History WarriorCats / TropesNToT

* ScarsAreForever: Scars mostly are looked upon as a sign of toughness - young cats often refuse to let the medicine cat treat them so that a scar forms - but Brightheart by far has the worst scars, which make other cats uneasy rather than envious: half her face was torn off by dogs, and it has affected her for the rest of her life.

* OutOfFocus: The series usually avoids this, despite its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, but there are still several examples.

** In the ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' manga, many characters who were important in ''Firestar's Quest'' and ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'', such as Egg and Frecklewish, simply disappear from the story. This is one of the more understandable times it happened, seeing as ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' is a manga that's about 300 pages long, while the rest of the [=SkyClan=] Saga is nearly 1000 pages of print featuring LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* SeriesContinuityError: Lots and lots of them; see the individual books' Recap pages for some examples. Characters often change pelt colors and occasionally [[GenderBender flip genders]], sometimes they'll forget what certain characters know and don't know, time passage will be inaccurate, and some details about Clan life and the history of the Clans have gotten changed around. Seeing as there's dozens of books and side book, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters over a thousand characters]], and multiple people writing the series, it's only natural that things get mixed up once in a while.

* OverarchingVillain: Tigerstar. He dies toward the end of the first arc, but shows up in the ''Warriors'' equivalent of hell and remains a major villain until [[DeaderThanDead his spirit is killed]] and he [[CessationOfExistence is gone forever]] at the end of the fourth arc, which was originally intended to be the last arc following the main storyline. He also has a role in several of the side works, including ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', the ''Tigerstar and Sasha'' and ''The Rise of Scourge'' mangas, and a POV novella titled ''Tigerclaw's Fury''.

** Berrynose and his {{Expy}}, Beetlenose.

* TheTheTitleConfusion:
** The third series is called ''Power of Three''. Officially, there is no "the"; however, fans usually add the "the", giving this story arc the FanNickname "Teapot" (The Power of Three = [=TPoT=] = Teapot.)
** Likewise, the sixth book in the fifth series is called ''Path of Stars'', though it often gets written with a "the" in front of it.

*** Some Tribe cats - who happen to be named after the first thing their mother sees/hears after their birth - have names involving creatures, mostly birds: Bird Who Rides The Wind, Flight of Startled Heron, Eagle Feather, Fluttering Bird, Swoop of Chestnut Hawk, Jackdaw's Cry, Lark That Sings At Dawn, Lion's Roar, Screech of Angry Owl, Splash When Fish Leaps, Talon of Swooping Eagle, Turtle Tail)

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: For the the first two books of ''The New Prophecy'', the point of view switches between Leafpaw, a medicine cat apprentice watching as the forest crumbles around her, and one of the six journeying cats, who are on a quest to find a way to save the forest.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Literature/TailchasersSong''. Also to the ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNamed'' series, which is about prehistoric big cats living in a clan - to the point that people occasionally accuse ''The Named'' of copying ''Warriors'', not realizing that ''Ratha's Creature'' was published 20 years before ''Into the Wild''. (The two series also have completely different themes and age demographics.)

* NotSoDifferent: The majority of the plot for the second half of ''The New Prophecy'' is about how similar [[CainAndAbel Brambleclaw is to Hawkfrost]] and how they are, in turn, like their father. Firestar has also been compared to Tigerstar (since they are both somewhat [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]]) and Scourge (Since they are unknowingly related, and the author's note at the beginning of ''Rise of Scourge'' talks about how the author wanted to take a character born with the same gifts as Firestar and give him a more negative upbringing).

* RealityEnsues:
** The mighty leader Leopardstar does not die during a great battle or heroic deed, as you might expect. Instead, she loses her life to...disease. A slow, painful disease that no one knows how to cure. What? They're ''feral cats'' - sickness is going to hit them like a ton of bricks.
** Brokenstar's [[ChildSoldiers kit-warriors]] are completely ineffective in battle, and such a blatant violation of the Code makes every Clan in the forest (including his own) hate him. Brokenstar is quickly overthrown (partly because of these [[StupidEvil idiotic tactics]]) to make way for a more pragmatic villain.
** In ''Long Shadows'', Ashfur proudly describes his EvilPlan in front of its intended victims, apparently believing that they're [[HonorBeforeReason too honorable]] to try and stop him. Guess who turns up mysteriously dead afterwards?
** Every now and then, the local humans will attempt to address the fact that the area is infested with feral cats. It never ends well for the Clans.

* ThePowerOfLove: In ''The Place of No Stars'', Bramblestar manages to resist (but not break) Ashfur's mind-control on him because of his love for Squirrelflight, and Rootspring finds the strength to escape from the Dark Forest's strange black lake because of his love for Bristlefrost.

** Impostor-Bramblestar from the seventh arc. He begins exiling cats for the smallest of crimes, including his own mate and both of the medicine cats, doesn't actually put any work into being leader, and breaks the code by doing things like refusing to let the elders eat first and appoints two cats who haven't had apprentices as his deputy.

** WordOfGod has confirmed that Cinderpelt, while she was Firestar's apprentice, was HotForTeacher. However, Firestar, being... er, [[ChasteHero Firestar]], [[AllLoveIsUnrequited wasn't]] HotForStudent.

*** Macgyver in ''[=SkyClan's Destiny=]'' is named after the [[Series/MacGyver television show of the same name]], as Vicky is a fan.

* ReroutedFromHeaven: When Flametail dies and goes to [=StarClan=], he ends up lost and winds up in the Dark Forest. The Dark Forest cats are planning war on the Clans, so Brokenstar orders [[ReverseMole Ivypool]] to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove her loyalty by]] [[CessationOfExistence killing Flametail's spirit]].

* ReverseMole: Ivypool becomes one of these after she learns that the Dark Forest, a place where she is training, is plotting to destroy the Clans. She stays with the Dark Forest so that she can give their information to [[TheChosenOne Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Dovewing]]. Tigerheart was also a spy against the Dark Forest all along.

* NoAntagonist: ''The Sight'' and ''Dark River'' are mainly about the conflict between the Clans and don't have a driving enemy behind them, unlike the other books.
** The latter half of ''A Vision of Shadows, since Darktail has been defeated. Instead, it focuses on the Clans' conflicts between each other.