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* GadgetWatches: Bradley Baker's and now Ruby's Escape Watch. Not only does it tell time and look nifty, it has lasers, wipers, a message sender, and other cool details. It single-handedly [[spoiler:helps Ruby escape being buried in snow.]]
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* AcademicAthlete: Ruby is not only a straight A student and a child prodigy, she plays basketball, swims, runs, and later learns martial arts.
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* AdaptationalWimp: While still a interesting guy, Clancy Crew isn't as cool as he is in the books Clarice Bean reads. Here, Clancy is often kidnapped and scared.
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* AdaptationalWimp: While still a interesting guy, Clancy Crew isn't as cool as he is in the books Clarice Bean reads. Here, Clancy is often kidnapped and scared.scared, and far from unflappable: he even flaps his arms when excited, worried, oragitated.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Quite often, chapters of Ruby-centric action will be intercut with sometimes seemingly unrelated scenes set elsewhere. These scenes tend to have some impact on the story as a whole.
* BadassBookworm: Ruby, who reads a lot and knows how to crack codes. It's what gets her into Spectrum.
* BadassBookworm: Ruby, who reads a lot and knows how to crack codes. It's what gets her into Spectrum.
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* AnimalMotifs: Spectrum is always associated with flies. All of the entrances to HQ and multiple of their gadgets, such as the barrette and the Escape Watch, somehow involve flies in their design.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Quite often, chapters of Ruby-centric action will be intercut with sometimes seemingly unrelated scenes set elsewhere. These scenes tend to have some impact on the story as awhole.
whole, and usually are about what the villains are/were doing, though the first time reader won't know who the characters are yet.
* BadassBookworm: Ruby, who reads alot lot, is a math whiz, and knows how to crack codes. It's what gets her into Spectrum.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Quite often, chapters of Ruby-centric action will be intercut with sometimes seemingly unrelated scenes set elsewhere. These scenes tend to have some impact on the story as a
* BadassBookworm: Ruby, who reads a
* BrainlessBeauty: Brant and Sabina Redfort are very handsome and very popular socialites, but they don't have a lot going on in the brains department.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Spectrum is a multicolored building, and the departments are organized by an associated color. For example, Ruby is able to guess at where a science lab is using a color. LB and her room are always in white. Bradley Baker's files, being a ray of sunlight according to Froghorn, are colored golden yellow. There might be some synesthesia involved, it's implied that Froghorn, who organizes the files, is a synesthete.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: The kid who beats up Clancy after Ruby blows him off in the fifth book.
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* CuteClumsyGirl: Red Monroe is described as impossibly pretty and clumsy, and twice breaks instruments belonging to Ruby.
* GivenNameReveal: There are many of these in Book Six, where the names of LB, Hitch, the Count, the Australian, and Buzz are shown. They are also quite plot relevant.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Ruby and Hitch.
** Ruby and Blacker!
** Ruby and Blacker!
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Ruby and Hitch.
** Rubyhas one with Hitch and Blacker!
** Ruby
* MasterofDisguise: Lorelei von Leyden is ridiculously good at disguising herself as other people: [[spoiler:in Book 4, she successfully disguises herself as Nine Lives Capaldi, a dead jewel thief, and is even able to trick one of Ruby's closest friends in believing she is Ruby in Book 5 (admittedly through a camera).]]
* TheNoseKnows: Lorelei von Leyden is a perfumer who has an amazing nose. She recognizes Ruby by the smell of bubble gum, and even has a secret code depending on smells.
* RealityEnsues:
** Before Book 1, Carla Lopez, a desk agent at Spectrum, figures something out about the volume's villains. [[spoiler:She tries to get a piece of the action by investigating herself, but since she wasn't trained as a spy the Fool's Gold Gang sees her bumps her off.]]
