History YMMV / TrixieBelden

** Jim rarely shows signs of a teenager who's lived with an abusive step-parent.

** Jim rarely shows signs of a teenager who's lived with an abusive stepparent.

* {{Die For Our Ship}} Dot Murray, a one-shot character from ''The Happy Valley Mystery'', is often horribly demonized by the fandom, especially those at [[http://jixemitri.net/index2.html Jixemitri]], a Trixie/Jim fan website. Dot has no dialogue at all, no seen interaction with Trixie, and even Trixie honestly admits that Dot is "swell." But Dot is crucified for the crime of being pretty, slender, and interested in Jim when he is single. Jixemitri fans sometimes create threads specifically to bash her.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In Trixie and Dan's interactions in ''The Black Jacket Mystery,'' neither of them of them are portrayed as completely innocent. Trixie, however, is the main character, and it is obvious from the narration that the audience is supposed to side with her. But that's difficult to do considering these factors, especially during re-reads:
** Trixie lives in a sheltered small town, with an intact, stable family, in nice farmhouse with farm property. Her father is the bank manager, her mother is a homemaker. The family is said to be [[InformedFlaw poor]], but they never face any financial difficulties or shortage of food or clothing, and they can afford to give four teenagers five dollars a week each (this was established in 1951. With inflation, that's over forty dollars per teen each week). Her closest friends are exceedingly wealthy for their time. Trixie is thirteen.
** In contrast, Dan lived through the death of his father, and later on, the death of his mother, lived on the streets of New York City for a time, joined a street gang to survive, was arrested in a gang fight, and shipped off to live with his uncle, who he didn't know at all. The uncle, embarrassed to be associated with him, denied relationship to him, and shipped Dan off to live with a hermit-like gamekeeper who lived in the middle of the woods. Not only did this mean Dan was isolated from diverse human contact, but we later see that he was forced to walk long distances to reach the school bus stop (or get to anywhere) and was not equipped with the proper gear for rough terrain in winter, nor did he actually know the way. [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices Why this arrangement was allowed is anyone's guess.]] Dan is somewhere between [[VagueAge fourteen to sixteen when this is going]]. Granted, Trixie only knows about where Dan is living, not why, until the book's ending.

* AcceptableTargets: Hippies.

*** Basically, looking at the book from Dan's perspective, a sheltered, spoiled, wealthy girl who everyone loves continually belittles and insults him, destroys his chances of turning over a new leaf, ruins his relationship with his uncle, and makes false accusations against him, and leads to a dangerous criminal being able to go undetected. It's a wonder why he bothered becoming friends with her, let alone saving her and her younger brother's life at the end of the book.
* {{What An Idiot}}: During ''Mystery of the Mississippi'', Trixie and her friends are being stalked by a ruthless man, who unknownst to her, is a terrorist. What she does know is that a cohort of the terrorist has already nearly succeeded in bringing her and her five friends out to an isolated spot on the river, and they were only saved by sheer luck. So what does she decide to do? Go swimming in the hotel pool, ''alone'', ''after hours'', when she knows that she is in danger, without telling anyone where she's going, which of course, leads to the terrorist nearly killing her. {{Too Dumb To Live}} barely even describes such stupidity.

* {{Lawful Good}}: {{Depending on the Writer}}, Dan might not be.