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* WinterOfStarvation:
** The Clan cats always go hungry during leaf-bare (their term for winter), as prey becomes scarce, and what little fresh-kill there is has to be rationed and given to the most vulnerable members of the Clan first--elders, kits, and nursing queens. Deaths from illness or starvation during leaf-bare are common, especially for elders and young kits. [=RiverClan=] has it easier, as they can still catch fish from the river, but sometimes they don't even have that because the river may freeze over or become contaminated by Twoleg garbage.
** In the side story "A Dark Path Chosen," [=ThunderClan=] is enduring a hard leaf-bare, and Poppydawn, one of the Clan elders, has become ill and weak. Darkstripe and Longtail are sent out to hunt, and Longtail manages to catch a fat squirrel, but Darkstripe eats it and convinces him to have some too, reasoning that they need their strength to hunt for the Clan. By the time they get back, Poppydawn has starved to death. Longtail is horrified at what they've done, but Darkstripe shuts him up by threatening to lie to everyone that he chose to eat the squirrel and refused to let him (Darkstripe) bring it back to camp.
** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', during a hungry leaf-bare, Bluefur makes the hard decision to bring her kits to [=RiverClan=], their father's Clan, as during this time the river is full of fish, and [=RiverClan=] never goes hungry even when the other Clans do. Her other reason is that with Tawnyspots' illness, Thistleclaw is poised to become [=ThunderClan=] deputy and eventually leader, which will destroy the Clan due to his bloodthirsty nature--and Bluefur will not be chosen in his place if she is a nursing mother. She is able to bring Mistykit and Stonekit to [=RiverClan=], but Mosskit dies along the way due to hunger and cold.
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* UnexpectedCharacter:
** Lots of unexpected characters pop up in the ''Omen of the Stars'' finale ''The Last Hope'', such as Redtail, Raggedstar and Mosskit. But almost nobody was expecting Brambleberry's cameo appearance at the beginning where she is one of the first cats to ever successfully give Jayfeather a lecture.
** When ''Dawn of the Clans'', a {{prequel}} series dealing with the founding and early days of the five Clans was announced, lots of theories were made about appearances from the Clan Founders (Thunder, River Ripple, Wind Runner, Tall Shadow, and Clear Sky), original medicine cats (Cloudspots, Dapplepelt, Mothflight, and Pebbleheart), and a few other characters mentioned in the field guides (Gorsefur, Owleyes, Lightningtail, etc.). However, almost nobody predicted Graywing the Wise (a character whose sole mention in the series beforehand was being credited with creating a few [=WindClan=] battle strategies in ''Battles of the Clans'') showing up, let alone his role as the (initial) main character of the arc. To a lesser extent, few expected Half Moon and Lion's Roar to appear in the arc, but they ended up being supporting characters in ''The Sun Trail''.
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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour: In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', when Bluepaw is sad and grouchy over [[MissingMom her mother's death]], she gets annoyed by things like Lionpaw waking her up in the middle of the night just to see how pretty the moon looks.
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* YouGotSpunk: After Yellowfang insult's Firepaw's kittypet blood, Firepaw snaps at her and says that she just finds being helped humiliating, and calls her a spiteful old bone bag. Yellowfang chokes a bit, worrying Firepaw... but she was actually laughing, and says she likes his bravery. Firepaw had no reply.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As Yellowfang is dying, she says that she fears StarClan will judge her for having kits despite being a medicine cat and feels she deserves it, and that she doesn't deserve to have a cat like Fireheart as her adopted son. Fireheart reminds her of all of the good things she did and how good of a cat she is, but she dies before he can finish speaking.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As Yellowfang is dying, she says that she fears StarClan [=StarClan=] will judge her for having kits despite being a medicine cat and feels she deserves it, and that she doesn't deserve to have a cat like Fireheart as her adopted son. Fireheart reminds her of all of the good things she did and how good of a cat she is, but she dies before he can finish speaking.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As [[spoiler: Yellowfang]] is dying, she says that she fears StarClan will judge her for [[spoiler: having kits despite being a medicine cat]] and feels she deserves it, and that she doesn't deserve to [[spoiler: have a cat like Fireheart as her adopted son]]. Fireheart reminds her of all of the good things she did and how good of a cat she is, but she dies before he can finish speaking.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As [[spoiler: Yellowfang]] Yellowfang is dying, she says that she fears StarClan will judge her for [[spoiler: having kits despite being a medicine cat]] cat and feels she deserves it, and that she doesn't deserve to [[spoiler: have a cat like Fireheart as her adopted son]]. son. Fireheart reminds her of all of the good things she did and how good of a cat she is, but she dies before he can finish speaking.speaking.
* YouCanBarelyStand: Tigerstar sends Darkstripe to kill Stonefur for his [[HalfBreedDiscrimination half-Clan heritage]] and refusing to kill other half-Clan cats to prove his loyalty, after he'd already imprisoned Stonefur and starved him for days. Despite this, Stonefur manages to fight well against Darkstripe and seems to be beating him, so Tigerstar sends [[TheDragon Blackfoot]] to help Darkstripe and the two together manage to kill him.
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* WhiteIsPure: Most white cats - and indeed, cats whose names begin with the word "white", are heroic. Of particular note, Whitewing is a gentle, kind mother. When Lionblaze thinks through his Clanmates, wondering which might be traitors training with the Dark Forest, his thought when he gets to Whitewing is "[[NoJustNoReaction Never. Just... never.]]"
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** Scourge takes over the city cats when he's only a kit, simply because of his reputed [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority fighting skill]] and being the most bloodthirsty cat.

