History Series / Warehouse13

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Part of H.G. Wells' backstory. During her time at the Warehouse, her daughter was murdered. Seeking some way to bring her back, she began combing the shelves for an Artifact that would do the trick. She ended up getting another agent killed, and so asked to be bronzed. Subverted in the finale, when it's revealed that was [[XanatosGambit all part of the plan]].

** And not only that, but he manages to disguise his ''real'' plan with ''successful'' Gambits, in increasingly [[MagnificentBastard awesome]] acts.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: In the season 3 finale, it's revealed that [[spoiler:while H.G. Wells's soul is in the sphere, her body has a different identity as an American schoolteacher named Emily Lake]]. When Pete, Myka and Claudia explain it to her, Pete comments that "you have a really girly scream."

[[spoiler:'''Artie]]:''' No... no, [[spoiler:Pete]], you won't remember. (''[[spoiler:Pete]] dies'') [[TearJerker But I will...]]] I will.

*** Warehouse 13 itself was designed by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and M.C. Escher. The Farnsworths were invented by...well...[[CaptainObvious Philo Farnsworth]]. In terms of time periods, Edison and Tesla are borderline between Steampunk and Dieselpunk, and Farnsworth is squarely and comfortably in Dieselpunk. However, technologically speaking, Edison and Tesla in real life mark the end of steam technology, and the beginning of electrical technology, which indicates Dieselpunk. So, the technology is definitely more dieselpunk than steampunk.
** One episode features flashbacks to HG's time at Warehouse 12, where we get to see a steampunk gun and [[spoiler: rocket]].

** [[spoiler: Multiple times with Sykes in the season 3 finale. 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.]]
*** Justified with [[spoiler: Jinx, as he was undercover and needed to remain so]].

* YouGotMurder: In "Nevermore", Bobby's preferred method of revenge, thanks to Edger Allen Poe's pen. ''[[BrownNote "Words have power..."]]''
** The Lost Folio in the first episode of season 3 has this power. The first person to touch a page from it will die in the same way and pose as a Shakespearean death and then say the character's last words unless they say the last words before it takes place.

** In the first episode of the third season, [[spoiler:the man who planted the Lost Folio also gets this treatment.]]

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Shown in "Implosion", ''the'' Masamune sword is so sharp that it can cleave ''rays of light'', effectively making its holder invisible. This is explicitly a magical effect, though, as the sword needs to be intact (blade, handle, guard) for that effect to work. Conventionally, it's shown to cut through a computer monitor with one swing.

** Although they seem to forget this in an episode when Pete and Myka, drunk after touching W.C. Fields' juggling balls, bronze Steve. They're able to convince him that no time passed.
** According to the Season 2 finale, there is a fate even worse than Bronzing, but [[NothingIsScarier the agents (and the viewers) aren't given any specifics]]. Turns out it involves getting your soul taken out and carried around in a little ball, or at least part of it does.

[[spoiler:'''Artie]]:''' No... no, [[spoiler:Pete]], you won't remember. (''[[spoiler:Pete]] dies'') [[TearJerker But I will... I will]].
* ApatheticCitizens: The killer in "An Evil Within" targets people who refused to help his wife after she was trampled during a baseball riot. The cameras show his specific targets taking a moment to look then moving on without doing anything. There was also the guy who knocked her down in the confusion, thus causing her to get trampled, and a guy who parked in the ambulance zone.

** Also from the season 4 premiere, Pandora's Box is kind of an inverted version as without it, humanity itself loses hope. Without another emotion to hold back the lack of hope (anger for instance), people loose the will to live.

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

** The scarab that appears in the first season opening shows up in the third season as one of the artifacts from Warehouse 2. It promptly burrows into the floor. Several episodes later, it ends up distracting a dog Artie was interrogating ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]) and the dog finally catches it.

--> '''Claudia:''' You know, I see you and the Regents for what you really are: cowards. [[spoiler:Steve]] was worth a thousand of you.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: The Warehouse needs to have a caretaker to link to, which keeps it alive. This may also work in reverse, but it's not clear. At the very least, the implication is that Mrs. Frederic, the caretaker of Warehouse 13, has lived as long as she has thanks to the bond. [[spoiler:Proven to be true in the season 3 finale; when the Warehouse goes up in flames, she dies ''and decays'' on the spot.]]
** And now [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode Pete's mom]]]] is connected to it and/or Warehouse 7 thanks to the ingenuity of Genghis Khan and several deaths.

