History Series / Warehouse13

** Not the first time Gareth David Lloyd [[{{Series/Torchwood}} has been part of a mysterious]] ArtifactCollectionAgency.

** When it's revealed that the history professor played by Creator/JamesMarsters is [[spoiler: the Count De Saint-Germain]], they ask him how he still looks the same if he's so old, Pete asking him specifically if he's a vampire. He dismisses this, saying "vampires are for gothic novels and teenage girls."

** Creator/JamesMarsters and Creator/AnthonyHead were both in {{Series/Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}. In one episode of that show their characters Spike and Giles [[spoiler: lost their memories. And upon meeting each other the older Giles asked hopefully if they were brothers.]] Come {{Series/Warehouse 13}} and lo and behold...

** Mrs. Frederic hasn't aged a day for at least a century or so, thanks to her connection to the Warehouse. [[spoiler: The finale shows that Claudia gets it too.]]

** Also, HG Wells's death, although by then she'd undergone a full HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler: and the ResetButton gets hit next season anyway]].

** In "Stand", Sykes activates the Warehouse's portal link to the old Regent refuge in order to infiltrate it and both steal the Collodi bracelet and kill [[spoiler: Jane Lattimer]]. This fails, [[spoiler: but he has the backup plan of bringing an Artifact WMD to completely destroy the Warehouse (requiring a ResetButton the following season).]]

-->'''Claudia:''' That was for [[spoiler: Steve]].

*** The description of the downside ends up being pretty accurate, when Artie [[spoiler: kills Leena, who had come the closest to figuring out what was wrong; her death at his hands is the evil he'll have to live with.]]

** Topped by Season 3, where [[spoiler: even though Sykes is killed, he still succeeds in destroying the Warehouse and killing Mrs. Frederic, along with H.G. in the Warehouse explosion and Steve earlier]]. May be subverted, depending on [[spoiler:what [=MacPherson=]'s watch really does]]...

** In "We All Fall Down", [[spoiler: Artie is saved from the evil unleashed by the astrolabe... but is left to watch helplessly as a deadly plague is unleashed on millions of people, including himself, Pete, Myka, Steve and Claudia]].
** "The Truth Hurts": [[spoiler: Paracelsus lets himself be captured by the team, so that he can trick Pete into helping him completely usurp Mrs. Fredric's Caretaker position, at which point he seizes control of the Warehouse and chases the team out]].

** In "The Big Snag", Artie pulls off a very risky one to stop a car thief, by intentionally charging his car straight towards that of the thief. [[spoiler: This may be a XanatosGambit as Artie believed he deserved to be punished for killing Leena, so no matter what happens he gets what he wants.]]

** The BigBad of Series 4, [[spoiler: Paracelsus, not only discovered the secret of immortality using the Philosopher's Stone, but perfected the bronzing technique (ironically getting bronzed himself for his crimes), in addition to being the former Caretaker of Warehouse 9]].

** Season 4.5: [[spoiler: Paracelsus]]
** Season 5 technically has [[spoiler: the Benedict Valda from Paracelsus' AlternateTimeline]], though due to the shortened nature of the FinaleSeason, he only shows up in two episodes, and is only the [[DragonAscendant main threat]] in the second.

** In the Season 3 finale, Claudia gives a heartbreaking one when [[spoiler: she discovers Steve's body]].

** After [[spoiler: Steve]] is killed in the season 3 finale, Claudia calls the Regents (particularly Jane) out for their cowardice and letting their agents take all the risk. This later leads to the events in "An Evil Within" where Jane allows Claudia to use the metronome on Steve without Mr. Kosan's consent.

** A literal case, Chekhov's Grappling Gun: After it's given to Myka in "For the Team", she uses it in the season 3 episode "The 40th Floor" to [[spoiler: save her, Artie, and three Regents from a sabotaged elevator.]]
** And now [=MacPherson=]'s watch, which Artie finds in [=MacPherson=]'s B&B room in "Mild Mannered". In the season 4 premiere, it's revealed to be [[spoiler: part of a time travel failsafe that is used to restore the Warehouse after its destruction]].

