History Series / Warehouse13

* GenreSavvy: It's a good thing Claudia and Pete had read the ''Cask Of Amontillado''...

!!Character Tropes [[Characters/{{Warehouse 13}} here]], please

* TheBadGuyWins
** Season 1. [=MacPherson=] escapes containment, frames Claudia as TheMole, and blows Artie up. At least Artie got better.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Not an alien spy, but he probably made an artifact that is now in the Warehouse. He and Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Tubman, H. G. Wells, Alice Liddell, and on and on. H.G. Wells is a woman ''and'' a Warehouse Agent.
* BiggerOnTheInside: The titular Warehouse, which was designed by Edison, Tesla, and Escher. Justifiable, as the Warehouse is clearly built into the side of a mountain; what we see of the exterior is just the entrance and probably a diversionary appearance (to make it seem like a normal warehouse), with the rest being underground/inside the mountain.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Escher room, appropriately enough.

* BluffTheImpostor: Used by Artie to confirm that [[spoiler: Myka is actually Alice Liddell]].

* BrainwashResidue: After Leena is saved from being brainwashed by [=MacPhearson=].
* BrickJoke
** In the second series opener, we finally get to see what the smell of fudge signifies: invisible mines.

* BrownNote

** As do {{Bruce Lee}}'s punching bag, {{Jack Kirby}}'s belt, [[Literature/TheBible Samson's]] Jawbone and Babe Ruth's baseball bat.
* ChekhovsGun: Many, many items.
** Under a dozen or so lines into the episode "Burnout", Pete makes a passing remark, "that's a big-ass generator", before dealing with an artifact with a weakness to... guess what.

** In the first episode of the first season, one of the many questions which Pete and Myka believe to be stupid asks whether or not the subject has recently smelled fudge. A season later, it turns out that [[spoiler:that's the only way to detect chameleon bombs]]. In "Elements," Myka clues Pete in that she has a possible lead in mind with the words "I smell fudge."

* ChristmasEpisode
** "Secret Santa", which aired between seasons 2 and 3, involves a BadassSanta and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming between Artie and his estranged father.
** "The Greatest Gift" aired between Seasons 3 and 4; an ItsAWonderfulPlot by way of artifact for Pete.

** Collodi's bracelet is an odd version. It essentially is this to the user themselves, allowing the user to puppet their own disabled limbs and functionally regain mobility.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Subverted with H.G.Wells; she sacrifices herself in the season 3 finale to save the main characters but thanks to a ResetButton she's alive again at the end of the season 4 premiere...]]

** And also in the alternate universe where Pete was never born, complete with multiple references to how much she hates Artie.

* SoftGlass: Pete attempts to escape a artifact house via defenestration, and ends up coming back in via the same method (the house is a recursive space and every exit leads back in).

* SoulJar: [[spoiler:H.G. Wells, following her imprisonment, has her mind trapped in a modified magic 8-ball which can project her as a hologram. Her body, meanwhile, continues to live as a schoolteacher in Wyoming named Emily Lake.]]

* StableTimeLoop: See YouAlreadyChangedThePast. Rebecca St. Clair and her partner Jack fell in love when they found themselves kissing in an orchard, with no memory of the previous day. Fifty years later, Rebecca uses H.G. Wells' TimeMachine to [[MentalTimeTravel transfer her consciousness into her past self]] so she can share one last kiss (the FirstKiss) with Jack. H.G. Wells also built the time machine in the first place after realizing that she did so in the future and used it.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Claudia does this to Kelly when she's taken over by Lizzie Borden's artifact.

* TailorMadePrison: The Bronze Sector, a section of Warehouse where the worst people in the world, people whose removal from society had to be absolutely certain, are held. People like Hitler, Mussolini, and [[TheRuntAtTheEnd Michael Vick]], or rather people who would have become like them except the Warehouse got to them first. The best part? It seems as if this is on the ''low end'' of potential punishments. They actually have things that are worse and that Warehouse agents are better off not knowing about. Same episode also reveals that the Warehouse management compile lengthy records on how to kill various agents.

---> '''Claudia:''' They should hold up long enough to --\\
(''the containment fields shut down'')\\
'''Claudia:''' ...realize my karma sucks.

* UnderTheMistletoe: The Warehouse has the "original mistletoe", which causes anyone who wanders beneath it to kiss the nearest person. Myka is kept from making this mistake while Pete's under it. Artie, however, is not so lucky while Claudia's brother is trying to take it down...
* UnfortunateName: Pete lampshades bringing in a new agent by the name of Jinks.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The Minoan Trident (also known as Poseidon's Trident), which when stabbed into the ground three times opens the fault lines below. Among other things, it's capable of triggering volcanoes, even ''super''volcanoes. Doesn't help that it's, ''y'know'', [[ProngsOfPoseidon a trident]].

* WhamLine: Myka goes to introduce Pete to a Regent she just saved. His reaction? [[spoiler: "Mom?"]]

* WitnessProtection: Claudia's occasional boyfriend Todd.

* ActorAllusion: Claudia wearing a TheDeadZone pin in the season 3 finale, which was Anthony Michael Hall's previous show on USA.
** Casting [[{{Firefly}} Sean Maher and Jewel Staite]] as a couple in a sci-fi show? Definitely this.
*** Same can be said for casting [[Series/{{Eureka}} Niall Matter and Erica Cerra]], though it should be noted this was before the crossover.
* AdultChild: Pete, to an extent.
** Apparently, before he sobered up he was a lot worse.
* AffablyEvil: H.G. Wells. So much so that, past her introduction episode in season 2, you'd have a hard time believing she ever was evil until the finale.
* {{Agent Mulder}}/{{Agent Scully}}: Right from their very first mission, Pete and Myka are told outright that this is the reason for the Warehouse poaching them to work as a field team. Most of their predecessors seem to fit the pattern, too. The idea is for Pete to go with his gut and accept any possibility, while Myka works on every little detail and puts together evidence logically.
** Reversed in "Past Imperfect," where Myka is the emotional, impulsive one while Pete is the methodical, logical one. Justified, as in this case Myka is investigating something personal, and Pete realizes he needs to pick up the slack.
---> '''Myka:''' Pete, what are you doing?\\
'''Pete:''' Well, I'm thinking like Myka. When something doesn't make sense, Myka tries to make sense of it. But not right now, because she's too emotional, which is where Pete usually is, emotional. Then I thought hey, while you're being me, I may as well be you.

