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* MissingMom: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', all we learn about Annabelle and Sebastian's mother is that she's "not here."

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** In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', Hakim Yakoub refers to his ten-year-old daughter Atira as "motherless" and says that she'll be left an orphan if he dies.



** Jasmine, a young girl from medieval Sidon who appears in ''Freddy's Final Quest'', smells like jasmine.

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** Jasmine, Atira, a young girl from medieval Sidon who appears in ''Freddy's Final Quest'', smells like jasmine.

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* ICommaNoun: ''I, Freddy''.


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* ICommaNoun: ''I, Freddy''.
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* HumanLadder: During the rabbits' show in ''The Haunting of Freddy'', Lucinda sings a song about her TrademarkFavoriteFood celery, which she insists on doing on top of a three-story pyramid of nine rabbits. Then she sees Enrico and Caruso walking towards her nibbling on celery. She demands that the other rabbits put her down, but after struggling to form the pyramid, they don't want her to leave before finishing her song. Lucinda struggles until the pyramid collapses.

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* HumanLadder: During the rabbits' show in ''The Haunting of Freddy'', Lucinda sings a song about her TrademarkFavoriteFood celery, which she insists on doing on top of a three-story pyramid of nine rabbits. Then she sees Enrico and Caruso walking towards her nibbling on celery. She demands that the other rabbits put her down, but after struggling to form the difficulty of forming the pyramid, they don't want her to leave before finishing her song. Lucinda struggles until the pyramid collapses.
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* ShooTheDog: In ''I, Freddy'', Sophie's mom grudgingly tolerates Freddy at first, but when she discovers she's allergic to his fur, she makes Sophie give Freddy to Mr. John.

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* BilingualAnimal:
** Freddy is a downplayed example -- he can't speak like a human, but he can type, which allows him to translate for the animals.
** ''Freddy's Final Quest'' has Tjark the robotic hamster, who is programmed to speak English, and who picks up Interanimal in minutes.



* RaceAgainstTheClock: Tjark the robotic hamster from ''Freddy's Final Quest'' has a time machine built into him, but his batteries only last 48 hours, so the protagonists need to finish their mission in that amount of time or they'll be stuck in the Middle Ages forever. In practice the time limit ends up being closer to one day because Tjark is forced to burn hours' worth of energy traveling and breaking his fall from a table, and because Tjark expends more energy under stress just like any other animal. They finally make it back to the present with less than a second to spare.

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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Tjark the robotic hamster from ''Freddy's Final Quest'' has a time machine built into him, but his batteries only last 48 hours, so the protagonists need to finish their mission in that amount of time or they'll be stuck in the Middle Ages forever. In practice the time limit ends up being closer to one day because Tjark is forced to burn hours' worth of energy traveling and breaking his fall from a table, and because Tjark expends more energy under stress just like any other animal. They finally make it back to the present with less than a second to spare.
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', the monk Francis turns out to be one of the very few humans who can understand Interanimal, allowing him to translate Enrico and Caruso's skits for Cavaliere Goldoni.


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* TemporalSickness: In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', Freddy and Sir William both feel severely nauseous for several minutes after they arrive in the 1100s. Enrico and Caruso both feel fine. When the protagonists return to the present day, everyone feels even more sick than before, and even Enrico and Caruso are affected this time.
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* FirstKiss: In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', Freddy kisses Zuleika, the first female of his species he's met since he was a baby.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Tjark the robotic hamster from ''Freddy's Final Quest'' has a time machine built into him, but his batteries only last 48 hours, so the protagonists need to finish their mission in that amount of time or they'll be stuck in the Middle Ages forever. In practice the time limit ends up being closer to one day because Tjark is forced to burn hours' worth of energy traveling and breaking his fall from a table, and because Tjark expends more energy under stress just like any other animal. They finally make it back to the present with less than a second to spare.

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* CopeByCreating: Freddy deals with the traumatic events of ''Freddy in Peril'' by writing them down.

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** More broadly, in ''Freddy's Final Quest'', Freddy realizes that reading and writing is a coping mechanism for his unnatural situation of being a wild animal who lives in an apartment, as golden hamsters aren't domesticated. If he lived in the wild, he wouldn't want to read or write.



* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Freddy wrote all five books on Mr. John's computer.

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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Freddy wrote all five books on Mr. John's computer.computer, besides [[spoiler:the epilogue of ''Freddy's Final Quest'', which was written by Mr. John]].
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* FindTheCure: In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', Signor Goldoni's son has an incurable genetic blood disorder that will soon kill him. Goldoni thinks that if he could get some of the family's DNA from before the disorder appeared in their bloodline, he would be able to develop a cure. He invents a time machine and sends Freddy, Sir William, Enrico, and Caruso back to twelfth century Assyria, where his ancestor Cavaliere Goldoni was a crusader, to try to collect a DNA sample.


