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Dork Diaries
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Dork Diaries is a series of children's books by Rachel Renee Russell. They follow the misadventures of Nikki J. Maxwell, a slightly bratty and shallow but still well-meaning and likable fourteen year old girl. The story begins when Nikki's family moves because of her father's job, and Nikki is transferred to Westchester Country Day, a private school that is much too fancy for Nikki's tastes. There, she meets Alpha Bitch MacKenzie Hollister, Chloe Garcia and Zoey Franklin (unpopular but awesome new friends), and Brandon Roberts (Nikki's crush, MacKenzie's crush, and overall Nice Guy).There are 15 books so far, as well as two companions. Book One: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life Book Two: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl Book Three: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star Book Three and a Half: How to Dork Your Diary Book Four: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess Book Five: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All Book Six: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker Book OMG: Dork Diaries: All About Me Diary! Book Seven: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Glam TV Star Book Eight: Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Happily Ever After Book Nine: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-so-Dorky Drama Queen Book Ten: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter Book Eleven: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy Book Twelve: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe Book Thirteen: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday Book Fourteen: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever Book Fifteen: Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris AdventureIn 2016, a Spin-Off series, The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, was launched, focusing on a character which debuted in Tales from a Not-so-Perfect Pet Sitter.In 2015, it was announced that a live-action film adaptation of the books was in the works at Summit Entertainment. However, with minimal updates since, the movie appears to either be in Development Hell and may have been cancelled.Now features a characters page. Feel free to contribute.For other children's book series in a diary format, see Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dear Dumb Diary. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Brianna. Her wacky antics and overactive imagination drive Nikki insane on a regular basis. | |
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Nerds Are Sexy | |
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Nerds Are Sexy: Chloe and Zoey are both huge nerds and both are very cute. | |
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Heroes Love Dogs | |
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Heroes Love Dogs: Brandon loves the dogs at Fuzzy Friends and wants them all to find nice, caring homes. When Fuzzy Friends has no room for Holly and her puppies he is genuinely upset at the thought that she might get into a different shelter without a no-kill policy. | |
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Stuffed into a Locker | |
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Stuffed into a Locker: In Locker Hero, Max is repeatedly stuffed into a locker by Thug. At first, this is Played for Laughs. However, it gets serious when he is trapped into a locker at the end of the school day and start of a three-day weekend. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Nikki falls for Brandon because he is sweet and kind. | |
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Celebrity Resemblance | |
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Celebrity Resemblance: Zoey claims she looks like Beyonce in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: Thug. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Brandon in Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe, when Nikki starts spending time with Andre. | |
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"Kiss the Cook" Apron | |
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"Kiss the Cook" Apron: For Father's Day, Nikki, strapped-for-cash, finds a bargain bin full of tacky aprons with slogans like "Kiss the Cook!," "When Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy!," and "My Dad Is the World's Greatest Cook!," which she buys for her dad as a Father's Day present. Later, she mentions that most of the letters on the apron were burned off in a barbecue accident and it now reads "My Dad eat s ook!" | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: Chloe and Zoey are always quick to tell Nikki when her plans or ideas kind of suck. Subverted by Nikki as she often says something brutally honest, and then admits "but I just said that inside my head, so no one heard it but me." | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Nikki is the most normal of her trio, but Brandon is by far the most normal character of them all. | |
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Girl Posse | |
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Girl Posse: MacKenzie has a group of avid followers, the most prominent member being her best friend Jessica. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Nikki mentions that she feels beautiful when she wears the Juliet costume for the Halloween dance. Nikki almost says this word for word about... her dad in a suit. She says that she barely recognized him. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: In Japanese, "Nikki" means "diary". | |
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Stage Mom | |
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Stage Mom: In Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl Nikki and Brianna's mom makes Brianna do ballet despite Brianna not wanting to because their mom wanted to do ballet when she was young. Prior to Brianna, Nikki was made to do ballet but was let go due to not fitting in. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Brandon lives with his grandparents. His parents died. | |
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Unspoken Retort | |