* TheAlcoholic: Pete is a teetotal alcoholic, having been sober for several years at the beginning of the series. Tellingly, he shows clear signs of panic in "Merge With Caution" when Myka and he switch bodies when Myka was inebriated, fearing that this will cause him to suffer a relapse.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Artie. He isn't shown outright to be Jewish until the Christmas episode in the second season.

* AntiVillain: HG Wells for most of her screentime. [[spoiler: She eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn and a HeroicSacrifice]].

* TheAtoner:
** Pete when confronting people from his past makes it clear how much guilt he feels, due to his former drinking problem causing him to destroy many of his relationships.
** H.G. for the entirety of the third season.

* BadBoss: Walter Sykes in season 3 is this trope ''in spades.''
* TheBadGuyWins: Season 1. [=MacPherson=] escapes containment, frames Claudia as TheMole, and blows Artie up. At least Artie got better.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Not an alien spy, but he probably made an artifact that is now in the Warehouse. He and Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Tubman, H. G. Wells, Alice Liddell, and on and on.
** H.G. Wells is a woman ''and'' a Warehouse Agent.
* BerserkButton: Pete was clearly pissed off enough to want to kill the photographer with the Man Ray camera after what he did to Myka in the "Age Before Beauty" episode. It's probably safe to say messing with any member of his team will get you on Pete's bad side in short order, but hurting Myka in particular, very bad idea.
** It doesn't help that he mentions that the effects of this particular artifact (turning beautiful women into dying old ladies) disturbs him more than just about anything else he's seen.
* BiTheWay: The (female) Warehouse version of H.G. Wells. Her nonchalant coming out in "Buried" doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.
---> "I know a thing or two about the opposite sex. Many of my lovers were men."
* BigBad: [=MacPherson=] in the first season.
** H.G. Wells in the second after a plan to convince the Warehouse team otherwise.
** And season 3's big bad is Walter Sykes, an EvilCripple who has a grudge against the Regents; in particular [[spoiler:Jane Lattimer]] since she took an artifact away from him that let him walk.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Pete towards Claudia.
** Based on the DVD Extras, that's what they were going for, and what they'll continue to do as the show moves on.
** Artie outright tries to be a father figure for Claudia in "Age Before Beauty", so he's cemented his place as TeamDad.
** Outright stated by Pete in "The Greatest Gift";
--> '''Pete''': I'm like [[BigBrotherMentor your big brother]], Myka is like [[CoolBigSis your big sister]] and Artie is [[TeamDad so much like your dad it's kinda annoying.]]
* BiggerOnTheInside: The titular Warehouse, which was designed by Edison, Tesla, and Escher.
** Justifiable, as the Warehouse is clearly built into the side of a mountain; what we see of the exterior is just the entrance and probably a diversionary appearance (to make it seem like a normal warehouse), with the rest being underground/inside the mountain.

* BigOlEyebrows: Artie is remembered by Jinks as "the guy with the eyebrows". They are promptly exaggerated in Fargo's VR game in "Don't Hate the Player".
--> '''Pete''': Artie's gonna be deeply pissed.
** In "Insatiable," when Artie can't get the boy to open up to him, Pete remarks that "maybe it's the eyebrows."

* BrickJoke: In the second series opener, we finally get to see what the smell of fudge signifies: invisible mines.

* BrokenBird: Claudia Donovan from the fourth episode. [[GenkiGirl She gets better.]]
* BrownNote: Several:

* ButtMonkey: Claudia in season 1.

* TheCastShowoff: In "Insatiable", Allison Scagliotti shows herself to be a reasonably talented guitarist and singer. Subverted though, as the sequence in question is relatively unobtrusive and does not in anyway negatively affect the storyline (It's specifically stated to occur during Claudia's down time.)

** As do {{Bruce Lee}}'s punching bag, {{Jack Kirby}}'s belt, [[TheBible Samson's]] Jawbone and Babe Ruth's baseball bat.
* ChekhovsGun: Many, many items. Under a dozen or so lines into the episode "Burnout", Pete makes a passing remark, "that's a big-ass generator", before dealing with an artifact with a weakness to... guess what.

** In the first episode of the first season, one of the many questions which Pete and Myka believe to be stupid asks whether or not the subject has recently smelled fudge. A season later, it turns out that [[spoiler:that's the only way to detect chameleon bombs]].
*** In "Elements," Myka clues Pete in that she has a possible lead in mind with the words "I smell fudge."

* {{Chessmaster}}: Of a literal sort. Artie has a chessboard he keeps outside his office and plays against himself for months between moves. Given how Claudia ignores his objections and makes a move half-way through the episode, and then at the end makes the first move of a reset board, she's also on-board for having this be her role.
** H.G. Wells' mentor Catarunga was also a literal sort. The two of them played chess every day for years, and H.G. Wells (who was no slouch in this department herself) didn't win once. [[spoiler: Catarunga designed a lock for backdoor to the Warehouse to be a chess game. The game was set up with player in check, if the player didn't win in 3 moves they were killed. Sykes kidnapped H.G. Wells assuming she could beat the lock, and she still couldn't. She then realized that Catarunga designed it so that the player ''had to cheat'' to win.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: "Secret Santa", which aired between seasons 2 and 3, involves a BadassSanta and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming between Artie and his estranged father.
** Another ("The Greatest Gift") aired between Seasons 3 and 4; an ItsAWonderfulPlot by way of artifact for Pete.