* IronicEcho: Claudia, before handcuffing Artie in her introductory episode in season 1, reveals herself to be the hacker breaking into the Warehouse with the words "Knock knock!" Later, in "Merge With Caution", when she finds herself handcuffed and unable to free herself, Artie leaves her to her own devices, saying the same words as he closes the door on her.

** In "An Evil Within", Pete actually refers to him and Myka as "Men in Black", when they are faced with an artifact causing people to hallucinate [[EldritchAbomination tentacled monsters]].

** Claudia loves this. In "Regrets", 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).

* NoImmortalInertia: In the season 3 finale, [[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.]]

** In the season 4 premiere, when Pete, Myka, Artie and Claudia are in France searching for another component of the ResetButton artifact, Pete points out the two brotherhood men following them, and complains at how obvious they were. Later, when they encounter a group of the brotherhood, Myka asks if getting through them was a challenge enough for Pete, and he agrees.

* TrueCompanions: Artie, Myka, Pete, Claudia, and Leena

** 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.]]
** Averted in "For The Team", at least for those with a female muscle growth fetish. 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 German Lutwaffe'' [[spoiler: is used in the finale of Season 3 to destroy the Warehouse.]]

* ForWantOfANail: If the events of the season 3 Christmas episode "The Greatest Gift" are to be believed, 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.

** By the time season 4 starts, everyone is painfully aware that the usage of artifacts often have dire consequences. The first thing they ask, when Artie shows them [=MacPherson=]'s watch, is "What's the downside?" Only [[spoiler:Artie]] finds out exactly what it is.

** NOT an exact copy, don't forget WHY it's in the Warehouse. It's for a simultaneously awesome and terrifying reason.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Scenes inside the Warehouse often end with a wipe of a crate slamming shut; scenes out in the field, with a wipe of a [[CommLinks Farnsworth]] shutting off. Another wipe is a zoom-out featuring various vault-like doors closing on one another, stopping at a door with "Warehouse 13" written beside it; which is sometimes played backwards after the commercial break. Other wipes have the last frame being manipulated in various ways: being put into an artifact pouch and sealed; turning into a painting, then zooming out from the Warehouse art gallery; becoming a reflection from the goo inside a neutralizer bucket; among others.

** 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]]. [[spoiler:Walter Sykes]] reacts as such when exposed to Ghandi's cloth, which radiates pure peace. [[spoiler:Now free of the darkness that was driving him, he can finally see the monster he's become and apologizes for it.]]

* PortalCut: [[spoiler:Walter Sykes dies when Pete cuts the power to a portal connecting Hong Kong and the Warehouse as he passes through it. Only his hand makes it to the other side, and promptly disintegrates, conveniently leaving the Artifact he had stolen unharmed.]]

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Jinks. His firing was part of an elaborate ruse to figure out Sykes' endgame.]]

* StraightGay: Agent Jinks.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Tentacles:]] Myka has a phobia for anything that has tentacles.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Shown in "Implosion", ''the'' Masamune sword is so sharp that it can cleave ''rays of light'', effectively making its holder invisible.

--> [[spoiler:'''Pete]]:''' I'm not gonna remember...\\

-->'''Myka:''' Cavorite was an anti-gravity metal that H.G. Wells wrote about, but cavorite doesn't exist... I mean there's no such thing.\\

-->'''Myka:''' Congratulations. You were almost killed by an artifact; you are now officially a Warehouse agent.

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

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: ''The'' Masamune sword is so sharp that it can cleave ''rays of light'', effectively making its holder invisible.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Played with and averted. When Jinks reveals his orientation to Pete and Myka, Pete's immediate reaction is to take his shirt off, since he believes Jinks will appreciate his chiseled abs. Jinks just averts his eyes and urges Pete to put his shirt back on.

** A funny moment in the season 4 premiere; when [[{{Omniglot}} Myka]] translates a writing in Portuguese (revealing yet another in the already long list of languages she knows), Pete, Artie, Claudia and Leena all look at her. She just replies, "Really? This is ''still'' a surprise to you?"

*** [[spoiler:Subverted as of the season 4 premiere "A New Hope", when Artie uses the ResetButton artifact to go back to the moments before Sykes dies]].

* BrainwashResidue: After Leena is saved from being brainwashed by [=MacPherson=]. An image of what [=MacPherson=] supposedly saw remains in Leena's mind, which turns out to be [[spoiler:half of the Minoan trident, which H.G. Wells planned to use to destroy the world in the season 2 finale]].