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** Jasmine, a young girl from medieval Sidon who appears in ''Freddy's Final Quest'', smells like jasmine.


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* TemporalMutability: ''Freddy's Final Quest'' uses enforced immutability. Signor Goldoni invents a time machine, but determines that because going back and altering history would cause a paradox, and because a human would hardly be able to do anything without altering history, it must be impossible for humans to time travel. He calls it the Goldonian Law of Time Travel. Instead, he sends Freddy, Sir William, Enrico, Caruso, and the robotic hamster Tjark back in time because animals have no history or cultural influence.


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* WordSchmord: In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', Goldoni explains that the time capsule is protected by gravitational fields. Enrico says, "Gravitational, shmavitational. Who cares?"
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: In the backstory of ''The Haunting of Freddy'', Baron Templeton forbids peasants from using weapons to hunt on his land. In 1593, he redefines "weapons" to include animals, ruining the livelihood of Grim Harry, who uses ferrets to hunt rabbits. Grim Harry, who feels that the law is unjust, continues to hunt using ferrets. He's caught and publicly hanged. The Baron goes to a great deal of effort to make sure there are as many spectators as possible so everyone will know what happens to people who defy him.

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* CatScare: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the protagonists are discussing how to deal with Grim Harry when the door to the great hall suddenly slams open. Everyone is startled before they realize it was just a gust of wind.

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* CatScare: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the protagonists are discussing how to deal with the spirit of Grim Harry when the door to the great hall suddenly slams open. Everyone is startled before they realize it was just a gust of wind.


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* HumanLadder: During the rabbits' show in ''The Haunting of Freddy'', Lucinda sings a song about her TrademarkFavoriteFood celery, which she insists on doing on top of a three-story pyramid of nine rabbits. Then she sees Enrico and Caruso walking towards her nibbling on celery. She demands that the other rabbits put her down, but after struggling to form the pyramid, they don't want her to leave before finishing her song. Lucinda struggles until the pyramid collapses.
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* CatScare: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the protagonists are discussing how to deal with Grim Harry when the door to the great hall suddenly slams open. Everyone is startled before they realize it was just a gust of wind.


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* CopycatMockery: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the rabbit Marmaduke puts on airs by strutting around on his hind legs like a human. Enrico and Caruso walk on their hind legs behind him and imitate his gestures to make the assembled rabbits laugh. Every time Marmaduke turns around, the guinea pigs run down a hole before he can see them.


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* FrightDeathtrap: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', Grim Harry first appears to the elderly Agatha Templeton. He gives her a fatal heart attack, possibly by showing her images of people being tortured in the 1500s.
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the Templetons are descended from a sixteenth-century baron, but they're running low on money and their castle has fallen into disrepair.


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* MissingMom: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', all we learn about Annabelle and Sebastian's mother is that she's "not here."
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* VerbalTic: In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the rabbit Nibbles stammers the first word or two of each sentence, then jumps into the air and says the whole sentence without difficulty.

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* SapientEatSapient: Sir William is too civilized to eat pets, but when he's away from Mr. John's apartment he has no qualms about eating wild mice. Freddy is shocked the first time this happens in ''Freddy in Peril'', but he eventually gets used to the idea and compares it to hamsters eating live mealworms.



* SignatureScent: Freddy sees most people as having one.

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* SignatureScent: Freddy sees most To Freddy, many people as having have one.
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* DudeNotFunny: In ''Freddy to the Rescue'', the field hamsters are in despair over the bulldozers that have been destroying their burrows and killing them one by one. Enrico and Caruso try to cheer them up with a skit in which Caruso plays a bulldozer, but the hamsters boo them off the stage and chase them out of the cave.
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: At the beginning of ''Freddy to the Rescue'', Freddy is awakened by someone screaming "Help! The Hamster Killer! It's outside my burrow!" in Interanimal. When Freddy tells the other animals about it, Sir William tells him he ate too much before bed and advises him to only eat a morsel or two of lettuce for supper in the future. But a few minutes later, there's another scream, and this time Sir William hears it too.


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* DramaticSitDown: In ''Freddy to the Rescue'', Mr. John tells Linda to sit down before Freddy shows her he can type. It turns out that rather than being shocked, Linda already figured out Freddy's secret because of the miniature rope ladder leading from the floor to the top of Mr. John's desk -- there's no food or exercise equipment on the desk, so she correctly guessed the ladder was there to give Freddy access to the computer.


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** Jenny, a.k.a. Muskrat Three, smells like rosemary.


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* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: In ''Freddy to the Rescue'', Mr. John decides to let Linda in on Freddy's secret so she can help save the field hamsters. The only reason Mr. John knows there are hamsters in the wheat field is because Freddy heard one of them screaming for help, and Linda isn't going to help them unless she knows what Mr. John's source is.

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