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Unspoken Retort: A Running Gag throughout the series is Nikki imagining herself saying something smart-alecky towards someone, followed by her Character Catch Phrase of "But I just said that in my head, so no one heard it but me." | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: "Tic Toc Breath Mints", which show up in a few illustrations. It's normally averted though - the series doesn't have a problem using the names of real-life brands and companies. | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life: The house where Nikki's dad is working at and where Brianna has to make a Potty Emergency is where Mackenzie lives | |
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Girlish Pigtails | |
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Girlish Pigtails: Both Nikki and Brianna wear their hair like this, and they're both pretty girly. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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In Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen: "Yay me!" Nikki uses it at the end of the book, after MacKenzie used it a thousand times in her diary entries. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: The series is often seen as one to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, from both the main characters getting into predicaments and such right down to the non-canonical do-it-yourself installment between books 3 and 4. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Chloe and Zoey are all for Nikki and Brandon becoming a couple. | |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night | |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Nikki mentions in Tales From a Not So Talented Pop Star that she used to believe there is a clown living underneath her bed and he'd pull her underneath for all eternity when she was very little. | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: The plot of Pop Star is basically MacKenzie playing mind games with Nikki. MacKenzie sends Nikki a fake tuition bill, expecting her to horribly messed up herself, her friends, and her family, so she's forced to take up a talent contest to fix the problems, just then MacKenzie can ultimately humiliate her at the most crucial moment. | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Once an Episode: "Calling MacKenzie a mean girl is an understatement. She is a [insert dangerous animal] in [insert two fashionable items]!" | |
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Comic Trio | |
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Comic Trio: Chloe or Zoey comes up with the insane/stupid plans, the other one agrees, and Nikki is left wondering whether or not she's flypaper for freaks. | |
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Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody | |
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Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody: In "Tales from a Not-So Fabulous Life", Nikki discovers that her PE teacher's CD of Swan Lake is actually a CD of Michael Jackson's Thriller album. She ends up doing the zombie dance from the music video with her ballet group, leading to them flunking the class. | |
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Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher | |
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Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Max has been homeschooled by his grandma, who is a retired kindergarten teacher. He does not like how she treats him. | |
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Character Development | |
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Nikki getting mad and telling people what she thinks of them... only to reveal that she just said it all inside her head. This gets less frequent as the story goes on. | |
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Zany Scheme | |
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Zany Scheme: Usually on behalf of Chloe and Zoey. The most insane of all has to be the "run away and live in the NYC library" plan from Not So Fabulous Life. | |
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Bad Liar | |
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Bad Liar: Usually when Nikki has to think of a lie on the spot, chances are she'll come up with something completely ridiculous, such as having to take care of a sick unicorn. Some people believe her anyway. | |
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Twice Shy | |
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Twice Shy: Nikki and Brandon. They clearly like each other, but they just can't muster the courage to tell each other. Brandon did finally muster the courage to kiss N Ikki in Not-So-Glam TV Star though. Which doesn't mean that they're dating now. | |
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Happy Dance | |
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Happy Dance: Nikki does the "Snoopy happy dance" when she's pleased. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Done several times in How To Dork Your Diary. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The drawings in the first two books are more realistic than the proceeding ones. | |
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! | |
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: MacKenzie films Nikki and Brianna singing the Queasy Cheesy song and puts the video on YouTube in the third book. She doesn't tell people about it though... at first. In the ninth book, an embarrassing video is made of MacKenzie and spread around the school. She's the one who puts it on YouTube herself to convince her parents that she's being bullied so they allow her to transfer schools. | |
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Locked in the Bathroom | |
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Locked in the Bathroom: Nikki locks herself there when she's upset and/or very embarrassed. Which happens often. MacKenzie ends up doing it too when the popular kids at her new school come across the bug video that she posted online in an attempt to frame Nikki for cyberbullying. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: Inverted; Brandon is the most sane character in the book. | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat: A longer exchange between Nikki and MacKenzie is likely to play out this way, with both of them throwing increasingly creative insults at each other as the fight goes on. | |