** When invited to the warehouse in the first episode, Pete is told "Pack light. We'll ship what you need and store the rest." In season two, he complains about his stuff still not arriving.

* ConversationalTroping: In "Elements", Claudia starts up her projector by smacking it, then looks at Artie and says, "PercussiveMaintenance."

* {{Death Trap}}s: Back in the old days before alarm systems, Warehouse security used these instead. It follows a simple mental, physical, and spiritual pattern. The DurableDeathtrap is implicitly justified through the use of artifacts. The floor magically regenerates in one trap once the puzzle is solved.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Artie goads [=MacPherson=], who is holding a samurai sword, into stabbing him in the chest, and then holds on to it so that [=MacPherson=] will have to run and abandon the sword, a valuable Artifact. He survives, but is injured for several episodes.

** In the season 4 premiere, the price Artie pays for using the [[ResetButton astrolabe]] to redeem the past 24 hours is the creation of "an evil of your own making; an evil that will live with you the rest of your days." He is also forbidden to tell anyone what he has done, at the risk of putting that person "in grave danger."

And outside of hunting down the new artifacts, there is always a dilemma cooking up back at the warehouse where one of the miscellaneous items is being experimented on, stupidly misused or otherwise going haywire.

* ArbitrarySkepticism:

** And now [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode Pete's mom]]]] is connected to it and/or Warehouse 7 thanks to the ingenuity of Genghis Khan and several deaths.

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

* ConversationalTroping: In "Elements", Claudia starts up her projector by smacking it, then looks at Artie and says, "{{Percussive maintenance}}."

* CoolShades: Most every member of the regular cast has {{Cool Shades}} of some description.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Made more plausible by the scale and setting: a massive building in the blindspot of the middle of nowhere (no one suspects South Dakota!) and virtually no bureaucracy.

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

** 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 {{Big Bad}}'s employ]].

* NoodleImplements: Most of the questions in the official form for people who might have come into contact with an artifact.

** In the first episode of Season 3, Pete tells Jinks about a time he tried on {{Abraham Lincoln}}'s hat and was overcome with the desire to "free" Mrs. Frederic. And don't think that didn't get him into trouble.

-->'''Claudia''': Did you just Mrs. Frederic me?

* RasputinianDeath: Though no one in the series actually suffers such a death, Artie does debunk the {{Trope Namer}}'s death as nonsense. In this universe, Rasputin really did die on the first attempt, but his followers used an artifact to project an image of him to others for the additional deaths, which is why people think it took so much to kill him.

* RetiredBadass: Rebecca St. Clair, a former Warehouse agent.

** After two complete seasons, Pete has STILL not read the Warehouse manual.

* 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. "Buried" also reveals that the Warehouse management compile lengthy records on how to kill various agents.

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: In "Don't Hate the Player", the program uses the characters fears, from the mundane like hair loss to the reasonable like drowning (both of which are shared by Pete and Fargo). After learning of it, Pete makes the mistake of thinking about what would make it scarier (communications breakdown). Claudia's worst fear is revealed to be that she's still in the asylum, being given electroshock therapy, and the warehouse was all a delusion.

* DeathRay: Featured in "Shadows", 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.

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

** [[spoiler:Subverted as of the season 4 premiere "A New Hope", when Artie uses the ResetButton artifact to go back to the moments before Sykes dies]].

* ConversationalTroping: Pete actually says "VideoGameTropes" in "Don't Hate The Player".
* CoolBigSis: Jinks mentions his, saying Claudia reminds him of the way she used to stand up for him.

* ConspicuousCG: The CG effects can be ''really'' bad at times. Seems to be improving a bit in the third season.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Each series finale has gotten progressively darker.

** In the season 4 premiere, the price Artie pays for using the [[ResetButton astrolabe]] to redeem the past 24 hours is the creation of "an evil of your own making; an evil that will live with you the rest of your days." He is also forbidden to tell anyone what he has done, lest he put that person "in grave danger."

** The - ah, ''enhanced'' - VR versions of Leena "and her two humongous...wings" and Claudia in "Don't Hate The Player" (the latter even meriting a crash-zoom and a distinctly RussMeyer-esque "BOING!" sound effect).

