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Top Ten Least Favourite Warrior Cats by Lightningpaw

Lightningpaw lists their top leastfavourite characters from the series.

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Hello BlogClan! This is Lightningpaw with my second article! Today I’ll be counting down my top ten least favourite warriors, the ones I found most boring or annoying or ones I just didn’t like. Of course this is all my own opinion and it’s fine if you disagree. Spoilers for pretty much all the series and some super editions ahead, including Tigerheart’s Shadow. Also at the time of writing Crowfeather’s Trial and Darkest Night have not come out, so if they prove my points wrong that’s why. Ok, enough babbling, let’s get into the list.

10. Stoneteller (NP-OotS)
For Stoneteller, I don’t really dislike him but I just found him nonsensical. He just didn’t seem to make good decisions and went a bit crazy near the end. First of all he banishes Stormfur and Brook, after he took Stormfur’s advice. He took Stormfur’s advice!! He made the decision to fight the intruders! And yet he still banishes Stormfur when it goes wrong. Then in PoT, he decides, hey, let’s send the Clan cats away for trying to help. He does go back on that, but he’s still not happy. Not to mention the whole I won’t chose a successor thing in OotS. He almost destroyed the Tribe by being selfish.

9. Silverstream
Okay. So just so you know, I really don’t like cats who have forbidden relationships, and Silerstream is one of those cats. As well as the fact she has cliche love at first sight with Greystripe, she is so cocky, saying ooh, I’m the daughter of a leader I do what I like! No you can’t Silverstream, you shouldn’t break the code!(Call me Hollyleaf). She just acts like a little spoiled brat all the time.

8.Spottedleaf
Forbidden love number 2. She shows pretty much no love for Firestar while she’s alive, but when she’s in StarClan she suddenly goes gaga for him? In my opinion she really spoiled Fire x Sand by just existing, which in my opinion is a good , well developed ship. She seems so transparent, really only existing as a character to represent StarClan at first and to be Firestar’s first love. Spottedleaf’s Heart did flesh her out a bit though, so that’s why she isn’t lower on the list.

7.Star Flower.
We are now getting into the cats I really don’t like.Star Flower is just in my mind, a deceptive scarlet she-cat. She completely used Thunder in a completely disgraceful manner, and what for? For her murdering controlling father. She also strained the friendship between Thunder and Lightning Tail, which is one of my favourite duos, and when she was at their mercy she begs she actually loved Thunder, only to go off with Clear Sky later. She did make up for it by being a loyal mate for Clear Sky, but she didn’t fully redeem herself.

6. Crowfeather
Crowfeather is just a complete mouse brain. I think the thing that most annoys me is that he has three mates. Three mates!! Two of which broke the code. And none of them except possibly Feathertail were good ships. I have to admit, asking to take her name as a warrior was really sweet. But straight after that, he suddenly goes completely gaga for Leafpool out of the blue! Why?? And then after they run off together, and come back, he does a Star Flower and uses Nightcloud as a reputation repair girl! He’s not really that likeable as a character either, being so grumpy and annoying for no reason. Whatever he says, he doesn’t love Breezepelt, even praising Lionblaze instead of him. Okay, they’re both his sons, but I don’t think he knew that at the time.

5. Billystorm
He’s just annoying. He gets completely in Leafstar’s face, distracting her when she has to focus on leading SkyClan, and makes her feel bad for not paying attention to him. Despite all this, he only leaves his housefolk for her when she kicks him out of the Clan. And why does she kick him out? Because he tries to tempt their kits to become kittypets. He doesn’t deserve a warrior name. I’m with Sharpclaw- he’s a kitty warrior!

4.Heatherstar
Heatherstar is here by a mere technicality. I dont mind her overall character, but she stopped Tallstar from being a tunneller. I really liked WindClan’s tunnellers, but she ruined it completely, and broke Tallstar’s heart and mine.

