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* ArrogantKungFuGirl: How Jennifer starts the series, although she had mellowed out slightly [[spoiler:by the time of her death.]]
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Ben and Cally. [[spoiler:Guess who his love interest turns out to be]].
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The second series of books, in which Bond Team are adult spies on their first solo missions. ''Jake Black'' is probably the Darkest and Edgiest is gets though.
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* DoomedPredecessor: In the final act of ''The Frankenstein Factory'', Bond Team is sent on a training mission in the woods and encounters six local hunters who are looking for the monsters believed to be behind a series of disappearances. The next day, Bond Team finds the gory remains of four of those hunters in the ruins of their camp and later witnesses the survivors being forcibly mutated.
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* DoomedPredecessor: In the final act of ''The Frankenstein Factory'', Bond Team is sent on a training mission in the woods and encounters six local hunters who are looking for the monsters believed to be behind a series of disappearances.disappearances (which, unknown to Bond team, are the reason they got sent ''there'' for their "training mission"). The next day, Bond Team finds the gory remains of four of those hunters in the ruins of their camp and later witnesses the survivors being forcibly mutated.
* TheElitesJumpShip: In, ''The Chaos Connection'', a newscaster mentions that the President, Vice-President and Joint Chiefs have secluded themselves in an underground bunker even as the government tells citizens not to worry about the escalating terrorist attacks.
* GenreSavvy: In the second book, Eddie gets a monologue about how, if this were a book, he would be the PluckyComicRelief who accomplished less than anyone else and, consequently, is at risk of becoming a SacrificialLamb.
* IgnoredExpert: In ''The Chaos Connection'', Cally (the team's computer expert) passionately argues about how stupid it is for them to take a computer-controlled train back home to report their discovery that there is a living computer virus taking over computer networks to kill people. Ben ignores her due to the creators of the virus having made a deadline about when they will use the virus again (even though Cally points out that terrorists have been known to break deals and these particular terrorists have a personal beef with them), but, sure enough, the virus takes over the train and nearly kills them.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Quite a few examples, including Kim Tang in the first series, [[spoiler:Clone!Jennifer]] and [[spoiler:Simon Macey]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Quite There are quite a few examples, examples of people sacrificing themsleves after atoning for wrongdoings, including Kim Tang in the first series, [[spoiler:Clone!Jennifer]] and [[spoiler:Simon Macey]].
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* DeathByOriginStory: Jennifer's family, all killed by Talon because they refused to pay menaces money.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Jennifer's family, all killed by Talon because they refused to pay menaces money.money, and [[spoiler:Cally's parents]] on an ill-fated spy mission.
* DoomedPredecessor: In the final act of ''The Frankenstein Factory'', Bond Team is sent on a training mission in the woods and encounters six local hunters who are looking for the monsters believed to be behind a series of disappearances. The next day, Bond Team finds the gory remains of four of those hunters in the ruins of their camp and later witnesses the survivors being forcibly mutated.
* DoomedPredecessor: In the final act of ''The Frankenstein Factory'', Bond Team is sent on a training mission in the woods and encounters six local hunters who are looking for the monsters believed to be behind a series of disappearances. The next day, Bond Team finds the gory remains of four of those hunters in the ruins of their camp and later witnesses the survivors being forcibly mutated.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: Ben and Cally get one at the end of ''Calista Green''.
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* HypotheticalCasting: The author is on record as saying that if the books were ever to be made into a movie, he would want Anna Kournikova to play Lori. Also counts as WhatTheHellCastingAgency, since Kournikova is a tennis player - not an actress.
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* MoralDilemma: Jake faces on of these throughout ''Jake Black'', where he is [[spoiler: tasked with killing international terrorist leader Sicarius, since he is sick of criminals escaping jail once incarcerated. Eventually brings in shades of IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim as well, when Lori shows up.]]
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Jake faces on of these throughout ''Jake Black'', where he is [[spoiler: tasked with killing international terrorist leader Sicarius, since he is sick of criminals escaping jail once incarcerated. Eventually brings in shades of IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim as well, when Lori shows up.]]
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* SixStudentClique: Played deliciously straight.