** Often Ruby (accompanied occasionally by Clancy) will go face off with the villains by herself. While it generally works out well, it's often not great: [[spoiler:in Book 3, she is only able to free the wolf (and the wolf runs away forever), Lorelei and the Australian escape, the cyan scent is swiped by the latter, and Ruby almost dies in a forest fire. In Book 5, while she beats Lorelei in a fight, Lorelei and Babyface are able to evade Spectrum, which likely wouldn't have happened if backup had been there.]]
** Before Book 1, Carla Lopez, a desk agent at Spectrum, figures something out about the volume's villains. [[spoiler:She tries to get a piece of the action by investigating herself, but since she wasn't trained as a spy the Fool's Gold Gang sees her bumps her off.]]
** Often Ruby (accompanied occasionally by Clancy) will go face off with the villains by herself. While it generally works out well, it's often not great: [[spoiler:in Book 3, she is only able to free the wolf (and the wolf runs away forever), Lorelei and the Australian escape, the cyan scent is swiped by the latter, and Ruby almost dies in a forest fire. In Book 5, while she beats Lorelei in a fight, Lorelei and Babyface are able to evade Spectrum, which likely wouldn't have happened if backup had been there.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: The books include complex codes, and Child consulted mathematian Marcus du Sautoy on them. There are full explanations included in the back of each book.
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* ServileSnarker: Mrs. Digby loves the Redforts and they love her, but she isn't above snarking about Brant and Sabina's stupidity.
* ShownTheirWork: The books include complex codes, and Child consultedmathematian mathematician Marcus du Sautoy on them. There are full explanations included in the back of each book.book.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Ruby and Froghorn despise each other; he hates her because she's sassy and takes away attention from him as the youngest agent, she hates him because he's a 'potato-head.' But they work together anyway, and he [[spoiler:helps save her in the final book]].
* SoftSpokenSadist: The Australian has a motherly voice, which completely frightens Ruby considering the violence of her threats.
* ShownTheirWork: The books include complex codes, and Child consulted
* SitcomArchNemesis: Ruby and Froghorn despise each other; he hates her because she's sassy and takes away attention from him as the youngest agent, she hates him because he's a 'potato-head.' But they work together anyway, and he [[spoiler:helps save her in the final book]].
* SoftSpokenSadist: The Australian has a motherly voice, which completely frightens Ruby considering the violence of her threats.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lorelei von Leyden disappears from the novel after the [[spoiler:plane hijacking in Book 6. Whether she died in the crash or limped away to live another day is unknown.]]
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The series is a defictionalization of a series of novels (and movie) in the Clarice Bean novels.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The series is a defictionalization of a series of novels (and movie) in the Clarice Bean novels.[[note]] No, this doesn't belong in the 'trivia' tab. It is the very origin of these books. If Clarice Bean had a page, it could be trivia there.[[/note]]
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The series is a defictionalization of a series of novels (and movie) in the Clarice Bean novels.
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* SadisticChoice: 11 years ago, LB was given a choice: [[spoiler:to save 1000+ people or blow up Bradley Baker's ship]]. She chose the latter.
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* SadisticChoice: 11 years ago, LB was given a choice: [[spoiler:to save kill 1000+ people or blow up Bradley Baker's ship]]. She chose the latter.
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* AdaptationalWimp: While still a interesting guy, Clancy Crew isn't as cool as he is in the books Clarice Bean reads.
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The idea for the novels originates from Child's book series ''Clarice Bean.'' In it, Clarice is obsessed with a [[ShowWithinAShow Book Within a Book]] Ruby Redfort, about a smart girl spy. According to Child, she got so many letters from fans asking for more about Ruby, she wrote some.
* AdaptationExpansion: The books are much more complicated than the books Clarice Bean reads.
* AdaptationalWimp: While still a interesting guy, Clancy Crew isn't as cool as he is in the books Clarice Bean reads.
* AdaptedOut: The Count's NumberTwo in the Clarice Bean books, Hogtrotter, doesn't appear.
* AdaptationalWimp: While still a interesting guy, Clancy Crew isn't as cool as he is in the books Clarice Bean reads.
