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* ShownTheirWork/ShoutOut: Roy asks his father to open to 278 of The Sibley Guide To Birds. His father does so, then reads a passage from the book. If one opens the guide to the specified page, they will find the exact same passage.
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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mullet Fingers is described as such.

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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mullet Fingers is described as such. [[JustifiedTrope Justifed]] because he spends almost all of his time outside in the Florida sun.
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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a film in 2006.

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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] YoungAdult novel by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a film in 2006.
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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a [[YourMileageMayVary very forgettable]] film in 2006.

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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a [[YourMileageMayVary very forgettable]] a film in 2006.
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* ActionGirl: Beatrice, and ''how.''

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* CharacterAlignment
** LawfulGood: Roy
** NeutralGood: Beatrice
** ChaoticGood: Mullet Fingers
** LawfulNeutral: Officer Delinko
** TrueNeutral: Curly
** ChaoticNeutral: Kalo
** LawfulEvil: Chuck Muckle
** NeutralEvil: Lonna Leep
** ChaoticEvil: Dana Matherson

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* CharacterAlignment
** LawfulGood: Roy
** NeutralGood: Beatrice
** ChaoticGood: Mullet Fingers
** LawfulNeutral: Officer Delinko
** TrueNeutral: Curly
** ChaoticNeutral: Kalo
** LawfulEvil: Chuck Muckle
** NeutralEvil: Lonna Leep
** ChaoticEvil: Dana Matherson
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* GuileHero: Roy has a moment like this where he tricks Dana into going to the construction site by telling him about a stash of imaginary Gladiator Gold cigarettes. Beatrice is a straighter example.
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* CharacterAlignment
** LawfulGood: Roy
** NeutralGood: Beatrice
** ChaoticGood: Mullet Fingers
** LawfulNeutral: Officer Delinko
** TrueNeutral: Curly
** ChaoticNeutral: Kalo
** LawfulEvil: Chuck Muckle
** NeutralEvil: Lonna Leep
** ChaoticEvil: Dana Matherson
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* AngryGuardDog: The construction workers employ a few to guard the site.

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* AngryGuardDog: The construction workers employ Curly employs a few to guard the construction site.



* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Garrett, Beatrice's reaction to a football player slapping her butt was to shove him into the water fountain and break three of his collarbones. Ouch.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Garrett, Beatrice's reaction to a football player slapping her butt was to shove him into the water fountain and break three of his collarbones. Ouch.''Ouch.''
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Beatrice and Dana.


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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Beatrice's father, Leon Leep, used to be a famous basketball player for the Miami Heat, but now, according to Mullet Fingers, "eats Hot Pockets and stares at ESPN all day long".

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* MilitarySchool: Mullet Fingers is sent to and runs away from one.

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* MilitarySchool: Mullet Fingers is mentioned to have been sent to and runs ran away from one.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mullet Fingers. At the end, Roy reads a newspaper article about him and it turns out that his full name is [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger Leep]].

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mullet Fingers. At Near the end, Roy reads a newspaper article about him and it turns out that his full name is [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger Leep]].



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Officer Delinko.



* {{Tsundere}}: Beatrice.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Beatrice.Beatrice is a Type A.
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* AdultsAreUseless: With the possible exception of Roy's parents, who mostly act as moral support.

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* AdultsAreUseless: With the possible exception of Roy's parents, who mostly act as moral support.support, and Officer Delinko.

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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mullet Fingers.

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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mullet Fingers.Fingers is described as such.
* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Garrett, Beatrice's reaction to a football player slapping her butt was to shove him into the water fountain and break three of his collarbones. Ouch.



* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Mullet Fingers puts a bunch of alligators in the construction workers' outhouses and releases a bunch of harmless[[hottip:* :cottonmouths are ordinarily ''not'' harmless, but Mullet Fingers tied their mouths shut and painted them with glitter so they'd be easy to spot.]]cottonmouths in the site to keep the project from progressing.

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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Mullet Fingers puts a bunch of alligators in the construction workers' outhouses and releases a bunch of harmless[[hottip:* :cottonmouths are ordinarily ''not'' harmless, but Mullet Fingers tied their mouths shut and painted them with glitter so they'd be easy to spot.]]cottonmouths spot]]cottonmouths in the site to keep the project from progressing.
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* BerserkButton: When Lonna steals a topaz charm that used to belong to Beatrice's mother and makes it into a toe ring, Beatrice is not happy.
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Um, no offense, but that\'s not what Chewing The Scenery means.


* ChewingTheScenery: Beatrice, who is described as having the "jaws of a wolverine". She deflates Roy's bicycle tire by biting a hole in it, and ''bites a gold ring off her stepmother's toe''. She breaks a tooth doing the latter.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName/ EmbarrassingMiddleName: [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger]] for Mullet Fingers.

