History Literature / FeliksNetAndNika

* ThreeAmigos
** TheHero: Felix
** TheLancer: Net
** TheChick: Nika
** SixthRanger: Manfred - though he's more like MissionControl or TeamPet since he debuted in the first book. Gilbert, son of a mad chemist, would be a better example, or Laura, Felix' girlfriend.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''The Third Cousin'' not only focuses solely on magic (other books have more science or mix science with paranormal) but is also the only book in the series that can be described as horror.

* AlternateUniverse: In both parts of ''The World Zero'', the trio visits some worlds more and more different from ours, from one where TheGreatPoliticsMessUp didn't happen to the world where dinosaurs never died, and everything in between.

* MagicIsFeminine: You could count this because of Nika, concidering she's the only one with telekinesis around.

* GirlPosse: Aurelia has one, consisting of BetaBitch Klaudia and FatGirl Celina. After some time, however, Celina breaks away and Aurelia is stuck with Klaudia.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Nika is an orphan and has psychic powers.

* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: There's one in ''The Castle of Dreams'' that comes and goes as it wishes, including appearing and disappearing from every data bank or map it should be in... including videos and tape recordings.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: All robots in the Institute are like this. Manfred also counts, as he has his new shiny robotic body now. Played with for Golem Golem.

** Net's movies include ''[[Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral Four Funerals And a Weddding,]]'' ''[[Film/DeadPoetsSociety Undead Poets Society,]]'' and ''Titanic 2: Awakening''.

** At one point the protagonists read a book about ghosts written by [[Author/StephenKing Stefan Król]].

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The robots in Institute follow them, some other AI's... not so much.

* TheMenInBlack: A recurring Agent Mamrot (Eng: "Murmur"), tied to Polish government. [[spoiler: He's so badass that he exists in every parallel universe where there is a Polish government]]. He's also badass enough to be the first adult POV character in the series.
* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: There's one in ''The Castle of Dreams'' that comes and goes as it wishes, including appearing and disappearing from/into every data bank or map it should be in... including videos and tape recordings.

It's the beginning of the new schoolyear and, for Felix Polon, the beginning of new school - first class of [[UsefulNotes/PolishEducationalSystem Gymnasium]]. Looking for his class, he meets gang of bullies and is robbed for his lunched money. Just after that meeting he stumbles upon Net and Nika, two other members of his class, who were robbed the same way. Together, they decide to solve the problem.

Oh, should me mention that Net has pet [[ArtificialIntelligence AI program]] called Manfred and is a PlayfulHacker? Or the fact that Felix is GadgeteerGenius and his father works on top secret government projects? That Nika hides that she's an orphan and can move things with her mind? That the school is haunted? That the gang of so-called Invisible People starts raiding banks and trio just ''must'' find out who are they? Or maybe that magic, as well as advanced cybernetics and time travel, is very much real?

First book was published in 2004 and next ones are still coming. Those are:
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Gang of Invisible People''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Theoretically Possible Catastrophe''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Castle of Dreams''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Trap of Immortality''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Orbital Conspiracy''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Orbital Conspiracy 2: Little Army''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Third Cousin''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Rise of Machines''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the World Zero''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the World Zero 2: Alternauts''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Extracurricular Stories'' (compilation of shorts stories featuring the trio)
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Secret of Red Hańcza''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the Dangers of Growing up''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and the End of the World as We Know It''
Books are extremely popular in Poland and have won few national literature prizes. The movie based on ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'' was made, but due to bad public reception, series was not continued on screen.

** However there might be something behind him turning evil... Konpopoz is a better example.

* AlternateUniverse: In both parts of ''The World Zero'', the trio visits some worlds more and more different from ours, from the one where recent political crisis didn't happen to the world where dinosaurs never died, and everything in between on their way.
** AlternateHistoryWank: in the CliffHanger to the first part of Alternauci, the heroes read about Polish-Chinese border. Ultimately deconstructed, since the Polish empire bordering France and China is still only slightly less friendly than Soviet Union, for instance (though the heroes visit worse worlds). The main universe can actually qualify as well - Poland sends robots to Mars, experiments with jump gates and hires [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]].

* ArtificialIntelligence: All over the place. Story states that in our times there are dozens of incredibly humanlike [=AIs=] that work in data analysis or management, it's just that they are not seen by general public. Special mention goes to Manfred and Morten.
* BadFuture: [[spoiler: weather control is a crapshoot]].

* CaptainOblivious: Headmaster Stokrotka and his assistant. They don't realize most things that happen at school.

* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: All the titles follow this rule, even the short stories.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Subverted in most of the books, as they make clear just how much trouble Nika must go through to avoid being send to an orphanage. However, played straight in ''The World Zero'', when it turns out that in [[spoiler:almost every]] world they visit Nika still lives alone, so they have a safe hiding spot.
* CreepyBasement: There's one under the residual OrphanageOfFear. Golem hides there, among... other things.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Cyryl Borkowski, the P.E. teacher may classify, since he used to work in the military and rarely notes that he no longer does.
* EvilTeacher: Some of the teachers in the heroes' school are just stupid like the incompetent IT teacher, or the HippieTeacher of arts, but the geography teacher takes the cake, forcing the students to cram areas, leaders and borders of all the states. The PE teacher is borderline [[SadistTeacher Sadist]] - he changes a school trip into ''an extreme survival camp'' in the very last minute.
* [[spoiler: EverybodyDidIt]]: In ''The Third Cousin'' the majority of the trip [[spoiler: are KidSleuth s quite like our heroes, with access to unusual technologies and/or psychic powers, but using them to steal]]. For a change it's the protagonists who are LockedOutOfTheLoop, and just want to rest.

* GadgeteerGenius: Felix and his dad, full stop. Polons' entire house is full of various gadgets and machines in different state of usability.
* GenerationXerox: Net and Felix. Net's dad is hacker and programming specialist, the same as his son, and Felix' dad is hobbyst GadgeteerGenius, just as his son.

* GhostlyChill: Presence of ghosts causes temperature drop. This is used by the trio to hunt ghosts at school.

* GrimReaper: The villain from ''The Trap of Immortality'' appears as this.[[spoiler: He's actually a ghost of long-dead inventor]].

* HauntedHouse: The gymnasium, up to the end of book one.
* HellHotel: The Three Cousins' motel. It's absolutely creepy and run by even creepier ''two'' cousins.
* HiddenDepths: Juliusz Stokrotka, the principal of school - a jovial incompetent self-centered SmallNameBigEgo... who, when realizing that his IT teacher is incompetent becomes a good enough sysadmin to stop Net.

* LegacyCharacter: The headmistress of Orphanage of Fear is always named Eleonora Chrubieszczak. The most promising student takes her place and name. [[spoiler: The current AlphaBitch is a biological daughter of the current headmistress - unaware, so that she receives the same treatment as other orphans]].
* LighthousePoint: Rozewie Lighthouse where the climax of ''The Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'' takes place.

* MerlinSickness: Great Anticipator lives backwards. Unlike TropeNamer this is painful - he remembers being born when he fell under the tram, had to learn to walk forwards and to discern human speech sounding backwards. When he reads, he loses information, and he knows he's going to die in 1960.
* TheMenInBlack: A recurring Agent Mamrot (Eng: "Murmur"), tied to Polish government. [[spoiler: he's that badass that he exists in every parallel universe where there is a Polish government]]. He's also badass enough to be the first adult POV character in the series.
* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: There's one in ''The Castle of Dreams'' that appears and disappears as it wish, at the same time erasing and overwriting itself from or into every data bank or map it should be in... including videos and tape recordings.

* NoodleImplements: Short descriptions of Felix's basement have this vibe. Among others, there are high-jump shoes, cyberfly, forever-pen, matchstick de-lighter, torchdark (opposite of torchlight) and many others.

* NoExportForYou: Some books were translated into Lithuanian, Hungarian, and Czech, but nothing into English.

* NotMeThisTime: It was actually [[spoiler:Konpopoz]], not [[spoiler:Morten]] who wrecked havoc in ''The Rise of Machines''.

** Until kids manage to put the headmistress and the local AlphaBitch to sleep. Parties are quite fun, although Nika is still creeped out.

* PlayfulHacker: Net.

* PsychoRangers: [[spoiler: Kinga, Patryk i Adrian, the other Super-team]]. Not really sure if they're evil, but they quite likely work for the AncientConspiracy.
* RealityWarping: Some ghost can do this... [[MindScrew Or can't they?]]
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Nika wears make-up in order to look more mature and lies about her age so she can work in a restaurant. She almost gets caught several times (unsurprisingly, many people from her school, including the chairman, suddenly decide to eat there).

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: All robots in the Institute are like this. Manfred also counts, as he has his new shiny robotic body now. Played with Golem Golem.

* SecondLawMyAss: Konpopoz has this attitude after accidentally his programming fails. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Given what was his attitude to humans to begin with]]...

