Mr. Peterson, what are you hiding?
An animated series that loosely ties into the Hello Neighbor franchise. The original test pilot premiered in Jul 25th 2020 and the official pilot premiered in Dec 12th 2022.The series mainly centers on a young girl named Trinity Bales. Trinity and her parents move into the town of Raven Brooks. Things seem normal until Trinity notices a kid sneaking out of one of the houses in the neighborhood and she eventually meets the kid, Nicky, at school. Nicky explains to Trinity that he has been snooping in the house belonging to Theodore Peterson because he believes Mr. Peterson committed murder and is hiding something in there that Nicky is trying to expose. Trinity believes Nicky after finding some intriguing clues herself. From then on, Trinity does whatever she can to uncover Mr. Peterson's secret hidden within his fortified house. Backing her up are Nicky and Trinity's other new friends(Enzo, Maritza and Ivan).
Hello Neighbor Welcome To Raven Brooks provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adults Are Useless: Without strong enough evidence that proves Mr. Peterson is plotting something bad, the kids can't get help from anyone, so they mainly deal with the situation on their own. Part of the reason they sneak into his house is that they are trying to find proof of his crime.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Maritza likes to pick on her brother, Enzo, for being geeky, much to Enzo's annoyance, but when the two reunite after splitting up in "Search & Rescue", she gives him a hug, showing how glad Maritza is that Enzo is fine.
- Bullying a Dragon: Nicky (and by extension, his friends) suspects that Mr. Peterson is secretly a murderer who is scheming something sinister, yet he spies on him and sneaks in his house without help from the police or even his parents. When Mr. Peterson catches Nicky, he imprisons him in his house and twists his mind. After weeks of imprisonment, Nicky is mentally a complete mess.
- Cassandra Truth: Trinity tries to warn the adults that Mr. Peterson is potentially plotting something evil, but they don't believe the kids because they choose to emphasize with Peterson. The school principal explains that Mr. Peterson lost his wife in a car accident and both of his children are reported missing. In the adults' eye, the kids are needlessly harassing a sad man who deeply misses his family.
- It turns out that Mr. Peterson is starting to exploit this by the end of the season, with his first line of dialogue being to rub it in Trinity's face as he abducts Nicky.
Mr. Peterson: (Through Nicky's walky-talky) Tell whoever you want. They'll never believe you. - Crazy-Prepared: Mr. Peterson fills his house with barricades and traps in order to keep out, catch and even kill snooping kids. The kids try to get past them as best as they can, with varying results.
- Crush Blush: Enzo has a crush on Trinity from the moment he first met her. So he naturally blushes whenever he socializes with her.
- Driven to Madness: When Mr. Peterson finally captures Nicky, he imprisons him in the basement. It's left ambiguous what Mr. Peterson did to him, but after weeks of being kept in the house, poor Nicky undergoes Sanity Slippage. Nicky was once a brave little boy, but when his friends found him in "Search & Rescue", he constantly feels frightened, always saying to nobody that he'll behave and wants to stay safe. He also covers his head with a bag that has button eyes and a smile sewn on it, concealing his head and sight. Even when his friends brought him out of his prison room, Nicky instinctively goes back to it and re-applies his head bag.
- Hope Spot: In "The Pieces", the man who broke his leg has been crawling all the way to the hospital. He finally reaches it, thinking he'll get treated, only to notice there is a huge line of injured people that reaches far outside the building. The poor man now has to crawl to where the line starts and wait his turn.
- Police Are Useless: When Trinity sees Mr. Peterson kidnapping Nicky, she and Enzo call the cops. A single police officer arrives at Peterson's house but all he does is take a large bag full of coins and leaves. This suggests that either Mr. Peterson bribed the cop with the coins or the cop flat out robbed him and did nothing else. Either way, the kids conclude that the authority won't be of much help to them. The trope gets Subverted when several police officers, rather conveniently, show up on time to apprehend Mr. Peterson just as he is abducting Trinity.
- Rage Breaking Point: Mr. Peterson may be trying to get rid of the kids who are snooping around, but he is still smart enough to know not to do so in public. This is why he typically doesn't chase after them pass his property line. However, when the kids unintentionally free Peterson's hidden prisoner, Mr. Peterson completely loses his patience and goes after Trinity right in front of her own house. Trinity's parents and the police see what's happening, so the authorities arrest Mr. Peterson on the spot.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In "No More Nicky", Maritza uses this trope when Trinity breaks one of Mr. Peterson's house windows by throwing a rock at the building out of anger.