** ThePowerOfHate: It's later clarified to actually contain the concentrated hatred of the entire Nazi regime, which is why is was so absurdly powerful. [[spoiler: After the ResetButton is used, Ghandi's cloak (an item of pure peace) is used to disarm it. When that doesn't work, H.G. Wells realizes they need to use it to take away Sykes' hate]].
* FantasyKitchenSink: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Claudia states that Bloody Mary is just an urban legend, and realizes that "of course it isn't" after getting a look from Artie. Pete sums it up in the season two premiere: "There's no such thing as ''no such thing''."

* FullBodyDisguise: As seen in the season 1 finale, Harriet Tubman's Thimble.

** By the time season 4 starts, everyone is painfully aware that the usage of artifacts often have dire consequences. The first thing they ask, when Artie shows them [=MacPherson=]'s watch, is "What's the downside?" [[spoiler:Only Artie finds out exactly what it is; he is bound to secrecy regarding its true nature, lest he put another person in grave danger]].

[[spoiler:'''Artie]]:''' No... no, Pete, you won't remember. (''[[spoiler:Pete]] dies'') [[TearJerker But I will. I will]].

** And then triple subverted when [[spoiler: the ResetButton gets hit in the Season 4 premiere and the Warehouse never blows up, so Helena's sacrifice is prevented.]]

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Scenes inside the Warehouse often end with a wipe of a crate slamming shut; scenes out in the field, with a wipe of a [[CommLinks Farnsworth]] shutting off. Another wipe is a zoom-out featuring various vault-like doors closing on one another, stopping at a door with "Warehouse 13" written beside it; which is sometimes played backwards after the commercial break. Other wipes have the last frame being manipulated in various ways: being put into an artifact pouch and sealed; turning into a painting, then zooming out from the Warehouse art gallery; being grabbed and then placed into a neutralizer bucket; among others.

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

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Jinks. His firing was part of an elaborate ruse to figure out Sykes' endgame.]]

[[spoiler:'''Pete]]:''' Remember... dying?

** In the season 4 premiere, the price Artie pays for using the [[ResetButton astrolabe]] to redeem the past 24 hours is the creation of "an evil of [his] own making", as well as being forbidden to tell anyone what he has done, lest he put that person in grave danger.

** In the season 4 premiere, [[spoiler:Pete]] gets killed in the process of collecting the parts of the ResetButton artifact. Subverted later, after said artifact is used.
--> [[spoiler:'''Pete]]:''' Will I remember... dying?\\
[[spoiler:'''Artie]]:''' No... no, you won't. (''pause'') But I will.

--> [[spoiler:'''Pete:''']] Will I remember... dying?\\
[[spoiler:'''Artie:''']] No... no, you won't. (''pause'') But I will.

** 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. It's implied that time travel will be needed to foil it.]]

--> '''''Artie''''', from the pilot episode

** In the season 4 premiere, the three survivors of [[spoiler:the destruction of the Warehouse]] recall separate events from the past. Pete sees the melted teapot of Beatrix Potter and flashes back to him and Myka storing it at the end of "Don't Hate the Player". Myka recalls the grappling-hook gun that H.G. Wells left for her, as well as when H.G. used it to save the both of them back in "For the Team". Artie reminisces of introducing Pete and Myka to the Warehouse back in the pilot episode.

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

** And now [=MacPherson=]'s watch. It turns out to be [[spoiler: part of a time travel failsafe that is used to restore the Warehouse after its destruction]].
** The artifact football turns out to be an artifact scanner, which both is responsible for Artie's "pings" and is a backup in case the Warehouse computer system is ever destroyed.
** In the pilot episode, Artie mentions that they have Pandora's Box in the Warehouse. "Empty, of course". [[spoiler: He was lying about it being empty.]]

--> '''Pete''': Let's all grow up a little, shall we?\\

[[[spoiler:'''Artie:''']] No... no, you won't. (''pause'') But I will.

---> [[spoiler:'''Pete:''' That was his plan: to blow up the Warehouse. We lost, Artie... we lost.\\

* BrainwashResidue: After Leena is saved from being brainwashed by [=MacPherson=]. An image of what [=MacPherson=] supposedly saw remains in Leena's mind, which turns out to be [[spoiler:half of the Minoan trident, which H.G. Wells was planning to use to destroy the world in the season 2 finale]].

** Two finger cymbals used by [=MacPhearson=] in "Nevermore" release a deadly sonic pulse.

* CreepyDoll: In "Breakdown", a doll in the Dark Vault scares Pete enough to make him back into... Sylvia Plath's typewriter.

