Web Animation / Moonkitti

"Hey, it's Moonkitti, with an 'i' as in..."

—Moonkitti's Catchphrase

The cat version of Moonkitti's fursona.

Moonkitti, or Moon for short, is a 30 year old comedy-based YouTuber who makes animated videos primarily focused around the Warrior Cats series, with a few focused on other topics such as Pokémon, Wings of Fire or Puyo Puyo. Most of her videos are short (about 30 seconds to 3 minutes long), with the exception of her two main ongoing series: an animated version of the trollfic StarKitsProphcy, and I Spoil..., in which she recaps the Warriors books in chronological order with a humorous view.

She has several series of videos:

• Various skits done with Limited Animation retelling a scene from the books, often with voice actors from her Patreon server. These usually range from one to three minutes in length.
• "StoneClan", a fanclan about the titular StoneClan, a clan of cats set in a gorge who eat rocks and get up to shenanigans. What started as Patreon backers doing silly voice lines quickly evolved into an actual plot, albeit still very silly. These range from three to ten minutes long.
• "Moonkitti Talking Videos", where Moonkitti talks about various topics in Warriors, usually ten to twenty minutes long.
• "Talking: Cats" and "Mini-Talking" where she details details about a certain cat's life and her thoughts on them. Started as eight minutes long, but her longest goes up to forty minutes in length.
• Frequent Fiasco, about her Original Characters getting up to nonsense. Often have alliterative titles, such as Frequent Fiasco Floundering.
• An animated adaptation of StarKitsProphcy.

She has also done several Multi Animator Project parts and a few music videos.

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Moonkitti's animations contain examples of:

• Accents Aren't Hereditary: Discussed between Spidermoss and Thymeleaf. No two characters in Stoneclan have the same accent, including Thymeleaf and her own mother, which Spidermoss claims is due to Stoneclan being multicultural.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Bramblestar in the books is a capable and intelligent leader, whose worst moments happen due to emotional outbursts or his anxiety getting the best of him. In Moonkitti's videos, he's much dimmer, requiring help from much smarter cats in his life like his wife or son, and often making situations worse by existing.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Leafpool in the books is firmly Single-Target Sexuality towards Crowfeather. In Moonkitti's videos she's shown more attraction towards women (notably Mothwing and Spottedleaf), and is only interested in Crowfeather when he's aloof and brooding, quickly losing interest when he starts wooing her.
• Adaptational Villainy: The title character in "Redscar". In the original Code of the Clans, Redscar was a well-meaning medicine cat whose worst mistake was not recognizing Brightwhisker had greencough. In the short video, he poisons Brightwhisker, Jumpfoot, and Mossfire with deathberries in the guise of "herbs" just so he can make his favorite cat (Flowerstem) leader.
• Added Alliterative Appeal:
  • Each Frequent Fiasco episode has an alliterative 'F' title, such as "Frequent Fiasco Floundering".
  • In "I Spoil Dark River", ThunderClan calls WindClan "sorry squirrel-swiping sons of Satan."
  • And again in "I Spoil Sunrise":
    Moonkitti, narrating: Back at Midnight's base, Brackenfur, Brambleclaw, and Birchbutt get bobbed out to sea by a malicious bee-hating entity, but it's beautifully bested by Lionblaze's branch-busting technique.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Combined with Gender Flip as revealed in this comment, the gray cat/blue Flareon portrayed in the "Regresa" MAP part was male in the original roleplay, but due to how Moon thought of the character as partially influenced by herself and her self-consciousness, she thought of them as female or nonbinary when placing them in the MAP, and decided the gender would be up to the viewer, just so long as they weren’t male.
• Ambiguous Gender: Sharptooth in "I spoil Moonrise for everybody". In the video, they are referred to once by she/her pronouns^* "'Oh, good, she can eat all the Tribe cats and we can save Stormfur!'" and once by he/him pronouns^* "'How did you know it was my birthday?' asks Sharptooth, popping a few Tribe cats in his mouth". Moonkitti refers to them with she/her pronouns again in the comments.
• Author Avatar: In "I spoil Firestar's Quest for everyone", Skywatcher is briefly referred to as "crazy old Moonkitti". Of course, he clears up that his name is Spaceshipfur, a traditional SkyClan name. Also mentioned in "I spoil Rising Storm for everyone" when Cloudpaw has been eating McDonald's every day, "just like Moonkitti.", and in "I spoil The Sight for everyone", the second time it's mentioned that Jaykit is short, "Like his mom, Moonkitti! Moonkitti is the mom." Moonkitti even has an I Spoil sprite in the latter!