** The Head -- Ben
** The Muscle -- Jake
** The Quirk -- Eddie
** The Pretty One -- Lori
** The Smart One -- Cally (who has notable similarities to ''Series/SavedByTheBell'''s Lisa, who is TropeCodifier for the Wild One.)
** The Wild One -- Jennifer (and later Bex, [[spoiler:after Jennifer dies]])
** The Head -- Ben
** The Muscle -- Jake
** The Quirk -- Eddie
** The Pretty One -- Lori
** The Smart One -- Cally (who has notable similarities to ''Series/SavedByTheBell'''s Lisa, who is TropeCodifier for the Wild One.)
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: in the first book, Bond team isn't told about the sinister disaepearences (including of a fellow agent) in the park they're doing their survival test in and only find out when they encounter a party of hunters looking for some of the missing men.
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* SecondLove: In ''Calista Green'', Cally prepares to move on and start a new relationship with her field handler Jimmy after [[spoiler:Ben is killed in action. Subverted when it turns out he is still alive, and Cally goes back to him.]]
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** TheChick - Lori
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** TheHeart - Eddie
** TheSmartGuy - Cally
** TheBigGuy - Jennifer
** SixthRanger - Bex
** TheHero - Ben
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Many of the villains, most notably Vlad Tepesch (named for real-life warlord Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, the basis for the fictional {{Dracula}}). He even manufactures a highly addictive drug called "Drac" which drains addicts of their blood.
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Many of the villains, most notably Vlad Tepesch (named for real-life warlord [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, Tepes]], the basis for the fictional {{Dracula}}). He even manufactures a highly addictive drug called "Drac" which drains addicts of their blood.
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* MoralDilemma: Jake faces on of these throughout ''Jake Black'', where he is [[spoiler: tasked with killing international terrorist leader Sicarius, since he is sick of criminals escaping jail once incarcerated. Eventually brings in shades of [[{{Ifyoukillhimyouwillbejustlikehim}} if you kill him you will be just like him]] as well, when Lori shows up.]]
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* MoralDilemma: Jake faces on of these throughout ''Jake Black'', where he is [[spoiler: tasked with killing international terrorist leader Sicarius, since he is sick of criminals escaping jail once incarcerated. Eventually brings in shades of [[{{Ifyoukillhimyouwillbejustlikehim}} if you kill him you will be just like him]] IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim as well, when Lori shows up.]]
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Series of young adult books by British author AJ Butcher, about a gang of [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude teens]] who attend the prestigious Deveraux College - really a school for the training of young spies. The books focus on the six members of "Bond Team": Ben, Lori, Jake, Eddie, Cally and Jennifer, later replaced with Bex. There are two individual series in the franchise - in series one the heroes are teenagers training at Deveraux College, whereas in the second series they are adults venturing out on independent missions for the first time.
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!!Tropes found in the series include:
* AboveTheInfluence: Jake to Dark in ''Jake Black''.
* ActionGirl: All four of the Bond Team girls count, though Cally takes the role less often than the others.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Kung Fu Girl]]: How Jennifer starts the series, although she had mellowed out slightly [[spoiler:by the time of her death.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Jonathan Deveraux in Agent Orange, though foreshadowed in previous books.]]
* AlliterativeName: Calista "Cally" Cross.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The [[spoiler: Pendragon Virus]], for one.
* AsianAirhead: Jennifer is a borderline Type One
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Jennifer]], briefly, in ''The Paranoia Plot''. Also [[spoiler: the whole team minus Bex]] in ''Agent Orange'', though [[spoiler:they weren't ''technically'' dead]]. [[spoiler: Ben in ''Benjamin White'' is presumed dead at the end of the book, but returns in ''Calista Green''.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Ben and Cally. [[spoiler:Guess who his love interest turns out to be]].
* BerserkButton: Nobody's allowed to be killed on Jake's watch. Ever.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: A male version with Ben, Jake and Eddie respectively.
* ColourCodedCharacters: The team's official codenames after graduation are Edward Red, Angel Blue (Lori), Benjamin White, Jake Black, Callista Green and Agent Orange (Bex). The second series of books is titled accordingly. We never find out what colour [[spoiler: Jennifer]] would have been, though it's possible she was the original Orange.
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkerAndEdgier: The second series of books, in which Bond Team are adult spies on their first solo missions. ''Jake Black'' is probably the Darkest and Edgiest is gets though.
