History Characters / TrixieBelden

* HeroesWantRedheads

* SweaterGirl

* LonelyRichKid and IllGirl: Before she met Trixie, anyway.

* DynamicCharacter: In spite of rarely being featured.

* NotSoDifferent: He attempts to draw this comparison between himself and Dan during the latter's introduction, but neither Trixie nor Dan buy it.

His one-time excuse as to why he couldn't hang out [[LameExcuse ("I'll be chopping wood.")]] has become a MemeticMutation with the fandom.

%%* PurpleEyes:

* SpoiledSweet

* SympathyForTheDevil: While all of the Bob-Whites disapprove of Dan's initially sullen attitude and black leather jacket, Jim refrains from judging him, because he suspects that [[JerkassFacade Dan is actually lonely]].

* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Over the course of #8. Though JerkassFacade was in partial effect as well.

%%%** GreenEyes

* {{Dojikko}}: She can be very clumsy.

* {{Born in the Saddle}}: All of them become very skilled horseback riders.
* {{Chronic Hero Syndrome}}: They can't take a vacation without stopping to help others in need.

* {{Friend to All Children}}: All of them, even Dan.
* {{Good Feels Good}}
* {{Honor Before Reason}}: Could very well be their club motto.
* [[KidHero Kid Heroes]]
* [[KidDetective Kid Detectives]]: Trixie and Honey, but all of them have their turn.
* {{Mystery Magnet}}: All of them, but especially Trixie.

* {{Pink Girl Blue Boy}}: Despite all of Trixie's [[{{Tomboy}} tomboyishness]], this was enforced with gender-divided labor.
* {{Red Oni Blue Oni}}: Trixie is red and Honey is blue, Jim is red and Brian is blue, Mart is red and Dan is blue. Diana's personality doesn't quite fit either one.
* {{Smoking Is Cool}}: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. All of them detest smoking, [[RuleofThree even Dan]].
* {{True Companions}}: A supposed "club motto" but seems to be more like "[[DependingontheWriter whenever the current author feels like it]]."

* {{Amateur Sleuth}}
* {{Bratty Half Pint}}: She means well, most of the time, but there are occasions when she acts like a typical spoiled teenager.
* {{Daddys Girl}}: Has him wrapped around her finger.
* {{Distressed Damsel}}: To the chagrin of her fans, she is often reduced to this.

* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: She hates "Beatrix" with a passion.

* {{Fearless Fool}}: At times, [[TooDumbToLive particularly when she runs off to meet three gangsters without telling anyone]].
* {{Green Eyed Monster}}: Has her moments. She doesn't really appreciate when her friends start paying more attention to other people, especially not Jim.
* {{Hair of Gold Heart Of Gold}}: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: To make Trixie a tomboy, she was written to have "sandy" hair, and she cares little to style it.
* {{Hot Blooded}}: She's very impulsive and hot-tempered.
* {{I Am Not Pretty}}: Often compares herself to her two beautiful friends and thinks this. However, this mostly a writing technique to show Trixie's modesty and lack of ego, and presumably, so readers could identify with her. She was less glamorously beautiful than naturally appealing and energetic.
* {{Its All About Me}}: While Trixie is very materialistically generous, she has a bad habit of commandeering Bob-White road trips to turn it into a crusade for her own purposes.
* {{Mouthy Kid}}: Especially in the Julie Campbell books.
* {{Plucky Girl}}
* {{Quirky Curls}}: her hair is said to make her look like a Coney Island chorus girl.
* {{She Cleans Up Nicely}}:
* {{Snooping Little Kid}}
* {{Sweater Girl}}

* {{Youthful Freckles}}

* {{Amateur Sleuth}}
* {{Beware the Nice Ones}}: Every once in a while, she can be quite vindictive.
* {{Big Brother Worship}}: Jim can do no wrong in her eyes.
* {{Buffy Speak}}: Her "Honey-speak."
* [[TomboyandGirlyGirl Girly Girl]]: To Trixie's {{Tomboy}}.
* {{I Just Want To Have Friends}}
* {{The Ingenue}}
* {{Lonely Rich Kid}} and {{Ill Girl}}: Before she met Trixie, anyway.
* {{Mysterious Middle Initial}}: Her actual middle name is never provided. {{Fanon}} has it as "Grace".
* {{Parental Neglect}}: Her parents barely spend any time with her and Jim.
* {{The Pollyanna}}
* {{Spoiled Sweet}}

* {{Broken Ace}}: He's an excellent student and athlete, he's honorable, generous, and kind-hearted, but he was subject to disturbing physical abuse by his stepfather.