* DespairEventHorizon: In the season 4 premiere, after [[spoiler:the Warehouse is destroyed]], the remaining cast is understandably distraught. When Artie sees the ruins of Pandora's box, however, he reveals that the loss of that particular artifact also affects ''the entire human race'', which has all lost hope along with the Box. The only hope they have left lies in [=MacPherson=]'s watch, which is but one part of a "failsafe" which can redeem the past 24 hours.

** In the season 4 premiere, [[spoiler:Pete]] gets killed in the process of collecting the parts of the ResetButton artifact. The trope is then subverted after said artifact is used.

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

* AnyoneCanDie: In the season 1 finale, [[spoiler:Artie]].[[spoiler:.. until the season 2 premiere.]]

** Happens to Myka in the finale. When H.G. Wells embraces her BigBad role, Myka realizes that Pete has been having vibes to that effect the entire time, but didn't say anything because he trusted Myka's judgment.

* NietzscheWannabe: H.G. Wells; due to losing her daughter, she thinks the whole world deserves to die, and rants about how it's gotten worse since she was bronzed.
** Of course, the real person she's named after predicted among other things: tanks, a world war between Germany and England, and atomic bombs. Not to mention, in later work, became apparently disillusioned with the human race and the fate of mankind as a whole.

* NotQuiteDead: Marcus, thanks to an artifact which [[spoiler: later is used to kill him]].

** Marcus, by virtue of an artifact.
* OmnicidalManiac: H.G. Wells. She gets better.

* TheOphelia: Claudia has spent time in mental institutions over what happened to her brother and she occasionally falls back to a {{broken bird}} status.
** Unrelated to the actual trope, but it's also Myka's middle name.

* PocketProtector: Averted in the episode "Regrets".

* PunnyName: Artie has a distinct attraction to ''arti''facts and knows more about them than most anyone else.

* 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. Artie is then convinced that she is redeemed, but the Regents aren't as sure.]]

* RefugeeFromTVLand: Philo Farnsworth invented a 3D hologram projector that (unintentionally) creates physical matter, literally bringing TV to life. Combine this with a disgruntled postal working stealing it from the unsorted mail bin after she's forced into retirement and using it to play through an action movie marathon...

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

* 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 she finds the future far more disappointing than she imagined. [[spoiler: She eventually gets better, at least in thinking that Pete, Myka, and Artie are worth saving]].

* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: Said by Claudia while climbing about in the Warehouse in "Regrets". Later made humorously literal by the revelation that there is an exact copy of Leena's bed & breakfast stored in the Warehouse.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Scenes inside the Warehouse often end with a wipe of a crate slamming shut; scenes out in the field, with a wipe of a [[CommLinks Farnsworth]] shutting off.

* KidSeeingWhatKidsShouldntSee: It's not as severe as other examples and she's an adult at this point, but Claudia's face at the end of "Emily Lake" is still this trope in SPADES.

--> '''Pete''': *''Quietly''* Please get back to the car...

** Trumped, however, by Richard Nixon's shoes - they allow the users to beat any kind of lie detector, including Jinks.

* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[TheChessmaster MacPherson]] with Edger Allen Poe's pen and notebook.

* MamaBear: H.G. Wells. When her daughter was murdered, she invented MentalTimeTravel to try and change the past. She failed, but put up a hell of a fight by her account. Claudia tells her that losing a daughter must be the worst pain imaginable. Wells tells her otherwise; what she did to the people who killed her daughter is the worst pain imaginable.

* MauveShirt: Valda

* BadBoss: Walter Sykes in season 3 is this trope ''in spades.''

* CursedWithAwesome: Jinks is a literal LivingLieDetector, but views his ability mostly as a hindrance to his love life.

* 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: H.G. Wells to kill him]] one episode into the season.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Daniel Dickinson, Pete and Myka's former boss, dies rather abruptly (and brutally!) about halfway through the second season early in the episode "Vendetta" after having been absent since about halfway through the first season.

* DyeHard: Claudia frequently changes her SkunkStripe to various unnatural colors. In a DVD commentary it was said that it's a different color every episode.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Double subverted. In "Mild Mannered", Myka refuses to tell Pete what it is at first, and finally reveals it to be the rather nice sounding Ophelia, in a hilarious conversation:
--> '''Myka:''' It's Ophelia, okay? Like from Hamlet. Yes, Ophelia, let the mocking commence.\\
'''Pete:''' Ophelia. That's kinda... beautiful. (''pause'') Can Ophelia boobies? Oh, snap!

