History Literature / GeronimoStilton

* MicroDieting: In "A Cheese-Colored Camper," William Shortpaws' personal chef, Tina Spicytail, decides he needs to lose weight and only serves him an olive and a single piece of lettuce for dinner.

* WeightLossSalad: In ''A Cheese-Colored Camper,'' William Shortpaws' personal chef, Tina Spicytail, decides he needs to lose weight and only serves him an olive and a single piece of lettuce for dinner.
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: In ''Four Mice Deep in the Jungle'', Geronimo's fears end up overtaking his life to the point that he refuses to leave his apartment. It gets so bad that his family has to practically kidnap him, send him on a plane to Rio Mosquito, and trick him into signing up for a survival course in the jungle. Oh, and Geronimo is ''contractually obligated'' to finish the course or else pay a million-dollar fine, and since he doesn't even have that kind of money, he’s forced to face many of his fears head-on over the course of a week.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Never mentioned in the main series (for instance, William Shortpaws is retired in book 4 and lives in the Hawaiian islands, whereas in the regular book series, he still lives in New Mouse City)

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Big Toes, from the S2 episode "The Legend Of Big Toes". [[spoiler: Though he's actually no different from the humanoid mice in the show; only much, much taller, hairier, and being [[TheSpeechless speechless]].]]

* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of "The Mask of Rat-Jitsu", Geronimo takes out a vial of a rare, strong-smelling cheese from his safe and inadvertently puts it in his clothes. He finally got to use it [[spoiler:during the said episode's climax to knock out the villain of the episode and his {{mook}}s.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Barry the Moustache is a hardened criminal [[spoiler: at first, anyway]], but even he is outraged at [[spoiler: Sally Rasmaussen falsely accusing him of kidnapping in her scheme to humiliate Geronimo]] .

* VoicesAreMental: Averted - in the FreakyFridayFlip episode "Trade Off" Geronimo and Sally switch bodies but their voices aren't switched along with it. Geronimo-in-Sally's-body even remarks on his changed voice.
** Is played straight however in "The Incredible Shrinking Stiltons" when Trap ends up switching bodies with a (female) dog.

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[[caption-width-right:350: Everyone, [[ActingUnnatural act natural]]![[note]]From L to R: [[CowardlyLion Geronimo]], [[CloudCuckooLander Trap]], [[TheLancer Thea]], [[TagAlongKid Benjamin]].[[/note]]]]

* DeathGlare: Geronimo receives a collective one in the Empire State Building and on the Brooklyn Bridge in ''A Very Merry Christmas after calling out for Mrs. Smith.

* ArtEvolution: In the first books, Trap looks different, wearing a white shirt and red suspenders. Later, he gets his current look, with the ponytail, earring and Hawaiian shirt. [[OrwellianRetcon Some reprints of older books redraw him with the current look]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first novels were implied the island to be a LostWorld within ours and sported a somewhat-abstract watercolour artstyle. Later entries are explicitly set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals that is LikeRealityUnlessNoted, and the artwork is done with much more conventional ink-and-paint (eventually switching to digital paint).

* StalkerWithACrush: Creepella is madly in love with Geronimo and wants him to be her boyfriend, even kidnapping him and shoving him into the back of her hearse to take him to Cacklefur Castle, her family home. While they’re on much friendlier terms after the events of ''The Secret of Cacklefur Castle'', Geronimo understandably doesn't really reciprocate her love for him.

[[caption-width-right:350: Everyone, [[ActingUnnatural act natural]]![[note]]From L to R: [[CowardlyLion Geronimo]],[[CloudCuckooLander Trap]], [[TheLancer Thea]], [[TagAlongKid Benjamin]].[[/note]]]]

* FurryConfusion: Non-anthropomorphic rats have appeared in some episodes. Downplayed in that only mice are anthropomorphic.

* SceneryPorn: Later books have ''beautiful'' backgrounds. Most notably is the Fantasy Kingdom books -- the third one has a beautiful depiction of New Mouse City in spring.

* RainbowSpeak: [[gold:ᏕᎧ]]. [[red:𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕂𝕀ℕ𝔾]]. [[blue:𝓜𝓤𝓒𝓗]].[[note]]"SO. FREAKING. MUCH." for those who cannot interpret what's spelled out in unicode in any way[[/note]] It's also BoldInflation, as words in the text and with ''any'' level of importance are colored and rendered in larger and fun typefaces.