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Snailstar, the current leader of Stoneclan. His father, Rockstar, was the former leader who died unexpectedly and the clan's deputy presumably couldn't be the leader. These led to Snailstar being a deputy at such a young age as pointed out by Barkclaw in "Stoneclan: Unsolicited Voice Acting".

Barkclaw: Well, anyway, I don't really think it's really Snailstar's fault. I mean he didn't choose to be deputy at such a young age.

• Authority in Name Only: Tigerstar II in "Tawnypelt Kidnaps A Boy".
  Tigerstar II: No, that's my... uh... somebody, go... ah. I guess no one at all can do anything about this because I have no authority. I'm going to sit here and sulk for three weeks.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: "Warrior Names" starts with the character Fidgetflake, whose name in the rest of the Warrior Cats fandom at the time was subject to ridicule, as a setup to her discussion of "silly names" in the books.
  Moonkitti: Fidgetflake?!
  Fidgetflake: Y-yes?
  Moonkitti: (looking disappointed) That...is...(perks up) so cute!
• Bait-and-Switch Comparison: "Wings of Fire Dragons as Chips" starts with Moon saying "Cats are great and all, but I've been separated far too long from my one true love. You know what I'm talking about: junk food."
• Berserk Button: For Rootpaw, it's being compared to his father, Tree.
  Turtlepaw: You're [Rootpaw] SO whiny.
  Kitepaw: I can't imagine anyone with a shorter temper.
  Rootpaw: I GUESS these are things I need to work on?
  Kitepaw: Also, you, uh... look like your dad!
  Rootpaw: What the heck did you just say to me? I hope you're both fully prepared to die! I do not take prisoners! I do not show mercy! If you live, every day for the rest of your lives will be torture, and I will make sure of it!
• Beware the Silly Ones: Mittens the Kittypet in the Stoneclan series. He's a ridiculously fluffy cat with a slight speech impediment who constantly taunts the clans, but he regularly sends whole patrols running with serious wounds while he doesn't get as much as a scratch.
• Black Comedy Burst: Although "I Spoil" tends to be Lighter and Softer than the canon Warrior Cats for the sake of the comedy, sometimes the jokes will have a dip into darker territories. In "I Spoil the Darkest Hour for everyone", Gorsepaw’s death is made into a gag where after Tigerstar kills him, he writes "THIS IS U…LOL" to Firestar on Gorsepaw’s body using his claws.
• Blatant Lies:
  • "I spoil Sunset for everyone" ends with Moon claiming Warrior Cats is over while zooming in on Leafpool's stomach.
  • Later on in "Flipclaw", Alderheart shows Flipclaw several deathberries and claims that they're poppy seeds, and that Bramblestar wants them.
  • And again in "Squirrelflight's Kits", where Leafpool claims that Squirrelflight is the pregnant one, and Squirrelflight uses her tail to hide her obviously not-pregnant belly.
• Broken Record: In "I spoil Dawn for everyone", "And then everyone walks, and does nothing, and walks, and does nothing, and walks, and does nothing..."
• Broke the Rating Scale: In "I spoil Firestar's Quest for everyone", a 'Faith-In-StarClan-O-Meter' stays above the screen the whole time (presumably from Firestar's POV), and when Firestar thinks about being with Spottedleaf when he dies, it gets so full the red portion drops to the bottom.
• Cinderella Plot: Parodied in "Mapleshade Goes To The Ball".
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Combined with Even the Guys Want Him in "Berrynose Brigade", in which every apprentice is obsessed with Berrynose in some way or another, all while he nonchalantly sips a Capri Sun.
• Cold Snap: In "Stoneclan: Nothing Important" the clan is snowed in and has to work around the heavy snowfall.
• Comically Missing the Point: Nightcloud in "Breezepelt".
• Comically Small Bribe: Mistyfoot agrees to forget her brother's murder at the claws of Blackstar for a solid twenty dollars.
• Creepy Child:
  • Shadowkit in "Tigerheart finds Dovewing". Only just born, and he has a raspy voice saying "Thank you for gifting me with a name, sucklemother."
  • In "Stoneclan: Unsolicited Voice Acting", all the kittens in the nursery have adult voices, and three of them demand milk with the strangest terms possible.