* DeathByOriginStory: Jennifer's family, all killed by Talon because they refused to pay menaces money.
* DragonLady: Kim Tang in ''The Serpent Scenario''
* DuelToTheDeath: Several throughout the series. [[spoiler: Talon has two in ''The Serpent Scenario'', one with Jennifer, which he wins, and one with Jake, which he loses ''spectacularly''. There's two in ''The Soul Stealer'' as well: Ben takes on Jake in a [[{{GoodVersusGood}} Good Versus Good]] duel (they do the same in ''Angel Blue''), before Ben takes on his uncle Alex at the end.]]
* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Ben
** TheChick - Lori
** TheLancer - Jake
** TheHeart - Eddie
** TheSmartGuy - Cally
** TheBigGuy - Jennifer
** SixthRanger - Bex
* FiveTokenBand: We have [[{{Oireland}} Oirish]] Eddie, super-wealthy Ben, wrong-side-of-the-tracks Jake, African-American Cally, Chinese-American Jennifer and rebel Bex.
* FrozenInTime: Averted; the heroes age from 16-17ish to early 20s over the course of the books.
* HeroicBSOD: Every book. Literally, every single one.
* HollywoodHacking: Cally, possibly justified with the futuristic setting.
* HotterAndSexier: Series two showed that some characters were in sexual relationships, although [[SexyDiscretionShot nothing takes place on the pages.]]
* HypotheticalCasting: The author is on record as saying that if the books were ever to be made into a movie, he would want Anna Kournikova to play Lori. Also counts as WhatTheHellCastingAgency, since Kournikova is a tennis player - not an actress.
* JerkJock: Ben fits this trope in every way but for the fact that we never really see him play a sport. It's mentioned that he ''does'' play, however, and he's highly skilled at physical tasks during Bond Team's training.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jake
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Jennifer]] in series one. She's temporarily resurrected, but chooses to die again when she realises her body is just an empty shell now. [[spoiler:Simon]] is later KilledOffForReal as well.
* LegoGenetics: A major part of the first book.
* LineOfSightName: Cally, abandoned as a baby, was given the surname "Cross" because she was found with a crucifix necklace on her.
* MoralDilemma: Jake faces on of these throughout ''Jake Black'', where he is [[spoiler: tasked with killing international terrorist leader Sicarius, since he is sick of criminals escaping jail once incarcerated. Eventually brings in shades of [[{{Ifyoukillhimyouwillbejustlikehim}} if you kill him you will be just like him]] as well, when Lori shows up.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Eddie.
* OfficialCouple: Ben/Lori, Jake/Jennifer and Eddie/Bex (series one), Ben/Cally, Eddie Rose and Lori/Robbie (series two.)
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There is a Sonia Dark on Solo Team and also a girl codenamed Dark in the Black Ops Division.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Book 3 introduces a new drug called [[{{Dracula}} Drac]] which is highly and instantaneously addictive. Addicts are described as being extremely pale, with blood red eyes, sharp teeth, and a craving for blood.
* PluckyComicRelief: Eddie, who doubles as a DeadpanSnarker.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ben and Jake
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Quite a few examples, including Kim Tang in the first series, [[spoiler:Clone!Jennifer]] and [[spoiler:Simon Macey]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Cally.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ben
* SchoolForScheming: Deveraux College is a cover for the training of young spies.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Ben and Cally get one at the end of ''Calista Green''.
* SixStudentClique: Played deliciously straight.
** The Head -- Ben
** The Muscle -- Jake
** The Quirk -- Eddie
** The Pretty One -- Lori
** The Smart One -- Cally (who has notable similarities to ''SavedByTheBell'''s Lisa, who is TropeCodifier for the Wild One.)
** The Wild One -- Jennifer (and later Bex, [[spoiler:after Jennifer dies]])
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Lori
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Many of the villains, most notably Vlad Tepesch (named for real-life warlord Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, the basis for the fictional {{Dracula}}). He even manufactures a highly addictive drug called "Drac" which drains addicts of their blood.
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Cally]] gets a strong case of this after [[spoiler:Ben is believed dead]] in ''Calista Green''. [[spoiler:Ben's mother]] deliberately tries to invoke the trope with YouShouldHaveDiedInstead.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bex for [[spoiler: Jennifer]]
* TeenSuperSpy: The whole premise of the first series, though they're adults in the second.
