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Remember The Oath.

The Animals of Farthing Wood was an Animated Series on the BBC, based on a series of seven books past Colin Dann, who later added a prequel to the listing. The series lasted from January, 1992 to Dec, 1995. A full of 39 episodes aired over three series, each of 13 episodes.

It followed a collection of animals from Farthing Wood, which was being destroyed by humans to build houses. The animals fled the forest every bit a grouping, led past Fox, in order to accomplish the sanctuary of White Deer Park, a nature reserve where they would be safe from humans. They swore the Oath of Mutual Protection, where they promised not to eat, great or harm each other along the fashion. The journey was full of danger, and many animals lost their lives.

The second and third series followed the adventures after journeying'southward finish, as the animals settled into White Deer Park. Naturally of course the adventures did not end there, and many White Deer Park animals joined the cast at this point.

The series is sometimes better remembered as Farthing Wood Friends due to the popular tie-in magazine that came out during the run of the prove.

Unusually, the Series was produced in collaboration with the European Broadcast Wedlock (who are more than famous for the annual Eurovision Vocal Contest), and dubbed into a multitude of other languages.

There were also a PC game based on the series and a fix of audio tapes where a few of the main cast (Fox, Annoy, Toad, Owl and Weasel) told the story of their journey to Play tricks's young cubs while Vixen was out hunting. Neither of these are like shooting fish in a barrel to find whatsoever more than.

The complete serial was released on DVD in Europe in 2017.

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This show provides examples of:

• Achilles in His Tent: The fact that both Owl and Weasel left White Deer Park was specifically what gave the rats the courage to invade White Deer Park, mainly because they were the swiftest and most effective hunters of small mammals.
• Acrophobic Bird: Whistler is a downplayed example. He was once shot in the wing while he was flying. This left him, not exactly afraid to fly, just he'd nonetheless rather stay on the ground if he has a choice.
• Action Girl:
  • Vixen and Whisper tin fight.
  • In the books, Bold mentions that Whisper'due south lithe movements remind him of his mother, Vixen.
  • Also, Adder, in a sneaky sort of way. Every bit a venomous ophidian, she'south really among the deadliest fighters of the animals.
• Adaptational Wimp: The rats, while still a tad Not And so Harmless at times, are far more cartoonish villains in the blithe series, with a much smaller kill count (as in ane animate being). It is perhaps due to this that their defeat is generally restricted to slapstick, with Bang-up retreating in humiliation compared to his graphic expiry in the books.
• Adaptation Distillation: Series iii generally took more liberties with the source material, including sparing a few characters who died in the books, and skipping out one installment (The Siege of White Deer Park) altogether. At this point the censors were outset to get stricter over what they would permit children to encounter, then the especially violent content in The Siege of White Deer Park would have no longer been considered acceptable. Also explains the Lighter and Softer nature of the third series.
• Accommodation Dye-Chore: A curious case with the foxes of White Deer Park. They were ordinary red foxes in the book but made into blue foxes in the cartoon (presumably to distinguish them from the Farthing Wood foxes).
• Accommodation Personality Change:
  • Scarface's mate is by and large just a groundwork character and isn't necessarily evil only the drawing expands her office into a proper Femme Fatale. Also Friendly takes on Assuming'due south part as the sneak between Charmer and Ranger, making his name in the drawing rather ironic.
  • Poor, poor Weasel. It wasn't plenty that this originally male graphic symbol became gratuitously female for the cartoon adaptation. In the volume, Weasel was a loyal, dependable, heroic animal who did his part to assistance the residual of the group and was genuinely concerned about the welfare of others. In the cartoon, she'south an immature and obnoxious creature who laughs annoyingly when other animals are in danger, and anybody just wants to strangle her.
• Alcohol Hic: Weasel later on she gets hammered on wine.
• Animals Not to Scale: Weasel is far larger than a existent-life weasel. She'due south portrayed equally nearly the size of an otter, whilst real weasels are smaller than rats.
  • Besides Fox, at to the lowest degree in the scenes with the Mastiff in the first series. Mastiffs are a large brood of canis familiaris which should tower over a fox, but Flim-flam is shown every bit nearly the aforementioned size.
• Creature Stereotypes: For example:
  • Fox is cunning and wily.
  • Adder talksssss like a ophidian.
  • Toad, a water-loving creature, has a stereotypical onetime sailor accent.
• Animal Talk: All of the animals can communicate. Predators like foxes and snakes tin speak to prey animals like mice and voles, and domestic animals like dogs and cats take no consequence agreement the wild ones. Earlier the journey to the new home starts, the predators must take an adjuration to not consume the prey in the group.
• Animated Adaptation: Based on the books by Colin Dann. One book in the series, The Siege of White Deer Park, was omitted from the drawing (a few small scenes and plot points were retained with new context), due to its violence and the book'southward poor reception.
• Blitheness Bump:
  • Serial 1 equally far as move sees more often than not repeated loops similar Weasel's laugh, head turns, Rima oris Flapping and walk cycles to the left or right; enough of exceptions, of course, but definitely enough to detect.
  • Series ii sees a large increase in frame rate, strangely concentrated in scenes involving the Weasels.
  • Serial 3 really begins to diversify the movements of each character, faces are more expressive, lips sync more with the dialogue, and more dynamic shots occur. Though this leaves room for more than mistakes, which shows with the occasional stray marking or jiggling prison cell.
• Anthropomorphic Shift:
  • Subtle, merely compare Weasel's deportment and movements between Series ane and 2, and somewhen more of them in Series 3 where the animation turned a teeny bit sloppy.
  • Crow goes through this likewise, and much more than rapidly. Inside two episodes after meeting Bold, his gestures become very human being-like.
• Anyone Tin Die: Quite a lot of the principal cast were killed off as the series went on. Including at least one character that didn't die in the books, but weirdly two that did dice in the books survive in the Telly series.
• Artifact Title: After Series i the action took place in White Deer Park and involved many new characters who weren't from Farthing Wood. Past Series 3 most of the primary characters were animals who had never lived in Farthing Wood.
• Artistic License – Biological science: Adder'due south venom. In Real Life, European adders have rather weak venom. Here, it's powerful plenty to kill Scarface in well nether a minute.
• Ascended Actress: Scarface's mate was just a minor character in the volume merely is given a much more prominent role in the Telly series every bit well as getting a proper name (Lady Bluish).
• Asskicking Equals Authority: Fox. In Serial 1, he lures hunters away from Vixen and he defeats a canis familiaris by bluffing. In Series 2, he defeats the deer hunters twice by luring them to the swimming with thin ice and on the second fourth dimension, he lures them to get the warden's attending to auscultate them. Flim-flam also fights Scarface to save the rest of the animals. Fob was fabricated the leader of the Farthing Wood animals in the kickoff place considering he's the about cunning and one of the most physically capable of them.
• A Storm Is Coming: A hurricane strikes in Series 3. Among other things, it injures Trey, who gets trapped under a fallen tree and is unable to fight Laird, causing the latter to accept over the park.
• Balloon Belly:
  • Adder obtains one after she stuffs herself on the edible frogs. Toad is not amused by this at all.
  • Hare ends upwards being inflated by Measley when the latter holds Hare'south oral fissure for 100 seconds to cure his hiccups.
• Best Served Cold: Adder swears revenge on Scarface for biting her tail and about killing her. After she escapes from him, she lies low until exacting it by biting his talocrural joint underwater when he goes for a drink.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Badger is usually the nicest brute of the Farthing Wood group, but if you try to hurt or kidnap his friends, the results would go ugly. The Warden's cat learned this the hard way when he hurt Kestrel. Put into enthasis straight afterwards, where after swiping off the cat and checking on Kestrel, he wonders if he was too brutal.
• Large Bad: Scarface in the second serial, Bully in the tertiary.
• Large Friendly Canis familiaris: Rollo, a mastiff in the books and a Saint Bernard in the cartoon. While not very bright, he is well-pregnant, bringing food to Bold and Whisper and protecting the weasel family unit. He likewise rescues Shadow subsequently the hurricane.
• Big Good: The Warden of White Deer Park, who heals Badger and fights poachers. His center assail in Season 3 allows the rats to easily invade the park. The White Stag as well, who is attentive to the Farthing Wood animals' needs (and besides functions as narrator for Season 2). His death by poisoning in season 3 leads to a tyrant taking over.
  • Fox and Badger are this in general, with the quondam'due south wit and the later'south strength saving the group many a time. (Though they are not immune to poor judgement, such as Fox's treatment of Charmer's crush on Ranger.)
• Bittersweet Ending: At the end of Series 2, Assuming dies just exterior of the park when he returned dwelling house, but he gets to know, seconds before he dies, that his cubs will exist safe and that his male parent is proud of him. His decease also causes Play a joke on to reevaluate things and withdraw his objection to Ranger and Charmer'south relationship.
• Brother Chuck:
  • Kestrel was dropped between Series 2 and iii, without so much as a mention. (In fairness, the same thing happened around this point in the books.)
  • Friendly appeared in the 2nd episode of Series 3, only to exist completely absent-minded for the remainder of the series.
  • By Series iii, most of the unabridged blue fox association (except Ranger and occasional other background extras) seemed to have disappeared.
  • This was the fate pending a lot of the more minor characters who were not "officially" killed off. Fieldmouse simply disappeared midway through the 2d series, while Hare and Rabbit were both gone past Series 3, to be replaced by their descendants.
  • Hare, Rabbit, Kestrel and others are simply supposed to have died of quondam age as the serial (and books) advance. The lifespan of nearly wild animals is short. In the books, Fieldmouse was killed past Scarface.
• Bros Earlier Hoes: Bold choosing to stay with his Crow pal over moving in with his new vixen until the Crow lets him off.
• Bystander Syndrome: In Series three, the white deer herd practise not seem to practise anything about the rats, while the rats threaten them too. (The reason they do not help in the fighting is most probable because of Trey.) We just see them fight the rats in episode 36 (on accident when they just stampede over the rats while non noticing) and in episode 39 (for less than a minute!)
• Can't Concord Her Liquor: Weasel gets hammered afterwards lapping upwardly a few drops of wine.
• Captain Crash: Whistler. He even lands so badly, everyone takes cover when he's going to land - not that information technology helps. He almost always falls on top of someone. Fox even mentions: 'If you lot and Speedy ever have chicks... please let her teach them how to fly.'

  Plucky: Neat landing! You well-nigh missed me!

• Carnivore Defoliation: Averted by the Oath of Mutual Protection the animals accept and, fifty-fifty later on the need for information technology has gone, uphold out of the fact they've known each other far too long as allies. Although once they reach White Deer Park, the carnivorous animals accept the full right to eat not-Farthing Wood animals, which Adder in particular was happy to take reward of (fifty-fifty over Toad'due south protests when she started eating some of the frogs he had befriended).
• Cartoony Eyes: Whenever Measley and Weasel share a scene, information technology'south weird seeing the former with big, wide, white sclerae compared with the latter, whose eyes flip-bomb between realistic and Skintone Sclerae type.
• Cartoony Tail: The foxes have beautiful ruddy/blue tails, merely you don't see any grayness parts in it, which is common with real life foxes.
• Catchphrase:

  Mole: I'one thousand hungry!

