Because I've been seeing an increasing amount of comments following along the lines of "it makes sense because they're feral cats" and "they're just following natural instinct" or what have you for whatever reason(s), I would like to direct you to these quotes from Vicky Holmes, the creator of Warrior Cats: "what I really wanted was to write about small furry humans with four legs. So I’m afraid you have to blame me for bending the laws of nature." warriors.fandom.com/wiki/Erin_Hunter_Chat_6 "I must confess I wasn’t very keen at first because I don’t read fantasy and although I love all animals… I’m more of a dog person. But once I started working with the characters, I realized I could give them human issues" warriorcats.com/content/article/who-is-erin-hunter Do with this information as you will 👍

THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT HOW ONCE A SHE-CAT BECOMES A QUEEN SHES JUST A QUEEN NOW. An example of this, which is almost identical to Sparkpelt’s situation, is turtletail’s. she once was praised for her talents but as soon as she had kits that well.. almost all she was at that point, just not as bad as sparkpelt since turtle tail still was written to have some sort of personality and well.. what the books would probably consider “a purpose” for a queen.

The sexism in warriors is abismal. I actually made a joke to myself after reading Starless Clan (Spoilers for Light in the Mist btw) “As far as female protagonists who used to be important but are now barely noticeable background characters, Bristlefrost seems to have gotten an upgrade! Yup, she’s taken the standard from ‘Stuck in the nursery and unable to have a personality’ to ‘extremely dead! Like holy shit! You can’t get deader than this!’” Edit: Just thought I’d clarify real quick. I’m not mad that they killed Bristlefrost. It just gives off a bad vibe when female protagonists end up as either Mother Figures, Forgettable Background Characters, Squirrelflight, and now just straight up Dead. Even if the roles were reversed and all the boys ended up getting their personalities snatched, I’d still be miffed.

Sparkpelt had potential. She could have been a villainous Firestar descendant if the writers wanted to. I’ve been wanting a protagonist like that for so long! And she got sent to the trash- I mean the queen’s den of flanderization

Do you ever just thinks "Wow if they actually went with the whole "sparkpelt being pressured into Firestars legacy",then Nighthearts story could've been a weird fun exploration of how generational trauma works? Sparkpelt ends up forced into Firestars legacy,and so attempts to pass that down to Nightheart when she does have him since He has The least connection with her,almost like an apology for not being there for him while he was young,however Nightheart views this poorly,he's being forced to live up to a destiny of a cat he didn't even know much,hearsay!!

I also feel like Sparkpelt's casual xenophobia (wanting SkyClan to leave) was super unexplored. It was the first time she was actually the exact OPPOSITE of Firestar.

Actually I thought it was weird that flamepaw was the one to “carry the legacy” when flinchpaw looks a lot more like firestar. The hunters do really seem to be following a pattern with she-cats not being able to carry legacy, especially taking into count tigerclaw just basically ignoring his daughters/granddaughters

Yes Yes Yes!!!! After hearing about flamepaw’s story I was so confused on why they it couldn’t be Sparkpelt’s story despite her making more sense. When I read Squirrelflight’s Hope I kept expecting Sparkpelt to say and do things that matched with her energetic and fiery personality from the main series but she (at least to me) felt reserved and stand-off ish. As if she were just another queen. Just another she-cat.

Tbh, a interesting character becoming a parent can be an amazing story change and a refresher. But 80% of the time, it just causes that character to be pushed into the bg by their kids or worse, turned into a hollow husk only meant to act as a parent figure. And I genuinely hate it when that happens, Spatkpelt had so much potential it was crazy, same with many other female warriors characters. As evidence has shown, people love characters who don’t get turned into a parental husk, but instead still have their own interesting identity, this is probably the reason Mapleshade is loved so much in my opinion. She continued to be an interesting character with motives after having kits, and that’s what made her stand out, she’s different. I really hope warriors and other book series learn their lesson with this character type

I have been thinking about how she-cats lose their personality when they become queens, especially in the case of Blossomfall. She had very specific character problems that did NOT go away after the dark forest, and yet the next time we see her she has a mate and kits and nothing substantial to say till the end of the time. It’s so disappointing.