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: In ''Four Mice Deep in the Jungle'', Geronimo's fears end up overtaking his life to the point that he refuses to leave his apartment. It gets so bad that his family has to practically kidnap him, send him on a plane to Rio Mosquito, and trick him into signing up for a survival course in the jungle. Oh, and Geronimo is ''contractually obligated'' to finish the course or else pay a million-dollar fine, and since he doesn't even have that kind of money, he’s forced to face many of his fears head-on for a full week.

* StalkerWithACrush: Creepella is madly in love with Geronimo and wants him to be her boyfriend, even kidnapping him and shoving him into the back of her hearse to take him to Cacklefur Castle, her family home. While they’re on much friendlier terms after the events of ''The Secret of Cacklefur Castle'' Geronimo understandably doesn't really reciprocate her love for him.

* StalkerWithACrush: Creepella is madly in love with Geronimo and wants him to be her boyfriend, even kidnapping him and shoving him into the back of her hearse to take him to Cacklefur Castle, her family home. Understandably, he doesn't really reciprocate.

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: ''The Wild, Wild West'' is revealed to be this in the end since Geronimo had fallen asleep while watching a documentary involving said Wild West.]]
* ArtEvolution: In the first books, Trap looks different, wearing a white shirt and red suspenders. Later he gets his current look, with the ponytail, earring and Hawaiian shirt. [[OrwellianRetcon Some reprints of older books redraw him with the current look]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Penelope Poisonfur in ''Four Mice Deep in the Jungle''. Being a fan of Geronimo’s books, they initially hit it off well on the plane to Rio Mosquito. Unfortunately for Geronimo, Penelope turns out to also be the DrillSergeantNasty of the survival course he got duped into signing up for.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Glauseter, the video game company owner. steals an idea for a video game called ''[[{{Notzilla}} Ratzilla]]'' from a little boy named Chas, and commits numerous crimes in order to keep people from knowing the game was Chas' idea - including wiping their memories with an amnesia machine. Why doesn't he make money off of ''that'' and not some ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' ripoff game?

* PlotDrivenBreakdown: In "A Very Merry Christmas," Geronimo accidentally picks up someone else's bag instead of his own. The other person calls her own cellphone and starts to make arrangements for her and Geronimo to meet up and exchange bags, but her phone dies ''just'' before she says where to find her.

* SceneryPorn: Later books have BEAUTIFUL backgrounds. Most notably is the Fantasy Kingdom books (The third one has a beautiful depiction of New Mouse City in spring)

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: In ''Four Mice Deep in the Jungle'', Geronimo’s fears end up overtaking his life to the point that he refuses to leave his apartment. It gets so bad that his family has to practically kidnap him, send him on a plane to Rio Mosquito, and trick him into signing up for a survival course in the jungle. Oh, and Geronimo is ''contractually obligated'' to finish the course or else pay a million-dollar fine, and since he doesn’t even have that kind of money, he’s forced to face many of his fears head-on for a full week.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is made clear a billion times that ''Geronimo Stilton'' takes place on an Earth [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted like ours]], with a myriad settings of real-life locations, but where is Mouse Island supposed to be exactly? Mouse Island is located between the [[FictionalCounterpart Mousific Ocean and Ratalantic Ocean]]. Mouse Island is stated to be around 110,000 square miles, in which UsefulNotes/{{California}} is a little bigger than that, but the top and bottom have high climates of cold and hot respectively. Since ''Geronimo Stilton'' has fantastical elements, Mouse Island probably is supposed to be an [[CityOfAdventure Island of Adventure]], and the real-world locations are likely to be there only for familiarity and [[{{Edutainment}} to educate children]], maybe we [[BellisariosMaxim shouldn't have to worry about this at all]].

* IdenticalStranger: The Thea Sisters meet a mouseling named Carlotta in ''The Dancing Shadows'', and she and Colette look almost identical aside from a few minor details. [[spoiler: The girls later use this resemblance to their advantage to pull a TwinSwitch with Colette and Carlotta when the villains try to lock Carlotta in her room to prevent her from competing in the dance audition.]]

* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: The evil-aligned species in the Kingdom of Fantasy (ie. Witches, trolls, orges, dark fairies) celebrate and praise all things dark, dreary, and disgusting, and abhor all things good and pure.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness & EvilMakesYouUgly: This is fairly consistent throughout the books. Witches and ogres are always described as ugly, stinky, etc, while the royal family and most of the extras are conventionally pretty.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Thunderhorn and Sterling spend most of the first half of ''The Volcano of Fire'' arguing with each other over whose ideas are better, but after falling into the Fountain of Love, they start to suddenly treat each other with much more affection and respect. [[spoiler: The book ends with the pair getting engaged, and Vol pointing out that falling into the fountain didn't make them fall in love, rather they were already in love with each other but were too stubborn/shy to admit it.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Arachne, guardian of the Kingdom of the Witches, is a GiantSpider about the size of a three story building.

* ElectiveMute: Princess Snowy Dawn in ''Quest for Paradise'' does not speak, owing to a traumatic childhood accident that resulted in the death of her parents. She instead chooses to communicate with short sentences written on note cards. [[spoiler: By the end of the group's adventure, she's so overcome by gratitude for her new friends that she bursts into tears and finally starts to speak again.]]

* EvilTwin: ''The Phoenix of Destiny'' has Geronimo running all across the Kingdom of Fantasy at the behest of who he believes is Blossom, but is later revealed to be [[spoiler: Blossom's long-lost twin sister Wither, who made a pact with Cackle to overthrow Blossom and take over the Kingdom of the Fairies.]]

* ForcedTransformation: At the climax of ''The Dragon Prophecy'', [[spoiler: King Thunderhorn is revealed to have been cursed by Cackle years ago into assuming the form of a white deer, and is restored to his true elven form when Geronimo uses the magic healing water from the Garden of the Seven Sisters on him.]]

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Cackle, Queen of the Witches and prime antagonist of the series. Later books also introduce [[spoiler: Wither, Queen of the Dark Fairies and Blossom's EvilTwin sister.]]
* GoodFeelsGood: This is Blossom's main philosophy, insisting to King Grim that "evil dries you up; goodness makes you happy". [[spoiler: This line ends up being the catalyst that pushes Grim over the edge into heroism and causes him to turn on his half-sister Cackle.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: King Firebreath III doesn't bother to even try hiding his jealousy of Geronimo and Sterling in ''The Dragon Prophecy'', [[spoiler: to the point where he goes behind Sterling's back and makes a deal with Cackle to abduct the last dragon egg in exchange for becoming king of all the dragons.]]
* HappilyAdopted: In ''The Quest for Paradise'', Geronimo reveals that he was adopted by the Stilton family when he was just a baby. And in ''The Guardian of the Realm'', [[spoiler: Queen Blossom herself formally adopts Geronimo as her brother, making him an official part of the royal dynasty of the Winged Ones.]]

* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Towards the end of ''Quest for Paradise'', [[spoiler: Blossom has one of her servants return the Heart of Happiness to the cave, and when Geronimo raises a protest to her decree, she tells him that the heart was never the real purpose of his journey, and that happiness is what you experience, not something you can hold.]]

* MalevolentMaskedMen: King Grim of the Land of Nightmares wears a grey stone mask and commands an army of stone golems who wear similar masks. [[spoiler: He loses the mask in a battle with Cackle to defend Blossom, prompting his HeelFaceTurn and eventual name change.]]
* MeaningfulRename: In ''The Amazing Voyage'', [[spoiler: the newly redeemed Grim announces that in addition to now being engaged to Blossom, he's decided to changing his name to "George", which Geronimo agrees is a much more pleasant-sounding name for Queen Blossom's new consort.]]

* WeddingsForEveryone: ''The Amazing Voyage'' ends with a triple wedding between [[RulingCouple Blossom and George,]] [[LoveAtFirstSight Strongheart and Beatrice]], and Boils and his girlfriend.

* ShoutOut: In "The Secret of Cacklefur Castle," the Cacklefurs have a pet cockroach named [[Creator/FranzKafka Kafka]], a reference to Literature/TheMetamorphosis.

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: In ''Four Mice Deep in the Jungle'', Geronimo’s fears end up overtaking his life to the point that he refuses to leave his apartment. It gets so bad that his family has to practically kidnap him, send him on a plane to Rio Mosquito, and trick him into signing up for a survival course in the jungle. Oh, and Geronimo is ''contractually obligated'' to the course or else pay a million-dollar fine, and since he doesn’t even have that kind of money, he’s forced to face many of his fears head-on for a full week.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Penelope Poisonfur in ''Four Mice Deep in the Jungle''. Being a fan of Geronimo’s books, they initially hit it off well on the plane to Rio Mosquito. Unfortunately for Geronimo, Penelope turns out to also be the DrillSargentNasty of the survival course he got duped into signing up for.