History WarriorCats / Tropes0ToG

* 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. Whether said "nothing" is this isn't exactly clear, though: even cats who died ''ages'' before the beginning of the series—indeed, [[TimeAbyss long enough ago]] that even a human would struggle to remember them—are shown to still interact with others and [[DeadPersonConversation give advice to the living]].

* ColourfulThemeNaming: The first part of cats' names come from things a forest cat would know, such as plants, animals, and natural objects. They also use a lot of colors -- every basic color except orange, purple, and pink. They even use some more unusual colors, such as "golden", "silver", "copper", "russet", "tawny", "amber", and "fallow". Oddly enough, out of over 1000 characters, "white" is the most common prefix of all, and even "fallow" got used about five times, but "brown" only got used once, and the cat in question disappeared from the cast list before recieving his warrior name.

** 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. Also, they're unhappy that Tigerclaw wasn't chosen, because he's the best fighter. Uh, Fireheart was an apprentice when Lionheart died. And how could they forget about Tigerclaw becoming deputy after Lionheart and his subsequent attempts to kill Bluestar in order to become leader?

* AllGenesAreCoDominant: There are multiple male tortoiseshell cats, which are incredibly rare due to the pattern requiring them to have an extra X chromosome. At least one of them, Redtail, is also a father despite almost all male tortoiseshells being sterile due to said extra X chromosome.

* AllGenesAreCoDominant:
** According to feline genetics 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.
** There are multiple male tortoiseshells in ''Warriors'', which are incredibly rare (about a one in three thousand chance). At least one of them, Redtail, is also a father, despite almost all male tortoiseshells being sterile.

** Firestar's nine lives is probably the most major one. He first lost a life in ''The Darkest Hour'' to Scourge, and then ''Dawn'' to the falling tree; at the beginning of ''Sunset'', it said he had seven lives left, and then at the end after he's caught in the fox trap and is noted to be lying motionless, it says he has six left. Then ''Firestar's Quest'' came out - which takes place after ''The Darkest Hour'' and before ''Dawn'' - which said that he had ''six'' lives left, and then he lost one to rats in the book. When asked why it said six, Vicky said that he lost one to Scourge, one to the rats in the book (even though the line was before it occurred), and one helping Ravenpaw (the Ravenpaw manga was not released until years later, and when it was released, it took place after Firestar's Quest and he didn't lose a life in it), so that didn't clear up matters at all and just caused confusion; the "six" line is generally assumed to be an error. Vicky also said that he didn't lose one in the fox trap (and the short story "After Sunset: The Right Choice?" would later support this), despite ''Sunset'' itself claiming he had. He lost one in Long Shadows to greencough, and one just before The Fourth Apprentice to a fox. In Fading Echoes, Yellowfang says that five of Firestar's lives are in [=StarClan=], leaving him with four remaining. If you count all the lives we actually ''saw'' him lose in the books minus the fox-trap one - Scourge, rats, tree, greencough, fox - this is correct. He lost a life at the end of Fading Echoes to Russetfur, evidently leaving him with three left. And then he lost a life - his ''final'' life - in The Last Hope to wounds from the Dark Forest battle. The only way that this count is accurate is if you count the fox trap (which one book said did happen, and Word of God and one short story said it didn't), and the supposed "Ravenpaw" one which didn't actually happen in the manga nor was referenced whatsoever in the books, or perhaps you can just headcanon that his wounds in ''The Last Hope'' were bad enough to take more than one life. No matter which book directly references his life count, it's always incorrect each time.

* CoolCat: Pretty much everyone.

** Their terminology changes a bit, such as the way they use hyphens and capitalizations in words (i.e. "Clan mate" becomes "Clanmate"). Also, in the first book they use the word "queen" for any female cat, but later on it only gets used for females currently pregnant or nursing kits, and "she-cat" becomes the general word for "female".
** The Clans are a lot more formal early on; cats refer to parents by their actual names rather than calling them "mother" or "father", and there is almost no use of slang such as "cool". The Gatherings in the first series tended to be different groups of cats mixing and talking about current events - for example, a senior warrior talking to a group of apprentices, or a young warrior joining a bunch of elders and medicine cats in a discussion, while lately it's mostly cats sticking with their own age group and gossiping.

** Early on, cats are rarely mentioned by name unless they actually have speaking lines in a scene, and sometimes not even then. In ''The Prophecies Begin'' you're likely to see something like "Tigerclaw and a patrol of warriors were leaving the camp" while in ''Power of Three'' or ''Omen of the Stars'' it would be more like "Bumblestripe, Thornclaw, Cinderheart, and Ivypaw were leaving the camp on a hunting patrol". Cats at Gatherings and in battles are also usually just described as, for instance, 'a silver tabby' or 'a dark queen' more often than they are named. Kits get this treatment, too, leading to the odd effect of cats not seeming to have names at all until they're apprenticed.
** The timing of cats' apprenticeships is weirdly off in series one, and their general ages. This is sometimes due to retcon, but it still leaves ''The Prophecies Begin'' arc very weird timing-wise, especially when it comes to kits and apprentices. Ravenpaw refers to Sandpaw and Dustpaw as being longer apprenticed than he, Graypaw, and Firepaw, despite the fact that he and Dustpaw are littermates and should have started training at the same time. Fireheart and Graystripe become warriors before Sandstorm and Dustpelt, which isn't that odd considering they'd just done something heroic, but they'd only been training for three moons at most. Thornclaw and Brightheart start their apprentice training in the book after their siblings Brackenfur and Cinderpelt do, for no discernible reason.
** In ''Fire and Ice'', Tigerclaw suggests that Darkstripe and Longtail be given a second apprentice each, and Bluestar replies that she considered it. Aside from Dustpelt later asking to mentor Fernpaw too - which is mostly played for laughs - there’s no other reference in the series to cats being the official mentor to more than one apprentice at a time.

-->A vast, unnatural silence covered everything. With the rational part of his mind, Fireheart realized that all the prey had been scared away by the rampaging dog pack, but in the grip of his grief it seemed that even the forest was stunned into mourning Bluestar.

* EveryoneIsRelated: Seeing as they live in Clans that do not allow intermixing, this is basically the case. Particularly amusing in ''A Starless Clan'' when they make such a big deal about Flamepaw being Firestar's kin, when the truth is that ''half'' of [=ThunderClan=] is related to Firestar at this point (being descended either from Firestar himself, or his nephew Cloudtail).

* FandomSpecificPlot: Fanfics typically follow one of the following:
** [=StarClan=] has a prophecy about a newly born kit. This character fulfills the prophecy, and often ends up becoming Clan leader.
** One that shows up a lot is the "New Clans" fic. In it, the author creates four new Clans separate from the main Clans and focuses on their adventures.
** Another type of fic is the "Exiled Clan" fic. The author writes about another exiled Clan, similar to [=SkyClan=].
** Plenty of authors like to write about what would happen if [=SkyClan=] showed up at the lake territory.
** Fics about what happens after ''[[GrandFinale The Last Hope]]'' were very common before Bramblestar's Storm and the later arcs came along.
** Writing about the kits of one of the main characters is an approach used often, as this happens in ''Warriors'' canon.

** Sparkpelt and Larksong's kits are Finchpaw, Flamepaw, and Flickerkit.

* {{Animesque}}:
** Most of the fan-made Website/YouTube Warriors animations. 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]].
** 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 was Husker from the Graystripe trilogy.