It’s Interesting how Nightheart specifically points out that ALDERHEART had issues with being compared to Firestar, despite the fact that Sparkpelt was the one constantly compared to him. Alderheart’s anxiety came from being the son of a leader and a deputy specifically, and he was even confirmed to look more like squirrelflight, while his sister looked like Firestar. Even if the comparison was positive, iirc, she was _Constantly_ having her achievements chalked up to the fact that she’s Firestar’s grandkid - despite the fact that if her bloodline had anything to do with it, it most certainly would have come from Sandstorm, the greatest hunter in Thunderclan. To be clear, this would be a fascinating conflict if the the authors were going for an unreliable narrator approach, which they _seemed_ to be going for.. except they’re really bad at it and keep framing nightheart as Correct anyway. He gets called out for going against tradition but that’s about it. It would be really interesting if Nightheart’s inability to empathize with Sparkpelt came from his abandonment issues instead of the writing team just not really caring about her. It would be really cool if the two could bond over their shared burden, even if they never quite become mother and son. It would also recontextualize Sparkpelt’s insistence on Nightheart’s achievements being from Firestar as leftover trauma from constantly having her achievements credited to him as well. They could make this work, is what I’m saying, but I doubt they will.

It took me until I was about half way through this video to realize you weren’t an incredibly well known video essayist I just hadnt found yet. Im shocked by how little recognition you’ve got, since this is such a high quality and entertaining video! I hope you skyrocket in popularity soon, because you sure as hell deserve it! Now off I go to binge watch all of your other videos & then wait patiently for whatever you release next.

Fantastic video!! It really is unfortunate that most female characters are reduced to almost nothing in terms of personality whenever they become queens, especially for a character like Sparkpelt who had a pretty unique personality compared to others.

Even with female writers for warriors, we still get this horrible gender bias of she-cats with interesting and independant personalities and stories become boring and bland mothers and loose ALL of their personality and hobbies, solely olny thinking about their mates and kits This isnt even the olny major problem in warriors, theres way more, but the main writers dont care. Either way theres still so many fans of warriors and continue supporting and buying books, which just continues a stupid cycle of the erins making a new book, people buying it no matter how bad it is, and advertising it by making content of it like animations etc. It feels like its never gonna end.. Also, great video! Are you an editor or something? Cuz this is spectacular quality for a video on warriors.

I never really noticed the gender problem in Warriors, but that's probably a me thing. I tend to need to be hit upside the head with a clue-by-four with stuff like that, and even then I don't always get it (the religious symbolism in Chronicles of Narnia and the anti-religion themes in His Dark Materials were not subtle and I still managed to miss them completely when I was a kid). I haven't read any of the books beyond Omen of the Stars, and now after having watched a bunch of Sunnyfall's videos and this one, I'm probably not going to go back to it. As someone who is both aromantic and asexual and who really, really doesn't like kids, it's annoying to me that the vast majority of the she-cats in Warriors end up with mates and kits.

This video was wonderful, quality content. You managed to address an issue in a clear but perfect way. I enjoy Nightheart's character since it's a breath of fresh air in the series. It also digs deeper into the family of Firestar and their obsession with "keeping the lineage" Leafpool's side of the family isn't ignored but it isn't represented really; because none of them inherited Firestar's 'flame-coloured fur' I like to think the cat who started this obsession, was Bramblestar. He was extremely loyal to Firestar, and probably saw him as a father-like figure. Squirrelflight, being well his mate, probably jumped on board with the idea. I don't believe it was discussed, it was just perhaps comforting to them; so it subconsciously just happened. Sparkpelt was the embodiment of the perfect child. She had flaws, of course; but nothing that stud her training or skills. I was rather bothered when she became a queen and her personality went down the drain. Larksong had greatly impacted her life, and she wasn't able to be there as a mother properly for her kits. Which isn't of course her fault. Nightheart is definitely villianizing his mother in a sense, although I'm pretty sure it's unintentional. Nightheart understands why, but at the current state of time; he envies his sister's closer relationship with his mother. There's definitely favourites being pointed out. Finchlight is preferred because she's a tortoiseshell, ginger and black and likely green-eyed. She resembles Sparkpelt more, however Nightheart does not. He is the spitting image of his father, although I do cannon him with structural face and bod of Firestar. Indicating his resemblance to Firestar, but not in the same way. Sparkpelt probably has fear of her son, because of his appearance; it brings back memories. I would like Sparkpelt's character to be explored more, and Nightheart to be enlightened on the fact that yes, his mother does love him. If Nightheart had a she-cat protagonist that was by his side, and had character development; even past being a queen. I'm sure that would be a step in the right direction for the series. I dislike how she-cats are treated, I know, of course we've had many she-cat protagonists. But they all fall in line with the common queen role eventually. There's nothing wrong with wanting a family, but a she-cat isn't just created to be the love interest or just to end up in a nursery; producing babies for the rest of her life. That's why I liked Hollyleaf. She didn't want kits. Yet that was viewed as an odd thing. I'm an asexual person, so seeing a character not want kits but still have a mate; would be so freshing. Or perhaps a she-cat character that just doesn't want a mate? Or perhaps they actually keep their personality for once and don't fade into a boring, background character. Yes, they aren't the main protagonist maybe; but having Sparkpelt be explored more in ASC would probably help understand her character more. She just feels like she's being pointed out as a bad mother, however she's mentally scarred so????