* {{Dumb Muscle}}: Averted, despite being talented at boxing, Jim is very academically intelligent.
* {{Fiery Redhead}}
** {{Green Eyes}}
*** [[SeriesContinuityError Though they once became blue]]. In a separate book than Honey's, noticeably.
* {{Happily Adopted}}: To the point of {{Angst What Angst}}
* {{Heroes Want Redheads}}
* {{Not So Different}}: He attempts to draw this comparison between himself and Dan during the latter's introduction, but neither Trixie nor Dan buy it.
* {{Mommas Boy}}: After his father died, Jim cared for his ill mother, whom he deeply loved.
* {{Orphans Ordeal}}: Jim's stepfather used to beat Jim after his mother died.
** This also ties in with his {{Heart Warming Orphan}} status.
* {{Parental Abandonment}}: His birth parents are dead.
* {{Sympathy for the Devil}}: While all of the Bob-Whites disapprove of Dan's initially sullen attitude and black leather jacket, Jim refrains from judging him, because he suspects that [[JerkassFacade Dan is actually lonely]].
* {{What the Hell Hero}}: He's not afraid to call out Trixie during her overtly judgmental or foolish moments.

* {{Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other}}: Has several of these moments with Trixie.
* {{Big Eater}}
* {{Clear Their Name}}: #30, ''The Mystery of the Midnight Marauder''.

* {{Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness}}
* {{Sibling Rivalry}}: With Trixie.
* {{Sarcastic Devotee}}: To Trixie and her mysteries.
* {{Straight Man and Wise Guy}}: Wise Guy to Brian's Straight Man.
* {{Quirky Curls}}: Keeps his hair short to avoid them.
* {{Youthful Freckles}}

* {{The Alleged Car}}: His various "rattletrap cars", which he is constantly repairing.
* {{Alliterative Name}}
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}: To the entire club.
* {{Big Brother Mentor}}: To the entire club.
* {{Brown Eyes}}
** {{Curtains Match the Window}}: He's a brown-eyed brunette.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Has the most moments.
* {{The Dutiful Son}}
* {{Foolish Sibling Responsible Sibling}}: Responsible to Trixie and/or Mart's foolish.
* {{The Medic}}
* {{Only Sane Man}}: At times.
* {{Straight Man and Wise Guy}}: The Straight Man to Mart's Wise Guy.

* {{Ability Over Appearance}}: Subverted. Trixie believes that the main reason Diana wins roles in school plays in because of her beauty. Seeing how Diana frequently has difficulty with her lines, Trixie's perspective may be accurate.
* {{All Girls Like Ponies}}: She has a palomino pony named Sunny.
* {{All Girls Want Bad Boys}}: Subverted, she's not discouraged by Dan's brooding demeanor, but she becomes frightened of him when Trixie suggests he's a gang member.
* {{BrainlessBeauty}}:{{Depending On the Writer}}.
* {{Curtains Match the Window}}: Subverted, but Trixie, [[SarcasmMode in all of her detective observatory skills]], thinks that Diana's eyes are black like her hair.
%%* {{The Ditz}}
* {{Drama Queen}}: [[DependingontheWriter Sometimes. Other times she was much more composed]].
%%* {{The Fashionista}}
* {{Fille Fatale}}: Occasionally uses her beauty to get by.
%%* {{Graceful Ladies Like Purple}}
%%* {{Hysterical Woman}}: Often designated with this role.
%%* {{Lonely Rich Kid}}: At first, but the Bob-Whites help her out of it.
%%* {{Purple Eyes}}:
%%* {{Vanity is Feminine}}

His one-time excuse as to why he couldn't hang out [[LameExcuse ("I'll be chopping wood.")]] has become a {{Memetic Mutation}} with the fandom.

