Top 10 Things Wrong with Warrior Cats

I LOVE the Warrior Cats series. It's a very good series, but there are things wrong with it. Here are some of them.
The Top Ten
1 Erin Hunter not giving Hollyleaf a power just because they couldn't think of a power for her

Yes, this is possibly the stupidest thing ever. What I want to know is, if you can think of a power for Dovewing, then why couldn't Hollyleaf get Dovewing's power, hmmm? No offense, and I have nothing against Dovewing, but Hollyleaf is better and deserved the powers way more. Between the three cats competing for the spot in the prophecy (Dovewing, Ivypool, and Hollyleaf) I like Hollyleaf the most, even though Ivypool's pretty great too. This doesn't make any sense! Like, give Hollyleaf Dovewing's power! Maybe she would actually USE IT for something useful instead of just whining about ShadowClan and rejecting Bumblestripe and Foxleap all day long.

2 ThunderClan always being the hero while other clans especially ShadowClan are always the enemies

This is just really ANNOYING. Like, why is ThunderClan all know-it-alls while ShadowClan are the cruel, usually hostile ones? This just have to stop. Firestar's family tree spreads all the way from Breezepelt, Shadowsight, SASHA, to even Tigerstar I, who is Firestar's ENTERNAL ENEMY. Seriously? The whole forest's gotta be covered with kittypet blood by now.

ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan(and SkyClan) just needs some spotlight!

-Dovestar of FrostClan

This may get a tad bit annoying. Here's my 10 innocent and favorite Shadowclan Warriors! (Not ranked in a specific order) 1. Tawnypelt 2. Littlecloud 3. Poolcloud 4. Hollyflower 5. Wetfoot 6. Boulder 7. Dawncloud 8. Ashfur (TPB) 9. Tigerstar (PoT) 10. Blackstar.

3 Too many forbidden couples

I totally agree. It's supposed to be a series about cats who fight with each other. But instead it's become 7 series about cats in love with each other. Seriously, they should just allow cats from other clans to have relationships if people are gonna do it this much.

This used to be so in treating but now I'm like grr. Why can't we have a nice, loving couple who have been friends since they were kits. I mean some forbidden romances is cool. But now I feel like EVERYONE is doing it. And sometimes it feels repetitive. Also, almost every main character in the arcs have a forbidden romances. Not all of them. But seriously...A LOT of them

4 Erin Hunter brought back Hollyleaf just to kill her in the next book

This was something I always hated. Why even bother bringing her back? Not to mention she's rarely seen in StarClan, with the exception of Squirrelflight's Hope. What irritates me more is the fact that Lionblaze and Jayfeather don't seem to even care that their only sister died. They just pretend she doesn't exist.

This pissed me off so hard when I found out (through spoilers) that I actually refused to read the rest of the books. Why give her all of that development just to kill her off again? Lazy writing?

5 The Warrior Code itself

Some parts of the code I understand, some I think are stupid. But this is just one that annoys me-

Medicine cats not being able to have a mate or kits. I can kind of understand the kits part, because it gets to be a lot of work while you also need to take care of your clan, but I say if you have another fully trained medicine cat it should be okay to have kits. There is always the risk of the other medicine cat dying while you're already pregnant, but that doesn't happen very often. Also, once the kits can have prey, you can just let a queen take care of them. And then the mates part. I don't see why a medicine cat can't find love. Kits could get in the way, but I don't see what harm a mate could do.

6 Cats being able to talk within days of birth

I think that cats in the WarriorCats series can that and open their eyes so quickly, is because cats have shorter lives than humans, 1 moon for a cat is like 1 year for humans in terms of life span. This for some reason does not apply to Mistystar, though.

I can't find why is that a big problem. Irl cats are able to meow from their first days (when they are hungry or scared) and that means that in the Warriors series they can talk. I had kittens on my yard so I know what kittens are doing very well!

This annoys me so much. It's so unrealistic! Why would they need to talk so soon, I mean give them at least a month before they can talk!

7 Impossible genes

I mean, the entire thing is crazy. Their wildcats, right? Wildcats are always grey or brown. You'd never see a white cat in the wild. And besides how are all of them so far? They get hardly anything to eat, it just doesn't make sense at all.

Graystripe and Millie are both gray, get Blossomfall is a tortoiseshell and Briarlight is dark brown. Technically, the Havanna Brown is the only cat breed to be dark brown. Also, in the wild, it is pretty hard to come across a pure gray cat, yet warriors seems to have 1/3 of all cats be pure gray. Ex. Dovewing, Cinderpelt, Mistystar, Stonefur, Bluestar...
Bluestar is also impossible, unless purebred. The Russian Blue is the only blueish gray cat out there. Also, MALE TORTOISESHELLS! Who's idea was this? Spiderleg: black and brown can't exist both on a cat. Why does he have a brown chest? Sandynose has ginger legs... There are many white cats with blue eyes who aren't deaf, except for Snowkit, which thankfully the authors mentioned this genetic thing, but then, WHY do all of the white cats have blue eyes and aren't deaf? Plus, out in the wild, it is pretty hard to come across a pure white cat. I have a BIG problem with this. The Erins should have done some research before coming up with these bizarre ideas.

