History Literature / RipleysBureauOfInvestigation

* ChallengeSeeker: Alek is a very competitive sportsman. He tries to play every sport imaginable for the sheer love of them and the challenge, with the skill to match. There is a reason he's an under-16 Olympic athlete after all. For example, in "Secrets of the Deep", he, Kobe, Jack, and Max, have a swimming endurance competition for fun. Jack and Max gave up around a half and hour in, but Alek and Kobe kept going for (what felt like) hours because of their respective abilities. While Kobe kept going because of his enhanced endurance/stamina, Alek continued because of his refusal to lose.

* FreeRangeChildren: Teenagers traveling around the world alone to big cities like London and Tokyo, and dangerous wildernesses like ''Antartica''. Somewhat justified, they seem highly trained, skilled, and intelligent enough to handle locations like that on their own, and the teachers outside of the RBI don't actually know. Teachers believe the cover story for all the missions, that the three chosen RBI agents went on a field trip.

* MysteriousAnartica: "Sub-Zero Survival" is set there.

* MysteriousAntartica: "Sub-Zero Survival" is set there.

* SuperSenses: Li's hearing.

* VoiceChangeling: Another one of Li's abilities, she can mimic voices and sounds perfectly.

* IAmVeryBritish: Kate and Mr Clarkson.

* LeeroyJenkins: Another one of Max's flaws is his recklessness. Most notably in "Wings of Fear", instead of using his wingsuit properly, he nosedived and then opened up his suit to get to the flying creature much quicker...which caused the extra material to rip, and Max himself to fall until the 'creature' saved him.

* SadistTeacher / SternTeacher: Shaun Willis, the school's artifact studies teacher. He goes back and forth between the two. Most of the students, apart from Kate, find his lectures boring. He's very strict when he conducts his lessons, wanting absolute silence from his students in class. Seems reasonable at first, but he gets angered very easily, ready to shout when he shouldn't. He clearly favours Kate more than the other students, being much kinder to her, and treats Max in the opposite manner. And then there's the fact that he gave Jack detention for being tardy, not at all sympathetic to the fact Jack was late because he was taking care of a sick two-headed cow!

* TeenGenius: Some of the student population of the school. Generally the team if we include their expert fields of interest and their impressive intelligence applied to mission, but more specifically Kate and Max.

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Justified. They're not just ordinary inexperienced teenagers. They're highly skilled prodigies and experts in their fields of interests, most of them with rare strange abilities that were likely not found in any adults at the time.

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Justified. They're not just ordinary inexperienced teenagers. They're highly skilled prodigies and experts in their fields of interests, most of them with rare strange abilities.