Silverwing (novel)/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Scirocco. Does he genuinely believe that banded bats will turn into humans or is he a Well-Intentioned Extremist trying to protect bats shunned because of their bands with soothing lies? Or he is tricking other bats with his sound tricks for his own ends?
  • Then there is Cama Zotz. Is he an evil, ambitious god or is he Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to reunite the living and the dead, and punish those who have wronged his subjects (bats)? Judging by the end of Firewing, it is a combination of both.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: In Firewing, this conversation between between Shade and his son, Griffin, just before Griffin returns to the World of the Living, making these the (almost) last words they speak to each other. Qualifies as a Tear Jerker and So Proud of You as well.

Griffin: But I wasn't brave! I'm not like you. I'm a coward.
Shade: No.
Griffin: I was always scared. Always.
Shade: That's right. Being scared but doing it anyway. That's brave.

• Draco in Leather Pants: Goth sometimes gets this treatment.
• Magnificent Bastard: Goth is occasionally seen as this, due to his manipulative tendencies and inability to stay dead.
  • Cama Zotz as well.
• Nightmare Fuel: Project X-Ray in Sunwing, responsible for the Humans Are Cthulhu trope. Also Truth in Television; see The Other Wiki.
  • Not to mention the implication that Goth ate all of the bats in the snowy cabin and wore all of their bands as a sort of hunting trophy in Silverwing.
  • Goth and the cannibal bats in general are Nightmare Fuel.
  • One could point out countless examples in Firewing, but in the end, the whole book is pretty much this. It is Hell after all.
  • Cama Zotz himself is pretty frightening, both before and after we meet him in person.
• Tear Jerker: Try reading the end of Firewing without crying. Just try.
  • Arguably a villainous one in Firewing. Goth trying to pull himself out of the mud so that he can meet his fate with dignity has been known to induce Alas, Poor Villain.
• What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: The book might be marketed to middle schoolers, but the series has scenes of cannibalism, ritual sacrifices, and suicide bombers