8 Code changes
9 So many cats in ThunderClan

The cats from the first arc lived WAY to long and the Erins killed off all the new cats before I had time to know them. Now ThunderClan is ruined. I REALLY hope we get to know and love more cause better. That's probably just me but who knows.

Yes, I mean there must be like 40 or so now, I'm hoping for a huge purge in The Raging Storm because its getting ridiculous and I don't think the authors can keep track of them, let alone the readers.

In the beginning of the series Bluestar was like "we don't have enough cats" even though they had more than every other clan and to this day CONTINUE TO HAVE 50 CATS! It's just annoying.

10 The Warrior Code is broken so many times

I'm the beginning I felt like the warrior code was respected, never broken, and sacred yet.. after that it was broken time and time again, by now to me it's practically nothing

I don't know, I agree I liked it when it was respected but there are a lot of flaws in the code, hence updated in TBC.I agree with Tallstar (in his book Tallstar's revenge), there is a life beyond clan life ! Follow your own code!

Why even have a code if it's going to be broken every arc? It was also broken before it was even created! -Fallen from before StarClan

The Contenders
11 A very repetitive plot

Every ark after Firestar's point of view feels repeated.

I feel like I'm reading the same plot in every new arc!

It's getting boring at this point.

12 Fanservice
13 StarClan being biased

Mapleshade: goes insane because her clan turns against her, her kits die, her "mate" not only says it's her fault, but has already become mates with someone else, and she goes mad from grief, then kills the cats she blames for her kits deaths.
Starclan: "You'll never be welcomed here after all that you've done! Burn in hell!"

Ashfur: goes crazy because his crush doesn't like him back, proceeds to try to burn her and her sisters kits alive, as well as plot with two of the most evil cats in the history of Warriors and kill his leader.
Starclan: "Oh, it's not your fault you loved too much little Ashy!"

14 No gay couples

They can't exactly have "gay couples", at least not in Clans because...the main reason why a lot of cats even got together is to have kits. That, and because cats are not humans. They don't have a complex mind like humans do.

This may sound controversial, but reproduction is a part of nature and animals IN nature, plus it's seen as a good thing when a couple has kits. Kits = more Clan members.

Maybe there is a gay couple in a Clan, but they wouldn't really mention it because it barely affects the plot (unless there's a conflict that results from it, which would make sense). Maybe they would mention two cats touching noses or twining their tails, but not much else. Warriors likes focusing on a lot of (forbidden) romance, which is pretty dumb now that they've done it so much to the point of cliche, but that's a "conflict" because it's "forbidden".

If this whole "no gay couples" thing is only due to people and their "shipping", that's a bit of a problem...

Barley and Ravenpaw can be considered a "gay couple", or what I like to call a "bromance".

15 Dovewing being the third cat when she did almost nothing

YEah, dovewing's a traitor. First, she fell in love with tigerheart. Then, she left the clans to be with him, third, she left thunderclan an betrayed them to join shadowclan!!! I hate Tigerstar and Dovewing, and l strongly want Dovewing to be mates with Bumblestripe instead

All she did was whine! "Poor me, I'm in a relationship with Tigerheart that breaks the warrior code in so many ways, while my sisters risking her life for the clans every night and I have to yell at her about it! Life's so hard!" Her power did almost NOTHING! But everyone goes "Oh, Dovewing, what could we do without you?" All she did was waste her powers on spying on Tigerheart!

16 Firestar being part of almost every prophecy

His arc was okay, but after it, he lost all personality as a leader and became Bluestar the 2nd. Condescending, disgustingly self-righteous, and a bit, no, a LOT biased. Of course, in his arc, he had to be the hero every time. If you think of it from a narrator's view, Firepaw was just an apprentice who happened to be an orphan and kittypet. Alright, interesting, but not so tragic and unique that Bluestar had to favor him for everything!

If anyone deserves a prophecy it should be Hollyleaf and Ivypool, Ivypool was forced to spy on cats from cathell while Dovedung brags and whines about useless relationships, and Hollyleaf gets killed off? If I was a cat I would've rather killed Dovewing and go to cat hell than be a normal cat.

17 Ashfur being accepted by StarClan

Ashfur, should go to the Dark Forest. He was jealous, angry, sad, heartbroken, furious, frustrated, envious, and mean! That's the definition of a cat in the Dark Forest. He should learn to accept that he lost to Brambleclaw/star. He keeps trying to win Squirrelflight, but she doesn't love him! He is very annoying.