The problem beeing that Sparkpelt has another one big difference than her son. She was not the PoV. She was suppose to be a comparison to Alderheart. Showing how great she is at warrioring when he sucks and making him anxious. I find the problem with Nightheart mostly at the fact that his problem is 90% in his head. And he never even considered that he maybe was named after his eyecolor or something, not to mention he never asked but assumed. Warrior characters have this big problem that the just can't communicate, they just assume stuff and then most of the problems are born. And there was a big thing about Sparkpelt in Squirrelflight's hope that you didn't even touch upon (maybe for the spoilers reasons). Many times warriors were critisized that shecats were killed only as a tool to explore tom's emotions and motivating them / moving plot along. Here the roles were completly reversed and she went threw the worst of the worst. I see it as her beeing painted as the perfect warrior with a perfect life but then everything goes wrong in a split second. Because she is NOT a chosen prophecy one or anything. But she recovers later, because she is strong and has support from her family... well from her brother, cousins and mum, her dud sucks. She should've been the point of view character but sadly wasn't... She really needed a novela more than her mom a superedition but for HC it's all about popularity of characters not their potential. Squirrelflight doesn't wish to be like her because of the gender roles, she looks back at the moments after having kits as the only happy times in her relationship with brambleclaw and doesn't know how else to fix this toxic mess they have. She most improtantly wants to feel young again and that's what she envies the most. And feel needed. the whole point of the book is that she realises that she doesn't need to make babies to be usefull, to help others, to be a great asset to her clan. And honeslt she is the most interesting part of Flamepaw's chapters for me. And seeing how she tries but her son just doesn't want to let her in because of his own assumptions of what others feel, want or think. And she is not a natural parent she doesn't really has muc of the instinct but is not a beat up mum (like some in the warriors) just some cat who is not that good in it. Unlike so many other shecats who after birth just BOOM change their personality to "mum". She seems like the last character to make the argument about sexism in the regard of having kits. There is just too many characters in Thunderclan to develop all the ones with potential especially as there seems to be a requirement that only new protags can be POVs in the main series, so we are left with scratches of undeveloped stories that need to be forgotten because there is a bunch of new protagonists that need the ground up development now. I think that she's a be a way better protagonist than her brother I feel. But we just had to have a medicine cat protagonist in Vision of Shadows... for some reason... and in every series... for some reason. I agree that she was robbed of her story, but I also see that maybe HC were afraid shed be too much like Squirrelflight (who is one of the faces of the franchise) and pushed her to the background not to have another Firestar clone in the frontline again, so soon after his death. And when they thought it was time to revisit the idea of legacy they couldn't use any older generation characters because "THE RULES" so they had to put it awkwardly in her sons paws... Hot take: Squirrelflights hope should've been Sparpelt's book. I kinda don't like Flamepaw as a character anyway, am more invested in Frostpaw's story as for now.

I really want a female leader in thunderclan next. currently we have squirrelflight but the erins have confirmed she wont live to be leader. also, i would like a main character to become leader, but in this case we only have flamepaw. i hope that sunbeam joins thunderclan or something honestly

I hadn't read the article you discussed before, but it's so wild in contrast to... how Nightheart is portrayed? His poor hunting (as a result to him trying to show off too much/do risky maneuvers) held him back from being a warrior. He's not shown to be resourceful, and he's sure as hell not particularly kindhearted? He lacks compassion for Sparkpelt and doesn't seem to have any interest in the perspectives of other cats. If that's how they wanted him to be portrayed, they gave us an entirely different cat. Anyway, thanks for this vid. I'm glad a lot of fans are starting to recognize the gender bias in warriors, but still a decent number who take warriors at a very face value. Nightheart says Sparkpelt is a bad mother, so she is. Nightheart says he has a burden, so he does. Nightheart is frustrated and bitter, so he's traumatized. There's a lack of willingness to engage on a deeper level with the rest of the context of the series, gender, etc. I hope videos like this will encourage more people to think a little more critically about the books!

