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The 39 Clues
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Quiz time: What is ''The 39 Clues"?A. Childrens' book series B. Website C. Collectible card game D. SweepstakesThe answer is E, all of the above.The book series by various authors,click for list Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda, Jenny Goebel, Clifford Riley, Mallory Kass as well as the website, cards, and sweepstakes, deal with the Cahill family, one of the most powerful families the world has ever known, as almost every historical figure from the last five hundred years is related to them. The family is divided into one of four branches - the Ekaterina, who are the geniuses and inventors of the world, the Tomas, who are explorers and athletes, the Lucians, who are the spies, generals, and leaders, and the Janus, the artists, musicians, and authors.When Grace Cahill, arguably one of the last genuinely nice Cahills, dies, she chooses to unveil her alternate will and kickstart a globe-trotting quest to find the source of the family's power. Such power can only be found by assembling all 39 Clues.Our story begins when Amy and Dan Cahill, orphans who live with their disinterested great-aunt Beatrice, attend their grandmother Grace's funeral and the reading of her will. There, along with an assortment of colorful distant relatives, they make the choice: one million dollars or the chance to find the Clues alongside au pair Nellie Gomez. They choose to receive their first Clue, and are subsequently thrown into a five-hundred-year-old web of backstabbing, lies, and deceit. The first series follows them through the Clue hunt as they travel the globe, clash with their scheming relatives, and discover troubling truths about themselves and the Cahill family at large.Flash forward two years to the beginning of the Sequel Series, Cahills vs. Vespers. The Clue hunt has ended, but a new threat has surfaced; it was revealed at the end of the first series that the Clue hunt was really only a practice run for a greater conflict between the Cahills and a previously unknown rival faction. This group, the Vespers, are allegedly so evil that they make the Big Bad of the first series look like Mother Teresa by comparison. Now the Vespers have begun making demands of the Cahill family, and the lives of seven hostages are at stake. Amy and Dan are once more sent on a trip around the world, frantically chasing down Vesper One's demands, while their teammates provide support from the Cahill Command Center, a computer lab that has been set up in Grace's mansion.A third series, named Unstoppable, was published from late 2013 to 2014, dealing with some of the fallout from the conflict with the Vespers, with presidential candidate J. Rutherford Pierce serving as Big Bad. Scholastic proceeded to publish a fourth one, from early 2015 to mid 2016, in which a new villain with mysterious ties to Grace named the Outcast has taken control of much of the family's resources. A standalone novel named Outbreak was released in late 2016, dealing with the doings of a pharmaceutical company with which Sinead Starling was involved.The official web site was originally here, but it seems to have been taken down; the address now redirects to the Scholastic Books web site. Character sheet is here, and individual books have recap pages here. | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: When Natalie tells a disbelieving Hamilton that Amy and Dan just entered the building, he's surprised to find out that it's not a trick to get him to leave her brother alone, and that Amy and Dan really just came in. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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A King's Ransom: William McIntyre dies, starting the Anyone Can Die atmosphere. The Guardians are revealed, and Atticus is one. Then Atticus is kidnapped, and Dan gets a text from AJT. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: There's no doubt that Cahills vs. Vespers is darker than the original series... A huge amount of Mook deaths occur. Besides death, there's an increase in violence, and the authors don't shy away from describing blood - see Only a Flesh Wound. And in Trust No One, Alistair is Killed Off for Real. There are more deaths, both major and total, in Day of Doom alone than in all of the books of the previous series combined. Though the language remains (almost always) kid-friendly, it's obvious that more liberties have been taken than in the original series. For example, "ass" appears once in Trust No One, and "pissed off" also appears twice. A Love Dodecahedron shows up in "Dead of Night". Also, just take a look at Amy and Dan themselves in comparison with the beginning of the first series... or even the end. It's clear that their experiences have not only made them stronger, but also psychologically damaged them. (See also: Amy going into Heroic Safe Mode at the end of Trust No One.) | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Basically, the majority of the characters are related and have tried to kill each other at some point. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Rupert of Silent Night really wants his aloof father to notice him. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Inputting cards' codes on the website either unlocks a secret file or is part of a Clue Combo. Solving website missions' and inputting ultra-rare cards' codes unlocks one of the 39 Clues. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop - in book 3 of the Unstoppable series. Pierce says 'He will be in unstoppable'. in the end of chapter 20. | |
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And This Is for... | |
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And This Is for...: Fiske dedicates a Vesper-kicking to Alistair. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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Death by Origin Story: The death of Hope and Arthur is a crucial part of the backstory of their children, Amy and Dan. Honoring their memories and finding out more about them often influence Amy and Dan's motivations through various arcs. | |