* CoolOldGuy: Artie. ''So'' Artie.

** 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]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: Appears to have happened to Jinks in "The 40th Floor" after the confrontation with Mrs. Frederic that [[spoiler: got him fired.]]

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

* MentalTimeTravel: H.G. Wells' ''actual'' time machine does this; physically traveling through time is impossible, but her machine can allow one to inhabit the body of someone else in the past. However, it only works for 22 hours and 19 minutes, and can't actually change the past (or rather, [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast has already done so by virtue of its use]]). Also while Time Traveling your body is basically comatose for those 22 hours and 19 minutes, justifying above trope.

** Claudia loves this. She tries to change a light bulb by using a magnetic artifact to scale the Warehouse's steel girders. Subverted when it is revealed that each time the artifact comes into contact with something metal, the power doubles, threatening to collapse the entire Warehouse. Played straight with a snowglobe that releases quick-freezing snow (she uses it to cool drinks) and Benjamin Franklin's electricity-amplifying ring (which she uses to turn her hand into a flashlight).
* MusicalAssassin: Pretty much any musical instrument, recording, or studio equipment (like the Studio 54 Disco ball) in the Warehouse is most likely the tool of such a person. This was also how the plot worked in Season 1 episode 2.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[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 that [[spoiler: Jinks's mutiny and subsequent blacklisting are actually a ruse in an attempt to place him undercover in the {{Big Bad}}'s employ]].

* NoImmortalInertia: [[spoiler:Marcus and Mrs. Frederic not only die instantly when the things keeping them alive are shut down/destroyed, but age accordingly. Marcus thus becomes a slightly decayed corpse, while Mrs. Frederic shrivels into a near-skeletal state.]]

** He mentions in one episode that he's tired of encountering Artifacts that he has to explain at his AA meetings. This is after he's exposed to W.C. Fields's juggling balls, an artifact which actually [[IntoxicationEnsues make you act drunk]].

* ThePowerOfRock: In the season 3 premiere, Jimi Hendrix's burned guitar has enough power to shut down the entire eastern seaboard if left unchecked, and is naturally activated by being played.

* RevealingHug: Claudia is rather put-off by the notion that the people running the Warehouse have some sort of plan for her future, but Artie assures her that she will always have the ability to choose her destiny. However, when she hugs him in gratitude, it's clear Artie knows more about this situation than he's letting on.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Subverted With H.G.Wells she sacrifices herself in the season 3 finale to save the main characters but thanks to a ResetButton she's alive again at the end of the season 4 premiere...]]

** Pete/Myka via LikeBrotherAndSister reference in her "going away" letter in the season 2 finale. However, Eddie [=McClintock=] seems to believe they will be together when "the end of the show" happens, so it's possible the writers are playing the long game with it. A season 3 episode ("Love Sick") involved them becoming drunk because of an artifact and, fearful that they wouldn't remember what they had done the next morning, get into bed naked because they knew they would ''never'' sleep together and it would prompt them to find out what they had done the previous night.
** Pete/Kelly in the season 2 finale ("Reset") via her getting weirded out at, you know, almost killing Pete.

* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Fargo's MARA repair drones inexplicably come equipped with net launchers, flamethrowers, and saw blades.

** "Where and When" has a variation using Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s knife, which turns people into glass. Apparently those slippers weren't hers, and weren't the only glass things to be found that day.

* TakeUpMySword: When it seems as if Mrs. Frederic is going to die, and therefore Warehouse 13 would die with her, Claudia is nearly made to take her place to keep Warehouse 13 safe. She doesn't have to go through with it, though it's suggested that sooner or later she will.

* TemptingFate: Claudia comments that the backup containment fields for the Artifacts in the Dark Vault should hold up long enough to do what they need to do. Notably, the containment fields fail before she even finishes her sentence.
** She does finish the sentence, just not the way she had originally intended.
--->'''Claudia:''' ...to realize my Karma sucks.
** Happens again buried when the team needs to infiltrate Warehouse 2. After passing the first entrance test, they come across a long hallway. The Regent, Valda, accompanying them declares that they just might make it after all. Cue saw blades springing from the floor. Pete then has the nerve to say "It could be worse." Cue fire.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Myka...oh don't act surprised.

*** And Warehouse 13 opened in 1914 and seeing as the Regents have great foresight it makes sense.

** Warehouse 2 is in Egypt and is discovered in one episode. In fact, it still contains plenty of artifacts. It was sealed and abandoned after Rome invaded Egypt.

* ThisIsMyHuman: After psychically linking with a dog, Artie claims their bond is too strong and that it owns him now. He also mentions that cats are prisoners.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Jinks tries to claim this trope doesn't work in real life, which is ridiculous because his mere presence ensures the perp ''can't'' successfully mislead the interrogator. [[spoiler:Sally and Mrs. Frederic both manage to torture accurate information out of their victims, even if Jinks stopped Mrs. Frederic from getting a complete confession.]]
** Jinks's presence ensures the perp can't ''lie''; it doesn't stop her from simply saying nothing at all. Or from saying something they believe to be true (which doesn't ping to him as lying).

** Pete freaking loves pancakes. So much so that he forced a pancake house to discontinue that peg-in-a-hole game contest they had every week because he mastered it for free pancakes.

* TrappedInTVLand: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] One episode features a movie projector that causes whatever is played on it to appear in ''our'' world.
* TrojanHorse: [[spoiler:Van Gogh's "Stormy Night" painting, which Artie and Jinks have to retrieve with the help of FBI agent Sally (who's secretly working against them). She steals it in a moment of confusion and replaces with a lookalike composed of a swarm of tiny insect robots, which she then returns so they'll put it in the Warehouse.]]

