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* [[Acme Products]]: Krolmeister.
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* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Rentaro in the ''Shadow at the Water's Edge'' is socially awkward, and even lampshades this by saying that he works with machines because they tolerate awkwardness.
* [[Amplified Animal Aptitude]]: Iggy the iguana, Isis the white wolf, and ''especially'' Loulou the parrot.
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Sonny Joon in ''Secret of the Scarlet Hand'' believes this to be true, in the sense that he thinks the Maya were spirited away by
** Jamila in ''Lost Queen'' claims aliens taught humans to build the Egyptian pyramids, and cites Sonny Joon as the source of this belief.
* [[Ancient Tomb]]: Locating Nefertari's hidden burial chamber within one is Nancy's chief goal in ''Lost Queen''.
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** Surprisingly, there's not ''as'' much a "culprit" as in other games.
* [[Good News, Bad News]]: The good news: there just might be a way out of a "Game Over" scenario after all. The bad news: Just kidding! The bad news will always be there to dash those hopes!
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Because you're playing in first person, you don't get to see the details in the more gruesome Game Over scenarios, which is actually a good thing, considering the more horrific ways to
* [[Goth]]: Mel from ''Warnings at Waverly Academy'' and Henry Bolet from ''The Legend of the Crystal Skull''.
* [[Grande Dame]]: Mrs. Drake in ''The Curse of Blackmoor Manor'' and Prudence Rutherford in various games.
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* [[Lawful Stupid]]: Jeff Akers, a park ranger in ''Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake'', occasionally falls into this trope. His actions include fining Sally for littering because [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|she left a half-eaten ham sandwich on a picnic table]] and issuing Nancy a citation for destructive behavior after she was locked in a burning shed. However, it's quite possible that he behaves this way to compensate for the fact that {{spoiler|his grandfather was a gangster.}}
* [[Lethal Chef]]: In ''Danger on Deception Island'', if you use any expired or blatantly inedible ingredients (such as baking soda and fresh jellyfish) to make a sandwich and give it to either Nancy or her hostess, one or the other gets food poisoning and the game ends. Likewise, in ''Secret of Shadow Ranch'', overbaking a cake can result in Nancy getting fired. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|It's funny]].
** The former game is a strange example of
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The first game, ''Secrets Can Kill'', although not spooky, was actually ''much'' [[Darker and Edgier]] than later installments, as the crime under investigation is a cold-blooded murder and Nancy herself {{spoiler|must point a handgun at the culprit to prevail; the player must even click while doing this, which ''feels'' like you're shooting him, even if it's just to confirm where you're aiming so he'll surrender}}. One instance where going [[Lighter and Softer]] for the sequels was an improvement.
** The Remastered version of it, while still keeping certain plot elements from the original, looks like it ''might'' be Lighter and Softer than the original... {{spoiler|and then this is ''massively'' subverted at the end when the culprit ''holds Nancy up at gunpoint.''}}
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* [[Multiple Endings]]: ''Very'' occasionally, a game will feature a little bit of dialogue that subtly changes Nancy's monologue after you’ve beaten the game. That is, the end of the game itself stays the same, but what happens in the epilogue will be a little different. For example, about halfway through ''Danger by Design'', you can choose whether or not {{spoiler|to get Minette’s assistant Heather fired}}. Though the game goes on either way, {{spoiler|if you choose to spare Heather, she lets Nancy model in her Spring show. If you fire her, she stays angry at you and you aren't invited}}.
** The ''Nancy Drew Dossier'' downloadable games, a spinoff subseries with a less immersive format, also allow for multiple endings, based on whom you choose to name as a prime suspect halfway through the investigation.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Professor Hotchkiss calls Nancy by a different name every
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Items from previous games pop up all the time:
** Professor Hotchkiss's purple ski boots from ''Treasure in the Royal Tower'' are in a garden shed in ''The Ghosts Dogs of Moon Lake''
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* [[Woman Scorned]]: {{spoiler|In ''The Captive Curse'', Anja dresses up as the monster of Finster Castle in a ploy to get back at the castle's owner, her ex-boyfriend.}}
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: {{spoiler|The culprit tricks Nancy into helping them with their plans in ''Ransom of the Seven Ships''. Would have been a Gambit, were it not for the fact that there are literally ''too many damn ways to die''. If Nancy had reached one of the many possibilities to get a game over, if she hadn't gotten past the carefully-set traps, or if she had figured out the true identity behind Johnny Rolle/Poole too early, the culprit's plan would have failed}}.
* [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere
** Colin Baxter can also come across as this.
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