerTemper don't seem like you're trying to avoid it, either]].
* DoomedHometown: The forest in the second series.
* DoubleDontKnow: In ''The Darkest Hour'':
--->Firestar let out a long breath. "I don't know, Bramblepaw," he admitted. "I just don't know."
* DragonInChief: Hawkfrost in ''The New Prophecy''. Tigerstar, the BigBad is just as strong and fearsome, but he's hindered by [[spoiler: his being dead.]]
* DramatisPersonae: Each book has allegiances section at the beginning, listing all characters that appear in that book and many that don't.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** [[spoiler:Hollyleaf's death. Instead of dying in a battle, she was crushed as the underground tunnel collapsed.]]
** The grand prize goes to [[spoiler:Rainwhisker]], who was killed by a falling tree branch. ''In between books''.
** What, no mention of [[spoiler:Mudclaw, who got an entire TREE dropped on him when it was struck by lightning?]]
*** Said tree was then used as a bridge, therefore [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally dropping a bridge on him...]]
* DysfunctionJunction:
** In the third series, Crowfeather is using his "mate" just to get his Clanmates to trust him, and and he [[AbusiveParents abuses his son]] (who also has related issues), and is in denial of how much he loves Leafpool and [[spoiler:that he had kits with her]], Lionblaze goes AxCrazy from time-to-time, and is usually horrified by the results, Jayfeather has some serious attitude problems, Hollyleaf is [[LawfulStupid obsessed]] with the [[WellIntentionedExtremist warrior code]] and [[spoiler:eventually [[FaceHeelTurn goes insane]]]], Ashfur is [[spoiler: trying to kill Squirrelflight's family to get revenge]], Leafpool, who can't seem to succeed at anything, is incredibly depressed [[spoiler:and possibly suicidal]], and a lot of other cats throughout the course of the series become depressed because of the the authors' cruel treatment of their characters.
** It continues on into the fourth series, with Dovewing ([[spoiler:Who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be normal]], because she can't handle all of the responsibility that has been thrust on her, and hates the way it has distanced her from her sister]]), and Ivypool, ([[spoiler:who is insanely jealous of her sister and wants to be noticed as much as her, to the point where her feelings of jealousy and loneliness became manipulated by the BigBad]]).
** Then we have Millie and her kits. [[spoiler:Millie's daughter, Briarlight, becomes paralyzed from the waist down when a tree falls on her and it keeps her from ever becoming a Warrior, having to live in the medicine den, and her main activity for each day is to drag herself to and from the fresh-kill pile. This causes Millie to become obsessive over her crippled daughter and completely ignore the fact that she has to other kits, which in turn effects Blossomfall (Millie's other daughter) to visit the Dark Forest and learn from Tigerstar because she's feeling unloved and unwanted at home all thanks to Millie. Bumblestripe, Millie's son, takes the developments surprisingly well.]]
* [[EarlyBirdCameo Early Cat Cameo]]: Thistleclaw is mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'' and shows up in ''Rise Of Scourge'' before his real debut in ''Bluestar's Prophecy''.
** Tawnyspots and Goosefeather were first mentioned in ''Forest of Secrets'', though the latter not by name. In addition, Sunstar and Featherwhisker were mentioned in ''Secrets of the Clans'' before their debuts in ''Code of the Clans'' and ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', respectively.
* EarNotch: With large groups of fighting cats, someone's bound to get a ripped ear, and it does happen often. One example is Tigerstar; it's one of his more frequently noted physical characteristics.
* EitherOrProphecy: [=StarClan=] seems to give a lot of these. Take the prophecy at the top of the page, for instance. It does not say that fire ''will'' save the Clan ([[spoiler:indeed, a forest fire nearly ''kills'' the Clan in the fourth book]]). A minor prophecy in the second arc is misinterpreted as well due to this trope.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Smart is Midnight, but she no speak cat good.
* TheEmpath: Jayfeather.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Seeing as they live in Clans that do not allow intermixing... See also TangledFamilyTree below.
* EverythingsWorseWithBees: A scene in [[spoiler:[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny]].
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Tigerstar Vs. Scourge]]
* ExactWords: In ''Midnight'', after Leafpool sees Squirrelflight leave for her journey, Cinderpelt asks if she knows where Squirrelflight is. Leafpool is able to say no because she didn't know where Squirrelflight was at the exact moment.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** The publishers thought ''Cruel Season'' was [[MediaWatchdogs too depressing of a title]] (never mind the fact that said book ''was'' depressing), even though earlier books have dark names like ''A Dangerous Path'', ''The Darkest Hour'' and ''Long Shadows.'' Of course, the title change didn't stop protective parents from reacting negatively to the actual content of the book.
** ''The New Prophecy'' series was supposed to consist of three books, until the publisher decided that the series was far too profitable and made Hunter write another series - which lead to there being three more in ''that'' series.
*** There was originally only going to be one book, ''Into the Wild''. It became a trilogy, which later turned into a six-book series (followed by, let's see, four additional arcs, four super editions, four field guides, and thirteen mangas...)
* ExpandedUniverse: Manga, Super Editions, Field Guides, short stories, etc. See above.
* EyeScream:
** [[spoiler:Brightheart's face being mauled and almost completely ripped off by a dog.]] A later bit of narration in [=TPoT=] implies her parts of her skull remain visible.
** [[spoiler:Longtail going blind from an infection in his eyes after a rabbit claws them out counts, too.]]
** Brokenstar [[spoiler:gets his eyes clawed by Yellowfang and is permanently blinded]].
** And we now have [[spoiler:Percy]] in ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny''.
* FaithHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hollyleaf]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Swiftpaw, Tigerstar, Mudclaw, Hawkfrost, to name a few.]] Some of them would qualify for CruelAndUnusualDeath.
** If [[spoiler:the nightmares Tigerstar showed Lionblaze of himself murdering Heatherpaw/tail]] count, then they certainly qualify. Very much so.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Pretty much ''every single fight''. After Lionblaze [[spoiler:discovers his power of invincibility in ''Outcast'']], pretty much every fight he gets in features large amounts of this and HighPressureBlood.
* FanNickname: Kit Machine (Ferncloud), Teapot ([The] ''Power of Three''; [=tPoT=]), Oats (''Omen of the Stars''; [=OotS=]).
* FantasticRacism: From many canon characters, but also, some say, from the fans. It's another one of those things they disagree on.
* FatalFlaw: Scourge's lack of belief in [=StarClan.=]
* FearOfThunder: The official app claims that Hollyleaf has this ever since Long Shadows, when [[spoiler:Ashfur threatened to kill her and her littermates [[DramaticThunder during a storm]]]].
* FeatheredFiend: Birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, and [[OwlBeDamned owls]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since these birds are larger than they are, and can carry off a kit (or in the eagles' case, a full-grown cat).
* FightingForAHomeland: [[spoiler:[=SkyClan=]]], when they were exiled from the forest. The other four Clans, when [[DoomedHometown the forest is destroyed]] - but at least [[ThePromisedLand they know there's good territory waiting for them]].