* TryNotToDie: Mrs. Frederic to Artie upon giving him permission to go after [=MacPherson=].

* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The TimeMachine.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: DoubleSubverted. When H.G. Wells tries to start another ice age Artie pulls out a gun and shoots her...but she's got an artifact that transfers the wound to Artie.
** Played straight earlier when H.G. threatens to shoot her lawyer if he doesn't stand in a miniature, portable tar pit... which would kill him eventually but also leave enough time for Pete and Myka to save him. It's incredibly [[JamesBond Bond]]-esque. Justified as she didn't want him to die, and needed to delay Pete and Myka.
** [[spoiler: Multiple times with Sykes. Jinx 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.]]

* WimpFight: Done with guns/teslas. Claudia and Todd suspect each other of being a warehouse infiltrator and a mob agent respectively. When they confront each other about these suspicions, they spend a good five seconds fumbling with their pockets in order to draw a weapon on the other.

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: There's an Artifact for that.
* WorldsSmallestViolin: This exchange in the episode titled "Merge With Caution" after the Warehouse agents just jumped out through a window and Pete is complaining about his knees:

'''Myka''': The world's tiniest purple violin.

* {{Yandere}}: Lizzie Borden's compact causes its victim (Kelly) to become this.
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: The stipulation to H.G. Wells' time machine; time can't be changed because by virtue of using the machine you've already changed it. People who died in the past can't be saved because you already failed to do it.
* YouGotMurder: Bobby's preferred method of revenge, thanks to Edger Allen Poe's pen. ''[[BrownNote "Words have power..."]]''

* YourWorstNightmare: 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]].
* YouWouldntShootMe: Myka does this to H.G. Wells, knowing that in the end she wasn't so disillusioned with humanity that she could kill an innocent in cold blood, much less someone she respected as much as Myka.

* ChekhovsGun: Many, many items. Under a dozen or so lines into one episode, Pete makes a passing remark, "that's a big-ass generator", before dealing with an artifact with a weakness to... guess what.

* DisasterDominoes: The season 1 episode "Breakdown", where the "gooery" (the part of the Warehouse responsible for manufacturing the neutralizer goo) malfunctions in a series of events, all starting from, of all things, a stray automatic vacuum cleaner that wasn't even an artifact.

** [=Cecil B. DeMille's=] riding crop has this power, giving the one who bends it control over the body of whoever they want. Both Marcus and Walter Sykes make extensive use of this in the season 3 finale.

* PlotTailoredToTheParty: Majorly Averted. In the season 2 episode "Buried" H.G. Wells, Myka, and Pete [[spoiler:well, and Valda too before he has to sacrifice himself in the "body" challenge]] are faced with three challenges inside Warehouse 2: Mind, Body, and Soul. Pete immediately solves the mind challenge, H.G. comes up with a clever solution for body, Myka overcomes the soul challenge (and then, Pete figures out the final riddle of how to shut the security system off)
* PocketProtector: Averted in the episode ''Regrets''

* ThePowerOfRock: Jimi Hendrix's burned guitar has enough power to shut down the entire eastern seaboard if left unchecked, and is naturally activated by being played.
* ProductPlacement: Myka starts off the series stating firmly that she doesn't eat sugar, but is suddenly made into a 'Twizzlers Girl' in the second season. Twizzlers is a sponsor of the show by promotional material in the DVD. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at the table scene at the end of season 3, episode 2, when Leena tells Jinks about how Myka used to avoid sugar, only to have Myka claim not to remember that.

* ProngsOfPoseidon: The Minoan Trident.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Subverted With H.G.Wells she sacrifices herself in the season 3 finale to save the main characters but thanks to a ResetButton she's alive again at the end of the season 4 premiere..]]

* RedShirt: Myka becomes concerned in an episode that this is how Artie may view her and Pete, [[ConversationalTroping even naming the trope]].

* ResetButton: Hit in the Season 4 premiere via turning time back 24 hours to [[spoiler: save the Warehouse, Mrs. Fredric, HG, and Pete.]]
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Myka (and later Pete and the rest of the Warehouse crew) seem to have done this for H.G., which leads to [[spoiler: her HeroicSacrifice]]

* {{Revenge}}: Season 3 BigBad's motivation

** And also in the alternate universe where Pete was never born, complete with multiple references to how much she hates Artie

* RunningGag

* SamusIsAGirl: HG Wells is female. Though given the obvious tip offs, GenreSavvy viewers had heavy hints.

* SealedEvilInACan: Alice Liddell, trapped in Lewis Carrol's mirror.
** The entire Bronze Sector, which houses people so evil that they could have "[[GodwinsLaw become the next Hitler]]." [[spoiler:The female HGWells escaped from here, though she claims not be so much evil as very depressed at the time.]]

* 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. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better]].]]

* ShootTheDog: Myka can't bring herself to electrocute Pete to destroy a particularly dangerous artifact, so [[NeverMessWithGranny Rebecca]] does it for her.
* ShoutOut: H.G. Wells' MentalTimeTravel machine seems to be powered by a device that looks strikingly like a [[BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].

** Pete/Myka via LikeBrotherAndSister reference in her 'going away' letter. However, Pete's actor seems to believe they will be together when 'the end of the show' happens, so it's possible the writers are playing the long game with it. A season 3 episode involved them becoming drunk because of an artifact and, fearful that they wouldn't remember what they had done the next morning, get into bed naked because they knew they would 'never' sleep together and it would prompt them to find out what they had done the previous night.
** Pete/Kelly via her getting weirded out at, you know, almost killing Pete.
** Claudia/Jinks torpedoed right as Claudia was about to bring up what she thought was their {{UST}} by Jinks and his HaveIMentionedIAmGay moment.