I'm getting tired of HarperCollins making the authors change and keep things out of their own books

Loving this video! I hate how they treat female characters and it is incredibly sexist, even if they didn’t mean to make it sexist

I feel like they either didn't have an idea for Flamepaw/Nightheart and came up with this or they couldn't fit this particular idea into the previous protagonists.. Either way sexism in Warriors is definitely present! I personally adore the headcanon that Nightheart is trans, very cute! I love the music in this video 👀 another UT/DR fan here.. I have a question, would it be ok to send fanart through Twitter dms or anywhere not public? I don't post anything haha

Oh Sparkclaw would've been GREAT actually to both honor Brambleclaw and Firestar. Like hello I'm confused why no one remembers that Nightheart and Finchlight (that's such a pretty name) are ALSO related to Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw, and through Brambleclaw, Goldenflower, Tigerstar, Pinestar. Of course, living cats today might not know about Pinestar, but EVERYONE knows about Tigerclaw and Brambleclaw. Nightclaw would've been a more fitting name for his personality being prickly, and his pelt. I'm with Nightneart on this one; even if he's an unreliable narrator, which I love.

i feel like another example is how hollyleaf got overshadowed by her brothers in them getting abilities and the writers running out of ideas for her. also, the name thing is kinda rediculous since Leafpool named Jayfeather after crowfeather

Sadly warriors doesn’t really listen to there fans,but good for you to talk about this!I didn’t even notice.

Wow I just found your channel and it is so great. Your videos are amazing. And I never noticed that with that topic. Like I heard that Sparkpelts name wasn't what thw authors wanted. But that she maybe would had the character arc that we will have in future with Flamepaw is something I really wished happened. She just was pushed more into generic after it. Atleast I it felt for me like she was after thay pushed in the background just to be a mother

Uh Jesus Christ yet again another disappointment for the new books every time they either bring a firestar decedent or a tigerstar decedent it’s really starting to get on my nerves and like sparkpelpt is a queen now uh I am just so fed up with this

Dude, your take on this is amazing. You are clearly so good at analyzing this and really care about warrior cats. I just discovered your channel and I look forward to watching you get famous!

Sparksight, Sparksky, Sparkfeather, Sparkwhisper, Sparkpool, Sparkcloud, Sparklight, Spark- ANYTHING. I think she’s kinda cool. Sparklight is probably my favorite. I imagine sparkpelt with fireworks behind her! She’s snappy, fun, and exciting. But.. not a very good mother. And with the new apprentice in Windclan as of ASC, Whistlepaw. I really hope we get something fun for her name. I mentioned “whistlenose” because a whistlenose is a fairly common trait in cats! Both of mine have it. Someone else suggested Whistlehop, which is also adorable. There’s so much name potential. If the publishers don’t let this shit fly, get better ones. I don’t know how hard that is but please

Thank you so much for this video. The more awareness raised about the sexism in warrior cats, the better. I always thought it was weird that ThunderClan put so much pressure on Nightheart to be like Firestar when even his direct daughter, Squirrelflight wasn't compared to him so much.

What makes me mad, is that if Flamepaw/Nightheart was a real cat, he WOULD be orange. (Male cats get their colors from their moms!) It would just work better, so it's not bending ThunderClan out of character so much. I don't usually care about the unrealistic colors in warriors, but this is hard. (Although, to be fair, Firestar wouldn't even be orange in the first place)

I'm currently writing a warrior cats fanfic so I'm watching any video I can to know things to avoid. Thank you so much for making vids like this. I wanted to take a book series I love, and fix the issues I found or others found. I know it won't be perfect, but I can try. And, lucky me, I don't have to show it to a publishing company to get things approved. EDIT: took one video from you and I'm subscribed. That was so good. I've been wanting to start a channel, and this is exactly the kind of thing Id want mine to be like

I'm pretty sure every female protag at this point is either killed in there arc or shoved into the background as a queen with no personality even if the character used to be a protagonist. Well there are some other examples of what female protags could be handed like hollyleaf, leafpool, mothwing, squirrelflight or uhhhhh mistyfoot??? Or once is a millena we could have a female character like mapleshade if were lucky :l

I feel like (basing this off of kates post) this is not the erins fault, but harper collins. The erins want to show and get the best out of their characters. Its harper collins which keeps denying it and telling them what to write and do.