• Crossdressing Voices: Within the short videos, she sometimes voices male characters such as Alderheart, Breezepelt, Rootspring, and Brokenstar.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Monkeystar in "Warriorclan", who adds "Clan" to everything clan-related she says.
  Monkeystar: Clan StarClan, you know nothing about Warrior Cats do you?
• Derailed Train of Thought: In "Warrior Cats As Cereals", she loses focus towards the end and starts thinking about a Neopets cereal she saw in the store once and never got the chance to try, but always really wanted to, even though she knew it would probably make her sick. She ends the video by asking that they rerelease it just long enough for her to try it once.
• Didn't Think This Through: Feathertail in "I spoil Moonrise for everyone" when she dies as a result of the party game Pin The Cat on the Mountain Lion.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Possessed!Bramblestar in her videos covering the Broken Code, whose punishments include being put in the time-out hole for sneezing too loud, being ugly, and being Twigbranch.
• The Dividual: Hazeltail and Mousewhisker in "Bumblestripe".
  Dovewing: Well, I can't be related to Hazeltail and Mousewhisker. They came here as kits.
  Bumblestripe: Can you tell them apart?
  Dovewing: Uh...no. No I can't.
• Doesn't Know His Own Strength: Lionblaze in various videos, most notably "I Spoil Eclipse" and "Squirrelflight's Kits".
  Lionkit: I tried to catch this butterfly for you! But, I killed it by accident.
• Dog Stereotype: "Warrior Cats as Dogs" averts this for the most part. The heroic Tallstar is a Doberman, Needletail is a Pit Bull (with Moon mentioning "she's actually much more trustworthy than anybody gave her credit for"), and Gray Wing is a Chihuahua.
• Domestic Abuse: Discussed in "Bramblestar is Worse", detailing Bramblestar's poor treatment of his mate Squirrelflight and how this sort of relationship being portrayed between two main characters without criticism or examination is a horrific romanticization of abuse.
• Double Standard:
  • Frequently pointed out by Moonkitti, especially the sexism inherent in Warrior Cats- namely how there are never more than two female leaders at a time, women in positions of power are disproportionately punished for trying to balance their responsibilities to their families with their responsibilities to the clan, and how female characters are often ignored or sidelined for the sake of their male counterparts.
  • Name-dropped in "Double Standard", where Firestar possessing Rootspring (albeit willingly) is treated as cool and heroic despite Ashfur having done the exact same thing for four books.
• Drama Queen: Ashfur, oh so much. Especially in "Ashfur and Squirrelflight have a nice chat":
  Squirrelflight: Don't you think that killing three people because we dated for two weeks and broke up is kind of overdoing it?
  Ashfur: You wouldn't think that way if you knew how I felt! The bitter sting of loneliness, the feeling that my blood is pouring out of my heart... Every day, I am reminded of how you wronged me.
  Squirrelflight: Two weeks, Ashfur. We dated for two weeks three years ago.
  Ashfur: Why must you remind me so of how you've hurt me?
• Drinking Game: Parodied in-universe in "Rabies", where two apprentices drink from gross puddle water at a Gathering every time a leader says "The prey is running well." The end shows them both passed out.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Her response to people asking that she do an "I Spoil" video on Spottedleaf's Heart.
  Moonkitti: Hi, it's Moonkitti with an "I" as in this is... Oh that doesn't even start with an "I", oh well. This is the video that people request from me the most, and I know you all want me to make this funny, but it's not funny. To make a joke out of this would be inappropriate of me. Consider this, instead of any kind of "I Spoil" video, to be moreso an actual summary of the book. A very opinionated summary.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Moon's earliest episodes involved very few voice actors, certain Flash bugs (such as text for "Starkit's Prophecy" being cut off), and common uses of bird chirping background noise.
• Eat Dirt, Cheap: Along with eating regular prey, Stoneclan cats also supplement their diet with stones and rocks.
• Escalating Brawl: A verbal one in "Thunderclan's Daily Fight". What starts as Dovewing visiting her sister ends with warriors accusing each other of disloyalty, until...
  Hollytuft: Oh look, here's big, cool Molewhisker stalking people on the internet!
  Cinderheart: Hollytuft? Hollytuft, you finally spoke! My baby!
  Berrynose: It's a miracle! We've all been blessed. This never would have happened had we not been having another hour-long argument with everyone involved!
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Subverted, Moon ends "I spoil Tigerstar and Sasha for everyone" by laughing about how dumb Sasha was for abandoning Hawkpaw and Mothpaw in RiverClan.
