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The Hardy Boys

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The Hardy Boys	comment	A Long-Running Book Series of mysteries for kids and teens, published under the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon. They follow the adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy, a pair of brother detectives. Frank is the logical, calm one, and Joe is the more impulsive, instinctual one. The series (alongside their Distaff Counterpart and frequent crossover partner Nancy Drew) invented or popularized most of the Kid Detective tropes. It's also very prominent for the abundance of Tom Swifties in the narrative.The series was created in 1927 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a prolific group of ghostwriters under the direction of Edward Stratemeyer (and his daughters, who took over when Edward died in 1930) that put out many successful children's books. Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane was the original writer of the first 16 books, writing them only to pay his bills and feed his family (getting ~$100 US for each book, with no royalties, which wasn't all that bad at the time; a large number of the original Stratemeyer ghostwriters were journalists, and using journalist salaries as comparison, $100 per book was roughly six weeks' salary for four weeks' work), and dreaded having to write the books (referring to the books in his diary as "the damn juveniles"), and by the mid-30s other writers began to write the books as well (such as John Button, whose books are infamous for their use of sci-fi elements, inconsistencies, and strange plots), leaving McFarlane free to forget about the books and write his own stories.In the late 1950s until the early '70s, the first 38 books were revised and rewritten to update the stories, eliminating outdated terminology ("chum", "roadster", etc.), removing politically incorrect terms and stereotypes ("Negro", "swarthy foreigner", "Chinaman", "colored", etc.), and shortening the books from 25 chapters to 20 chapters. Newer books were also made, with the "original" series coming to an end in 1979 with #58. The original editions can be recognized by having dust jackets and plain brown (and later, tan "tweed") covers; the revised versions, beginning in 1961, have the cover picture printed directly on the book to better withstand being used and abused by kids.After the books were acquired by Simon & Schuster (which took control of Grosset & Dunlap in the 70s after a lawsuit), the series was continued as "Digests". Later on, the Darker and Edgier Casefiles series was added and ran concurrently with the Digests. Both series have since been discontinued, the Casefiles in 1998 and the Digests in 2005. The series has since continued under the Undercover Brothers subtitle, which reinvents the brothers as agents working for an all-teen secret agency; there is also a corresponding graphic novel series. It was discontinued in 2012 after 42 booksnote 39 regular volumes and 3 special edition "Super Mysteries" and 20 graphic novels. One year later in 2013, it was replaced with the currently-running Hardy Boys Adventures series (with 25 volumes published as of this writing), which sees the boys return to amateur detective status.The characters have been adapted to both live-action and animated TV series. They seem a bit prone to a Crossover with Nancy Drew.Definitely not to be confused with the professional wrestling tag team The Hardy Boyz.
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The Hardy Boys / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: The Casefiles spin-off, which was targeted for older teenage readers than the concurrently-running Digests, are this compared to all the other series in the franchise. Frank's and Callie's relationship gets significantly more focus than in the Digests, portraying a deeper bond and giving them many more moments that show how much they love each other. Though Iola is killed at the start of the first book, various characters reminiscing about her and Joe's relationship also highlights the deep love they shared in a way the Digests don't. The Casefiles and the Hardys' appearances in the SuperMystery crossovers with Nancy Drew also reference many occasions of characters sharing makeout sessions (whereas the Digests don't go further than a "quick kiss"), and tends to highlight both brothers' feelings and emotions towards their Love Interests more. There are also quite a few more instances of other girls or guys hitting on the brothers or their girlfriends and causing relationship drama, while in the Digests, on the very few occasions that someone else shows interest in the boys or their dates, they don't take it very seriously and it doesn't have any real effect on the plot. However, it should be noted that this is still quite Downplayed compared to its Nancy Drew Files counterpart series, where romance is much more strongly emphasized and its own Darker and Edgier aspects are conversely downplayed compared to the Casefiles. Just compare the two trilogy stories from each series: the Casefiles has "Operation Phoenix" (involving a worldwide smuggling ring and the brothers believing their father to have been murdered) and "Ring of Evil" (in which the boys literally save the world from terrorists), while Nancy's "Summer of Love" and "Passport to Romance" trilogies, though still containing dangerous mysteries for her to solve, have her relationships with handsome studs she meets during her summer travels as their overarching storylines. It's also reflected in the cover illustrations for both series. The Casefiles covers depict a frightening and/or action-filled scene that occurs during the book, and while many of these pictures do have one of the Hardys protectively clinging to a beautiful girl (sometimes Callie, sometimes the Girl of the Week—which, it should be noted, also happens many times on Digest covers), it's always in the context of one of these scenes, with the characters looking shocked or scared. Contrast this with the Files, where many of the books do likewise depict an action scene on the front, but plenty of the earliest and latest covers show an illustration of Nancy and the most important male character in the book (frequently Ned, but not always), often with said guy giving her an intense, admiring gaze, which she sometimes returns.
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The Hardy Boys / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Hardy Boys / int_14beeefd	comment	The first Casefiles book opens a few seconds after Iola has been blown up. This establishes that the series is going to be Darker and Edgier.
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The Hardy Boys / int_1561fbc4	type	Mystery Magnet
The Hardy Boys / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnets: These guys can't go anywhere without finding a mystery to solve.
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The Hardy Boys / int_15f42962	type	Parents in Distress
The Hardy Boys / int_15f42962	comment	Parents in Distress: Both Fenton and Laura, but more often the former, have been captured many times by the bad guys to use as hostages against the boys. Aunt Gertrude has largely been spared from being taken hostage, but has ended up as a suspect in a case a few times and required the boys to clear her name.
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The Hardy Boys / int_18a65667	type	I'll Take That as a Compliment
The Hardy Boys / int_18a65667	comment	I'll Take That as a Compliment: In "The Caribbean Cruise Caper", when Ice Queen Elizabeth learns at the end of the book that she was one of the suspects, she's vaguely flattered to think that she could be considered that adventurous.
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The Hardy Boys / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
The Hardy Boys / int_18e11001	comment	The Digests give them another frequently-recurring friend, Jamal Hawkins; they first meet him in "The Hypersonic Secret" when his dad is the Victim of the Week, but Jamal makes regular appearances for the rest of the series afterwards.
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The Hardy Boys / int_1a235210	type	Love-Interest Traitor
The Hardy Boys / int_1a235210	comment	Love-Interest Traitor: In many, many books in every series—the Digests, Adventures, and especially the Casefiles and Undercover Brothers—the new friend of the book who catches the eye of and/or shows interest in one of the Hardys or their friends turns out to at least be one of the villains, sometimes even the Big Bad. It varies, though, whether the new friend was only ever using the Hardys/friends and never cared for them, or actually started caring about them and regrets what they've done, or even makes a High-Heelâ€“Face Turn, or some mixture. Sometimes, too, the bad guy turns out to be the romantic partner of another character who isn't involved with the plot, and is usually horrified by their actions.
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The Hardy Boys / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Hardy Boys / int_1b60dcba	comment	In Undercover Brothers, The Bully Brian Conrad hates pretty much everybody, but especially the Hardy Boys; however, he hates Frank the most of all because Brian's younger sister, Belinda, has a big crush on Frank, even though he's mostly too shy to return her advances.
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The Hardy Boys / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Hardy Boys / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: On occasion. For one example: in the Digest story "Farming Fear", Chet's and Iola's grandparents note at the end that they probably could have put the pieces together and solved the mystery some time ago if they'd been on better terms with their neighbor (given that their antagonistic relationship kept them from comparing notes and realizing they were both being sabotaged by the villain).
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The Hardy Boys / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Hardy Boys / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Brothers though they may be, Frank and Joe also have this relationship in ALL of their different incarnations. Though their personalities change in the various series, one thing that is constant throughout is that they're a team and are inseparable, doing just about everything together and basically able to read each other's minds. They have their friends, and they have their girlfriends/love interests, but each of them is always the other's number-one priority. They also have this relationship with Chet in pretty much every continuity, too. This is especially true in the original series, where he's involved in almost all of their adventures.
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The Hardy Boys / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Hardy Boys / int_1dfd19f9	comment	The graphic novels for Undercover Brothers feature the Noir sisters, Shira and Nicolina, and their father Papa Noir, as recurring characters. Just as Fenton co-founded the crime-fighting agency ATAC and recruited his sons Joe and Frank its first two agents, Papa Noir founded the evil counterpart organization WARD (Warring Adolescents, Revenge Division), devoted to creating anarchy and chaos through crime, and inducted his daughters as its agents. Fenton and Papa Noir are both shown in the same issue to have Papa Wolf traits towards their respective kids, and Shira and Nicolina are quite intelligent and skilled in combat like the Hardys (though the boys always manage to best them in the end). The issue where the sisters are first introduced is even called "The Opposite Numbers".
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The Hardy Boys / int_2200d9ec	type	Engineered Heroics
The Hardy Boys / int_2200d9ec	comment	Engineered Heroics: The bad guy of the first Undercover Brothers book is a paramedic causing accidents in order to bask in the limelight of treating the victims.
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The Hardy Boys / int_23a06c52	type	TheUnReveal
The Hardy Boys / int_23a06c52	comment	The Un-Reveal: In the reprint of "The Secret Warning", it never is revealed which of the two ships was responsible for the collision that caused the sinking and killed several people. Divers trying to steal the MacGuffin in the cargo hold try to distract everyone to their motives by stealing the nautical instruments which would prove who caused the collision, and no mention is made of them being recovered.
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The Hardy Boys / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Hardy Boys / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: A staple of the Undercover Brothers series (graphic novels included). The first chapter of each book (or, for the second half of the series, of the first book in a Story Arc trilogy) features the Hardy Boys wrapping up a previous case (usually for ATAC, with one or two exceptions) in a climactic ending. The second chapter will then usually start with them returning home, only for ATAC to send them their next case (often in bizarre fashion) almost immediately afterwards, within a few days at most. One does wonder when they get time for school....
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The Hardy Boys / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Hardy Boys / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Especially in the Casefiles books when they almost always have to fend for themselves to outwit their enemies. Frank in particular can be a very efficient chessmaster, but even Joe can pull a few tricks of his own.
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The Hardy Boys / int_2cd322e4	type	Shoot the Builder
The Hardy Boys / int_2cd322e4	comment	Shoot the Builder: "The Secret of the Island Treasure" features the Hardy Boys participating in an expedition to dig up some Pirate Booty after finding an old treasure map. They have to dig about thirty feet (and brave some booby traps) to reach the treasure. They also find three skeletons that the group's archeologist speculates belonged to crewmen who helped the pirate captain dig the pit, and then were killed to keep its location a secret.
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The Hardy Boys / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Hardy Boys / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Happens to the brothers on occasion, and also to the guest characters. A few examples out of many are the Rideaus in the revised text of "The Melted Coins", Slim Davenport in the Casefiles book "Dead Man in Deadwood", and David Kidwell in the Digest book "The Desert Thieves".
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The Hardy Boys / int_30d1e0df	comment	Aunt Gertrude was initially written as a genuinely unpleasant and domineering woman whom none of the Hardy family particularly liked and only tolerated when she foisted herself on them for periodic visits, and who greatly intimidated the Hardy Boys. She was also implied to be an aunt of Laura's (and thus a great-aunt to the boys), since she referred to Fenton on a Full-Name Basis. She was soon rewritten into her classic and much-beloved characterization as the Trope Codifier of the Maiden Aunt, becoming Fenton's older sister who permanently lives with the family, and though she scolds the boys for getting into danger, she's also very protective and proud of them and frequently makes them delicious food, while they in turn sincerely love her and consider her just as much a part of the family as they do their parents.
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The Hardy Boys / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Hardy Boys / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: In the Digest Book "Past and Present Danger" an old friend of Aunt Gertrude's who calls her "Spitfire" arrives in town. She doesn't exactly make a good case for the name not applying to her while trying to shut him up as he describes the origins of the nickname. Inverted the Undercover Brothers series, where Aunt Gertrude goes by "Trudy"; she reveals that she adopted this nickname because her full name became embarrassing for her after a hurricane called Gertrude destroyed half of Bayport when she was in high school and everyone started calling her "Hurricane Gertrude" as a result. She soon insisted that everyone call her Trudy instead.
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The Hardy Boys / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Hardy Boys / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: When the Big Bad of "Mystery of the Desert Giants" is captured, he plans on selling out his gang and framing an innocent man to feign his own innocence. His chief mook is so disgusted that he testifies to make sure the Big Bad goes to jail, and mentions how he should never have been involved in the criminal racket in the first place. In quite a few of the books where multiple suspects turn out to be working together to commit the crime, one or more of the bad guys, while perfectly okay with committing whatever lesser crime the group is responsible for (smuggling, theft, embezzling, etc.), will draw the line at murder (especially of kids) and object when their partner(s) plan to kill the Hardy Boys for discovering their plot, often even turning against the rest of the gang as a result. In "The Billion Dollar Ransom", after the plan is foiled and the two kidnappers are captured, their accomplice—one of the doctors operating on the President, and the brother of one of the captured men—has an opportunity to murder the President in revenge, but doesn't do so, instead saving his life during the operation and calmly surrendering and confessing upon seeing the authorities waiting outside, stating that, whatever else he may have done, he's still a doctor and takes his oath of saving lives seriously. Plenty of You Have Failed Me moments from the Big Bad towards their Mooks are a result of said mooks being overly violent or destructive, and/or causing too much collateral damage. It's sometimes due to Pragmatic Villainy, while other times, the Big Bad only wants to hurt or smear a specific target and otherwise keep damage to a minimum, and is disgusted by their underling's excessive methods.
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The Hardy Boys / int_31e2ad94	type	Kid Detective
The Hardy Boys / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective/Amateur Sleuth: One of the most famous examples together with their Distaff Counterpart, Nancy Drew.