** "We All Fall Down" has [[spoiler: Evil!Artie]] using a few artifacts which have appeared in prior episodes: the barometer artifact from "Past Imperfect" as well as the finger cymbals from "Nevermore".

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In "For the Team", the CEO of a sports drink company is set up to look like the culprit... [[SubvertedTrope only for it]] to turn out to be the lead scientist in charge of the formula. The scientist had a massive stake in the company merger, and so tried to keep the problems with the product (that included SpontaneousCombustion) under wraps until he could cash in. On the other hand, Hank Siskel in "Second Chance" is every bit as skuzzy as he seems, [[spoiler: though he's not actually the villain of the episode.]]

** It is also the side effect of [[spoiler: the Astrolabe]].

** From The S3 Finale onward: [[spoiler: first Steve dies, then HG, then the Warehouse is destroyed, then Artie becomes evil.]] Then it gets bad.

* DeathIsCheap: Situations vary but tend to settle on Death-is-expensive. [[spoiler: Artie is brought back to life but doing so causes the death of a RedShirt. Steve is brought back to life but the artifact that does it has negative consequences which take a few episodes to resolve and nearly kill Claudia and his mother. Pete is brought back to life through a time reversal artifact, it takes half a season to fix the evil it creates and nearly ends in the world's destruction. There's always a downside but it's rare for a named character to stay dead.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Appears to have happened to Jinks in "The 40th Floor" after the confrontation with Mrs. Frederic that [[spoiler: got him fired, which, in the season 3 finale, was revealed to be a ploy to help him infiltrate the BigBad's organization]].

** Season 1 ends with [[spoiler: Artie supposedly being blown up.]] He is shown to survive in season 2 thanks to an artifact.
** Season 2 ends with [[spoiler: Myka quitting]] her job at the warehouse. She rejoins in season 3. This one is more of a BittersweetEnding, as it's the only one so far to avert TheBadGuyWins in the finale rather than the next season's premiere.
** Season 3 ends with [[spoiler: the Warehouse being blown up along with Helena, and Mrs. Frederic dying and decaying.]] Thanks to a ResetButton in season 4, this is fixed.

** The actual end of the season isn't much better, as [[spoiler: Paracelsus completely usurps Mrs. Frederic's connection with the Warehouse and chasing the team out, with only Claudia left to fight him. And on top of that, Myka's cancer is apparently worse than she let on, and it's unclear if she'll recover.]]
* TheDragon: Marcus to Sykes is the only real clear cut example, though [=MacPherson=] had the brainwashed [[spoiler: Leena]] for a while.

* FailsafeFailure: The Warehouse can generate an impenetrable shield to protect itself if attacked, which will not deactivate until the danger has passed. [[spoiler: Cue everyone realising how screwed they are, when they discover Sykes planted a artifact-enhanced bomb ''inside'' of the Warehouse]].

* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: With some help from Mrs. Frederick and Jane, Jinks sets himself up as a turncoat to expose Stukowski's associates. He ends up RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.]]

*** [[spoiler: It doesn't really tip him off, he just thought of the first OOC thing that Alice did to make sure that she didn't know that ARTIE tipped him off.]]

** In the season 3 finale, Myka [[spoiler: and H.G. Honestly, there was zero legitimate reason for Myka and HG to get tied up by a magic rope that forces them to effectively spoon against each other for a a bit]].

** "Endless": [[spoiler: Future!Claudia]]...er, sorry, [[spoiler: ''Miss Donovan'']] in a short black leather dress, doing her best mysterious advisor bit.