  Toad: C'mon, mateys!

  Kestrel: Kee, kee!

  Weasel: Her annoying express joy, and "Measley twerp!" when she'southward talking to Measley.

  Mrs Rabbit: Don't panic! [At which point the rabbits unremarkably start panicking.]

  Mr Hedgehog: I'll 2d that!

  Mr Hare: Alibi me!

  Hurkel: I'grand kind.

  Not bad: Who am I?

  Rollo: I'm useless!

  Crow: Thank your lucky stars!

• Cats Are Mean: The Warden's Cat
  • Averted in the volume series, in which the true cat is helpful to the group, and strikes up an Odd Friendship with Badger in In the Grip of Wintertime.
  • The warden'south true cat had shades of grey...appropriately enough, since he'southward a grey-coloured kitty (though he was ginger in the volume).
  • Somewhat subverted with Tom, a cat in Series ane who is friendly to Fox when he requests "sanctuary", just who does nonetheless seem happy to later come across the dorsum of him.
• Clever Crows: Robber the crow. (Note he's only called "Crow" in the Idiot box adaptation.) Robber is a friend to and cares for Bold, ane of the many, many characters.
• Combat past Champion: Play a joke on vs. Scarface. This is also a fine case of This Is Something He'south Got to Do Himself.
• Conspicuously Light Patch: Averted by having sure objects painted on the animation cels and so that they were used without being conspicuous beforehand.
• Cunning Like a Fox: Take a wild guess.
• Beautiful, merely Cacophonic: Weasel is pocket-size and furry, similar a existent weasel. Her cuteness, however, is offset by her abiding laughing and tendency to yell (especially in the episode when she gets boozer). Most of the other animals observe her incredibly annoying, to the betoken that they frequently lash out confronting her (sometimes justifiably so, sometimes not).
• Dark Is Non Evil: Ranger, the son of the evil Scarface, genuinely loves Charmer and ends up existence a loving mate to her. Adder, too-she's snarky, and has a venomous seize with teeth, but uses it for good when she kills Scarface and fights the rats.
• Darker and Edgier: Subverted. Though the books The Siege of White Deer Park, In the Path of the Tempest and Battle for the Park are written as darker than the others, Serial 3 (which was adjusted from the mentioned books) was toned down considerably, and information technology and left out the Siege of White Deer Park storyline entirely.
• Deadpan Snarker: Owl (who thinks she's smarter than all the other animals), Adder (who really is smarter than the other animals), and Mr Hare. Badger has his moments too, unremarkably beingness a Cool Onetime Guy but occasionally snarking at the expense of the younger animals. As well Measley in the later series.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Badger dies of old age in the cartoon whereas in the books, he survived.
  • Too the hedgehogs, who are run over by a lorry in the cartoon. In the book, just some of the hedgehogs dice on the route. Others brand it safely to the Park.
• Death Is Dramatic: So, so true. Biggest examples are the deaths of Dreamer, Bold, Badger and the hedgehogs.
• Decease of a Child: Cubs and other babe animals are never condom. Poor field mice... and poor Dreamer.
• Designated Girl Fight: Vixen and Lady Blue boxing each other at the stop of Serial ii.
• Determinator: Most of the Farthing Wood animals accept had their faltering moments, except Play tricks. In every dangerous state of affairs in the series, he usually leaps in to rescue one of his friends besides as Vixen at the risk of his very life, even a duel to the death with Scarface.

  Trick: But I hope you one thing. I volition defend you lot to the last.

• Muddy Coward: The rabbits near drown Fox by overweighing him to cantankerous through a river.
• Does This Remind Yous of Anything?: Apart from his hatred of Scarface, Fox's attitude towards Ranger and his relationship with Charmer comes from the fact they're cherry foxes and Ranger is blueish.

  Charmer: What difference does our colour brand?