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The Hardy Boys / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
The Hardy Boys / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: The Network from the Casefiles, a CIA/Interpol-like spy agency of the "so secret it doesn't officially exist" variety. Fenton has had dealings with them before, and the boys themselves begin working with them in the first book of the series and do so again many times, eventually to the point of being unofficial part-time freelance agents whom the Network sometimes contacts outright to assign them cases, though just as often, they end up getting involved in Network cases completely by accident. Their main contact at the Network is the Gray Man, or "Mr. Gray", who is essentially the second-in-command of the whole agency and acts as a cross between a mentor and handler for them. The Casefiles also has U.S. Espionage Resources (sometimes abbreviated to U.S.E.R.), which only shows up in a few early books and one of the Tom Swift Ultra Thriller crossovers. They're more publicly known than the Network, and act their rival agency in terms of government funding and prestige. Espionage Resources is generally depicted as being less competent and more corrupt overall than the Network. American Teens Against Crime, or ATAC (pronounced "attack"), in Undercover Brothers is a government agency co-founded by Fenton Hardy that solely employs teenagers from around the country as their field agents, with the premise that there are some places where kids would blend in much better while investigating undercover than adults would. Frank and Joe were the first two recruits (thus how this series got its name), and are investigating ATAC cases in almost every book; as such, unlike the other series in the franchise, they are not amateur detectives in this one, and instead are official agents. They receive high-tech spy gear related to their cases in most books, and often reference having received extensive training in a wide variety of different subjects.
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The Hardy Boys / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
The Hardy Boys / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: One short story has Chief Collig's nephew Tom at first survive being shot in the back and firing after the crooks who shot him.
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The Hardy Boys / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Hardy Boys / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The premise of Adventures runs on this. Pre-series, the boys had faced the threat of legal trouble due to investigating cases without proper credentials. They were able to sidestep this with a deal that amounted to "no more cases, or it's off to reform school." The Hardys being who they are, that promise is quickly and frequently broken, but much drama is derived from the need to maintain Plausible Deniability during investigations. Though this premise is gradually dropped as the series continues, and they become more open about their investigations and have more of a reputation for them in later books of the series.
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The Hardy Boys / int_403ffe5c	type	Spin-Off Babies
The Hardy Boys / int_403ffe5c	comment	Not the Hardys themselves, but rather in relation to their friends. While numbers have never been explicitly stated, there are still conflicting accounts on what each character's age in relation to Frank and Joe's. (for example, in "Mystery of the Chinese Junk" only Frank and Tony are of legal age to take a boating license, yet in the Spin-Off Babies Clues Brothers, Tony's in the same grade as Joe.)
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The Hardy Boys / int_41ba335a	comment	Amnesiac Hero: In both versions of "Hunting for Hidden Gold", Bart Dawson lost his memory due to an injury received at the hands of thieves while he was fleeing with the titular gold to draw the thieves away from his partners. In the original draft, his memory came back gradually over the years, causing him to find one of the Coulsen Brothers as he went back to retrieve the gold. In the reprint, his memory only returns much later (at the cost of losing the memories of the new life he established while amnesiac) when he encounters one of the villains by chance and is struck in the head by him during a scuffle, assisting the brothers in the final act afterwards. The original version of "The Secret of the Caves" has the boys looking for someone named Todham Todd. During their investigation, they encounter a violent and highly insane man who goes by "Captain Royal" living in the caves off the coast, who holds them prisoner and attempts to kill them multiple times. It turns out that Captain Royal is actually an amnesiac Todd, and after being knocked unconscious and left comatose, he gets his original memories back when he wakes up, and turns out to be a perfectly nice, harmless person who has no recollection of the violent alternate life he lived as Royal. Joe himself becomes one in "Brother Against Brother" of the Casefiles. When he's sent on a mission to warn a father and daughter in witness protection that a hitman is coming for them, said hitman ambushes him, locks him in a car, and pushes the car over a cliff. Joe survives, but doesn't remember his name and only has a vague recollection that he had something important to do. The incident also causes his memories of Frank to become warped enough that he spends most of the book thinking that his brother, who eventually followed after Joe on the mission to save him when he disappeared, is the hitman. Joe's unable to prevent the father from being murdered, but does manage to protect the daughter, and after Frank shows up to rescue both of them, Joe finally gets his memory back.
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The Hardy Boys / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: One of the most classic and famous examples in literature (and in general).
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The Hardy Boys / int_42c9f1ec	comment	However, it should be noted that this is still quite Downplayed compared to its Nancy Drew Files counterpart series, where romance is much more strongly emphasized and its own Darker and Edgier aspects are conversely downplayed compared to the Casefiles. Just compare the two trilogy stories from each series: the Casefiles has "Operation Phoenix" (involving a worldwide smuggling ring and the brothers believing their father to have been murdered) and "Ring of Evil" (in which the boys literally save the world from terrorists), while Nancy's "Summer of Love" and "Passport to Romance" trilogies, though still containing dangerous mysteries for her to solve, have her relationships with handsome studs she meets during her summer travels as their overarching storylines. It's also reflected in the cover illustrations for both series. The Casefiles covers depict a frightening and/or action-filled scene that occurs during the book, and while many of these pictures do have one of the Hardys protectively clinging to a beautiful girl (sometimes Callie, sometimes the Girl of the Week—which, it should be noted, also happens many times on Digest covers), it's always in the context of one of these scenes, with the characters looking shocked or scared. Contrast this with the Files, where many of the books do likewise depict an action scene on the front, but plenty of the earliest and latest covers show an illustration of Nancy and the most important male character in the book (frequently Ned, but not always), often with said guy giving her an intense, admiring gaze, which she sometimes returns.
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The Hardy Boys / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
The Hardy Boys / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: There's several different continuities, as the publishers try to keep the series relevant to modern kids. There's the "Blue Spines", which is the blue hardcover books & digests (and that's broken down to the Original Texts and the rewrites of the '70s), the Casefiles, Undercover Brothers, the Clues Brothers, the new Adventures series, and the second "New Case Files" series which has little to do with the first. The various TV incarnations (The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries of The '70s (the best known), The Mickey Mouse Club serials of the 50s, and The Hardy Boys of the '90s and of 2020) are also considered separate continuities, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the printed tales.
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The Hardy Boys / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: Frank and Joe's investigations often end up coinciding with one their father is working on. Most of the Supermysteries, but there are some exceptions like "Shock Waves", "Buried in Time", "Hollywood Horror" and "Spies and Lies", which have separate sets of villains (though, in all of these books, the brothers and Nancy still help each other catch both sets, and consider the possibilities that their cases may be connected at different points in at least two of those stories). No matter how different the two cases seemed to be, they would have their case tied together to Nancy's roughly two-thirds of the way through the book. "Operation: Titanic" is likely the crowner of this, as the Hardys and Nancy keep just barely missing meeting up with each other and there's very little book left when they finally do. There are some examples that don't even bother with the pretense of having two separate cases, wherein Nancy or the Hardys will outright ask for each others' help from the very start or relatively early on in the story. In those cases, one or the other of them will often become sidetracked by something seemingly unrelated, which will inevitably tie into the main case eventually. This continues in the second Supermysteries series. Four of the six books—"Terror on Tour", "Danger Overseas", "Club Dread", and "Bonfire Masquerade"—have Nancy and her friends on vacation in the same place that Frank and Joe are working on an ATAC case, and happening to meet someone or stumble onto something directly tied to their case. One of the other two books, "Gold Medal Murder", does have their two cases turn out to be separate with different perpetrators, but since the two people they're helping are in a relationship with each other, there's a lot of overlap between them and both groups work together to solve both cases. The final book, "Stage Fright", has the Hardys directly calling Nancy in to help them since she's an Identical Stranger to the woman they're bodyguarding.
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The Hardy Boys / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
The Hardy Boys / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: In "The Billion Dollar Ransom", the President's main kidnapper accidentally lets slip the existence of a third, unknown conspirator in addition to himself and his known partner when talking about what he'll do with his split of the money, which Frank recognizes as one third of a billion, not one half.
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The Hardy Boys / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Hardy Boys / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Several villains can be quite ruthless to henchmen who fail them, especially in the Casefiles books. "Competitive Edge" has one notable example.
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The Hardy Boys / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
The Hardy Boys / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Several characters were portrayed rather differently in the first few editions of the original books before settling into more solid characterization for the rest of the series: Tony Prito (who is Italian-American) and Phil Cohen (who's from a Jewish family) initially adhered to stereotypes about their respective groups—namely, Gratuitous Italian for Tony and Nice Jewish Boy for Phil—before this was soon, thankfully, phased out in favor of treating them no differently than any of the Hardys' other friends. Early books showed Joe being quite shy around girls who flirted with him, and especially Iola Morton (who was soon written as his steady date/girlfriend), which is quite hilarious in hindsight considering that in the Casefiles, Undercover Brothers, and Adventures and their spinoffs, Joe is the much more flirtatious and girl-crazy of the brothers while Frank becomes the one who's more awkward and shy. Aunt Gertrude was initially written as a genuinely unpleasant and domineering woman whom none of the Hardy family particularly liked and only tolerated when she foisted herself on them for periodic visits, and who greatly intimidated the Hardy Boys. She was also implied to be an aunt of Laura's (and thus a great-aunt to the boys), since she referred to Fenton on a Full-Name Basis. She was soon rewritten into her classic and much-beloved characterization as the Trope Codifier of the Maiden Aunt, becoming Fenton's older sister who permanently lives with the family, and though she scolds the boys for getting into danger, she's also very protective and proud of them and frequently makes them delicious food, while they in turn sincerely love her and consider her just as much a part of the family as they do their parents. Bayport police officer Con Riley was initially portrayed similarly to Oscar Smuff: an utter idiot and a textbook example of Police Are Useless, who, despite regarding the Hardys with a Not Now, Kiddo attitude and acting like he knew better, was constantly upstaged by them. While this portrayal remained in place for Smuff—who was phased out after the original series—Riley evolves by the time of the Digests and Casefiles into a competent cop, Reasonable Authority Figure, and the boys' most trusted Friend on the Force (moreso even than Chief Collig, thanks to the latter butting heads with them often and disliking them solving cases before him). In many books where the brothers are investigating cases outside of Bayport, they'll even call Con for information like background checks and running license plates.
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The Hardy Boys / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Hardy Boys / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In the original version of "Hunting for Hidden Gold", one of the Coulsen Brothers (two of the four prospectors who mined the titular gold) is dead, while the other one is trying to recover it along with Bart Dawson. In the reprint, both Coulsen Brothers are long dead from a mining accident. In the original version of The Short-Wave Mystery, Jimmy Gordon's Evil Uncle Elly Batter is The Dragon while in the reprint, he's a Posthumous Character who did assist the villains in the past but double-crossed them and died of natural causes afterward. A new villain has some of his lines and scenes.
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The Hardy Boys / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Hardy Boys / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The series' Comic-Book Time, Long Runner, and Not Allowed to Grow Up traits are occasionally poked fun at: "The Castle Conundrum" references how the Hardy Boys have always remained high schoolers throughout the series' run: "Trouble in Warp Space", which came out in 2002 (75 years after the series first debuted in 1927), has this great line:
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The Hardy Boys / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
The Hardy Boys / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Prominent in the original Hardcover series, where the titles give it away ("The Phantom Freighter", "The Ghost of Skeleton Rock"), although some are more subtle about it (for example, "Secret Warning" deals with both the ghost of a pirate and an ancient curse revolving around a golden Pharaoh's head). Even the Casefiles managed to squeeze in a seemingly supernatural plot at least once ("Cliffhanger" sees a mountaineering expedition on Yeti's Tower being threatened by the creature from which the mountain got its name). Actually averted in "The Hardy Boys Ghost Stories", which contains non-canon short-stories that are more openly supernatural. Similarly, the Undercover Brothers book "Haunted"—this series's take on the ghost stories—has seemingly played this straight at the end after uncovering the villains' plans, only for one last genuinely supernatural event to occur (the boys see the ghost of a girl whose death they were investigating).
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The Hardy Boys / int_4c0ca7ce	type	Aloof Ally
The Hardy Boys / int_4c0ca7ce	comment	Aloof Ally: In the Casefiles series, the Gray Man and, by extension, the Network he works for.
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The Hardy Boys / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Hardy Boys / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Iola in the first chapter of the first Casefiles book (although she remains alive in the concurrently published Digest books).
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The Hardy Boys / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
The Hardy Boys / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Girl of the Week Alicia Powers does this to a Mook in "The Number File" of the Casefiles. Somewhat justified, as she's revealed to be a local trap-shooting champion.
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The Hardy Boys / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
The Hardy Boys / int_4d422f71	comment	Throw It In!: In-universe, in "Trouble in Warp Space" Chet gets a guest job on a science fiction TV series. When he accidentally punches a Hot-Blooded actor too hard during a fight scene, the fighting suddenly gets very real and intense with a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner thrown in, with the excited director saying to keep filming because this is great stuff.
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The Hardy Boys / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Hardy Boys / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Besides the cases of Characterization Marches On above, there are a few other examples of early weirdness in the series: The narrative of many early books in the original series gave more focus to Frank than to Joe—such as Frank having more dialogue, coming up with plans to save the day or ideas that turned out to be right more often, focusing on his thoughts more, and sometimes having Joe disappear from the narration for long periods while they were split up—thus making Joe come across as more like a sidekick to his brother, possibly due to Frank being older. Later installments changed this (and all future series followed suit) to make them equal partners with roughly the same amount of dialogue, narrative focus, importance, and perspective. Early books also had the boys' adventures throughout the story fall primarily under The Meddling Kids Are Useless (see below), but this pretty quickly evolved into them solving cases that had the police stumped and earning a solid reputation of their own as detectives.
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The Hardy Boys / int_4f9ba3e2	type	Single Line of Descent
The Hardy Boys / int_4f9ba3e2	comment	Single Line of Descent: In "Night of the Werewolf", legend has it that every seventh generation, a member of the Taber family turns into a werewolf. The Hardys speculate that there must be lots of Tabers besides their client's son who could be the victim of the curse (assuming it's even true). Their client regretfully informs them that the other branches of the family were almost entirely wiped out in World War II.
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The Hardy Boys / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
The Hardy Boys / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Casefiles opens right after Iola is murdered by a car bomb. The confusion the readers feel is mirrored by our heroes, and long-time fans are going to be just as shocked as Joe.
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The Hardy Boys / int_504ca25a	type	Live-Action Adaptation
The Hardy Boys / int_504ca25a	comment	Live-Action Adaptation: The Mickey Mouse Club adaptation in the 1950s; ''The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries'', which ran from 1977-1979, the short-lived The Hardy Boys in 1995, and the Hulu original The Hardy Boys in 2020. There have been rumors for a long time about "The Hardy Men," a live-action movie starring Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise as the Hardy Brothers as adults.