** Season 4 has a few hints as to the true nature of the season's BigBad. The episode where the evil unleashed by the astrolabe is first elaborated is titled [[spoiler: "An Evil Within"]]. Artie's outburst at the end of "Fractures" gives a glimpse of how he eventually realizes what's really been going on in "The Ones You Love". The heaviest hint is in "Endless Wonder" when [[spoiler: Artie confronts Brother Adrian, who's using Harriet Tubman's thimble to look like Artie]]:

** Sykes' plan in Season 3 was worked on for decades; he stayed one step ahead of the Warehouse team and the Regents the entire season, and in the end, [[spoiler: even though he dies, he still manages to destroy the Warehouse]].

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** DoubleSubverted with [[spoiler: H. G. Wells]] in the Season 3 finale. [[spoiler: She's willing to let Pete destroy the artifact containing her mind in order to stop Sykes from getting information from her, but is captured by his agents before this can happen. Then at the end, she seals Pete, Myka and Artie in a force field in order to save them from the exploding warehouse; she couldn't place herself in the force field, and is killed in the blast.]]
*** And then triple subverted in the Season 4 premiere when [[spoiler: the ResetButton gets hit and the Warehouse never blows up, so Helena's sacrifice is prevented]]. Artie alludes to the averted scenario, being careful to avoid mentioning what he did, when he is forced to justify [[spoiler:her]] rehabilitation by Mr. Kosan and Mrs. Frederic.

* HeroicBSOD: Claudia gets one at the end of "Emily Lake" and arguably is still in it as of the end of season 3 [[spoiler: given her refusal to give up the metronome that can bring Steve back to life]].
** Artie has one after [[spoiler: killing Leena under [[EnemyWithin the influence]] of the Astrolabe.]]

* HolyIsNotSafe: The dagger of Francesco Borgia, who performed the first exorcism, can be used to separate good from evil. Besides the fact that to be used it has to be stabbed into the subject in question being exorcised, its abilities can be applied to breaking containment on something dangerous.[[spoiler: Evil Artie]] plans to use it to shatter an unbreakable container to unleash a global plague.

** [[spoiler: As it turns out, "The Ones You Love" reveals that Adrian is an evil split personality created by the Astrolabe. It wants Artie to undo what he did, because that would be the greatest possible evil in the situation, so Artie did what was right, but the Astrolabe's evil wants to undo it]].

** [[spoiler: In "Endless Terror", the transitions reflect the events of the episode, where they are similar to the normal transitions but are stylized after Warehouse 9 and the Alternate Timeline Warehouse 13.]]

** Artie in the season five premiere. [[spoiler: He discovers that one of the forks that allows a person to exist outside of their "home" timeline is missing, immediately after returning from an alternate timeline where ''most of the warehouse staff are evil.'']] His reaction? "Huh, that's weird."

** Claudia has to think like this when trying to find [[spoiler: Evil!Artie]] in "We All Fall Down," knowing that [[spoiler: he]] knows the way the team thinks.

* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: Paracelsus']] technique for achieving immortality involves healing sick people... so he can then use the PhilosophersStone to steal their life force for himself. And he views that as acceptable losses.

** The clients in "Age Before Beauty" who knowingly [[spoiler: paid a photographer to steal innocent women's youth for their use]]. At the end of the episode, they're still [[spoiler: young]] and they've suffered no consequences for their actions.

* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: Pete and Myka in the finale.]]

* LetMeGetThisStraight: Used in Season 4's "Insight". Granted, it was newcomer Abigail spouting most of it, with the rest of the cast amazed she could keep up with the Warehouse's idiosyncrasies on her second visit. [[spoiler: It turns out Abigail's not exactly a newcomer: she's the Warehouse's Keeper]]

** Explicitly stated by Steve in "Queen for a Day" about Claudia, regarding how much she reminds him of his dead big sister. Culminates in the season 3 finale with him working undercover with Sykes to protect her [[spoiler: which leads to his...first death.]]

* LittleNo: Pete's reaction to [[spoiler: Steve's death]] in "Emily Lake".

* [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything Pete and Myka Do Everything]]: In "We All Fall Down", [[spoiler: Jinks]] complains to Claudia that they ''never'' get the interesting assignments.
--> '''[[spoiler: Jinks]]''': Pete and Myka get a dagger and we get a ''plague''?! When do we stop being the B-Team?

* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: According to Mrs. Frederic in "Buried", agents are allowed to tell ONE person outside of the Warehouse the truth about their job (referred to as "their One"). If said One passes on, they're allowed to choose another One. [[spoiler: Kelly leaves Univille and Pete by the end of the season because she wants a "simple life" and her interaction with an artifact in the season finale proved that Pete cannot give her that]]

** In the season 1 finale, it's believed that [[spoiler: Claudia has been controlled by [=MacPherson=] the whole time]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler: it's actually Leena, who has disguised herself as Claudia using Harriet Tubman's thimble, which makes the wearer look like whoever they want to. Subverted again when it was revealed that she was being controlled by [=MacPherson=] using an artifact]].

** The entirety of Steve's [[spoiler:last]] conversation with Claudia in the season 3 finale. They're friends again and out to get the enemy, [[DeclarationOfProtection he's doing it for her most of all]] and then [[spoiler: Steve is brutally murdered about five minutes later.]] You can hear ''something'' coming with the music that begins to play, but you're praying it's not what you think it is.

** Artie seems to be having this reaction as the end of the Season 4 premiere, when he begins to realize the consequences of [[spoiler: turning back time to save the Warehouse]].

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Artie explicitly compares [[spoiler: Paracelsus' time travel altered Warehouse to stories his parents told him about Nazi concentration camps, specifically [[ForScience their scientific experiments.]]]]

** In "The 40th Floor", [[spoiler:Jinks holds Mrs. Frederic at gunpoint to stop her from torturing Sally. This provides the crucial distraction necessary for Sally to free herself and escape, costing the Warehouse their only lead. Naturally, Frederic fires him for it.]] Subverted in the season 3 finale when it's revealed that [[spoiler: Jinks's mutiny and subsequent blacklisting are actually a ruse in an attempt to place him undercover in the BigBad's employ]].

** Pete was tricked by [[spoiler: Paracelsus into giving him control of the Warehouse at the end of season 4.]]

* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: In the season 3 finale, Pete reasons that since Walter Skyes needs [[spoiler: H.G. Wells' SoulJar, specifically the Janus coin]] to complete his plan, destroying it would derail his efforts. After much deliberation, Claudia and Myka let him go through with, only for Marcus to stop him using the [[PeoplePuppets riding crop]] artifact.

** By the time of the DistantFinale, [[spoiler: Claudia's started doing it too.]]

** And the look on Artie's face in the season 3 finale when [[spoiler: Walter Sykes enters Warehouse 13 via portal with Pete as his slave.]]

** Artie gets two in "Endless Wonder". First, when he realizes that Adrian's left a booby trap for Claudia and Steve, and then at the end when [[spoiler: H.G. reveals that she's deduced that he's time traveled and that she has told Mrs. Frederic]].

** In the season 2 episode "Around the Bend", [[spoiler: Pete sees the renegade regent he's trailing kill a policewoman. Then Myka meets up with the policewoman and they watch CCTV footage of Pete's supposed meeting with her. He's talking to himself under the influence of a paranoia inducing artifact]].
** In the season 4 episode "The Ones You Love", we see a flashback to [[spoiler: Artie doing all the things Brother Adrian is supposed to have done, including using Harriet Tubman's thimble to appear to the others as Brother Adrian (rather than the other way around, which was how it was presented at the time), once he learns the enemy he unleashed by using the astrolabe is himself.]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Justified in that the Count and Countess of Saint-Germaine are immortal. They're kinda used to healing from mortal wounds. [[spoiler: PlayedForLaughs after the Count becomes mortal. The first time he gets shot after that point, he complains that "mortal bodies suck."]]

* PhilosophersStone: [[spoiler: Was used by Paraceulsus to make the Count Saint Germaine and his family immortal.]]

