History Literature / VeronicaMars

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: In ''Mr. Kiss and Tell'', when Logan offers Veronica bagels, Veronica responds, "Three years I lived in New York - three! I ''know'' from bagels, ''bubelah'' (sweetie, or friend). And now you want I should eat this [[ProductPlacement Trader Joe's]] ''chazzerai'' (junk)?", to which Logan responds, "Sesame it is, extra ''schmear'' (spread)."

* BittersweetEnding: In ''Mr. Kiss and Tell'' [[spoiler:Veronica has caught the bad guy, but Grace has to drop out of school because she couldn't afford her tuition. She's also had to reveal herself as an escort to her friends and family. Lamb is ousted from office, but Keith is wary of the new sheriff. Weevil's friendship with the Mars family is shaken. While Veronica admits she's in love with Logan, she's uncertain how their relationship will last with him away and in danger with the Navy.]]

* FromBadToWorse: Poor [[spoiler:Grace Manning. After spending her childhood abused by her ultra-religious parents, they stopped holding back after Meg's death and Faith/Lilly's kidnapping. She runs away from home and becomes an escort in order to afford college. Then she's raped, tortured and left for dead in a junkyard.]]

** {{Zigzagged}} with Aurora and her gay male best friend: he's openly gay from the start of their friendship and so she never pretends to be his girlfriend, but [[spoiler:it turns out that ''was'' the Beard: in fact they ''are'' a couple, and used his presumed homosexuality to con Aurora's parents into sanctioning "sleepovers" and weekends away that they'd never have approved of if they knew they two were sexually involved. Really, it's just a short step from this to faking Aurora's second abduction and screwing over Tanner for his ill-gotten ransom money.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Logan only appears in three brief scenes, via Skype chat with Veronica.

* RealityEnsues: Following on from the generally positive tone at the end of the movie, there are a number of consequences for the characters that get picked up on:
** The movie ends with Veronica choosing PI work and a relationship with Logan in Neptune over a stable law career and a life with Piz in New York. While Veronica doesn't necessarily regret any of this, it's clear that her relationship with Keith is under strain due to his disapproval of all of the above, particularly in the first book.
** Keith himself is still recovering from his near-fatal injuries sustained in the movie. As of the first book, he's still in physiotherapy, unable to return to work, and walks with the aid of a cane.
** Mac's decision to leave her job at Kane Software to work as Veronica's assistant and technician has some serious real-life repercussions: Mac struggles with the sudden hit to her previously cushy income, while Veronica feels guilty over being unable to pay her friend's wages on time.
** Weevil giving up on his hard-won family man persona and rejoining his old gang gets a mention in the first book, and becomes a plot point in the second.

* LittleMissConArtist: [[spoiler:The second missing girl, Aurora, who's also Veronica's step-sister, turns out to be a ruthless example of one: having been her Dad's accomplice for most of her childhood, she's got no compunctions about faking her own copycat abduction, even though it considerably slows down the search for the first victim, who really ''is'' missing.]]

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Aurora's]] plan in ''The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line'' is to [[spoiler:fake her own abduction ''twice'': first holing up in a motel with the aid of her dad while he fakes her disappearance for the media, then again with the help of her secret boyfriend to make her dad think she's been kidnapped for real from her hiding place. Her reasoning being that no matter what the outcome, she'll get a cut of the ransom money, and quite possibly a higher percentage than her dad originally planned to give her.]] Unfortunately for [[spoiler:her, she]] didn't quite factor in the combined detective skills and general badassery of Veronica and Keith Mars.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: In "The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line" Logan only appears via Skype because he is deployed in the Persian Gulf as a Naval Aviator. We hear that he is going on a mission (and that he did something to loose his internet access) but only in passing.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[PapaWolf Keith]] gets to reprise his role as this from the series at the end of ''The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line''. Made all the more {{Badass}} by the fact that he can't walk without a cane at the time.

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Aurora's]] plan in ''The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line'' is to [[spoiler:fake her own abduction ''twice'': first holing up in a motel with the aid of her dad while he fakes her disappearance for the media, then again with the help of her secret boyfriend to make her dad think she's been kidnapped for real from her hiding place. Her reasoning being that no matter what the outcome, she'll get a cut of the ransom money, and quite possibly a higher percentage than her dad originally planned to give her.]] Unfortunately for [[spoiler:her, she]] didn't quite factor in the combined detective skills and general {{Badass}}-ery of Veronica and Keith Mars.