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=== ''[[Horrid Henry]]'' contains examples of: ===
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Henry's parents are guilty under Emotional Abuse towards Henry.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Subverted in ''Horrid Henry, Horrid Headmaster'', when he becomes the headmaster of Ashton Primary.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: In ''Horrid Henry and the Dinner Guest'', Mum's boss, Mr. Mossy, reveals to Henry that he was a lot like him in his childhood and discovered that sooner or later you'll find someone better than yourself.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Perfect Peter.
* [[Anti-Hero]]/[[Anti Role Model]]: Horrid Henry.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: One episode features Henry joining the Killer Boy Rats, his favourite band.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Peter may look like a "smelly nappy baby", as Henry calls him, but as we find out in ''Perfect Peter Pumps Up'', he can get pretty nasty if someone messes with his bunny
* [[Big Eater]]: Greedy Graham.
* [[Big No]]: Henry gets a lot of these, at least [[Once an Episode]].
** And not just Henry, the majority of the main characters has done this at least once.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Perfect Peter enjoys seeing Henry get into trouble, and tries to provoke him into bullying him when Henry's trying to behave himself.
* [[Book Dumb]]: Henry.
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret.
* [[Big Brother Bully]]: Henry, to Peter.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
{{quote|'''Beefy Bert:''' "I dunno."
'''Happy Hippos:''' "We're happy, we're clappy, we're the Happy Hippos."
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* [[Eureka Moment]]
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: In "Horrid Henry Reads a Book", Henry decides to make up various "Happy Nappy" stories for the competition to write the most book reports, saying that Miss Battle-Axe can't have read all the books in the world. He makes up stories about Happy Nappies in various places around the world such as Happy Nappies in Germany, Paris, New York, Japan, Australia, and Canada. The Japanese Happy Nappy [[Blatant Lies|just happens]] to have closed eyes.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Henry; his father may also qualify.
* [[Game Show Appearance]]: Fake game show 2Cool4School features in the film version.
** It also appears in two episodes of Series 3 of the TV series. Strangely, only the opening sequence is shown on both occasions.
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* [[Go to Your Room]]: Henry's parents often say it to him.
* [[Gray and Grey Morality]]
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Peter and his mother.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: Henry often gets one, usually involving him turning into a predatory animal and harrassing Peter.
* [[Jerkass]]: Several, including Horrid Henry and Rabid Rebecca.
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* [[Momma's Boy]]: Perfect Peter.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Henry's Great Aunt Greta calls him Henrietta, as she thinks he's a girl due to her senility.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Miss Battle-Axe.
* [[Naughty Is Good]]
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The animated series just completely throws the fourth wall away, with Henry and the other characters constantly addressing and explaining things to the audience. Also broken in the movie, but not as much as the series.
* [[Oh Crap]]: In one episode where Henry tries to watch a football match even though he has to go to Stuck-Up Steve's birthday party, he resorts to listening to it on a portable radio. The match gets so exciting he accidently knocks the giant birthday cake over Aunt Ruby, when everyone yells "Henry!", the episode ends on Henry: "Oops."
* [[Parental Favouritism]]: Pefect Peter often seems to be the favourite child, [[Momma's Boy|especially to his mother]], which naturally leaves Henry as [[The Unfavourite]].
* [[Long Running Book Series]]: Been running since 1994, currently 20 books with a 21st coming soon.
* [[Remake Cameo]]: Elizabeth Waterworth-Santo, who voices Henry in the animated series, has a non-speaking cameo in the movie as Nitty Nora the nit nurse.
* [[Rich Bitch|Rich Bastard]]: Stuck-Up Steve, who acts like a male version of the [[Alpha Bitch]].
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]
* [[The Stool Pigeon]]: Perfect Peter.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: Rabid Rebecca
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