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Warrior Cats is already a series known for its awesome moments captured in many a Multi-Animator Project, and Bonefall has made it his mission to enhance the awesomeness as much as possible.


  • The famous Dawn of the Clans line of "Kill me. Kill me and live with the memory. And tell the stars you won." is maintained, but the context makes it stand out even more. It's spoken by Clear Sky's former mate Bright Storm, who after months trying and failing to save the unjustly exiled Jagged Peak and much more time trying to excuse his actions out of love, turns fully against him at the climactic moment, realizing that he is Beyond Redemption.
  • The fact that Bluestar, despite fate appearing to be immutable and Goosefeather believing the best thing was to help it along to prevent worse suffering, manages to Screw Destiny and stop the tyrannical Thistleclaw from coming into power and leading to constant death, then ruling for most of her life as a just leader who lights the flame for Fire Alone, is instrumental to ShadowClan overthrowing Brokenstar, and rescues WindClan when the other Clans would prefer them to die like SkyClan. All thanks to The Power of Friendship! Though made bittersweet by Mosskit's death and her having to leave her other kits in RiverClan.
  • Deadfoot gets his name as an honor title for wearing a gauntlet on his weak foot and using it as a club to great effect in battle. During the WindClan massacre, Blackfoot tries to bite into it and loses a tooth, serving as a permanent reminder of his defeat.
  • Lizardstripe, assigned as the StarClan "lawyer" for Bluestar to determine whether she would be let into StarClan, performs with flying colors, managing to act like she is not on Bluestar's side and use some Unconventional Courtroom Tactics to trick Thistleclaw and his supporters into revealing just how irrational and cruel their ideology is, ending with revealing that she will always be Bluestar's friend.
  • Firestar doesn't just defeat Scourge, the cat so terrifying with his reinforced claws as to be able to gruesomely rip apart nine lives in a single blow, as in canon, but manages to do so without killing him, defying the tradition of only applying Thou Shalt Not Kill to Clan cats and thus the Clans' xenophobia. He then proceeds to shock Scourge by actually making diplomatic overtures towards him and trying to compensate for Tigerstar's promises he was never going to listen to, to the point where Scourge joins ThundrClan after he retires and becomes entirely loyal to Firestar.
  • Brokenstar possesses Firestar to kill the swarm of rats attacking SkyClan, using his experience fighting rats and abilities as a spirit to defeat them (which are now not normal rats but trapped, warped SkyClan spirits).
  • A rather brutal and tragic moment as well, but Ferncloud leads Ashpaw to avenge the death of their sister Elderberry by killing Fury, whose actions led to her death, and then burying her in the same grave as Elderberry to disguise what happens. It's not portrayed as a good thing by the narrative, but it's still chillingly intense.
  • Speckletail and her grandson Thornclaw tackle a bulldozer when humans are wrecking the forest, ending in Speckletail knocking Thornclaw off to save him and crashing the bulldozer before being crushed beneath it. After a long life of enduring through tragedies like the great famine in her apprenticeship and the death of three of her children, and being tough and unyielding in the face of that tragedy, she gets a fitting send-off that makes her legendary in the Clans and even getting to be a patron of disaster in StarClan. Made even better when she gives Bramblestar a life which shows that she wasn't just stoic and defiant in the face of death, she was as terrified as anyone could be but persisted to protect her Clan and family and see Thornclaw get away safely.
  • Feathertail's death is still an awesome moment as in the original canon, but here it's made even better because she's not just killing a cougar, but the incarnation of a god.
  • Brackenfur's My Greatest Second Chance moment jumping into the air to grab and save Marshkit from an eagle, like he failed to save Snowkit, still applies in canon, but here Marshkit doesn't just die as a kit making it All for Nothing but grows into a powerful warrior.
  • Mudclaw sabotages a planned muirburn to launch his coup, so the resulting battle becomes a full-on Battle Amongst the Flames. Brushblaze and Sandstorm even get symbolic warrior names for their heroism during WindClan's civil war, getting names for the fire and the rain that quenched it.
  • Cinderpelt dies as in canon guarding the nursery, but here she dies fighting a boar rather than a badger and manages to get a Mutual Kill stabbing it with her staff.
  • Recognizing that she is trying to poison her like she did to Crookedstar, Leopardstar challenges Mistystar to an honorable fight to the death, disguising what is going on by saying the two are going alone to fight rogues and fighting in an isolated area on the border. It's an intense fight between two cats utterly devoted to their honor, though the aftermath is shown to be brutal and something Mistystar is haunted by rather than seeing as awesome.
  • When Firestar denies Jaypaw his apprenticeship due to ableism, Longtail suddenly comes out of retirement to stand up for him and train him, finally finishing a full mentorship and training Jaypaw into a powerful warrior and later cleric who defies the stars to do what's right.