* FirstSnow: Happens a couple times. In ''Fire and Ice'', Fireheart is amazed because he hasn't seen it before; he was shut inside as a kit when still living with Twolegs when it last snowed. He quickly learns that snow makes it difficult to move around, however. In ''The Darkest Hour'', Firestar is out with his apprentice Bramblepaw when it begins to snow. Bramblepaw chases the snowflakes gleefuly, and Fireheart wonders whether Bramblepaw's evil father Tigerstar ever played with snowflakes.
* {{Flanderization}}: [=RiverClan=]'s fish-loving tendencies (no, not like ''[[ButYouScrewOneGoat that]]''), as well as the general LoveItOrHateIt nature of fish as prey.
* FlatEarthAtheist:
** Cloudtail acts like this around the end of the first series. You'd think that seeing fatal wounds stitch up by themselves and hearing actual, accurate prophecies would be enough for the kid...
** There's also Mothwing, who is a medicine cat despite not believing in [=StarClan=], which is essentially the cats' equivalent of an atheist priest. Apparently her explanation for medicine cats knowing things [=StarClan=] has told her is that ''they subconsciously figure it out by themselves and all convince themselves that a dead cat told them it in a dream'', which is arguably more ridiculous than what she is trying to explain. It gets even worse in ''Fading Echoes'', where she sees something strange happen to Mistystar while she's receiving her nine lives and manages to figure out that Jayfeather is essentially ''reading her mind'', but she ''still'' can't comprehend that [=StarClan=] exists.
*** Another interpretation of what she says/how she acts is that she acknowledges that they probably exist, but refuses to have faith in them or try communicating with them... for some reason.
*** The reason she doesn't have faith or try communicating is probably because [=StarClan=] lie consistently, rarely help them out, and when they do send them a message, tend to do so in obscure, twisted ways when they could easily just tell them straight out.
* FlawExploitation: Tigerstar and Hawkfrost
* FlipFlopOfGod: Has happened sometimes.
* FragileSpeedster: [=WindClan=] cats in general.
* FramingDevice: In the field guides ''Code'' and ''Battles of the Clans'', the reader is a kittypet who is visiting the Clans and being told stories by the characters.
* FreudianExcuse: Pretty much every villain in the series. Tigerstar [[spoiler: had a father who abandoned him to become a kittypet, and a mentor who taught him to be violent and evil]]. Brokenstar was abused by his foster mother, Lizardstripe. Scourge [[spoiler: was bullied by his siblings, Ruby and Socks. They told him he would be drowned in the river if he wasn't adopted by Twolegs, so he ran away, only to be attacked almost to death by Tigerstar.]] Sol [[spoiler: had a father who neglected his kits, and a mother who always told them stories about [=SkyClan=] cats and was upset with her life. Because she couldn't take care of them, she gave them all to Twolegs. Sol thought that, if he was a [=SkyClan=] cat, his mother wouldn't have given him away.]] Mapleshade [[spoiler:was hoping to become [=ThunderClan=] leader, but they drove her out after she had kits with a [=RiverClan=] tom. She then tried taking her kits to [=RiverClan=], but they drowned on the way. [=RiverClan=] rejected her, her mate blamed her for the kits' death, and he took on another mate within his Clan.]]
* GenderBender: A ''lot'', most of them being one-time typos. Permanent/more major ones include:
** Birchstar from ''Code of the Clans'': male in first story, female in second
** Foxheart: female in ''Secrets of the Clans'' (thought by [=ShadowClan=] to be the mother of Brokentail) > male in ''Bluestar's Prophecy''
** Mosskit: male in ''Forest of Secrets'' and ''Secrets of the Clans'' but female in ''Cats of the Clans'' and ''Bluestar's Prophecy''. WordOfGod has stated that Mosskit was female.
** Mintkit and Sagekit: Mintkit was male and Sagekit was female in the allegiances of ''Firestar's Quest'', but they flipped genders in the actual text. ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' confirms the allegiances of Firestar's Quest to be correct.
** Rowanclaw: female in ''Dawn'' > male in ''Starlight'' and subsequent books. Fathers [[spoiler:Tawnypelt's kits]] and later [[spoiler:becomes deputy]].
** Rippletail: female in ''Twilight'' > male in ''The Sight''
** Pouncetail: female in ''The Sight'' > male in ''Dark River''
** Sedgewhisker: female in ''The Sight'' > male in ''Dark River'' > female in ''Sunrise''
** Gorsetail: female in ''Sunrise'' (was actually a mother of kits earler in TPOT) > male in ''The Fourth Apprentice''
** Rushpaw: male in main OOTS series > female in ''Battles of the Clans''
* GenkiGirl: Squirrelpaw, though it fades pretty quickly.
** Cinderpaw too, though that stops after [[spoiler:she gets hit by a car.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Learning that her parents broke the Warrior Code, which she'd obsessed over for the majority of her life, pretty much [[BreakTheCutie shattered what was left of Hollyleaf's sanity]].]]
* GoodShepherd: Common archetype for medicine cats.
* GRatedSex: Beyond all of the characters that have been born to the various {{Official Couple}}s throughout the series (one litter being both implied and confirmed by WordOfGod to be the result of a one-night stand), there are some specific scenes that are very noticeable:
** Bluestar and Oakheart were by far the most blatant, provoking many thoughts of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "how did they get away with this?"]]. Oakheart asks Bluestar to meet him somewhere at night, saying he wants to get to know her better. After a romantic evening, Bluestar starts begging to let herself enjoy "Just one night!". Next thing you know, Oakheart is building them a nest, and the next chapter skips to the next morning. Soon after, Bluestar is pregnant.
** Sasha and Tigerstar. Tigerstar spends a night in Sasha's den [[IntimateHealing "recovering"]]. Sasha is pregnant afterwards.
** Leafpool and Crowfeather run away together, at which point the narration switches to another character until a bit later, at which point we are informed that "they had been traveling all day even though neither of them had gotten any sleep the previous night." [[spoiler:Leafpool has Crowfeather's kits shortly afterwards]].
** Before what Firestar thinks will be the final battle with Tigerstar, he starts thinking about how many of his cats might die. He then asks Sandstorm to join him in his den.
** Daisy and Spiderleg are pretty much outright stated to have had a one-night stand.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: Some cats, particularly the elders, insist upon this when prey or herbs are low.
* GrimUpNorth: [=ShadowClan=], normally thought to be the most "evil" Clan, lives in the northernmost territory. There's even a saying in [=ThunderClan=] that the cold north wind blows over every [=ShadowClan=] cat and chills their heart.
* GrumpyOldMan: Some elders are portrayed this way, notably Mousefur and Tangle.
* HappyRain: The end of ''The Fourth Apprentice'', signifying the end of the drought.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Ivypool after seeing Tigerstar talking about destroying the forest.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Bluestar suffers a particularly nasty one after Tigerclaw's betrayal. It takes her two entire books to get over it completely... just in time for a {{Heroic Sacrifice}}.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** Firestar and Graystripe
** Ravenpaw and Barley, although pretty much every ''Warriors'' fan that doesn't hate slash (and even some who do) believes that Ravenpaw and Barley are more than HeterosexualLifePartners. It's also worth noting that [[WordOfGod the author herself said]] that she envisions them "[[HoYay like a married couple]]," and that they are ''perfectly happy with just each other'' and ''don't want any girls to boss them around''.