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Brother–Sister Team | |
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Brother–Sister Team: Amy and Dan are a sister and brother who work together to find the thirty-nine clues; Natalie and Ian are as well. | |
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Doesn't Trust Those Guys | |
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Doesn't Trust Those Guys: "Never trust a Cahill." | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: The Cahill family, even if "friends" may be still a stretch in some cases. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: As stated above, Ian and Natalie. Isabel disowned them. Also, Cora Wizard is no longer speaking to her son Jonah. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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The Viper's Nest: Amy and Dan are TheDreaded Madrigals, just like their parents and Grace before them. | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Amy's always had somewhat of a crush on the fabulous Ian Kabra. After he "fakes" love for her and leaves her for dead in a cave she eventually starts getting over him. Too bad he's starting to develop genuine feelings... | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Heroes With Bad Publicity: Amy and Dan become this when a villainous media mogul targets them, twisting facts and pictures to make them look morally dubious and uncaring than they actually are. It doesn't help that they've been Justified Criminals for the past couple of series, with more people knowing about the crimes they've committed than the reasons for them. | |
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We Have to Get the Bullet Out! | |
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We Have to Get the Bullet Out!: See "Only a Flesh Wound" entry above. | |
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Long-Distance Relationship | |
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Long-Distance Relationship: Amy and Evan start one of these (carried on mostly via phone) after Amy and Dan take off on their missions around the world. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Amy overcomes a lot of her shyness. All of the minor characters get this. If you look at reviews of the first book of the series, you'll see critiques of the "one-dimensional" relatives. Stick around until the middle of the series and interesting developments will begin taking place, especially - unusually for a childrens' book series - among adult supporting characters; the younger minor characters' development mostly happens in the last two books. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: The Submarine Job never really explains the story behind Grace's decision to drive that car off a cliff. | |
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The Bermuda Triangle | |
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The Ekaterina have one inside The Bermuda Triangle. | |
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Follow the Chaos | |
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Follow the Chaos: Even early on in the clue hunt, Nellie is able to locate Amy and Dan by turning on the news, seeing where's there been some suspicious-sounding trouble, and heading directly to that location. | |
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Privileged Rival | |
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Privileged Rival: The Kabras, full stop. They're the only other Brother–Sister Team on the hunt besides the protagonists, Amy and Dan, and are even the same ages, but are much more ruthless and much richer and trained. | |
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Sibling Team | |
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Sibling Team: Amy and Dan are a sister and brother working together to find the thirty-nine clues, as are Ian and Natalie, and the Starling triplets are siblings working together to do the same. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Amy and Dan climb even higher on the Justified Criminal ladder with the things the Vespers make them do in hopes of getting the hostages back alive. | |
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I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure | |
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I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: The Vespers promise to hurt one of the heroes' family members if they don't complete the given tasks. See Hostage Situation entry above and Revenge by Proxy entry below. | |
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Hostage Situation | |
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Hostage Situation: The premise of the series is that seven Cahills have been kidnapped, and Amy and Dan Cahill have to fulfill bizarre ransom requests to get them back. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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A Love Dodecahedron shows up in "Dead of Night". | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Both Grace's house (before it burned down, although the rebuilt version also qualifies) and the Kabra mansion. | |
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Stalking Is Love | |
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Stalking is Love: In Operation Trinity, set before the clue hunt, Ian watches Amy on one of the Cahill activity surveillance camera feeds his parents keep before heading to dinner, and it's revealed he knows that it's time for the schools in her city to let out. The entire, plot-irrelevant scene seems to have been thrown in solely as a Ship Tease. | |
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Holiday-Appropriate Weather | |
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Holiday-Appropriate Weather: In Legacy when it is revealed on Christmas that Grace is going to die, it begins to snow. | |
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! | |