I frankly dont think i liked flamepaw. I get where hes coming from being named flamepaw despite being a black cat and being measured up to a long dead cat but he often just seems whiney (though a bit deserved when hes denied his warrior ceremony TWICE) and seemed unnecessarily harsh to his mother. I get the issues that stem from her not being around but that was because she was banished and in mourning over his father and he almost seems to hold that against her and lashes out when she DOES try to connect with him. I think its cool they finally talk about foster parents in that actual roll and not just pretending the foster cat is their actual mother. He knows shes not his mom which ive never heard of until the power of theee found out about their mom and that was AFTER they were almost full grown

I loveee your voice. The quality of this video is great, and you bring up a very very important problem with these books. I can’t wait to see more!

I’m really hoping Frostpaw will be the she-cat they right their wrongs with. She’s already pretty cool to me and if ***spoilers*** she really gets spayed, now we’ll know for sure she’ll never get the queen treatment 😭

incredibly well-produced and edited! this is a great video!

Cant believe I never I never saw your channel before! I’m a big fan of your video format.

Why did HarperCollins reject Spark’Fire? It’s such an awesome name!

I REALLY love the way you explain all the details and all the information you give along with background information! I can't believe you aren't famous yet, definitely earned a subscribe from me! Keep up the fantastic work!!

Your editing and mic quality oh my god. I found a new person to bingewatch content from. Your content is CRIMINALLY underrated

this was an amazing video, from the beginning to the end! you have earned a sub, keep up the amazing work.

What an underrated video from an underrated channel. Great video!

Warrior cats has always been sexist. Not so much in The Prophecy Begins but it gradually gets worse through the series and it’s really clear in The Broken Code when I think a skyclan cat says that Dovewing was selfish for leaving her clan but TigerHeartstar wasn’t selfish you know he was fine haha All the female characters that don’t get to become queens just disappear. All the mic female characters that do become queen are written out as characters. Sparkpelt is also a good part of this bc of her brother. Her brother is a main character and honestly I don’t even remember her interacting with Alderheart that much like maybe ten times through VoS tops and then they never talked again. It’s so infuriating.

She cat are just kit machines and nothing else according to the authors of warrior cats. Or in some cases a protagonist creator with Ivypool creating Bristlefrost, Dovewing creating Shadowsight and recent Sparkpelt creating Nightheart. Though Sparkpelt didn't even get to be a character, that was relegated to Alderheart.

I love your videos they explain really well the characters and the books!!

THIS IS SO TRUE subbed and gonna go watch a bunch of your video essays now !!

This has potential… if it weren’t so obviously putting everyone out of character, Sparkpelt and Squirrelflight yelling at him for his name, and Bramblestar changing it to give him zero agency (although Nightheart probably likes it better).

I just found your channel!! this is gen so cool, keep it up! you deserve a lot more recognition :)

Dude your channel is actually good. The editing in your videos is actually really impressive and you deserve more attention.

I have a very strong love hate with Sparkpelt's charter as a whole, I read a lot of the first half of avos and then jump stright to the starless clan. (Also also thank you so much for using the right pronouns for me)

0:34 the little chefs hat is so cute

Ur extremely underrated wtf!!! This video is so high quality

Personally I’ve been theorizing that Nightheart might actually switch clans

I’m glad someone else is mentioning the boring names in general. Sparkpelt, Spotfur, Flipclaw, Needleclaw ….

Just looked up the FireStar family tree and I think we may need a new bloodline to dwell on because FireStar lineage is getting old. Also…SPARKFIRE IS SO GOOD AHHHHH!!! ITS LIKE THE COOLER TWIGBRANCH ,SPARKFIRE I’m in love! Also if Firestar and Sandstorm’s possible ship names translated to the kits they could have had a FireStorm and a SandHeart!

This video was actually good. It made sense and had great explanation. Good job!

At the beginning I ligit thought he was gonna say, “Hi, I’m Ryan. And my life, is kinda crazy.”

