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* '''Inverted''': Leslie became a detective when she was

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* '''Inverted''': Leslie became a detective when she waswas 9 years old, and she spent most of her life training Martin and Nina to be detectives too.
* '''Subverted''': Martin and Nina say multiple times throughout Season 1 that if they ever have a baby, they'll train the baby to be a detective, and they give birth to Leslie in the last episode, so the audience assumes she'll join her parents in being a detective. We see her again at age six in season 2, and she doesn't even know her parents are detectives.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** They start training her when she's 7.
** Leslie doesn't disclose to the POV character that she is a detective- her first lesson was to never tell anyone that she was being trained.
* '''Parodied''': At age five, Leslie solves cases for people in her class such as "Who stuck the booger on the desk" "Who called me fat" and "Who drank the last chocolate milk".
* '''Deconstructed''': When Leslie is fourteen, she decides she doesn't want to be a detective at all but an artist- after all, it's unreasonable to expect a child to want to do something because their parents told them to.
* '''Reconstructed''': Leslie is forbidden to do anything non-sleuthing-related so she doesn't discover any new interests that she may want to pursue.
* '''Averted''':
** Leslie gets a normal childhood despite being the daughter of detectives.
** Leslie is the daughter of normal people and she still becomes a detective.
* '''Enforced''': "Let's see, we need a good reason for Leslie to be much tougher and better at sleuthing than any of the other kids at the detective school so she isn't a MarySue. I know! She's been training since she was a baby!"
* '''Implied''': Detective Leslie shows Oliver a picture of her at age 4 reading a book on how to be a detective.
* '''Played for Drama''': Leslie laments on how she never got to have a real life.
* '''Exaggerated''': Since Leslie came out of the womb, her parents have been teaching her to be a detective.
* '''Downplayed''': Martin and Nina start teaching Leslie how to be a detective when she is 12.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Leslie was born to be a detective. She's been training since she was four."
* '''Invoked''': Penelope tells Martin and Nina to train Leslie from a young age, knowing this will make her even tougher and better at her job for when Penelope hires her to work at her evil organization.
* '''Defied''': Penelope kidnaps and raises Leslie so she doesn't have to grow up as a detective.
* '''Discussed''': "Come on. This isn't a movie, Leslie has not been training since she was a kid."

Now, young one, go back to BornDetective- and make sure to practice your deductive reasoning for your first day of kindergarten!
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* '''Basic''': A child is destined to be a detective from birth.
* '''Straight''': Since Leslie was old enough to walk, her parents have been training her in the detective ways, and she grows up to be a detective herself.
* '''Justified''': Leslie's parents, Martin and Nina, are detectives themselves and in a secret society. One of the society's rules is that any child of an agent must join the agency.
* '''Inverted''': Leslie became a detective when she was

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