*** Made even more blatant by Ravenpaw's manga trilogy.
*** Let's just end it here and say that Barley and Ravenpaw's relationship is more HoYay than HeterosexualLifePartners.
* HighPressureBlood: A few instances, specifically:
** Tigerstar. Any wound inflicted on him seems to bleed twice as much as a wound inflicted on someone else. And of course, when he [[spoiler:bleeds to death ''[[CatsHaveNineLives nine times]]'']].
** [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]]'s death. It just keeps coming and coming...
** Every fight involving Lionblaze from ''Outcast'' onward.
** Firestar has been having a few of these moments lately. In ''Fading Echoes'', he's slipping in a pool of his own blood as it's still gushing out of him.
** [[spoiler:Stick's daughter Red after he accidently stabs her neck]].
* [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked By Tigerstar]]
* HissBeforeFleeing
* HoldYourHippogriffs: [[CueTheFlyingPigs Pigs aren't said to fly]], hedgehogs are. You don't split hairs, but split whiskers. And 'a load of foxdung' and 'Who made dirt in his fresh-kill?' are used as substitutes for... erm... yeah.
* TheHomewardJourney: ''Moonrise''. The journey to the sea was hard, but the journey home is just as dangerous ([[spoiler:In fact, one of them didn't make it back.]])
* HumansAreCthulhu: Much of what the Twolegs do is naturally incomprehensible to the cats, and they view Twolegs as one of the greatest threats ([[spoiler:especially after their original forest is torn down to make way for a new [[strike:highway]] Thunderpath]]).
* ICantFeelMyLegs: Used with [[spoiler:Briarpaw]] when a tree falls on her. She ends up with her hindlegs paralyzed.
* IJustWantToBeNormal:
** [[spoiler:Dovewing. She even says the phrase exactly in ''Fading Echoes''.]]
** Lionblaze, to a lesser extent. He even sympathizes with [[spoiler:Dovewing]]'s situation in ''The Fourth Apprentice''.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:Ivypool, seeing as she trains with the Dark Forest because of how special her sister is.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Sharptooth]] and [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath
* InitiationCeremony: Of the pleasant type, joining the clan requires taking an oath of loyalty in front of the clan, and adopting a clan suitable name.
* InfantImmortality: [[AvertedTrope does not exist.]] When they say AnyoneCanDie, they ''mean'' it. One particular example is Snowkit, a ''deaf kitten'', who is eaten by a hawk.
* InfoDump: The narration occasionally spouts large amounts of exposition to avoid ContinuityLockOut. It doesn't work very well.
* InstantOracleJustAddWater: Well, the medicine cats ''do'' have to touch their nose to, or drink from, the Moonpool in order to receive dreams from [=StarClan=]...
* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: [=ShadowClan=] in the first book.
* IronicEcho: In ''Beyond the Code'', "Why do things like this always happen to me?" First it's [[spoiler:Sol's mother, Cinders, in a flashback after her mate leaves her because she complained too often, and Sol was devastated. Later, in the present day, Sol says it himself when he wants to be made a warrior at the Gathering and he thinks Leafstar deliberately tried to embarrass him by refusing for the time being.]]
* Irony: In ''Outcast'', thinking about [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Crowfeather]], Hollyleaf thinks "I'm glad he's not ''my'' father!" [[spoiler:Three guesses what happens three books later.]]
* IsThatAThreat: In ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny'':
-->'''Skipper:''' "I've seen Red around a lot lately. Next time, it might be a tuft of her fur that's left beside a dead Twoleg pet."
-->'''Stick:''' "Leave Red out of this. And don't make threats you can't keep."
-->'''Misha:''' "Oh, they're not threats. They're promises."
* ISurrenderSuckers: Firestar has used this trick on several occasions to great effect, defeating opponents that otherwise had the advantage.
** This also is used by other cats. According to ''Secrets of the Clans'', this is a tactic taught to apprentices.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:Whitestorm. "I’ve been proud to serve as your deputy."]]
* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: [[spoiler:Dovewing's ability to sense events from far away]], much to the young cat's surprise.
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: [=StarClan=] thought it was a good idea to hide [[spoiler:the secret about their parents]] from Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather. ''[[BreakTheCutie It]]'' ''[[DysfunctionJunction wasn't]]''.
* [[ItsRainingMen It's Raining Cats]]: The "Skydrop" move that [=SkyClan=] developed and that [=ThunderClan=] later uses.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: [[OhMyGods Great StarClan]], does it.
* IWishedYouWereDead: [[spoiler:Lionblaze]] to [[spoiler:Heathertail]] at the end of ''Eclipse''. She doesn't actually die, but [[spoiler:Lionblaze]] spends the majority of the rest book [[spoiler:being tortured by nightmares about killing her]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Jayfeather. Not the friendliest cat in the world to be around, although that's hardly surprising, considering [[spoiler:his father is Crowfeather]], but still always does his best to help his Clanmates whenever and however he can.
** Crowfeather could also count, but Feathertail and Leafpool are the only ones who have [[HiddenHeartofGold actually seen his good side]]. It's worth a mention that Crowfeather [[spoiler: was ''a lot'' more of a pleasant cat before his first love, Feathertail died.]]
*** He was still a jerk back then. The only difference is that now he's actually abusive.
** Pretty much all of [=ShadowClan=] after the first series.
* JobTitle
* JustSoStory: There are stories in ''Secrets of the Clans'' that explain how tigers got stripes and how adders came to be.
* KangarooCourt: In ''The Darkest Hour'', what Tigerstar calls a "trial" for the prisoners. It's really nothing but whipping up hatred for the half-Clan cats so that their own Clanmates would mistrust them enough to want them driven out or killed.
* KarmaHoudini: Blackstar. He was one of the minions of two different {{Big Bad}}s, killed a [=ThunderClan=] elder while trying to kidnap some kits, and murdered the [=RiverClan=] deputy in cold blood in front of the entire Clan. He then goes on to be Clan leader, and Firestar lets him off with what can best be described as a stern warning. None of this is ever mentioned ever again.
** Blackstar was deputy of [=ShadowClan=], therefore, he succeeds Tigerstar. This is explicit Clan law, which the cats take ''very seriously''. Not allowing him to become leader would have been counter to the Warrior Code, and interfering in another Clan's business, also counter to the Code. In other words, a very serious breach of [=StarClan's=] laws.
*** That would explain why they don't just invade [=ShadowClan=] and kill him, but it doesn't explain the sheer lack of animosity any Clan shows towards him for those actions, as well as the fact that they're never acknowledged to the point of borderline {{CanonDiscontinuity}}. Not to mention that he's probably going to end up in [=StarClan=] when he dies, even though other cats have gone to the Dark Forest for doing less horrible things with the exact same justification.
*** He never was the one deciding to do those horrible things mind you. According to the warrior code, part 13 "The word of the Clan leader is law". He did, after all still follow the code. Though he really shouldn't have let the code get in the way of doing what's right. Also, he's not dead yet. Karma may yet come back to bite him.
* KissingCousins: Seeing as they're cats, and clans that don't allow intermixing, this is kind of inevitable.
** WordOfGod also confirmed one pairing that turned out to be BrotherSisterIncest. It wasn't on purpose because she didn't realize that they had the same parents (they were in different litters, a couple seasons apart), but she decided to just leave it once she found out.