• Fail At Failing: In "Mapleshade Doesn't Succeed", Mapleshade tries to lure some WindClan cats into picking a fight with her, but instead they end up thinking she's the voice of StarClan and all rush to atone.
• Fake-Out Fade-Out: Twice during "I spoil Firestar's Quest for everyone", with Moon trying to end the book early saying "That's it, book's over, SkyClan's been found! Firestar's Quest has ended!", far before the book actually ends.
• Fan Animation: Most of her videos are comedic animations surrounding Warriors.
• Foe Romance Subtext: Lionblaze's obsession with Berrynose, often being compared to Honeyfern's romantic interest in the latter.
• Forbidden Fruit: The Neopets cereal for Moonkitti herself. Despite knowing it would probably make her sick, she still wanted to try it at least once.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: Most of Moonkitti's work is comedic in nature, so when she does something serious it tends to stand out.
  • "Once I Had", a music video about Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Dovewing's feelings about losing their powers, is quite serious and sad, and done in a more artful style. "Oops I Did It Again", about Dovewing and Bumblestripe's relationship, is similar and only her second such work.
  • "I sort-of spoil Spottedleaf's Heart" is this for the "I Spoil" series, which is otherwise entirely parodical; said video is a more serious recap of the book while providing information about grooming and child predation due to the topic. Moon even starts out saying "Consider this, instead of any kind of 'I Spoil' video, more of an actual summary of the book."
  • "I Was So Sure" is a Multi-Animator Project part about Jayfeather's grief over losing Briarlight, with full animation as opposed to her usual limited animation. While she would later go on to do other MAP parts, the tone never became quite as somber as her first (with her later parts being for an aesthetic MAP, a crackship MAP, and a MAP to a Backyardigans song).
  • "Bramblestar is Worse" is an hour-long breakdown of Bramblestar and Squirrelflight's relationship and why it's a classic example of an abusive one. Much like "I Sort-of Spoil Spottedleaf's Heart", it pulls no punches in detailing and deconstructing the tactics used by Bramblestar and how downplaying and normalizing his abuse has an impact on people reading it, especially young children who are the target demographic for these books.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • In "I spoil Tigerstar and Sasha for everyone", when Sasha saves the old man's life, the sprites that Sasha defends him from include a fox, another human, and the classic Bramblekit.
  • "I sort-of spoil Spottedleaf's Heart" is more serious than most other videos of hers, but in a brief moment where Spottedleaf helps Bluestar out of camp, Mosskit has a football and bandana.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Skywing is this in the Stoneclan series, constantly acting out and causing trouble. Discussed later between him and Appleheart, where Skywing confesses that he knows he's annoying, but he only does it because he's terrified of being forgotten and unloved.
• Funny Background Event:
  • In Starkit's Prophecy episode 5, Stargleam and Mistyfoot saying "imptent" is accompanied by a small picture of an imp in a tent.
  • Also, when indirectly mentioned by Lionblaze in "Jayfeather finds the fourth cat", Hollyleaf shows up in the background, looking around suspiciously.
  • In "Leafpaw Calls", Cinderpelt is seen shifting around a pile of leaves when the video first cuts to Leafpaw. The next time, Cinderpelt is stomping on the pile. The third, Cinderpelt leaves it alone...and it sneaks away.
  • More of a funny foreground event, but in "I Spoil Sunrise" while Hollyleaf and Sorreltail are talking, Honeyfern's body is seen in the corner with a fly buzzing around it.
• God Is Inept: StarClan is portrayed as this in multiple videos, being unhelpful at best and hypocritical and malicious at worst.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: She never swears aside from the word 'hell' (and only used to mean the place) within her videos, but sometimes slips on other people's videos and in streams. When she feels she needs to censor her swearing, the word 'heck' often bleeps it, regardless if the sentence makes much sense.
• Gratuitous Russian: Rainkit in "Stoneclan: Unsolicited Voice Acting", after Dewfur baps him on the face.
  Rainkit: Ну что вы хотите, а? А? ^TranslationWhat do you want from me, huh? Huh? Okay, I guess I'm not gonna finish that one then.
• Human Sacrifice: Granted, they're cats, but StarClan still calls on Stoneclan to sacrifice all their kits. Ratleap isn't buying it.
• I Can Change My Beloved: Ivypaw's opinion on the Dark Forest when she's confronted about it.
• I Resemble That Remark!: In "Everyone Leaves":
  Squirrelflight: How am I unqualified, Thornclaw?