* TemptingFate: This occurs in every single book in the first series. EVERY SINGLE ONE. As if that wasn't bad enough, the characters usually say this somewhere either in the beginning or the middle of the book, where there are enough pages afterwards fo things to get worse.
* TheRival: Simon of Solo Team is this to Ben. Could also make an argument for Jake and Ben in the earlier books.
* TimeSkip: Between the first and second series
* ToughRoom: Eddie is often subjected to this.
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Ben's true love turns out to be Cally, a far cry from the previous girls he'd dated, who were all equally as privileged as him (including Lori.)
* {{Tuckerization}}: Kate Taylor in ''Agent Orange'' is named after a reader called Kate Harrison, who had won a fan contest to appear in the book.
* UnitedEurope: The books feature a European super-state known as "Europa"
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Bex's father is the headmaster of the Deveraux College and rarely had time for her while she was growing up, even when she became a student at the school herself. The most time they get to spend together is in ''Agent Orange'' [[spoiler:when he turns out to be the BigBad and she's trying to save the world from him.]]
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Bex's hair is frequently dyed green, among other varied colours.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The rebels Ben allies himself with in ''Benjamin White'' to overthrow the Tepesch regime.
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!!Tropes found in the series include:
* AboveTheInfluence: Jake to Dark in ''Jake Black''.
* ActionGirl: All four of the Bond Team girls count, though Cally takes the role less often than the others.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Kung Fu Girl]]: How Jennifer starts the series, although she had mellowed out slightly [[spoiler:by the time of her death.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Jonathan Deveraux in Agent Orange, though foreshadowed in previous books.]]
* AlliterativeName: Calista "Cally" Cross.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The [[spoiler: Pendragon Virus]], for one.
* AsianAirhead: Jennifer is a borderline Type One
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Jennifer]], briefly, in ''The Paranoia Plot''. Also [[spoiler: the whole team minus Bex]] in ''Agent Orange'', though [[spoiler:they weren't ''technically'' dead]]. [[spoiler: Ben in ''Benjamin White'' is presumed dead at the end of the book, but returns in ''Calista Green''.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Ben and Cally. [[spoiler:Guess who his love interest turns out to be]].
* BerserkButton: Nobody's allowed to be killed on Jake's watch. Ever.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: A male version with Ben, Jake and Eddie respectively.
* ColourCodedCharacters: The team's official codenames after graduation are Edward Red, Angel Blue (Lori), Benjamin White, Jake Black, Callista Green and Agent Orange (Bex). The second series of books is titled accordingly. We never find out what colour [[spoiler: Jennifer]] would have been, though it's possible she was the original Orange.
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkerAndEdgier: The second series of books, in which Bond Team are adult spies on their first solo missions. ''Jake Black'' is probably the Darkest and Edgiest is gets though.
* DeathByOriginStory: Jennifer's family, all killed by Talon because they refused to pay menaces money.
* DragonLady: Kim Tang in ''The Serpent Scenario''
* DuelToTheDeath: Several throughout the series. [[spoiler: Talon has two in ''The Serpent Scenario'', one with Jennifer, which he wins, and one with Jake, which he loses ''spectacularly''. There's two in ''The Soul Stealer'' as well: Ben takes on Jake in a [[{{GoodVersusGood}} Good Versus Good]] duel (they do the same in ''Angel Blue''), before Ben takes on his uncle Alex at the end.]]
* FiveManBand
** TheHero - Ben
** TheChick - Lori
** TheLancer - Jake
** TheHeart - Eddie
** TheSmartGuy - Cally
** TheBigGuy - Jennifer
** SixthRanger - Bex
* FiveTokenBand: We have [[{{Oireland}} Oirish]] Eddie, super-wealthy Ben, wrong-side-of-the-tracks Jake, African-American Cally, Chinese-American Jennifer and rebel Bex.
* FrozenInTime: Averted; the heroes age from 16-17ish to early 20s over the course of the books.
* HeroicBSOD: Every book. Literally, every single one.
* HollywoodHacking: Cally, possibly justified with the futuristic setting.