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Spoofs "R" Us | |
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Spoofs "R" Us: Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life has Nikki imagine herself disguised the next time she goes to a clothing store, carrying a bag from Cheap Fashions "R" Us. In one book, Nikki imagines her whole family as clowns, and the illustration is topped with the caption "Clowns R Us". | |
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Nightmare Sequence | |
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Nightmare Sequence: Nikki has one in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl where she imagines herself being chocolate and people are eating her | |
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| Dork Diaries / int_607b0671 | type |
School Newspaper Newshound | |
| Dork Diaries / int_607b0671 | comment |
School Newspaper Newshound: Brandon, who is the photographer for the school newspaper. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Dork Diaries / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
| Dork Diaries / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: Nikki and Brandon have this in Tales from the Not-So-Glam TV Star | |
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1.0 | |
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| Dork Diaries / int_65e9d9df | type |
Fooled by the Sound | |
| Dork Diaries / int_65e9d9df | comment |
Fooled by the Sound: In one book, Mrs. Wallabanger crosses the road, unaware that a huge truck is coming towards her. The truck honks its horn for her to get out of the way, but due to her deafness, she mistakes it for a goose. | |
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Dork Diaries / int_65e9d9df | |
| Dork Diaries / int_667ae3bf | type |
Gym Class Hell | |
| Dork Diaries / int_667ae3bf | comment |
Gym Class Hell: Most of the awkward, embarrassing or frustrating moments that happen to Nikki in class are in gym class, from being Picked Last to failing at ice skating, having to deal with a Small Name, Big Ego karate teacher, or almost drowning in four feet of water. | |
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Dork Diaries / int_667ae3bf | |
| Dork Diaries / int_670db7d7 | type |
Formula-Breaking Episode | |
| Dork Diaries / int_670db7d7 | comment |
Formula-Breaking Episode: Book nine has MacKenzie stealing Nikki's diary, with most of the book being told from her perspective. | |
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Dork Diaries / int_670db7d7 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Dork Diaries / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: MacKenzie is often described as cackling like a witch. | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_68068108 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life: The house where Nikki's dad is working at and where Brianna has to make a Potty Emergency is where Mackenzie lives Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl: Mrs. Hargrove, the woman who hired Nikki for Brianna's Halloween party, is Mackenzie’s aunt | |
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Dork Diaries / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Nikki is Japanese for diary. The art style is Animesque. (It might not even have been done on purpose though, as Nikki also shares a name with the author's daughter and might have been named after her.) | |
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Dork Diaries / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6c3f8ca8 | type |
Drama Queen | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6c3f8ca8 | comment |
Drama Queen: Nikki tends to act pretty overdramatic at times. The same thing goes with Mackenzie, who is an even bigger drama queen than Nikki. | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_6c3f8ca8 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6d5ab39e | type |
Fractured Fairy Tale | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6d5ab39e | comment |
Fractured Fairy Tale: Book 8 as a whole, which originates from a teacher inspiring the class to rewrite fairy tales with personal twists. | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_6d5ab39e | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6dbf7c8d | type |
April Fools' Plot | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6dbf7c8d | comment |
April Fools' Plot: Once Upon a Dork is a invokedBizarro Episode in which Nikki wakes up in the fairy-tale world. In real life, the whole thing takes place on April first. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_6dbf7c8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_6dbf7c8d | |
| Dork Diaries / int_72e0023f | type |
Invoked Trope | |
| Dork Diaries / int_72e0023f | comment |
In the ninth book, an embarrassing video is made of MacKenzie and spread around the school. She's the one who puts it on YouTube herself to convince her parents that she's being bullied so they allow her to transfer schools. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_72e0023f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_72e0023f | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7319a7de | type |
Potty Dance | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7319a7de | comment |
Potty Dance: The accompanying illustration for the below-mentioned Potty Emergency features Brianna performing a frantic one. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7319a7de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_7319a7de | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7360a2f8 | type |
Growling Gut | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7360a2f8 | comment |
Growling Gut: Nikki gets this at one point in "Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe" since she skipped breakfast. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7360a2f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_7360a2f8 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_777bc79b | type |