• The Domestic dog Bites Back: Literally. Scarface is rather quickly and unceremoniously killed - non by Flim-flam, simply by Adder as a quick revenge for bitter off part of her tail earlier.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Poor, poor Measley is driveling physically and emotionally past Weasel, almost ever for comic relief.
• Driven to Suicide: The Hedgehogs towards the stop of Series 1, the noise of the traffic was too much for them and they could not ride on the larger animal'southward back because of their quills. The Hedgehogs had no choice but to roll themselves upwards which led to them getting run over by a lorry. In the book, this only happens to SOME of the hedgehogs. Some survive and make it to the Park.
• Dogs Are Impaired: The farmer'south canis familiaris, whom Flim-flam is able to bluff into submission. Rollo, too, who is easily frightened, and who has trouble agreement that foxes usually sleep when he'due south agile.
• A Canis familiaris Named "Domestic dog": Fox, Badger, Weasel, Kestrel, Owl, Mole, Hare, Rabbit, Adder, Fieldmouse and more... Practically every member of the original group is named this way, sometimes with a Mr or Mrs tacked on.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Bold gets shot in the ass, literally. He needs to survive, but he gets weaker and weaker. Not to blame him: can yous hunt mice if one paw does not work properly any more, and never will once again? And thus, he has to rely on his friends.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Mole died offscreen from the cold weather and the original White Stag collapsed and died from drinking polluted water in the showtime episode of Series 3 so that he wouldn't be around to exercise anything about the rat invasion.
• Dub Name Modify: The Swedish dub kept well-nigh of the animal-based names, merely changed Scarface's name to Enöga (One-Eye).
• Impaired Muscle: Mid-way through Serial 3, nosotros see a larger rat that Bully really likes due to his immense strength and has large plans for him. Unfortunately for Great, the rat is stupid enough to swallow all the toxicant dropped by the Warden.
• The Dying Walk: Bold knows he's dying, and then he sends Whisper away on an errand to become some nutrient, so walks off and so she won't find his dead body.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite the fact that Scarface is the antagonist of Series 2, he's still loved by his son Ranger and his mate Lady Blue - and Ranger is one of the heroes of the serial!
• Everything Trying to Kill You: The animals endure many hazards during their journey from drought, crossing roads, fire, angry farmers, crossing a river, the butcher bird, hunters and more than humans. Even White Deer Park is not condom in Serial 2 and 3. They also suffer a harsh winter, deer hunters, Scarface, a horde of rats, a poisoned stream and a hurricane. For Bold, zero is safe outside White Deer Park.
• Evil Poacher: A Flavor 2 subplot involves poachers killing the white deer that give the park its proper name. The Farthing Forest creatures must find a way to alert the game warden to the poachers' doings.
• Farthermost Mêlée Revenge: Smashing'southward death was played straight in the books. During the final battle confronting the rats, Vixen avenged Toad's expiry past killing him and throwing his trunk over the park'southward fence.
• Eye Scream: Bold is injured in one eye when he frees Shadow from a gamekeeper'southward trap by biting through the wires which then strike him in the face. He is left with a permanent scar beyond his eyelid later.
• Face Death with Dignity: Assuming, who crawls away nether a bush so his mate won't have to meet him die.
• The Faceless: Surpringly averted. In the common low-quality version of Farthing Wood that has spread throughout the internet (including YouTube and a torrent), many people idea that humans didn't have faces. Even so, the DVDs, which are much higher quality, clearly show faces - the people in the town in Series 1, the poachers in Series two and the Warden of White Deer Park.
• Famed in Story: The Farthing Wood animals. By the time they arrive at White Deer Park, the Great White Stag already knows who they are, and Assuming subsequently went to a lot of try to escape his father's rather large shadow.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: PLENTY, a crowning instance fifty-fifty. For a bear witness during primetime viewing for children, there's a lot of animals being shot, impaled, crushed, run over, mauled, necksnapped, defenseless in traps, and several other unpleasantly realistic moments. However, some of the deaths ARE given Gory Discretion Shots, such as not seeing the pheasants become shot or the hedgehogs being run over (though if you pause at only the right moment in the latter death scene, you can brand out some blood spray; the only other thing it could be is the motion-blur of the lorry itself, which is also red). Regardless, the show leaves VERY niggling to the imagination.
• Fast Tunnelling: Of all the animals, Mole is the best tunneller. This ability saves the animals from the farmer who locked them in the shed.
• Fantastic Racism: The blue foxes towards the ruby foxes and, fifty-fifty more blatantly, Fob's own reaction upon learning of Charmer and Ranger's relationship, which even Vixen notes:

  Vixen: Y'all sound but like Scarface.

• Fan Sequel: Fan sequels based on Farthing Wood can exist constitute on several websites. Common themes include giving the protagonists children who and so live out adventures similar to those their parents went on, or introducing original characters into the group.
• Fear Is the Advisable Response: Even though he's the bravest of all the animals, and without a doubt the heroic leader, Fox has fled in absolute terror from only two things - fire and fox hunters. Thankfully he fights BOTH fears quite quickly for the sake of his friends. He runs directly towards the marshfire to relieve Toad from burning alive, besides as fifty-fifty drawing the attending of the fox hunters to himself, risking his very life against dozens of merciless hounds, just to save Vixen.
• Feathered Fiend: The Shrike, who kills the baby mice for nutrient by impaling them on thorns.
• Feuding Families: The red foxes and blue foxes, complete with forbidden romance between the son of one family unit and the daughter of the other. The feud existed in the books too, though the blue foxes were a family of red foxes there; they were changed for the cartoon so that audiences could tell them apart.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Basically the whole premise of the series. For more than personal examples:
  • Fox and Badger, his right mitt man.
  • Annoy and Mole.
  • Fob and Vixen, later Fox risked his life to save her from the hunt, earning her love
  • Vixen and Adder; Adder is the one who saved Vixen from the hunt, and Vixen is clearly ane of the animals Adder gets on all-time with, even down to Snark-to-Snark Gainsay.
  • Adder and Owl
• Frothy Mugs of H2o: Surprisingly averted.
  • In Serial 1 when Badger and Weasel are hiding in a cellar, Weasel gets heavily drunk on wine, even suffering a hangover after sleeping it off.
  • In the book, the animals encounter a leaking keg of beer, and all partake.
• Furries Are Easier to Draw: Humans announced just a few times in the serial, and when they exercise, you lot mostly merely see their legs.
• Generation Xerox: A lot of the animals' young often accept the aforementioned voices as their parents.
  • Mossy tries to fight against information technology, just after comforting Badger during his last moments of life, he ends up riding on the backs of badgers as well.
  • The White Stag's successor after the brutish unreasonable Trey is Laird, a kinder sensible leader who just happens to exist White Stag's grandson.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Scarface, the Large Bad of Season 2, has a big scar across his face. Bold, who is flawed merely far from evil, too gets one across his face from a steel trap.
• Gender Flip: All the main animals were male in the original books, Adder, Owl, Weasel and Kestrel were made female for the series. This means Adder'southward mate Sinuous and Owl's mate Holly were originally female person equally well, and Holly was renamed Hollow for Television. Interestingly, though Kestrel is female in the prove, she sports the more than colourful plume of a male Kestrel.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: In Series two, Fox orders the assassination of Scarface by Adder, and allow the weasels give the message to Adder. You should never leave such things to weasels, meaning Adder kills the wrong fox due to a misunderstanding, and everything is likely to escalate! In the books, Bold and Friendly fabricated this horrible mistake instead of Weasel.
• Happy Ending Override: The animals went to the park to be prophylactic, and at the end of Serial i, they achieve it... to find out that trouble never ends every bit shown in Serial ii and three.
• Harmless Villain: The rats. Seriously, when you're evil and take hundreds, thousands fifty-fifty at your command, and you lot only succeed in killing one single Farthing Wood beast, while they're sleeping no less, yous must actually suck as a villain.
  • Averted in the books, the rats were less cartoony and much more sinister in Boxing for the Park. They killed Sinuous the adder, the Farthing Wood Toad and Mossy the mole. The cartoon writers had to tone down the deaths by sparing Toad and Mossy in Series 3 because they felt that the kids would exist traumatised over killing off the jolly Toad and the cute mole. The subtract in malice is a probable reason Bully was felt to deserve a deathless, more cartoony defeat in the evidence.
• Have a Gay Quondam Fourth dimension: At one betoken, the Warden makes this remark seeing the animals acting strangely.

