History Series / Warehouse13

* ShipTease:
** Pete subconsciously wants Myka to have babies.
** Also frequently with Myka and HG, especially in the scene where HG sneaks Myka into a police station by telling one of her coworkers by explaining that she's trying to "impress a lady" (the lady in question being Myka).

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

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

** TheOtherWiki notes that the goo is made by Global Dynamics. But considering how much 'impossible' stuff Jack points out over there, it's still mysterious.

* 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.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of Steve Jackson Games' ''{{GURPS}} [[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/warehouse23/ Warehouse 23]]'', a roleplaying supplement first published in the 90s, and the warehouse in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To quite a few shows with similar premises, like the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' without the emphasis on horror, ''{{GURPS}} [[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/warehouse23/ Warehouse 23]]: The Series.'' It's also been called ''The Warehouse from Franchise/IndianaJones: The Series''.

** As do BruceLee's punching bag, JackKirby's belt, [[Literature/TheBible Samson's]] Jawbone and Babe Ruth's baseball bat; all mentioned in the same episode.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Steve Jinks]] and [[spoiler:bisexual H. G. Wells]] in the season 3 finale.
** [[spoiler:Both are revived thanks to DeathIsCheap and ResetButton, respectively.]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Each BigBad has this in abundance. It doesn't help that the majority of them are [[spoiler: former Warehouse agents]].

* 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]].
** The metronome keeps the user alive so long as it's kept in motion, and if shut off kills the revived person in under a minute, as first seen in the season 3 finale. As [[spoiler:Steve]] discovers when it's used on him, it also affects the person who performed the revival.

** CampGay: When he's hit with a LiteralSplitPersonality artifact in "Savage Seduction", his other half is sassy gay Jinks.

* ApatheticCitizens[=/=]AssholeVictim: The killer in "An Evil Within" targets people who refused to help his wife after she was trampled during a basketball game riot. The cameras show his specific targets playing a part in him being unable to help her.

* ArchEnemy: It's implied that UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison were this. It ''is'' [[TruthInTelevision true that they were professional rivals]] but...

** Warehouse 13 has a purple goo that neutralizes objects with paranormal powers and gives people giddy feelings if they touch it. In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 2'', the team finds a river of pink goo that imbues objects with paranormal powers and gives people angry feelings if they touch it.

->''"If a radio landed in the hands of ThomasJefferson, do you know what Jefferson would do? He would just lock it up, until he figured out it wasn't going to kill him. And that's exactly what we do here: take the unexplained, and safely tuck it away."''

* KnightTemplar: Brother Adrian, and by extension the whole Brotherhood, who are absolutely convinced of the righteousness of their actions. And for bonus points, they apparently started out as an offshoot of the [[TheKnightsTemplar actual Templars]].

** A literal case, Chekhov's Grappling Gun: After it's given to Myka in "For the Team", she uses it in the season 3 episode "The 40th Floor" to [[spoiler: save her, Artie, and three Regents from a sabotaged elevator]].

* EngagingConversation: In "13.1", Claudia, to Fargo, after they combine a Series/{{Eureka}}-tech laser cutting torch with an [[AmplifierArtifact Amplifier]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Artifact]] to make a [[StarWars lightsaber]] and use it to destroy some MechaMooks.

* StraightGay: Agent Jinks. His sexual preference is so far in the background that in "Trials", Claudia initially thought they had a quiet [[UnresolvedSexualTension flirtation-thing]] going until he had to explicity spell it out for her that she was [[IncompatibleOrientation not his type.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Paracelsus]] is willing to killing hundreds of people, if not more, [[ForScience for the sake of scientific advancement]].
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Myka names her ferret after Pete because "they're both cute and annoying".

** "We All Fall Down": [[spoiler: Leena is confirmed dead, Evil!Artie reveals his resentments with the Warehouse, Pete, Myka and Claudia, and despite Artie being freed from his evil split personality, a deadly plague is still unleashed on millions of people, including himself, Claudia, Pete, Myka and Steve]].

-->'''Doctor''': I think we might be looking at [[spoiler: ovarian cancer]].

* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The TimeMachine in "Where and When".
* WholePlotReference: "The Greatest Gift" to the titular story, the basis of "It's a Wonderful Life"

** Pete allows [=MacPherson=] to escape by not adhering to this trope, and has no excuse.

** 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 ''[[Film/JamesBond Bond]]''-esque. Justified as she only needed to delay Pete and Myka.
** [[spoiler: Multiple times with Sykes in the season 3 finale. Jinks knows he only has two henchmen, and could easily have taken both of them and Sykes out before they left for Hong Kong. Then after that when Myka and Pete find Sykes with HG and the hacker at the Chess Lock, they should have just shot him in the head before he figured out they were there]].
*** Justified with [[spoiler: Jinks, as he was undercover and needed to remain so]].

