History Literature / TheAdventuresOfSamuraiCat

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Apparently the Hami nuke killed a lot more people than Tomokato thought...]]

* WeaponOfChoice:

* DiagonalCut: Used on ''[[StarWars Darth Vader]]''.

* [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]]: Blatant rip-off. Tomokato, finding Shiro less than mindful of bushido, considers what would've happenned had he not been there. That's when we find out the difference between CharacterAlignment Neutral and what could have been...
** Bonus points for having the Terminationer be from the alternate future.

* DrinkOrder: In the Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian parody in the first book, Tomokato enters a tavern and orders a saucer of milk. This leads to some of the tavern's tougher patrons thinking the cat is an easy target for a bit of harassment. Of course, this ends very badly for them.

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* WonderfulLife: Blatant rip-off. Tomokato, finding Shiro less than mindful of bushido, considers what would've happenned had he not been there. That's when we find out the difference between CharacterAlignment Neutral and what could have been...

* HeroicSacrifice" In ''Sword of...'', Tomokato is forced to work with his current target, Carlos [=LaFong=] against an alien invasion. [=LaFong=] promises to die heroically in order to make up for his past sins. When the dust settles, [=LaFong=] is still alive, but Tomokato lets him off the hook anyway.

* AnachronismStew: ''revels'' in this. One example: discussing how bad the Chicago Cubs are. Problem? This is in Prohibition-era Chicago (the Cubs were serious contenders during this time, winning penants every 3 years), and Miaowara is from 16th-century Japan. Later in the story he ends up meeting thugs armed with GAU-8 Avenger cannon, too.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: notable in the trip to ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''.

* FakingTheDead: the original battle scene when Nobunaga's enemies think Tomokato is dead.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: typical when it's a fictional setting.

* MagicalNegro: the W.O.B.L. (Wise Old Black Lady).
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: in ''The Magnificent Seven Samurai Cats'', natch.

* SilverBullet: when fighting werewolves, naturally. Shiro tends to carry these.

* WonderfulLife: Blatant rip off. Tomokato, finding Shiro less than mindful of bushido, considers what would've happenned had he not been there. That's when we find out the difference between CharacterAlignment Neutral and what could have been...

* NoFourthWall: The series ''is'' this trope. It folds, spindles, mutilates, and slices sashimi out of the FourthWall, so much so that the feline characters constantly deride the author for being such a spineless, unimaginative hack. Occasionally, this incurs direct in-story retaliation in the form of bad luck and/or nasty enemies' sudden and inexplicable appearance.

* TakeThatAudience: One digression about the ethical dilemma of over-the-top violence points out the ''readers''' hypocrisy in savoring the books' {{Gorn}}, yet convincing themselves that Tomokato's role as the nominal hero and Shiro's BlackComedy excuses their delight in all the LudicrousGibs. Tomokato judges this series' readers to be ''slightly'' less pathetic than its author, which is definitely damning with faint praise.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: notable in the trip to ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: In the ''Film/SevenSamurai'' parody, the characters employ a Kurosawa-esque wipe to end a scene. Which is to say, everybody shouts "WIPE!" and voila, the scene changes ...

* InfantImmortality: Lampshaded up the wazzoo by Shiro the homicidal kitten, who '''[[GenreSavvy revels]]''' in his Baby+Cat Immortality, gleefully rushing into meat-grinder battles in the smug confidence that [[BreakingTheFourthWall the author wouldn't dare kill him]]. Eventually this trope was averted in ''Samurai Cat Goes To Hell'', but only as a plot device to send his uncle to retrieve the bloodthirsty little creep.

* AirVentPassageway: In ''The Sword of Samurai Cat'', a cruise ship's air vents "... appear to have been ''designed'' for covert transportation." "That would explain the moving walkways and vending machines."

Apparently, Lord Nobunaga traveled a lot in his youth. And torqued a lot of people off. People from oddly familiar settings. For this is parody. His first mission leads him to [[TheLordOfTheRings the Bridge of Catzad-Dum]]. Then he travels to fabled Outsmouth, where dwells [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Great K'Chu]]. Afterward to [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Pictland]], and thence to [[Myth/NorseMythology Asgard]]. And that's just the first book.

* {{Samurai}}: of course. Miaowara and his brother were actual samurai under OdaNobunaga; his brother retired with an injury, while Miaowara went {{ronin}} and spent the entire series avenging him.

''The Adventures of Samurai Cat'' is the first of a series of six books by Mark E. Rogers, describing the adventures of one Miaowara Tomokato, a samurai in the service of Lord OdaNobunaga, a key player in Japanese history in the late 1500s. Tomokato is an anthropomorphic cat, skilled in the ways of the samurai, who, following the death of his lord, which occurs in the first 11 pages of the first book, embarks upon an epic journey of revenge and reprisal upon those who banded together to slay his lord.

* RoaringRampageoOfRevenge: Tomokato's whole quest.

* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Tomokato's whole quest.

* BadassBack: parodied, of course.

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]] / [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]: [[spoiler: Apparently the Hami nuke killed a lot more people than Tomokato thought...]]

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: the army sent to take out Nobunaga. Itself an AnachronismStew.

* RuleofFunny: ...is excused by this.

** {{Ronin}}: as a former samurai, Tomokato ends up going this route.