* [[ChildrenAreInnocent Kits Are Innocent]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [=StarClan=] members can forget parts of their past they don't like.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Dovepaw and Ivypaw are born at the ending of ''Sunrise'' (the last book in the third series), with Jayfeather realizing that [[spoiler:one of them is the third cat in the prophecy]]. Both of them are main characters in the fourth series.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: One noteworthy example would be the way the names "Firestar" and "Tigerstar", both big spoilers for late in the first series, are being thrown around indiscriminately on this very page.
* LawfulStupid: Hollyleaf was turning into this before [[spoiler:her death.]]
** [[WordofGod The Erins]] have remained neutral on [[spoiler:whether or not Hollyleaf is dead]].
* LighterAndSofter: Fans thought this about ''Power of Three''. Then ''Outcast'' happened.
** ''Power of Three'' starting out LighterAndSofter and ending DarkerAndEdgier makes this a one arc long case of CerebusSyndrome.
* LightIsNotGood: Especially with [[spoiler:Sol]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters : Each book features a section at the front which lists all the characters. The most recent books' Allegiances sections have OVER ONE HUNDRED characters listed. (Of course, several of them are background characters, kits, and cats who haven't even made an appearance.) There are over [[BeyondTheImpossible 700 named characters in the whole series.]]
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt in early books. Who's their dad? [[BigBad Tigerstar.]]
* LostInTransmission: Whitethroat is injured, and Fireheart questions him about Runningwind's death. But just when Whitethroat opens his mouth begins to speak, a monster roars past so Fireheart can't hear him, and [[HisNameIs when Whitethroat tries to speak a second time, he dies]].
* LoveDodecahedron: Check out the main page, because we don't even want to start here.
* LoveMakesYouEvil : [[spoiler:Ashfur]]
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Luke I Am Your Mother]]: Almost abused. We have THREE counts of this so far, and one [[InvertedTrope Luke I am NOT your mother]].
* MadOracle: Goosefeather was often seen as this, and indeed, many of his prophecies and signs seem rather questionable. The problem is that there are some actual premonitions in there too, so everyone ignores him when he starts getting ''really'' bad feelings about Tigerkit's future.
* ManipulativeBastard: Tigerstar.
* MayDecemberRomance: Pinestar and Leopardfoot... he's already a ''leader'' on (or close to) his last life when she's ''born''.
* MeaningfulName: A Clan cat's name is an indicator of their rank in the Clan hierarchy: kits' names end in -kit, apprentices' in -paw, leaders' in -star... the more unique names belong to warriors and medicine cats. Further, many cats have names that reflect some aspect of their appearance: Firestar got his name from his oft-mentioned "flame-colored pelt", and as for Halftail and One-eye... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin isn't it obvious?]]
** And outside of the Clan naming conventions, there is also Sol, who is named after the Roman god of the sun, which makes sense because he [[spoiler:predicts a total solar eclipse]]. Although, he hasn't done anything sun-related since ''Eclipse''...
** Jayfeather and Hollyleaf. [[spoiler:Their suffixes are references to their real parents, ''Leaf''pool and Crow''feather'', and Jayfeather's prefix is a further reference to his father, since jays and crows are different species of bird within the same family. Hollyleaf's prefix relates to poisonous holly berries, a reference to her trying to force feed Leafpool deathberries in ''Sunrise'']].
* MeaningfulRename: Names are changed quite often, usually indicating [[RiteofPassage change of status]](promotion to apprentice or warrior), more rarely because of some physical change, e.g. Halftail, One-Eye, Lostface or Crookedkit.
* TheMedic: Medicine cats, of course.
* MercyKill: Littlecloud uses Deathberries to save dying cats from pain.
* MightyGlacier: [=ThunderClan=] and [=RiverClan=] cats.
* TheMigration: The plot of ''Dawn''.
* MindScrew: Probably the best way to describe trying to create an accurate family tree of every named character in the series.
** [[http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8792/familytree80.png It's been done.]]
** Jayfeather's visions in ''Night Whispers''. You can't even tell they're visions until they're over.
* MirroredConfrontationShot: The [[http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/harperchildrensImages/isbn/large/1/9780060525651.jpg cover]] of ''A Dangerous Path''.
** And [[http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv237/Flametail_von_Karma/Book%20Covers%20and%20Official%20Art/chinesetdh.jpg the Taiwanese version]] of ''The Darkest Hour''.
* TheMissingFaction: [=SkyClan=].
* MonsterIsAMommy: The badger and her cubs in ''Twilight'', and the dead fox and its cubs in ''The Sight''.
* MoralityPet: Snowfur for Thistleclaw.
** Honeyfern and Poppyfrost wind up being this for Berrynose. He's still [[spoiler: not exactly ready to be having kittens]] but, hey, at least he's trying to act decent.
** Brightheart for Cloudtail.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Hawkfrost. [[SarcasmMode Who most definitely]] ''[[SarcasmMode didn't]]'' [[SarcasmMode want to take over [=RiverClan=] and eventually rule the whole forest]].
* MotorMouth: Crookedstar's apprentice Sedgepaw.
-->Crookedstar's head was spinning. "Slow down," he meowed.\\
"Sorry!" Sedgepaw flattened her ears. "I know I talk too much but I just want to be the best apprentice. I'm so glad you're my mentor. You're the strongest cat in [=RiverClan=], except Rippleclaw, but he's old - not an elder or anything - but you're younger and you remember what it's like to be a 'paw. And I'm going to listen to everything you tell me..."
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The climax of ''The Fourth Apprentice'', where [[spoiler:Jayfeather breaks his stick]]. It is the most dramatic scene about [[spoiler:a cat breaking a piece of wood in half]] that you will ''ever'' read.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Most main characters will end up appearing with [=StarClan=] ([[spoiler:or in Tigerstar and Hawkfrost's case, the Dark Forest]]) at some point after they die. The best example of this trope is [[spoiler:Spottedleaf]], who has appeared in almost every single book in the series, even though she died in the very first book.
** [[spoiler:And now it seems that Brokenstar has attacked Jayfeather from beyond the grave. Yellowfang hints that a massive war between [=StarClan=] and the cats of the Dark Forest is coming, and that the living cats will be heavily involved.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Leaders have supreme authority, and their orders are followed, no matter how insane or evil they are.
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* TheNamesake: [[spoiler:Midnight]].
* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom: Tribe cats, although most of the time they use shortened versions of their names.
* TheNapoleon: Scourge.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Tigerstar towards the end of the first series.
* NeverSayGoodbye: Fireheart does this to [[spoiler:Yellowfang]] when he finds her [[AlmostDeadGuy dying]]. She starts to tell him something she wants him to hear before she dies, and he stops her, insisting she isn't going to die. She knows she is, though, and continues speaking.
* NeverTrustATitle: The title is ''Firestar's Quest'', but back when it was released and wasn't ''quite'' what readers were expecting, it was often said by fans that [[spoiler:''Firestar and Sandstorm's Quest'']] would be a more accurate title.
* NeverTrustATrope: The Clans often say this about each other. "You can't trust a [=ThunderClan=] cat!"
* NewEraSpeech: Tigerstar gives one at a Gathering in ''The Darkest Hour'' when he announces the formation of [=TigerClan=].
