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• Acceptable Targets: Hippies.
  • Acceptable Ethnic Targets: Through modern eyes, the portrayal of the Japanese brothers in The Mysterious Code is just painful. See Unfortunate Implications and National Stereotypes.
• Base Breaker: Hallie Belden is either the greatest or the worst. There is no other option.
• Canon Sue: Trixie can verge on this at times, especially in Mystery of the Emeralds. Any character who doesn't adore her at first sight is vilified, Trixie monoppolizes Diana's birthday trip for her own mystery and throws a tantrum whenever someone else wants to actually explore Williamsburg, which is treated as justified, most of her endearing tomboy traits are lost. She's taught herself to develop a "photographic memory", a character meets her and immediately declares that she's the most intelligent of the three girls, and Trixie, who is from a middle-class family, is able to identify fake jewels with certainty before either of her two wealthy female friends, one of whom has grown up surrounded by precious jewelry.
• Die for Our Ship Dot Murray, a one-shot character from The Happy Valley Mystery, is often horribly demonized by the fandom, especially those at Jixemitri, a Trixie/Jim fan website. Dot has no dialogue at all, no seen interaction with Trixie, and even Trixie honestly admits that Dot is "swell." But Dot is crucified for the crime of being pretty, slender, and interested in Jim when he is single. Jixemitri fans sometimes create threads specifically to bash her.

• • Double Standard: As Jim's Romantic False Lead and as a teenage girl, Dot is continuously slutshamed, but Trixie's Romantic False Lead is subjected to nothing of the same kind of treatment, presumably because he is male.

• • • Seen here is a thread where Dot is written to be sexually promiscuous so members can pretend to be book characters and take turns calling her names. What makes this slightly pathetic is that most Trixie Belden fans are of the older female variety, which means a bunch of middle-aged women are Slut Shaming a fictional character without an established personality, just because she got in the way of their oh-so-precious OTP.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Dan, Regan, and Cap Belden are extraordinarily popular among fans.
• Fanon Discontinuity: The last five books of the series are almost universally disregarded by fans, for the lack of meaningful character interactions, blantant inconsistencies with the rest of the series, and overall poor quality.
• Only the Creator Does It Right: The Julie Campbell books (the first six) are generally regarded as much better than the rest of the series.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: At times, the Trixe/Jim vs. Trixie/Dan threads devolve into this.
• What an Idiot!: During Mystery of the Mississippi, Trixie and her friends are being stalked by a ruthless man, who unknownst to her, is a terrorist. What she does know is that a cohort of the terrorist has already nearly succeeded in bringing her and her five friends out to an isolated spot on the river, and they were only saved by sheer luck. So what does she decide to do? Go swimming in the hotel pool, alone, after hours, when she knows that she is in danger, which of course, leads to the terrorist nearly killing her. Too Dumb to Live barely even describes such stupidity.
• Unfortunate Implications: When The Mysterious Code was first printed in 1960, the two Japanese men were written as National Stereotypes with the typical "Asian" accent of replacing R's with L's and Gratuitous English. The 2003 reprints removed the offensive accents but left in everything else.