3.Rainflower
And the winner of the worst parenting award is ….. Rainflower! At first, she lavishes all her attention on Crookedstar because he’s her ‘ handsome little warrior’. Then as soon as he breaks his jaw, he is nothing to her. That’s just cruel, to eternally punish your kit for one mistake. She changes his name without even asking if he minds, and Oakheart is now her little handsome warrior. Crookedstar needed her support after breaking his jaw, not rejection. It’s no wonder he accepted training from Mapleshade, he thought she believed in him. Rainflower should have rotted forever in the Dark Forest, and Crookedstar should have kept his old name. Stormstar! Stormstar!

2.Leafpool
Okay. I need to calm and not rant. Let’s see. First of all, she runs off with Crowfeather, completely breaking the warrior and medicine cat codes,and abandoning her Clan when the most needed her. As a result of this, she ends up having kits. Instead of doing the right thing and just admitting to her Clan she was having kits, she decides to lie to all her Clanmates, and use Squirrelflight to make sure no one realises the kits are hers. Then, she and Squirrelflight decide to lie to the kits as well! I forgive Squirrelflight because she has done enough redeem herself but Leafpool hasn’t. Even when the kits find out she’s their mother , she refuses to tell them who their father is!! Dark Forest for you Leafpool!!

Honourable Mentions
Oakheart
Tigerstar(Avos)
Sleekwhisker

1.Dovewing
Right, Dovewing has so many faults we’d better start at the beginning. So she finds out about her powers, and whines about it. You have superpowers! Oh, how terrible! Then she goes on the quest, and is too blind to see she makes Ivypool annoyed by being so eager to visit Sedgewhisker and Whitetail, which she shouldn’t do anyway, and drags Ivypool into the mix. Another thing; she hasn’t told Ivypool about her powers. Okay, so Lionblaze said tell no-one, but couldn’t she see how understandably jealous she was making Ivypool? If she’d told her, everything would be fine, since Ivypool wouldn’t have told anyone else. It was Dovewing who caused the battle between ShadowClan and ThunderClan, not Ivypool. On to the meetings with Tigerstar(Tigerheart). She betrayed her Clan!! It was exactly the same as the Spottedleaf thing, she kept remembering his sweet breath! Then, she gets with Bumblestripe after Tigerstar betrays her for his Clan. I’m a Bumble x Dove shipper, but that won’t happen now. But then she just floats back to Tigerstar, playing about with Bumblestripe like Star Flower with Thunder! After the battle with the Dark Forest, the Three lost their powers. Jayfeather and Lionblaze were understandably upset, but Dovewing was traumatised. AND YET SHE SAID AT FIRST SHE DIDN’T WANT POWERS!!!!!WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU DOVEWING!!! Okay, on to the events of Tigerheart’s Shadow. She decides to have her kits far far away. Why?? I know she had the dream, but still! Then when they return, it looks like she’s chosen ShadowClan. YOU DISLOYAL TRAITOR DOVEIDIOT HOW DARE YOU BETREAY YOUR CLAN AND IVYPOOL!!!!

Sorry about that. Thanks for reading, and have a great day. Lightningpaw out!

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  • I don’t get in the very least why people call Silverstream a spoiled, whiny brat. I don’t see her in this light at all, and if you do, blame Crookedstar for that. However, when does Silverstream show signs of using her rank as leader’s daughter for selfish reasons? Or when, in fact, does Silverstream even whine?

    Spottedleaf is a HELPFUL cat who genuinely felt a connection to Firestar. Since when did Spottedleaf first go gaga over him? I think it was FIRESTAR who went gaga first. Spottedleaf received the prophecy about him and thenceforth wanted to guide him, and then she started getting feelings. Instead of being a lazy, regular StarClan cat, she HELPED.