* [[SpringIsLate Newleaf Is Late]]
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: A bit of subversion with Lionblaze, since his power covers the incredibly wide umbrella of "[[spoiler:being ''really'' good at fighting]]", meaning the authors are able to make them take the shape of whatever they're in the mood for writing. [[spoiler:What to show how crazy and out off control he is? He is invulnerable and bloodthirsty to the point where he bathes in his enemies' blood. Need something heavy held up? He has super strength. Bullet time is fun to write? He fights in bullet time]].
* NewSeasonNewName: Each series has a different subtitle: ''Warriors'', ''Warriors: The New Prophecy'', ''Warriors: The Power of Three'', ''Warriors: Omen of the Stars''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Hey, [[spoiler: Ivypool]] we know your intentions were good, but [[spoiler: trusting the Dark Forest caused Firestar to lose a life and Russetfur to die. Hope the worthless territory was worth it.]]
* NoAntagonist: ''Power of Three''.
* TheOmniscient: Rock. ''Cats of the Clans'' makes it clear that he knows everything about the clans and tribe.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]] at the end of the third arc. Not explicitly invoked, though, so a little less clear odds of coming back than usual.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Scourge]] manages to [[spoiler:[[OneHitKill kill Tigerstar in one hit]]]] by [[spoiler:doing so much damage that Tigerstar dies ''nine times''.]]
* OhCrap: Billystorm pulls this when Leafstar [[DeathGlare gives him a death glare]] when their kits tell her that [[spoiler:their dad wants to take them to his Twoleg's place to stay safe for a while]].
* OldDog: In ''The Rise of Scourge'', an old dog called Sam is sleeping in an alley. Tiny is afraid it'll eat him, but it's too old to chase him, and it loses a tooth as it gets up. As Tiny tries to use the tooth to get his collar off, it gets stuck, and then he claims he got it by ''killing'' a dog. So it's thanks to Sam the OldDog that Tiny became Scourge, leader of [=BloodClan=].
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There have been three different cats named Birchstar, two Ashfurs, three Rocks, and each healer of the Tribe of Rushing Water adopts the name of Stoneteller, among other examples.
* OneWordTitle: The entirety of the second series. Also, ''Outcast'', ''Eclipse'', and ''Sunrise''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two Tribe of Endless Hunting ancestors named Fall and Slant are mentioned in ''Sign of the Moon''. We never hear their full Tribe names, just their nicknames.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Leaders stay dead for a few minutes before getting the wound that killed them healed and waking up.
* OpposedMentors: In ''Crookedstar's Promise'', the titular character is taught by his real mentor, Cedarpelt, but, unknown to other cats, he also is trained in his dreams by the deceased warrior Mapleshade. Mapleshade focuses more on combat skills, while Cedarpelt tries to explain that being a warrior is about more than just being a good fighter. Even their advice on battle moves differs, though that can be explained by the fact that [[spoiler:Mapleshade came from another Clan]].
** In addition, Firestar has a split mentorship for two moons between Lionheart and Tigerstar. As you would expect, they argue a lot. However, two moons into his apprenticeship, he gets Bluestar as his permanent mentor.
* OverlyLongName: Most of the cats of the Tribe of Rushing water have these, like Brook Where Small Fish Swim or Teller of the Pointed Stones.
* OwlBeDamned: Owls are often thought of as ill omens. Justified, since an owl seems quite large to a cat, and owls have been known to carry off kits. However, [=ThunderClan=] does occasionally look for owls at night, because if it's windy and they're having trouble scenting prey, they can follow an owl and find prey that way.
* PanickyExpectantFather: [[TheScrappy Berrynose]] of all cats. Of course, being Berrynose, he is this in the most annoying and bossy way possible.
* PastLifeMemories: Cinderheart has memories of her past life as Cinderpelt, but she has only ever shown signs of remembering them in her dreams, or recalls her past life subconsciously; for example, Cinderpelt's former apprentice Leafpool notes Cinderheart flicks her paw in the same way Cinderpelt did, as well as another character once thinking she was acting WiseBeyondHerYears, and Cinderheart remembering the distance between the Great Sycamore and [=ThunderClan's=] camp in the Forest, even though she had been born after the Clans had left the Forest. [[spoiler:Eventually she does recover ''all'' her memories of being Cinderpelt.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Scourge. '''AND FUCKING HOW.'''
** Any apprentice who's worth their salt in battle counts, particularly Thistlepaw from ''Bluestar's Prophecy.''
* PowerTrio: Firepaw, Graypaw, and Ravenpaw formed one in ''Into the Wild'' before Ravenpaw left. In Power of Three, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf formed one before [[spoiler:Hollyleaf supposedly died]]. [[spoiler:She]] was then replaced by Dovewing.
* {{Prequel}}: ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', ''Crookedstar's Promise'', ''Yellowfang's Secret'', the planned fifth series (though that will take place much earlier in time than the Super Editions).
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Just about all of the Clan cats at one point or another, but probably [=ShadowClan=] most of all, considering how often their pride is pointed out. They consider themselves to be superior to pretty much any cat that doesn't live in a Clan. Even then, they generally consider their birth Clan to be better than the other three. Outsiders who have joined Clans often have to deal with prejudice against them due to not being "Clanborn".
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Every medicine cat, actually.
** And [[TheChosenOne Firestar]], or any of the other [[TheChosenOne Chosen Ones]].
*** The ''Warriors'' app reveals that his mother had one before he was born. Maybe it runs in the family?
* PublicExecution: Stonefur's death.
* PublisherChosenTitle: ''Sunrise''. Vicky wanted it to be called ''Cruel Season''.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Chosen cats from New Prophecy join back together to scout the lake in Starlight and to help the tribe in Outcast.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:Bluestar attempts to after Tigerclaw betrays her--the bad luck that [=ThunderClan=] receives afterwards]] causes her to declare war on her ancestors. She comes around [[spoiler:as her children forgive her as she's dying]].
* RageAgainstTheMentor
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dovewing gives one to Ivypool after Ivypool pushes one too many [[BerserkButton berserk buttons.]]
** Leafstar herself gives one to Sol after [[spoiler:he steals her kits to rescue them so that he can prove to be a warrior.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Squirrelflight and Leafpool, anyone?
* ReformedCriminal: Blackstar. After doing things against the warrior code (stealing kits from another Clan, killing other cats needlessly), he lived as a rogue for a while, but eventually rejoined the Clan, became its leader, and hasn't done anything like that since.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: It is considered to be a huge honor to be mentored by the Clan leader or, to a lesser degree, the deputy. It occurs only a couple times in the series, most notably in the first book when Bluestar chooses Firepaw as her apprentice. It is also considered an honor to train as the medicine cat's apprentice, because it is such an important position; each medicine cat only trains one apprentice in their lifetime. In that case, however, it usually isn't a surprise because the younger cat already has an interest in healing and helps out the medicine cat for a while before officially being apprenticed.
* {{Retcon}}: Since the first book in the series, Blackstar has had black paw''s''. However, as of ''Sign of the Moon'', he only has one black paw.
** Bluestar's Prophecy and Crookedstar's Promise were set in the same timeline. In one shared scene between the two books, in a gathering, the cats' dialogue was retconned to reference an event in Crookedstar's Promise (which was the later released of the two).
* {{Retronym}}:
** The first set of six was called simply ''Warriors'', but that became the series name altogether. To distinguish the first six from the rest, fans usually use "the first arc", or "the original series".