Yes, Squirrelflight admitted she didn't feel the same way about him as he did about her. And yes, that is a reason to feel bad. But no, that is not a reason to try and kill your ex's children.

He tried to kill four cats.

End of story.

18 Too predictable
19 Spottedleaf stalking Firestar even though she's dead

I disagree. Yeah come at me haters. I actually love Spottedleaf and think she's one of the bravest cats throughout the series. She died fighting for other cats both times even though she was a medicine cat and probably knew nothing about fighting. As for her "stalking" Firestar, let me remind you that Firestar was always HAPPY when he saw her in dreams. I wouldn't call that "stalking". It's two cats meeting each other willingly.

Spottedleaf really learned some leasons from Thistleclaw. She was 5 years old when she died! 5 - 0.6 = 4.4 She was 4.4 years older than Firepaw, and in cat years, that's like 34 years older. A 40 year cannot date a 7 year old child! It is absoulutly disgusting and horrifying! Spottedleaf even continued stalking Fireheart all the way throughout her death, even AFTER Fireheart grew up and got married!

20 Names that don't make sense

Names don't really matter but I wish we started getting some normal names again. I mean in Thunderclap we had a Thriftear. I know thrift is a type of tree but I feel like the first thing you think of is a thrift store. I wish they Brough back some new ideas and I feel like they are running out of name ideas.

Uh...if you're worried about that, why are you even reading Warriors? StarClan doesn't make sense. The Clans fighting doesn't make sense. Mapleshade's existence doesn't make sense. The three don't make sense. And much more major things don't make sense. I don't see any of these on this list, but people are complaining about names they don't think are good or make sense...jeez, if that's such a problem, you don't make sense.

21 How much walking they do in The New Prophecy (TNP)

OMG YES! They litteraly spend the first four books of The New Prophecy walking, and then we get more walking because Leafpool finds the Moonpool and then Leafpool and Crowfeather leave and come back and we get about one book of story and plot and that's it. The rest is just... walking. And that's it. It's so boring, definitely my least favourite arc!

This one is just whiny. If you have trouble with walking, why are you reading books and living? Plus you do more than 3,000 to 4,000 steps a day?

Lol love this one. Walking is annoying, fully agree, though I liked the walking in dawn cause it was fun to see the clan evolution.

22 The Erins not being able to decide on colors (e.g. Crowfeather's eyes, Dovewing's eyes, Scourge's collar, Bone's collar...)

Scourge's collar is purple, why don't say that, Bone's collar is rainbow, why don't say that,
Dovewing, Has three color changing eye's amber, blue and green, why don't say that,
Crowfeather has blue eyes, why don't say that?

YES! Dovewing has eyes that change from amber to yellow to blue to green, and it won't stop. Like, I understand that all cats are born with blue eyes, so obviously they start like that, but their eyes don't change twenty times. Scourge is always drawn with a purple collar, so let's just keep him with that. It doesn't make sense to picture him with anything else, and Bone's collar is always drawn as rainbow, which also makes no sense! This inconsistency needs to stop. It doesn't make sense, and I don't understand how it's even physically possible for a human being to be this stupid.

23 Snowkit dies just to move Speckletail to the elders' den

This was messed up and pretty unessacary; made me cry and hate the book as a little kid. And why treat a dissabled cat like that :/ it would've been nice to have Snowkit throughout the story! Would've made it interesting.

Snowkit, Snowpaw, Snowfur, Snowstar please give Snowkit an adorable history.

24 Mapleshade going to the Dark Forest

Mapleshade should have gone to the dark forest, everything she did just leads to her consequences, and nothing justifies the fact that she killed 4 cats.

She deserved to be there. Why do you hate Hollyleaf? She killed 1 cat. Mapleshade killed Ravenwing, Appledusk, Frecklewish, Minnowkit, Willowkit, Willowbreeze, Spottedleaf, Rainflower, Shellheart, Hailstar, Oakheart, maybe Crookedstar, Silverstream, Feathertail and a couple others, mouse-brains!

Um...what...? You think she should have gone to StarClan? Listen, she even wanted to go to the Dark Forest...

25 Spottedleaf having a gross crush on Firepaw

Think about it: Spottedleaf was about 4 years old/49 moons when she died, meaning she had been (If my reasoning correct) somewhere around 45 or 44 moons when Firepaw arrived. FIREPAW WAS 6 MOONS OLD AT THE TIME. Firepaw had just barely reached sexual maturity, whereas Spottedleaf would have likely retired to the elder's den in a year or so. THIS IS LITERAL PEDOPHILIA. The Erins are just horrible with relationships like that; revolting age gaps, love after very few interactions, incest (e.g. Graystripe's parents), etc. It's absolutely disgusting.

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