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The Hardy Boys / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Hardy Boys / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Liam Sullivan in "Hazed" from the Undercover Brothers series is the most friendly and non-malicious of the upperclassmen...except if he thinks you're showing interest in his girlfriend, Emma. The Hardys discover this firsthand when, as punishment for supposedly flirting with her, Liam and his fellow classmates tie them up, gag them, and throw them in the lake, nearly drowning them both to the point that Frank has to be resuscitated. (Though Liam does have a Heel Realization as a result, and accepts that he crossed the line and should be punished for it).
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The Hardy Boys / int_50d2ca43	type	The Coats Are Off
The Hardy Boys / int_50d2ca43	comment	The Coats Are Off: In "Wreck and Roll" during the fight between the two rival bands, Ray (the Vette Smash keyboardist) takes off his leather jacket and starts swinging it like a whip.
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The Hardy Boys / int_5158ccb3	type	The Case of...
The Hardy Boys / int_5158ccb3	comment	The Case of...: The series used this a few times, with titles like "The Case of the Counterfeit Criminals" and "The Case of the Psychic's Vision".
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The Hardy Boys / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
The Hardy Boys / int_51beab21	comment	In the reprint of "The Shore Road Mysery", most of the thugs try to make a run for it in the climax, but are stopped by the boys through Good Old Fisticuffs.
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The Hardy Boys / int_51c5ea2c	type	Sniper Duel
The Hardy Boys / int_51c5ea2c	comment	Sniper Duel: There's a brief one between the Big Bad and his Forced into Evil accomplice in the Casefiles book "Survival of the Fittest".
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The Hardy Boys / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Hardy Boys / int_5313c266	comment	There are two UB books that contain the multiple modes within the book: the first Super Mystery ("Wanted") has the prologue and epilogue described in third person (and acting as Book Ends, with quite a bit of Ironic Echo between the two), and "The Children of the Lost" has the prologue in third person from the point of view of an escaped kidnap victim. In both books, the main story was told in the usual way.
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The Hardy Boys / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Hardy Boys / int_53f5119f	comment	"Deathgame" features a training camp for survival games where The Dragon who runs it, an ex-army major, secretly kidnaps some of the trainees to forcibly recruit them into a counter-terrorism strike force run by a psychopathic colonel (the Big Bad). Biff is one such kidnapped "recruit", and when Frank and Joe come searching for him, the major abducts them as well, taking them to the colonel's private island. The Hardys, Biff, and two other teens who likewise refused to join the strike force are then let loose in the jungle to be hunted down by the colonel.
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The Hardy Boys / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
The Hardy Boys / int_56635771	comment	Recurring Characters: While there are some who retain this status across the franchise, other specific series have their own recurring cast: In the original books, in addition to the titular brothers, their family—father Fenton Hardy, mother Laura Hardy, and after the first few editions, aunt Gertrude Hardy—could probably count as part of the main cast, and the same goes for their best friend, Chet Morton. In all subsequent series, though, they don't actually appear in every book and have specific books in the Digests and Casefiles that give them Character Focus and A Day in the Limelight, relegating them to this. Chet truly becomes this in Undercover Brothers and Adventures, where he tags along with the boys for just a few of their cases (but not most of them), while Fenton, Laura, and Trudy (as she's known here) are mostly frequently-appearing background characters (with a few exceptions). Bayport Police Chief Ezra Collig and Officer Con Riley, who both serve as friends on the force to the Hardys in different ways, are this in the originals, Digests, and Casefiles. The boys will usually cross paths with one or both of them if they're working on a local mystery, and for cases taking place elsewhere, will sometimes call Riley to have him look up information for them. They only have a sparce few appearances in Undercover Brothers, but in Adventures, Officer/Chief Olaf, Collig's replacement, is also this. The boys' other good friends from school besides Chet tend to be this, not appearing as often as he does, but still filling out the supporting cast. The most prominent three are Biff Hooper, Phil Cohen, and Tony Prito, all three of whom appear regularly in the originals, Digests, and Casefiles, and also have books in the latter two series that give them A Day in the Limelight. Same goes for the boys' girlfriends, Callie Shaw and Iola Morton; in the original series, they appear in most books, but usually play a relatively small role as background characters. The Digests and, in Callie's case, Casefiles, give them more to do when they do show up. Iola also has this role in Undercover Brothers, albeit not as Joe's girlfriend. Earlier books in the original series had two more "chums", Jerry Gilroy and Slim Robinson, who were soon phased out. The Digests give them another frequently-recurring friend, Jamal Hawkins; they first meet him in "The Hypersonic Secret" when his dad is the Victim of the Week, but Jamal makes regular appearances for the rest of the series afterwards. The most prominent Casefiles-exclusive examples are the Gray Man, a high-level spy working for the secretive Network who acts as the boys' contact for the agency; and, for the second half of the series, Vanessa Bender, Joe's steady girlfriend and Second Love. The Assassins play with this; as a whole organization, they're the series main recurring villains, but the individual terrorists the boys face off with are largely different in each encounter. Undercover Brothers does away with most of the supporting cast of the previous series, minus a few previously-mentioned examples. There are, however, a few new characters introduced who fill this role: Vijay Patel, a junior member of ATAC who sometimes serves as Mission Control and the Voice with an Internet Connection for Frank and Joe; and siblings Belinda and Brian Conrad, the former of whom has a major somewhat-mutual crush on Frank, while the latter is The Bully at school. Adventures likewise cuts out most of the recurring cast from previous series (minus one-off appearances in different books from Iola and Biff), but has a couple of classmates and teachers who make repeated showings. Probably the most notable example is Charlene Vale, a student Intrepid Reporter whom Frank has a crush on, eventually manages to ask out, and seems to have some kind of romance with in later books.
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The Hardy Boys / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
The Hardy Boys / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Occurs very often between the two brothers in Undercover Brothers, and also a lot in the Digests, Casefiles, and Adventures.
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The Hardy Boys / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Hardy Boys / int_59907e4f	comment	Bayport police officer Con Riley was initially portrayed similarly to Oscar Smuff: an utter idiot and a textbook example of Police Are Useless, who, despite regarding the Hardys with a Not Now, Kiddo attitude and acting like he knew better, was constantly upstaged by them. While this portrayal remained in place for Smuff—who was phased out after the original series—Riley evolves by the time of the Digests and Casefiles into a competent cop, Reasonable Authority Figure, and the boys' most trusted Friend on the Force (moreso even than Chief Collig, thanks to the latter butting heads with them often and disliking them solving cases before him). In many books where the brothers are investigating cases outside of Bayport, they'll even call Con for information like background checks and running license plates.
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The Hardy Boys / int_5e5b1f43	type	Sports Dad
The Hardy Boys / int_5e5b1f43	comment	Sports Dad: In "Training for Trouble" Olympic trainee Allen Frierson's dad is very invested in his completion. He turns out to be the culprit, attacking competitors to give his son a better chance of winning. In "Motorcross Madness", Elizabeth notes that her father wants her to win the motorcross race even more than she herself does, likely due to his own health problems preventing him from racing in it himself. Somewhat subverted with the reveal that the main reason he wants her to win is because of how he's discovered that the prize is far more valuable than anyone thinks and wants to get his hands on it. In "Bound for Danger", the brothers go undercover on the Bayport High basketball team to investigate hazing incidents, and one major suspect is Jason, the star player of the team. While quite a few other team members and the assistant coach are part of the hazing gang, Jason himself is not; however, his dad turns out to be the ringleader, who started the hazing because he felt that the team wasn't good enough to win the games needed for his son to get a basketball scholarship for college, and was trying to force the weaker team members to become better players through threats, intimidation, and violence. Even worse, he has more than enough money to just pay for Jason to go to college either way, but is still adamant about getting Jason a scholarship simply because he feels his son deserves it.
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The Hardy Boys / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Hardy Boys / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Adventures likewise cuts out most of the recurring cast from previous series (minus one-off appearances in different books from Iola and Biff), but has a couple of classmates and teachers who make repeated showings. Probably the most notable example is Charlene Vale, a student Intrepid Reporter whom Frank has a crush on, eventually manages to ask out, and seems to have some kind of romance with in later books.
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The Hardy Boys / int_5f9fbd83	type	Not Allowed to Grow Up
The Hardy Boys / int_5f9fbd83	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Up: Joe is 17, Frank is 18. However, they're growing up slowly. In the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, Joe was 15 and Frank 16, in the 50s through 70s blue hardbacks, Joe was 16 and Frank was 17. Still, that's nearly a century for 2 years.
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The Hardy Boys / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Hardy Boys / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Chet Morton, but both Hardy Boys seem to qualify as well. Joe sometimes rivals Chet's, and Frank, well...
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The Hardy Boys / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
The Hardy Boys / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: A lot of them show up in the Super Mystery "Stage Fright" and it turns out several were deliberately hired in hopes they'd sabotage the show.
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The Hardy Boys / int_62df7833	type	Multiple Narrative Modes
The Hardy Boys / int_62df7833	comment	Multiple Narrative Modes: For the series as a whole: The originals and Casefiles are told in third-person, with the narrative mostly describing the events, actions, and thoughts/feelings of Frank and Joe, but occasionally showing those of other characters as well (especially in the early Casefiles novels). The Undercover Brothers and Adventures are told in first-person, exclusively from the Hardy Boys' point of view, with Frank and Joe alternating first-person chapters. There are two UB books that contain the multiple modes within the book: the first Super Mystery ("Wanted") has the prologue and epilogue described in third person (and acting as Book Ends, with quite a bit of Ironic Echo between the two), and "The Children of the Lost" has the prologue in third person from the point of view of an escaped kidnap victim. In both books, the main story was told in the usual way.
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The Hardy Boys / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Hardy Boys / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: While the Hardy Boys are willing to risk their own lives to protect The Needs of the Many, they refuse to allow innocents to be put in harm's way. Whether it's their family, friends, girlfriends/Love Interests, or even just the new friend of the week, if any of the above are put in danger during a case, the Hardys will always prioritize saving them over everything else and will take whatever risks are necessary to do so, no matter how reckless or dangerous it may be.
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The Hardy Boys / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Hardy Boys / int_65acf9db	comment	"Breakdown in Axeblade" has the titular Axeblade, Wyoming, where the brothers are stranded when their van breaks down. Nearly everyone in Axeblade refuses to associate with them at best, with several people trying to drive the boys out of town or even outright attacking them. They eventually learn that the wealthy ranch owner who essentially runs the town has been illegally dumping toxic waste into the nearby national park, and has the entire town police force on his payroll, who pretty much kidnap the boys under the premise of "arresting" them after framing them for a crime, with the intention to secretly murder them. Almost no one in the town is willing to stand up to the rancher because he owns the mortgage on most of their homes and businesses, and even the mechanic who is sympathetic to the Hardys can't really help because his sister is married to one of the mooks. The only citizens who are truly helpful to the boys are the "town kook" and the mother-and-son cafÃ© owners, whose husband/father was murdered by the rancher years ago after discovering what they were up to.
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The Hardy Boys / int_66c725b6	type	Inconsistent Spelling
The Hardy Boys / int_66c725b6	comment	Inconsistent Spelling: In the Undercover Brothers series (and a few Casefiles for some reason), Con Riley's last name is changed to be spelled "Reilly". In the one Adventures book in which he appears, Biff Hooper's real name is now spelled "Alan" instead of "Allen" the way it was before.
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The Hardy Boys / int_6841afbf	type	Achievement Test of Destiny
The Hardy Boys / int_6841afbf	comment	Achievement Test of Destiny: Zigzagged in the Digest book "The Test Case". Stolen test answers are found in the Hardys' friend Tony's backpack while a shady tutoring agency starts advertising their services by hinting they have the answers to the test. About a dozen approached students refuse outright and tell the Hardys about the offer due to not seeing the test as anything to worry about. However, a Dumb Jock with bad grades and a girl desperate to get into a prestigious college are suspected of taking the offer to buy the exam answers. No one is actually cheating. The whole purpose of the theft is to frame the jock for cheating and get him banned from the hockey championship game. The culprit mistook Tony's bag for the jock's.
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The Hardy Boys / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
The Hardy Boys / int_688afa6a	comment	In the original version of The Short-Wave Mystery, Jimmy Gordon's Evil Uncle Elly Batter is The Dragon while in the reprint, he's a Posthumous Character who did assist the villains in the past but double-crossed them and died of natural causes afterward. A new villain has some of his lines and scenes.
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The Hardy Boys / int_6b12fcfb	type	Bumbling Henchmen Duo
The Hardy Boys / int_6b12fcfb	comment	Bumbling Henchmen Duo: There are plenty of henchmen duos in the series, such as the unnamed thugs in "The Short Wave Mystery", Ringer and Ceaser from "The Desert Giant" and Nick and Rudy in "Past and Present Danger".
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The Hardy Boys / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
The Hardy Boys / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Across the many different series, Aunt Gertrude/Trudy Hardy is consistently stated to be an excellent chef and baker, with the rest of the Hardys (especially the boys) loving and praising her cooking, to the point that incredibly delicious food that the boys encounter on their adventure is occasionally described as being "almost as good as Aunt Gertrude's". This is actually a plot point in "Trouble Island" of the Adventures, since the plot is kicked off by Aunt Trudy winning a cooking competition that nets her an internship with a famous chef.
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The Hardy Boys / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
The Hardy Boys / int_707bb8ce	comment	In their Adventures/Nancy Drew Diaries crossover, Joe still likes Bess, but since Nancy still has Ned, the story opts for a one-sided Pair the Spares by giving Frank a crush on George.
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The Hardy Boys / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
The Hardy Boys / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Played straight in most to all stories involving races or athletic competitions. In "Speed Times Five" from the Digest series, Kelly Hawk invokes this while balking at her crew's suggestion that they cheat, telling them in no uncertain terms to either drop the subject or quit, since 1) they'd probably get caught if they tried, 2) it would shame their friends and families whether they got away with it or not, and 3) she has a good chance of winning honestly anyway (which she does).