** In the season three finale, [[spoiler: Steve, HG, and Mrs. Frederic]] are killed, the first via injection, [[spoiler:and the latter two by an explosion of the Warehouse]]. The ResetButton is pushed on all of them...eventually. The first person who died takes awhile to get back and not without [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor consequences]].

** Appears to be subverted at the end of "The Ones You Love" when [[spoiler:the evil unleashed by the astrolabe completely overtakes Artie, resulting in him shooting Leena]]. As of "We All Fall Down", [[spoiler: Leena has been KilledOffForReal]].

* ResetButton: Hit in the Season 4 premiere, turning time back 24 hours to [[spoiler: save the Warehouse, Mrs. Frederic, H.G., Claudia, and Pete]].

* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Myka (and later Pete and the rest of the Warehouse crew) seem to have done this for H.G., which, in the season 3 finale, leads to [[spoiler: her HeroicSacrifice]].

** Pete never reading the manual. Steve and Artie start to fall behind on their reading as well, with Artie, at the start of Season 5, citing [[spoiler: turning evil and trying to destroy the world in Season 4]] as his excuse. Pete and Steve agree it's a better one than theirs.

* SelfDestructMechanism: Averted the first time, when the entire Warehouse was about to blow up. The second time, [[spoiler: at the end of the S1 finale, [=MacPherson=] escapes from the Warehouse and activates the explosive bolts installed in the Warehouse entrance. Artie is trapped in there and caught up in the blast. He got better.]]

*** Season 1 ended with [[spoiler: [=MacPherson=], a rogue Warehouse agent, escaping the Warehouse and blowing up the umbilicus with Artie inside]].
*** Season 2 has [[spoiler: H.G. Wells coming close to starting a new Ice Age; after the disaster is averted, Myka's confidence is shaken and she decides to leave the Warehouse]].

*** The Season 4 mid-season finale has [[spoiler: Leena being killed off by Artie (who has been overtaken by an evil split-personality) and ends with the unleashing of a deadly plague on millions of people, including Claudia, Pete, Myka, Steve and Artie himself]].

* TheStarscream: H.G. Wells in the season 2 premiere. She needs to [[spoiler: work with [=MacPherson=] in order to retrieve some personal effects, but kills him the first chance she gets.]] A rare case where TheStarscream succeeds.

** "3...2...1" features flashbacks to HG's time at Warehouse 12, where we get to see a steampunk gun and [[spoiler: rocket]].

** In "The Ones You Love", [[spoiler: it turns out that this has been happening to Artie ever since he used the astrolabe, with all of his confrontations with Brother Adrian being hallucinatory manifestations of his EnemyWithin]].

* TrueCompanions: Artie, Myka, Pete, Claudia, Steve and Leena are basically one big happy artifact hunting family. Pete and Myka, Pete and Claudia, and Claudia and Steve are particularly LikeBrotherAndSister, and Artie is basically a father figure to everyone. This makes events like [[spoiler: Steve's temporary death]] and [[spoiler: Leena's permanent one]] all the more likely to launch a paralyzing HeroicBSOD.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Paracelsus]] is willing to killing hundreds of people, if not more, [[ForScience for the sake of scientific advancement.]]

* WhamLine: At the end of "The 40th Floor", Myka goes to introduce Pete to a Regent she just saved. His reaction? [[spoiler: "Mom?"]]

** "We All Fall Down": [[spoiler: Leena is confirmed dead, Evil!Artie reveals his resentments with the Warehouse, Pete, Myka and Claudia, and despite Artie being freed from his evil split personality, a deadly plague is still unleashed on millions of people, including himself, Claudia, Pete, Myka and Steve.]]
** "The Truth Hurts": [[spoiler: Paracelsus steals control of the Warehouse from Mrs. Frederic and throws the team out, except for Claudia, who stays behind to fight him; Myka's cancer is worse than she let on and she might not recover; and Claudia's sister is apparently alive, locked up somewhere by the Regents for being deemed dangerous.]]
* WhamLine: "What Hurts The Most" ends on a fairly high note (aside from the reveal of a [[TheMole mole]] now in their midsts)... then cuts to [[spoiler: Myka]] at their medical exam:
--> '''Doctor:''' I think we might be looking at [[spoiler: ovarian cancer.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: The Countess Saint-Germaine's motivation. She and her family were made immortal by Paracelsus; they unbronzed him to make him reverse the effect.]]