Last Resort Takeout | |
| Dork Diaries / int_777bc79b | comment |
Last Resort Takeout: Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life features a comic strip story where Nikki's dad disturbs a wasp nest while trying to barbecue. After spraying it with Raid, he gets chased while the barbecue overheats. The final panel is him looking angry, covered in burn and sting marks, while holding takeaway bags from McDonald's. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_777bc79b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_777bc79b | |
| Dork Diaries / int_78f72406 | type |
Endearingly Dorky | |
| Dork Diaries / int_78f72406 | comment |
Endearingly Dorky: Nikki is a cutesy girl ashamed of being a dork, even when she's taught to be proud of it. Her little sister Brianna doesn't care that she has it. MacKenzie claims to be a CCP (cute, cool, popular) socialite while messing with Nikki for being a new student. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_78f72406 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_78f72406 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_794fd8a4 | type |
Popular Is Dumb | |
| Dork Diaries / int_794fd8a4 | comment |
Mackenzie's best friend Jessica too as she contains everything Mackenzie has but unlike Mackenzie, Jessica isn't that bright | |
| Dork Diaries / int_794fd8a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_794fd8a4 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7cd98af5 | type |
Potty Failure | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7cd98af5 | comment |
Potty Failure: Once again, Brianna in the first book. Nikki states her annoyance at having to manage Brianna's Tooth Fairy related Nighttime Bathroom Phobia, where Brianna will come into her room in the middle of the night to ask Nikki to come with her to the bathroom. If Nikki isn't fast enough, Brianna will leave "accident" puddles on her bedroom carpet, as depicted in Nikki's first drawing of Brianna. This is implied to be a regular occurrence... | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7cd98af5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_7cd98af5 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Happens twice between Nikki and Brandon. They get interrupted by MacKenzie both times. They do get a real kiss between those two scenes though. | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_7eb49b31 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: MacKenzie's first appearance has a path immediately clearing for her as people shout out compliments to her. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_7febc23b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_7febc23b | |
| Dork Diaries / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Dork Diaries / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Used a lot. A notable example is the scene where Nikki has to do a book report about Moby-Dick and finds the novel extremely boring. She proceeds to list off things she'd rather do than read it: clean the entire house with a toothbrush, brush her teeth with the toothbrush she cleaned the house with, visit her neighbor lady for a detailed update on her bunion surgery, and hang out with Brianna. Her reaction: "HANG OUT WITH BRIANNA?! OMG! I can't believe I just wrote that!" | |
| Dork Diaries / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_808cbaeb | |
| Dork Diaries / int_855154d5 | type |
Prank Call | |
| Dork Diaries / int_855154d5 | comment |
Prank Call: Nikki, Chloe and Zoey like to make them during their free time in the library in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, | |
| Dork Diaries / int_855154d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_855154d5 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_85e7c12f | type |
Puppy-Dog Eyes | |
| Dork Diaries / int_85e7c12f | comment |
Puppy-Dog Eyes: Chloe and Zoey make a few in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl | |
| Dork Diaries / int_85e7c12f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_85e7c12f | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8aae7db4 | type |
Disco Sucks | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8aae7db4 | comment |
Disco Sucks: Nikki's dad is really into disco as he likes to play on car rides and Nikki hates it everytime he does. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8aae7db4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_8aae7db4 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: In the fourth book, Mackenzie switches Nikki and her friends pretty outfits for the ice skating competition out for clown costumes. She also knows Nikki has problems not falling on the ice. Because of this, once Nikki goes on the ice dressed in her clown costume and falls, the audience thinks she's doing it on purpose and loves it and they win the competition. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8d0785d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_8d0785d5 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8d08960c | type |
Two-Timer Date | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8d08960c | comment |
Two-Timer Date: Downplayed as it's actually involves just one date and are three things going on but at the climax of the second book, Nikki tries to: hang out with Chloe and Zoey at the Halloween dance (dressed as trash bags); be Brandon's date at the Halloween dance (dressed as Juliet); and help out at Brianna's ballet class Halloween party (dressed as a giant rat). It doesn't work out very well. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_8d08960c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_8d08960c | |
| Dork Diaries / int_905438eb | type |
Recycled IN SPACE! | |
| Dork Diaries / int_905438eb | comment |
Recycled In Space: Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls! | |
| Dork Diaries / int_905438eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_905438eb | |