  Warden: Well, I'll exist blown!

• Heel–Face Plough: Spike, in Series 3. Originally The Mole (but non A mole), until he decides that he prefers Toad's friendship to Slap-up's intimidation.
• Henpecked Married man: Poor Measley is nagged and sometimes physically abused by Weasel. She even encourages their kids to follow her atomic number 82! Eventually he has enough, and in "The Worst Kind of Hurricane" demands she return the family unit to the park.
• The Hero Dies: Badger, Bold and Sinuous. Although Badger but dies in the TV series.
• Hero Killer: The blueish foxes in Serial ii are responsible for the deaths of Dreamer, Mrs. Hare and Mrs. Rabbit. The rats in Serial 3, who kill Sinuous.
• Heroes Want Redheads: A peculiar animal kingdom example with Ranger. He opts for Charmer (a ruby-red fox) instead of a female blue play a joke on.
• Heroic Dog: Averted. Rollo is just impaired, and when he tries to be heroic, he gets scared inside 2 seconds.

  Rollo: Don't kill me! I'm just trying to exist a guard canis familiaris! But I'm useless! Useless!!!

  • He fights alongside the animals against the rats in Series iii, if that counts.
• Hopeless State of war: Many animals lose promise fighting the rats in Series iii.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • Scarface. Subsequently Trick defeats Scarface in single combat, he loses the respect of the other blueish foxes, excluding Lady Blueish and Ranger.
  • Dandy didn't die in the animated series, but later on the Farthing Forest animals fighting side-by-side with the White Deer kicked his butt, he wants to continue the fight. However, the infant weasel Cleo bit his tail off, so he loses the respect of the other rats and has to retreat from White Deer Park.
• Humanity Is Superior: While the humans aren't e'er combative, when they are a threat to the animals, they are shown to be immensly more powerful thanks to their technology. Exterior of very specific circumstances, the animals don't even stand up a chance of defeating them and rarely fifty-fifty try.
• Humans Are Bastards: Zigzagged. On the one mitt, humans are recurring antagonists and are responsible for several deaths. On the other hand, there are humans who are good towards the animals, such as the Warden and the Firefighters. The chicken farmer who opted to go out Assuming exist when he noticed he was bedridden was, past the standards of the show, also pretty merciful. Fox notes how humans tin be both bastards AND kind-hearted when he tells how fox hunters go home to expect after their horses and dogs subsequently a twenty-four hours out trying to murder his kind. In general, humans don't seem to become out of their style to act like cartoonishly evil beast killers, behaving similar normal hunters would practice.
• Humans Are Cthulhu: The animals fear people. Part of this is because of their un-animalike customs. For example, the animals are incredibly confused when they stumble upon a nuptials, and in another, Owl ends up in a human house; in both cases, anarchy ensues when an escape is attempted. Another major reason is the frequent cruelty they field of study the animals to, such every bit the fob hunters trying to kill Vixen, the poachers who target the white deer, and the farmer who kills the pheasants and abuses his dog for no existent reason.
• Horror Hunger: Because at least half are carnivores, this hangs over the heads of the group and gets mentioned about in one case an episode. Held at bay by the Oath of Mutual Protection. at least until Kestrel accidentally kills Mrs Fieldmouse.
• I Am What I Am: Bold tries to get away from his 'proud heroic male parent', every bit he doesn't like being the large badass' son and wants to be his own play a trick on. When he runs away from home, he however uses the ideals he learned back dwelling house, such as caring for each other and making arrangements with other animals. Other animals in the wild don't understand this nonsense.

  Bold: Yes, with a crow. We accept an arrangement.
  Whisper: I've never heard a sillier thing my whole life!

• If You Kill Him, You Volition Be Just Like Him!: This is why Fox didn't finish off Scarface.

  Vixen: He just doesn't accept the killer instinct.