** [[spoiler: Multiple times with Sykes in the season 3 finale. Jinks knows he only has two henchmen, and could easily have taken both of them and Sykes out before they left for Hong Kong. Then after that when Myka and Pete find Sykes with HG and the hacker at the Chess Lock, they should have just shot him in the head before he figured out they were there.]]
*** Justified with [[spoiler: Jinks, as he was undercover and needed to remain so.]]
*** Also justified by [[spoiler: one of Sykes' two henchmen being MadeOfIron.]]
** Artie has Brother Adrian at gunpoint, and instead of capturing him, which would be nothing but beneficial, he instead lets Adrian lead him into a long conversation, long enough for his booby trap to spring on Jinks and Claudia, providing a crucial distraction and allowing Adrian to literally walk away. This too is justified, [[spoiler: as Brother Adrian was just a figment of his imagination.]]
** In "We All Fall Down" [[spoiler: Evil Artie spends lots of time giving evil armor piercing monologues with the Warehouse crew and buys himself enough time to use several different artifacts to shake them off. If the team would just shoot him with the Tesla (if they didn't want to shoot him with a gun) they could have ended the episode much earlier as opposed to trying to reason with someone under the influence of the astrolabe's evil.]] It's justified since the point of [[spoiler:Artie's]] monologues, was to distract them and buy himself time, as well as the fact that [[spoiler: Artie]] knows precisely which buttons to push with them.

* WrapItUp: Due to the final season only having six episodes, several story threads had to be heavily compressed or abandoned entirely. For example, the story arc of [[spoiler: Paracelsus taking control of the Warehouse]] is abruptly tied up in a single episode.

** In Season 3 [[spoiler: Sykes pulls off one to destroy the Warehouse. [[TheDragon Marcus]] fires Black Barty's cannon at the Warehouse, which Artie says could destroy it. Jane activates a shield which protects them from it, but also seals them in. Sykes leaves his wheelchair in the Warehouse once he can walk again, because it has the artifact equivalent to a nuke in it. With the shield still up, no one can escape. Whether it was the cannon or the bomb, Sykes was guaranteed to destroy the Warehouse and kill everyone inside. H.G. Wells manages to save everyone else via HeroicSacrifice, but the Warehouse is still destroyed. The ResetButton that they use to fix it was so dangerous that it bordered on GodzillaThreshold.]]

** Subverted again in season 5. [[spoiler: Paracelsus goes back in time becomes the caretaker for 700+ years. And a second time when Artie, Pete, and Myka then undo it.]] Then again, [[spoiler: after all that, did anything really change?]]

** In the first episode of the third season, [[spoiler: the man who planted the Lost Folio is killed after unsuccessfully trying to kill the new Warehouse agent Jinks.]]
** In "The 40th Floor", [[spoiler: FBI Agent Sally, who's secretly been stealing artifacts and killing regents, gets this, after she fails to kill the Warehouse Guardian and accompanying Regents. Marcus [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident makes it look like a heart defect killed her.]]]]

** Creator/BrentSpiner has appeared as different characters in both ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' and ''Warehouse 13'', with his appearances taking place ''after'' the crossover was established. To clarify: the fifth episode of the first season of ''Alphas'' (which aired along with season 3 of ''Warehouse 13'') features Dr. Calder, establishing the crossover. Four episodes later, Brent Spiner appears as Dr. Kerns, an Alpha with sonar abilities, [[spoiler: who is killed at the end of the episode]]. Then in the fourth season of ''Warehouse 13'', Brent Spiner plays the recurring character Brother Adrian.