  Thornclaw: Uh... small.
  Squirrelflight: Bend over and say that to my face!
• Idiot Ball: All of ThunderClan in "Bluefur's Kits", when Mistypaw and Stonepaw attend their first gathering.
  Sunstar: Ah, yes. Blue pelts might just be a RiverClan thing now. After Bluefur lost that litter.
• Implausible Deniability:
  • In "I spoil Moonrise for everyone", Tallstar denies stealing ThunderClan's food while still eating string cheese from their fridge.
  • In "I spoil The Darkest Hour":
  Darkstripe: [when caught poisoning Sorrelkit] I didn't do that.
  Everyone else: We saw you do that.
  • In "Ghost On Display", Mistystar and Harestar refuse to believe that Bramblestar is being possessed even after Rootpaw summons him.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: Blossomfall in "Parental Chat", where she claims that people she cares about don't get exiled. Cut to Bramblestar exiling Graystripe, her father.
• Interrupted by the End: Mocked in "I Spoil Outcast", where Moonkitti notes that the book needlessly cuts Jaypaw off mid-sentence when he's about to reveal the prophecy to his siblings.
• It's All About Me: Her take on Leafpool in "I Spoil Leafpool's Wish":
  Moonkitti, narrating: Squirrelflight doesn't like how Brambleclaw is still treating her like a child, but Leafpool doesn't care about that. It's Leafpool Time.
• It's All My Fault: Dovepaw frequently blames herself for things she has no control over, such as Ivypool being a Green-Eyed Monster, or Lionblaze murdering someone.
  Moonkitti, narrating: "I did this," says Dovepaw staring at the cat Lionblaze murdered.
• Kevlard: A variant. Mittens is an absolutely terrible fighter, but his immense fluffy fur makes him basically immune to all attacks, letting him wail on the Stoneclan cats with impunity.
• Lighter and Softer: Slightly, for comedic effect in "I Spoil". "Pack pack, kill kill" is changed to "Woof woof, bark bark"; in Sunset, Firestar is trapped in a Chuck E. Cheese's Skee Ball machine instead of a fox trap; and in The Fourth Apprentice, Breezepelt and Brokenstar hit Jayfeather with toy lightsabers instead of physically slicing him up.
• Line-of-Sight Name: In "Alderpaw Becomes a Father", Twigkit gets her name prefix from Alderpaw panicking and spotting a twig nearby. It happens to her again in "Twigbranch" when Scatterbrained Senior Bramblestar sees a branch during her warrior-naming ceremony.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: Smoky's opinion on his kits with Daisy.
  Smoky: Daisy, I need you to come help Coriander give birth. It's an emergency!
  Daisy: On no! Of course we'll help!
  Smoky: Also, how dare you run away with my children ten years ago!
  Daisy: Smoky, do you mean the kits that the Twolegs were going to take from me, before they opened their eyes, leaving us with no knowledge of what happened to them?
  Smoky: Yeah, those kittens! They belong to me!
• "Lion King" Lift: On "The New Deputy", Bramblestar presents Bristlefrost as his newest deputy by holding her from the Highledge.
• Mundane Solution: Moonkitti notes that the Warrior Cats fandom is highly critical, prone to lambasting the authors for poor decisions or character assassination, and has been clamoring for better quality for years. The solution Moonkitti proposes? Make a cat openly gay and in a gay relationship. She even says that it doesn't have to be a high-quality gay relationship, so long as the cats are gay and stay gay.
  Moonkitti: But what if I told you, hypothetical Working Partners editor, that you only have to do one, relatively small thing to get a big chunk of this fandom on your side? Just make the cats gay. Make the cats? Turn gay. One small, simple step, to make everyone love you... I will never stop complaining about Warrior Cats, but you put some gay cats in here, and about eighty percent of the fandom will pacified, satiated, they will love you.
• My Nayme Is: Insists that Moonkitti is spelled with an "i" to the point where it's her Catchphrase. Expressed relief in her Patreon video that she never went with "Moonkitteh".
• The Nicknamer: Commonly becomes this in I Spoil ('Old Cat McDoctor' for Yellowfang, 'Dogfood' for Lostface/Brightheart, etc.), but most prominently towards Bramblekit in "I spoil Rising Storm for everyone".
• No Hugging, No Kissing: Enforced in regards to StoneClan when discussing ships involving the characters. "All of the StoneClan cats are just best friends, very close best friends, every single one of them... if they look like they're gazing deeply into each other's eyes that's just what close platonic friendship does to a guy."