* AdaptedOut: The Count's NumberTwo in the Clarice Bean books, Hogtrotter, doesn't appear.
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* BlackBossLady: LB is the leader of Spectrum 8, and was the first female agent. According to the drawings at the end of Book 6, she is modeled after Creator/PamGrier.
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* BlackBossLady: LB is the leader of Spectrum 8, and was the first female agent. According to the drawings at the end of Book 6, she is visually modeled after Creator/PamGrier. Creator/PamGrier.
* BlackTieInfiltration: Subverted. Ruby has to go to many classy events as part of her job (and climaxes often occur at these places) but she's not 'infiltrating' them as her parents are rich socialites, so they would go anyway.
* BlackTieInfiltration: Subverted. Ruby has to go to many classy events as part of her job (and climaxes often occur at these places) but she's not 'infiltrating' them as her parents are rich socialites, so they would go anyway.
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* TruthSerum: One appears in book 2. It is extracted from a octopus. Ruby is forced to take it, and ends up saying anything she thinks of.
--> '''Ruby:''' Sorry, I gotta say what's on my mind.
--> '''Clancy:''' You always say what's on your mind.
--> '''Ruby:''' Sorry, I gotta say what's on my mind.
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* EmbarassingFirstName, EmbarassingMiddleName, EmbarassingLastName: LB's got the whole set: [[spoiler:'''Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb.]]
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* EmbarassingFirstName, EmbarassingMiddleName, EmbarassingLastName: EmbarrassingFirstName, EmbarrassingMiddleName, EmbarrassingLastName: LB's got the whole set: [[spoiler:'''Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb.]]
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* AmnesiacHero: [[spoiler: It is revealed that Bradley Baker has been mushroom expert Mo Loveday, with little remembrance of his past.]]
* BattleButler: Hitch is undercover as the Redfort's insanely capable 'house manager.' The trope is downplayed in that with he's doing the 'battle' part of the trope, he's usual in spy mode.
* BlackBossLady: LB is the leader of Spectrum 8, and was the first female agent. According to the drawings at the end of Book 6, she is modeled after Creator/PamGrier.
* BlackBossLady: LB is the leader of Spectrum 8, and was the first female agent. According to the drawings at the end of Book 6, she is modeled after Creator/PamGrier.
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** The Escape Watch.Watch is a special one, which saves her life multiple times.
* CombatHairComb: Mrs. Digby takes out [[spoiler: Buzz with a pointy hairstick.]]
* CombatHairComb: Mrs. Digby takes out [[spoiler: Buzz with a pointy hairstick.]]
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* DistressedDude: Clancy is taken by the villains so much he's practically the DesignatedDamsel.
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* DistressedDude: Clancy is taken by the villains so much he's practically the DesignatedDamsel.DesignatedVictim.
* EmbarassingFirstName, EmbarassingMiddleName, EmbarassingLastName: LB's got the whole set: [[spoiler:'''Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb.]]
--> '''LB:''' My parents had questionable taste.
** Hitch's full name is [[spoiler:Art Hitchen Zachary]].
** Buzz tells Ruby that her full name is Brenda Ulla Zane, and that's why she shortens it to Buzz (BUZ). [[spoiler:This is revealed to be untrue.]]
--> '''LB:''' My parents had questionable taste.
** Hitch's full name is [[spoiler:Art Hitchen Zachary]].
** Buzz tells Ruby that her full name is Brenda Ulla Zane, and that's why she shortens it to Buzz (BUZ). [[spoiler:This is revealed to be untrue.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Bradley Baker]], in book six.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Bradley Baker]], Baker and Buzz]], in book six.
* KindlyHousekeeper: Mrs. Digby is a tough version of one. She loves the Redforts, but won't mind calling them out.
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:Buzz pretended to be male as Casey Morgan to get into the Junior Training.]]
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* UnfortunateNames: LB's real name is revealed in ''Blink and You Die''. It's [[spoiler:Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb]]. No wonder she usually shortens it.
