History Film / AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet

* TrainStationGoobye: At the end, Nick is boarding the Orient Express. He's traveling to Egypt to investigate why the Pyramid of Cheops disappeared. He's saying goodbye to his love Kvetuska – who is sad but understands that he is the only one who can solve "the pyramidal mystery". He's also saying goodbye to Professor Bocek, Kvetuska's grandfather, and his Prague sidekick police commissioner Ledvina.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: When Nick is cast from the balloon, he conveniently lands on a huge haystack and comes out unharmed.

* {{Omniglot}}: Nick can apparently learn a language just from studying a book. When he arrives in Prague, he has a perfect knowledge of Czech and clear accent.

* PetMonstrosity: Baron von Kratzmar grew a huge carnivorous plant Adele. He treats her as his pet, calling her very affectionately "Adelka" and speaking very softly with her. He grew her with one purpose only, though -- to get revenge [[spoiler: on his former biology professor.]]

* TinCanTelephone: Nick and Ledvina use one to communicate at the at the variety show.

** You could say that he was... stigmatized :D

* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: When Carter findd out about Baron von Kratzmar's true identity, he informs the Director of Police, who doesn't believe that his dear friend, Baron von Kratzmar, could be the "most mysterious criminal of the century". The Director then approaches the Baron himself, confronting him with the accusations. The latter shrugs, but then the Director starts to laugh, revealing that he didn't buy it himself and was only pulling the Baron's leg.

* FamedInStory: Nick Cartner is made out to be a LivingLegend, internationally renowned as America's Greatest Detective, and he's friends with various famous people.

* InstitutionalApparel: The prisoner at the end wear an outfit with horizontal stripes and matching pillbox hats.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Sweet Kvetuska.

* HeadbuttOfLove: Kvetuska and [[spoiler:Larry Matejka]] at the end of the movie.

* FantasticFlora: Courtesy of the Gardener. A flower with human-like eyes that sheds tears; a flower with pollen that makes people freeze on spot immediately; a rose that can pour tea from a pot to cups, or cut its own rosebud with a pair of scissors and give it to a lady as a present. He also cultivated fast-sprouting beans used to rob apartments or a rose that puts ladies into deep sleep, used to invoked a very sinister scheme. The highlight of his devilish greenhouse is a carnivorous plant Adele that eats sausages, mice, dogs and people.

** Carter's gadgets, notably the boxing glove in his hat, are a nod to ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''.

* FakeNationality: Slovak actor Michal Dočolomanský (and František Němec, his dub actor) as the classic American pulp detective Nick Carter.

** Spoofed with the random fox tail on Nick belt which he uses to throw off a ManEatingPlant at the Baron's place.

* TheVonTropeFamily: The ''von'' in ''Baron von Kratzmar'' points to his evil nature.

* ReedSnorkel: The Gardener used this to survive drowning in the swamp. He does the same thing again in TheStinger, when he hides under the heap of coals breathing through a straw.

* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Nick's doppelgänger appears, except he's blond. It's the very same Larry Matejka who was mentioned by Professor Bocek. Kvetuska quickly changes one dashing man for another.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: Kvetuska and Nick, both ways. [[spoiler:It happens to Kvetuska once again with Nick's Identical Stranger, and both of them fall in love. And yes, Kvetuska is really that pretty.]]

** Nick gets clonked by a serving dish, and Gardener's chamberlain makes sure that he stays unconscious for a while by applying chloroform.

* PunnyName: Commissar Ledvina. Ledvina means "Kidney" in Czech. Given the plump Commissar's eating and drinking habits, his kidneys might not be faring that well...

* ColdBloodedTorture: Subverted. Like Nick Carter would really torture a woman, but commissioner Ledvina really seemed to think that when Nick grabbed a big pair of scissors, he might really use them on her. [[spoiler:He starts cutting her hat and boa.]]

* TheAce: Nick Carter. He rocks in everything -- in investigating, in science, in sport, in fights, and all the ladies dig him. Plus he boats with the title of the Greatest American Detective.

** A man trying to fly a bicycle with wings and propellers can be seen in the background several times. [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie, Nick borrows his flying machine, fixes its glitch and uses it to catch the Gardener who's escaping in a hot-air balloon.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Spoofed. Nick Carter pretends he's Nick Ledvina, a Czech-American expatriate who is visiting his old country. Professor Bocek asks whether he met a guy named Ladislav Matejka who is related to Professor Bocek's family. Nick is mildly annoyed that the professor imagines America as a small Bohemian town and says he didn't have the pleasure. When Nick is leaving Prague on a train, Professor Bocek keeps waving and shouts " and if you ever happen to meet Ladislav Matejka..." Then all of the sudden, Nick's Identical Stranger appears out of nowhere, and he says in Czech with a strong American accent: "But that is ''me'', Larry Matejka, a Czecho-American."

* DirtyOldMan: Director of Police von Kaunitz. Nick's talks about Gardener's insane experiments and mentions a rose that can put a lady into coma. Gardener did it to Bara Sernhardt and violated her. Kaunitz says it's disgusting, but then pervertedly asks whether the rose is on the market.

* FamedInStory: Nick Carter is acknowledged as America's Greatest Detective, and he's friends with famous people.

* NaughtyByNight: Countess's companion Karin who wear glasses, long skirts and reads books for her is [[spoiler:Irma Chatte, the secret of Prague night, a gorgeous dancer masked as a cat.]]

* PunnyName: Inspector Ledvina. Ledvina means "Kidney" in Czech. Given the plump inspector's eating and drinking habits, his kidneys might not be faring that well...

* RomancingTheWidow: The Gardener married an American woman, a widow after an Apple King, and he devoted himself to fruit-growing. [[spoiler:He offed her later, inheriting all her money.]]

** Countess Thun's favourite literature? Creator/{{Dante}}, Creator/{{Goethe}}, and Nick Carter's stories.

** The Gardener himself, being a {{Troperiffic}} early 20th century pulp villain, is very similar to Snidely Whiplash in terms of appearance.

** Baron von Kaunitz plays a philanthropic scientist who is a friend to widows and orphans, and a close personal friend to Countess Thun. [[spoiler: He's in fact the Gardener, the most mysterious criminal master mind of the century. One layer deeper, he's Matěj Kráčmera, a former unfortunate student who failed biology in grammar school and was humiliated in class. He swore revenge to his professor, and he also swore he would use botanic, the very thing that got him failed.]]