Line #1 Literature/YouKilledWesleyPayne


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3	A 2011 MysteryFiction/ YoungAdult / HardboiledDetective parody novel by Sean Beaudoin.
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5	Dalton Rev, an amateur [[KidDetective Teen Detective]] transfers to Salt River High, a WretchedHive where cliques function more like gangs, to solve the murder of Wesley Payne, one of the most popular kids on campus.
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7	Modeling himself after Lexington Cole, a schlocky series of detective novels, Dalton handles armies of [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]], psychopathic punk rockers, textbook-racketeering nerds, and a faculty that operates on bribes to get to the bottom of an energy drink-fueled conspiracy. The novel features rather cartoonish imagery and outlandish characters. Its like detective noir [[UnusualEuphemism sliding]] with ComicBook/ScottPilgrim.
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9	!!Tropes associated with this work:
10	* AdultsAreUseless: Dalton holds this view, given his experiences with his parents.
11	* AffectionateParody: of HardboiledDetective fiction.
12	* AlphaBitch: Cassiopia Jones. [[spoiler: Subverted, its all an act.]]
13	* ArcWords: You killed Wesley Payne.
14	* AxesAtSchool: Clique tensions are so strong that there’s a gang of snipers, the Lee Harvies, who keep order. The Pinker Casket band is shown to actually be stockpiling axes for their takeover.
15	* BrandX: Boxxmart.
16	* BuffySpeak
17	%%* BuryYourGays --ZCE
18	* CorruptCop/ PoliceAreUseless: The cops are actively malevolent towards anyone snooping into Wesley’s death. [[spoiler: subverted at the end.]]
19	* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl: In fact, he gets her arrested.]]
20	* TheDreaded: Lee Harvies keep the barest semblance of order with the threat of sniping.
21	* DrivenToSuicide: The cops brush off Wesley’s death as this, Dalton thinks otherwise. [[spoiler: He’s wrong.]]
22	* EnemyCivilWar: The Balls, the football team, and Pinker Casket, the school rock band, each want to wipe each other out.
23	* FemmeFatale: Cassiopia Jones, [[spoiler: Macy Payne]].
24	* GenreSavvy: Dalton lives by HardboiledDetective rules.
25	* HardboiledDetective: Dalton Rev imagines himself to be one, basing himself off the fictional (that is, the stories are fictional) Lexington Cole series.
26	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Wesley killed himself to wake up the school to how terrible the clique system was.]]
27	* JerkJock: Jeff Chuff and his clique the Balls, the local football team.
28	* KidDetective
29	* KudzuPlot: In Noir tradition, there are wheels within wheels.
30	* MacGuffin: The money stolen from the principles vault.
31	* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: [[TheMole Mole]]]]
32	* [[spoiler: TheMole: Mole, of course.]]
33	* RelationshipReveal: a couple, the most notable being: [[spoiler: Wesley and Chuff]].
34	* TheReveal: Too many to count, even before the end.
35	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The mysterious Rush soda has shades of the energy drink health scare on high school and college campuses.
36	* TeenGenius: The Euclids.
37	* StylisticSuck: There’s a sample of a Lexington Cole novel in the extras, Mickey Spillane would be proud.
38	* UnusualEuphemism: All hard swearing is replaced with similar sounding gibberish, such as bloshite, and God is replaced with Bob. It really fits with how cartoonish the world is.
39	* WretchedHive

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