• I Just Want to Exist Normal: Near the stop of Serial 1, many of the animals long to go back their normal lives and forget almost the Oath, but they realise that all of them changed and so much in each other'south visitor that they will never exist the aforementioned again, and decide to keep the Adjuration amongst themselves and their descendants.
  • In the beginning of Series 2, they even run to Fox when trouble starts, even though they thought that the Oath had stopped.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The rats. Bully, their leader, suffers from a fright of weasels and ultimately suffers a humiliating defeat by Weasel'southward young daughter, who bites his tail off an makes him cry. One rat is and then dumb, he eats an entire serving of rat poison and dies.
• Insistent Terminology: Spike likes to refer to himself as "a long-tailed personage" instead of a "rat".
• Instant Decease Bullet: Every bullet that hit an creature leads to their death. Although non always immediately.
  • Assuming as well dies from his bullet wound in the long-term rather than in the curt-term.
• Insufferable Genius: Owl can fall into this category at times, particularly in the get-go serial. She constantly uses phrases or quotes famous philosophers but her 'wisdom' is nearly ever unwanted or inappropriate for the state of affairs, often resulting in the other animals telling her to only close up.
• It'south All Nigh Me: Pheasant grieves over the death of his mate for roughly two seconds before immediately despairing over how he'll be able to live without her constant servitude to him.
• Jerkass: Trey, the new purple stag from Serial 3; although later in the end, he toned down his attitude after he was saved from a fallen tree by the other animals.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Adder is vicious, callous and unsympathetic, yet her afterwards actions show that deep down she really is skillful-hearted. Over time her negative qualities subside a chip and she becomes more than outwardly sentimental.
• Karmic Death: Towards the end of Series 2, Scarface is killed past Adder (who had unfinished business concern with him) after he was spared by Fob in the last boxing.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: The Warden, as well as being a force of good for the wild animals, also looks later his pet cat.
• Large Ham: Loads. Owl, Weasel, Rabbit, to name a few. Though the largest ham of all has got to exist Keen, to the point that it's rather bizarre.
• Leitmotif
• Love Martyr: Measley, the male weasel, would do anything to go Weasel to love him back even if it means getting themselves into trouble.
• Maternally Challenged: Weasel does not make a good mother to her kids in Series 3. Whenever her playful kids become into trouble, she always put her blame on Measley.
• Meaningful Proper name: All of the grapheme accept meaningful names.
  • Fob, Adder, Badger and all the original animals who journeyed from Farthing Wood, that have been named after their own species is of class meaningful.
  • Other characters have names related to their personality: Assuming was a bold person, Friendly was (usually) friendly, Whisper got her name from the fact that she could hunt very quietly, Whistler makes a whistling noise when he flies, and then forth.
  • An case omitted from the cartoon was a mole named Mirthful; formerly known as Mateless, she becomes Mole'due south mate and is renamed past Annoy in honour of her cheerful laugh.
• Mickey Mousing: By the bucket-loads. EVERY character had their ain walking theme. Weasel'due south was a cheerily annoying flute, Adder's was a depression xylophone, the rodents were a loftier xylophone, Toad'due south was some sort of bass brass, Mole was tinkly and like a triangle, and Whistler was of course whistling
• A Million Is a Statistic: No one cares about the hundreds, if not thousands of expressionless rats, right?
• Misplaced Wildlife: The Wild Boar, which no longer lived in Great Britain at the time of product (only has since made a reappeareance).
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Annoy in the kickoff episode, "Friends, Adder and fellow woodlanders".
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Pheasant's feelings in general when his wife is shot and roasted for dinner past the farmer, because she took up the scout duty he lazily neglected.
  • Kestrel at the beginning of Serial 2, when she kills a fieldmouse that turns out to have been ane of her own travelling party. And a picayune afterwards on, when she injures the Warden's Cat as a result of a complete misunderstanding.
  • In Series two, Owl, when she mistakenly believes that some information she'd withheld about the poachers has led to Fox's death (information technology was actually a blue fox that she and the poachers who killed it mistook for Fox in the nighttime).
• No Fourth Wall:
  • Adder occasionally makes comments to the audience as something of a very modest Greek Chorus.
  • There's also Flim-flam and Measley who both wink at the audience when they run across their mates-to-be, Vixen and Weasel, respectively.

  Play a joke on: Things are looking upwards...

  • While Play tricks and Vixen are being chased by the chase:

  Mrs Rabbit: Don't panic!
  Toad: [to the audition] If merely the rabbits hadn't panicked, so none of this would've happened.

