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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Inevitable, due to the time they were written.
* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]: Probably the [[Ur Example]].
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* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Very prominent in the "Tom Swift, Jr." series -- the younger Swift built everything from guns to airplanes that were powered by atomic reactors of varying sizes.
* [[Kid Detective]]
* [[MST]]: ''[http://keithpalmer.ca/mst3k/favourites/tom-swifts-war-tank.txt Tom Swift's War Tank]'' is one of the more extensive [[
* [[Parrot Exposition]]: Notoriously overused in the earlier novels and the source for much of the humor in the aforementioned [[
* [[Phlebotinum Du Jour]]: Electricity and internal combustion for Tom Swift; nuclear power for Tom Swift Jr.
* [[Phlebotinum Handling Equipment]]: Tom Swift Jr. had labs with remotely-operated "waldoes".
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Revival]]: Tom Swift Jr. in the 1950s, and again in the 1980s, and again in the 90s, and for good measure in 2006.
* [[Recycled in Space|Recycled IN SPACE!]]: The adventures of Tom Swift the Somethingth, interstellar
* [[Said Bookism]]
* [[Sidekick]]: Mr. Damon and Ned in the original series, Bud in the 1950s, Ben in the 1980s, Rick in the 1990s. Given who they're playing the Sidekick to, they also get to be [[The Watson]].
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Offscreen but usually referenced [[Once an Episode|once every volumne]] in the Tom Swift Jr. series.
* [[Story Arc]]: The "Jr." novels had an ongoing arc about Tom's interaction with the alien "Space Friends". Since the arc never really went anywhere before the series ended, it's arguably also an [[Aborted Arc]].
* [[Teen Genius]]: Tom, of course.
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