    Too bad we never saw Crowfeather develope feelings. Hm, maybe we’ll see that in the new book about him, eh? I don’t think that Crowfeather’s feelings were out of the blue since we really did see his internal struggle. As a HUGE CrowXLeaf shipper, I’m just going to say that CrowXLeaf was extremely sweet and developed as well as a true Crowfeather ship, unlike NightcloudXCrowfeather. I’m sure that Crowfeather probably realized the mistake he made in mating with the absolute WORST, most DEFENSIVE, RUDE, and HOSTILE she-cat in WindClan just because he didn’t have another she-cat choice. That’s probably why he avoided the two of them because Breezepelt and Nightcloud were just cats who stood against things that make Crowfeather him. He didn’t want to break it up AGAIN, but he didn’t even like her. I can’t blame him for keeping his distance.

    But… did Tallstar want to be a tunneller?

    WHAT? Sorry, a mini outburst. What did Leafpool do wrong other than listen to StarClan her whole life long? Medicine cats have a duty to StarClan, and STARCLAN told her to follow her heart, STARCLAN who told her and Squirrelflight to fake everything, and STARCLAN, STARCLAN, everything. I don’t understand why people hate her when you should very well be hating StarClan right now. What do you want Leafpool to do to redeem herself? Throw herself on her knees? Why does a faithful cat who lost everything for StarClan deserve the DF?

    I kinda agree with a lot of your Dovewing things other than you kits part. StarClan probably sent her the dream, and plus, it was her choice. She realized that she prized being with the tom she loved. And plus, as much as IVYPOOL IS MY FAVORITE, she was a huge snob in TS.

    I’m pretty much meh or don’t have an opinion on the rest of these characters. EXCEPT FOR STAR FLOWER THE FOX! GO TO THE DARK FOREST YOU LITTLE MANIPULATOR!!! LOL

    • Silverstream told Firestar that her love with Graystipe could do know harm. It literally caused her death! Most of my dislike of Spottedleaf came from the fact she’s so transparent. It’ll be interesting to see if the new book can change my opinions on Crowfeather. Tallstar realised after Sandgorse died he actually wanted to be a tunneler. Leafpool lied to her kits. Honestly I don’t think that can be right, whatever StarClan says. But down with Star Faker!!!

      • Actually, Tallstar only thought that because he wanted to please his father.

        Silverstream was in deep love. And your example doesn’t show her whining or using her spot as leader’s daughter.

        How is Spottedleaf transparent when she’s probably prevented the death of two cats aside from her healing them?

        Leafpool lied to her kits. She was so faithful to StarClan, and when StarClan told her to do it, she did. Was she supposed to predict the heartbreak? If that’s the only reason why you dislike Leafpool, I’d recommend putting StarClan instead of her on your list.

  • I mean I love Crowfeather because he’s prickly and interesting. Like I’ve said before, you don’t have to be a good person, er, cat to be interesting. Also, many people have different partners throughout their life. Heck, Firestar and many first series cats have had multiple mates. It’d be worse if they were all at the same time but they weren’t. I can see Leafpool and Nightcloud more than Feathertail, as she was more of a high school crush, like FireXSpotted. Honestly, I can’t really see why Crowfeather and Nightcloud are still mates, it makes no sense, but I still like Crowfeather.

    • Firestar actually did have just one mate: Sandstorm. Spottedleaf was just a crush (but I guess she could count as his “partner” or maybe his “guardian”) and Cinderpelt, well…….Fireheart was her crush. My point is that Firestar had only one mate. 🙂

  • I agree with Crowfeather, Leafpool and Dovewing. I also don’t like forbidden relationships as well! 😀 They annoy me so much. This is why I didn’t approve of GrayxSilver, LeafxCrow, LionxHeather, TigerxDove, etc. (though I did like FeatherxCrow) I don’t hate those ships. It’s just I don’t like the breaking code all the time! 😛 However I find Crowfeather a very interesting character. I have mixed feelings for him honestly.

    But this is my argument/disagreement:
    I don’t think that Leafpool would be a Dark Forest cat. DF cats are usually bloodthirsty and battle-seeking cats. Leafpool is a peaceful medicine cat who broke the code and betrayed her Clan. She regrets the pain she caused, but she believes that her kits are worthy cats/warriors which they are.