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** Scourge takes over the city cats when he's only a kit, simply because of his reputed [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership fighting skill]] and being the most bloodthirsty cat.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As [[spoiler: Yellowfang]] is dying, she says that she fears StarClan will judge her for [[spoiler: having kits despite being a medicine cat]] and feels she deserves it, and that she doesn't deserve to [[spoiler: have a cat like Fireheart as her adopted son]]. Fireheart reminds her of all of the good things she did and how good of a cat she is, but she dies before he can finish speaking.
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* WronskiFeint: Fireheart's plan to defeat the dog pack is to lead them to pursue him until they reach the gorge, at which point he will back off at the last minute and let the dogs keep pursuing and fall off. [[spoiler: It works for all but one of the dogs, and Bluestar has to [[HeroicSacrifice intervene]] to kill the last one.]]

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* UnexplainedAccent: In three of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' audiobooks (''Starlight'', ''Twilight'', and ''Sunset''), the (American) actress gives medicine cats a British accent, possibly due to SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish, despite all the other characters and the narration being read with an American accent. Medicine cats are just normal 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?

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* UnexplainedAccent: In three of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' audiobooks (''Starlight'', (the original editions of ''Starlight'', ''Twilight'', and ''Sunset''), ''Sunset'' read by Nanette Savard), the (American) actress gives medicine cats a British accent, possibly due to SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish, despite all the other characters and the narration being read with an American accent. Medicine cats are just normal 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?



** One Shadowclan cat is named... [[JizzedInMyPants Nutwhisker]]. ''Nut''whisker. Make of that what you will.
** [[CasualKink Kinkfur]]. '''Just''' Kinkfur.



* UnwittingPawn: In ''The Forgotten Warrior'', [[MagnificentBastard Sol]] shows up in [=ThunderClan=] for a visit and [[BigGood Firestar]] decides to let him stay for a bit, despite his evil acts. Later, when [[TheBigGuy Lionblaze]] is on patrol, Onestar, leader of [=WindClan=] shows up and tells the [=ThunderClan=] cats to drive out Sol, which they had already been planning to do. However, since Onestar told them to do it, doing so would make [=ThunderClan=] look subserviant to [=WindClan=] and weaken it, so they are forced to ally with Sol against Onestar rather than driving Sol out.

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* UnwittingPawn: UnwittingPawn:
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In ''The Forgotten Warrior'', [[MagnificentBastard Sol]] shows up in [=ThunderClan=] for a visit and [[BigGood Firestar]] decides to let him stay for a bit, despite his evil acts. Later, when [[TheBigGuy Lionblaze]] is on patrol, Onestar, leader of [=WindClan=] shows up and tells the [=ThunderClan=] cats to drive out Sol, which they had already been planning to do. However, since Onestar told them to do it, doing so would make [=ThunderClan=] look subserviant to [=WindClan=] and weaken it, so they are forced to ally with Sol against Onestar rather than driving Sol out.out.
** In ''Lost Stars'', Ashfur gives "omens" to the inexperienced young medicine cat apprentice, Shadowpaw, which leads to Bramblestar losing a life so that Ashfur can take over his body, and then gives support to Ashfur's claim that codebreakers need to be punished.



** Ashfur is a minor character, right up until his attempted murder of the protagonists (which forms the climax of ''Long Shadows''). Because what characterization he got was so bound up in that one action, it's really hard to say ''anything'' about his morality or character arc without spoiling it.

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** Ashfur is a minor character, right up until he gets turned down as a romantic interest, resulting in his attempted murder of the protagonists (which forms the climax of ''Long Shadows''). Shadows''), and then going on to become the BigBad of the seventh arc. Because what characterization he got was so bound up in that one action, his rejection, it's really hard to say ''anything'' about his morality or character arc without spoiling it.



** Any mention of [=SkyClan=], the lost "fifth Clan" that was once disbanded and reformed, whose very existence is a massive spoiler for ''Firestar's Quest'' and the sixth series.

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** Any mention of [=SkyClan=], the lost "fifth Clan" that was once disbanded and reformed, whose very existence is a massive spoiler for ''Firestar's Quest'' and even the main series starting with the sixth series.arc.



** Jayfeather and water.

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** Jayfeather is terrified of water ever since witnessing Fallen Leaves' death in a dream and water.then nearly drowning himself in the tunnels.