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, Micah has been a midwife as a ghost thirteen times already by the time he helps deliver Leafpool's kittens.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
  • In "I spoil Tigerstar and Sasha for everyone", the text "this actually happens" shows up when Moon talks about Sasha going to the Salvation Army and finding out her owner died from his clothes being there.
  • During "Tigerstar comes back for those other lives", Tigerstar asks if Moonkitti made up Whitetail's life being about "short people". Whitetail responds "No. Look it up."^* Whitetail gives Tigerstar a life for "understanding that size isn't everything." in the original text.
• Obviously Evil: Breezepelt in his titular video. Only Crowfeather notices.
• Odd Name Out: In "Warriorclan", the various "warrior names" the kittypets give themselves include Clawwhistle, Fireface, and Chester.
• Older Than They Look: Is 30 years old, but has a high-pitched voice that sounds around 12-14 years old. She is aware that this confuses people.
• Only Sane Man:
  • Daisytail in her titular video, when she argues against using Child Soldiers.
  Baykit: Wait, how long were the clans taking kits into battle?
  Flamekit: Nobody was worried about their kits fighting before this point?
  Brightheart: Nope! Nobody ever!
  • Daisy is this in "Smoky's Kits". She tries to get the patrol to save Coriander moving while Smoky complains about his son not being a main character and insists that his new children should be raised in a barn no matter what.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Moonkitti's main schtick is being a comedy cat YouTuber, so when she drops the goofy tone, it's for something she considers too serious to joke about.
  • Her video "I Sort-of Spoil Spottedleaf's Heart" doesn't mince any words in regards to Thistleclaw's grooming of Spottedpaw, and Moonkitti flat-out refuses to make a joke out of it, saying that this isn't the kind of thing that can be made a joke.
  • In her response to the article the Warriors Website put out about Frecklewish (said video has since been private), she goes on multiple unscripted rants about how infuriating the article is, how it blames Frecklewish for doing the right thing in an impossible situation, and how the phrasing of the article implies that in an emergency situation, an untrained person staying away from the danger implicates them in any damage done. Notably, she's sick as she's recording and editing the video, and she admits that she isn't counting it as one of her normal uploads, but the normally upbeat and goofy Moonkitti gets about as angry as she ever gets in her thorough takedown of the absolute nonsense in the article.
• Overly Long Name: Pretty much every Tribe name.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: Russetfur in "Important Leader Business" is declared "#1 Green-Eyed Red Deputy Who is Dead."
• Pale Females, Dark Males: Discussed and defied in her "Talking: Ferncloud" video, where she mentions seeing this trope and being annoyed by it enough to make her personal design of Ferncloud darker than that of her brother Ashfur.
• Parody Commercial: Advertises the "Back End of an Otherwise Much More Exciting Toy" in "cats who hate toys", which is exactly what it sounds like, making it more amusing how much more fun her cats find it compared to actual cat toys.
• Persecution Flip: Played for Laughs on an individual level, when Birdtail refuses to talk to Barkclaw after finding out she's straight.
• Politeness Judo: In "I Spoil The Fourth Apprentice for everybody", this is how Cloudtail's patrol gets the water they need.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Hollyleaf in "I Spoil Sunrise" when she learns that she's a Child of Forbidden Love.
    Moonkitti: There is no longer Hollyleaf. There is only Murderleaf, and she is going to kill the next leaf she sees.
  • Moonkitti reaches this in her video "I Am Not Happy With The Warrior Cats Website Frecklewish Response" (which has since been privated), when the article condemns Frecklewish for not rushing into the river to save the kittens herself. Moonkitti, who's taken many water safety classes in her life, is furious at the notion, and goes into a quick tangent about how this sort of advice could get children killed.
    Moonkitti: The first thing they will tell you in any water-safety anything- and I've been in a billion of them, because I've been in boating classes, I was at lakes every single year as a kid- the thing that they will tell you immediately is that you do not go in after someone being dragged away by a current. Because if you are not specifically set out to do that job, if you're not a lifeguard or have some sort of training in the matter, you're not going into a current, you're not going into a riptide. That's just not how it works, that's not what you're supposed to do... but like, this is not what Frecklewish should have done. This is never what Frecklewish should have done! It's just- it's mindless, to say that she's careless with the lives of kits, for not drowning herself.