| Dork Diaries / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Dork Diaries / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: During Mackenzie's party in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, Mackenzie and Jessica flip a plate of fruit onto Nikki's dress but one of them ends up in a chocolate fountain. Shortly later, Mackenzie and Jessica try to get their picture taken by the fountain but it explodes on them from the fruit piece clogging it up. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_90e31482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_90e31482 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_912b24c4 | type |
Art Shift | |
| Dork Diaries / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: Nikki switches between her usual Animesque style and stick figure style repeatedly. Majorly in the Hostile Show Takeover, Tales from a Not-so-Dorky Drama Queen, since MacKenzie's drawing style is different from and more realistic than Nikki's. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_912b24c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_912b24c4 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9230c618 | type |
Hypocrisy Nod | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9230c618 | comment |
Hypocrisy Nod: Sometimes Nikki makes hypocritical remarks in her diary, but she is quick to admit them. When she first got her diary, she made her first entry and then swore she'll never write in it again. The next day she started writing in it again and admitted the irony. When Nikki tried to sign for an art competition at school, she hid behind a plant and spied on Mackenzie, who also wanted to sign in and denied it being spying. After Mackenzie left and Nikki signed for the competition, she saw Mackenzie spying on her and got angry because of it. However, Nikki quickly admits that she did indeed spy on Mackenzie, but unlike Mackenzie, who wanted to stop Nikki from entering the competition, Nikki just wanted to avoid Mackenzie. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9230c618 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_9230c618 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
| Dork Diaries / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: Whenever Brianna does something bad, she has a tendency to blame it on her hand puppet, Miss Penelope. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_973d220f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_973d220f | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9ae0cca6 | type |
Character Blog | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9ae0cca6 | comment |
Character Blog: The official site contains an online "diary" by Nikki serving as an announcement blog, as well as ask columns run by Nikki and Brandon. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_9ae0cca6 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9c8701b5 | type |
A Day in the Limelight | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: MacKenzie steals Nikki's diary in Tales from a Not-so-Dorky Drama Queen and writes in it, allowing us a glimpse into her life. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9c8701b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_9c8701b5 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9d0bc885 | type |
Eye Pop | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9d0bc885 | comment |
Eye Pop: Nikki's eyes fly out of their sockets when she imagines she'll get to meet-and-greet the hottest boy bands in the universe. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_9d0bc885 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_9d0bc885 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a0947d78 | type |
Token Trio | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a0947d78 | comment |
Token Trio: Nikki (who is white), Chloe (who is Hispanic), and Zoey (who is black). | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a0947d78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_a0947d78 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a5ff4294 | type |
Phoneaholic Teenager | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a5ff4294 | comment |
Phoneaholic Teenager: Tiffany is completely obsessed with selfies and cell phones, and uses them to bully people. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a5ff4294 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_a5ff4294 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a7382a73 | type |
Imagine Spot | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a7382a73 | comment |
Imagine Spot: The series is chock-full of them. They range from Nikki imagining MacKenzie as a literal ice or drama queen to Brandon being abducted by aliens. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_a7382a73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_a7382a73 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Nikki's "but I just said that inside my head, so no one heard it but me." whenever she is saying something, but is actually just thinking it. Once an Episode: "Calling MacKenzie a mean girl is an understatement. She is a [insert dangerous animal] in [insert two fashionable items]!" "WHATEVER!" is a standard response. "I just HATE it when MacKenzie sashays!" whenever Nikki sees MacKenzie struts out of the scene in a fashionista-like manner. MacKenzie frequently says "OMG" and "hon". In Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen: "Yay me!" Nikki uses it at the end of the book, after MacKenzie used it a thousand times in her diary entries. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b01abe4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b01abe4f | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b26477dc | type |
Reactive Continuous Scream | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b26477dc | comment |
Reactive Continuous Scream: This happens in "Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-it-All", when Mackenzie discovers Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey hiding in the bushes, preparing to toilet paper her house. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b26477dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b26477dc | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b2838e5c | type |
Make Way for the New Villains | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b2838e5c | comment |
Make Way for the New Villains: Book 11 introduces Tiffany Blaine Davenport, an Alpha Bitch who, in Nikki's words, out-MacKenzies MacKenzie. The two girls quickly become enemies. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b2838e5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b2838e5c | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b2f26025 | type |
