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** ''The Picts and the Martyrs'' plays The Noun and the Noun straight.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: In ''Great Northern?'', the only reason Captain Flint is convinced to stick around long enough to let Dick photograph the Great Northern Divers is that Mr. Jemmerling is so insistent on paying him for their eggs.
* [[Nobody Here
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: At all. Perfectly logical early on, but by ''Secret Water'' Nancy and Peggy are old enough for some of the other children with similar fantasy lives to call them 'missionaries', i.e. too old to be involved in the games. Nancy does not appreciate this.
* [[No New Fashions in The Future]]: Averted. When they leave a time capsule in ''Swallowdale'', Titty muses that it might not be found until many years have passed, 'when people wear quite different sorts of clothes'.
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: There's a bit of tomboy going on with most of the girls, but Nancy, the quintissential tomboy who makes a point of doing everything John does, strikes a pretty clear comparison to [[Team Mom|Susan's cooking, cleaning, and nursing]]. Subverted in that Susan and Nancy aren't close; pretty successful at having radically different styles of femininity without being judgemental.
** Nancy and her sister Peggy might qualify too; although Peggy dresses, like Nancy, in shorts rather than dresses, and is as active as you'd expect half of a duo nicknamed "The Amazons" to be, she's more interested in cooking and nursing and is notably afraid of thunderstorms (the galoot).
* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea''. After several books of imagining and being in little real danger, the Swallows end up stuck on a yacht and washed out to sea when her master sustains a head injury while ashore, and end up having to guide her through a storm to Holland by themselves. Particularly jarring compared to ''Peter Duck'', which was similarly perilous but specifically said to be just a story they made up.
** The earlier, gentler adventures ('Swallows And Amazons', 'Swallowdale' etc) have been described as' what we did on our holidays', and the later stories of high adventure ('Missee Lee', 'Peter Duck') as 'what we imagined we did on our holidays'. In 'Their Own Story', an early version of 'Peter Duck', Ransome made the distinction for said book. Also, both bear the inscription "based on information provided by the Swallows and Amazons", absent from other books.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: the lake they spend time around is actually an amalgam of two separate lakes in the district. The Hebridean locations in ''Great Northern?'' are said to be intentionally obscured to protect the titular birds.
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