This is unbelievably underrated The editing is good and so is teh video as a whole And dear god are you correct abt the sexism 😭

sparkpelt had so mch potential...and i hate how tc is so obsest with firestar all of a sudden. like if anyone would have had nighthearts story it should have been sparkpelt

absolutely spectacular video, you clearly know what ur talking about :D i definitely have to check out more of your content

a new warrior cats youtuber! :D great video.

as someone who has never read the books, this is some trippy video

Sparkpelt never really had an arc though...she was just kinda this perfect cat that was a contrast to her brother..

Hi! You showed up in my recommended and the topic of the video interested me a lot! This video was great!! I'm gonna sub I hope to see more cool topics and i hope you get recommended to more people as well! Keep up the awesome work! I was always really disappointed that Sparkpelt didnt have the arc Nightheart is getting right now. she has such missed potential. her entire design was perfect for her to try and prove herself as her own warrior and not as a mirror of firestar. instead we just got another rude "early into the wild dustpelt-esque cat" who's only purpose is to make snarky comments in the background.

I agree with this one Edit: I love DR I’m excited for DR chapter 3 coming soon

How are you so underrated?!!!! Remember me when you are famous :D

oh wow, i love your content!!!!

I just realized the authors put it in the book that she should have been Sparkfire . Very sneaky

It makes me wonder how much is harper collins influence is causing this sexism, given the implications behind the Sarkpelt name change and original plans. :/

The only she-cat that I can think of that gets treated well is Ivypool, She has a mate who doesn’t undermine her. Her mate stayed in the nursery for her so that she could go on patrols. Ivypool for leader anyone?

Eh, maybe we should just stop legacy naming characters. I really hate when they do that. Sparkfire would have been a cool name, but not 'cause firestar'. Cats dying means nothing if we're just gonna replace them with more cats named after them all just as disposable as the rest.

I don't understand why people look so damn deep into this. I don't care if the characters were written like humans. I don't care if there's some kind of unconscious bias. Can't there just be innocent fun things in the world without people finding fault and accusing people of having bad views? Can't previously feisty cats become affectionate mothers completely invested in what they're doing? The world doesn't keep spinning if new life doesn't begin, and all this hatred of motherhood and giving up personal things for the sake of your kids is ridiculous. I'm disappointed Sparkpelt isn't how she used to be, but that doesn't make her story harmful.

Oh my God. When I say my jaw dropped at 5:11, I mean it. I never, ever thought about that.

She cats are deined any ongoing personality after becoming a mother with only a few exptions

if sparkpelt was named sparkfire she couldve named flamepaw firepaw so that he would be even more like firestar and have a some what valid reason to be named after his great grandfather who his mom didnt even meet (please not i have not finished the video so idk if this is mentioned)

The number of likes is equal to the number of subscribers (492 atm). I've never seen that before, except maybe on tiny personal channels with just like, 4 subscribers

I'm still completely convinced that sparkpelt's story was scrapped because when the news of her name & allegiance description dropped, tumblr was losing their SHIT about how she was going to be a mary sue and just firestar again. before we had even had chapters previewed, at that! it was ONLY based on the allegiance description! warriors tumblr was up in absolute ARMS over this back in the day and i believe the writing team must have seen it and adjusted for it.

I watched sunnyfall's video, and it really opened my eyes. I started reading WoF, and I honestly don't think I'll support the canon material at all anymore. I guess I had to read a whole other series to find out that not all are the same as Warriors.

Despite their outspoken female cast, warriors continues to paint them as amoral for doing so. The books ARE sexist. No matter what the authors say out loud, the subtext is there that their female cast is lesser to their male counterparts. I haven’t spent money on the series since I was a kid.

For once: Thank you algorithm. Actually a very solid suggestion.

I hope Sparkstar happens. I mean, she can become deputy cause she mentored Twigbranch. Come on Squirrelflight!

Warrior cats is like a trainwreck It gets worse and worse but you just can't look away lol (I'm a warrior cats fan btw, I like it, but man do they need to get better imo)

goode Video!

I subscribed

Can we just agree that the new writing team/editors at working partners are cat sexist

Night heart is trans (male to female) and I will die on that hill.

no girls are not represented a lot in any book series

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Sparkfire is a good name but Sparkheart would've been kinda cute, too... (not even related to the video LOL) Sparkpelt isn't that bad, though, realistically... it makes me think she's very fuzzy. Just bad with the context of sexism, and stuff.