Genki Girl | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl: Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey are all this, but mostly Chloe. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b2f26025 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b2f26025 | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b340342d | type |
Make Way for the Princess | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b340342d | comment |
Make Way for the Princess: After Nikki nearly gets killed trying to get through the hallway and to her locker, a path immediately clears for MacKenzie. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b340342d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b340342d | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Nikki and MacKenzie both like Brandon. Brandon pretty obviously likes Nikki back, but she remains clueless. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b7e0c5ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b7e0c5ff | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b87666bb | type |
Eccentric Exterminator | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b87666bb | comment |
Eccentric Exterminator: Nikki's father. He drives to the job in a van with a giant roach (affectionately named Max) on top, dances while fumigating his daughter's school, and even once tried to land himself a TV role as an exterminating superhero. His job as an exterminator is even the reason why Nikki attends Westchester Country Day. | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b87666bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Dork Diaries / int_b87666bb | |
| Dork Diaries / int_b970a40 | type |
Valley Girl | |
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Valley Girl: MacKenzie. She's rich, gets the most expensive clothing and makeup available and is just an all around Jerkass to most people. Mackenzie's best friend Jessica too as she contains everything Mackenzie has but unlike Mackenzie, Jessica isn't that bright | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey. No matter what happens, they remain friends. | |
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Squee | |
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Squee: Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey do this a lot when they're excited about something. | |
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Aesop Amnesia | |
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Aesop Amnesia: Despite the fact that Nikki, at the end of each story, learns that she should be proud for being a dork, the next book will always start with her being ashamed of it. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: This is Brandon's character as he's really nice to most people he runs into and one of Nikki's reasons for being into him. In Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life, Nikki trips during lunch and gets food all over her. Many people start laughing at her but despite that, Brandon helps her up. In Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, after all the trouble Nikki had during the school Halloween dance, Brandon still forgives her and even cheers her up when she starts crying. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Oh so many references from the Price is Right to CSI to Michael Jackson to Punk'd to Twilight to Spongebob to Terminator to Peanuts and so much more. In the third book, Nikki says she often sings Don't Stop Believin' because her dad loves it, and she finds it funny how everyone loves it again "because it's on a TV show." | |
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Straight Man and Wise Guy | |
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Straight Man and Wise Guy: Zoey and Chloe respectively, especially in later books. | |
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Virtual YouTuber | |
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Virtual YouTuber: Nikki and Zoey were given their own VTuber models to announce updates on the upcoming fifteenth book. Chloe also got one for videos where she gives viewers advice on romantic relationships. Zoey's model was used again during an interview with a TV reporter on the series' first book, and Nikki's model was used again to announce that her books would be autographed online at the indie bookstore Bookpeople. In December of 2023, her model was once again to announce that autographed and personalized Dork Diaries and The Misadventures of Max Crumbly books were available for purchase online at Bookpeople. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Nearly the entire cast to varying degrees. Brianna is a neverending source of wacky ideas and plans, Zoey and especially Chloe's Zany Schemes can become quite over-the-top at times, Theo believes Hogwarts is real, and so on. Mr. Zimmerman from Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All deserves special mention for being completely scatterbrained, absent-minded, and very, very eccentric. | |
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All Part of the Show | |
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All Part of the Show: In the fourth book, Nikki could never learn how to ice skate, and keeps falling over. She still has this problem by the time they perform their ice skating routine, but by then their outfits were switched and they're dressed as clowns, so the crowd thinks Nikki is doing it on purpose and finds it funny. | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
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Hostile Show Takeover: In the ninth book, thanks to MacKenzie stealing Nikki's diary and writing in it for some time. | |
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Everybody Cries | |
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Everybody Cries: Nikki, Chloe and Zoey have a big cry fest in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl | |
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Old-Timey Bathing Suit | |