* HotterAndSexier: Series two showed that some characters were in sexual relationships, although [[SexyDiscretionShot nothing takes place on the pages.]]
* HypotheticalCasting: The author is on record as saying that if the books were ever to be made into a movie, he would want Anna Kournikova to play Lori. Also counts as WhatTheHellCastingAgency, since Kournikova is a tennis player - not an actress.
* JerkJock: Ben fits this trope in every way but for the fact that we never really see him play a sport. It's mentioned that he ''does'' play, however, and he's highly skilled at physical tasks during Bond Team's training.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jake
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Jennifer]] in series one. She's temporarily resurrected, but chooses to die again when she realises her body is just an empty shell now. [[spoiler:Simon]] is later KilledOffForReal as well.
* LegoGenetics: A major part of the first book.
* LineOfSightName: Cally, abandoned as a baby, was given the surname "Cross" because she was found with a crucifix necklace on her.
* MoralDilemma: Jake faces on of these throughout ''Jake Black'', where he is [[spoiler: tasked with killing international terrorist leader Sicarius, since he is sick of criminals escaping jail once incarcerated. Eventually brings in shades of [[{{Ifyoukillhimyouwillbejustlikehim}} if you kill him you will be just like him]] as well, when Lori shows up.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Eddie.
* OfficialCouple: Ben/Lori, Jake/Jennifer and Eddie/Bex (series one), Ben/Cally, Eddie Rose and Lori/Robbie (series two.)
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There is a Sonia Dark on Solo Team and also a girl codenamed Dark in the Black Ops Division.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Book 3 introduces a new drug called [[{{Dracula}} Drac]] which is highly and instantaneously addictive. Addicts are described as being extremely pale, with blood red eyes, sharp teeth, and a craving for blood.
* PluckyComicRelief: Eddie, who doubles as a DeadpanSnarker.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ben and Jake
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Quite a few examples, including Kim Tang in the first series, [[spoiler:Clone!Jennifer]] and [[spoiler:Simon Macey]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Cally.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ben
* SchoolForScheming: Deveraux College is a cover for the training of young spies.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Ben and Cally get one at the end of ''Calista Green''.
* SixStudentClique: Played deliciously straight.
** The Head -- Ben
** The Muscle -- Jake
** The Quirk -- Eddie
** The Pretty One -- Lori
** The Smart One -- Cally (who has notable similarities to ''SavedByTheBell'''s Lisa, who is TropeCodifier for the Wild One.)
** The Wild One -- Jennifer (and later Bex, [[spoiler:after Jennifer dies]])
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Lori
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Many of the villains, most notably Vlad Tepesch (named for real-life warlord Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, the basis for the fictional {{Dracula}}). He even manufactures a highly addictive drug called "Drac" which drains addicts of their blood.
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Cally]] gets a strong case of this after [[spoiler:Ben is believed dead]] in ''Calista Green''. [[spoiler:Ben's mother]] deliberately tries to invoke the trope with YouShouldHaveDiedInstead.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bex for [[spoiler: Jennifer]]
* TeenSuperSpy: The whole premise of the first series, though they're adults in the second.
* TemptingFate: This occurs in every single book in the first series. EVERY SINGLE ONE. As if that wasn't bad enough, the characters usually say this somewhere either in the beginning or the middle of the book, where there are enough pages afterwards fo things to get worse.
* TheRival: Simon of Solo Team is this to Ben. Could also make an argument for Jake and Ben in the earlier books.
* TimeSkip: Between the first and second series
* ToughRoom: Eddie is often subjected to this.
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Ben's true love turns out to be Cally, a far cry from the previous girls he'd dated, who were all equally as privileged as him (including Lori.)
* {{Tuckerization}}: Kate Taylor in ''Agent Orange'' is named after a reader called Kate Harrison, who had won a fan contest to appear in the book.
* UnitedEurope: The books feature a European super-state known as "Europa"
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Bex's father is the headmaster of the Deveraux College and rarely had time for her while she was growing up, even when she became a student at the school herself. The most time they get to spend together is in ''Agent Orange'' [[spoiler:when he turns out to be the BigBad and she's trying to save the world from him.]]
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Bex's hair is frequently dyed green, among other varied colours.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The rebels Ben allies himself with in ''Benjamin White'' to overthrow the Tepesch regime.
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