History Literature / FrannyKStein

* BalefulPolymorph: In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', the third Franbot is equipped with a Food-Ray Blaster, which she uses to turn Igor into a [[AndIMustScream tuna fish sandwich]] and later plans to use to do the same to Franny, her family and the rest of humanity.

* CanineConfusion: At the end of "Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid", Igor takes a bite of a giant chocolate-covered cherry. Cherry flesh on its own could upset a dog's stomach (and the pits contain cyanide), and chocolate is outright lethal to them.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Franny gets a [[UpToEleven double dose]] in ''Frantastic Voyage'' when trying to deactivate the doomsday device after shrinking down and traveling inside Igor. She tries to use her miniaturized screwdriver to undo the screw in the doomsday device, only to realize that the screwdriver is now too small to unfasten the screw. She tries to tell Igor to swallow a regular-size screwdriver, but then finds that Igor can't hear her because her shrunken state has made her voice inaudible.

* TragicVillain: The Muffin Man in “recipe for disaster”. As a furnace, all he wanted was to make the children happy. However it was either too hot or too cold for them. But when Franny makes him into a baker, he could finally satisfy them. But he took it too far, to the point where he sets up a sweatshop in the basement of the building. Luckily Franny managed to show him [[BadFuture what would happen if he got his way.]] This prompts him to [[HeelFaceTurn instead decide to become a kiln for the children to make sculptures.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Franny's hair is purple.

* BrainyBaby: It is stated in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' that Franny was a mad scientist ever since she was a baby. When she first travels back in time to change her middle name, we even see Baby Franny creating a Frankenstein monster teddy bear.

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: When Igor accidentally uses an X-ray projector on her in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is shown to wear panties with bats on them... and no bra.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: With the exceptions of the first, second, eighth and ninth books, all books in the series have a title with a pun involving "Fran".

** ''Mood Science'' - Emotions are important for life to be interesting and to know how to properly react to and deal with life's problems.

** Franny also covers up her chest when she gets hit by an X-ray projector and some bats laugh at her. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thanks for embarrassing your boss, Igor...]]

* {{Irony}}: The first Franbot had her insides built for bagpipe lessons, but how does she die? Franny tricks her into attempting a high J note, causing the Franbot to blow "all of [her] guts into the bag".

* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: One of the lessons Franny is stuck with in ''The Fran With Four Brains'' that she builds the Franbots to take off her hands is playing bagpipes. She eventually tricks the bagpipe-playing Franbot into destroying itself by convincing it that there is such a thing as a J note, resulting in the Franbot blowing the bagpipes too hard and forcing its insides out.

** ''The Invisible Fran'' involves a plot where Franny concocts a potion whose effects she gains the power of {{Invisibility}} from. She uses this power to get some kids to pursue Mad Science, but later, the kids try their own hand with it without her, and it [[GoneHorribleWrong goes horribly wrong]] by the time they finish. Cue Franny giving them a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tomorrow for it.

* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: The first book has a Pumpkin-Crab Monster created when unstable industrial waste was dumped into a trash can along with Franny's discarded lunch of crab ravioli with pumpkin sauce as well as some gum and old gym shoes. But wait... [[RiddleOfTheAges Where did that kid who put the industrial waste in the bin get that waste from, anyway?]]

'''Cooking Franbot:''' "You can stop pretending. I know that you're not a robot. And I know you've destroyed the other Franbots."

* RobotMe: In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', Franny builds three Franbots to free her from her bagpipe lessons, soccer practice and gourmet cooking classes, only for her three robot duplicates to go crazy and attempt to turn everyone into tuna fish sandwiches.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Franny's dog Igor is an important character, but isn't introduced until the second book ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid''.

* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: The first book has a Pumpkin-Crab Monster created when unstable industrial waste was dumped into a trash can along with Franny's discarded lunch of crab ravioli with pumpkin sauce as well as some gum and old gym shoes.
* TragicVillain: The Muffin Man in “recipe for disaster”. As a furnace, all he wanted was to make the children happy. However it was either too hot or too cold for them. But when Franny makes him into a baker, he could finally satisfy them. But he took it too far, to the point where he sets up a sweatshop in the basement of the building. Luckily Franny managed to show him [[BadFuture what would happen if he got his way.]] He [[HeelFaceTurn instead decides to become a kiln for the children to make sculptures.]]

* WhyAmITicking: In ''Frantastic Voyage'', Igor accidentally eats a doomsday device Franny built that is powerful enough to destroy most of the Earth, requiring Franny to save the day by traveling inside Igor in order to deactivate the doomsday device.

* YouKilledMyFather: Franbot 3 is absolutely ''pissed'' at her sisters' death in ''The Fran With Four Brains''.

* LoudOfWar: In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny suggests to her classmate Lawrence that he could adapt his accordion-playing skills to mad science by using a satellite to bother everyone with the sound of his accordion.

* SuperWindowJump: The Pumpkin-Crab Monster in the first book jumps through a window after kidnapping Ms. Shelly.

* {{Wedgie}}: A chapter in ''Frantastic Voyage'' is devoted to Franny worrying about what would happen if any of her ideas fell into the wrong hands. One concern she has is that an evil scientist could discover her plans for remote control underwear and use it to give wedgies to everyone on Earth.
* WhatTheHellHero: Franny has this reaction when Igor brings the Cupid on the card to life.

** Franny also gets one in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' when her EmbarrassingMiddleName causes her class to laugh. She changes it from "Kissypie" to "Kaboom", which causes an older version of her to create a BadFuture and become the BigBad of the book. This older version is presumably destroyed when Franny realises that she held a grudge over something trivial.

* FutureMeScaresMe: The teenage version of Franny that she encounters in the BadFuture in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' is evil and has plans to terrorize everyone with an army of elephant monsters, as a result of Franny changing her [[EmbarassingMiddleName middle name]] to Kaboom still resulting in everyone laughing at her when her middle name is revealed to everyone around her and Franny not getting that she shouldn't be that upset about being laughed at.

* UnwantedAssistance: In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is initially bothered by her new lab assistant Igor, because the dog keeps trying to help her with her experiments when she doesn't require his assistance, and ends up screwing things up.

* BalefulPolymorph: In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', the third Franbot is equipped with a Food-Ray Blaster, which it uses to turn Igor into a tuna fish sandwich and later plans to use to do the same to Franny, her family and the rest of humanity.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Franny gets a double dose in ''Frantastic Voyage'' when trying to deactivate the doomsday device after shrinking down and traveling inside Igor. She tries to use her miniaturized screwdriver to undo the screw in the doomsday device, only to realize that the screwdriver is now too small to unfasten the screw. She tries to tell Igor to swallow a regular-size screwdriver, but then finds that Igor can't hear her because her shrunken state has made her voice inaudible.

* DrFakenstein: Franny K. Stein's full name is clearly based on Dr. Frankenstein.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: ''Frantastic Voyage'' has Franny having to travel inside Igor in order to save his life when he eats a doomsday device.

* FutureMeScaresMe: The teenage version of Franny that she encounters in the BadFuture in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' is evil and has plans to terrorize everyone with an army of elephant monsters, as a result of Franny changing her middle name to Kaboom still resulting in everyone laughing at her when her middle name is revealed and Franny not getting that she shouldn't be that upset about being laughed at.

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: When Igor accidentally uses an X-ray projector on her in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is shown to wear panties with bats on them.

** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.

* RightBehindMe: When gloating about only having to take down one more Franbot in ''The Fran With Four Brains'', Franny ends up turning around to see the last Franbot glaring at her.

* ThatsNoMoon: Franny gets that reaction during her view of the supersized Cupid's rump.

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