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The Hardy Boys / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Hardy Boys / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: In general, the cover illustrations of the books in every series depict a scene from each one, or at least contain an image of the general theme of the adventure (such as the first half the the Undercover Brothers books). However, there are still several examples of rather misleading covers throughout the books: Callie is one of the boys' few friends to show up in the cover illustrations of any of the series, making several appearances on the front of various Casefiles books. However, whenever she's shown clinging to one of the brothers in the picture, or them to her, it's usually Joe, even though she's Frank's girlfriend (and many times was indeed actually clinging to Frank during the scene in question from the book). Conversely, if a Girl of the Week who acts as Joe's Love Interest in the story is shown on the cover, she's often paired up with Frank there. The Adventures books have at least two early offenders where the covers show Frank and Joe dangling from precarious places—a Ferris wheel in "The Vanishing Game" and a ship's mast in "The Battle of Bayport"—that, in the book proper, each turn out to just be from a nightmare Frank has that's mentioned in a sentence or two and never brought up again. One really gets the feeling that the writers didn't feel like there was anything that happened during the plot that would make for an exciting cover image, or that they couldn't find a way to work the scene depicted in the illustrations into the book proper, and just threw in those "nightmare" sequences as weak justification.
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The Hardy Boys / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Hardy Boys / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Some of the Hardys' circle of friends have slowly faded away as time has gone by. Chet is still a regular; Biff Hooper, Tony Prito, and Phil Cohen appear reasonably frequently, though certainly not in every book; but Jerry Gilroy and Perry "Slim" Robinson completely disappear even before the end of the original 58 books, and don't show up even in the Digests. In Undercover Brothers, Chet is the only male friend of theirs from the original books who still appears; all the others are never name-dropped even once. Callie here as well; she makes one appearance in an earlier book before dropping out. Even Iola, who still shows up occasionally, is no longer Joe's girlfriend; she's simply a friend of both brothers, as is Callie in her sole outing. Adventures is very similar; Chet regularly shows up (though not always with much of a role in the story), Iola and Biff each get only one appearance in separate books, and Callie, Tony, and Phil never show up at all; instead, the boys have a bunch of Remember the New Guy? friends who mostly are one-off appearances, with a few exceptions. This also holds true for Con Riley and Ezra Collig; the former never appears, and the latter is replaced with a Suspiciously Similar Substitute, Chief Olaf.
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The Hardy Boys / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Hardy Boys / int_77b03c0a	comment	Adventures is very similar; Chet regularly shows up (though not always with much of a role in the story), Iola and Biff each get only one appearance in separate books, and Callie, Tony, and Phil never show up at all; instead, the boys have a bunch of Remember the New Guy? friends who mostly are one-off appearances, with a few exceptions. This also holds true for Con Riley and Ezra Collig; the former never appears, and the latter is replaced with a Suspiciously Similar Substitute, Chief Olaf.
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The Hardy Boys / int_7a4013f3	type	Deuteragonist
The Hardy Boys / int_7a4013f3	comment	The boys' girlfriends, Callie and Iola, also get several focus books in the Digests, especially the latter. In the Casefiles, where Iola is dead, Callie becomes one of the biggest examples in the series, with several books where she's practically the Deuteragonist next to the boys, such as "See No Evil", "Hostages of Hate", and "Nightmare in Angel City". Once Vanessa is introduced to the series, she also gets the limelight quite a few times.
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The Hardy Boys / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
The Hardy Boys / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Many, many, many books have the Hardys' new friend of the week, a friend of one of their friends, or an "old friend" of Fenton's turn out to be in on the plot, sometimes just as an accomplice and other times as the ringleader.
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The Hardy Boys / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The Hardy Boys / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Not the Hardys themselves, but rather in relation to their friends. While numbers have never been explicitly stated, there are still conflicting accounts on what each character's age in relation to Frank and Joe's. (for example, in "Mystery of the Chinese Junk" only Frank and Tony are of legal age to take a boating license, yet in the Spin-Off Babies Clues Brothers, Tony's in the same grade as Joe.) Unlike the originals and Casefiles (where the brothers' ages are stated at the beginning of every book), the Undercover Brothers and Adventures series never give the boys an exact age beyond being teens in mid-late high school.
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The Hardy Boys / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Hardy Boys / int_7fbe9a30	comment	In a book from the second Super Mystery crossover series, "Danger Overseas", they meet a fellow teen who had such a bad Freak Out that she got Trauma-Induced Amnesia from it, including her name. She initially chooses to go by "Lily" because she likes the sound of it, but they soon realize that she is Caitlin, a recently-arrested-suspect's missing girlfriend whom they were searching for, and even before she remembers everything else, she does immediately realize they're right and this is indeed her name.
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The Hardy Boys / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
The Hardy Boys / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: The brothers suspecting Tom Swift of being behind the abduction of their father for the first quarter of the crossover "Time Bomb". Their reasons for suspecting Tom, whom they don't even know, make sense based on the very limited evidence they have, but it's actually his enemy, the Black Dragon, framing him; once they meet Tom in person, after an initial scuffle, he sets them straight.
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The Hardy Boys / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Hardy Boys / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: In "Breakdown in Axeblade," the brothers suspect Ben Barntree of toxic waste dumping when they find a letter from a surveying company, whom Ben's neighbor and henchman Robbie hired to try to find a source of water for his cattle other than the river flowing from Ben's property. The brothers are quickly told that the river running through Ben's property is used by every rancher in the area, and so it would be impossible to cover up that many cows getting sick. They eventuaally discover that Ben is dumping toxic waste, just not anywhere near the river. Robbie's attempts to find a different water source are so that he can quit working for Ben without having to worry about Ben messing with his water supply in retaliation.
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The Hardy Boys / int_8404a0f3	type	Amnesiac Dissonance
The Hardy Boys / int_8404a0f3	comment	The original version of "The Secret of the Caves" has the boys looking for someone named Todham Todd. During their investigation, they encounter a violent and highly insane man who goes by "Captain Royal" living in the caves off the coast, who holds them prisoner and attempts to kill them multiple times. It turns out that Captain Royal is actually an amnesiac Todd, and after being knocked unconscious and left comatose, he gets his original memories back when he wakes up, and turns out to be a perfectly nice, harmless person who has no recollection of the violent alternate life he lived as Royal.
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The Hardy Boys / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The Hardy Boys / int_8504b817	comment	Where The Hell Is Bayport?: The most you really get is that it's a coastal town in New England within driving distance of New York City. The earliest series implies New York state, where there's an actual Bayport in real life, however, later materials will say New Jersey and Massachusetts as well.
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The Hardy Boys / int_857744e7	type	Chew-Out Fake-Out
The Hardy Boys / int_857744e7	comment	Chew-Out Fake-Out: By the end of the Casefiles book "Blown Away", Frank and Joe have uncovered an international conspiracy, saved two African countries (Bhotai and Katara), and cleared the name (albeit Acquitted Too Late) of their friend's boss (and mentor) from smuggling charges. The president of Katara then sternly asks if they were also responsible for blowing up his country's new weapon that cost his treasury millions of dollars. Frank contemplates that he and Joe might be used as scapegoats, but when they bravely admit their guilt, the Kataran president is instead actually grateful to them.
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The Hardy Boys / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
The Hardy Boys / int_85ca9dab	comment	The most prominent Casefiles-exclusive examples are the Gray Man, a high-level spy working for the secretive Network who acts as the boys' contact for the agency; and, for the second half of the series, Vanessa Bender, Joe's steady girlfriend and Second Love. The Assassins play with this; as a whole organization, they're the series main recurring villains, but the individual terrorists the boys face off with are largely different in each encounter.
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The Hardy Boys / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
The Hardy Boys / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: Jessica Derey from "Fear on Wheels" is a pretty stunt rider who wears a leather jacket, isn't afraid of a Biker gang, and is famous for once jumping her bike through a Deadly Rotary Fan.
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The Hardy Boys / int_86cd25b5	type	Females Are More Innocent
The Hardy Boys / int_86cd25b5	comment	Females Are More Innocent: Zigzagged throughout the series: Played quite straight in the original series, where almost all of the villains are male. At worst, women who are part of the gang of bad guys are accomplices who aren't involved in the gang's most villainous deeds (such as attempted murder), and other times, they are unwitting accomplices. Downplayed in the Digests. There are more female villains there, but they're more likely to be conflicted about what they're doing and make a High-Heelâ€“Face Turn. Largely averted with the Casefiles, Undercover Brothers, and Adventures. There are quite a few more male villains than female (which is Truth in Television), but all three series still have plenty of sincerely evil or at least equally culpable villainesses, and in cases of men and women working together, it's about an even split for whether the man or the woman is the more vicious member of their partnership (or if it's equal).
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The Hardy Boys / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Hardy Boys / int_875615dd	comment	Largely averted with the Casefiles, Undercover Brothers, and Adventures. There are quite a few more male villains than female (which is Truth in Television), but all three series still have plenty of sincerely evil or at least equally culpable villainesses, and in cases of men and women working together, it's about an even split for whether the man or the woman is the more vicious member of their partnership (or if it's equal).
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The Hardy Boys / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Hardy Boys / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Several of them throughout. Though subverted for the Hardys in the early books, where their car is described by Chet as looking like a million dollars but driving like thirty cents, and can barely make 15 miles an hour.
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The Hardy Boys / int_8a8130a8	type	Courier
The Hardy Boys / int_8a8130a8	comment	A non-villainous version comes from Bart in the Casefiles book "A Killing in the Market". As the office assistant of a person of interest in the case, he's assigned to serve as a Courier to the Hardy Boys, but while he's trying to meet them, he aborts the meeting and makes a beeline out of there when he spots a couple of mooks who had beaten him up earlier.
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The Hardy Boys / int_8b6e817e	type	Fake Charity
The Hardy Boys / int_8b6e817e	comment	Fake Charity: The Undercover Brothers book "Pushed" features the Haven, a shelter for homeless teenagers that raises millions of dollars in donations to get the kids into college. As the boys later discover, most of it goes into the pockets of the director of Haven, and two kids who threaten her racket end up dead.
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The Hardy Boys / int_8bd2ee20	type	Native Guide
The Hardy Boys / int_8bd2ee20	comment	Native Guide: In mysteries that take place outside of Bayport, the brothers (and sometimes their friends) will very often meet a local from the area who shows them around and becomes an Honorary True Companion with them, such as Mexican fisherman Tico in the revised version of "The Mark on the Door", and Canadian Hunter Trapper Pierre "Caribou" Caron in "The Viking Symbol Mystery".
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The Hardy Boys / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
The Hardy Boys / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: In the Cold Open of the sixth Undercover Brothers graphic novel, "Mad House", Frank and Joe come to the rescue of a secret agent. His name is never given, but the agent's manner of speech strongly implies he's James Bond.
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The Hardy Boys / int_8f00b02a	type	Always Identical Twins
The Hardy Boys / int_8f00b02a	comment	There are also a few names that get re-used a lot across certain series. For example, the Casefiles and spinoffs have no less than four different girls/women named "Gina" across various books, and Undercover Brothers has at least three different "Justin"s (and, weirdly enough, two of them have an identical twin brother who pretends to be him during the story). In the same series, there are also two different "Jenna"s who each acts as a Love Interest to one of the boys (a Love-Interest Traitor, in Frank's case).
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The Hardy Boys / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
The Hardy Boys / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: The Stratemeyer Syndicate actually insisted in their outlines to Hardy Boys ghostwriters every chapter end with one. It is a directive that has been carried through to almost every book to this day.
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The Hardy Boys / int_904530eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Hardy Boys / int_904530eb	comment	Recycled In SPACE: The 1969 animated show featured the Hardy Boys...as a hip groovy rock band!
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The Hardy Boys / int_92b20172	type	Love Interests
The Hardy Boys / int_92b20172	comment	Love Interests: It varies for the boys across various series: In the original and Digests series, Frank's is Callie Shaw and Joe's is Iola Morton, their respective girlfriends. In the Casefiles, Callie is still Frank's love interest, and they have a deeper relationship that receives more focus than it did in the Digests. However, since Iola is murdered at the start of the first book, Joe has a string of Girls of the Week for the first half of the series, before one such girl, Vanessa Bender, becomes his steady love interest for the second half. Since the Undercover Brothers and Adventures series don't feature Callie and Iola/Vanessa as their girlfriends and have both boys perpetually single, the Girl of the Week format primarily applies, but there are some standouts: In Undercover Brothers, neither boy ever actually gets a girlfriend, but there is one recurring character, Belinda Conrad, who has a major semi-requited crush on Frank throughout the series.note (Semi-requited, as in, Frank is attracted to her, too, but his shyness around girls prevents him from seriously pursuing the matter.) In addition to occasional crushes, both brothers sometimes even have actual girlfriends in Adventures, but for some reason or another, they either break up during the story, or are no longer together (with no explanation) at the time of the next book. Tends to happen in their crossovers with Nancy Drew: In the first Supermysteries series (crossing over the Files and Casefiles), Frank and Nancy share a mutual attraction, but rarely act on it due to their commitments to their respective partners. Joe and Bess have one as well, but how strong it is and how they act on it varies widely between books. In the second Super Mysteries (crossing over Girl Detective and Undercover Brothers), Frank definitely has a crush on Nancy, but it's unrequited due to her only having eyes for Ned (though she sometimes does flirt with Frank a little). Joe is also interested in her in the first book, but mostly goes for Bess in subsequent volumes (possibly since he knows Frank likes Nancy), though it never actually goes anywhere. In their Adventures/Nancy Drew Diaries crossover, Joe still likes Bess, but since Nancy still has Ned, the story opts for a one-sided Pair the Spares by giving Frank a crush on George.
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The Hardy Boys / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
The Hardy Boys / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Vacations and holidays are a good excuse for when the Hardys have to spend "overtime" in their work without worrying about school. Especially when a case will take them out of the States.
