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* [[The Big Guy]]: Stonks.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The trilogy ends with {{spoiler|Knocker volunteering to remain behind to be caught by the SBG -- and thus inevitably to get his ears clipped, turning him back into a normal human child -- so that the rest of the heroes can escape undetected}}.
* [[Brats with Slingshots]]: The classic forked-stick-and-rubber-band slingshot (called a "catapult" in British parlance) is the traditional weapon of all Borribles, and they eagerly embrace its high-tech
* [[British Accents]]: On display throughout. The Borribles generally speak in a lowerclass dialect (although Sydney demonstrates enough upperclass mannerisms that one wonders who her family was before she ran away and Borribled).
* [[Call to Adventure]]: Issued in the form a message to each of the tribes of London, asking them to dispatch a single unnamed Borrible to Battersea to be trained for the Great Rumble Hunt.
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* [[The Mole]]: An entire team of moles, in fact -- in ''The Borribles: Across The Dark Metropolis'', Inspector Sussworth recruits a group of midgets to disguise themselves as Borribles and infiltrate Borrible society to find the heroes.
* [[Mouse World]]: Although the Borribles and the Rumbles are somewhat larger than the usual inhabitants of a Mouse World, their (mostly) hidden civilzations still count.
* [[The Movie]]: Film adapations of ''The Borribles'' have been bandied about for a decade or more; the film rights
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: The District Assistant Commissioner, Sussworth's superior.
* [[Neat Freak]]: Inspector Sussworth, to the point of complete germophobia.
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