Zoo Coup Riot
is a fanfic based on The Casagrandes by Metool Bard, the author of Missing Linc and The Fool Who Cried Foul.
Environmental extremists appear to be targeting the Great Lakes City Zoo through Sid, but is that really what's going on? Ronnie Anne intends to find out.
Zoo Coup Riot contains examples of:
- Animal Wrongs Group: The Animal Rights Foundation turn out to be a subversion.
- Armor-Piercing Question: When Carl accuses ARF of stealing Froggy 2, Ronnie Anne gets him to reconsider by asking if an organization that would remove someone from their position of head volunteer (Krile) because they didn't uphold the organization's ideals would steal someone's pet.
- Bound and Gagged: Ronnie Anne and Sid find Adelaide and Froggy 2 in a cage tied up with tape over their mouths.
- Character Tics: Nat near-constantly plays with her fidget spinner.
- Chekhov's Gun: A fire drill occurs in the second chapter. It turns out to have been a distraction for Mr. Zolvish to sneak into the school and plant a note in Sid's locker.
- Counting to Three: Ronnie Anne does this to get Carl off of her back.
- Damsel in Distress: Adelaide is kidnapped.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Rosa uses Ronnie Anne's full name of Ronalda when Ronnie Anne takes too long to get out of bed.
- Half-Identical Twins: Pat and Nat (biologically, at least).
- Homeschooled Kids: Pat and Nat, due to their family constantly being on the road.
- I Have Your Wife: Both Froggy 2 and Adelaide are kidnapped in order to force Sid to free all the zoo animals.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Colin Zolvish jokes about how people would say that the zoo animals were at his and Becca Chang's "beck and call".
- Innocently Insensitive: Unaware that Pat is transgender, Carl accidentally upsets her by questioning her father calling her a girl.
- Last-Second Word Swap: Misha constantly replaces the swear words she's about to utter with more child-friendly words because she doesn't want to swear in front of Ronnie Anne and her friends.
- Locker Mail: During the fire drill, a guy slips an envelope through the vents in Sid's locker. It's not a love letter; it's an environmental extremist's diatribe against Sid's mother for being a zookeeper.
- Mama Bear: Pat accidentally angered a female wolf who had a tendency to get vicious whenever she thought someone was threatening her cubs.
- Missing Mom: Pat and Nat's mother, Sonia, passed away prior to the start of the story.
- Motor Mouth: Nat tends to let both her thoughts and her mouth run away with her.
- Oh, Crap!: Ronnie Anne's response at the start of the story, when she realises that she forgot about Show and Tell.
- Papa Wolf: Colin took on a vicious wolf in order to save Pat, who had accidentally climbed into the wolf's pen and angered it.
- Saying Too Much: When Sid and Ronnie Anne tell Jim Sparkletooth that ARF agreed to pull out of the investigation, he panickily states that they had a deal...after previously claiming that he had no idea who they were.
- Skewed Priorities: Upon reading the threatening note Sid received, Laird's first response is that zoos don't use cages anymore.