** The Graystripe manga trilogy never had its own trilogy subtitle like the others; perhaps they weren't originally planning on doing more manga after his? The boxed set of his three now calls the trilogy "Graystripe's Adventure".
* RiteOfPassage: Quite a few, apprenticeship represents the end of childhood, becoming a warrior is a mark of adulthood. Getting your first apprentice is also a meaningful and awaited mark, since it allows a cat to become a deputy.
** Pretty much any time there is a ceremony going on, it's a rite of passage.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Kind of. Rats are basically just normal-sized rats, but are fearsome and universally loathed by cats. And, of course, rats are much bigger compared to cats than to humans.
* RomanticFalseLead: Ashfur in ''Twilight''.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Rogue" is a term that is used regularly in the series. Cue bad fanfiction authors spelling it wrong all the time.
** Also expect to occasionally find people asking others what their favourite "[[StoryArc arch]]" is, or what "[[{{Canon}} cannon]]" pairings they like.
** The most frequently misspelled names are probably "[[AChristmasCarol Scrouge]]" (Scourge) and "[[GroinAttack Loinblaze]]" (Lionblaze).
* RuleOfThree: The ''third'' series, ''Power of Three'', with ''three'' protagonists.
* RunningGag: Almost every time [[MeaningfulName Runningnose]] makes an appearance, one of the main characters will remark that he can't be that great of a medicine cat since he can't even cure his own cold.
** To add to that, in the French version [[{{Woolseyism}} his name literally means "hay fever"]].
** Even ''dying'' isn't enough to stop him from being the butt of this joke...
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]], and to a [[BreakTheCutie lesser extent]], her brothers.
** [[spoiler: Bluestar]] after ''Forest of Secrets''.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: This seems to be the attitude of a good many elders. WordOfGod has admitted that the influence of one of their older pet cats had something to do with it.
* SecondPersonNarration: Several stories - or the narration between the stories - in the [[ExpandedUniverse field guides]] are written this way. Occasionally it will be as if the reader is a cat interacting with the characters. Other times, it will be from one character speaking this way to another specific character that appears in the books. At times - notably the "so-and-so speaks" portions - the identity of the "you" isn't necessarily clear.
* SecretRelationship: [[OnceAnEpisode Everywhere, all the time]]. [[spoiler:Raggedstar/Yellowfang, Bluestar/Oakheart, Graystripe/Silverstream, Crowfeather/Leafpool, Lionblaze/Heathertail, Dovewing/Tigerheart]]... Great [=StarClan=], the list is endless. [[spoiler:[[StarCrossedLovers And they never end well]]]].
* SecretUndergroundPassage: The tunnel under the Thunderpath in [=ShadowClan=] territory.
* ShipperOnDeck: Both Rosetail and Larksong are [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Platonicshippers]] ([=BlueXThrush=]).
** In ''The Forgotten Warrior'', Whitewing, Ivypool and Cinderheart all start shipping Dovewing with Bumblestripe.
* ShoutOut:
** Vicky admits to hiding quotes from ''{{Rambo}}'' and ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' in some of the dialogue.
** Macgyver in ''[=SkyClan's Destiny=]'' is named after the [[{{Macgyver}} television show of the same name]], as Vicky is a fan.
** Fuzzypelt is named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Felt Fuzzy Felt]], a toy Vicky remembers playing with when she was little.
** The magazine ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Fancy_(magazine) Cat Fancy]]'' makes an appearance in the first volume of the [=SkyClan=] manga, on page 82.
** One of the Adventure Game chapters in ''Battles of the Clans'' is titled "[[TheBeatles Here Comes The Sun]]".
** As Vicky is a ''StarTrek'' fan, ''The New Prophecy'' was originally going to be called ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. She still has files on her computer with "TNG" in the name.
* SiblingRivalry: Dovewing and Ivypool, especially in ''Night Whispers''.
* SicklyGreenGlow: The Dark Forest. Fits well, having to do with both evil ''and'' death.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Several.
** ''Into the Wild'' [[IntoTheWild by Jon Krakauer]]
** ''Twilight'' [[Literature/{{Twilight}} by Stephenie Meyer]]
** ''The Sight'' [[TheSight by David Clement-Davies]]
** ''Eclipse'' [[Literature/{{Twilight}} by Stephenie Meyer]]
** ''Into The Woods'' [[IntoTheWoods the musical]]
* SlashedThroat: The most commonly used method of killing someone. One of the more realistic, messy examples.
* SlasherSmile: Mapleshade. She can make Ivypool feel like [[TastesLikeDiabetes Daisy]] is with her, right before [[spoiler: trying to drown her.]]
* SmallTownBoredom: The reason Rusty decides to stop being a kittypet and become a warrior.
* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: The last three audiobooks in the ''The New Prophecy'' series are read by Nanette Savard, an American actress. The narration and most of the characters are read with an American accent - except, for some reason, the [[TheMedic medicine cats]], who are read with a British accent. They're regular Clan cats, born and lived with their Clanmates all their lives, and just chose a different job - so where did the accent come from? Are they born with it and for some reason all cats with this accent take the medicine cat's job? Or does healing cats suddenly give you a different accent somehow?
* SpeakInUnison: [=StarClan=] is described as sounding like every cat Firestar has ever known, all speaking at once in one clear voice.
* StalkerWithACrush: Spottedleaf.
** Of course, Firestar actually loves her back. Unfortunately, she has to stop stalking him because he already has another mate. [[spoiler:Also, she is dead.]]
*** Not that she can't continue to stalk every generation of his family thereafter, of course. [[CrackPairing Jayfeather/Spottedleaf]], anyone?
*** Not that this stops her from expressing the desire to give anything to be with him, in spite of her devotion to her fate in ''Firestar's Quest''.
**** ''Spottedleaf's Honest Answer'', anyone?
* StartMyOwn:
** Some remnants of [=BloodClan=] decide to try and start their own Clan in Ravenpaw and Barley's barn.
** Sol, after [[spoiler:parting ways with [=SkyClan=]]], starts his own Clanlike group of cats.
* StartOfDarkness:
** ''The Rise of Scourge'' for Scourge.
** ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'', for Sol.
* StoppedCaring: Bluestar, in books 4 and 5 of the first series.
* StormingTheCastle: The characters will, on rare occasions, attack another Clan's camp instead of just fighting somewhere in the territory. This can be risky, though, as the home Clan knows the best way to defend it, will be fighting more fiercely and desperately to protect the defenseless kits and elders, and the raiding Clan is usually outnumbered. It's worked about as often as it has failed.
* StrangeSalute: The Tribe's greeting gesture: extending one paw while bowing the head.
* SuccessionCrisis: Happens a couple times, despite the fact that the Clans' hierarchy is set up in a way to avoid it.
** In the second series, Tallstar, leader of [=WindClan=], announces with his dying breaths that [[spoiler: Mudclaw is no longer his deputy: Onewhisker now is]]. Since deputy succeeds leader, and Tallstar managed to announce his decision only to [[spoiler: Onewhisker and the leader of [=ThunderClan=], who is Onewhisker's friend]], many [=WindClan=] cats don't believe it, and start a civil war supporting the old deputy.