    Spottedleaf did actually show interest in Fireheart. She was very kind to him while he was in the Clan (while she was alive) and such. But then again she’s probably like that to every cat 😛 Idk I don’t have much of an opinion on her. I love how she’s very hospitable and kind though. But mostly she’s just another cat to me.

    Now for Dovewing, I agree with most of what you said and how it was kinda stupid to just go on WindClan territory dragging her sister along with her just to check on a cat whose Clan can perfectly look after their own! However I have to argue/disagree on for the fact that if Dovewing had told Ivypool about her powers before hand, Ivypool wouldn’t be in the Dark Forest and we wouldn’t have any spies (except for Tigerheart/star of course but still)!!!! Everything happens for a reason. And also Tigerheart was being loyal to his Clan! Your Clan ALWAYS comes first. He never used Dovewing. He truly did love her. But his Clan had to come first. Also Bumblestripe was forcing Dovewing into a relationship she didn’t want. Sure she was a bit snappy but that’s because Bumblestripe was being really annoying. He was a scary stalker dude like Ashfur, but I guess not as extreme 😛 Lol. I don’t love Dovewing cause I think she was a bit immature and annoyed me at many points in the book, yet I don’t hate, hate her. Same with Ivypool. She’s ok but isn’t my fav (though I absolutely love her fursona and her name! XD).

    These arguments may not be very good but it’s what I’ve got and what I disagree with. However most of what you’ve said I totally agree! Stoneteller was a piece of foxdung and Rainflower was just mean and very judgemental (I don’t hate her with a passion though). Star Flower and Billystorm….well I haven’t read DotC yet or any SkyClan books except for Firestar’s Quest that I’m still reading.

    Very passionate and well worded article, Lightning!

    • Hold on… Sky’s on fierce mode right now. 😛

      Leafpool is actually more loyal and faithful to StarClan than any cat has EVER been. StarClan told her her destiny and subjected her to a life of pain. I think that, if any cat deserves a place in StarClan, it’s Leafpool.

      I pretty much agree with everything you said about Dovewing.

      • Agree with you on Leafpool (sorry my debating skills aren’t that good. The point I was getting at was that Leafpool wasn’t a blood-thirsty cat which is what DF cats are and Leafpool was nothing like that)

        • Agreed. I guess we were coming from two ends? Idk, but I just wanted to make a point that Leafpool didn’t make the mistakes fully on her own. StarClan pushed her to them.

          • Well how dare they then! 😛 But it was for the greater good I guess since two of the Three were born. But the Three could have been born from any cat really. I guess they just really wanted a medicine cat fully committed to them to have two of the saviors. They wanted to spice things up a bit, eh? 😁 Or maybe they probably weren’t sure who the Three would be so they pushed Leafpool into making the mistake to see if they were partially (cause they were) right. Idk though, haha. StarClan confuzzles me sometimes. 😛

            • Ikr!!! In fact, maybe they just saw the rippling faces of the three(StarClan originally thought that Hollyleaf was one of them) and looked at all the couples and went, “Hey, these two will make kits that look just like this!”

    • Ok, so if Lilywhisker gets into the Dark Forest for being annoyed about having a broken leg, then Leafpool should be for causeing a lot of mental pain. I mainly dislike Spottedleaf because her character was so transparent. How was Bumblestripe a stalker? He thought she loved him back. Glad we can agree on Stoneteller and Rainflower, Foxie!

      • I strongly believe that Lilywhisker, Brightflower, and Tangleburr should be in StarClan.

        Leafpool deserves a spot in StarClan like no other. Leafpool did not cause the mental pain, StarClan did by telling her what to do. If I had to pick one cat who was the most faithful to StarClan no matter what, Leafpool would be that cat.

