At various points, it's stated that certain badgers (and sometimes other creatures) have a particularly strong version of the bloodwrath. Presumably, there are plenty of badgers out there who don't suffer from the bloodwrath (Lord Russano comes to mind) — we just don't hear about them because of Rule of Cool. My only complaint this time around is that there's A LOT going on in the story. I think Jacques wanted to include all his inventions, but he did a little too much. I wish he'd focused more on the main plot line of the woodlanders trying to defeat Tsarmina, the Queen of the Thousand Eyes. But he has these side stories that introduce different animal groups, and it's a little unnecessary. Sure, it's all a bit twee when you remind yourself that most of the cast are soft fluffy animals and like all Redwall books it goes on about food in a way that would give George R R Martin a run for his money. If you're not a fan of anthropomorphic battle mice than nothing I said here is really going to convince you but hey, it's wonderful not to have a memory tarnished, but enhanced, by a re-read of one of your favourite books. Brain Jacques at his best.

On the non-villainous side, badger lords are often this, although some remain more aloof. The officers of the Long Patrol almost always fit this trope. Slagar's deformed face is described very well. As is Riggu Felis's. And Ashleg wears a cloak over the twisted and maimed half of his body. Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Marlfoxes. The queen of the Marlfoxes killed her mate to take the throne, only to be manipulated and killed by her daughter in turn, who then ends up being killed by her brother, Mokkan. The other children of the queen are all equally nasty as the others. Calling Your Shots: At a slinging competition in High Rhulain, all the participants must declare what their targets are before slinging at a pinata-like target (the head is worth more than the legs which is worth more than the body). The heroine declares "two eyes and a head" and hits them, a never-before seen feat. Somewhat subverted in The Sable Quean. The Quean and one of her Mooks are plotting revenge on The Starscream, Zwilt the Shade. He tried to kill the Quean and sent the Mook's mate to his death. As they talk about their plans, we hear, for the first time, a vermin say the words, "I loved him."

This series provides examples of:

Gulo the Savage. His response when one of his soldiers complains about his injuries? Kill the guy and eat him. Later, when his forces are reduced to eight vermin including himself, he still kills the one who thought about running. Averted by Gulo the Savage (a wolverine) and his horde of ermine in Rakkety Tam, who gladly chow down on their defeated enemies. However, this is referred to as cannibalism throughout the book. Brian often travelled the globe to tell his Redwall stories to young audiences, more often than not at their schools,” Alan Ingram, representative of the Redwall Abbey Company, which has owned Jacques’ intellectual property since his death in 2011, told Deadline. “Brian would have been very happy to see that Netflix shares his joy and desire to bring his stories to life as a new universe of films, series and potentially much more for audiences of all ages to enjoy.” The iron star Tiria extracted from Pandion. She carries it for the whole book before returning it to sender. Tsarmina is a savage wildcat, ruling the castle of Kotir through cruelty and fear. And she seeks to enslave the creatures of Mossflower Woods. However, while the creatures of Mossflower may be kind and gentle, when threatened they will rise to defend what is theirs. But Tsarmina’s forces will overwhelm them unless help arrives. Martin the Warrior, Gonff the Mouse Thief, and Kinny the Mole embark on a quest to Salamandastron, where the badger Boar the Fighter resides. With his help, they hope to defeat Tsarmina and bring peace to Mossflower Woods.

