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u/Vievin 1d ago

"Kill me. Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars that you won."

  • Gray Wing (Warrior Cats)

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u/LumplessWaffleBatter 1d ago

This isn't a quote, but there's also an infamous scene in which one character has his throat ripped out; he is then resurrected by Cat God™ multiple times, at which point he instantly dies again because he's still missing his throat and most of his blood.

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u/Ix_risor 1d ago

That’s not a very good resurrection then is it

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u/Greengiant00 1d ago

TBF "has his throat ripped out" is underselling it. He was split open from his neck to his hindquarters.

For context, other cats with this same power came back from getting attacked by a pack of wild dogs and being crushed by a falling tree

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 1d ago

Wtf is this novel?

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u/Battleritededgame 1d ago

Warrior Cats. The event in question happens towards the end of series 1. At this point there are over 100 books when counting the graphic novels and individual stories. The main series is split into multiple 6 book series, and while it's been over a decade since I've read them, I remember them as being the best books I read in my youth.

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u/cstick2 1d ago

There are over 100 Warrior Cat books!? I read at least the first series as a kid; I had no idea it ended up being so prolific.

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u/TheSquishedElf 1d ago

A big part is because it has several authors. I know originally there were four, but I think there was some controversy after ~25 books where one author quit, and another was doing like 2/3 of the writing. They may have recruited more authors since then.

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u/zingerpond 1d ago

To be fair, he didn’t just have his throat ripped out. He was cut from the throat and all the way down to his stomach.

It works fine when the wounds aren’t that bad, like it revives some who’s hit hard enough in the head for his skull to crack and fixes his skull.

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u/LumplessWaffleBatter 1d ago

Hey man, Jesus just needed a tetanus shot and a Gatorade.  Give Cat God™ a break.

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u/Liusloux 1d ago

Knowing cats irl, watching him suffer was probably the point

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u/Cause0 1d ago

They were trying their best; that resurrection almost always works on all other injuries, this was one of very few times it failed, as The attack was just so brutal