• No 1 Gets Left Behind: In Series iii, the animals of Farthing Woods are adamant to get the kidnapped animals back. They find out that they have been brought to another park, which is surrounded by a large wall.
• Now You Tell Me: Weasel tells Fox what Scarface is up to... subsequently Scarface had killed Dreamer. She did try to warn them beforehand, but nobody believed her considering.... she'south Weasel.
• The Owl-Knowing 1: Owl, a fleck of an egoist, thinks of herself equally beingness very intelligent, and has a habit of spouting adages when appropriate. She likewise takes accurate inventory of the destroyed habitat in the outset episode. However, she's non immune to misjudgments, and her pompous nature makes it difficult for her to accept this.
• Passing the Torch: Fox makes Plucky the new leader in the finale.
• Laissez passer the Popcorn: In episode 8 of Series 1, the Farthing Wood animals watch as Trick and Vixen try to escape a hunting party. Adder remarks how exciting it is and Weasel wants to place bets.
• Peaceful in Expiry: Bold dies seconds after making up with his father, and with the knowledge that his cubs will presently be born.
• Pet the Dog:
  • To some extent, Adder.
  • Afterwards spending 36 episodes beingness a twerp and abusing her mate, Weasel expresses capability of compassion and consideration when Big Snorter's wife dies.
• Phrase Catcher: "Shut upwards, Weasel!"
• Plot Tailored to the Party: A couple of examples.
  • Series 1: The birds fly above the group to scout out ahead.
  • Series 2: Adder has to apply her venom to impale Scarface.
  • Series 3: Dash uses her speed to deliver messages when needed.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Series 2 had and then many casualties that the victory is merely that. Right subsequently news of Scarface's death breaks, Mr. Hare and Mr. Rabbit cry over the wives they lost to him, and Owl remarks that Fox too lost a daughter.
• Put on a Bus: The newts, who deliberately split from the rest of the group in the 3rd episode of Series 1. A subsequent Autobus Crash is heavily implied but never confirmed. In the book, they were lizards, not newts, and it is almost certain they were killed in a fire.
• Previously on…: Every episode opens with a recap of the previous ane, correct afterward the theme melody. Notably, the narrator changes each season: in Season I, Badger narrates it; in Season two, it's the Keen Stag'due south turn; and in Season 3, Vixen gets the accolade.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Bully'due south Catchphrase Who! Am! I!!!
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Bully appears to take the same idiots around him almost all of the time. Bully let himself even be done past them in the pond.
• Rain, Rain, Become Abroad: On ii occasions, the animals were forced to seek shelter from heavy rain even though some of them (lookin' at you, Toad) were delighted by it - once in a barn, and one time in a church building. Both occasions ended desperately, although the church less and then.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted eventually by Adder, although information technology takes a lot of character evolution to reach that point. Most of it is during the third series when she is with Sinuous, although it begins in Series 1. At that place is even more progression after he dies.
• Resigned to the Call: When Badger nominates Play a joke on to pb anybody, he responds with a reluctant "Cheers a parcel, Badger."
• Resistance Is Futile: It is said several times in Series 3 that fighting the rats would be futile because there were so many of them. The animals actually overestimated them, as the rats themselves were Harmless Villains.
• Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: Series 3 is a adept example of this trope as it is considered more childish when compared to its two predecessors (although information technology does notwithstanding characteristic a few deaths, such as Sinuous.
• The Runaway: Bold, who leaves the park at a young age following a fight with his father Fox. At the end of Series 2, He'south Back!... and a couple of minutes later, he dies.
• Same Linguistic communication Dub: Partial. The first series was cut down into a 78-infinitesimal film called Journey Dwelling house: The Animals of Farthing Forest for American release. Some characters kept their voices, but others - in particular Fox - were redubbed with American accents.
• Sarcasm Mode: Play tricks's original English dub past Rupert Farley sounds like he talks in perpetual Sarcasm Way, peculiarly in the early episodes.
• Sssssnaketalk: Adder and Sinuous.
• Snow Means Decease: Mole dies in the harsh wintertime at the beginning of Serial 2. If the others didn't work together to provide food for each other, the death price would take been much higher.
• Sociopathic Hero: Adder.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Toad, Mossy, Fasten and surprisingly Bully.
• Species Surname: Most of the original animals' names were simply their species; e.g., "Play tricks", "Badger" or "Weasel". Their descendants had original names, however. Naturally there were headaches caused when Colin Dann, the author of the serial, wrote a prequel; the eventual explanation was that, as in that location were more animals about in the generation before that of the original book, they all had a Species Surname plus some sort of adjective, such as Lean Pull a fast one on and Stout Fox.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Charmer and Ranger, whose fathers are enemies.
• Story Arc: Many.
  • Flavor 1 has the animals journeying to White Deer Park.
  • Flavor ii is mainly about the feud betwixt the red and blue foxes. Other arcs within it include Scarface trying to become Weasel to spy for him, Bold'due south life later on running away from the park, and the romance between Charmer and Ranger.
  • Season three involves an ground forces of rats invading the park. In that location'southward likewise an arc where Owl leaves the park, and an arc where the weasel family unit also leaves and is guarded by Rollo.
• Stylistic Suck: Weasel'southward attempt at a song, "I savor being a weasel! There is nothing like a weasel!" repeated over and over in her raucous, tone-deaf voice.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Keen certainly is. A Dutch saying says it all: "In the state of the blind, the i-eyed man is male monarch."
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Hurkel of Series 3, who was essentially in that location to fill up the gap left by Badger, although he was notably younger than Badger.
• Supervillain Lair: Bully and his horde take refuge in a rat-shaped rock.
• Team Dad: Badger, as the oldest creature, to the extent that he dies of sometime age in the second season.
• Team Mom: Vixen, at times, will be a voice of reason and compassion to Fox, such as when she urges him not to gauge Ranger just because he's Scarface's son.
• Temporary Deafness: Owl becomes deaf later sitting near a church bong.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The vixens (Vixen, Whisper, Charmer, Dreamer) have 'hair' that resemble man headdresses. Sinuous is the rare male version, with markings on his confront that expect like a moustache.
• The Hyena: Weasel.
• The Load:
  • Mole, who spends several episodes in Serial ane getting lost from his greediness for worms, is almost captured by humans and gets into enough trouble that Badger or some other fauna has to rescue him. And, of course, Adder, truthful to her nature, lampshades this in the second episode!

  Adder: Allow'southward do ourselves a favour and give him the skid. Mole's slow, stupid and tasteless!

This trope is oft averted due to Mole's usefulness to the group subsequently on; he grants them safe passage and access to areas they wouldn't have otherwise. If they had followed Adder's advice, they would probable have perished to an angry shotgun-wielding farmer.

• Toad to a certain extent; though to be off-white, he is small, needs water to continue himself fresh and has homing instincts from waking up in jump.

• The Pollyanna: Again, Toad.

  Toad: Non far now, mateys!
  Mrs Vole: [standing in a puddle] Is this the sea?
  Toad: Form not, hee hee! Merely a lovely bit o' rain, eh! Hohohoho!
  Mr Shrew: Does he accept to exist so cheerful?