Brian also ran a weekly radio show on BBC Radio Merseyside, until October 2006, where he shared his comedy and wit, and played his favourites from the world of opera - he was a veritable expert on The Three Tenors. Big Damn Heroes: Lots. The biggest one that doesn't come off as an Ass Pull occurs in Eulalia!, when Orkwil abruptly disappears, then reappears a few chapters later with hundreds of Redwall soldiers at his side so they can rescue Gorath, Rangval, Maudie, Salixa, and the Guosim. Abusive Parents: Nimbalo the Slayer's father, whose violent attitude drove his mother away. He then repeatedly beat Nimbalo and treated him extremely poorly until Nimbalo finally had enough one day and ran out. Laser-Guided Karma catches up with him though, but Nimbalo still cries over his body. Outcast of Redwall has Swartt Sixclaw chasing Sunflash the Mace throughout the entirety of Mossflower. It's also heavily implied that Swartt's son, Veil the Outcast, goes through a Self v. Self conflict in which he is his own worst enemy. Subverted in The Sable Quean: there's a hedgehog who kidnaps a group of children pretending to rescue them but instead plans to keep them as slaves on his island, although he may not count since he's insane and thus not evil of his own free will.What questions do you have about Netflix’s Redwall adaptations, and which moments are you most excited to see on screen? Ancestor Veneration: Downplayed in that it stops short of outright worship, badger lords often see their ancestors in visions or when at death's door, asking for advice and getting cryptic results in return. The secret forge in Salamandastron contains carvings of past badger lords, of heroes and their great deeds (some of which have yet to happen), which can be added to when a badger is working in a fugue state. Brave Scot: Characters from the North are portrayed with a Scottish Funetik Aksent. It's a grim and unforgiving land, and northerners are generally hardened warriors. Mossflower's primary weakness is easier for me to accept because it's a strength in the later books: it's repetitive. It's the first book that can recycle what would become the series's core features: the food, the accents, the species-as-groups-of-people, the questing and parallel adventures, and--more blatantly in Mossflower than elsewhere in the series--the branching, interconnected world. In Mossflower, we get an origin story for near every aspect of Redwall, from the barn cat to St. Ninian's Church to the Abbey itself; often, the tie-ins are obnoxiously neat--but: Tsarmina, the evil self-proclaimed queen of Mossflower, is quite the ballistic type personality that grows on the reader, even though she is the main antagonists of the story. As you progress through the story, the reader will start to see paranoia and insanity slowly take over her, and it is quite entertaining to watch. The story has some good comedic quality throughout. One of these core laughable traits of the story is how she conducts her army and captains. Through her short lived reign, she promoted over a five or more captains due to blunders which ended in death or displeasing the queen. She as a villain was true to her nature, instilling fear as a means to control her weasel and rat army.

Averted in Marlfox, which concludes with the rat army, who had hated their lot in life, joyfully tossing out their arms and armor and learning to live as farmers.Yet another karmic example pops up in Doomwyte. Just when the raven Tarul was about to kidnap a mousebabe, Sister Violet came into the belltower to help the mousebabe ring the bells. She ends up ringing them and crushing the bird in-between them both.

A lengthy series of books by Brian Jacques, about a fantasy world in which all kinds of animals are the equivalents of people: they wear clothes, live in buildings, have humanlike societies, et cetera. Yet they also retain some of their animal natures, which usually manifest as specific skills: such as moles being expert workmen, especially at digging, and otters being skilled swimmers and shrimp fishermen. The eating habits of the (almost) Always Chaotic Evil vermin? They're carnivores who by nature would eat mice, but in a setting like Redwall, that would be cannibalism. Mostly when they kill for meat, it's wood pigeons or sea gulls. To add to the confusion, badgers and otters are always good characters, even though they're carnivores. Badgers even eat mice in real life. Only about three named vermin characters have ever pulled a Heel–Face Turn, and two of those didn't last long. It's really hard to hate Magger after he kills that Jerkass watervole in Eulalia! Even though he wound up stealing Martin's sword afterwards. Eulalia! features both Vizka Longtooth and Gruntan Kurdly, but the former winds up being more relevant.

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Conservation of Ninjutsu: Wildcats get hit hard with this in High Rhulain. One wildcat villain? Some of the most dangerous foes in the series, being basically the vermin equivalent of badgers. But a whole army of them? They fall just as easy as rats or weasels. However, the book makes the point that most of the cats are "feral cats" whose ancestors were freed from an unspecified master, while Riggu Felis and his sons are the only real wildcats on the island. Cluny: Porridge? They defeated us with... Porridge?! HEADS WILL ROLL FOR THIS! CHEESETHIEF!! CHEESETHIEF!!!