        He thought. Dovewing gave him opportunities to break it up, she tried to gently express her feelings, and yet, what does he do? Persist on. He didn’t care about what she felt, so long as they were mates. In the B&N exclusive for Shattered Sky, Bumblestripe is shown basically steamrolling over anything Dovewing says against having kits. Is that two-side love, or one person trying to make the other love when she so clearly doesn’t like it?

        • This is why I let Sky do the talking for my opinions 😛 But yay we do agree on Stoneteller and Rainflower at least 😄

  • That’s a great article. I have one note though….. Didn’t Tallstar not want to be a tunneler? He spent like the entire beginning of his book saying he didn’t want to follow in his parents’ paw-steps, and Heatherstar recognized that and let him be a Moor Runner.

      • He didn’t actually want to, he only did because he was feeling guilty over not doing what his father had wanted (even though he had no reason to feel bad, he had every right to want to be a nope runner instead of a tunneler, his father was being horrible about it) and he wanted to “set things right” by giving in to what his father had wanted.

  • I agree with everything! except the 2 last ones, i’m not going to rant about now but overall, Great article!

  • I love Dovewing! You can’t forget the time she wanted to see if Sagewhisker was Ok, the time when she wanted both she and her sister to have powers, and the time she was worried about Leopardstar. So before you go start hating her, let’s all take a moment about how bad Dawnmist, Darktail, and Onestar were. And Leafpool shouldn’t be a DF Cat! She messed up because of love and plus, a lot of medicine cats have had kits including Yellowfang and many more! Leafpool was loyal to her sister and her Clan and has been a great character! And that is my argument!

    • I don’t hate Darktail because he’s a an interesting character, and he’s just evil, not annoying. Plus what did Dawnmist do?

      • Dawnmist wasn’t bad I meant Clear Dky I was thinking of Dawnmist cause I just read Omen of the Stars again for the 50 time… #obsessed

      • Well, I don’t like Darktail because he caroused so much pain for other cats that didn’t deserve that much pain for example, SPOILER ALERT
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        He killed Sharpclaw, who is Hawkwing’s father, he killed Needletail (Violetshine’s best friend) and drove Skyclan from the gorge. That is a lot of pain to be causing!

  • Here are my opinions…

    Stoneteller-I don’t really care enough about him to really have an opinion 😛 I don’t think he was terrible, but he did make some bad decisions… Crag will probably be a better Stoneteller, but I think the former one may have been a little better in the end when he was close to dying… Idk though 😛

    Silverstream-I’m not a Silverstream fan, but she isn’t really a bad cat… She just isn’t as interesting to me as some other characters.

    Spottedleaf-Same as above 😛

    Star Flower-I haven’t read Dawn of the Clans, but from what I’ve heard about her, I didn’t think she was that bad, but Idk 😛

    Crowfeather-I pretty much agree with Bramblefire on this one.

    Billystorm-Again, not one of my favorites, but he’s a good character.

    Heatherstar-I don’t know much about her, but I agree with the people who pointed out that Tallstar didn’t want to be a tunneler. Wasn’t it his father who was trying to pressure him into being one and was disappointed when he didn’t become one?

    Rainflower-She’s too minor for me to really dislike her completely, but I do agree that she was a horrible mother 😛 (Although, in a way, she’s a little bit like Oka from Seekers, only Oka was actually really hurt by everything that had happened, and we can understand her a little more, and she regretted leaving Toklo… (I don’t know how many people here have actually read Seekers though 😛 ))

    Leafpool-I pretty much agree with Sky and Foxtail. She isn’t a bad cat, and she definitely doesn’t deserve the Dark Forest.