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The Hardy Boys / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The Hardy Boys / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: A heroic variant: in one story, the Hardys get pulled over because the cops received an anonymous tip from the bad guys, who set them up. A quick search of their van reveals counterfeit ATM cards (related to their father's recently solvednote outside of getting the ringleader captured case). The police, knowing the boys wouldn't get themselves involved in the crime, instead ask them to what extent they helped their father solve it. Frank and Joe make it clear that they never even helped Fenton at all. in â€œThe Mystery of the Desert Giantâ€� the brothers ask the captured criminals whether a pair of freight thieves they had a brief run in with earlier were part of their gang and are given a negative answer. note This is unusual for the original series, where even petty crooks seeming irrelevant to the main plot would usually show up as part of the main villains' gang later on. In the Supermysteries book â€œBuried in Timeâ€�, the brothers think that the culprit from their case killed the victim from Nancyâ€™s case for stumbling across some incriminating information. When they accuse him of this murder, though, it turns out that not only did he not kill the murdered archeologist, but heâ€™d never even heard of the man until that point (although he says if the professor really did have that information, then itâ€™s a lucky coincidence that someone else did kill him). Standard fare in the second half of the Undercover Brothers series, which consist of three-book stories that have multiple mysteries involving the same characters. Frank and Joe will catch someone who confesses to some of the activity, but denies being responsible for something else, and are soon proven to be telling the truth by a fresh act of sabotage or threatening message.
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The Hardy Boys / int_96553833	type	Eagle-Eye Detection
The Hardy Boys / int_96553833	comment	Eagle-Eye Detection: Both boys have, on numerous occasions, been able to spot small, hard-to-see, vital clues.
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The Hardy Boys / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
The Hardy Boys / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Happens to both brothers occasionally, though probably a bit more often with Joe, and especially in series where the boys don't have steady girlfriends already like Undercover Brothers, Adventures, and the Casefiles for Joe. They also sometimes end up having to bodyguard their actual girlfriends, especially Frank for Callie in the Casefiles.
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The Hardy Boys / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Hardy Boys / int_970c790a	comment	In the Casefiles book "Wrong Side of the Law", community center martial arts teacher Lisa Tang respectfully bows to Frank after he defeats the Big Bad using skills that Lisa taught him. This also counts as a Graceful Loser moment, considering that Lisa is The Dragon (albeit one who the Big Bad betrayed when it was time to split the loot) and is about to be arrested as well.
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The Hardy Boys / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
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The Hardy Boys / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Hardy Boys / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: The Casefiles series doesn't hold back in how murders are committed. And since more than half of these books deal with such a crime, there are plenty of them. The Undercover Brothers series isn't quite as graphic, but considering that most books in the series still contain at least one death, it has some of these too.
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The Hardy Boys / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Hardy Boys / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterparts: The Hardy Boys get a few of these in various different series: The Casefiles have several notable ones: Frank II and Joe II from "The Lazarus Plot" are a quite literal example, being actual evil clones of the Hardys created by the Assassins and the Lazarus facility. "Dead of Night" later adds to this, with the Assassins creating evil "clones" of Iola, Callie, Vanessa, the Gray Man, and Al Rousasa by performing plastic surgery on some of their agents. Greg and Mike Rawley from "Blood Relations" are the stepsons of Walter Rawley, a friend of Fenton's, and are shown to have many common interests with the Hardys. This is especially true for Greg, who trains in karate like Frank and also shows attraction to Callie, while Mike is a football star like Joe. They, along with their mother Linda, turn out to be the villains of the book. Linda is likewise this to Laura Hardy; they're both devoted mothers to their two sons, but Laura is good and a loyal wife to Fenton, while Linda is evil and was just using Walter all along. Peter and Ed Mason from "False Alarm" repeatedly show up Frank (at science) and Joe (at wrestling), respectively, and also make moves on their girlfriends. The Hardys eventually learn that they're the sons of Richard Courtland (an Evil Counterpart of Fenton's), and that they committed the thefts of the book and invoked the rivalry with the Hardys as a way to make their dad proud and live up to the crimes he committed. It's only at the climax that Joe, Frank, and Fenton finally manage to best Ed, Peter, and Courtland. The first SuperMystery of Undercover Brothers, "Wanted", features Jake Johansen, Fenton Hardy's former best friend and police partner, and his sons Fred and Jim. Fenton notes that he and Jake and their families were once like "matching bookends", until Jake eventually went bad and started stealing, forcing Fenton to turn him in and resulting in Jake being sent to prison. He swore revenge, and raised Fred and Jim to be obsessed with getting revenge on Frank and Joe (whom they don't even know), culminating in the Johansen boys impersonating the Hardys to frame them for robbery and requiring them to clear their name. The graphic novels for Undercover Brothers feature the Noir sisters, Shira and Nicolina, and their father Papa Noir, as recurring characters. Just as Fenton co-founded the crime-fighting agency ATAC and recruited his sons Joe and Frank its first two agents, Papa Noir founded the evil counterpart organization WARD (Warring Adolescents, Revenge Division), devoted to creating anarchy and chaos through crime, and inducted his daughters as its agents. Fenton and Papa Noir are both shown in the same issue to have Papa Wolf traits towards their respective kids, and Shira and Nicolina are quite intelligent and skilled in combat like the Hardys (though the boys always manage to best them in the end). The issue where the sisters are first introduced is even called "The Opposite Numbers".
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The Hardy Boys / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Hardy Boys / int_9c8701b5	comment	The boys' other good friends from school besides Chet tend to be this, not appearing as often as he does, but still filling out the supporting cast. The most prominent three are Biff Hooper, Phil Cohen, and Tony Prito, all three of whom appear regularly in the originals, Digests, and Casefiles, and also have books in the latter two series that give them A Day in the Limelight. Same goes for the boys' girlfriends, Callie Shaw and Iola Morton; in the original series, they appear in most books, but usually play a relatively small role as background characters. The Digests and, in Callie's case, Casefiles, give them more to do when they do show up. Iola also has this role in Undercover Brothers, albeit not as Joe's girlfriend. Earlier books in the original series had two more "chums", Jerry Gilroy and Slim Robinson, who were soon phased out. The Digests give them another frequently-recurring friend, Jamal Hawkins; they first meet him in "The Hypersonic Secret" when his dad is the Victim of the Week, but Jamal makes regular appearances for the rest of the series afterwards.
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The Hardy Boys / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Hardy Boys / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Both boys (see Hard Head), but particularly Joe, who takes more punishment due to him being the more "athletic" one.
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The Hardy Boys / int_9e80f156	type	Unfortunate Item Swap
The Hardy Boys / int_9e80f156	comment	Unfortunate Item Swap: A variant. The backstory of the Digest book "In Plane Sight" has an unfortunate vehicle swap. After a successful robbery, Carl Denny was laying low at an airshow (having hidden his loot in one of several identical planes) when the cops tracked him down. Denny hot-wired a plane, drove it through the display case and took off right there, escaping the police, but belatedly discovered that he'd taken the wrong plane and left his loot behind.
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The Hardy Boys / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Hardy Boys / int_9f970427	comment	The second "Super Mysteries" combines Undercover Brothers and Nancy's Girl Detective series, and is also 6 books. This time around, the boys meet Nancy and her friends for the first time in the first book, wherein the girls become some of the very few people to learn about their work with ATAC and are Secret-Keepers for them for all subsequent volumes.
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The Hardy Boys / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
The Hardy Boys / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: The Hardys met with this in a lot of the early books. Eventually, Chief Collig and Con Riley figured out they should probably listen to them once in a while...
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The Hardy Boys / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
The Hardy Boys / int_a119b588	comment	This includes Joe himself in "Brother Against Brother", though, of course, the narration continues to refer to him by name. Unlike many other examples, he doesn't choose any kind of fake name for himself, and his traveling companion, Rita, instead just addresses him with Hey, You! until he gets his memories back at the end.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a1257d6	type	Fat Best Friend
The Hardy Boys / int_a1257d6	comment	Fat Best Friend: Chet Morton is the best friend of the Hardy Boys, and has been described as fat, plump, chubby, stout, heavy-set, etc. He has a huge appetite, and vacillates between types A, B and C as the plot dictates.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Hardy Boys / int_a18fda9c	comment	Some of the Casefiles books play up Joe's impulsiveness, hot temper, and girl-crazy personality while downplaying his good instincts and sharp investigative skills, causing him to pretty much come off as a Dumb Muscle Jerk Jock who gets easily distracted from the case by a pretty face while Frank is the one to make most of the important deductions. This could get especially bad in the crossovers with Nancy Drew; since these books tend to put more focus on Nancy overall, Joe is often reduced primarily to his shallower character traits.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
The Hardy Boys / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: The boys have to thwart a good number of these—sometimes the would-be victims are clients whom they're bodyguarding, while other times, they're important leaders or diplomats. This even includes the US President in "Flight Into Danger".
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The Hardy Boys / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Hardy Boys / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: in "Witness to Murder", Frank and Joe run afoul of a leader of jewel thieves named Cutter, who Frank notices never takes off his tinted sunglasses, even though Cutter remains mostly indoors. After escaping, Frank turns to his father for a profile on the guy. Fenton's file mentions that Cutter got his alias because he used to be a master safecracker with a large amount of luck. He changed his criminal profession when his luck ran out one day with his acetylene torch...
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The Hardy Boys / int_a36e433	type	The Meddling Kids Are Useless
The Hardy Boys / int_a36e433	comment	The Meddling Kids Are Useless: Former Trope Namer, due to the fact that in the early books, the Hardy brothers would often find out who did what, but at the same time the police were doing the same. Essentially, the had grand adventures but didn't affect much in the long run. This was later changed.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Hardy Boys / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Bayport police chief Ezra Collig, whom the boys frequently end up working with during their Bayport-based investigations (usually by solving the cases before the police can). He's a lazy, unimaginative politico in the original books; a Reasonable Authority Figure in the reprints, most of the Digests, and Undercover Brothers; and an overzealous Jerkass (albeit one with a Hidden Heart of Gold who gets some Pet the Dog moments) in the Casefiles and a few of the Digests. In the Adventures series, he's technically replaced by a "Chief Olaf", but Olaf is pretty much Collig in all but name, including his fluctuating relationship with the boys depending on the book.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Hardy Boys / int_a65288e2	comment	The Casefiles series. Iola Morton is Joe's long-running girlfriend in the original series, and gets blown up by terrorists seconds before the opening scene of the first book. Not to mention that some cases would place tension between the brothers, which would often lead into not-so-friendly brawls between them. Later, it also modifies their relationship with the police (which is scarcely a problem in the original series), with an Ascended Extra of sorts in Con Riley as the only officer that takes their skills seriously. They also use guns, bad guys regularly try to Just Shoot Him, and murders and deaths occur much more frequently among side characters and bad guys. And then there are the Assassins, the terrorist group responsible for Iola's aforementioned murder, and are also the most frequently recurring villains in the series who, well...do exactly what you might expect.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
The Hardy Boys / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: CBS had a cartoon version which ran 34 episodes from 1969-1971.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
The Hardy Boys / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Father: Tom Collig from the Detective Handbook short story "The Secret of the Empty Page" has only been on the force for a few weeks but is mentioned as having a wife and three kids.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
The Hardy Boys / int_a806691d	comment	Joe, meanwhile, has his confidence and positive attitude dialed up to the point of sometimes being a braggart, even arrogant, and comes across as a downright ditz in a few books. His girl-crazy tendencies are also ramped up to the point of occasionally being a bit uncomfortable, with underlying layers of sexism, and it makes him into something of a Casanova Wannabe instead of charming.
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The Hardy Boys / int_a9882ce2	type	Extruded Book Product
The Hardy Boys / int_a9882ce2	comment	Extruded Book Product: One of the biggest and longest running examples of this trope ever recorded alongside sister series Nancy Drew. Here's a timeline of just how bad it was: 1927-1929: 2-3 books per year. 1930-1978: One book per year. 1979-1980: Published quarterly. 1981-1983: Published bi-monthly. 1984-1987: Back to quarterly (plus monthly for the Caseflies spin-off when it debuted in 1987). 1988-1997: Back to bi-monthly for the main series; Caseflies continues monthly, totaling 18 new books per year. 1998-2010: Caseflies discontinued, main series continues bi-monthly for the remainder of its run; carries over to Undercover Brothers. 2011-2016: Undercover Brothers reduced to tri-annually; carries over to Adventures. 2017-2021: Adventures reduced to bi-annually. 2022-Present: Adventures reduced to just one book per year, bringing things roughly full-circle.
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The Hardy Boys / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
The Hardy Boys / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Mostly in the Originals/Digests: Chet Morton and his loads of hobbies that seems to change for each book. Frank and Joe are both guilty of this too.
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The Hardy Boys / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Hardy Boys / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In quite a few books, the boys are at a dead end, don't really have a good place to start, or aren't even sure there is a mystery at all...but then the bad guys try to hurt or kill them, confirming their suspicions that something shady is afoot and/or giving them something to go on. One particularly notable example: in "Bloodsport" (a Casefiles story), Frank and Joe are looking into the disappearance of Frank's fencing teammate and rival. They literally have nothing on their prime suspect, the coach of the Opposing Sports Team, who was also pegged responsible for the disappearance of other fencers over the years. But then that coach decided to "scout" Frank as well, kidnapping him and taking him to an underground fighting ring. Frank proceeds to rescue his teammate, and between his work from the inside and Joe's search for him, the boys successfully bring down the whole operation. (It should be further noted that the coach knew of the brothers' detective skills, yet he thought that Frank would be easily swayed by money and fame to keep things under wraps.)
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The Hardy Boys / int_adf58b7a	type	Knockout Gas
The Hardy Boys / int_adf58b7a	comment	Knockout Gas: The boys are also on the receiving end of knockout gas or chloroform. For example: in "The Yellow Feather Mystery", the Big Bad puts the Hardys to sleep with knockout gas and takes them to his ice fort to freeze to death. It would have worked if not for Chet and the Victim of the Week saving them.
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The Hardy Boys / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Hardy Boys / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both of them in every continuity, very much so, but Joe in particular. They've been addressed and referred to as "wise guys" on more than one occasion, by friends, foes, and everyone in between, and have back-sassed the bad guys so many times that you have to wonder how they didn't get themselves shot in the face long ago.
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The Hardy Boys / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
The Hardy Boys / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Since both Hardy Boys are full-on Deadpan Snarkers, they unsurprisingly become this in the series that are told in first person, the Undercover Brothers and Adventures (especially the former), which give constant insight into their inner thoughts and feelings and are consistently riddled with sass towards the suspects, friends and family on occasion, and each other.
