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'''Dallas:''' "You can just forget about jumping me to take your mind off them."|(''Imitation In Death'')}}

* [[Mary Sue]] - Eve. Even if you don't agree that she is in execution, tell someone you know that you're reading a series about a female cop in the future who's pretty much the best police officer in the city, who constantly has bad guys work their entire plans around challenging themselves against her, and who is married to a drop-dead gorgeous guy who's the richest man in the universe.

** [[Jerk Sue]] - Eve is rude, confrontational, antisocial, and has rage issues. She admits to delighting in upsetting people and making them hurt or angry, and using her position to do so... of course, [[Protagonist Centered Morality|anyone who did the same thing to someone she cared about would be first on her Shit List]]. Threatening her friends and loved ones with bodily harm and humiliation is standard, and in-universe considered part of her charm. Any time she interacts with someone she knows well there's at least a fifty-fifty chance she's going to insult them deeply. And... well, honestly, this is longer than necessary already, you get the idea. With that said, ''New York To Dallas'' and stories after that have Eve beginning to realize that her [[Jerkass]] tendencies come from her biological mother, and that she may decide to tone them down a little, if only to act a little less like her mother.

** [[Jerk Sue]] - Eve is rude, confrontational, antisocial, and has rage issues. She admits to delighting in upsetting people and making them hurt or angry, and using her position to do so... of course, [[Protagonist-Centered Morality|anyone who did the same thing to someone she cared about would be first on her Shit List]]. Threatening her friends and loved ones with bodily harm and humiliation is standard, and in-universe considered part of her charm. Any time she interacts with someone she knows well there's at least a fifty-fifty chance she's going to insult them deeply. And... well, honestly, this is longer than necessary already, you get the idea. With that said, ''New York To Dallas'' and stories after that have Eve beginning to realize that her [[Jerkass]] tendencies come from her biological mother, and that she may decide to tone them down a little, if only to act a little less like her mother.

* [[Mary Suetopia]]: Parts of New York come off as this. But that's got nothing on the parts of Dallas, Texas that Eve goes to in ''New York To Dallas''. Those parts are so...perfect, sweet and squeaky-clean that Eve finds them a little creepy. It seems to serve the purpose of contrasting and highlighting just how vile, unnatural, monstrous, heinous, and disgusting Sylvia Prentiss and Isaac McQueen really are!

* [[Protagonist Centered Morality]] - Some of the later books seem to have begun wandering into this area. The idea that justice may be more important than the law isn't too bad itself... but Eve always seems to be the judge of what's justice. Past book thirty or so, she goes from bending the law when it's absolutely necessary to breaking it at will. If she weren't generally presented as unfailingly right, it would almost look like a case of [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]].

* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]] - Some of the later books seem to have begun wandering into this area. The idea that justice may be more important than the law isn't too bad itself... but Eve always seems to be the judge of what's justice. Past book thirty or so, she goes from bending the law when it's absolutely necessary to breaking it at will. If she weren't generally presented as unfailingly right, it would almost look like a case of [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]].

** Oh...let's be honest. This trope has been present since the very first book of this series. For Eve, Roarke is this trope. ''Vengeance In Death'' had Eve finding out about some very serious crimes, however justified, committed by her husband. She had to choose between the law or her husband. Take a wild guess on which one she picked. Then there was ''Creation In Death'', which had Eve finding out from the killer that he prepared documents a long time ago that will legally allow him to commit suicide. {{spoiler|She has Roarke erase the documents, and states quite clearly to him that she is crossing the line}}. Of course, the book demonstrated that the killer was a [[Complete Monster]], so Eve's actions could be considered a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and not a [[Moral Event Horizon]]. If it is any consolation, Eve discusses her actions with Roarke in ''Salvation In Death''.

* [[Purity Sue]]: Troy Trueheart is this, so very much! His purity had a [[Lampshade Hanging]] put onto it more than once. In fact, ''Portrait In Death'' had a guy murdering [[Purity Sue|Purity Sues]] because he truly believed that by doing this, he would absorb the light of their pure souls into himself and never die, as well as show everyone else that they can avoid dying if they did this. Troy Trueheart almost ended up as one of his victims, in case you were wondering.