• Throw the Dog a Bone: The cowardly Measley when he rescued Mossy from his beginning encounter with Not bad and the other rats.
• Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Annoy and Mole/Mossy, played rather sweetly when Mossy pretends to exist his father when Badger is dying.
• Token Evil Teammate: Adder, ranging from her being the one near willing to taunt the smaller animals that she'll eat them to existence the one most willing to impale potential threats like Scarface, although she has a shut friendship with Owl in detail.
• Too Dumb to Live: The rats are largely this. The strongest rat is dumb plenty to eat a full serving of rat poisonous substance, with predictable results.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Adder, most definitely. Early, she would make cruel comments towards the other animals, similar when she said Mole shouldn't come on the journey because he's slow and stupid. She goes on to do such heroic deeds as killing Scarface, and gets a mate whom she adores. When said mate is murdered past a rat, she has a rare moment of vulnerability, then vows to destroy equally many rats every bit she can in his award.
• Tsundere: Adder. After saving Vixen, and being called a heroine by the other animals:

  Adder: I'll never live thissssss downward!

• Turn Out Similar His Father: No matter how much Bold tries to distance himself from Flim-flam'south legacy, he eventually comes to have that he shares a lot of traits with him. In fact, Bold and Fox occasionally share each others lines!
• Undying Loyalty: At the end of Series iii, Bully loses all the respect of all his pack, except his Dragon, who comforts him and advises they to return to the city.
• Unholy Matrimony: Scarface and Lady Blue.
• Unusual Creature Alliance: (The page image.) A large grouping of all sorts of different animals make a pact, the Oath of Mutual Protection, in which they promise non to hurt each each other and take care of each other when needed. The trope is Lampshaded by Adder, who wonders how the predators are supposed to survive if they tin't eat their prey.

  Badger: Remember the Adjuration! We must stand together and fight!

• Violence Is the Merely Option: In Series ii, Fob doesn't want to fight Scarface... merely he somewhen has to. He shows mercy by not killing him.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: There's Fox and Vixen's young daughter, Dreamer, who lives for two episodes (and has simply one line) before her brutal death at Scarface'south paws. Then there's also the baby field mice, impaled by the butcher bird very before long later on their birth. And these are just two of the most memorable examples.
• "Well Done, Son!" Guy: Bold. When he finally does go his father's genuine love and respect... information technology's as well late.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Bold. He causes trouble, puts his father and brother's life in danger, runs abroad after a well-deserved punishment and is determined to non return home, not even for the sake of his cubs. Fortunately, he finally reconsiders, but he essentially still keeps his vow to never step inside White Deer Park always once again.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Rats, with the eventual exception of Spike, are the villains of Series 3 (as well as the de facto option of prey for the Farthing Woods predators in Serial 1 and 2). The Shrike (or Butcher Bird) of Series 1 is depicted every bit a fibroid and unpleasant character, in contrast with the nobler likes of similarly predatory birds Owl, Kestrel and Whistler (mayhap due to his particular method of storing his prey - past impaling the carcasses on thorn bushes). Besides, weasels here are comical and lovable, but to get rid of the slightly bigger stoat would, according to Play a joke on, "exist doing the park a favour."
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Hurkel after he's convinced by the Farthing Animals to assists in the raids confronting the Rats.

  Ranger: Those badgers killed 50 each! Hurkel, was he quite unkind to those rats or wasn't he? Ha ha!

• Woodland Creatures: Duh! Simply await at the championship! We have the usual ones like foxes, rabbits, and badgers, just likewise species less common in fiction, like voles and kestrels too.
• Earth of Snark: Apart from Play a joke on speaking in a sarcastic drawl and Adder and Owl'due south lines, pretty much everyone else gets a few chances at a snarky line or deadpan facial expression.
• World's Smallest Violin: While it's not a tiny violin, Hare does pick upwards a stick and mock-play sad violin music when Mr. Pheasant starts to get a bit theatrical about "when one has faced death every bit ofttimes as me" before leaving dorsum to the farm to help Adder observe her way to the others. True enough, Mr. Pheasant merely lost his wife to the farmer's gun, but the general opinion of his established character is that he'southward all too concerned in himself.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lady Blue, afterwards she gets wounded. Information technology was her own fault. She shouldn't accept tried to kill the cubs of Play a trick on and Vixen. Bold as well pulls one on Ranger later on Scarface takes him prisoner and leaves Ranger to guard him.
• Xenofiction: The animals can talk, and accept concepts of things such equally loyalty, just the anthropomorphism stops there for the most part. They hunt, avert being hunted, and live in fright of humans (given that many animals end up shot, though, information technology'southward hard to blame them). The infamously loftier death rate of the books and bear witness is accurate to nature; when you accept to deal with predation, the weather, starvation and so on, odds are seldom in your favor.
• Xenophobic Plant eater: The herbivores are often portrayed as untrusting, particularly towards the carnivores. While information technology is understandable for them to exist wary around those who would eat them in normal circumstances, information technology come off as petty when the carnivores are largely the ones belongings the grouping together.
• You Can't Become Home Again: During Season 3, Owl finds herself in Farthing Huts when she leaves White Deer Park, recognising it equally the one-time site of Farthing Wood when she perches on the Great Beech, a distinctive tree from her old domicile, simply has to accept that the whole expanse has inverse likewise much for her to truly consider it 'habitation' any more.
• You Dirty Rat!: Rats are the antagonists of Season 3. A rat kills Sinuous in a particularly gruesome way, and Bully gives a terrifying speech to his followers in one of the final episodes. The rat infestation gets and so bad that many of the animals outset to surrender hope.

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