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* LethalChef: In ''The Missing Millionaire'', Kurt, the hotel cook, makes unappetizing-looking breakfasts for the guests that include overcooked eggs and especially shriveled stewed prunes. He actually is a good cook (as shown by the meals he makes for his boss) when he takes the time to make an effort, but he and his boss don't care about making the extra effort to make their guest's meals tasty.
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* ''Literature/TeenPowerInc'': The odd jobs the kids take, their hobbies, and their relationships with their families get a lot of attention in many of the books, with it sometimes taking most of the book before they ever realize there is a mystery going on (or at least that they might be able to solve it).
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook In ''Green for Danger'', an unnamed petty crook robs the gang's latest client, briefly threatens them during his escape, and then dies when his panicking partner crashes their getaway car. Most of the gang is bothered by the man's death, while Nick expresses NoSympathy and is more concerned with the devastating financial loss of the robbery victim, a family friend. However, Nick does eventually let himself feel bothered by the man's fate and wonders if the getaway driver (who escaped) and the dead man were friends and the driver is traumatized about what happened or is more concerned about having one less person to share the loot with.
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* IronicNurseryTune: At the end of ''Danger in Rhyme'', local kids take up singing the song “This Old Man” near the site of one of the Nick Nack Bomber’s bombings, which were modeled after the rhymes in that song.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: There are kid friendly [[AnAesop Aesops]], a lot of humor, and CharacterDevelopment, but a surprisingly large number of villains are explicitly stated to have killed someone. [[spoiler:Recurring villain the Wolf is easily the worst of them, as Zim says everyone else who ever crossed him in the past turned up dead and the Wolf later has his goons kidnap the whole gang while planning to gas them to death once he gets a chance to gloat in person.]]
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: There are kid friendly [[AnAesop Aesops]], a lot of humor, and CharacterDevelopment, but a surprisingly large number of villains are explicitly stated to have killed someone.been involved in someone’s death. [[spoiler:Recurring villain the Wolf is easily the worst of them, as Zim says everyone else who ever crossed him in the past turned up dead and the Wolf later has his goons kidnap the whole gang while planning to gas them to death once he gets a chance to gloat in person.]]
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* TooDumbToFool: Richelle is more BrilliantButLazy (and detached) than genuinely dumb, but she is constantly picking up on simple truths faster than her friends. This is because she isn't imaginative enough to bother thinking too hard about something extraordinary with lots of {{Red Herring}}s (like solving a tricky math puzzle or speculating about whether a local couple is guilty of InsuranceFraud). Whether Richelle herself realizes the ''implications'' of what she's saying or merely gives someone else a EurekaMoment varies.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: GirlyGirl Richelle takes ballet lessons and, as a result, is secretly almost as strong as fitness buff Sunny and can kick shins or stomp feet with more strength than anyone expected, although this is rarely important to the story.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: GirlyGirl Richelle takes ballet lessons and, as a result, is secretly almost as strong as fitness buff Sunny and can kick shins people or stomp feet with more strength than anyone expected, although this is rarely important to the story.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: GirlyGirl Richelle takes ballet lessons and, as a result, can kick shins or stomp feet with more strength than anyone expected, although this is rarely, if ever, important to the story.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: GirlyGirl Richelle takes ballet lessons and, as a result, is secretly almost as strong as fitness buff Sunny and can kick shins or stomp feet with more strength than anyone expected, although this is rarely, if ever, rarely important to the story.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Many books give a lot of prominence to someone who died before the book began.
** ''The Ghost of Raven Hill'' has Elmo's grandfather, who died in a burglary prompted by how YouKnowTooMuch.
** The last act of ''Breaking Point'' teases the possibility that a past resident of the boarding house is buried in the cellar, which is in fact true. [[spoiler:It just isn't the resident who everyone thinks is dead.]]
** In ''Crime in the Picture'', the late painter Selwyn Beard is constantly mentioned, with his paintings and still-living sister being large presences in the book.
** ''The Ghost of Raven Hill'' has Elmo's grandfather, who died in a burglary prompted by how YouKnowTooMuch.
** The last act of ''Breaking Point'' teases the possibility that a past resident of the boarding house is buried in the cellar, which is in fact true. [[spoiler:It just isn't the resident who everyone thinks is dead.]]
** In ''Crime in the Picture'', the late painter Selwyn Beard is constantly mentioned, with his paintings and still-living sister being large presences in the book.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: GirlyGirl Richelle takes ballet lessons and, as a result, can kick shins or stomp feet with more strength than anyone expected, although this is rarely, if ever, important to the story.
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* OnlySaneMan: Sometimes Sunny can take this role, mostly because she can't be manipulated or tricked easily. In ''Dirty Tricks'', Richelle muses that Sunny is the group member least likely to get the six kids into trouble and most likely to get them out of it. Nick ''thinks'' he's this.
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* OnlySaneMan: Sometimes Sunny can take this role, mostly because she can't be manipulated or tricked easily. In ''Dirty Tricks'', Richelle muses that Sunny is the group member least likely to get the six kids into trouble and most likely to get them out of it. Nick ''thinks'' he's this. this, but his arrogance often counters his practicality.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Crime in the Picture'', Nick is startled when "calm, sensible, level-headed Sunny" screams at him about how stupid and risky it was of him to delay a potential disaster by lying to his mother and some local bigwigs.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Crime in the Picture'', Nick is startled when "calm, sensible, level-headed Sunny" screams at him about how stupid and risky it was of him to delay a potential disaster by lying to his mother and some local bigwigs.
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* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Several books, including ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice, ''The Secret of Banyan Bay'', ''The Missing Millionaire'', ''Crime in the Picture'', ''The Case of Crazy Claude'', ''Photo Finish'', ''Danger in Rhyme'', and ''Dirty Tricks'', feature a local (often the gang's employer) who has little to do with the rest of the town and is often viewed as being aloof, weird, or or scary, but shows a lot of warmth around the gang (or at least the narrator) sooner or later, and occasionally throughout all of their pagetime. However, this is also played with, since some of those characters turn out to be the VillainOfTheWeek, or at least a BitchInSheepsClothing.
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* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Several books, including ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Apprentice'', ''The Secret of Banyan Bay'', ''The Missing Millionaire'', ''Crime in the Picture'', ''The Case of Crazy Claude'', ''Photo Finish'', ''Danger in Rhyme'', and ''Dirty Tricks'', feature a local (often the gang's employer) who has little to do with the rest of the town and is often viewed as being aloof, weird, or or scary, but shows a lot of warmth around the gang (or at least the narrator) sooner or later, and occasionally throughout all of their pagetime. However, this is also played with, since some of those characters turn out to be the VillainOfTheWeek, or at least a BitchInSheepsClothing.