** [=SkyClan=] and rats.

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** [=SkyClan=] and rats.rats; it was rats that destroyed the original [=SkyClan=], and they intend to kill the re-formed Clan.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since the series has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, there are often cases where characters just disappear without explanation. For instance, the character Egg in ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' is one that left fans wondering: he joins [=SkyClan=], but after the book ends, he never appears or is mentioned again - not in the ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' trilogy, not in ''Ravenpaw's Farewell'' or ''Hawkwing's Journey'', not in the main series once the Clan joins the main plot.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since the series has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, many characters, there are often cases where characters just disappear without explanation. For instance, the character Egg in ''[=SkyClan=]'s Destiny'' is one that left fans wondering: he joins [=SkyClan=], but after the book ends, he never appears or is mentioned again - not in the ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' trilogy, not in ''Ravenpaw's Farewell'' or ''Hawkwing's Journey'', not in the main series once the Clan joins the main plot.
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** [[CasualKink Kinkfur]]. '''Just''' Kninkfur.

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** [[CasualKink Kinkfur]]. '''Just''' Kninkfur.Kinkfur.
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** [[CasualKink Kinfur]]. '''Just''' Kninkfur.

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** [[CasualKink Kinfur]].Kinkfur]]. '''Just''' Kninkfur.
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** One Shadowclan cat is named... [[JizzedInMyPants Nutwhisker]]. ''Nut''whisker. Make of that what you will.
** [[CasualKink Kinfur]]. '''Just''' Kninkfur.
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** Discussed 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 fan nickname for him.]]

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** Discussed 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 fan nickname for him.]]Berrystumpytail.
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** [[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 fan nickname for him.]]

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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] Discussed 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 fan nickname for him.]]
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** In the ''SkyClan and the Stranger'' manga, Leafstar and her kits are captured by an elderly woman. Her Clanmates come to rescue them, and they escape alongside the woman's other cat.

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** In the ''SkyClan ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' manga, Leafstar and her kits are captured by an elderly woman. Her Clanmates come to rescue them, and they escape alongside the woman's other cat.
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** The Dark Forest cats appear to have no qualms about attacking kits or elders, because a [=ShadowClan=] kit ends up dead during the final battle.

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** The Dark Forest cats appear to have no qualms about attacking kits or elders, because and a [=ShadowClan=] kit ends up dead during the final battle.
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* UnexpectedKindness: Longtail had been Tigerclaw's crony and Fireheart's bully since they first met. When Fireheart is on a patrol with both Tigerclaw ''and'' Longtail, he's expecting them to try and kill him, like Tigerclaw had been attempting for moons. Fireheart falls into the river thanks to Tigerclaw's sabotage, and is surprised when Longtail goes through the trouble of saving his life. This is one of the first hints that Longtail is loyal to his Clan mates and is more trustworthy than Tigerclaw.
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* VibrantOrange: Squirrelflight is an extroverted ginger she-cat who was very excitable and loudmouthed as a young cat. Another character even compared her to fire, while her calmer and quieter sister Leafpool was compared to water. Squirrelflight mellowed out a bit with age, but always retained her impulsive nature.

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* UnfortunateNames: [[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 fan nickname for him.]]

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[[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 fan nickname for him.]]]]
** Some characters' names were picked by other characters and meant to be cruel: Lostface and Crookedkit are two examples where other cats pointed out that the name was awful, but the leader/parent choosing the name went through with it anyway.
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* UnusualEuphemism: A lot of the swearing is made up of either "mouse dung" (mild) or "fox dung" (more severe). "Mouse-brain" is a mild insult meaning "stupid" or "silly"; a group of cats from the mountains uses "beetle-brain" instead. "Foxhearted" is apparently a heavy insult (based on the reactions when it's used), which makes the cat actually named Foxheart have an UnfortunateName.

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* UnusualEuphemism: A lot of the swearing is made up of either "mouse dung" (mild) or "fox dung" (more severe). "Mouse-brain" is a mild insult meaning "stupid" or "silly"; a group of cats from the mountains uses "beetle-brain" instead. "Foxhearted" is apparently a heavy insult (based on the reactions when it's used), which makes the cat actually named Foxheart have an UnfortunateName.unfortunate name.

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* UnfortunateNames: A lot:
** Some have strange given names. Kinkfur, Runningnose, Foxheart (ItMakesSenseInContext for it to be unfortunate, as "fox-heart" is a feline term 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 fan 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.

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* UnfortunateNames: A lot:
** Some have strange given names. Kinkfur, Runningnose, Foxheart (ItMakesSenseInContext for it to be unfortunate, as "fox-heart" is a feline term meaning treacherous and cowardly), Sneezekit, Deadfoot, Mudpuddle, Maggottail...
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[[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 fan 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.
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* UnconventionalFoodUsage: This is explicitly [[DefiedTrope banned]] by the Warrior Code, a rule added after a naughty kit played with freshkill[[note]]newly-killed prey[[/note]] until it was rendered inedible. Due to scarcity being a common problem, all prey is killed only for the purposes of being eaten.

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