** The artifact in the very first episode is a comb owned by [[UsefulNotes/TheBorgias Lucrezia Borgia]] that gives women with a similar personality and lief history to Lucrezia the abilty to mind-control others.

** "The Greatest Gift" has Pete dragged into a ItsAWonderfulPlot after coming into contact wtih [[spoiler:an upholstery brush owned by Philip Van Doren Stern, whose story "The Greatest Gift" inspired ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.]]

* HistoricalInJoke: Numerous historical events were either caused by, or the cause of, many of the artifacts.

** [[Series/{{Eureka}} Henry Deacon]] plays a prisoner in ''Warehouse 13'' who also leads a religious sect.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Artie and the Regents frequently claim that "We never use artifacts; there's always a downside." For the most part, they believe this... except they use artifacts quite frequently, several have no known downside, and some of them are used simply for MundaneUtility. For example, Claudia uses a snow globe from the 1893 World's Fair to chill her sodas and Ben Franklin's ring as a flashlight.

* GirlFriday: When Pete and Myka get trapped in a 1940's detective novel, Pete is made the detective and when he claims she is his secretary Myka insists she is his gal friday .

* ShoutOut:
** The entire premise is based on the ending scene of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', which shows the Ark of the Covenant being stored amongst countless other objects in a huge warehouse.
** H.G. Wells' MentalTimeTravel machine in "When and Where" seems to be powered by a device that looks strikingly like a [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].
** The first episode of season 4 is called Film/ANewHope.
** And in that episode, Claudia says [[Film/GalaxyQuest "Never give up, never surrender!"]].
** An episode featured a copy of Creator/JohnRingo's ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata Eye of the Storm]]'' in the background. Ringo repaid the nod with a cameo in ''[[Literature/SpecialCircumstances Queen of Wands]]'' for Artie and Claudia.
** "No Pain, No Gain" has Pete refer to the StalkerWithACrush as "{{Literature/Misery}}".
** The artifact of the week in "Second Chance" is an old shard of armor from the Peloponnesian War, specifically from the Spartans' stand against the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae. Pete and Myka find it in the chest of a former Marine, thought to be shrapnel from an explosion he survived in Baghdad. However, [[ComicBook/IronMan the shard is lodged next to his heart]], and removing it would kill him.
** At one point, Claudia tells Jinks [[Series/RuPaulsDragRace "Chante, you stay!"]]
** The webisode "Grand Designs" features 2 prominent shout-outs to Rush fans. The title of the webisode is a song from their "Power Windows" album, and the artifact of the day is on aisle YYZ-2112 - YYZ being an instrumental song on their "Moving Pictures" album, and 2112 being the title of their 4th album, considered to be a masterpiece.
** [[ReferenceOverdosed Too many to count]] in "Mild Mannered" but this one sticks out because its one of the few ''not'' comic book related ones:
-->'''Claudia''': [[Series/DoctorWho Allons y!]]
** In "Mild Mannered", one scene at the end has the camera pans to Charlie Atlas' pants. Careful observation of the panning sequence will reveal that the Warehouse also possesses what appears to be Franchise/WonderWoman's lasso, the Penguin's umbrella, ComicBook/GreenArrow's bow and... Thor's Hammer.
** Also in "Mild Mannered," the couple running the cafe are [[Series/{{Firefly}} Simon and Kaylee]]!
** Pete also tells [[spoiler: himself]] to "Get your ass to Mars!" like in ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' and he and Claudia shout out the [[Film/BillAndTed Wyld Stallyns]] with an AirGuitar duet.
** During an expedition to Egypt, [[spoiler: H.G. Wells]] dresses up like [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]. Complete with LampshadeHanging!
--->'''Helena:''' What? This is what the modern British archaeologist wears, isn't it?\\
'''Myka:''' No, it's what American film producers ''think'' the modern British archaeologist wears.