* SomeoneHasToDie: MarkSheppard sacrifices himself to fulfill this trope in the penultimate episode of season 2.
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:H.G. Wells, following her imprisonment, has her mind trapped in a modified magic 8-ball which can project her as a hologram. Her body, meanwhile, continues to live as a schoolteacher in Wyoming.]]

* SpiderSense: Pete's Vibes. [[spoiler:Season 3 reveals he inherited it from his mom.]]

* SpookyPainting: Causes Myka, Pete, and Claudia to be LockedInARoom.
* StableTimeLoop: See YouAlreadyChangedThePast. Rebecca St. Clair and her partner Jack fell in love when they found themselves kissing in an orchard, with no memory of the previous day. Fifty years later, Rebecca uses H.G. Wells' TimeMachine to [[MentalTimeTravel transfer her consciousness into her past self]] so she can share one last kiss (the FirstKiss) with Jack. HG Wells also built the time machine in the first place after realizing that she did so in the future and used it.

** [[spoiler: Walter Sykes was corrupted as a child by an artifact which gave him the ability to walk. The artifact was then collected by Warehouse agents (namely, Pete's mother). Everything he's done since then was to get that artifact back. And more.]]
* StealthHiBye: Claudia is one of the few people who do this walking through a perfectly ordinary door. Artie pulls it on Pete and Myka later. Mrs Frederic and to a lesser extent her bodyguard manage it on a regular basis.

** Not necessarily; Artie mentions that the Warehouse is in its 13th iteration and that it 'moves' to whatever world power is most suited for it. He implies that it's been around far longer than a few hundred years. Indeed, the show itself implies that the Warehouse itself may be a sentient artifact that has simply been upgraded by various inhabitants.

** The Horn of Jericho in "3..2..1" literally disintegrates whatever happens to be in front of it when someone blows into it.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Literally - his trunks grant the ability to manipulate the wearer's density.

* NoodleIncident: "Next time, if there's an artifact in a zoo, WE LEAVE IT THERE!"

** When Pete's ex-wife mentions that Pete was kicked out of the boy scouts, he hastily protests that he "did not start that fire."

** "How close was the Warehouse to exploding?" "Under a minute."
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: A glass jar used by the Donner party shows up as an artifact. Anyone who puts money into it is stricken with hypothermia and severe hunger (eventually for human flesh), before eventually dying from cold.
* NotQuiteDead: Marcus thanks to an artifact which [[spoiler: later is used to kill him]]
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Hugo One wanted the rest of his/Hugo's original "soul" incorporated into his programming, and the Warehouse crew thought it would be an ''extremely'' bad idea. Justified, as the real Hugo wasn't rational enough to understand the situation, and the transfer to Hugo One would be powered by an [[ArtifactOfDoom artifact]]. Not to mention the fact that they couldn't very well have an AI running the Warehouse.

** Artie seems to be learning the trick too when he busts Claudia trying to hack the Atlas-66 file.
---> '''Claudia:''' Did you just Mrs Frederics me?

** He mentions in one episode that he's tired of encountering Artifacts that he has to explain at his AA meetings. This is after he's exposed to a set of juggling balls that actually [[IntoxicationEnsues make you act drunk]].

* TheOphelia: Claudia has spent time in mental institutions over what happened to her brother and she occasionally falls back to a broken bird status.

* PercussiveMaintenance: How the team resolves the issue with the time machine.

** [=Cecil B. DeMille's=] riding crop has this power, giving the one who bends it control over the body of whoever they want.

* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:Jinks warns Mrs. Frederic]] that actions have consequences, as a protest to her torture of Sally. When Sally escapes, Mrs. Frederic repeats that back to him just before firing him.

** The activation of the Remati Shackle in the season 3 finale does this.

* LoveCannotOvercome: Pete is about to reveal the true nature of his work to Kelly, but having just had a small sample of that dangerous world, she breaks it up with him and leaves.

* MacGyvering: Artie improvises an electromagnet out of an iron while handcuffed inside a closet.

* MakeTheDogTestify: played with in ''Past Imperfect''.
* MaleGaze: Pete can't stop staring at the NPC!Leena's chest in "Don't Hate The Player" so we're treated to a cleavage shot.

* MentalTimeTravel: H.G. Wells' ''actual'' time machine does this; physically traveling through time is impossible, but her machine can allow one to inhabit the body of someone else in the past. However, it only works for 22 hours and 19 minutes, and can't actually change the past (or rather, [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast has already done so by virtue of its use]]). Also while Time Traveling your body is basically comatose for those 22 hours and 19 minutes justifying above trope.

* CassandraTruth: Often with Pete and Myka's Secret Service cover. Pete also gets this in a bad way when he can't convince the others that Valda has turned coat and kidnapped Mrs. Frederic ([[spoiler: [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness for good reason]]]]).]

* DisposablePilot: Mrs. Frederic's driver is the person killed when Artie survives an explosion by using the Phoenix artifact.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Inverted when Pete is fighting the Spine of Sarecen. He's actually winning the fight... but that's exactly why he's doing what he's doing.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Claudia initially assumes that Steve Jinks is hitting on her and strokes her ego while telling him why its not a good idea for him to try an office romance, then is completely mortified when he tells her that he's gay.
* InsistentTerminology[=/=]ItsPronouncedTroPAY: Pete's ex-wife keeps pronouncing the name of the town as "uni-ville." Pete repeatedly corrects her that it's "un-i-ville."

--->For the first time, the Regents chose to find a stealth cover for the Warehouse and for what is kept there. Searching for the most innocuous and repulsive occupation that would cause people to shun the very structure - and finding one unique to American political ingenuity - word was covertly spread that Warehouse 13 was the place where all Income Tax Return Forms were stored from every citizen in the United States. This insured that no one would ever want to cross its threshold, and its safety has been guaranteed ever since.

