History Literature / RemoteMan

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Ned Spinner/Remote Man
** TheLancer: Rocky
** TheBigGuy: Kate Spokes/Kuza
** TheSmartGuy: Cleverton Lee/Ja
** TheChick: Yvette Claverloux/Salamandre

* WritersCannotDoMath / CriticalResearchFailure: Thankgiving is featured about three fifths of the way through the book, yet the climax takes place on November 30th, with several weeks of planning in between.

* BilingualBonus: Yvette's last message to Ned and Rocky before their plan to trap Laana comes to fruition translates to "[[StarWars May the force be with you!]]"

* ClusterFBomb: Some of Kate's chat messages, though [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar she never actually spells it properly]].

* {{Troll}} / {{Griefer}}: Kate/Kuza has several encounters with a sleazy cyber-stalker going by the name Toxic. He never manages to locate her in The Kelp Room, thankfully.

* EurekaMoment: Ned comes up with his plan while browsing in a dime store. He comes across a pincushion with a music box inside, playing "The Entertainer". It triggers a memory of watching ''TheSting'' with his father, and gives him the idea to create a fake person with a fabricated company website to bait Laana into a trap.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are never a threat to anyone, though the potential danger is pointed out by several of the adults.

''RemoteMan'' is an [[AustralianLiterature Australian young adult novel]] by Elizabeth Honey. The main character is Melbourne-born teenager Ned Spinner, a reptile-enthusiast and computer geek, whose mother, an arboriculturist named Janet, suffers a severe mental breakdown in the early chapters. Ned is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle in Wakwak, Northern Territory while she recovers. While there, he makes fast friends with his cousin Kate, who he has previously kept in e-mail contact with. With permission from the local indigenous kids, she shows him a rare Oenpelli Python. A few days later, Ned naively mentions the python to [[{{Eagleland}} an unpleasant American tourist]] (nicknamed The Cowboy) at his uncle's gallery.

* {{Free Range Children}}/{{Parental Obliviousness}}: Played with. Ned and Rocky are on the frontline of the plan to take down Laana for most of the book, doing a lot of unsupervised investigating in the woods, around Concord and Acton, and in the middle of Manhattan, with Janet, Martha and Rocky's parents being none-the-wiser. On the other hand, they can't do everything themselves, and are forced to rely on Janet to chaperone them in New York (under the belief that they're in it for the Museum of Natural History's dinosaur exhibit - which they are, at least partly) and on the stakeout at the Donut Shack towards the end. It's only when [[spoiler: Ned escalates the situation by taking the iguana from Laana's car before he can drive off]] that she gets a hint of what he's been up to.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted. Ned, Rocky and Ja keep pet snakes or lizards, and at least two of Laana's poaching jobs have been reptiles.

* {{Stylistic Suck}}/{{Take Our Word For It}}: The acting in Laana's last film ''Revenge With A Vengeance'' is described as being worse than cardboard cutouts, the film's only saving grace being the stunt work in the climactic scene.

* {{Troll}}/{{Griefer}}: Kate/Kuza has several encounters with a sleazy cyber-stalker going by the name Toxic. He never manages to locate her in The Kelp Room, thankfully.

* {{Writers Cannot Do Math}}/{{Critical Research Failure}}: Thankgiving is featured about three fifths of the way through the book, yet the climax takes place on November 30th, with several weeks of planning in between.

* ContrivedCoincidence: What's the chance that Kate, Ned and Rocky would meet just the right people online to help them?

''Remote Man'' contains examples of:

* AbandonedWarehouse: The online equivalent, a disused chatroom or message board (it's not quite clear which) belonging to a kelp harvesting company (who are implied to not even know how it works), where Ned and his friends plan their attack.

* {{Stylistic Suck}}/{{Take Our Word For It}}: The acting in Laana's last film ''RevengeWithAVengeance'' is described as being worse than cardboard cutouts, the film's only saving grace being the stunt work in the climactic scene.

* {{Free Range Children}}/{{Parental Obliviousness}}: Played with. Ned and Rocky are on the frontline of the plan to take down Laana for most of the book, doing a lot of unsupervised investigating in the woods, around Concord and Acton, and in the middle of Manhattan, with Janet, Martha and Rocky's parents being none-the-wiser. On the other hand, they can't do everything themselves, and are forced to rely on Janet to chaperone them in New York and on the stakeout at the Donut Shack towards the end. It's only when [[spoiler: Ned escalates the situation by taking the iguana from Laana's car before he can drive off]] that she gets a hint of what he's been up to.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are never a threat to anyone, though the potential danger is pointed out by several of the adults.
* FatalMethodActing: In-universe. Frank Laana's brother Jay was killed in a botched stunt on their last movie together.

* {{Stylistic Suck}}/{{Take Our Word For It}}: The acting Laana's last film ''RevengeWithAVengeance'' is described as being worse than cardboard cutouts, the film's only saving grace being the stunt work in the climactic scene.

* TheAllegedCar: After arriving in Concord, Janet buys a 1987 Chevy Cavalier sedan. Martha and Janet nickname it the Hunk'o'junk, and with good reason: it's only barely roadworthy, incredibly noisy

Kate investigates Ned's other leads (obtained in an overheard conversation revealing the full scope of the smuggling ring), making two further international contacts in the process: Cleverton, a teen genius from Kingston, Jamaica; and Yvette, a French fashion expert and amateur historian from France. These five teenagers band together to expose Laana and put an end to his criminal activities, despite their communication being limited to e-mail and underground (or underwater) chatrooms (Note that the book predates Myspace and Facebook by several years).

* GreenAesop: With regard to wildlife explotation and deforestation. It's not particularly anvilicious.

* {{StylisticSuck}}/{{TakeOurWordForIt}}: The acting Laana's last film ''RevengeWithAVengeance'' is described as being worse than cardboard cutouts, the film's only saving grace being the stunt work in the climactic scene.

* MultinationalTeam: One Australian guy, an Australian girl, an American guy, a French girl and a Jamaican girl.

Kate investigates Ned's other leads (obtained in an overheard conversation revealing the full scope of the smuggling ring), making two further international contacts in the process: Cleverton, a teen genius from Kingston, Jamaica; and Yvette, a French fashion expert and amateur historian from France. These five teenagers band together to expose Laana and put an end to his criminal activities, despite their communication being limited to e-mail and underground (or underwater) chatrooms.

* WritersCannotDoMath/CriticalResearchFailure: Thankgiving is featured about three fifths of the way through the book, yet the climax takes place on November 30th, with several weeks of planning in between.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Thankgiving is featured about three fifths of the way through the book, yet the climax takes place on November 30th, with several weeks of planning in between.