** [[ExpandedUniverse The guidebook]] ''Code of the Clans'' explains how this setup came to be, after two specific crises: The deputy-becomes-leader rule started after there was a case where a leader selected his son as his successor. The son led his Clan into a needless fight, where half the cats disagreed with his choice and those that did listen nearly drowned. He realized that the deputy, due to her rank, had more experience in being in charge of the Clan. The rule that states that the new deputy must be chosen before moonhigh was created after a new leader waited too long to choose her deputy. She died of sickness, leaving the Clan leaderless and with two more dead cats who had attempted to fight for leadership. Eventually the spirit of the previous leader [[DeadPersonConversation tells the medicine cat in a dream]] to choose who the new leader will be.
* SpartanWay: [=ShadowClan=]'s training while Brokenstar is the leader - even [[ChildSoldiers kits]] are forced to train in the brutal battle training, and many end up dying. Dark Forest training also counts.
* SurprisePregnancy: Bluestar is unaware that she is pregnant until another she-cat points it out.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: At one point in Night Whispers, Tigerheart asks Dovewing how she always manages to get to their meeting place first. Dovewing mutters back that she [[BlatantLies totally doesn't listen for when he leaves his nest]].
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Red does this for Harley in ''SkyClan's Destiny''.]]
* TalkingInYourDreams: [=StarClan=] does this all the time, and so does [[spoiler:Tigerstar]] in the second series and onward. Jayfeather is the only living character who can do this. Some experiences with dreamwalking has also shown that characters who are wounded in dreams sustain the same injuries in the waking world - it is even possible to be killed in a dream.
* TangledFamilyTree: [[http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8792/familytree80.png Just look at it!]]
* TeasingCreator: Vicky Holmes, soooooo much.
--->'''Vicky''' ''(after a fan asked what Yellowfang's Secret would be about)'': [[ShrugOfGod Yellowfang will be in it. She will have a secret. Bad things will happen.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Battles are relatively common, but killing is seen as dishonourable, and is generally avoided, [[spoiler:except by Tigerstar and Scourge]]. In fact, the main characters of the first two series have only killed one cat each. Oddly enough, they both killed [[spoiler:their own half brothers]].
** Although Firestar becomes a pacifist in the second and third series, in the first series he showed absolutely no aversion to killing. For example, when Whitestorm has to restrain him from killing Clawface, him believing that he and Tigerstar were destined to fight to the death, and saying that Brokenstar deserved to die.
*** This could be justified as CharacterDevelopment. Firestar was young at the time and probably didn't fully realize what the ramifications of his actions could be if he killed Clawface, and he was absolutely ''horrified'' by Tigerstar's death.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: In ''Beyond the Code''. They're at a Gathering with the full moon shining down between a couple sparse clouds. The cats comment on how the drought might end since the air's cooler. An argument starts, Sol runs away in anger. Next panel: [[DramaticThunder lightning flash and a KABOOM!]] Next panel: Downpour. The rain is even enough to flood ''almost the entire gorge'' that same night.
* TitleDrop: In the prologue for the fifth book of ''Power of Three'', Rock makes a reference to "the power of three", and in ''Omen of the Stars'', Yellowfang mentions "an Omen of the Stars" (capitalized like a title) in the prologue of ''the very first book''.
** There are no less than three echo related metaphors used in ''Fading Echoes''.
** In ''Sign of the Moon'' (which isn't even in the ''Power of Three'' series), after Jayfeather realizes that [[spoiler:Lion's Roar and Dove's Wing are reincarnations of Lionblaze and Dovewing]], he says that the Power of Three has begun. And it is capitalized.
** ''The Last Hope'', however, takes the cake. It gets dropped at least ''five times'' in the book, two of them from the prologue alone.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Tawnypelt in [=ShadowClan=].
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In his manga trilogy, Ravenpaw gets his tongue stuck to some ice in a gutter on the barn roof.
* TonightSomeoneDies: ''And one more warrior may be lost forever...'', which likely referred to [[spoiler:Hollyleaf]]. Although, many fans believe that [[spoiler:she survived, in which case, the word "lost" is probably meant to be taken literally, since she is indeed lost. It could also refer to how she has "lost" her sanity, or "lost" her status as a warrior because she has turned her back on the Clans and the warrior code.]]
** Also, ''Twilight'' opens with an unidentified cat being told that [[YourDaysAreNumbered they will die soon]], leaving the reader in suspense over who it will be. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Cinderpelt.]]
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: The eclipse in... err... ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Eclipse]]''.
* TotallyRadical: Every so often, a young cat will call something "cool" or say "totally", which sticks out when compared to the fairly formal speech most of the Clan cats use.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Jayfeather in ''Long Shadows'' when he [[spoiler:goes back to the time of the Ancients and can only go home after influencing them to go to the mountains]].
* TreacheryCoverUp: [[spoiler:When Hollyleaf dies in the tunnels after trying to escape from her Clan and everything that had gone wrong, Lionblaze and Jayfeather cover up her treachery by telling the Clan she had died chasing a squirrel into the tunnel, so that she would be remembered as a brave hunter rather than Ashfur's killer.]]
** It's hard to judge whether or not they did this for [[spoiler:Hawkfrost]]. They did cover up the fact that [[spoiler:Brambleclaw]] killed him, but there is conflicting evidence on whether or not they covered up why he was killed. In ''The Sight'', some warriors have a conversation about the mysterious circumstances of his death, and say that his Clanmates mourned him, and [=RiverClan=] seems relatively ignorant of his treachery in other books, which would suggest he did get a cover-up. But then in ''After Sunset: We Need To Talk'', Cloudtail says to a [=WindClan=] patrol [[spoiler:that Hawkfrost tried to kill Firestar]], which suggests everyone knows about it.
** [[spoiler:Ashfur]] after ''Long Shadows'', and [[spoiler:Tigerstar]] after he is exiled in ''Forest of Secrets''.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Done several times...
** Vicky has admitted to using fans' warrior names. Some of them, she has said, are from fans she met on tours, or from letters sent to her - none of these are known by anyone except her at this point. Some of them also came from online fans' names, notably from the sites {{Wands and Worlds}} and Warrior's Wish - confirmed ones include Lakestorm, Quailfeather, Flintfang, and Blizzardstar (tribute to [[BigNameFan Blizz]], creator of Warrior's Wish, the largest fansite.)
** Brightspirit, Shiningheart, and Braveheart are based on ten-year-old fan Emmy Cherry and her parents Jimmy and Dana, who all died in a tornado in February 2008. [[http://www.wandsandworlds.com/community/node/3487 Vicky sent a message to Wands and Worlds]] so that the members there could offer words of support and comfort to Emmy's family. They gave Emmy and her parents warrior names to honor them. Vicky decided to use those names in the next book, ''Long Shadows'', which she also dedicated to them.
** Ivypool, a current main character, is named after a person too. While Ivy herself, as a toddler, is too young to have read the books, her family has gone to see the author on every single one of her tours, earning them the nickname "[=FarDrivingClan=]" from Vicky. They have become good friends with her, and she decided to name the character after the youngest member of the family. Vicky has recently confirmed her warrior name to be [[spoiler:Ivypool, because Ivy's full name is Ivy Poole.]]
* TunnelNetwork:
** [=WindClan=]'s tunnel system in the forest.
** The caves in the lake territory.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Scourge turning against Tigerstar, although ''Rise of Scourge'' actually gives him an ulterior motive for killing him.