** Emphasizing its ''Un-importance''
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: In ''Don't Hate The Player'', Fargo has specifically added dragons to his VR game, and even says when asked why, "Dragons are awesome!"

* ISeeDeadPeople: Artie sees visions of [=MacPherson=] after he is killed by H.G. Wells, which he suspects is a result of the Phoenix.

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: The 2011 Christmas episode, caused by an artifact belonging to the author of the inspiration of the TropeNamer. Just to hammer it home, the episode ends on the group watching ItsAWonderfulLife, eliciting a BigNo from Pete
** Interestingly Pete though giddily excited not to be forced into a shopping trip with is mom did not make any wish relating to this plot as so often happens.

* KillHimAlready: Oh damn, yes. Pete has [=MacPherson=] cornered in an alley, has his Tesla (strictly a stun gun/deneuralyzer and not at lethal) trained on him, and...tells him to surrender, instead of shooting him and cuffing him. This allows [=MacPherson=] to slowly reach for and use an artifact (that com chatter makes clear they know the dangers of and that they know he has) to immobilize Pete and KILL two unlucky cops. Very slightly justified as he may have been hesitating because of the cops presence, but since they DIED for their secrecy, I think they'd rather he had fired.

* KillItWithIce: In "Vendetta," a remnant of the Titanic can cause you to die of hypothermia regardless of the temperature outside.
** Also used as a security lock-down by Hugo 1 in "13.1" to kill off the agents.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Claudia [[LampshadeHanging makes a remark to this effect]] when she winds up cuffed to a rail, after having done the same thing to an Artifact-whammied Artie:

''*goes to commercial break* ''
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Mrs. Frederic, on Pete hugging her in the second Christmas special.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Hugo One, at least at first. It turns out that the "AI" is actually the creator himself, or rather the left side of his brain downloaded into the computer. Without the other half, the program takes everything too logically.
* TheAlcoholic: Pete is a teetotal alcoholic, having been sober for several years at the beginning of the series. Tellingly, he shows clear signs of panic in one episode when Myka and he switch bodies when Myka was inebriated, fearing that this will cause him to suffer a relapse.

** She also does it in ''Beyond Our Control'', and in 3x10 ''Insatiable'' she does so in conversation about living dead. In fairness to the latter, there was an artifact responsible and they weren't zombies.

*** Particularly things in the "Dark Vault," which include, among other things, Sylvia Plath's typewriter (which destroys your will to live) and the Aztec bloodstone (the artifact that turned the aforementioned museum worker in the first episode into a ManchurianAgent). They're so dangerous that they have to be kept in individual containment fields with their own backup generators.

* BeYourself: Artie's advice for Claudia's coffee date. It goes... interestingly.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Appears to have happened to Jinks after the confrontation with Mrs. Frederic that [[spoiler: got him fired.]]

* FountainOfYouth: Man Ray's camera has the ability to steal the youth of one person and give it to another.

* GambitRoulette: H.G. Wells does this much better, as she had a plan that took nearly a century to execute and ''still'' pulled it off.

* HappyFunBall: As mentioned above, a good 95% of the artifacts look completely innocent. Even down to their listed labels. In one episode, someone reads a few off, and they have powers like "makes doves line up and dance," which makes the character wonder what they're doing in the warehouse. Another character quickly informs him that if they're in the Warehouse, there's a ''reason'' for it, usually having to do with the artifact having an evil streak.

-->'''Claudia''': (reading Artie's list of chores) "Tighten and lubricate zipline"? (smirks) Sounds kinda dirty when you say it like that.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Claudia's initial reaction to Todd. Or at least Myka's teasing about him...

* 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 and use it to bring Steve back to life]]

** In "Elements", Colnel Sheppard from ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' makes an appearance.

* HumanPopsicle: An interesting variety. People too dangerous to be left roaming the Earth are cryogenically frozen then encased in bronze. [=MacPherson=] is "bronzed" in the S1 finale. Of course, that doesn't last too long and it's subverted by TheMole setting him free. H.G. Wells was also bronzed; again, freed by TheMole.
* HumansAreBastards: H.G. Wells developed this opinion of humanity, and sought out the Minoan trident to deal with it. She had herself bronzed with the hope that things would have gotten better, but the future is far more disappointing than she imagined. [[spoiler: She eventually gets better, at least in thinking that Pete, Myka, and Artie are worth saving]]

-->'''Pete''': Let's all grow up a little, shall we?\\
''Pete's cell phone starts ringing.''\\

* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: Said by Claudia while climbing about in the Warehouse. Later made humorously literal by the revelation that there is an exact copy of the bed & breakfast they all live at stored in the Warehouse.

* {{Flight}}: Daedalus' wings attract wind, giving them lift disproportionate to their size. Pete acknowledges the awesomeness of this.

** Myka and H.G. Wells, until the Foe no longer applies.

* ForWantOfANail: apparently, if Pete wasn't born, Artie would have been arrested trying to snag the Bloodstone, Myka would have remained a Secret Service Agent, her father would have died, MacPhearson would have convinced the Regents to let him run the Warehouse, and Claudia would have remained stuck in a mental hospital unable to save her brother

* FreakyFridayFlip: The artifact in "Merge With Caution" causes this as a side effect.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Walter Sykes]]
* FullBodyDisguise: Harriet Tubman's Thimble.

** 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]].

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: In this case, the goggles protect your eyes against the purple sparks produced by dipping something into 'neutralizer'. Volta's goggles complete his lab coat artifact to produce an ever-expanding magnetic field. Goggles are also used in the Escher vault to navigate the otherwise impossible-to-predict paths.