** Hitch's full name is [[spoiler:Art Hitchen Zachary]].
** Buzz tells Ruby that her full name is Brenda Ulla Zane, and that's why she shortens it to Buzz (BUZ). [[spoiler:This is revealed to be untrue.]]
** Hitch's full name is [[spoiler:Art Hitchen Zachary]].
** Buzz tells Ruby that her full name is Brenda Ulla Zane, and that's why she shortens it to Buzz (BUZ). [[spoiler:This is revealed to be untrue.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Look into her eyes.]]
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''Ruby Redfort'' is a book series written by Lauren Child, and follows the adventures of TeenSuperspy ActionGirl Ruby Redfort.
The first book in the series, ''Look Into My Eyes'' was released in September 2011. A second Ruby book, ''Take Your Last Breath'' was followed by a third, ''Catch Your Death''. The fourth novel, ''Feel the Fear'' was released in November 2014. A fifth book was released in November 2015 titled ''Pick Your Poison''. The sixth and final book, ''Blink and You Die'', was released in October 2016.
The first book in the series, ''Look Into My Eyes'' was released in September 2011. A second Ruby book, ''Take Your Last Breath'' was followed by a third, ''Catch Your Death''. The fourth novel, ''Feel the Fear'' was released in November 2014. A fifth book was released in November 2015 titled ''Pick Your Poison''. The sixth and final book, ''Blink and You Die'', was released in October 2016.
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''Ruby Redfort'' is a book series written by Lauren Child, Child (''of WesternAnimation/CharlieAndLola'' fame), and follows the adventures of TeenSuperspy ActionGirl Ruby Redfort.
Thefirst book daughter of socialites Brant and Sabina Redfort, expert codebreaker and TeenGenius Ruby is recruited by secret agency Spectrum into helping solve codes for a case that resulted in the series, ''Look death of the previous codebreaker. The case turns out to be much more complicated than that, and Ruby, breaking more than a few Spectrum rules and becoming a part field agent, investigates.
Books in the series:
*''Look Into MyEyes'' was released in September 2011. A second Ruby book, ''Take Eyes''
*''Take Your LastBreath'' was followed by a third, ''Catch Breath''
*''Catch YourDeath''. The fourth novel, ''Feel Death''
*''Feel theFear'' was released in November 2014. A fifth book was released in November 2015 titled ''Pick Fear''
*''Pick YourPoison''. The sixth and final book, ''Blink Poison''
*''Blink and YouDie'', was released in October 2016.
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* DistressedDude: Clancy gets [[spoiler:kidnapped by the bad guys]] in book three. When Ruby finds him, he's barely conscious.
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* DistressedDude: Clancy is taken by the villains so much he's practically the DesignatedDamsel.
** Clancy gets [[spoiler:kidnapped by the bad guys]] in book three. When Ruby finds him, he's barely conscious.
** Clancy gets [[spoiler:kidnapped by the bad guys]] in book three. When Ruby finds him, he's barely conscious.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Ruby Redfort herself is pretty tomboyish being the rough and tough dominant one and refuses to wear anything frilly as stated in the first book while Clancy Crew is rather more on the feminine side being the soft-hearted subservient one and even wore heart-shaped sunglasses that belonged to his sister Lulu in the second book.
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** Nine-Lives Capaldi loses her last life at the end of the first book.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Ruby Redfort herself is pretty tomboyish being the dominant one and refuses to wear anything frilly as stated in the first book while Clancy Crew is rather more on the feminine side being the subservient one and even wore heart-shaped sunglasses in the second book.
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** Nine-Lives Valerie "Nine Lives" Capaldi loses her last life at the end of the first book.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Ruby Redfort herself is pretty tomboyish being the rough and tough dominant one and refuses to wear anything frilly as stated in the first book while Clancy Crew is rather more on the feminine side being the soft-hearted subservient one and even wore heart-shaped sunglasses in the second book.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Ruby Redfort herself is pretty tomboyish being the rough and tough dominant one and refuses to wear anything frilly as stated in the first book while Clancy Crew is rather more on the feminine side being the soft-hearted subservient one and even wore heart-shaped sunglasses in the second book.