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The Hardy Boys / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Hardy Boys / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: The Hardys encounter a couple of small towns like this: "Breakdown in Axeblade" has the titular Axeblade, Wyoming, where the brothers are stranded when their van breaks down. Nearly everyone in Axeblade refuses to associate with them at best, with several people trying to drive the boys out of town or even outright attacking them. They eventually learn that the wealthy ranch owner who essentially runs the town has been illegally dumping toxic waste into the nearby national park, and has the entire town police force on his payroll, who pretty much kidnap the boys under the premise of "arresting" them after framing them for a crime, with the intention to secretly murder them. Almost no one in the town is willing to stand up to the rancher because he owns the mortgage on most of their homes and businesses, and even the mechanic who is sympathetic to the Hardys can't really help because his sister is married to one of the mooks. The only citizens who are truly helpful to the boys are the "town kook" and the mother-and-son cafÃ© owners, whose husband/father was murdered by the rancher years ago after discovering what they were up to. "The End of the Trail" gives us Morgan's Quarry, an old, almost-dead mining town on the Appalachian Trail. The Hardy Boys, Chet, Biff, and Phil are forced to take shelter there to seek medical help for Biff after he breaks his leg, and see a couple of thugs spill a bag of cash in front of them. Most of the people they meet afterwards try to prevent them from leaving. It turns out that the richest man in town—whose family has a long history of various illegal businesses over many decades that have dried up—his butler, and the thugs robbed an armored truck with millions of dollars several months before, and the town sheriff is in on the racket as well; the cash the boys saw was from that robbery, and the bad guys are worried they'll tell the authorities about it once they leave Morgan's Quarry. The only people in town who treat them decently are the father-and-daughter shopkeepers, the innkeeper, and the nurse (the latter of whom turns out to actually be working with the criminals, too).
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The Hardy Boys / int_b039b1d7	type	Split Hair
The Hardy Boys / int_b039b1d7	comment	Split Hair: In the mystery "The Secret of Pirates' Hill", Joe drops an envelope on the blade of some pirate cutlasses in the museum to test its sharpness. (It's very sharp.)
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The Hardy Boys / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Hardy Boys / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Frank & Joe have been knocked out by getting hit in the head so often that, in real life, the two should be vegetables in permanent comas in the hospital. In the books, though, they just wake up with a bad headache or, at worst, a mild concussion. It's lampshaded in "The Number File"; the boys' car gets forced off the road into the ocean, and once they're safe, Joe quips about losing brain cells from hitting the windshield.
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The Hardy Boys / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Hardy Boys / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In "Motorcross Madness", Jamal Hawkins, a recurring friend of the brothers, looks like he's out of the race after his bike is stolen and the rules say he can't use a different model of bike than the one he entered with. Motorcycle collector Trent Howard offers to loan him a bike of the same make and model so he can continue, on the condition that, if Jamal wins, then Howard gets the Grand Prize (which isn't Jamal's main reason for entering) for his collection.
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The Hardy Boys / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
The Hardy Boys / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Respectively, Frank and Joe themselves are often compared to each other like this. Downplayed, though, in that Joe is still very smart and comes up with some great plans, and Frank is almost as strong and as good of a fighter.
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The Hardy Boys / int_b408c009	type	City of Adventure
The Hardy Boys / int_b408c009	comment	City of Adventure: A lot of stuff seems to happen in good ol' Bayport. Also averted, since the brothers travel all over the world when they stumble into mysteries. For the Hardy Boys, it's slightly justified; Bayport was a port city (duh), so some smuggling was expected. It makes less sense in Nancy Drew's hometown River Heights (although both were suburbs of cities which were known for mafia activity, New York and Chicago.)
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The Hardy Boys / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Hardy Boys / int_b63019a5	comment	Downplayed in the Digests. There are more female villains there, but they're more likely to be conflicted about what they're doing and make a High-Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Hardy Boys / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
The Hardy Boys / int_b892dd2d	comment	In "The Borderline Case", Chet gets a Girl of the Week, Alma, who has a crush on him, and her overprotective older brother, Aleko, dislikes him for this, though he eventually warms up to him after seeing Chet comfort Alma and make her feel better when they're all captured by the bad guys.
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The Hardy Boys / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Hardy Boys / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Much like Nancy Drew, there have been a few names that have fallen out of favor since 1927, and now come across like this. Just look at their close circle: Frank, Joe, Tony, Phil, Jerry, and Callie are quite common, Chet and Biff are marginal (and nicknames for Chester and Allen, anyway), but Iola just completely sticks out. Considering she was replaced with a girl named "Vanessa" in the Casefiles, it's possible the publishers thought so, too.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
The Hardy Boys / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: The Hardys use motorcycles numerous times across the various series. In Undercover Brothers, they actually each have their own, and regularly drive these instead of their van from the Digests and Casefiles.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Hardy Boys / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The Sleuth in the original/Digests series. Who knew that a term for a detective would be a good name for a boat? Their friend Tony's boat, the Napoli, also qualifies, as it's used to help them out on a number of occasions.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bbc17998	type	Enforced Method Acting
The Hardy Boys / int_bbc17998	comment	Enforced Method Acting: In-universe, an accidental version occurs in the Casefiles book "The Borgia Dagger". The story ends with the brothers watching a soap opera where two characters who hated each other throughout the book have both been hired as actors in the show and have a very realistic-looking argument.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
The Hardy Boys / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: The Hardy Boys regularly get this from their aunt, their mother, and especially their father after they solve the case, stop a crime in progress, or help someone. In the Casefiles book "Wrong Side of the Law", community center martial arts teacher Lisa Tang respectfully bows to Frank after he defeats the Big Bad using skills that Lisa taught him. This also counts as a Graceful Loser moment, considering that Lisa is The Dragon (albeit one who the Big Bad betrayed when it was time to split the loot) and is about to be arrested as well.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
The Hardy Boys / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Aunt Gertrude has largely been spared from being taken hostage, but has ended up as a suspect in a case a few times and required the boys to clear her name.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bebb370	type	Gratuitous Italian
The Hardy Boys / int_bebb370	comment	Tony Prito (who is Italian-American) and Phil Cohen (who's from a Jewish family) initially adhered to stereotypes about their respective groups—namely, Gratuitous Italian for Tony and Nice Jewish Boy for Phil—before this was soon, thankfully, phased out in favor of treating them no differently than any of the Hardys' other friends.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
The Hardy Boys / int_bebf0356	comment	Undercover Brothers does away with most of the supporting cast of the previous series, minus a few previously-mentioned examples. There are, however, a few new characters introduced who fill this role: Vijay Patel, a junior member of ATAC who sometimes serves as Mission Control and the Voice with an Internet Connection for Frank and Joe; and siblings Belinda and Brian Conrad, the former of whom has a major somewhat-mutual crush on Frank, while the latter is The Bully at school.
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The Hardy Boys / int_bfdd64c6	type	Hero Secret Service
The Hardy Boys / int_bfdd64c6	comment	Hero Secret Service: The reason the Hardy Boys get involved with the Network in the first place: the Assassins are targeting Fenton Hardy through his family, and he calls on a small favor from the Network (whom he's had dealings with before) to keep his loved ones safe. However, since the first four books of the Casefiles all have Frank and Joe contacting or working with the Network in some form, they are essentially inducted as unofficial members of the agency, and thus future installments featuring the Network mostly drop the connection with Fenton in favor of working with the boys directly.
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The Hardy Boys / int_c1725854	type	Character Focus
The Hardy Boys / int_c1725854	comment	In the original books, in addition to the titular brothers, their family—father Fenton Hardy, mother Laura Hardy, and after the first few editions, aunt Gertrude Hardy—could probably count as part of the main cast, and the same goes for their best friend, Chet Morton. In all subsequent series, though, they don't actually appear in every book and have specific books in the Digests and Casefiles that give them Character Focus and A Day in the Limelight, relegating them to this. Chet truly becomes this in Undercover Brothers and Adventures, where he tags along with the boys for just a few of their cases (but not most of them), while Fenton, Laura, and Trudy (as she's known here) are mostly frequently-appearing background characters (with a few exceptions).
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The Hardy Boys / int_c3473e28	type	Chrome Champion
The Hardy Boys / int_c3473e28	comment	Chrome Champion: A non-superhero version is used in "Wreck and Roll" when Julie, the lead singer of the band Vette Smash, wears a chrome outfit onstage.
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The Hardy Boys / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
The Hardy Boys / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: Very frequently. In almost every book of the Casefiles, a solid majority of the Digests, and a few of the originals, Undercover Brothers, and Adventures, someone's car, plane, boat, or other vehicle will be tampered with, either to prevent them from being able to chase/follow the crooks, to keep them from competing in an upcoming competition, or as a way to try to kill them and Make It Look Like an Accident. With cars, the most common form of tampering is cutting the brake line so the boys will get into an accident or drive off a cliff, but some other instances have included releasing the car's carbon monoxide inside it to poison them, draining most of their gas, or messing with the steering mechanism or tires. With other vehicles, some notable examples have included emptying most of the gasoline from their boat so they'll be stranded out at sea, and messing with the boat's or plane's navigation system.
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The Hardy Boys / int_c4b09e97	type	Doppelgänger
The Hardy Boys / int_c4b09e97	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger: In the fourth Casefiles book, "The Lazarus Plot", the boys are captured, and the bad guys make body doubles. They play Spot the Imposter. Joe meets his "dead" girlfriend Iola, and asks questions, in standard trope fashion, "only she would know the answer to", and she gets them right. It turns out Iola kept an "extremely detailed" diary, and he had quizzed a double who had the information from it programmed into her.
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The Hardy Boys / int_c5d50cb0	type	Opposing Sports Team
The Hardy Boys / int_c5d50cb0	comment	One particularly notable example: in "Bloodsport" (a Casefiles story), Frank and Joe are looking into the disappearance of Frank's fencing teammate and rival. They literally have nothing on their prime suspect, the coach of the Opposing Sports Team, who was also pegged responsible for the disappearance of other fencers over the years. But then that coach decided to "scout" Frank as well, kidnapping him and taking him to an underground fighting ring. Frank proceeds to rescue his teammate, and between his work from the inside and Joe's search for him, the boys successfully bring down the whole operation. (It should be further noted that the coach knew of the brothers' detective skills, yet he thought that Frank would be easily swayed by money and fame to keep things under wraps.)
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The Hardy Boys / int_c68ce696	type	King of the Homeless
The Hardy Boys / int_c68ce696	comment	King of the Homeless: Jones in "Edge of Destruction" from the Casefiles series, who also leads some of his people to serve as The Cavalry at the end.
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The Hardy Boys / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
The Hardy Boys / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: Biff's Great Dane, Tivoli, in some of the reprints.
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The Hardy Boys / int_c9bc0967	type	Anchors Away
The Hardy Boys / int_c9bc0967	comment	Anchors Away: The reprint of "What Happened at Midnight" features a Mook named Anchor Pete who appears on the cover about to throw an anchor at the brothers.
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The Hardy Boys / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Hardy Boys / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Possibly. In the Undercover Brothers book "Operation: Survival", Frank and Joe make a reference to Nancy Drew in a way that indicates either that they know her or that she's a fictional character in this timeline. A year and a half later, the first Super Mystery crossover book, "Terror on Tour" was released, wherein the boys meet Nancy for the first time in the Undercover Brothers/Girl Detective continuity (unlike in previous series where they'd already known each other for years at the time of the first crossover). Since they'd heard of her from stories about her cases, it's possible that they were referencing her based on what they'd read from the news, but it's a stretch.
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The Hardy Boys / int_cab89481	type	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!
The Hardy Boys / int_cab89481	comment	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!: In "Trouble Times Two", Con Riley warns the brothers and their dad that The Mafiya, including the book's villains, don't adhere to anything like the codes of honor that homegrown organized crime gangs often do, because a stay in an American jail is comparatively lenient next to what would happen to them in their home countries.