  • The later full warrior Jayfang defies StarClan at every turn with powers beyond StarClan's comprehension, culminating in him fighting his own guardian angel Moleflight to stop him from fetching Hazeltail to the afterlife, saving her life. Not to mention using the fighting style he's developed under Longtail for this, clinging onto and biting the opponent and not letting go to make up for his blindness making it hard for him to track the opponent if he does let go. Praised for saving a seemingly doomed patient (but with the true sacrilege that happened unknown), he asks to get the honor title of Jayfeather as a secret nod to taking a "feather" off of an angel's wing. This also makes it so that every time his full name is said it invokes Moleflight to be reminded of how he was defeated.
  • BB's Honeyfern actually manages to kill the adder that she saves Briarkit from, and survives the bite she got from the adder in return after a long and agonizing recovery. She promptly gains the impressive honor title of Honeysnake and gets to mentor the kit she saved, serving as an inspirational figure in her apprentice's life who helps her get her old spirit back after having to deal with her mother's ableism.
  • Leopardstar regrets her humiliation in the afterlife after covering for her own murder by Mistystar and wants to rematch her in the Battle of the True Eclipse - except that Swansong isn't having it. He's been excluded from being Mistystar and Stonefur's brother just because of blood, stopped from helping Mistystar fight Leoprardstar the first time, but he loves his sister and is passionate about his beliefs, and he'll have his chance this time.
  • During the Battle of the True Eclipse, the formerly cowardly Lizardtail turns against the Dark Forest out of horror at Tigerstar's attempt to launch a brutal attack even on noncombatants. He manages to run halfway across the forest and swim across the lake in a desperate attempt to warn everyone of the attack, and succeeds in getting cats to defend their most vulnerable in time (save for Weaselkit's death). He gets the honor title Hallowflight for his legendary deed.
  • Blackstar killing Redwillow was already an awesome moment in canon, but here he doesn't just kill any Clanmate but Ratscar, his former friend, in the same circumstances as Redwillow's canon death, representing his final turning against the cruel ideology that they once both followed.
  • Tigerstar's terrifyingly awesome Last Villain Stand, which culminates in him rematching both his killer Iceheart and his now-reformed second in command Blackstar. He and Iceheart exchange taunts, with Iceheart referencing his gruesome death and calling him a tunnelbun. But they are both quite old at this point while Tigerstar, already incredibly strong, hasn't aged to due to being dead, so he's able to crush both of them beneath him and for a terrifying moment seem unstoppable... followed by the arrival of The Cavalry, as many StarClan warriors as can fit on a tree of extinct species wrest from the afterlife by Jayfeather's unholy powers, finishing the battle at last. And Firestar and Tigerstar get to have a final confrontation, with Firestar giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and seeming to dissolve into mist, only for it to turn out to be pulling another of his famous Playing Possum moves and killing Tigerstar's spirit instead.
  • Breezepelt and Heathertail work from within the Kin to sabotage it at great risk to their lives with help from Harespring within WindClan, culminating in them building a tunnel as an escape route for all the cats set to be executed. It works, though at the cost of Brushblaze sacrificing his life to collapse the tunnel behind them to stop their pursuers. Harespring promptly gets Saved by the Awesome for the amount of defiance of his leader needed to pull this off, and it leads to the three reinventing the lost art of tunneling!
  • A Tear Jerker moment as well: With his Clan dead and having watched the last of his children die as well, Rowanstar drags his daughter Tigerheart's body to the Moonpool, names her his deputy, plunges in and drowns himself until all of his lives die, allowing Tigerheart to become the new leader, given nine lives and revived. She surfaces from the Moonpool a new cat, Heartstar (to avoid name redundance with the infamous Tigerstar), now with a heart-shaped keloid scar to mark her resurrection, and revives her thought-doomed Clan, leading with an intense boldness.
  • Jayfeather uses his death-defying powers one more time, despite being slowly Brought Down to Normal after the Battle of the True Eclipse, to snatch Squirrelflight from StarClan back to the living world in the middle of an intense trial, while sacrificing the last of his power in the process.
  • The final battle against Ashfur in the rewritten The Broken Code is made of awesome. Ten cats are teleported into the Meadow of Young Stars between StarClan and the Dark Forest, now wrecked by Ashfur's actions, to fight Ashfur, who is now devouring enough souls to turn into a huge, terrifying One-Winged Angel form. Ferncloud gets to confront her brother at the cost of her life, and it ends with Shadowsight, after an arc of being manipulated and abused by Ashfur due to his desperation for meaning through a heroic life and death, and believing he deserves to die and suffer at this point for leading to Ashfur's rise, using the very channeling connection that Ashfur created in him to trap Ashfur, sacrificing his connection to StarClan in the process and getting to earn his happy ending and realize life is worth living for its own sake after all. Ashfur has a Villainous Breakdown realizing that Shadowsight has used their connection to turn against him. Followed by Bristlefrost avenging her life and love stolen by the Impostor by tackling him, and the two becoming a meteor that burns and crashes to the earth, leaving a permanent crater and destroying - or at least bringing to a place beyond any cat's knowledge - both of their souls.

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