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** Nine-Lives Capaldi loses her last life at the end of the first book.
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* BadassBookworm: Ruby, who reads a lot and knows how to crack codes. It's what gets her into Spectrum.
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* TermsOfEndangerment: The Australian woman always refers to her victims as 'sweetie.'
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-->'''LB:''' I'm afraid not- though it's not unusual for [[Hypocrite [[HypocriticalHumor hard nuts]]... [[FreudianSlip criminals for hire]] to keep their silence.
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-->'''LB:''' This is not an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow ''Crazy Cops'']], Redfort. Could you please refrain from using this appalling TV slang.
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-->'''Ruby:''' Has either one of them squealed?
-->'''LB:''' This is not an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow ''Crazy Cops'']], Redfort. Could you please refrain from using this appalling TVslang.slang.
-->'''Ruby:''' Sorry, I mean- are they talking? Did they say anything? Anything we don't already know?
-->'''LB:''' I'm afraid not- though it's not unusual for [[Hypocrite hard nuts]]... [[FreudianSlip criminals for hire]] to keep their silence.
* TemptingFate: Ruby does this a lot, to the point of doing dangerous, borderline suicidal things just because she has the strong feeling that she'll make it out alive.
* UnfortunateNames: LB's real name is revealed in ''Blink and You Die''. It's [[spoiler:Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb]]. No wonder she usually shortens it.
** Hitch's full name is [[spoiler:Art Hitchen Zachary]].
** Buzz tells Ruby that her full name is Brenda Ulla Zane, and that's why she shortens it to Buzz (BUZ). [[spoiler:This is revealed to be untrue.]]
* VillainTeamUp: Casey Morgan and the Count.
** The Count also teams up with other villains- Baby-Face Marshall, and Nine-Lives Capaldi
** Baby-Face, in turn, teams up with Lorelei Von Leyden at one point.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ruby tends to have this relationship with just about all of her friends. Del Lasco is one of the most notable, and Clancy falls under this category as well.
** Hitch too.
* TheWatson: Clancy.
* WorldOfSnark: This seems to be Twinford in general.
-->'''LB:''' This is not an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow ''Crazy Cops'']], Redfort. Could you please refrain from using this appalling TV
-->'''Ruby:''' Sorry, I mean- are they talking? Did they say anything? Anything we don't already know?
-->'''LB:''' I'm afraid not- though it's not unusual for [[Hypocrite hard nuts]]... [[FreudianSlip criminals for hire]] to keep their silence.
* TemptingFate: Ruby does this a lot, to the point of doing dangerous, borderline suicidal things just because she has the strong feeling that she'll make it out alive.
* UnfortunateNames: LB's real name is revealed in ''Blink and You Die''. It's [[spoiler:Loveday Byrd Uggerlimb]]. No wonder she usually shortens it.
** Hitch's full name is [[spoiler:Art Hitchen Zachary]].
** Buzz tells Ruby that her full name is Brenda Ulla Zane, and that's why she shortens it to Buzz (BUZ). [[spoiler:This is revealed to be untrue.]]
* VillainTeamUp: Casey Morgan and the Count.
** The Count also teams up with other villains- Baby-Face Marshall, and Nine-Lives Capaldi
** Baby-Face, in turn, teams up with Lorelei Von Leyden at one point.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ruby tends to have this relationship with just about all of her friends. Del Lasco is one of the most notable, and Clancy falls under this category as well.
** Hitch too.
* TheWatson: Clancy.
* WorldOfSnark: This seems to be Twinford in general.
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* PetTheDog: Vapona Begwell, who is Ruby's high-school arch-nemesis, gets several redeeming moments as the series progresses, eventually culminating in her forming a vague friendship with Ruby.
* SpySpeak: LB calls Ruby out on doing this.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the final book, it's revealed that the person who was behind everything and orchestrated an entire series worth of devious plotting was... [[spoiler:Buzz.]] Absolutely ''nobody'' saw it coming, not even the Count himself.