** Hawkfrost turning on Mudclaw might count, too. [[spoiler:Although, it is highly likely that Hawkfrost was actaully pulling the strings, which would mean he was the master, making this more a case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]].
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Brambleclaw.
* TwinTelepathy: Squirrelflight and Leafpool, while not identical twins, were of the same litter, and exhibit some signs of this: they can sense each other's emotions, and have shared dreams and sensations on occasion.
* TwistEnding: The very last line of ''Rising Storm''.
** And few saw the ending of ''Long Shadows'' coming.
* UnbrokenVigil: When Brightpaw gets attacked by dogs, after staying with her a full night, Cloudtail still refuses to eat or sleep, until Cinderpelt finally orders him to.
* UnfortunateNames: A lot:
** Some have strange given names. Kinkfur, Runningnose, Foxheart (ItMakesSenseInContext, as "fox-heart" is a feline team meaning treacherous and cowardly), Sneezekit, Deadfoot, Mudpuddle, Maggottail...
*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Outcast'' when the apprentices joke about what kind of horrible name Firestar could give Berrypaw. They come up with Berrystumpytail, [[FanNickname which has now been adopted as a nickname for him.]]
** A lot of the characters' names in ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' and the [=SkyClan=] manga trilogy, are ''meant'' to be horrible, to point out how [=SkyClan=] is different from the other Clans - they're nothing but a kittypet name with a warrior ending added on: Billystorm, Harveymoon, Harrykit.
** Some characters' names were picked by other characters and meant to be cruel: Lostface and Crookedkit.
* UnknownRival: [[spoiler: Tigerstar is Scourge's archnemisis. Tigerstar however, doesn't remember Scourge.]]
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Naturally this will happen from time to time, since having more than one kit in a litter isn't out of the ordinary for cats.
* VaguenessIsComing
* VerbingNouny: ''Rising Storm'', ''Fading Echoes''
* VillainBall: Tigerstar apparently has nothing better to do in the afterlife than harass the descendants of a cat whose worst crime against him was to foil an evil scheme or two. He shows less resentment toward the cat who killed him ''nine times.''
** Tigerstar actually has more than bothering Firestar in mind, as shown as his plans become more clear in ''Omen of the Stars''. As for why he doesn't resent [[spoiler:Scourge]]... well, it's kind of hard to resent someone who's soul doesn't exist in any known afterlife, isn't it? This still doesn't justify his only recently broken long streak of lackluster villainy, though.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Tigerclaw in the first series.
* TheWatcher: [=StarClan=] very pointedly state that they give advice, and watch over the living cats, but they do not interfere directly (they've bent that rule once or twice, but it's extremely rare). This makes it seem a bit silly when the Clans are constantly worried about incurring the "wrath of [=StarClan=]". Cinderpelt even has to remind the [=ThunderClan=] cats at one point that not every inconvenient natural phenomena is necessarily a sign from their ancestors: "There are times when a storm is just a storm."
** Oddly enough, everyone seems to hate Sol because he tells them this. True, he does go overboard by [[spoiler:telling [=ShadowClan=] to ignore the warrior code]], and [[spoiler:some of his actions in ''Sunrise'' suggest that he is a villain]], but it is kind of weird that everyone hates him for saying [=StarClan=] isn't all powerful, even though that's ''exactly'' what they've been telling us for pretty much the ''entire'' series.
*** They haven't been telling ''everybody'' this. That was just Firestar, and rather grudgingly, too. But of course, the whole sky-is-falling mentality is still firmly there.
**** But the fans know what Firestar was told, so they should know that [=StarClan=] isn't all powerful. However, they still bash Sol for this reason.
* WellDoneSonGuy:
** Stormtail was this when Bluestar was a young warrior.
** Rainflower was always this to Crookedstar.
* WhamEpisode: ''Long Shadows''. Hoo boy...
** ''The Fourth Apprentice'' is also a ''massive'' one.
** As is ''Night Whispers''.
** But ''The Forgotten Warrior'' easily beats them all.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Despite being the sole reason for the Clans' misery, [[{{HumansAreSpecial}} humans are never harmed in the books]]. In fact, every time a particular human is involved, they usually get ''saved'' by the cats. Special mention goes to when a child falls into [=SkyClan's=] territory and breaks her leg. The cats go out of their way to help the kid and bring her home safely, when the more pragmatic approach would be to simply kill her, or leave her to die. It doesn't make sense that cats would sympathize with a species other than their own. Especially not a species that poses a constant threat to the very standing of the Clans.
** Well, it makes more sense when you consider that most of the cats in that situation were [[spoiler:daylight warriors, meaning they lived with twolegs during the day and presumably loved their owners. They wouldn't want to see a Twoleg get hurt.]] In the same book, the reason they didn't attack [[spoiler:Petalnose and Shrewtooth's old Twoleg]] was because they were warned by the [[spoiler:kittypets]] how dangerous it is to attack a Twoleg. Considering how uptight people are about getting rid of pests and potentially rabid animals, this was probably a smart move.
** On the other hand, prey animals are killed ''en masse'' for the sake of feeding the Clans, and nobody complains about that the way they'd complain about killing a human.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Elders claim this on occasion - for example, Fireheart gets into a small argument with one in ''Forest of Secrets'' when the elder claims that young cats nowadays don't know what hardship is.
* WhereItAllBegan: When the Clans leave, they end up settling by a lake. Turns out their distant ancestors (way before the Clans formed) once lived there, and that that's where the ''Power of Three'' prophecy originated.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jayfeather and water.
** Can't forget Bluestar. The prophecy about her even said ''the only thing that could destroy her was water''.
** Also, [=SkyClan=] and rats.
* WorkingTitle:
** When the second series was set to be just a trilogy, the working title for the trilogy was Warriors: The Next Generation
** "The Curse" for ''Dark River'', as seen in advanced-release copies of ''The Sight''
** "Cruel Season" for Sunrise (changed because [[PublisherChosenTitle apparently it was too depressing for the end of a series]])
** "The Fourth Apprentice" was the working title for the whole fourth series, with "Ambush" as the first book
** "Strangers in the Snow" for ''Shattered Peace'', according to illustrator James Barry
** "Betrayal" or "Dark Betrayal" (Vicky and the US editor Erica were "fighting most sweetly" about it, according to Kate) for ''Night Whispers''
** "Crookedstar's Secret" for ''Crookedstar's Promise''
* WorldOfBadass
* WouldHurtAChild: Tigerstar kills Gorsepaw in ''The Darkest Hour'' for no other reason than to bring fear to [=WindClan=]. Darkstripe also attempts to kill Sorrelkit because she caught him meeting Blackfoot on their territory.
* TheXOfY: ''Secrets of the Clans'', ''Cats of the Clans'', ''Code of the Clans'', ''Battles of the Clans''
** A few non-Field Guide books as well: ''Forest of Secrets'', ''Sign of the Moon'', ''The Rise of Scourge'', ''The Heart of a Warrior''
* YouDirtyRat: The rats in "Firestar's Quest" and "SkyClan's Destiny" are evil. In addition, the rats in "Into the Wild" and "Crookedstar's Promise" attack the cats. The portrayal of rats results in quite a few fans complaining.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Cinderpelt]].
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