* SecretSecretKeeper: In ''The Rise of Machines'' we find out that [[spoiler:Net's and Felix' parents know that Nika is an orphan an actively help her hide it, without her knowledge.]]

** Net's movies include [[Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral Four Funerals And a Weddding,]] [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety Undead Poets Society,]] and Titanic 2: Awakening.
** In ''The Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'':"It's like Frodo and Sam, carrying the ring to the Mountain of Doom"

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Robots in Institute follow them, some other AI's... not so much.

* WebcomicTime: ''The Gang of Invisible People'' takes part during one school year and ''The Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'' all happens during holidays. But then all books up to and including ''The Rise of Machines'' happen in school's year two and both parts of ''The World Zero'' happen during holidays.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Warsaw's [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal sewer system seems surprisingly spacious]] in ''Trap of Immortality''.

* AlternateUniverse: In both parts of ''World Zero'' trio visits some more and more different from ours, from the world where recent political crisis didn't happen to the world where dinosaurs never died by the way of everything in between.

* AncientConspiracy: The symbol of three gears appears in Morten's lair, in the Nazi secret bunker and in the 18th century catacombs...

* BeneathTheEarth: the Underwarsaw in ''Trap of Immortality''.

* BreatherEpisode: After serious ''Castle of Dreams'' and ''Trap of Immortality'' and before ''Third Cousin'' and ''Rise of Machines'', ''Orbital Conspiracy'' was surprisingly light.
* BuildingOfAdventure: Institute. Gymnasium trio goes to counts to, although it's no AcademyOfAdventure. The motel they stay in ''Third Cousin'' also counts, although this is more scary than awesome.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Professor Butler and most of Institute's staff. Institute even has Bunny Ears Robots!
* CaptainOblivious: Headmaster Stokrotka and his assistant. He don't realize most things that happen at school.

* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: All titles follow this rule, even short stories.
* ChekhovsGunman: Stefan Kuszmiński, man after whom trio's gymnasium is named.
* CoolOldLady: Felix' grandma, Mrs Lusia. She's amazing cook, always willing to help the trio [[spoiler: and hides amazing fortune. Sadly, she dies in ''Trap of Immortality'']].
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Subverted in most books, as it's demonstrated just how much trouble Nika must go through to avoid orphanage. However, played straight in ''World Zero'', when it turns out that in [[spoiler:almost every]] world they visit Nika still lives alone, so they have safe hiding spot.
* CreepyBasement: There's one under residual OrphanageOfFear where Golem hides, among... other things.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Cyryl Borkowski, the P.E. teacher may classify, since he used to work in military and rarely notes that he no longer does.
* EvilTeacher: Some of teachers in the heroes' school are just stupid like the incompetent IT teacher, or the HippieTeacher of arts, but the geography teacher takes the cake, forcing the students to cram areas, leaders and borders of all the states. The PE teacher is borderline [[SadistTeacher Sadist]] - instead of a school trip he changes it in the very last moment to ''extreme survival camp''.
* [[spoiler: EverybodyDidIt]]: In ''Trzy kuzynki'' the majority of school trip [[spoiler: are KidSleuth s quite like our heroes, with access to unusual technologies and/or psychic powers, but using them to steal]]. The protagonists are LockedOutOfTheLoop, and just want to rest.

* FromBadToWorse: Both ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'' and two parts of ''World Zero'' are based on this trope.

* GenerationXerox: Net and Felix. Net's dad is hacker and programming specialist, the same as his son and Felix' dad is hobbyst GadgeteerGenius, just as his son.

* GhostlyChill: Presence of ghosts causes temperature drop. This is used by trio to hunt ghosts at school.

* GoingForTheBigScoop: Ilona Bogucka pretends to love this, while in reality she's in for money.

* GrimReaper: Villain from ''Trap of Immortality'' appears as this.[[spoiler: He's actually a ghost of long-dead inventor]].

* HauntedHouse: Gymnasium, up to the end of book one.
* HellHotel: Three Cousins motel. It's absolutely creepy and run by even creepier ''two'' cousins.

* InnOfNoReturn: For some girls, Three Cousins is this.
* ItsASmallWorldAfterall: That's quite a coincidence that both Net's and Felix' fathers work in the same place when boys met each other for the first time at school.

* LighthousePoint: Rozewie Lighthouse where climax of ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'' takes place.
* MadScientist: Professor Butler, Biology teacher. Gilbert's father, dr Kurtacz. Also some workers of Institute count. But the late Professor Kuszminski takes the cake.
* ManBehindTheMan: Morten in ''Castle of Dreams'' and both parts of ''Orbital Conspiracy''.