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the final book, it's revealed that the person who was behind everything and orchestrated an entire series worth of devious plotting was... [[spoiler:Buzz.]] Absolutely ''nobody'' saw it coming, not even the Count himself.himself.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Most adult women in the series tend to do this in regards to Hitch.
* EpicFail: Ruby attempts to climb the outside of a building at the beginning of ''Feel The Fear'', for pretty much no reason other than the fact that she's bored. She ends up losing her balance because of somebody opening a window in front of her (her dad, no less), and Hitch has to rescue her.
* FromBadToWorse: Things start kicking in midway through book six. First [[spoiler:Ruby is pushed out of a plane by the Australian, who's managed to hijack the flight.]] Then, after narrowly surviving, she [[spoiler:witnesses the death of Bradley Baker, who just so recently was found out to be still alive. Then, she begins to suspect Hitch of being Casey Morgan, the traitor.]] From there, events come to a head.
* GenreSavvy: Ruby's a great lover of crime fiction, and frequently applies this knowledge to the situations she gets into.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Baker's (second) death, this time much more final. Worse than that- LB's reaction to it.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The Count does this to Ruby at the climax of ''Look Into My Eyes''. He even traps her in a giant hourglass, for drama.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Ruby and Hitch.
** Ruby and Blacker!
* JumpedAtTheCall: Ruby is flat-out ''thrilled'' to work at a secret agency.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Bradley Baker]], in book six.
** And before that, [[spoiler:Baby Face Marshall]] in book five.
** Nine-Lives Capaldi loses her last life at the end of the first book.
* TheMedic: Doctor Harper, who's "pretty cool" according to Ruby.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Most adult women in the series tend to do this in regards to Hitch.
* EpicFail: Ruby attempts to climb the outside of a building at the beginning of ''Feel The Fear'', for pretty much no reason other than the fact that she's bored. She ends up losing her balance because of somebody opening a window in front of her (her dad, no less), and Hitch has to rescue her.
* FromBadToWorse: Things start kicking in midway through book six. First [[spoiler:Ruby is pushed out of a plane by the Australian, who's managed to hijack the flight.]] Then, after narrowly surviving, she [[spoiler:witnesses the death of Bradley Baker, who just so recently was found out to be still alive. Then, she begins to suspect Hitch of being Casey Morgan, the traitor.]] From there, events come to a head.
* GenreSavvy: Ruby's a great lover of crime fiction, and frequently applies this knowledge to the situations she gets into.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Baker's (second) death, this time much more final. Worse than that- LB's reaction to it.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The Count does this to Ruby at the climax of ''Look Into My Eyes''. He even traps her in a giant hourglass, for drama.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Ruby and Hitch.
** Ruby and Blacker!
* JumpedAtTheCall: Ruby is flat-out ''thrilled'' to work at a secret agency.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Bradley Baker]], in book six.
** And before that, [[spoiler:Baby Face Marshall]] in book five.
** Nine-Lives Capaldi loses her last life at the end of the first book.
* TheMedic: Doctor Harper, who's "pretty cool" according to Ruby.
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* ActionGirl: Ruby definitely falls into this category.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Initially, we believe the Count to be the BigBad. Then we realize that somebody else is pulling the strings. Things get complicated from there.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Quite often, chapters of Ruby-centric action will be intercut with sometimes seemingly unrelated scenes set elsewhere. These scenes tend to have some impact on the story as a whole.
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Bradley Baker]] shows in ''Blink and You Die''.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Count, most definitely. His entire aesthetic screams ''evil movie villain'', and what's more- that's 100 percent intentional.
* ChekhovsGun: Many things, usually the items that Ruby steals/appropriates from the Spectrum gadget lab.
** The Escape Watch.
* CoolCar: Hitch allegedly drives one.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Ruby spots several holes in Hitch's cover story almost immediately upon meeting him.