• Reality Subtext: Discussed in "Talking: Briarlight". Vicky initially intended for Briarpaw to be disabled and killed by the falling tree, but as she was writing the plot out her cousin was paralyzed from the neck down in an accident, and was left close to death and bedridden for weeks. Fearing that she had somehow caused it by writing out the plotline, Vicky had to change the ending, to give Briarlight the recovery that Vicky's cousin needed, and as her cousin healed, so did Briarlight.
• Refusal of the Call: Feathertail in "Feathertail Tries To Sleep".
  Oakheart: First of all, I've chosen you to go on a dangerous, life-threatening, horrible quest to the ocean.
  Feathertail: Why not Mistyfoot? Why isn't she your favorite?
  Oakheart: Uh... sometimes in life you really need to reevaluate your favorite Warrior Cats character, Feathertail! Mistyfoot is my daughter. If she were my favorite, it would be biased, and my reasons would be unsupported by the text.
  Feathertail: That shouldn't stop you. My favorite cat is Needletail and also I don't want to die!
• Remember the New Guy?: Volepaw is subjected to this in his titular video.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: The Munchkin-esque cat version of her fursona, which is actually a deer in non-Warrior Cats related content.
• Running Gag:
  • Within Starkit's Prophecy, anytime 'looked' is misspelled as 'locked', it's taken literally and the character opens and closes a padlock.
  • In "Warrior Cats as Smash Bros Mains", anytime a character from Dawn of the Clans is mentioned, their name is suffixed with the phrase "you know, from Dawn of the Clans" in a silly voice.
  • In "I Spoil Skyclan's Destiny", whenever Sharpclaw or any of the warriors is being obstinate: 'Oh no!' thinks Leafstar, helplessly.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Her take on Bramblestar, who frequently forgets Alderheart's name and at one point confuses Rowanstar for Lionblaze.
• Scary Stinging Swarm: In "Bee Video", Voletooth begs StarClan to forgive him for whatever was bad enough to sic a swarm of bees on him.
• Seashell Bra: All the RiverClan cats adopt these as well as mermaid tails for "I Spoil Starlight for Everybody", after Mistyfoot and Hawkfrost argue over whether a mermaid theme or a pirate theme is better, and Mistyfoot wins.
• Serial Escalation: In-universe example. In "I Spoil Leafpool's Wish", Squirrelflight and Leafpool are attacked by a badger, which is then attacked by a fox, which is then attacked by a dog, which is attacked by a twoleg, which is then attacked by a badger.
• Serious Business: Birdtail is disgusted by the fact that others eat dirt on their rocks, ignoring the fact that they're all eating, y'know, rocks.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: In-universe example in "accidental Squirrelflight shipping war", when the cats are arguing over who's possessing Bramblestar.
• Shipper on Deck: Tallstar makes Onewhisker the new leader because "Nepotism!", all while looking at a picture of Onewhisker and Firestar leaning against each other with hearts drawn around them.
• Shout-Out:
  • In "I spoil Fire and Ice for everyone": "Then Bluestar finally allows Sandpaw and Dustpaw to evolve without spamming B."
  • Also in "Berrynose Quits", when Honeyfern is bitten by the snake, the low HP music from Pokemon Black and White starts playing.
  • Longtail's blinding is referred to him "getting into a fight with the entire cast of Watership Down."
  • In "I spoil Into the Wild for everyone", Brokenstar claims to have killed, in addition to Raggedstar and the kittens, Mufasa.
  • "I spoil Fire and Ice for everyone" has Barkface's vision of the clouds stained with blood represented as "OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD".
  • "I spoil Starlight for everyone" has Squirrelflight's warrior ceremony as her digivolving.
  • "Stoneclan" is full of them, due to Moonkitti's patrons just saying what they want and her having to work around the voicelines.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Given to be the reason Whitestorm doesn't talk to Willowpelt, his wife.
  Fireheart: Why don't you just go talk to her, then, instead of just watching her?
  Whitestorm: Oh, no, absolutely not! That would be super embarrassing.
• Similarly Named Works: invoked Parodied in "I spoil Twilight for everyone", which is about the Warrior Cats book "Twilight", but keeps referring to Squirrelflight, Brambleclaw and Ashfur by the names of Twilight characters.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • We learn that there's a drought after learning how much Lionblaze hates Squirrelflight for pretending to be his mother.
  • Sparkpelt is more concerned about her brother possibly having a girlfriend than any clan responsibilities.