** In "Reset", [[Film/StarTrek2009 Captain Robau]] actually says the words "Prime Directive".
** In the third season premier, Pete signs off from the Farnsworth calling himself Kirk, and has his new partner do the "live long and prosper" gesture.
*** He was signing off as Kirk as early as Season 1 episode 8.
** In the episode "Trials", one of the doctors preforming an operation used the line [[Series/DoctorWho "Ok kids, this is where it gets interesting."]]
** In the season 3 intro sequence, you can see, among other things, a full wing of Harrier jets, the Wright Flyer, and the Trojan Horse. Between this and other tropes here, it's safe to say that W13 holds any major artifact of historical and/or cultural significance along side the harmful harmless objects.
** Warehouse 13 has a purple goo that neutralizes objects with paranormal powers and gives people giddy feelings if they touch it. In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', the team finds a river of pink goo that imbues objects with paranormal powers and gives people angry feelings if they touch it.
** In the episode 'There's Always a Downside', Claudia has the following perfect line to a group of cheerleaders:
--->"'Claudia"': Alright, Heathers, very nice. [[Film/{{Heathers}} Heather, Heather, Heather, and Heather, let's not have a brain tumour for breakfast]] - everybody out this way...
** In "The Living and the Dead", [=MacPherson:=] [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Oly Oly Oxen Free!]]
** Dr. Vanessa Calder's (Lindasy Wagner) Farnsworth ringtone is the Bionic Sound Effect. Lindsay Wagner was The Bionic Woman.
** Tons and tons to ''Franchise/{{Star Trek}}'':
*** Artie is played by Saul Rubinek, who appeared as the villain in a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode. Other actors who have appeared on the show (a few of them recurring): Armin Shimerman and Rene Auberjonois ([[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Quark and Odo]]), Brent Spiner ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Commander Data]]), Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan ([[Series/StarTrekVoyager Captain Janeway and 7 of 9]]), just to name a few.
*** Pete's mom is named [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Jane(way)]].
*** At one point, Pete complains that it's like both of them are treated like RedShirts, and then says it's so cool that Myka gets that reference.
*** In another episode, it shows the inside of a diner where two geeks are arguing over which is stronger, Vulcans or Klingons. Turns out it's Vulcans, by 47%.
*** Pete once ended a conversation by saying "Kirk out."
*** The music from 'Amok Time' shows up, as well as some of the fight choreography, in 'Don't Hate the Player.'
*** From "Endless Terror": (Referring to the eyepieces alt-Valda is using) They have Borg here?
*** The number of times the phrase "All good things..." is said in the final episode "Endless" can't be anything but a shout-out to the final TNG episode given the number of Star Trek references in this show.
** In "Don't Hate the Player" the princess' behavior in Fargo's game is clearly inspired by the princess in ''VideoGame/DragonsLair''.
** In ''Magnetism'', one of the people whammied by the artifact of the week is [[Series/TheFlyingNun a nun who thinks she can fly]].

* YourWorstNightmare: In "Don't Hate the Player", Beatrix Potter's tea set brings out nightmares in those who drink from it. When combined with Fargo's new mental interface video game system, the results are [[YourMindMakesItReal lethal.]]

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Every time the team investigate evidence of someone having extraordinary powers, it turns out to be the result of an artifact, even though this series is in the same universe as ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The show delights in putting the main cast through physical comedy and AmusingInjuries, and the female cast don't get saved because they're girls. Notably, Claudia is probably the biggest target.

* SpookyPainting: In "Breakdown", one of these causes Myka, Pete, and Claudia to be [[LockedInARoom stuck in a replica of Leena's Bed and Breakfast]] stored in the Warehouse.
** According to Mrs. Frederic in "The Ones You Love", there's a reason why Rembrandt's depictions of people were so lifelike in appearance: his framer gave the paintings the ability to suck in anyone looking at them. [[spoiler:Jinks gets trapped inside one of those paintings until Mrs. Frederic removes it from its frame, freeing the people trapped inside... one of whom turns out to be the ''real'' Brother Adrian]].