* {{The Aloner}}: He's the most detached of all the Bob-Whites.
* {{Ambiguously Brown}}: He was mentioned upon his introduction and on several other occasions to have a "dark face", but this may have only been to indicate his brooding, sullen nature.
* {{Berserk Button}}: [[DrugsAreBad Drugs]].
* {{Beware the Quiet Ones}}: He's a former gang member who knows how to use a switchblade, and now he spends his days chopping wood. So he has access to an axe in addition to being able to beat people senseless.
* {{Big Damn Heroes}}: When he leads the police to where the gangsters are holding Trixie at a gunpoint in #12.
* {{Curtains Match the Window}}: Has black eyes and black hair.
*** [[SeriesContinuityError Though his eyes were blue in at least one edition of one of the books]].
* {{Brooding Boy Gentle Girl}}: Honey attempts to invoke this after noticing his cold and moody demeanor, by acting extra-nice to to him, deliberately ignoring his brush-offs, and offering to help him numerous times. Dan subverts this with his [[DontYouDarePityMe Don't You Dare Pity Me]] reaction.
* {{The Cynic}}:

* {{Dark is Evil}}: Played with but ultimately played straight. Despite his black leather jacket, Dan ultimately is discovered to be a good person beneath his bad attitude, but in order to prove that he's "good", the writer has him give up his black jacket and black clothing.
* {{Dark and Troubled Past}}: His parents died, leaving him to live on the streets, and he became involved with a violent street gang and, possibly, drugs.
* {{Darker and Edgier}}: Possibly introduced with the intention of bringing in this element.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Over the course of #8. Though {{Jerkass Facade}} was in partial effect as well.

* {{Dont You Dare Pity Me}}: To Trixie and Honey at first, whenever Honey tried to be nice to him. Trixie was never pleasant toward him, and didn't plan on pitying him anyway.
* {{Dynamic Character}}: In spite of rarely being featured.
* {{Earn Your Happy Ending}}: In order to remain in his safe and secure home, he often has to miss out on fun activities for his job of manual labor.
* {{Emotions vs Stoicism}}: He tries to be unemotional at times, but Trixie, Honey, and Jim on separate occasions are all able to read him anyway.

* {{Harmful to Minors}}: He was an orphaned street gang member during the 60's. Enough said.
* HellBentForLeather: At first, as a {{ShoutOut}} to the greasers of that era.
* [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Help Face Turn]]: Seemingly, toward Trixie, but subverted. His {{Hidden Heart of Gold}} would have had him help Bobby and Trixie even if she hadn't appealed to him for help.
* {{Hospitality For Heroes}}: The town is much more welcoming to him after he rescues Bobby.
* {{I Just Want To Have Friends}}: His motivation for joining the street gang, and later, the Bob-Whites.
* {{Ineffectual Loner}}: Even after he becomes friends with the Bob-Whites, his stubborn refusal to trust others, including the Bob-Whites, often has disastrous results. [[{{Irony}} Ironically, he goes off on his own because he wants to protect the people around him, but ends up just endangering himself along with everyone else]].
* {{Keeping Secrets Sucks}}: Three times out of four, he and others will personally suffer because he didn't confide in anyone.
* {{Lean and Mean}}: In his first appearance. He stays lean but shows his nicer side.
* {{Mysterious Parent}}: Dan's mother, Regan's sister, is given contradictory backstories and never so much as named.
* {{Naive Newcomer}}: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Though not {{The Corrupter}}, Dan is the Jaded Newcomer.

* {{Odd Friendship}}: With Mr. Maypenny, his legal guardian, an old hermit who prefers to live in the woods rather than in a town, because that would require interaction with people. Also counts as an {{intergenerational friendship}}.
* {{Orphans Ordeal}}: See {{Trauma Conga Line}}.
** {{Parental Abandonment}}: Both of his parents are dead.
* {{Perpetual Frowner}}: Frowns much more frequently than he smiles.
* {{Put on a Bus}}: Often, to avoid giving him characterization.