* GrapplingHookPistol: H.G. Wells has one, self-built.
* {{Grimmification}}: The show seems to be fond of this. Literature/{{Cinderella}} actually murdered her sisters by turning them ''into'' glass, [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice Liddell]] was a psychopath [[SealedEvilInACan trapped in the Looking Glass]], and KingArthur never had a round table or knights and used a cheap trick to get the sword out of the stone (the Grail does exist, though). It seems that most fairy tales have some basis in reality, but the truth is often related to an ArtifactOfDoom and hence much darker.

** Even as recently as W12, they were used as security systems. Though at least the previous ones gave a chance at living...

* DisasterDominoes: Episode 10.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: To an extent, [=MacPherson=] is this is Season 2. He was the BigBad of the first season and seemed set up to continue being so, only for [[spoiler: HG to kill him]] one episode into the season.
* DisintegratorRay: Joshua's [[InstrumentOfMurder Horn of Jericho]] through sonic frequencies. Its debut episode involves a misguided attempt to use it to contact aliens, inadvertently making it into a WMD.
* DisposablePilot: Mrs. Frederic's driver is the person killed when Artie survives an explosion by using the phoenix.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Daniel Dickinson, Pete and Myka's former boss, dies rather abruptly about halfway through the second season after having been absent since about halfway through the first season.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Double subverted. Myka refuses to say what it is at first, and finally reveals it to be the rather nice sounding Ophelia. Pete even says it's nice. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then asks]] [[RefugeInAudacity "Can Ophelia boobies?"]]

* EvilBrit: James [=MacPherson=]

* EyeCastASpell: A handful of artifacts are activated by eye contact. Explored in ''"Love Sick"'' when Artie and Hugo have a short discussion about eyes acting as a [[{{Technobabble}} coaxial cable to allow downloading and alteration of DNA]].

** Averted in "For The Team", at least for those with a female muscle growth FetishFuel. Despite being ''dunked'' in a vat of artifact-influenced muscle-enhancing drink, Claudia exhibits no visible symptoms other than a rash and a slight rippling of her facial skin. No SheHulk here, sorry...

* FantasticNuke: A tile from the British House of Commons which absorbed the concentrated explosive force of ''the entire London Blitz'' [[spoiler: is used in the finale of Season 3 to destroy the Warehouse.]]

** A record in the first season causes intense serenity in its listeners.
** A telegraph artifact drives Pete insane.
** Two finger cymbals used by [=MacPhearson=] release a deadly sonic pulse.
** The Horn of Jericho literally disintegrates whatever happens to be in front of it when someone blows into it.

* CallBack: The first episode of Season 3 has a lot of Call Backs to the pilot, with Jinks in the place of Pete and Myka. It gets a CrowningMomentOfFunny when, as they're doing the pull back from the office when Artie says "Welcome to Warehouse 13", it suddenly cuts back to the group, with Artie saying "Okay, that's all we have time for; we have work to do".
* CallingTheOldManOut: After [[spoiler: Steve]] is killed, Claudia calls the Regents (particularly [[spoiler: Jane]]) out for their cowardice and letting their agents take all the risk.

** Inverted in the Season 3 premier when Jinks who can always tell when a person is lying. He quickly discards the easily acceptable lies Claudia and Artie offer up and readily believes the truth about the ArtifactsOfDoom.
* TheCastShowoff: In "Insatiable", Allison Scagliotti shows herself to be a reasonably talented guitarist and singer. Subverted though, as the sequence in question is relatively unobtrusive and does not in anyway negatively affect the storyline (It's specifically stated to occur during Claudia's down time).

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Artie loses his computer skills when Claudia arrives. HG Wells escapes the Bronze Sector, steals something from the Escher Vault, kills [=MacPherson=], and leaves us hanging with an ominous mumbling. [[spoiler:Over the season, her characterization switches from another BigBad to a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to bring her daughter back to life, and then switches back to BigBad, albeit one who is genuinely apologetic for having to betray Myka's trust after earning it to gain access to what she wants. And now, in season 3, she (or at least her holographic image) is presumably to be trusted again.]]
** Possibly justified with Artie as he is mentioned as having been one of the people who worked on the mainframe system in the Warehouse, which in of itself is one of the most advanced systems on the planet, and repeatedly shown as not being someone who is set in his ways of doing things. Claudia on the other hand constantly updates and tinkers with her gear in order to make it better. Given that we see some of the changes she made to certain things caused Artie to become irritable, it make sense that once she began making changes to the system, Artie could no longer keep up.

** As do {{Bruce Lee}}'s punching bag, {{Jack Kirby}}'s belt, [[TheBible Samson's]] Jaw bone and Babe Ruth's baseball bat.

*** In "Elements," Myka clues Pete in that she has a possible lead in mind with the words 'I smell fudge'.

* {{Chessmaster}}: of a literal sort. Artie has a chessboard he keeps outside his office and plays against himself for months between moves. Given how Claudia ignores his objections and makes a move half-way through the episode, and then at the end makes the first move of a reset board, she's also on-board for having this be her role.

* ChristmasEpisode: Aired between seasons 2 and 3, involves a BadassSanta and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming between Artie and his estranged father.
** Another aired between Seasons 3 and 4; an ItsAWonderfulPlot by way of artifact for Pete.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Inverted in a game of Battleship.

** Jinks mentions his own Cool Big Sis, saying Claudia reminds him of the way she used to stand up for him.
* CoolShades: Most every member of the regular cast has Cool Shades of some description.

* CouchGag: There are three different versions of the season three opening, each with a different set of artifacts on the floor of the warehouse- a fleet of sports cars, a trio of jet fighters, and a group of objects under tarps.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable
* CreepyChild: Alice Liddell.
* CreepyDoll: That doll in the Black Vault when Pete gets a close look at it...