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Actually a subversion. Amy and Dan aren't above stealing and lying if it means getting any information at all on their parents and the fire that killed them. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: In The Viper's Nest, Grace says that she can't listen to the music of Orlando di Lasso because it's "a sad reminder" of Hope and Arthur's branch. When Amy and Dan have some of di Lasso's music, they find out which branch they belong to because of the title and the above fact: | |
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Badass Driver | |
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Badass Driver: Nellie is trained in defensive driving and shows it on a regular basis. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Dan and Amy, respectively. Dan gets somewhat better, though. | |
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Twin Telepathy | |
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Twin Telepathy: Amy and Dan aren't twins, but they are siblings who are pretty close and always know what the other is thinking by reading each other's facial expressions. Some fanfiction makes it practically telepathy, in any case. | |
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Good All Along | |
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Storm Warning: Nellie is actually working for Grace and the Madrigals. Then the ending reveals that the Madrigals are actually trying to bring the Cahills back together, and that the Man in Black/Gray is Fiske Cahill, Grace's brother. | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: Two years have passed since the first series (making Amy sixteen years old and Dan thirteen). | |
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Photographic Memory | |
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Photographic Memory: Dan can remember anything. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Oh so many. It might even be a Heel–Face Revolving Door for every Cahill. They all seem to have ulterior motives. By In Too Deep Irina has basically switched sides and wants to help Amy and Dan — but of course they don't believe her until the very end... | |
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Sacrificial Lion | |
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In Too Deep: Irina dies, the first death of a character the readers had the chance to know. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Into the Gauntlet: The main plot is resolved with the Cahills all working together to stop Isabel, then all giving their clues to Dan and Amy. But then we get a Sequel Hook:there's another important player, an evil organization called the Vespers. | |
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I Have My Ways | |
| The 39 Clues / int_63ff08fc | comment |
Your Mother Has Her Ways: In Operation Trinity, Irina tells Ian and Natalie Kabra ''Your mother has her methods" when asked how they obtained information belonging to the Ekats. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_691672b1 | type |
Plot-Driving Secret | |
| The 39 Clues / int_691672b1 | comment |
Plot-Driving Secret: The plot revolves around discovering what each of the thirty-nine clues are. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_6a993504 | type |
Audio Adaptation | |
| The 39 Clues / int_6a993504 | comment |
Audio Adaptation: Read by David Pittu! Nellie is given a hint of accent, and the Kabras sound upper-crust snooty (which is amazing). Each audio book also contains a small recording at the end that reveals backstories not shown anywhere else. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_711714da | type |
Opposites Attract | |
| The 39 Clues / int_711714da | comment |
Opposites Attract: Shrinking Violet Amy Cahill and Evil Brit Ian Kabra have an ongoing Will They or Won't They? thread throughout the first series; see Unrequited Love Switcheroo below. | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
| The 39 Clues / int_7335ffa9 | comment |
Grey-and-Gray Morality: Even Amy and Dan, who are by far the nicest and most principled clue hunters, will do morally questionable things from time to time, and even the most evil character, Isabel Kabra, is implied to not be completely heartless and to care about her children to some extent — although she turns on them when she considers them in the way of her getting the master serum. | |
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Creator's Culture Carryover | |
| The 39 Clues / int_74a7d2d | comment |
Creator's Culture Carryover: Ian has pink dollar signs of all things on his underwear, even though he's from Britain, where the dollar is not used. It's possible he bought them in America. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_74a7d2d | |
| The 39 Clues / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
| The 39 Clues / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: The Starlings are caught in an explosion rigged by the Holts and end up in the hospital, keeping them out of the clue hunt for the next nine books, but they return in book ten. | |
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Heroic Safe Mode | |
| The 39 Clues / int_7b3352a9 | comment |
Also, just take a look at Amy and Dan themselves in comparison with the beginning of the first series... or even the end. It's clear that their experiences have not only made them stronger, but also psychologically damaged them. (See also: Amy going into Heroic Safe Mode at the end of Trust No One.) | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_7dd742dc | type |
Caper Rationalization | |
| The 39 Clues / int_7dd742dc | comment |
Caper Rationalization: Silly Interpol. They aren't stealing because they're crazy criminals; they're stealing because a shadowy, evil organization has kidnapped seven of their family members and require that they steal things as part of the ransom. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_7f08fec3 | type |
The Fashionista | |
| The 39 Clues / int_7f08fec3 | comment |