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The Hardy Boys / int_ce6652e5	type	Classy Cat-Burglar
The Hardy Boys / int_ce6652e5	comment	"Thick as Thieves" (#29) serves as one to "The Crowning Terror" (#6); these are the two books featuring Classy Cat-Burglar Charity, who drags the boys into another one of her schemes involving a crime ring in the former after originally meeting her running her own gang in the latter.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d2370d93	type	Gamebooks
The Hardy Boys / int_d2370d93	comment	The "Be a Detective" and "Super Sleuth" short-story series both use the original/Digests continuities of both series, and run for 6 issues and 2 issues, respectively. These are their only crossover series that don't feature any romance between the Hardys and Nancy or her friends; they're just platonic friends who've known each other a long time.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
The Hardy Boys / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: The Hardys and friends get subjected to it a couple of times: In "The Search for the Snow Leopard", the villain is a hunter who smuggles exotic, endangered animals to his private island and allows other hunters to pay a hefty fee to try to hunt the animal of their choice within a set time limit. He abducts the Girl of the Week, Chet's Love Interest, when she discovers that he stole her snow leopard for this purpose; later captures Frank, Joe, and Chet as well when they show up to rescue her; and releases the four of them into the wild on his island to be hunted and killed by him and his Co-Dragons. "Deathgame" features a training camp for survival games where The Dragon who runs it, an ex-army major, secretly kidnaps some of the trainees to forcibly recruit them into a counter-terrorism strike force run by a psychopathic colonel (the Big Bad). Biff is one such kidnapped "recruit", and when Frank and Joe come searching for him, the major abducts them as well, taking them to the colonel's private island. The Hardys, Biff, and two other teens who likewise refused to join the strike force are then let loose in the jungle to be hunted down by the colonel.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
The Hardy Boys / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Frank, who has a disturbingly deep knowledge of things like investigative technique, criminal profiling, and computer hacking for an eighteen-year-old.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d3f9fdb3	type	Gamebooks
The Hardy Boys / int_d3f9fdb3	comment	Gamebooks: The "Be a Detective" series, which ran for six books and was a Crossover with Nancy Drew.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Hardy Boys / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Blackstones and the Rands in "The Hidden Harbor Mystery". Also count as Clashing Cousins in the reprint version due to them sharing a great-grandfather.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Hardy Boys / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: In the Casefiles and their crossovers with Nancy Drew, Frank and Joe sometimes show interest in other girls (most notably Frank with Nancy), occasionally even sharing a kiss with them, despite having girlfriends already in Callie and Vanessa. (In fairness to Joe, he doesn't have a steady girlfriend for the first half of the series, but this continues even after he begins dating Vanessa, although the books at one point try to "justify" it by saying that "going steady" doesn't mean the same thing to Joe that it does to Frank.) However, both boys then tend to act very jealous when another guy makes a move on or seems to be interested in their girlfriends, though they, thankfully, do at least get called out on their behavior if they go too far with it.note This is probably a case of Protagonist-Centered Morality, as the same thing sometimes happens in The Nancy Drew Files as well.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Hardy Boys / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Plenty of Casefiles henchmen (particularly if it's a woman who seems to be a Dark Action Girl) turn out to be Network, CIA, or Interpol agents. "Road Pirates" also has Jackson, a sleazy member of the carjacking ring, trying to set up the gang to be caught by his brother-in-law (a state trooper) due to worrying that someone will get killed if they keep it up and apparently suspecting they won't just let him quit.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Hardy Boys / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Done fairly often by villains, with varying degrees of success or originality. In the reprint of "The Secret of the Old Mill", Peters nervously takes his share of the money and runs shortly after the boys are captured, only to be picked up by the arriving police a little before his partners as a result. In the reprint of "The Shore Road Mysery", most of the thugs try to make a run for it in the climax, but are stopped by the boys through Good Old Fisticuffs. In "The Disappearing Floor", minor henchman Waxie does this not because of the authorities, but out of fear of his boss after he accidentally forgot to raise up the elevator/floor where the title came from, causing his boss a nasty fall and an injured leg. This action makes him one of the only henchmen in the series who doesn't get arrested, given that the police round up the gang shortly afterwards. Sweeper and Green in "The Secret of Skull Mountain" are being kept from quitting by withholding their promised money and blackmail material, respectively. Fed up with this, they decide to leave anyway and crack their employers' safe to steal that money and evidence, but have the poor timing to be doing it at the same time the Hardy Boys are investigating the building. In the Casefiles book "Tagged for Terror", Ted, a member of the baggage theft ring, goes on the run about halfway through the book as suspicions rise (although he is considerate enough to tell the guy who's being suspected of his crimes that he'll mail a confession once he gets away). The last chapter mentions that he was eventually captured not far from the border. In "Breakdown in Axeblade," the brothers block a road to prevent trucks dumping toxic waste in a national park from leaving before the cops from a neighboring town arrive. One of those cops finds the trucks empty a few minutes later and quips to the Big Bad that his drivers have developed a sudden interest in cross-country hiking. A non-villainous version comes from Bart in the Casefiles book "A Killing in the Market". As the office assistant of a person of interest in the case, he's assigned to serve as a Courier to the Hardy Boys, but while he's trying to meet them, he aborts the meeting and makes a beeline out of there when he spots a couple of mooks who had beaten him up earlier. Another non-villainous version comes from Nicole in "Bonfire Masquerade". The brothers and Nancy suspect her when they find a map of all of the burned down buildings in her house where she's nowhere to be found (and abruptly stopped bidding on a piece of property connected to a murder). What actually happened was that Nicole had come to suspect that her rival bidder was the arsonist and decided to stop bidding and get out of town before he decided she was a threat.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d9d864e2	type	Stage Magician
The Hardy Boys / int_d9d864e2	comment	In "Murder by Magic", Stage Magicians Dr. Savant and Gideon the Great are brothers, and Savant (the Big Bad) has no hesitation in trying to frame and murder his brother out of both jealousy and to make a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit.
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The Hardy Boys / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Hardy Boys / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: There have been several: The Hardy Boys Casefiles: Darker and Edgier and Hotter and Sexier series designed to appeal to teen audiences by removing the previous roadblocks of the parent series (No Hugging, No Kissing, Never Say "Die", etc.) Although it played up the violence and played down the romance compared to its Distaff Counterpart The Nancy Drew Files. Might qualify as a Quietly Performing Sister Show since it had a successful run of 12 years (1986-1998) and 127 issues. The Hardy Boys are: The Clues Brothers and The Hardy Boys Secret Files: Spin-Off Babies series which both involve 8 and 9-year-old versions of Frank and Joe solving mysteries in the vein of missing pet cats. Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers: Considered a continuation of the original series by the publisher, it hovers somewhere between the Originals and the Casefiles in terms of storytelling (less graphic than the Casefiles, but with deaths still occurring about equally as often, and thus much more liberal than the Originals.) Both the Casefiles and Undercover Brothers spin-off had their own spin-off, a Crossover series with Nancy Drew. Interestingly, they were both titled Nancy Drew-Hardy Boys Supermysteries. (Fans tag them '88 and '07 for the sake of avoiding confusion.) Both shared a lot of similar traits, including hinting at Nancy/Frank and Bess/Joe relationships. The Hardy Boys Adventures: Replaced The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers as the "official" canon (meaning it's not considered a spinoff like the Casefiles), and falls closer to the original/Digest series in terms of the level of violence. (People still try to kill the boys, but actual murders are rare.)
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The Hardy Boys / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Hardy Boys / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Happens sometimes between the originals and the reprints. In the original version of "Hunting for Hidden Gold" Bart Dawson's prospecting partners were the Coulsen Brothers (Jack and Bill) and Jadbury Wilson. In the reprint, the Coulsens are renamed John and James, and Wilson's counterpart is named Mike Onslow.
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The Hardy Boys / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
The Hardy Boys / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: "Blood Relations" has Joe and Frank approached by Greg and Mike Rawley, who are convinced their mother, Linda, is going to be killed by their stepfather. Given he's Walter Rawley, an old friend of the family's, the brothers are skeptical. They keep it up, finding some evidence after Linda is kidnapped. Eventually, Frank goes missing as well, while Joe works with a detective who's been hunting Walter for a while to rescue Linda. It's then revealed that Linda and her sons were using Frank and Joe to make it look like Walter was the bad guy so they had an excuse for killing him in "self-defense" and get his fortune, and the "detective" is Linda's real husband and Greg and Mike's dad. Frank then reappears and turns the tables, explaining that he was struck mid-way through on how easy and obvious the case was shaping up, since they'd "never had to do so little work" to solve a mystery. He tried "flipping it around" to consider Walter the innocent one and the rest of his family guilty, and realized how much more sense that made.
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The Hardy Boys / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Hardy Boys / int_dca70c44	comment	Chief Collig himself acts as this in the reprints of the original series, most of the Digests, and Undercover Brothers, impressed by the boys' investigative skills and acting as a Reasonable Authority Figure. In the Casefiles where he's much crabbier, and a few of the Digests as well, their relationship is too contentious and vitriolic for him to fully qualify, but he can still be this on his better days and is ultimately looking out for their safety.
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The Hardy Boys / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
The Hardy Boys / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue / Danger Deadpan: Both brothers are very prone to this, due to their snarky personalities and Nerves of Steel.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Hardy Boys / int_e16cd24e	comment	In "The Billion Dollar Ransom", after the plan is foiled and the two kidnappers are captured, their accomplice—one of the doctors operating on the President, and the brother of one of the captured men—has an opportunity to murder the President in revenge, but doesn't do so, instead saving his life during the operation and calmly surrendering and confessing upon seeing the authorities waiting outside, stating that, whatever else he may have done, he's still a doctor and takes his oath of saving lives seriously.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
The Hardy Boys / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: Since there are two main characters, Frank and Joe, this is bound to happen. It's especially prominent when the boys are separated, at which point the narrative will usually jump back and forth between them to show what each party is up to until they inevitably meet back up. Occasionally averted when one of them gets kidnapped, though; he will sometimes drop out from the narrative altogether for quite a while, until his brother manages to find him. When the brothers are together, they sort of share the narrative; we might see a few sentences about what Frank is currently thinking, only to then read about Joe's thoughts a couple of paragraphs later. Though Frank and Joe are naturally the usual focus of the narrative as the main characters, we're occasionally treated to the thoughts of other characters as well. In the originals, said other characters were usually the boys' family (Fenton, Laura, Gertrude) or "chums" (Chet and others). However, in the Casefiles (especially the early Casefiles, where the POV switch happens much more often), we get the POV of all these people and more, including Callie Shaw (pretty frequently), a few of the one-shot characters from the novel, and even the bad guys. The first-person Undercover Brothers and Adventures make this switch the norm, although only with Frank and Joe; the brothers alternate chapters, so the POV constantly switches back and forth between the two.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
The Hardy Boys / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: "Nowhere to Run" features a private detective called "Dead or Alive" Sims who specializes in fugitive recovery and brings about a quarter of his targets back in body bags. Sims provides a little aid against other antagonists of the book but spends most of his page time relentlessly pursuing Joe's Wrongfully Accused friend.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e5d37e0f	type	Divergent Character Evolution
The Hardy Boys / int_e5d37e0f	comment	Divergent Character Evolution: As the years went on, Frank became much more bookish, logical, and occasionally downright shy around girls (especially in Undercover Brothers, where he can barely talk to them), while Joe became much more extroverted, temperamental, and a much bigger flirt (especially in the Casefiles, where he has a new Girl of the Week pretty much every book until he meets Vanessa).
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The Hardy Boys / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Since the books are written by different ghostwriters, this can happen Depending on the Writer: Some of the Casefiles books play up Joe's impulsiveness, hot temper, and girl-crazy personality while downplaying his good instincts and sharp investigative skills, causing him to pretty much come off as a Dumb Muscle Jerk Jock who gets easily distracted from the case by a pretty face while Frank is the one to make most of the important deductions. This could get especially bad in the crossovers with Nancy Drew; since these books tend to put more focus on Nancy overall, Joe is often reduced primarily to his shallower character traits. Undercover Brothers gets worse about this later on, and by the time it ends, both boys are barely even recognizable as the same guys from the beginning of the series, let alone from other series. This time, Frank probably gets it worse, as his nerdiness gets emphasized more and more to the extent that he and Joe practically become polar opposites. At one point, Frank states that his favorite movie from a previous year was a documentary about ladybugs. Probably the most egregious example is that, in "Comic Con Artist" (book #21), both Joe and Frank are shown and stated to be comic book fans and are excited to immerse themselves in a ComicCon scene, but then in the Deathstalker Trilogy (books #37-39), as a bit of irony for being the "nerdier" brother, Frank acts like comic books are for little kids, states that he stopped reading them a long time ago and now prefers a "higher class" of literature, and scoffs at Joe for still being a fan. Joe, meanwhile, has his confidence and positive attitude dialed up to the point of sometimes being a braggart, even arrogant, and comes across as a downright ditz in a few books. His girl-crazy tendencies are also ramped up to the point of occasionally being a bit uncomfortable, with underlying layers of sexism, and it makes him into something of a Casanova Wannabe instead of charming. Thankfully, the Undercover Brothers graphic novels series averts this, heavily downplaying or outright ditching both boys' flanderized traits from the written versions (e.g. Frank is occasionally a bit shy around girls but can certainly still talk to them and has a few love interests, Joe's not really a braggart and is about as guile as Frank) and keeps their characters fairly intact throughout.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e6114414	comment	Prospector: Bart Dawson and his mining partners (along with a few other old timers still hanging around town) were this in the backstory of both versions of "Hunting for Hidden Gold", digging a fortune in gold out of the ground before an attack by thieves forced Dawson to flee with the gold, causing an injury that gave him amnesia after he hid it, and before he could regroup with the others. Lucky Moeller in "The Alaskan Adventure" is an older man who's spent decades panning the occasional gold nugget out of the Yukon without ever striking it rich. Moeller has given up hopes of getting rich panning gold by the events of the novel, and instead hopes to have his gold panning site serve as a tourist attraction for a theme park arriving in the area, and work as a guide until he earns enough money to retire to Florida.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Mike Moran in "The Firebird Rocket" went undercover with the bad guys on behalf of the U.S. Government. Plenty of Casefiles henchmen (particularly if it's a woman who seems to be a Dark Action Girl) turn out to be Network, CIA, or Interpol agents. "Road Pirates" also has Jackson, a sleazy member of the carjacking ring, trying to set up the gang to be caught by his brother-in-law (a state trooper) due to worrying that someone will get killed if they keep it up and apparently suspecting they won't just let him quit.
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The Hardy Boys / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: In "The Stone Idol", the brothers bluff a confession out of the bad guy (after realizing who he is but lacking evidence) by claiming that he was witnessed stealing the titular idol by a man who can identify him, and that his business partner has just checked the books and realized he's Stealing from the Till. After the man confesses, they admit their deception, eliciting an angry reaction from the perp as he's led from the room. Seconds later, the boys get a phone call from the man's business partner, who has in fact been looking through the books and found evidence of embezzlement. The book ends with them chuckling about the irony.
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The Hardy Boys / int_ea85d6ea	comment	The Adventures books have at least two early offenders where the covers show Frank and Joe dangling from precarious places—a Ferris wheel in "The Vanishing Game" and a ship's mast in "The Battle of Bayport"—that, in the book proper, each turn out to just be from a nightmare Frank has that's mentioned in a sentence or two and never brought up again. One really gets the feeling that the writers didn't feel like there was anything that happened during the plot that would make for an exciting cover image, or that they couldn't find a way to work the scene depicted in the illustrations into the book proper, and just threw in those "nightmare" sequences as weak justification.
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The Hardy Boys / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Across the various series, the boys encounter quite a few crooked law enforcement officers, some of whom just take bribes to look the other way while the bad guys commit their crimes, and other times turning out to be a key part of the gang, sometimes even the Big Bad. Three different supporting characters who are current or former cops have had a partner on the force who went corrupt: Bobby Mock, the Big Bad of "Flesh and Blood" who wants revenge on the Hardys for Fenton putting his father in prison many years ago, turns out to be Con Riley's partner on the Bayport Police Force, Officer Stewart. For bonus points, Mock's father killed Riley's previous partner many years ago. "Beyond the Law" delves into Chief Ezra Collig's backstory and reveals that, when he was a rookie officer, he was paired up with one of the best cops on the force, Ray Boseman, whom he greatly admired...until he learned that Boseman was running a racketeering scheme to collect money from local shopkeepers in exchange for protection. Collig reported him, and Boseman could never hold down a police job for long before he turned to crime again, eventually going over to the other side completely and being thrown in prison. He returns in the present to pull a Frame-Up on Collig in revenge. Similarly, in the Undercover Brothers Super Mystery "Wanted", Fenton reveals to his sons that his best friend and former partner on the police force, Jake Johansen, started stealing valuables and evidence from crime scenes, eventually also taking bribes from crooks to sabotage cases. Despite how much it hurt him, Fenton turned Jake in, who swore revenge as he was being sent to prison. All of this happened when the boys were babies, and in the present day, Jake has his sons impersonate the Hardy Boys to frame them as part of a revenge plot.