* {{The Quiet One}}: More than likely the writers just didn't want to have to give him dialogue.
* {{Real Men Wear Pink}}: He can ice-skate like nobody's business, and is possibly the best skater of the Bob-Whites. Also, he's familiar with "The Blue Danube Waltz" enough to hum the tune.
* {{Relatively Flimsy Excuse}}: [[InvertedTrope Bizarrely inverted]]. At first, the Bob-Whites assume that he must be Mr. Maypenny's grandson. Even after Dan tells them that he isn't. Noticeably, in spite of her friendship with Mr. Maypenny, Trixie is hostile to Dan from the start, and she's deliberately trying to provoke him the first time she speaks to him. She continues to unnecessarily, though perhaps not consciously, make his life difficult, even while she suspects he's related to her friend.
* {{Shrouded in Myth}}: He rarely discusses his background or divulges much personal information, which leads the fandom to speculate.
* {{The Spock}}: He prefers logic and control over emotion.
* {{Still Wearing the Old Colors}}: Subverted, for a reason. The black gang jacket is never seen again after he receives his Bob-White jacket.
* {{Street Urchin}}: Lived on the streets on New York City while in his early teens.
* {{Tall Dark And Handsome}}, and [[TallDarkandSnarky Snarky]]
* [[TokenEvilTeammate Token]] {{Chaotic Good}} [[TokenEvilTeammate Club Member]]: {{Depending on the Writer}}.
* {{Troubled but Cute}}: Enough for Diana to be very pleased with him and primp in hopes of impressing him. Honey and Hallie are also implied to find him attractive.
* {{Trauma Conga Line}}: [[ParentalAbandonment His father dies. His mother dies]]. [[DespairEventHorizon He becomes involved in a NYC street gang]]. He's arrested after a gang fight and taken to a juvenile detention center. When his uncle is located, the guy wants nothing to do with Dan, so he sends the city kid to live in the middle of the woods with a complete stranger and do manual labor. But a gang member tracks him down, harms the one person Dan's close to, and tries to convince him to rob the Wheelers' mansion. When Dan refuses, the gang member leaves him, Trixie, and Bobby to die at the hands of a catamount. [[YanktheDogsChain Later, justice is done and it looks as if Dan will have a happy ending]].

* {{Brooding Boy Gentle Girl}}: Honey attempts to invoke this after noticing his cold and moody demeanor, by acting extra-nice to to him, deliberately ignoring his brush-offs, and offering to help him numerous times. Dan subverts this with his {{Don't You Dare Pity Me}} reaction.

* {{The Ditz}}

* {{The Fashionista}}

* {{Graceful Ladies Like Purple}}
* {{Hysterical Woman}}: Often designated with this role.
* {{Lonely Rich Kid}}: At first, but the Bob-Whites help her out of it.
* {{Purple Eyes}}:
** {{What Beautiful Eyes}}
* {{Vanity is Feminine}}

However, the writer of Black Jacket never returned, so other writers were never quite sure what to do with him. His initial personality was at odds with the Bob-Whites and they had little other basis material. Besides, they couldn't write [[TheComplainerisAlwaysWrong conflicting personalities]] in [[GirlsNeedRoleModels a book series for tween girls]]! As a result, the writers often [[PutOnABus wrote him out of the story to avoid giving him legitimate characterization]], which would distract from Trixie and her mysteries. When he does appear in a story, he's about fifty percent more likely than anyone else to undergo some sort of angst and try deal with it alone, though this appears unintentional on behalf of the writers.

* {{Five Man Band}}:
** {{The Hero}}: Trixie
** {{The Lancer}}: Honey
** {{The Smart Guy}}: Mart
** {{The Big Guy}}: Jim
** {{The Chick}}: Diana
** {{Big Brother Mentor}}: Brian
** {{The Sixth Ranger}}: Dan

The seven members are: [[AmateurSleuth Trixie]], [[{{Sidekick}} Honey]], [[RedHeadedHero Jim]], [[BigBrotherMentor Brian]], [[SarcasticDevotee Mart]], [[DramaQueen Diana]], and [[DarkerandEdgier Dan]]. Diana joined the club after #4, ''The Mysterious Visitor'', and Dan became a member after #8,''The Black Jacket Mystery''. Trixie and Jim are co-presidents, Honey is vice-president, and Mart is secretary/teasurer ([[FridgeLogic Considering that there were five founding members, it's unknown why he wasn't just one or the other so Brian could also have a position]]).

* {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}

* {{Angst What Angst}}: To a bizarre degree. He rarely shows any signs of struggling to reconcile his two very different lives. See {{Trauma Conga Line}}.

* {{Lawful Good}}: {{Depending on the Writer}}, Dan might not be.

* {{Plot Induced Stupidity}}: All of them, at least once.