• Small Role, Big Impact:
  • Mentioned in "Warriors Wiki Update", where she mentioned how her previous video that she made to criticize an element of the wiki ended up causing quite a bit of wiki vandalism, and how her video ended up prompting massive changes to the website to make it more user- and reader-friendly, including simplified histories, official art, and separate tabs for different sections of the character [though at the time of update, these tabs have been changed to subpages].
    • It may have also helped turn around public opinion on Dovewing; in the early days of the fandom since her first appearance, she had received a disproportionate amount of hate from fans for coming off as “whiny,” a Mary Sue, or a poor replacement for Hollyleaf. Dovewing is one of Moon’s favorite characters, and it wasn’t until after the Warriors Wiki eye color wars (the admins insisted that her eyes were blue although Moon, among others, presented several pieces of evidence depicting her eyes as canonically green, leading them to lock Dovewing’s wiki page and block anyone who disagreed with them) that she started getting portrayed in a more positive light compared to before.
  • Happened again after she released "Bramblestar is Worse", when her video deconstructing Bramblestar's treatment of Squirrelflight ended up causing quite a bit of discourse to spring up and even lead to Moonkitti receiving harassment for months over her video.
• Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: Playfully portrays her cats, Ocelot and Pepper, respectively, as these.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: "Frecklewish Logic" was posted on Christmas, and as such, the video has soft Christmas music playing in the background, while Moon talks about drowning and the death of kittens.
• Stylistic Suck: "I Spoil" uses static sprites which, instead of actually moving like puppets, instead sort of bounce around the screen, occasionally spinning around or stretching to emphasize the narration.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: "[The Tribe] also more specifically deny being cannibalized by a giant cat."
• Take That!: In "I spoil A Dangerous Path for everyone", the way that the cats figure out that Snowkit is deaf is by finding out that his favorite band is Nickelback.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Sol in "Sol Comes Back", where he keeps finding excuses to loaf around in ThunderClan camp.
• Theme Naming: The kittypets in "Breakfast", who are all named after, well, breakfast food.
• There Are No Therapists: A recurring problem with Dovepaw in the Omen of the Stars part of the "I Spoil" series.
  Moonkitti, narrating: After the battle, Jayfeather questions briefly if they should actually be forcing apprentices to fight because Dovepaw is acting traumatized.
• Time Crash: Moonkitti shows why she needs Firestar to be the most basic options in "Warrior Cats as Drinks", as when she makes Firestar Orange Fanta instead of plain water (coming from the amount of comments wanting Firestar to be Doritos instead of plain potato chips from "Warrior Cats as Chips"), the whole video descends into chaos. With a diagram of the "Firestar as water timeline" in contrast to the "Firestar as Doritos timeline":
  Moonkitti: But with Firestar as a base, already as an extreme drink, you have ruined the stability of this video. And it's YOUR fault.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Occasionally played for comedy, such as Shadowkit being near-omniscient as a child.
• Unequal Pairing: Discussed in her "Talking: Ferncloud" video, where she brings up the fact that Dustpelt began pursuing Ferncloud romantically while she was an apprentice and he was a warrior. As much as the fandom nowadays likes to ignore it, it is uncomfortable, and nowadays wouldn't fly.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Lionblaze in "I Spoil The Fourth Apprentice for everybody".
  Moonkitti: Lionblaze is thinking about how much he hates Squirrelflight for lovingly taking care of him and raising him his entire life.
• Wacky Wayside Tribe: The Tribe of Rushing Water. Going to visit them is always treated like a chore, and the clan cats only ever visit if they have no other option.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • In-Universe in "I spoil Forest of Secrets for everyone": "Fireheart goes in to see Yellowfang, and watches as she poisons her son. [quieter] Kid's book."
  • Shows up again in "I Spoil Leafpool's Wish": "Leafpool reminds herself that her job is about having no freedom and no emotions, and nothing matters but her career. Ever. What a wholesome children's book series!"
• You Are Not Alone: In "Stoneclan: Starclan", Skywing confesses his feelings of worthlessness and how he just wants to be remembered. Appleheart, who up until this point was Skywing's biggest critic, points out that for all of Stoneclan's complaints, they're still banding together to find Skywing and bring him home safe and sound.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Skywing tells Appleheart about how he feels like he has to act out and get people's attention so that he won't be forgotten. Appleheart listens, and tells him that he doesn't need to be exceptional to be worthy of love and respect.
  Appleheart: For the record, speaking for myself at least, you're definitely my friend, and you're definitely enough for me. You're a good cat, Skywing.

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