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* EmbarrassingFirstName/ EmbarrassingFirstName / EmbarrassingMiddleName: [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger]] for Mullet Fingers.
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* FluffyTamer: Kalo, the trainer of the AngryGuardDog[=s=] mentioned above.


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* FunetikAksent: Kalo, who is German.
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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mullet Fingers.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Mullet Fingers.
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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a very forgettable film in 2006.

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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a [[YourMileageMayVary very forgettable forgettable]] film in 2006.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Whenever someone in TheMovie says "Ling Ho" the real Ling Ho looks up.



* LineOfSightName: In TheMovie, Ling Ho.


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!! The film has examples of the following tropes:
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Whenever someone in TheMovie says "Ling Ho" the real Ling Ho looks up.
* LineOfSightName: In TheMovie, Ling Ho.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Whenever someone in TheMovie says "Ling Ho" the real Ling Ho looks up.


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* LineOfSightName: In TheMovie, Ling Ho.
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* FootFocus: Roy sure spends a lot of time focusing on Mullet Fingers' bare feet...

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* AdultsAreUseless: With the possible exception of Roy's parents, who mostly act as moral support.



* ChewingTheScenery: Beatrice, who is described as having the "jaws of a wolverine". She deflates Roy's bicycle tire by biting a hole in it, and ''bites a gold ring off her stepmother's finger''.

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* ChewingTheScenery: Beatrice, who is described as having the "jaws of a wolverine". She deflates Roy's bicycle tire by biting a hole in it, and ''bites a gold ring off her stepmother's finger''. toe''. She breaks a tooth doing the latter.


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* MilitarySchool: Mullet Fingers is sent to and runs away from one.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive

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* CorruptCorporateExecutiveCorruptCorporateExecutive: Chuck Muckle. Who will not stop at anything to get that pancake house built. Not even Florida State Law will deter him.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Beatrice, who is described as having the "jaws of a wolverine". She deflates Roy's bicycle tire by biting a hole in it, and ''bites a gold ring off her stepmother's finger''.


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* {{Tomboy}}: Beatrice, who is the most athletic girl in the school.
* {{Tsundere}}: Beatrice.
* WickedStepmother: Subverted in that Beatrice's stepmother isn't very nice to her ''own'' son either.

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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002.

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A [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002. \n It won a Newbery Honor in 2003 and was adapted into a very forgettable film in 2006.



He sees a mysterious barefoot boy, attracts the ire of the school bully as well as the attention of the school's jockiest jock (who also happens to be a girl) just on his first day. Further investigation leads him to find out that the barefoot boy is protecting a family of burrowing owls and is also the one "sabotaging" the construction on a local pancake house.

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He sees a mysterious [[WildChild barefoot boy, boy]], attracts the ire of the school bully as well as the attention of the school's jockiest jock (who also happens to be a girl) just on his first day. Further investigation leads him to find out that the barefoot boy is protecting a family of burrowing owls and is also the one "sabotaging" the construction on a local pancake house.



* EmbarrassingFirstName/ EmbarrassingMiddleName: Napoleon Bridger for Mullet Fingers.

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* CassandraTruth: No one will believe that there are burrowing owls on the construction site.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* EmbarrassingFirstName/ EmbarrassingMiddleName: [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger Bridger]] for Mullet Fingers.



* HeadPet: While not a ''pet'' per se, the burrowing owls are familiar and comfortable enough around Mullet Fingers that they'll land on top of his head.



* [[{{ptitlex0gguaox}} Shouldn't We Be In School Right Now?]]: Mullet fingers, who ran away from military school and lives in the woods.

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* [[{{ptitlex0gguaox}} Shouldn't We Be In School Right Now?]]: NatureHero: Mullet fingers, Fingers.
* {{ptitlex0gguaox}}: Mullet Fingers,
who ran away from military school and lives in the woods.woods.
* OnlyInFlorida
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mullet Fingers. At the end, Roy reads a newspaper article about him and it turns out that his full name is [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger Leep]].


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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Mullet Fingers puts a bunch of alligators in the construction workers' outhouses and releases a bunch of harmless[[hottip:* :cottonmouths are ordinarily ''not'' harmless, but Mullet Fingers tied their mouths shut and painted them with glitter so they'd be easy to spot.]]cottonmouths in the site to keep the project from progressing.
* YouMeddlingKids
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A [[YoungAdultAndChilrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002.

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A [[YoungAdultAndChilrensLiterature [[YoungAdultAndChildrensLiterature YA novel]] by CarlHiaasen published in 2002.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName/EmbarassingMiddleName: Napoleon Bridger for Mullet Fingers.

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* EmbarrassingFirstName/EmbarassingMiddleName: EmbarrassingFirstName/ EmbarrassingMiddleName: Napoleon Bridger for Mullet Fingers.

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