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The Hardy Boys / int_eb37fe59	comment	Sequel Episode: A few books in the Casefiles continuity directly relate to and build off of plots of previous ones: "Thick as Thieves" (#29) serves as one to "The Crowning Terror" (#6); these are the two books featuring Classy Cat-Burglar Charity, who drags the boys into another one of her schemes involving a crime ring in the former after originally meeting her running her own gang in the latter. "See No Evil" (#8), "Line of Fire" (#16) and "Beyond the Law" (#55) serve as a loose trilogy centered around the Hardys weeding out corruption in the leadership of Bayport, such as the City Council, the mayor's office, and the police force, with each of the latter two books referencing events from the previous ones. After the rather intense "Operation Phoenix" trilogynote (consisting of #64 "Endangered Species", #65 "No Mercy", and #66 "The Phoenix Equation"), in which the Hardy Boys spend much of it believing their father to have died, the first Ultra Thriller, "Time Bomb", directly refers to and builds off of this by having Fenton once again getting captured and separated from the boys and needing them to rescue him. Meanwhile, the second Ultra Thriller, "The Alien Factor", acts as a loose sequel to "The Crowning Terror" and "Hostages of Hate" (#10), the two previous books to feature U.S. Espionage Resources, U.S.E.R. (a rival agency to the Network), referencing having brought down corrupt U.S.E.R. agents with their uncle in the former book and building off the interagency politics and rivalry with the Network in the latter. The Hardys and Tom end up working with the Network to thwart rogue U.S.E.R. agents working with the Big Bad. The also-incredibly-intense "Ring of Evil" trilogynote (consisting of #76 "Tagged for Terror", #77 "Survival Run", and #78 "The Pacific Conspiracy") sees the Hardys and the Network foil a massive plot by a gang of Assassins to cause untold destruction and kill millions of people by dropping a bomb into a volcano. Remnants of this group serve as the main antagonists of two later stories: "Dead of Night" (#80) serves as a very direct sequel to both this trilogy and to "The Lazarus Plot" (#4): the Hardys plan to testify in court against one of the Assassins from this group to make sure he ends up in jail. The Assassins use their cloning tech from the Lazarus plot to engage in psychological warfare against the boys and discredit them as witnesses so their man will go free. "True Thriller" (#100) is a more indirect sequel, in which another Assassin from the gang, who has escaped from prison, returns and plans to poison the New York City water supply, requiring the Hardy Boys and the Network to stop him.
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The Hardy Boys / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: With Nancy Drew for several of their different respective continuities: The "Be a Detective" and "Super Sleuth" short-story series both use the original/Digests continuities of both series, and run for 6 issues and 2 issues, respectively. These are their only crossover series that don't feature any romance between the Hardys and Nancy or her friends; they're just platonic friends who've known each other a long time. The first "Super Mysteries" line has the Casefiles continuity and the corresponding Nancy Drew Files, and is by far their longest-running crossover at 36 volumes. Once again, the Hardys and Nancy already know each other at the time of the first book, having first met when Nancy was an exchange student in Bayport. The second "Super Mysteries" combines Undercover Brothers and Nancy's Girl Detective series, and is also 6 books. This time around, the boys meet Nancy and her friends for the first time in the first book, wherein the girls become some of the very few people to learn about their work with ATAC and are Secret-Keepers for them for all subsequent volumes. While the Hardy Boys Adventures and Nancy Drew Diaries don't have a full crossover series, the Hardys guest-star in the Diaries Christmas special, "A Nancy Drew Christmas", which is also referenced once in Adventures. Like the above example, this book is the first time that the brothers and Nancy meet in this continuity. There have been several crossovers in various graphic novels as well, including with their respective ongoing graphic novels series as well as several one-shot stories by different authors using both sets of characters. The Casefiles continuity crosses over with the 90s series of Tom Swift in the two "Ultra Thriller" books.
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The Hardy Boys / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Happens from time to time. In "Cave Trap", Dirk McCall is a scheming criminal willing to endanger the lives of the rest of the cast, including his brother Buddy, for a shot at riches. In "Murder by Magic", Stage Magicians Dr. Savant and Gideon the Great are brothers, and Savant (the Big Bad) has no hesitation in trying to frame and murder his brother out of both jealousy and to make a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit. One of the characters in "No Way Out" although not the main villain, killed his brother in a fight prior to the story, although he says it was an accident. The villain of "Rough Riding", who is trying to kill the boys' client, Buck, turns out to be his long-lost brother who was recently released from jail. He hopes to frame Buck's wife for the murder to prevent her from receiving Buck's inheritance, so that he himself, as the next closest of kin, will get the money instead.
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The Hardy Boys / int_edf841f6	comment	Worthless Treasure Twist: In the reprint of "The Secret Warning", a Red Herring subplot involves some local figures diving for some money aboard a sunk Nazi submarine (one of the treasure hunters was the Sole Survivor of the sub, another man was among the U.S. Navy crew that sunk it) who at first are antagonists of the brothers but then save them from the real villains of the book. Unfortunately for them, it is then revealed that the money from the submarine is counterfeit.
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The Hardy Boys / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted overall; the Hardys, on various cases, will occasionally encounter people who share a name with friends or family members who have more common names such as Phil, Laura, or Tony. In all of these cases, though, the recurring character who shares the name won't appear in the story or, at most, will have a very small role. There have even been rare references to other people who have the name Frank or Joe, although to keep this trope in play, they're never seriously important characters. There are also a few names that get re-used a lot across certain series. For example, the Casefiles and spinoffs have no less than four different girls/women named "Gina" across various books, and Undercover Brothers has at least three different "Justin"s (and, weirdly enough, two of them have an identical twin brother who pretends to be him during the story). In the same series, there are also two different "Jenna"s who each acts as a Love Interest to one of the boys (a Love-Interest Traitor, in Frank's case).
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The Hardy Boys / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: The Sinbads, who appear in a Casefiles book, fit this pretty well.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f005bd1c	comment	Bayport Police Chief Ezra Collig and Officer Con Riley, who both serve as friends on the force to the Hardys in different ways, are this in the originals, Digests, and Casefiles. The boys will usually cross paths with one or both of them if they're working on a local mystery, and for cases taking place elsewhere, will sometimes call Riley to have him look up information for them. They only have a sparce few appearances in Undercover Brothers, but in Adventures, Officer/Chief Olaf, Collig's replacement, is also this.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Happens every few books with a stubborn cop. â€œDead or Alive Simsâ€� from the Casefiles book "Nowhere to Run" is a bounty hunter example, although he does (kind of) apologize at the end.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Hardy Boys / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The series originally included extended, lavish descriptions of meals. Stratemeyer reasoned that since teenage boys have huge appetites, they'd appreciate such detail. Later editions of the earlier volumes saw such passages removed, in accordance with the growing preference of young readers for dialogue and action over description.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f27ec906	comment	This continues in the second Supermysteries series. Four of the six books—"Terror on Tour", "Danger Overseas", "Club Dread", and "Bonfire Masquerade"—have Nancy and her friends on vacation in the same place that Frank and Joe are working on an ATAC case, and happening to meet someone or stumble onto something directly tied to their case. One of the other two books, "Gold Medal Murder", does have their two cases turn out to be separate with different perpetrators, but since the two people they're helping are in a relationship with each other, there's a lot of overlap between them and both groups work together to solve both cases. The final book, "Stage Fright", has the Hardys directly calling Nancy in to help them since she's an Identical Stranger to the woman they're bodyguarding.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f3b51eba	comment	High Heel Hurt: In "Trouble in Warp Space", the actress Jerri Bell (who becomes a Girl of the Week for Chet) is introduced asking the director if there's a way to re-write a scene so she doesn't have to run down a hill in heels.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: The boys sometimes encounter female bad guys on their cases, and if said women try to hurt or kill them, they will fight back in order to save themselves. It's downplayed in the Casefiles, where they tend to go easier on villainesses they do have to get physical with than they do in similar situations with men. They hold back less in the later series.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f6d623ca	comment	Eco-Terrorist: In the Undercover Brothers novel "Blown Away", the person behind the attempted bombing of the Billington Resort is a member of the terrorist group Ecology First, which resorts to extreme methods in order to preserve the environment.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: The Casefiles series opens with Iola killed in a car bomb meant for Frank and Joe.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f7887c47	comment	Born Detective: Since Fenton Hardy was a private investigator, it would seem Frank and Joe were doomed to be as well.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f9a801de	comment	Unintentionally Notorious Crime: In one tie-in short story, while the murder of a police officer who'd pulled over a getaway car to give them a speeding ticket is serious enough in and of itself, when this dead cop is the police chief's nephew, that guarantees a really intense manhunt.
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The Hardy Boys / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Both of them, and also Fenton, Chet, and Sam Radley (another detective who works with Mr. Hardy) on occasion.
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The Hardy Boys / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Done intentionally by the most prolific of the authors, as a way of injecting humor into a job he didn't care for much. See more details here. South Park picked up on it.
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The Hardy Boys / int_fa8a26f8	comment	Name Amnesia: Happens several times to amnesiac characters throughout the books who otherwise retain their personalities for the most part, though they always remember said names by the end of the adventure. This includes Joe himself in "Brother Against Brother", though, of course, the narration continues to refer to him by name. Unlike many other examples, he doesn't choose any kind of fake name for himself, and his traveling companion, Rita, instead just addresses him with Hey, You! until he gets his memories back at the end. In "Hits and Misses", one of the SuperMysteries with Nancy Drew, the sleuths meet a young woman with memory loss who just uses "Jane Doe" until they can help her remember her identity. Funny enough, her actual name really does turn out to be Jane [Orbach]. In a book from the second Super Mystery crossover series, "Danger Overseas", they meet a fellow teen who had such a bad Freak Out that she got Trauma-Induced Amnesia from it, including her name. She initially chooses to go by "Lily" because she likes the sound of it, but they soon realize that she is Caitlin, a recently-arrested-suspect's missing girlfriend whom they were searching for, and even before she remembers everything else, she does immediately realize they're right and this is indeed her name.
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The Hardy Boys / int_fb006999	comment	Wham Episode / Establishing Series Moment: The first Casefiles book opens a few seconds after Iola has been blown up. This establishes that the series is going to be Darker and Edgier. The "Ring of "Evil" trilogy from the Casefiles (consisting of books 76, 77, and 78) is one to a lesser extent: the boys pretty much save the world from the Assassins, who were going to kill millions upon millions of people and reshape the very landscape of the Earth itself by dropping a hydrogen bomb into a volcano. The stakes are high enough that two more later books in the series (#s 80 and 100) act as sequels to deal with the fallout of this plot.
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The Hardy Boys / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: In Undercover Brothers, The Bully Brian Conrad hates pretty much everybody, but especially the Hardy Boys; however, he hates Frank the most of all because Brian's younger sister, Belinda, has a big crush on Frank, even though he's mostly too shy to return her advances. In "The Borderline Case", Chet gets a Girl of the Week, Alma, who has a crush on him, and her overprotective older brother, Aleko, dislikes him for this, though he eventually warms up to him after seeing Chet comfort Alma and make her feel better when they're all captured by the bad guys. Wholeheartedly averted with Chet himself, though, who has no problem at all with his younger sister Iola dating one of his best friends, Joe Hardy, being perfectly supportive of their relationship. Though after Iola is killed at the start of the Casefiles by a bomb meant for the Hardy Boys, Chet later admits to Joe in a vulnerable moment in "Dead of Night" that he did, deep down, irrationally blame Joe for getting his sister killed for a while, even if he realized this was wrong and doesn't blame him anymore.
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The Hardy Boys / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: In "The Borgia Dagger" from the Casefiles series, after Upper-Class Twit Tessa Carpenter loses most of her money, the brothers reflect on how she has to get a job now, but wonder what she'd possibly be skilled enough to do. Then they happen to walk past a TV showing a soap opera and take a look at the actress playing an over-dramatic rich girl...
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The Hardy Boys / int_ff75a56b	comment	Hunter Trapper: "Caribou" Caron from "The Viking Symbol Mystery" is a Canadian trapper who stumbled across some viking artifacts out in the woods, was robbed of the money he got selling them to an anthropologist, and teams up with the brothers to go after the thieves. Both Peter (the brothers' host and a friend's uncle) and his rival Willy Ekus in "The Alaskan Adventure".
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The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Coincidence Magnet / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Collective Identity / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Courier / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Dark Parody / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Death by Adaptation / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Denied Food as Punishment / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Did Anastasia Survive? / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Distaff Counterpart / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Divergent Character Evolution / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Eagle-Eye Detection / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Eco-Terrorist / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Elective Broken Language / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	External Combustion / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Fake Charity / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Fat Best Friend / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Fat Comic Relief / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Friend on the Force / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Ghostwriter / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Gory Discretion Shot / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Government Agency of Fiction / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Heroes "R" Us / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Hollywood Glass Cutter / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Hotter and Sexier / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Hunter Trapper / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Hyper-Awareness / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	I Let Gwen Stacy Die / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	I Owe You My Life / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	I'll Take That as a Compliment / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Incest Yay Shipping / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Kid Detective / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Kid Hero All Grown-Up / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Maiden Aunt / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Market-Based Title / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	My Parents Are Dead / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Nebulous Evil Organisation / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Older Than the Demographic / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	One Degree of Separation / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Pen Name / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Premiseville / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Prospector / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Pseudo-Crisis / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Quicksand Sucks / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Recruit Teenagers with Attitude / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Replacement Flat Character / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Scary Scarecrows / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real! / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Shoot the Builder / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Sibling Team / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Spin-Off Babies / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Split Hair / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Spot the Imposter / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Statute of Limitations / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Stout Strength / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Switching P.O.V. / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Teen Genius / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	The All-American Boy / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	The Alleged Car / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	The Case of... / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	The Family That Slays Together / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	The Roaring '20s / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Unishment / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Vengeance Feels Empty / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Waving Signs Around / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_15d05f51
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Work Off the Debt / int_15d05f51
HardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries	seeAlso	The Hardy Boys
TheHardyBoys	seeAlso	The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys	hasFeature	Geographic Flexibility / int_15d05f51

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