* EquivalentExchange: Man Ray's camera can reverse aging, but only by stealing youth from another person. The Phoenix charm protects the user from fire, but burns someone else (or several people) alive in exchange.

* EvilCounterpart: James [=MacPherson=] to Artie. All of Artie's knowledge, if not more, with none of his morality, and with a dose of [[MagnificentBastard magnificence]]. H.G. Wells can be considered this to Myka, even if her scientific leanings are closer to Claudia.

* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: Steve. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness It didn't end well for him.]]]]
* FakeOutMakeOut: [[spoiler:Alice disguised as]] Myka and Pete. Done to a lesser extent in "Vendetta", when Pete insists on a cheek kiss to complete his incredibly awkward ruse to trick someone following them.

** Wells dressed as Lara Croft.
** Pete and Myka waking up together naked in Artie's bed [[NoodleImplements with Artie's toothbrush]]
** Done with Myka [[spoiler: and HG in S3 finale. 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.]]

* ForWantOfANail: If the events of the season 3 Christmas episode "The Greatest Gift" are to be believed, 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.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Walter Sykes]].

* GenkiGirl: Claudia.
* GenreSavvy: One of Myka's main areas of expertise as a Warehouse agent is her extensive knowledge of literature, a result of her upbringing as a bookstore owner's daughter. Highlighted in the season 3 premiere, where she saves at least four people using her knowledge of Shakespeare plays; three of which are rescued within ''seconds'' of each other. Note that Myka has to do the following to save the victims: look at the page, see the pose, recall which play and which character, then recite the character's last words, which the victim must say before the page burns out. And she does it every time in less than ten seconds.

* GrapplingHookPistol: H.G. Wells has one, self-built, which Myka inherits later.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The guy who used Man Ray's youth-stealing camera becomes the victim of it.
** And the person turning women into glass statues in the 60's left behind a beautiful glass corpse.

* IronicEcho: Claudia, before handcuffing Artie in her introductory episode in season 1, reveals herself to be the hacker breaking the the Warehouse with the words "Knock knock!" Later, in "Merge With Caution", when she finds herself handcuffed and unable to free herself, Artie leaves her to her own devices, saying the same words as he closes the door on her.

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

* ShoutOut: H.G. Wells' MentalTimeTravel machine in "When and Where" seems to be powered by a device that looks strikingly like a [[BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].
** The first episode of season 4 is called [[StarWars A New Hope]].
* ShipSinking: Both of Pete's in the episode "Reset":

** ThePowerOfHate: It's later clarified to actually contain the concentrated hatred of the entire Nazi regime, which is why is was so absurdly powerful.

* 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...]]

* 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.

** 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.]]

* 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.)

* {{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.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Artie likes to take care of the things in the Warehouse, not just store them. He has a near encyclopedic knowledge of every item.
* CoolOldGuy: Artie. ''So'' Artie.
* CoolBigSis: If we can consider Pete her big brother, then Myka is definitely this for Claudia.
** Jinks mentions his own {{Cool Big Sis}}, saying Claudia reminds him of the way she used to stand up for him.

* ConspicuousCG: The CG effects can be ''really'' bad at times.
** Seems to be improving a bit in the third season.

* DaChief: Mrs. Frederic, to some extent anyway.

* DawsonCasting: Averted with Alison Scagliotti as Claudia. Scagliotti is about the same age as Claudia is supposed to be, at most a year or two older (she was 18 for Season 1).
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Older Sister]]: [[spoiler: Steve Jinks.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone has their moments, but Claudia and Artie feature their witty charms most frequently.

* DoesNotLikeMen: H.G. Wells thinks all men are pigs, but it's a little more justified in her case since she lived before women's rights existed.
* TheDragon: Marcus Diamond to Walter Sykes in Season 3, the first clear cut example on the show.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Artie. Claudia marvels at how he got his license. Also serves as an inversion as it's usually the spunky younger character that drives like crazy and the conservative cautious older character that freaks out.

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:H.G. Wells.]]
** Although she's pretty much an AntiVillain [[spoiler: and eventually goes back to being a good guy, culminating in a HeroicSacrifice]].
* EvilBrit: James [=MacPherson=].
** H.G. Wells.

* FailureKnight: Myka and Artie.

* {{Foil}}: Claudia to Artie.

* GadgeteerGenius: Claudia and H.G. Wells.