** This is a "containment" use keeping with the Warehouse's mandate of tucking artifacts "safely" away. The lack of control is still a problem though.

* DeathRay: The binoculars used by the pilot of Enola Gay. They absorb ambient energy to fire radiation. The aftermath is exactly like a localized nuclear bombing.

** Lampshaded in the holiday episode where Claudia makes everyone personalized t-shirts depicting an artifact that nearly killed each of them.

* AttackReflector: The Corsican vest, worn by the Corsican twins who felt each others' pain, does this.

* BadassBoast

* BadBoss: Walter Sykes is this trope ''in spades.''
* TheBadGuyWins: Season 1. [=MacPherson=] escapes containment, frames Claudia as TheMole, and blows Artie up. He got better.
** 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.]]
* BatmanGambit: [=MacPherson=]'s plan to enter the Warehouse ''and'' put Artie through the same soulcrushing experience he had in his StartOfDarkness.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Not an alien spy, but he probably made an artifact that is now in the Warehouse. He and Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Tubman, H. G. Wells, Alice Lydell, and on and on.

* BiTheWay: The (female) Warehouse version of H.G. Wells. Her nonchalant coming out doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.
---> "I do know a thing or two about the opposite sex. Many of my lovers were men."

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

* BigOlEyebrows: Artie is remembered by Jinks as "the guy with the eyebrows". They are promptly exaggerated in Fargo's VR game.
-->'''Pete''': Artie's gonna be deeply pissed.

** A telegraph machine drives Pete insane.

* BuxomIsBetter: Apparently Fargo went ahead and gave Leena and Claudia cup-upgrades for his game.

* CallBack: The first episode of Season 3 has a lot of Call Backs to the pilot, with Jinks in the place of Pete and Myka. It gets a CrowningMomentOfFunny when, as they're doing the pull back from the office when Artie says "Welcome to Warehouse 13", it suddenly cuts back to the group, with Artie saying that they "don't have time for that".

* AffablyEvil: H.G. Wells. So much so that, past her introduction episode, you'd have a hard time believing she ever was evil until the finale

** Reversed in "Past Imperfect," where Myka is the emotional, impulsive one while Pete is the methodical, logical one. Justified, as in this case Myka is investigating something personal, and Pete realizes he needs to pick up the slack.

** Another one, [[spoiler: Pete's mother]] is an elementary school teacher. She claims that Regents are picked based on their areas of expertise.

* AmuletOfDependency: The future-telling coin that affects your health with each use.
* AndIMustScream: People who are "bronzed" are still self-aware.

** Though it's possible that [[SympatheticSue H.G.]] was lying when she made that claim.

* AndThisIsFor: Delivered bone-chillingly by Claudia during the season 3 finale.
-->'''Claudia:''' That was for [[spoiler: Steve]]
* AntiVillain: HG Wells for most of her screentime. [[spoiler: She eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn and a HeroicSacrifice]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Until the next season shows them to still be alive.

** Myka has this habit. It's most explicitly pointed out in 2x01 when Myka has the nerve to proclaim that there's no such thing as cavorite [[hottip:*:an AntiGravity metal from an HGWells story]] while she and Pete are stuck to the ceiling due to a gadget ''made by HGWells''.
-->'''Pete:''' You're still asking questions?\\
'''Myka:''' I'm still waiting for an answer.

** Pete does this in Season 3, laughing at the idea that H.G. Wells could have made a rocket in the 1800s. She immediately points out that he's used a ''time-machine'' she made in the 1800s. Of course, he pretty much hates her at the time, so he disregards everything she says.

** Specifically, pretty much everything is a HappyFunBall. Dodgeballs that bludgeon people to death, locust-summoning whistles, hair combs that hypnotize people into becoming murderers... ''Warehouse 13'' is full of dangerous crap that looks completely innocent.

** Lampshaded again by this sentence from Myka to Jinks:
-->'''Myka:''' You were almost killed by an artifact; you are now officially a Warehouse agent.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: H.G Wells. Though knowing the show's attitudes on death, this will probably be subverted in Season 4.]]

** And now [=MacPherson=]'s watch. It is implied to be [[spoiler: some kind of time machine, which will be used to save Warehouse 13]]

* HeroicSacrifice: DoublySubverted 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.]]

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: [[strike:Fargo]] Bismarck.

* ReinventingTheTelephone: [[strike:Steampunk]] [[NikolaTesla Teslapunk]] video phones, tasers, golf carts, computers, hologram projectors (oh wait)...

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hugo One and his creator in the episode ''13.1'' is portrayed by [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Constable Odo,]] (Rene Auberjonois)
** In ''Mild Mannered'', Loretta is [[Firefly Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye]], and Sheldon is [[Firefly Dr. Simon Tam]]. And they are a couple.
** In 'Elements', Colnel Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis makes an appearance.

''Warehouse 13'' is part of the "Syfy-verse": it ''kinda'' exists in the same fictional universe as ''{{Eureka}}'' and ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.

*** Same can be said for casting [[{{Eureka}} Niall Matter and Erica Cerra]], though it should be noted this was before the crossover.

* {{Crossover}}: With ''{{Eureka}}'' and vice-versa. Douglas Fargo makes an appearance in the ''Warehouse 13'' episode "13.1", while Claudia appears in the aptly titled "Crossing Over" in ''Eureka''.

* EngagingConversation: Claudia, to Fargo, after they combine a {{Eureka}}-tech laser cutting torch with an [[AmplifierArtifact Amplifier]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Artifact]] to make a [[strike: geek's wet-dream weapon]] [[StarWars lightsaber]] and use it to destroy some MechaMooks.

* MysteriousBacker: In {{Eureka}}.

* SharedUniverse: With ''{{Eureka}}'' and ''Series/{{Alphas}}''. Doctor Calder appears in an episode of ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.