I think Warrior Cats has been going the wrong way for a long time. I'd like to see more of one character than three new cats every season. Especially the eighth season is cruel in this case. Sunbeam's storyline is just a boring, cliché-like love story. Nightheart is often compared to Firestar and for no reason. As you said in the video, this should have been in season six. I don't like Nightheart's personality because he doesn't fit as a character overall. It doesn't fit in with his childhood either. After Sparkpelt's trauma, they play together and suddenly their relationship is bad a few months later. In the first book of the eighth season, Firestar is mentioned more often than in the entire sixth season, and this makes no sense. But the authors have also simply destroyed the potential of Sparkpelt. From the brilliant hunter, who should be the main character next to Alderheart, to the totally in love kitten, who is interested in nothing but her relationship. She could have been a good mentor to Twigbranch, but her cliché relationship makes her the worst mentor after Ashfur. This mistake could have been corrected in the eighth season, in which Sparkpelt was used instead of Sunbeam. The clans have fewer and fewer female leaders, and Sparkpelt would be the best choice to steer against that. Bramblestar's trauma would be a perfect way to put Sparkpelt in the limelight, but no, it's got to be a stubborn boy. Greetings from Germany

I can take a lot of shitty writing and dumb mistakes from this series, but when they start going sexist it's too much. We already had to live with the pedophilia and that horrible redtail retcon. It's getting harder and harder to like this series, even as a guilty pleasure. I sure hope the finale of the entire franchise is decent. The people who actually care about the story (ghost writers, editors) deserve way more agency, they deserve the chance to do something good because their ideas are often cool but then Harper Collins appears and gets all controlling about it.

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This is so frustrating, especially when most of the readers are women, as far as I know. I don't know who this Harpen is, but it's obvious he has a lot of internalized sexism, if he believes that a female character can't have the same role as a male character, and also Spark's character just ends up being another queen, with nothing interesting to do afterwards.

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Internalised misogyny and sexism

Did you even put Squirreflight's comment on Sparkpelt in context with what was happening in the book? Squirreflight's situation with Bramblestar was SO bad she thought she would never be happy again, of course at that point she was envious of her daughter's happiness with her partner, and not about her skills. Especially as Squirrelflight didn't have to prove anything anymore regarding her skills. Remember that while the books are not written in first person, we're still seeing through the MC perspective. Sparkpelt was treated HORRIBLY in this book, in an extremely sexist way, but not because the book chose to talk about her happiness with her partner instead of her skills. Also it couldn't have been Sparkpelt's story because she was this very talented cat right from the begining to be in opposition with Alrderheart. So pressure from her lineage wouldn't have been as heavy for her.

Yall act as if toms don't get any nonsense in the series. What about poor Reedwhisker, descendent of the iconic bluestar and the son of mistystar, but what was he?, nothing but mommies little helper, for gosh sakes, he even died just moments after she did, like he couldn't exist without her. I mean what about the cliché male stereotypes of being big, angry idiots that have no emotion other than just grrr me fight, me kill, me take over the forest? Could sparkpelt have had more development, absolutely, but guess what, the latest arc wasn't about her, it was about her mother squirrelflight, so no harm done. Is there a gender issue in Warriors 🤷‍♂️ perhaps, but saying there's sexism is taking things to the extreme and seems more as a way to be spiteful twords men/males toms, whatever, which is ironic, because that behavior is blatantly sexist. Iam not trying to sound so whiney, but iam just worried that this constant need to pound the drum of sexism in Warriors will actually make the community somewhat sexist itself, just against males.

I want to make 2 points here 1.There is in no way they were trying to be sexist here, and for the most part you can only be sexist when doing it on purpose,and yes you can be sexist without thinking you are,but I don't think someone instilled the female writers with the idea that women should have less screentime 2.The lack of female screentime is on purpose,because it makes sense Female *cats* main purpose are for kits, now I do see where you could think 'Well they could still have a storyline afterwards' but look at big cat lives Mothers do still hunt,but only because the men stay in the area protecting their cubs But now it's the other way around,men go out and hunt,the mothers protect their kits It's just how they're used to,they aren't human characters,they don't have thought beyond what they've known,and yes they do have some form of sentience,but I don't think the writers wanted to make them as independent as humans can be