** Artie has Brother Adrian at gunpoint, and instead of capturing him, which would be nothing but beneficial, he instead lets Adrian lead him into a long conversation, long enough for his booby trap to spring on Jinks and Claudia, providing a crucial distraction and allowing Adrian to literally walk away. This too is justified, [[spoiler: as Brother Adrian was just a figment of his imagination]].
** In "We All Fall Down" [[spoiler: Evil Artie spends lots of time giving evil armor piercing monologues with the Warehouse crew and buys himself enough time to use several different artifacts to shake them off. If the team would just shoot him with the Tesla (if they didn't want to shoot him with a gun) they could have ended the episode much earlier as opposed to trying to reason with someone under the influence of the astrolabe's evil]]. It's justified since the point of [[spoiler:Artie's]] monologues, was to distract them and buy himself time, as well as the fact that [[spoiler:Artie]] knows precisely which buttons to push with them.

* WillNotTellALie: Jinks seems to have this problem, probably as a result of his ability. He automatically defaults to the truth when asked a question, and at best seems to be able to just refuse to speak of it. When he ''tries'' to lie, [[BadLiar he sucks at it]].
* WimpFight: Done with guns/teslas in the episode "Vendetta". 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.

* WitnessProtection: Claudia's occasional boyfriend Todd, as revealed in "Vendetta".

'''Myka''': That is the world's smallest purple violin.\\

** Though it's more obviously a BatmanGambit, [=MacPherson's=] plan to get at the Warehouse's Artifacts has Xanatos elements as well. The way he engineered his own capture was pure [[BatmanGambit Batman,]] but how he dealt with individual artifacts, (i.e., he benefited whether or not he managed to acquire them) was more Xanatos.

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

* {{Yandere}}:

** The hockey player's stalker in "No Pain, No Gain" is this, with a wish-fulfillment artifact that allows her to heal his injuries... or inflict them again when he doesn't return her affections.
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast:

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

** In the first episode of the third season, [[spoiler:the man who planted the Lost Folio is killed after unsuccessfully trying to kill the new Warehouse agent Jinks]].

-->'''Jesse:''' Really? Cause I think it's a magic pipe that lets me control the weather.
-->'''Pete:''' ... Okay maybe you do know what you're dealing with.

** In "Implosion", after finally putting together the components of the Masamune sword with the help of a Japanese consul, [=MacPherson=] then uses the sword to become invisible and decapitates the man in front of Artie.
** In the season 2 premiere, [=MacPherson=] himself [[HoistByHisOwnPetard becomes the victim of it]] in the second season after H.G. Wells is through with him. Though a good portion of it is also that he threatens to reveal the plan.
** In the season 3 finale, this might be why [[spoiler:Sykes has Marcus take the metronome with him when he ambushes Leena in the B&B, not knowing that that very artifact was keeping him alive]].

** Erica Cerra and Niall Matter play Jo and Zane respectively in the show ''Series/{{Eureka}}''. As with Henry, they also have doppelgangers in ''Warehouse 13''; in this case a couple who are misusing an artifact in "Duped".

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

** The Farnsworth has many of the abilities of... an [=iPhone=] 4 with [[TakeThat better coverage]].

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Myka thought Spider-man [[Franchise/{{Batman}} worked out of a cave]] and TheRollingStones sang 'Stairway to Heaven'. She does however have encyclopedic knowledge of literature from H.G Wells to Shakespeare.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To quite a few shows with similar premises, like the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' without the emphasis on horror, ''{{GURPS}} [[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/warehouse23/ Warehouse 23]]: The Series.'' It's also been called ''The Warehouse from IndianaJones: The Series''.

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

'''''Warehouse 13''''' (2009-2014) is a television series. After an ancient artifact turns a museum employee into a ManchurianAgent that allegedly tries to kill the president, two Secret Service agents who came too close to knowing the truth (and have special skills that allowed them to do so), Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering, get transferred to [[AliensInCardiff South Dakota]]. Their new job? [[ArtifactCollectionAgency Find]] [[ArtifactOfDoom magical artifacts]] that have a tendency towards unintended consequences and stow them away in the SecretGovernmentWarehouse to end all Secret Government Warehouses.