    Oakheart-I don’t really know why anyone wouldn’t like him…
    Tigerstar(Avos)-He’s actually my favorite character, but I don’t have time to really defend him right now 😛 (especially since you didn’t say why you don’t like him)
    Sleekwhisker-I understand why people don’t like her, but I like her as a villain (she reminds me a lot of Bellatrix from Harry Potter 😛 )

    Dovewing-Again, I agree mostly with Sky and Foxtail here. She wasn’t one of my favorite characters in Omen of the Stars (though I’ve always shipped TigerxDove 😛 ). She was a good cat though. She didn’t want Ivypool to feel that way, and she felt horrible for not being able tell her and was worried about her spending every night in the Dark Forest. The battle between ThunderClan and ShadowClan definitely wasn’t her fault. Ivypool might not have truly realized what was going on, and I’m sure she felt bad, but that shouldn’t mean it’s automatically all Dovewing’s fault. 😛
    About the kits in Tigerheart’s Shadow, again, I agree with Sky about how she wanted to be with the tom she loved. And Tigerheat’s Shadow actually does a lot to build on her relationship with Tigerheart, and she didn’t decide to live with them all in ShadowClan until after Tigerheart nearly DIED. I think it actually makes a lot of sense, and after I read Tigerheart’s Shadow, Dovewing actually became my 5th favorite character. 😛 (Plus, her’s and Tigerheart’s kits are so cute!)
    Also, there was one thing in Tigerheart’s Shadow that really stood out to me about their relationship. I don’t know if very many people really paid much attention to it, but after Dovewing gave birth to their kits, her and Tigerheart actually apologized to EACH OTHER. They had been kind of fighting earlier, but at that moment, it didn’t matter who had started it at all. What mattered was that they still loved each other and wanted what was best for their kits. It’s one of the reasons TigerxDove is my favorite ship. 🙂

    Anyway, those are just my thoughts 😛

    • Agreed!

      This is so random but I’m actually shocked you remember my full warrior name 😄😮 I haven’t used it as my “name” for a while. I mean, well, I have used it in when I’m telling people my fursona for their drawings and such but……I mean most people call me Foxie but I think that’s because it’s there all the time in my name above and I don’t have my warrior name so of course people would call me by my nickname. But then again I’ve said a few times that “Foxtail’s” nickname would be spelled that specific way.

      Sorry I’m just surprised for some reason, haha 😛 This was probably such a useless comment (I say and notice many things out of the blue).

  • I personally dislike two particular cats that went to Starclan that I didn’t believe deserved to go there. Ashfur (if you have read through the power of the three series then you probably can tell why) and Clear Sky about whom I will explain why:

    When I was reading Dawn of the Clans I really felt like Clear Sky was such a jerk! (especially for, technically speaking, a “protagonist” of the series). He rejected Jagged Peak because he was injured by a monster, he rejected Thunder, his newborn son because it would remind him of Storm instead of loving his son like he should’ve and done what Graystripe did when his mate died. He was called greedy by Rainswept Flower and because he’s Clear Sky, he murders her. Apparently insult = murder according to Clear Sky.

    He wants to expand his territory to the point where he practically is a dictator and starves Jackdaw’s Cry which broke the agreement that he made with his own son! Any cat back at the clans (in modern times in the Warrior Cats world) would be sent to the Dark Forest but apparently because he feels sorry for being a poor excuse for a dad he’s totally cleared from committing murder and being greedy in the first place. His mate did get carried off by an eagle but that’s no excuse to be such a foxheart afterwards.

    He was quite greedy and cruel towards literally ANY character (except his mate) cat that disagreed with him or criticized him, he starved Jackdaw’s Cry (his brother that he knew back in the mountains) and basically cares nothing for kin unless they agreed with his greedy rule (of course Star Flower and his kits would love him because he was actually nice to them instead of being a foxheart at one point to every other protagonist in the series). He may have tried to become a better person in the end, but he was the Brokenstar/Tigerclaw of the book series at times and that’s undeniable. I personally disliked him throughout the books and I would put him at the top if not, 2nd place for star clan cats that readers actually get to know throughout the books who were mean and were going to if not already did, commit serious crimes against the warrior code.

    Also some good news is:
    according to warrior wiki (one of the warriors wikis) in the Italian translated version of Starlight it says on the back that Warrior cats movie coming in 2018

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