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* UnderwaterCity: The mer pod of Port Toulouse Bay lives in a village in an underwater valley consisting mostly of low-lying caves.
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* NoodleIncident: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Wear High Heels'', Serena starts attending human school with Jade. She suffers a number of mishaps during her first week of school, including an "episode with the slushie machine" that we don't learn the details of.
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* NoodleIncident: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Wear Need High Heels'', Serena starts attending human school with Jade. She suffers a number of mishaps during her first week of school, including an "episode with the slushie machine" that we don't learn the details of.
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* ThreateningShark: Jade spends most of ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'' afraid that a shark will attack her. Her worries come true late in the book, when she's swimming along the seafloor with a heavy backpack and a tiger shark grabs the backpack and starts shaking her. Luckily for her, a pod of {{heroic dolphin}}s hear her ringing for help and start ramming into the shark, chasing it off.
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* DirtyCop: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', [[spoiler:Officer Carl Ensel turns out to be running a drug ring. He hires people to smuggle large amounts of cough medicine into the Bahamas, synthesizes it into a dangerous drug called Grip, and then gets local teenagers to deal it]].
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* GangOfBullies: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Rayelle is hassled both inside and outside of school by a group of girls who sell necklaces and use the money to buy expensive accessories. When Dillon was in school he would stand up for her, but now that he's dropped out, she's on her own. [[spoiler:Luckily for Rayelle, it turns out that most of their money comes not from selling necklaces, but from dealing drugs. Once Dillon reports their activities to the police, her problem is solved.]]
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* CryingWolf: Dillon, a sixteen-year-old conch diver who appears in ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', sees someone throw a body from a cruise ship near Nassau. He tries to report it, but he's a troublemaker who's been arrested for panhandling and theft, and everyone assumes it's another one of his tricks. It takes Dillon being kidnapped for people to take his report seriously. [[spoiler:It turns out that what he saw wasn't a dead body, but a live mer who was being forced to work as a drug mule.]]
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* HandsOffParenting: Dillon is the child of a DisappearedDad and a mom who doesn't care where he goes or what he does as long as he brings home money. After he goes missing, it takes three days before she gets concerned.
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* TragicDropout: Dillon dropped out of school because his mom wanted him to make more money.
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* {{Blackmail}}: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Jade and her best friend Cori Blake trespass in a construction site to look for the tidal pool where they think Jade's mom is staying. A security guard catches them, but he lets them go after Cori threatens to report him for watching TV on the job.
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* BetterAsFriends: In the first book, Jade's best friend Cori Blake starts dating Trey Martin. Cori spends most of the fourth book wanting to be romantic with Trey and being annoyed that he won't be serious. In the end she decides that she likes Trey's goofy personality, just not in a boyfriend. The two break up, but stay good friends.
* {{Blackmail}}: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Jade andher best friend Cori Blake trespass in a construction site to look for the tidal pool where they think Jade's mom is staying. A security guard catches them, but he lets them go after Cori threatens to report him for watching TV on the job.
* {{Blackmail}}: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Jade and
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Mermish speech is on the same frequency as dolphin language. Dolphins find the sound highly unpleasant and avoid mer pods whenever possible. But in ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Jade discovers that because of her human ancestry, dolphins can tolerate her mer voice and are even willing to talk to her. Their language turns out to be mostly mutually intelligible with Mermish.
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* UmbrellaDrink: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Jade's dad looks forward to sipping fancy drinks with umbrellas in the Bahamas. Once the family arrives in Nassau, one of the first things he does is find a bar and have three umbrella drinks in a row.
* UnderwaterCity: The mer pod of Port Toulouse Baycontains at least one mer town lives in a village in an underwater valley consisting mostly of low-lying caves.
* UnderwaterCity: The mer pod of Port Toulouse Bay
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* BathtubMermaid: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Jade's dad invents the Merlin 3000, a portable bathtub with just the right oxygen levels to help mers transform into humans. (Half-mers like Jade can transform from human to mer and back again in a few minutes, but full-blooded mers have to spend anywhere from hours to weeks partly immersed in water.)
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* BathtubMermaid: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Jade's dad father Dalrymple invents the Merlin 3000, a portable bathtub with just the right oxygen levels to help mers transform into humans. (Half-mers like Jade can transform from human to mer and back again in a few minutes, but full-blooded mers have to spend anywhere from hours to weeks partly immersed in water.)
* CommonLawMarriage: Michaela never got a legal identity when she came on land to live as a human, so she wasn't able to marry Dalrymple. Despite that, they've been in a relationship for at least fifteen years. Everyone else, including Jade, assumed they were married until Jade learns the truth in ''Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels''. By ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Michaela has finally gotten some forged documents. She and Dalrymple have their wedding in the Bahamas.
* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', a mean girl from Rayelle's school calls her "Raybies" and then laughs.
* PlaneAwfulFlight: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', the Baxters fly to the Bahamas for Dalrymple and Michaela's wedding. Jade discovers once the plane is in the air that she's afraid of flying. All the turbulence doesn't help. Neither do the toddler in the seat behind her who keeps hitting her headrest and the person who's reclined the seat in front of her all the way back.
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* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Michaela is finally reunited with her husband and daughter. She's still LegallyDead, so she pretends to be her sister Natasha.
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* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath'', Michaela is finally reunited with her husband and daughter. She's still LegallyDead, so she pretends to be her sister Natasha. She gets a pixie cut and dyes her previously dark hair blonde.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: In ''Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels'', Jade learns that Michaela is the daughter of [[spoiler:the Dame Council, the tyrannical leader the heroes want to overthrow]].
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* FrameUp: Serena's parents, Finalin and Medora, were framed for murdering the last Dame Council and imprisoned in Talisman Lake. Their real crime was criticizing the Mermish Council. Apparently a lot of the other prisoners in Talisman Lake are there for the same reason.
