YMMV / Biggles

• Fair for Its Day: Although some of the language and attitudes are dated, the series is no worse (and perhaps somewhat better than) similar stories from the era. Johns himself appears to have been relatively progressive for the time, being an advocate for women pilots when this was still a controversial issue (See Distaff Counterpart). Biggles is also notable for showing no sign of racism or religious prejudice; on one occasion, when he's breaking into the hideout of some Japanese saboteurs in war-torn Burma he finds himself walking into a room where a number of men appear to be kneeling before a Shinto shrine, and his first instinct is to be utterly mortified for interrupting their prayers. As for other races, while white characters are often mentioned as not being too dark-skinned for their race, mixed-race characters are generally regarded as equal to the protagonists.
• Ho Yay:
  • Although in the first WWI adventure it is implied that Biggles had a fling with a French baronness/German Femme Fatale spy, by the end of the war, he seems to be completely disinterested in women and rather spends his time flying with 'the boys', Althoug this is handwaved by the fact that the Biggles stories are adventures primarily written for English schoolboys who at their age were generally uninterested in girls as well, there are many instances that a dirty mind looking for clues can interprete as to indicate that there was something more going on between Biggles, his cousin Algie, his protegé Ginger, the fobbish sometines effeminate Bertie and even his German favorite enemy Erich Von Stalhein
  • The nicknames of Biggles' companions being all more or less ambiguously tenderly male/female : Algie, Ginger, Bertie
  • The team not only flies together and goes on secret missions together, they also on various occasions spend their holidays together, just the three (or four) of them without inviting anyone else, especially not any female acquaintances.
  • It is a verifiable detail that only one woman even came close to seducing Biggles away from the manly embrace of his chums. A blonde Femme Fatale Spy called Ilse plays the Femme Fatale role, twice: on both occasions acting as agent for the dastardly villain, Count Erich von Stalhein of the German Intelligence Services.