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• In The Ghost of Raven Hill:
  • When Sunny and Liz are trapped in a burning building, Sunny keeps a calm head, remembers fire safety instructions and keeps Liz from going into a dangerous area. Then she manages to break a skylight, boosts Liz through it, and uses her gymnastics skills to bounce off the wall to launch herself onto the roof. Liz mentally vows to never joke about how much time Sunny spends practicing gymnastics ever again.
  • When rival newspaper owner Sheila Star drops by to gloat about the misfortune Zim has been having in a Sugary Malice way, the normally polite and quiet Elmo launches into a long and accurate Shut Up, Hannibal! moment and (accurately) accuses her of one act of dishonesty and sabotage after another while fixing a Death Glare at her.
  • The Mole who has been spying on the Zimmers for Sheila Star may not be too likable, but she still departs with style. She reacts to evidence of her actions with an amused smile, a unworried confession (as nothing she has done is prosecutable), and a smug Take This Job and Shove It quip.
  • The climax has Zim welcome the culprit inside for a business deal, accept a check, then tear it up and deliver a simultaneous summation and "The Reason You Suck" Speech. He drives that person into a panic by bringing up the Accidental Murder of his father some time before the book and then triumphantly produces the evidence his father had against the man. The culprit lunges for the evidence, only for the cops in the next room to show themselves.
• In The Sorcerers' Apprentice, Tom, Sunny, and two guest characters defeat The Dreaded mugger the Raven Hill Gripper with some martial arts moves, some items from a novelty shop (with itching powder being the most effective), and a bit of ventriloquism to make it seem like the cops already have the building surrounded.
• The climax of The Missing Movie Star sees Nick, Richelle, and Detectives Maroni and Reilly working to trace back the route a pair of kidnappers took. The cops then storm the house and capture one kidnapper after a short gunfight, while his partner flees outside and nearly takes Nick and Richelle hostage before Richelle knocks him out with a ballet kick.
• In Cry of the Cat, Sunny crawls through a pipe to escape from a cellar and get help.
• The climax of Beware the Gingerbread House takes place in a candy shop with a Hansel and Gretel motif, and Sunny locks The Heavy inside an oven (but doesn't turn it on) after a struggle.
• In "Green for Danger":
  • The Action Prologue features the client of the week, Mr. Terzi, pulling a gun on a violent robber and chasing him throughout the Big Fancy House, firing several shots and then briefly wrestling with him.
  • Sunny lures a second thief who has captured several of the others into trying to grab her, then kicks him and gets him to chase her away from the others while Nick freezes the others and then distracts the villain with a bluff in time to stop his getaway.
• In The Missing Millionaire:
  • When a kidnapper pulls a knife on Sunny in the climax, a Badass Bystander motel guest incapacitates the villain with a wrestling hold and punches their knife out of their hands when the criminal tries to fight back.
  • When the second villain of the book (who pulls a downplayed Karma Houdini by avoiding jail time but being publicly exposed as a reprehensible thief) tries to give money to the gang as a face-saving gesture, even Nick and Richelle turn away in disgust despite their normal greed and materialism.
• In Poison Pen, Elmo follows the example his father set in the first book by working with the police to come up with a plan to trick a villain into confessing during a sting operation.
• In Nowhere to Run, Liz is taken hostage by a villain who leaves the other kids in a cave to die. She leaves a Trail Of Breadcrumbs of sorts for them to follow out of the cave, escapes from her captor, and then encounters a second villain who she locks out of his own car as she calls the police.
• In both "Danger in Rhyme" and "Crime in the Picture", Elmo risks his life trying to move people away from potential bombs.
• In Dangerous Game, Tom gets mugged while carrying a bag of raven statuettes that the gang are gathering for a scavenger hunt, and determinedly clings to them to keep them safe throughout a vicious beating for the sake of his friends and the younger kids who are helping them try to defeat the local bullies. Then, as soon as he is mostly recovered, he goes into a "staggering trot" to find his friends and warn them in case anyone is attacking them.
• The gardening competition in Bad Apples has a great moment for the One-Shot Character celebrity judge. He reveals that he snuck into town incognito a few days early to observe whether the competitors were presenting their actual gardens or were doing things like sabotaging competitors or adding in temporary flourishes at the last minute. Multiple competitors are suitably chagrined.
• In Crime in the Picture, Tom trips while chasing a fleeing crook but manages to grab his quarry's legs, tripping him as well, right as the police arrive.
• In Fear and Fashion:
  • As a villain is about to lose the gang after entering a hotel elevator, Sunny comes up with an Indy Ploy to have the gang each run to a different floor and hit the button to make the elevator stop there, then hide to see if their adversary gets off. And since they are spread out across different floors and the elevator's repeated stops are slowing it down, they are able to keep pace with the elevator by racing up more flights of stairs to pull the same trick on more floors until the villain finally does get off.
  • As the Villain of the Week is changing clothes in a bathroom stall to sneak out of the building in the climax, Richelle snatches the villain's clothes from the stall they are hanging over and then strolls out of the bathroom to tell the others that the fugitive is trapped and (due to being naked) won't be able to sneak off before the police come.
• In Danger in Rhyme, The police bomb squad manages to find and defuse two of the Mad Bomber's devices before they go off. They need a tip from the gang to search the right location the first time, but the second time, they find the bomb when the gang thought it would be somewhere else entirely.
• Every time the ditzy Richelle picks up on an important detail about the case. Often, it is related to a suspect's clothes or hair, but in Dirty Tricks, she gets a great "Eureka!" Moment about how a suspect is physically incapable of doing some of the things the culprit did seconds before the cops can handcuff that suspect. She then asks the real culprit an Armor-Piercing Question about why he is trying to hide a fresh bruise and drives him into a Villainous Breakdown.
• In Dirty Tricks, Sunny and a local teacher run into a burning library to rescue the librarian.
• In Dead End:
  • As despicable as the returning villain is, their plan (getting doubles of the gang to commit crimes and then pretend to be runaways so no one will notice they are kidnapping the kids) is quite audacious and meticulous. And that's without even considering that it is prepared from inside a prison cell which the villain ultimately escapes from in order to watch the culmination of their revenge up close.
  • Zim’s son disappears while Zim is on a business trip. Zim comes racing back to town to help investigate and, through some quick deductive reasoning, figures out which past enemy of the gang is the vengeance-seeking culprit even after Nick overlooks that person during their brainstorming session.
  • Nick frees his kidnapped friends from an attic and together they overpower the kids who impersonated them to frame them for various crimes and make it look like they ran away from town instead of being kidnapped. Then they tie up those kids, leave them in the attic in their places, and wait for the Big Bad to go up to the attic for some Evil Gloating. Once he does, Nick uses a crowbar to bring down the ladder-like stairway, trapping the villain in the attic.