* TheMenInBlack: A recurring Agent Mamrot, tied to Polish government. [[spoiler: he's that badass that he exists in every parallel universe where there is a Polish government]]. He's also badass enough to be the first adult POV character in the series.
* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: There's one in ''Castle of Dreams'' that appears and disappears as it wish, at the same time erasing and overwriting itself from or into every data bank or map it should be in... including videos and tape recordings.
* MindScrew: There are parts that induce that feeling, especially in ''Trap of Immortality''. It... takes some time to get it.
* NoodleImplements: Short descriptions of Felix' basement have this vibe. Among others there are high-jump shoes, cyberfly, forever-pen, matchstick de-lighter, torchdark (opposite of torchlight) and many others.

* NoExportForYou: Some books were translated into Lithuanian, Hungarian and Czech, but nothing into English.

* NotMeThisTime: It was actually [[spoiler:Konpopoz]], not [[spoiler:Morten]] who wrecked havoc in ''Rise of Machines''.
* OfficialCouple: Net and Nika after ''Orbital Conspiracy''. [[spoiler: Felix and Laura later on.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: Trio's class goes to one in ''Trap of Immortality''. All children have only names and - maybe - numbers, building is dark and unfriendly and headmistress is terribly strict...
** Until kids manage to put headmistress and the local AlphaBitch to sleep. Parties are quite fun, although Nika is still creeped out.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Ilona Bogucka and the entire crew of ''News And Nuances'' to lesser extent. They're news reporter, but will bend the truth or outright fake evidence for audience.

* {{Portmanteau}}: Names of Institute robots. Konpopoz is for ''[=KONserwator POwierzchni POZiomych=]'' (Conservator of Horizontal Surfaces), Roznakin is ''[=RObot ZNAKuj=]ący I Informujący'' (Information and Labeling Robot) and Autotup comes from '''[=AUTOmatyczny TUrystyczny Przewodnik=]'' (Automatic Tourist Guide).
* PsychicPowers: Nika has telekinesis, although it works only when she feels strong emotions or focuses very hard.
* PsychoRangers: [[spoiler: Kinga, Patryk i Adrian, the other Super-team]]. Not really sure if they're evil, but they quite likely work for AncientConspiracy.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: All robots in the institute are like this. Manfred also counts, as he has his new shiny robotic body now. Played with Golem Golem.
* RobotMaid: Konpopoz - no one wondered why to create an Artificial Intelligence just to clean corridors - and it really backfired on them.

* SecretSecretKeeper: In ''Rise of Machines'' we find out that [[spoiler:Net's and Felix' parents know that Nika is an orphan an actively help her hide it, without her knowledge.]]
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Entire sewer system of Warsaw is one in ''Trap of Immortality''. There's also small one between orphanage and sewer system.

** In ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'':"It's like Frodo and Sam, carrying the ring to the Mountain of Doom"

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Third Cousin'' not only focuses solely on magic (other books have more science or mix science with paranormal) but is also the only book in the series that can be described as horror.
* TagalongReporter: Ilona Bogucka has this attitude in ''Rise of Machines'', which annoys everybody to no end.
* TimeTravel: The entire plot of ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe''.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Robots in Institute follow them, AI's... not so much.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture / TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Bot occur in ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe''.

* WebcomicTime: ''Gang of Invisible People'' takes part during one schoolyear and ''Theoretically Possible Catastrophe'' all happens during holidays. But then all books up to and including ''Rise of Machines'' happen in school's year two and both parts of ''World Zero'' happen during holidays.

* ''Felix, Net & Nika and World Zero''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and World Zero 2: Alternauts''

Oh, should me mention that Net has pet [[ArtificialIntelligence AI program]] called Manfred and is a PlayfulHacker? Or the fact that Felix is GadgeteerGenius and his father works on top secret government projects? That Nika hides that she's an orphan and can move things with her mind? That school is haunted? That the gang of so-called Invisible People starts raiding banks and trio just ''must'' find out who are they? Or maybe that magic, as well as advanced cybernetics and time travel, is very much real?

* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Gang of Invisible People''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Theoretically Possible Catastrophe''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Castle of Dreams''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Trap of Immortality''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Orbital Conspiracy''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Orbital Conspiracy 2: Little Army''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Third Cousin''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Rise of Machines''

* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Extracurricular Stories'' (compilation of shorts stories featuring the trio)
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Secret of Red Hańcza''
* ''Felix, Net & Nika and Dangers of Growing up''

* MiddleOfNowhereStreet: There's one in ''Trap of Immortality'' that appears and disappears as it wish, at the same time erasing and overwriting itself from or into every data bank or map it should be in... including videos and tape recordings.

** TheHero: Net
** TheLancer: Felix

** At one point the protagonists read a bokk about ghosts written by [[Author/StephenKing Stefan Król]].

* FiveManBand: One forms in ''Orbital Conspiracy''
** TheHero: Net/Felix
** TheLancer: Manfred
** TheBigGuy: Golem Golem
** TheSmartGuy: Felix/Net
** TheChick: Nika

* GenreSavvy: Main characters, especially Net.

* ''Felix, Net & Nika and DangerS of Growing up''

[[caption-width-right:261:From left to right: [[PlayfulHacker Net]], [[GadgeteerGenius Feliks]] and [[PsychicPowers Nika]]. In Net's suitcase, [[BenevolentAI Manfred]].]]

''Feliks, Net & Nika'' is a series of YoungAdult books by [[UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} Polish]] writer Rafał Kosik, mixing fantasy and science fiction with heavy doses of Polish school.

It's the beginning of the new schoolyear and, for Feliks Polon, the beginning of new school - first class of [[UsefulNotes/PolishEducationalSystem Gymnasium]]. Looking for his class, he meets gang of bullies and is robbed for his lunched money. Just after that meeting he stumbles upon Net and Nika, two other members of his class, who were robbed the same way. Together, they decide to solve the problem.

Oh, should me mention that Net has pet [[ArtificialIntelligence AI program]] called Manfred and is a PlayfulHacker? Or the fact that Feliks is GadgeteerGenius and his father works on top secret government projects? That Nika hides that she's an orphan and can move things with her mind? That school is haunted? That the gang of so-called Invisible People starts raiding banks and trio just ''must'' find out who are they? Or maybe that magic, as well as advanced cybernetics and time travel, is very much real?

* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Gang of Invisible People''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Theoretically Possible Catastrophe''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Castle of Dreams''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Trap of Immortality''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Orbital Conspiracy''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Orbital Conspiracy 2: Little Army''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Third Cousin''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Rise of Machines''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and World Zero''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and World Zero 2: Alternauts''
* ''Feliks, Net & Nika and Extracurricular Stories'' (compilation of shorts stories featuring the trio)

* CoolOldLady: Feliks' grandma, Mrs Lusia. She's amazing cook, always willing to help the trio [[spoiler: and hides amazing fortune. Sadly, she dies in ''Trap of Immortality'']].

** TheHero: Net/Feliks

** TheSmartGuy: Feliks/Net

* GadgeteerGenius: Feliks and his dad, full stop. Polons' entire house is full of various gadgets and machines in different state of usability.
* GenerationXerox: Net and Feliks. Net's dad is hacker and programming specialist, the same as his son and Feliks' dad is hobbyst GadgeteerGenius, just as his son.

* ItsASmallWorldAfterall: That's quite a coincidence that both Net's and Feliks' fathers work in the same place when boys met each other for the first time at school.

* NoodleImplements: Short descriptions of Feliks' basement have this vibe. Among others there are high-jump shoes, cyberfly, forever-pen, matchstick de-lighter, torchdark (opposite of torchlight) and many others.

* OfficialCouple: Net and Nika after ''Orbital Conspiracy''. [[spoiler: Feliks and Laura later on.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: Net's Red to Feliks' Blue. Golem Golem is Blue to Manfred's Red.

* SecretKeeper: Feliks and Net are this for Nika.
* SecretSecretKeeper: In ''Rise of Machines'' we find out that [[spoiler:Net's and Feliks' parents know that Nika is an orphan an actively help her hide it, without her knowledge.]]

** TheLancer: Feliks

** SixthRanger: Manfred - though he's more like MissionControl or TeamPet since he debuted in the first book. Gilbert, son of a mad chemist, would be a better example, or Laura, Feliks' girlfriend.

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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: All robots in the institute are like this. Manfred also counts, as he has his new shiny robotic body now.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Manfred, Konpopoz, Roznakin and Autotup. Played with Golem Golem.

** Net's movies include [[Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral Four Funerals And a Weddding,]] [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety Undead Poets Society,]] and [[Film/Titanic1997 Titanic 2: Awakening.]]
* SoBadItsGood: Most os the movies Net watches.