* CrazyJealousGuy: The kid who beats up Clancy after Ruby blows him off in the fifth book.
* DeadpanSnarker: A ''lot'' of characters fall into this category. Mostly notably Ruby, but also-
** Most of her friends.
** Hitch.
** Blacker, and a lot of the Spectrum staff.
** LB, on rare occasions.
* DistressedDude: Clancy gets [[spoiler:kidnapped by the bad guys]] in book three. When Ruby finds him, he's barely conscious.
** Clancy also manages to get [[spoiler:bitten by a poisonous snake]] in the fifth book.
*** In the fifth book, he [[spoiler:gets kidnapped by the Count Von Viscount himself. He doesn't exactly have the best luck.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the final book, it's revealed that the person who was behind everything and orchestrated an entire series worth of devious plotting was... [[spoiler:Buzz.]] Absolutely ''nobody'' saw it coming, not even the Count himself.
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!!Examples:
* ActionGirl: Ruby definitely falls into this category.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Initially, we believe the Count to be the BigBad. Then we realize that somebody else is pulling the strings. Things get complicated from there.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Quite often, chapters of Ruby-centric action will be intercut with sometimes seemingly unrelated scenes set elsewhere. These scenes tend to have some impact on the story as a whole.
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Bradley Baker]] shows in ''Blink and You Die''.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Count, most definitely. His entire aesthetic screams ''evil movie villain'', and what's more- that's 100 percent intentional.
* ChekhovsGun: Many things, usually the items that Ruby steals/appropriates from the Spectrum gadget lab.
** The Escape Watch.
* CoolCar: Hitch allegedly drives one.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Ruby spots several holes in Hitch's cover story almost immediately upon meeting him.
* CrazyJealousGuy: The kid who beats up Clancy after Ruby blows him off in the fifth book.
* DeadpanSnarker: A ''lot'' of characters fall into this category. Mostly notably Ruby, but also-
** Most of her friends.
** Hitch.
** Blacker, and a lot of the Spectrum staff.
** LB, on rare occasions.
* DistressedDude: Clancy gets [[spoiler:kidnapped by the bad guys]] in book three. When Ruby finds him, he's barely conscious.
** Clancy also manages to get [[spoiler:bitten by a poisonous snake]] in the fifth book.
*** In the fifth book, he [[spoiler:gets kidnapped by the Count Von Viscount himself. He doesn't exactly have the best luck.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the final book, it's revealed that the person who was behind everything and orchestrated an entire series worth of devious plotting was... [[spoiler:Buzz.]] Absolutely ''nobody'' saw it coming, not even the Count himself.
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->''You can never be completely sure what might happen next.''
-->--'''{{Ruby's Rule 1}}'''
''Ruby Redfort'' is a book series written by Lauren Child. Ruby is a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into loads of scrapes with evil villains, but they’re always ice-cool in a crisis.
The first book in the series, ''Look Into My Eyes'' was released in September 2011. A second Ruby book, ''Take Your Last Breath'' was followed by a third, ''Catch Your Death''. The fourth novel, ''Feel the Fear'' was released in November 2014. A fifth book was released in November 2015 titled ''Pick Your Poison''. The sixth and final book, ''Blink and You Die'', was released in October 2016.
A supplementary handbook of sorts, ''Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky Predicaments'', is also available.
->''You can never be completely sure what might happen next.''
-->--'''{{Ruby's Rule 1}}'''
''Ruby Redfort'' is a book series written by Lauren Child. Ruby is a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into loads of scrapes with evil villains, but they’re always ice-cool in a crisis.
The first book in the series, ''Look Into My Eyes'' was released in September 2011. A second Ruby book, ''Take Your Last Breath'' was followed by a third, ''Catch Your Death''. The fourth novel, ''Feel the Fear'' was released in November 2014. A fifth book was released in November 2015 titled ''Pick Your Poison''. The sixth and final book, ''Blink and You Die'', was released in October 2016.
A supplementary handbook of sorts, ''Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky Predicaments'', is also available.
