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* AnimalLover: Harry loves animals, and supposedly refuses to mow the lawn because he doesn't want to hurt the grass. This is how Doug knows Harry didn't kill the Black Molly in ''Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion''--that would be too horrible even for him.



* FriendToAllLivingThings: Harry loves animals, and supposedly refuses to mow the lawn because he doesn't want to hurt the grass. This is how Doug knows Harry didn't kill the Black Molly in ''Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion''--that would be too horrible even for him.

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Harry loves animals, and supposedly refuses GassyGastronomy: After eating too many baked beans (in addition to mow [[TheAlcoholic drinking too much beer]]), Granddad Gumboyle farts so hard, he blows the lawn because he doesn't want to hurt roof off the grass. This is how Doug knows Harry didn't kill the Black Molly in ''Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion''--that would be too horrible even for him.house.

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** Remkiewicz's art as the series went on got more proportional. By the final volumes, Wummer's art showed the kids being shorter and younger looking.

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** Remkiewicz's art got more proportional as the series went on got more proportional. on. By the final volumes, Wummer's art showed depicted the kids being shorter and younger looking.



* CoolTeacher: Cool Principal: Mr. Cardini. He let Doug spike his hair.

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* CoolTeacher: Or rather a Cool Principal: Principal. Mr. Cardini. He let Cardini lets Doug spike his hair.



* FeudEpisode: Three times.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Harry loves animals, and supposedly refuses to mow the lawn because he doesn't want to hurt the grass. This is how Doug knows Harry didn't kill the Black Molly in ''Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion''-that would be too horrible even for him.
* {{Girlish Pigtails}}: Mary.

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* FeudEpisode: Three times.
separate books have this plot.
* FiveTokenBand: There's Song Lee (who's Korean), Mary (who is Jewish), [=ZuZu=] (who's Lebanese), Ida (who's black and has an ancestor from India), Dexter (who is Hispanic or Latin-American) and possibly Sidney (who's white and probably French because his last name is La Fleur).
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Harry loves animals, and supposedly refuses to mow the lawn because he doesn't want to hurt the grass. This is how Doug knows Harry didn't kill the Black Molly in ''Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion''-that Invasion''--that would be too horrible even for him.
* {{Girlish Pigtails}}: Mary.Mary has these.



* [[strike:[[EvilRedhead Evil]]]] [[EvilRedhead Jerk Ass Redhead]]: Sidney.
* {{Limited Wardrobe}}
* LongRunningBookSeries: Ran for thirty one years from 1988 to 2019 for a total of thirty seven books (plus four spin-off books starring Song Lee).
* NewYearSameClass
* NightmareRetardant: InUniverse. In the first book, Harry crafts stud people and calls them "the scariest creatures in the world". On the day before Halloween, he releases them into his classroom and expects doom. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, none of his victims were scared. Song Lee plays with the stud people, Sydney, Ida, and Mary never notice them, and Miss Mackle calls them cute.]]

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* [[strike:[[EvilRedhead Evil]]]] [[EvilRedhead Jerk Ass Redhead]]: Sidney.
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Sidney, the resident bully.
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{{Limited Wardrobe}}
* LongRunningBookSeries: Ran for thirty one years The series ran from 1988 to 2019 (a span of thirty-one years), for a total of thirty seven thirty-seven books (plus four spin-off books starring Song Lee).
* NewYearSameClass
NewYearSameClass: Subverted. Harry and his class move on to the next grade in the aptly titled ''Horrible Henry Moves Up to the Third Grade.''
* NightmareRetardant: InUniverse. In the first book, Harry crafts stud people and calls them "the scariest creatures in the world". On the day before Halloween, he releases them into his classroom and expects doom. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, none of his victims were are scared. Song Lee plays with the stud people, people; Sydney, Ida, and Mary never notice them, them; and Miss Mackle calls them cute.]]



* {{Our Dragons Are Different}}: In ''Horrible Harry and the Dragon War'', Harry and Song Lee get into an argument about Asian and European dragons. There is a fierce rivalry about which type is better, but they end up concluding both types of dragon are good.

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* {{Our Dragons Are Different}}: In ''Horrible Harry and the Dragon War'', Harry and Song Lee get into an argument about Asian and European dragons. There is a fierce rivalry about which type is better, but they end up concluding that both types of dragon are good.



* {{Sassy Black Woman}}: Ida is an aversion. (Well, she's only seven or eight years old, so yeah.)

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* {{Sassy Black Woman}}: Ida is an aversion. (Well, Justified since she's only seven or eight years old, so yeah.)old.



* {{Tear Jerker}}: In-universe - when Miss Mackle is reading the part of ''[[Literature/CharlottesWeb Charlotte's Web]]'' where [[spoiler:Charlotte]] dies, Harry and Song Lee cry.
* {{Token Minority}}: There's Song Lee (who's Korean), Mary (who is Jewish), [=ZuZu=] (who's Lebanese), Ida (who's black and has an ancestor from India), Dexter (who is Hispanic or Latin-American) and possibly Sidney (who's probably French because his last name is La Fleur).

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* {{Tear Jerker}}: In-universe - when In-universe--when Miss Mackle is reading the part of ''[[Literature/CharlottesWeb Charlotte's Web]]'' where [[spoiler:Charlotte]] dies, Harry and Song Lee cry.
* {{Token Minority}}: There's Song Lee (who's Korean), Mary (who is Jewish), [=ZuZu=] (who's Lebanese), Ida (who's black and has an ancestor from India), Dexter (who is Hispanic or Latin-American) and possibly Sidney (who's probably French because his last name is La Fleur).
both cry.



* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It have To Be Elevators]]: Harry is terrified of elevators because of getting stuck in one in a department store when he was three.

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* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It have To Be Elevators]]: [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes]]: Harry is terrified of elevators because of getting stuck in one in a department store when he was three.
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* SpidersAreScary: In ''Horrible Harry Moves Up to the Third Grade'', Harry brings his pet spider to school. Harry, being Harry, loves spiders, but the rest of the class finds his pet scary. Sidney ends up killing it, which turns Harry against him for the rest of the book.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Harry loves animals, and supposedly refuses to mow the lawn because he doesn't want to hurt the grass. This is how Doug knows Harry didn't kill the Black Molly in ''Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion''-that would be too horrible even for him.

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