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Old-Timey Bathing Suit: In Tales from a Not-So Happy Heartbreaker, Nikki wears her grandma's old swimsuit to swimming class. Her classmates are shocked by this and MacKenzie looks up and down, signaling that she had never seen a swimsuit with legs before. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: Nikki's grandma, who makes the inspiring "You can be a CHICKEN or a CHAMPION" line, would likely win a lot at The Price Is Right, and can dance pretty well. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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MacKenzie ends up doing it too when the popular kids at her new school come across the bug video that she posted online in an attempt to frame Nikki for cyberbullying. | |
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Cash-Cow Franchise | |
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Cash-Cow Franchise: The Princess Sugar Plum franchise is this In-Universe. The amounts of merch it gets are ridiculous, and Princess Sugar Plum valentines are sold out everywhere, except for the grocery store. This might serve as a Take That! to big franchises and consumerism. | |
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White Gloves | |
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White Gloves: Certain illustrations give the characters extremely stylized hands that resemble white gloves (or even mittens). | |
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Animesque | |
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Animesque: Nikki is an artist who draws pictures in manga-esque style and stick figure style. | |
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Fairy Tale Episode | |
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Fairy Tale Episode: The eighth book is about Nikki being trapped in a fairy tale world, with the roles being played by people she knows. | |
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Divergent Character Evolution | |
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Divergent Character Evolution: Chloe and Zoey used to be treated as one similar, inseparable pair, but later on, Chloe became more of the silly one while Zoey became the mature one of the duo. | |
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Fever Dream Episode | |
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Fever Dream Episode: The majority of Once Upon a Dork (Book 8) is Nikki experiencing a bizarre dream after getting hit in the head and knocked out by a dodgeball. | |
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Hiccup Hijinks | |
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Hiccup Hijinks: At one point in Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, Nikki and her family go to a funeral but Nikki gets the hiccups to the point it's constantly interrupting a guy's euology. | |
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High-School Dance | |
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High-School Dance: The entire plot of Not So Popular Party Girl revolves around two of them (MacKenzie's birthday party and the school Halloween dance), as well as an elementary school dance (Brianna's ballet class Halloween party). | |
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Beta Bitch | |
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Beta Bitch: Jessica is this to Mackenzie. | |
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Homeschooled Kids | |
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Homeschooled Kids: Max has been one up until 8th grade. | |
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Birthday Episode | |
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Birthday Episode: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday takes place on Nikki's 15th birthday. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: MacKenzie "sashaying" away, and Nikki then commenting on how much she hates that. Nikki getting mad and telling people what she thinks of them... only to reveal that she just said it all inside her head. This gets less frequent as the story goes on. Chloe and Zoey spying on Nikki and Brandon, especially when they have a moment in the library. | |
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Non-Ironic Clown | |
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In one book, Nikki imagines her whole family as clowns, and the illustration is topped with the caption "Clowns R Us". | |
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SpearCounterpart | |
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Spear Counterpart: To Dork Diaries. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life, Nikki puts out a burning toaster by pouring orange juice over it. In the third book, her mom shops for a new toaster and Brianna comments that "Some idiot poured orange juice into our old [toaster] and it exploded and blew up our house. KABOOM!" In Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl, Chloe and Zoey's initial plan for the Halloween dance was to lie that their boyfriends are the band members playing there. At the end of the book, Mackenzie and Jessica claim that their boyfriends are the band members at said dance. Not realizing that its Theodore's band that's playing. Nikki's "fairy repellent" from Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl turns up again when her dad finds it 5 books later in Tales From a Not-So-Glam TV Star and she doesn't recognize it at first. In Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker, when Nikki shows up to swim class with a float toy, she mentions that there's no rule against float toys in the pool, listing the rules: "1. No running! 2. No eating! 3. No horseplay! 4. No peeing in the pool!" When she mentions the rules again many chapters later, one more has been added: "5. No float toys!" | |
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Eating Lunch Alone | |
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Eating Lunch Alone: Nikki is a loner and sits by herself during lunch before she meets Zoey and Chloe in gym class. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: Nikki engages in this a lot. For example, in Tales from a Not-So Happy Heartbreaker, she refers to the seahorse swim tube as a "seahorse float thingy". | |
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