The Fashionista: Lily Chernova loves fashion even more than math. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| The 39 Clues / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The trading cards give major hints that Broderick Wizard, Jonah's father, is a Vesper. Because he appears in the original series and his character is even given a little more depth in the eighth book, it is expected that he will make an appearance in this series, one way or another. He never does. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_8d12bb8d | type |
Doomsday Device | |
| The 39 Clues / int_8d12bb8d | comment |
Trust No One: After the aformentioned reveal, Isabel comes back. Then V1 says they're done with giving him stuff, after one more: the Cahill Ring. Then we find out what the Vespers are using all of this stuff for: They're building a Doomsday Device. Finally, in order to combat them, Dan drinks the Serum. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_8d12bb8d | |
| The 39 Clues / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| The 39 Clues / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: Countdown: Amy drinks the original serum, meaning she's going to die. Pierce gets Olivia's book, and starts trying to make a serum without side-effects. Nellie and Sammy are captured by Pierce's company. Finally, Pierce uses the book to set a trap for the Cahills and kidnaps Dan, and Pony is killed trying to save him. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_8ff8d545 | type |
Kissing Cousins | |
| The 39 Clues / int_8ff8d545 | comment |
Kissing Cousins: Almost any pairing in the book can be considered this seeing as almost every character is a Cahill, although how closely they're related can vary up to a shared ancestor five hundred years ago. This is usually dismissed though, seeing as apparently half of Earth's population is one. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_9203bf6 | type |
Arc Number | |
| The 39 Clues / int_9203bf6 | comment |
Arc Number: Despite its inclusion in the series name, 39 only shows up as the number of clues, and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it to be this particular number. (When Amy wonders about this, Dan points out that 39 is "a pretty sweet number": 13x3, the sum of the first five odd prime numbers, 3^1+3^2+3^3). (Presumably, the authors wanted a numerically interesting number that no one had used before.) 7 actually shows up more in the story (7 teams, Amy and Dan discover their family branch at the end of Book 7, and 7 captives in the sequel series. 7 is also the age Amy was when she and Dan lost their parents, and the next big change in her life comes 7 years after that, when her grandmother dies and the clue hunt begins. Then she gets a small break until she's 16, the digits of which add up to 7, when the Vespers attack. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_94e4c8ab | type |
Betty and Veronica | |
| The 39 Clues / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: Male version with Evan as the Betty, Ian as the Veronica, and as of Dead of Night, Jake Rosenbloom as the Third-Option Love Interest. | |
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One Degree of Separation | |
| The 39 Clues / int_959cb9aa | comment |
One Degree of Separation: Basically everyone is connected somehow—and practically everyone, Cahill or non-Cahill, knew Grace Cahill. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_95d5fa0e | type |
Area 51 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_95d5fa0e | comment |
Area51: The Lucians are in charge of this location. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_96fbeaf | type |
There Are No Therapists | |
| The 39 Clues / int_96fbeaf | comment |
There Are No Therapists: Or at least, if there are, Dan hasn't seen any, even if he needs to. (For that matter, several characters need to.) | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_9bf49893 | type |
I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me | |
| The 39 Clues / int_9bf49893 | comment |
I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Played with in Crushed. Amy finds it amazing that a guy like Ian is visiting a girl like her. Ian finds it difficult to believe, too. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_a14c8cfe | type |
Secret Legacy | |
| The 39 Clues / int_a14c8cfe | comment |
Secret Legacy: After years of living relatively normal lives, Amy and Dan discover that their family legacy includes branches locked in a centuries-old feud and struggle to amass power, often through dubious means. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_a5001f7f | type |
Chekhov's Classroom | |
| The 39 Clues / int_a5001f7f | comment |
Chekhov's Classroom: All the things Grace taught the Cahill siblings came in handy on the clue hunt. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_a8abe9d1 | type |
Separated by a Common Language | |
| The 39 Clues / int_a8abe9d1 | comment |
Separated by a Common Language: Ian has difficulty adjusting to life in America, where he finds that many people misunderstand the British terms he uses. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_af3ea0e3 | type |
Face–Heel Turn | |
| The 39 Clues / int_af3ea0e3 | comment |
Face–Heel Turn: It is revealed that one of the Cahills (Sinead) is a double | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_b11ac9f5 | type |
Abusive Parents | |
| The 39 Clues / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: This is most certainly the case with Ian and Natalie since, Isabel Kabra verbally degrades them on a regular basis. They both love her, and fear her simultaneously — while also thinking that they lead the perfect lives because of all the wealth their family has | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| The 39 Clues / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: At one point in the series, Dan complains "I can't believe she cheated me - right when I was in the middle of cheating her!" | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_b77eb3b2 | type |
Revenge by Proxy | |
| The 39 Clues / int_b77eb3b2 | comment |
