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12. ''Spy School Goes Wild''



* TheAce: Erica, the schools best student, and to a lesser extent, Jawa as well.
* ActionGirl: Erica, Catherine, and Zoe can all beat up most of the male characters without trying and only seem to sometimes have difficultly against MadeOfIron villains like Dane Brammage, DarkActionGirl Ashley Sparks, and Russian spy family scion Svetlana.

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* TheAce: Erica, the schools school's best student, and to a lesser extent, Jawa as well.
well, excel at ridiculous amounts of things.
* ActionGirl: Erica, Catherine, and Zoe can all beat up most of the male characters without trying and only seem to sometimes have difficultly difficulty against MadeOfIron villains like Dane Brammage, DarkActionGirl Ashley Sparks, and Russian spy family scion Svetlana.
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Beginning in 2022, Gibbs has also began releasing graphic novel adaptations of each book.
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* ActionGirl: Erica, Catherine, and Zoe can all beat up most of the male characters without trying and only seem to have difficultly against MadeOfIron villains like Dane Brammage and DarkActionGirl Ashley Sparks (and even then, they usually beat those two in the end).

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* ActionGirl: Erica, Catherine, and Zoe can all beat up most of the male characters without trying and only seem to sometimes have difficultly against MadeOfIron villains like Dane Brammage and Brammage, DarkActionGirl Ashley Sparks (and even then, they usually beat those two in the end).Sparks, and Russian spy family scion Svetlana.
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* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: One of SPYDER's rival organizations is called the International Tulip Grower's Association. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Spy School at Sea,'' where Murray admits that the International Tulip Growers Association is a legitimate organization and he only claimed they were evil as part of a LongGame to manipulate Ben.]]
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Specifying that Totally Not A Criminal Front is for poorly-veiled fronts.


* TotallyNotACriminalFront: One of SPYDER's rival organizations is called the International Tulip Grower's Association. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Spy School at Sea,'' where Murray admits that the International Tulip Growers Association is a legitimate organization and he only claimed they were evil as part of a LongGame to manipulate Ben.]]

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Legitimate Businessmens Social Club TRS cleanup, disambiguating to appropriate trope.


* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: One of SPYDER's rival organizations is called the International Tulip Grower's Association. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Spy School at Sea,'' where Murray admits that the International Tulip Growers Association is a legitimate organization and he only claimed they were evil as part of a LongGame to manipulate Ben.]]


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* TotallyNotACriminalFront: One of SPYDER's rival organizations is called the International Tulip Grower's Association. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Spy School at Sea,'' where Murray admits that the International Tulip Growers Association is a legitimate organization and he only claimed they were evil as part of a LongGame to manipulate Ben.]]

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* AntiMutiny: In the climax of ''Spy School Goes North'', [[spoiler:Russian spy Ivan falters in his plan to launch a missile at the Alaskan oil reserves due to it learning it will kill his granddaughter. His {{Mook}}s all ignore him and try to go through with the plan due to having spent years being separated from their families and hiding out in Siberia.]]



* ClosetKey: In ''Spy School Goes North'', [[spoiler:Zoe learns that she's bisexual the moment she lays eyes on teenaged Russian spy Svetlana.]]



* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Everyone views Ben as a NonActionGuy for the first ten and a half books, even Ben himself, but ''Spy School Goes North'' reveals that he only ''looks'' weak compared to all of the other spies in training, and he handily beats up a few {{Mook}}s.



* EarpieceConversation: Happens pretty often.

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* EarpieceConversation: Happens Covert radio conversations happen pretty often. often while Ben is in the field.
* EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas: In ''Spy School Goes North'', Ben is trying to stop a missile launch and sees a Russian phrase appear on the computer screen that "read either ''Ready to fire'' or ''Gargle the eggplant.''"


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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The last scene (besides the usual epilogue in the form of a letter) in ''Spy School Goes North'' is everyone, even the book's main villain, laughing as they recall how Cyrus Hale (who has been even more unlikable than usual lately) got his hair singed off by a flamethrower boobytrap earlier in the book.
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* CutenessProximity: In ''Spy School Goes North'', Ben and Erica can’t help notice the adorableness of various seal and otter families in a fjord that they are fleeing through, and work hard to make sure that they don’t cause the heat-seeking torpedoes that are fired at them to hurt any of those animals.
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* ActionGirl: Erica, Catherine, Zoe, and Ashley can all beat up most of the male characters without trying and only seem to have difficultly against MadeOfIron villains like Dane Brammage and DarkActionGirl Ashley Sparks (and even then, they usually beat those two in the end).

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* ActionGirl: Erica, Catherine, Zoe, and Ashley Zoe can all beat up most of the male characters without trying and only seem to have difficultly against MadeOfIron villains like Dane Brammage and DarkActionGirl Ashley Sparks (and even then, they usually beat those two in the end).

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No longer a trope


* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Spy School at Sea,'' the cruise ship captain is guilty of harboring international fugitives in exchange for money, HumanTrafficking forced laborers, smuggling stolen antiques, and serving banquet food ten days past the expiration date.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
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In ''Spy School at Sea,'' the cruise ship captain is guilty of harboring international fugitives in exchange for money, HumanTrafficking forced laborers, smuggling stolen antiques, and serving banquet food ten days past the expiration date.date.
** When the Hales are describing how Leo Shang is trying to destroy something in the Rocky Mountains.
--->'''Cyrus:''' The U.S. government has dozens of extremely critical facilities there: The headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense, Strategic Missile Command, the Air Force Academy...\\
'''Alexander:''' The Central Food and Seed Reserve.\\
''Cyrus frowned disdainfully at this, but he didn't discount it either.''



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: When the Hales are describing how Leo Shang is trying to destroy something in the Rocky Mountains.
--> '''Cyrus:''' The U.S. government has dozens of extremely critical facilities there: The headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense, Strategic Missile Command, the Air Force Academy...
--> '''Alexander:''' The Central Food and Seed Reserve.
--> ''Cyrus frowned disdainfully at this, but he didn't discount it either.''
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It shares a name with a completely unrelated ShowWithinAShow from ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart''.
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It shares a name with a ShowWithinAShow from ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart''.

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It shares a name with a completely unrelated ShowWithinAShow from ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart''.

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