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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Henry's parents are guilty under Emotional Abuse towards Henry.
* [[Alliteration]]: Everyone's nickname; Horrid Henry, Sour Susan, Perfect Peter, etc.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]{{context}}
* [[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.
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* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Lizzie Waterworth and Emma Tate as Henry and Peter receptively in the animated series.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Rabid Rebecca.
* [[Eureka Moment]]{{context}}
* [[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.
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* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: Henry and his friends collected Gizmos once, with the Gold Gizmo being the most prized. The Gizmo is the focus of a book story, a TV episode, and an online game, ''Horrid Henry 2'', where Henry has to take all 30 of Peter's Gizmos.
* [[Go to Your Room]]: Henry's parents often say it to him.
* [[Gray and Grey Morality]]{{context}}
* [[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.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: For all of the bullying he does, when it comes down to it, Henry ''does'' care about Peter, once pushing him away from a falling bookcase and getting crushed himself. Of course, [[I Was Just Passing Through|he didn't want to admit he did it because he cared]].
* [[Karma Houdini]]{{context}}
* [[Kid Com]]{{context}}
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]{{context}}
* [[Lovable Rogue]] / [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Henry is perhaps the king of these tropes.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hear a character's nickname and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|you know what they're about]].
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* [[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]]{{context}}
* [[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."
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* [[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]]{{context}}
* [[The Stool Pigeon]]: Perfect Peter.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: Rabid Rebecca
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