Revenge by Proxy: When the Vespers think that Amy and Dan are trying to trick them, they shoot Nellie, but she survives. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_b77eb3b2 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_bbdf5f31 | type |
Everyone Is Related | |
| The 39 Clues / int_bbdf5f31 | comment |
Everyone Is Related: Practically all the main characters are Cahills, with fans who make accounts on the web site also being "inducted" into the Cahill family. (However, it's a very distant relation, with common ancestors only as recent as the early 16th century.) | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_bce728ca | type |
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal | |
| The 39 Clues / int_bce728ca | comment |
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Irina betrays Isabel because of the latter's cruel treatment of her (although her "reward" for this is death), and later, Ian and Natalie leave their mother after learning that she drank the Lucian serum and did numerous evil things detailed in her secret files. Then, when Isabel tries to kill them, that only seals the deal. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_bf00b603 | type |
No Romantic Resolution | |
| The 39 Clues / int_bf00b603 | comment |
No Romantic Resolution: Amy and Ian never discuss their feelings or what happened between them in Korea, and Kurt never shows up again after seemingly being set up as Amy's new love interest in the seventh book. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_bf00b603 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_bf9163d9 | type |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
| The 39 Clues / int_bf9163d9 | comment |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Reagan and Madison Holt are the blondes, Natalie Kabra (and her mother Isabel) are the brunettes, Sinead Starling is the redhead, and Amy Cahill falls in between the last two, with reddish-brown hair. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_c0d598fe | type |
Evil Gloating | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: Isabel goes on and on when she kidnaps Atticus. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_c22e0b2 | type |
Revenge of the Sequel | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c22e0b2 | comment |
Revenge of the Sequel: Parodied in an online message from the branch heads. Dan apparently decided to use his new credit card to order The Ninja’s Revenge Part VII: The Last Revenge and The Ninja’s Revenge Part VIII: The Final Last Revenge on Pay-per-view. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_c25f013 | type |
Reconcile the Bitter Foes | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c25f013 | comment |
Reconcile the Bitter Foes: This is the goal of the Madrigals, and Amy and Dan manage to bring about a truce between the clue-hunting teams. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_c271fe08 | type |
Machiavelli Was Wrong | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c271fe08 | comment |
Machiavelli Was Wrong: Well, he was certainly right in regards to Ian and Natalie's relationship with their mother. Until the last book, when they realize that, while they loved Isabel, they were only following her (mostly) out of fear. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_c271fe08 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c2afffe | type |
Take Me Instead | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c2afffe | comment |
Take Me Instead: Amy tries to trade herself for the hostages. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_c2afffe | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c3648b87 | type |
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c3648b87 | comment |
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Ian and Evan working together in the Cahill Command Center, though any of the Cahills working together qualify, since they had such a fiercy rivarly before the conclusion of the Hunt. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_c3648b87 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c4500946 | type |
Break His Heart to Save Him | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c4500946 | comment |
Break His Heart to Save Him: When, despite her repeated requests, Jake refuses to stop following Amy into dangerous situations, she attempts to get him to stop by telling him she doesn't have feelings for him, since Let's Just Be Friends didn't dissuade him, either. | |
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| The 39 Clues / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The 39 Clues / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Jonah calls Pony "Pony Boy" and asks him if he's "staying gold." | |
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The 39 Clues / int_c75df49a | |
| The 39 Clues / int_cc3c365f | type |
Goofy Print Underwear | |
| The 39 Clues / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: Dan has Pokemon on his, and Ian has pink dollar signs of all things on his. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_cc3c365f | |
| The 39 Clues / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
| The 39 Clues / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: Pony dies permanently. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_cda501da | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d4d8d831 | type |
Feuding Families | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d4d8d831 | comment |
Feuding Families: The Lucian, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Janus branches are all feuding, especially the Ekaterina and Tomas. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_d4d8d831 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d6e495b2 | type |
Undisclosed Funds | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d6e495b2 | comment |
Undisclosed Funds: Readers are never told exactly how rich Grace Cahill is. Even one trading card that lists the wealthiest Cahills and how much they're worth leaves out how much money Grace has. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_d6e495b2 | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d8f8da2b | type |
Island Base | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d8f8da2b | comment |
Island Base: The Ekaterina have one inside The Bermuda Triangle. Also,Madrigals have one on Easter Island. There's also the original island home of the Cahills where the Gauntlet is located. | |
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The 39 Clues / int_d8f8da2b | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d9723630 | type |
In My Language, That Sounds Like... | |
| The 39 Clues / int_d9723630 | comment |
In My Language, That Sounds Like...: In The Maze of Bones, Amy hastily tells Nellie to get them rooms for the night at a seedy-looking hotel called the "Maison des Gardons," which she assumes means "House of Gardens." Later they find out the hard way that "gardons" means "roaches". | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
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Sixth Ranger: The Madrigals are a previously-unknown Cahill family branch. | |
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Follow in My Footsteps | |
| The 39 Clues / int_db0ffe92 | comment |
Follow in My Footsteps: The reason most of the main clue hunters, including Amy and Dan, want to win the clue hunt, and are so ruthless in the way they go about it. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
| The 39 Clues / int_e663d3ef | comment |
Only a Flesh Wound: Nellie is shot in the shoulder and lives, although she needed to have the bullet removed to do so. Her survival might not be as implausible had the removal been done properly by trained professionals. Instead, the incisions are made by a twelve-year-old and the removal is done by a thirteen-year-old, both of whom are inexperienced, and the latter of whom is so squeamish about blood that she has her eyes closed while she removes the bullet. In an unsterilized environment, natch. | |
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The Mole | |
| The 39 Clues / int_e70127 | comment |
Shatterproof: Erasmus follows Amato to the Vesper base, but she manages to kill him. Then Jonah and Hamilton show up, and Jonah shoots Amato. Furthermore, another big reveal happens in the online game, or the beginning of Trust No One for those who don't play it: Vesper Three is Sinead Starling. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: The Lucians have bribed many a police officer. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
| The 39 Clues / int_ec7da60a | comment |
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Beethoven certainly was, as well as Mozart, Neil Armstrong, Einstein, Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Houdini, Bill Gates, and George Washington, among others. Pretty much any famous person in history is said to be part of the Cahill family and to have participated in the quest for the thirty-nine clues. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
| The 39 Clues / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: According to her offical social networking profile, Alana Flores has quite a variety of interests, including "chess, International finance... medieval torture devices, Scottish terriers." Chrissy's interests are listed as "cheerleading, dance team, cryptography, kittens, lock picking, gymnastics, karaoke, late-night expeditions." Natalie's are "afternoon tea, Catherine the Great, high fashion, female pirates, target practice, the south of France, fox hunting, being fashionably late." | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
| The 39 Clues / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: For Irina, whose redemption arc concludes with her proving her genuine concern for Amy and Dan by dying for them. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
| The 39 Clues / int_f88f2449 | comment |
Downer Beginning: The series begins with Grace Cahill's death. | |
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Running Gag | |
| The 39 Clues / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Cara calling Ian "Brit-fuff-fuff", whenever the latter's uptight personality resurfaces. | |
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Team Pet | |
| The 39 Clues / int_fb9e2ffd | comment |
Team Pet: Saladin, Grace's cat, who accompanies Amy and Dan on their adventures. The Holts have their dog, Arnold. | |
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Theme Naming | |
| The 39 Clues / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: The Holts are all named after iconic United States political figures. Eisenhower and this twin daughters, Reagan and Madison, are all named after the surnames of U.S. Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and James Madison. Eisenhower's wife is named Mary-Todd (Abraham Lincoln's First Lady), their son is named Hamilton (presumably for Alexander Hamilton) and their dog is named Arnold (Benedict, possibly?). | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
| The 39 Clues / int_fdc4fab4 | comment |
Depending on the Writer: While sometimes there is geniune Character Development and the reveal of Hidden Depths, sometimes characters, particularly Ian and Natalie, undergo drastic and rapid personality changes, depending on how an author views them. For example, Gordon Korman tends to portray Ian as hot-headed and his sister as the patient and collected one, while in Patrick Carmen's The Black Circle, Natalie is the one throwing a fit when things don't go as planned while Ian is able to keep his head. | |
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Young Future Famous People | |
| The 39 Clues / int_ff41780 | comment |
Young Future Famous People: The Houdini Escape features a young Harry Houdini, and there is short story about young Winston Churchill and Annie Oakley in The Black Book of Buried Secrets. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
| The 39 Clues / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: The historical facts start popping up on page three, when Ian compares his accomplishments to those of Napoleon. | |
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