History Series / Warehouse13

When Secret Service agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering stop an assassination attempt on the President at the hands of a museum employee who was turned into a ManchurianAgent by one of the artifacts, which they discover to be the cause, they find themselves suspended from duty and
given a transfer to an isolated government storage facility in [[AliensInCardiff South Dakota]] called Warehouse 13. Their new job? Use their unique skills that allowed them to get too close to the truth to [[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.

There have been 12 prior incarnations of the Warehouse that stretches back into Ancient Egypt. The Warehouse itself has an [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Omniscient Council Of Vagueness]], between its Agents, Caretaker and Regents, but there are individuals who have an eye on unlocking its secrets for their own means. 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.

Note: In real life, the term "Warehouse 13" is used on some software systems that failed to have a means to mark inventory as lost, misplaced or stolen, so, in order to make the books balance, anything missing was listed as being in "warehouse 13." Probably a play on "file 13," the nickname for throwing something in a wastebasket.

''Warehouse 13'' (2009-2014) is a television series. After an ancient artifact turns a museum employee into a ManchurianAgent who 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.

There have been 12 prior incarnations of the Warehouse that stretches back into Ancient Egypt. The Warehouse itself has an [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Omniscient Council Of Vagueness]], between its Agents, Caretaker and Regents, but there are individuals who have an eye on unlocking its secrets for their own means. 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.

In many respects it's a more comedic, fantasy oriented version of ''Series/TheXFiles'', with a generous side helping of {{Steampunk}}. Their standard sidearm StunGuns are called Teslas (actually created by Tesla) and utilize vacuum tubes in their design. The emphasis here is also almost entirely on magic; free energy devices are not mentioned, which is a marked divergence from warehouses of this type that are believed to exist by RealLife [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theorists]].

** Warehouse 13 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 it's from the moment of transition from one period to the other.

* BackForTheFinale: HG Wells and [[spoiler: Leena]] have small cameos in the series finale, albeit as flashbacks.

* [[BrassBalls Brass Balls]]/[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: From one episode in Season Two, when Pete gets stuck on top of a chain-link fence:
--> '''Myka''': Don't damage what Kelly's been looking forward to!
--> '''Pete''': Nah, Little Pete's made of steel!

-->''Pete shoves his sword through the {{Yandere}}'s stomach. NoSell.''
-->'''Pete''': Cheater!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:

In many respects it's a more comedic, fantasy oriented version of ''Series/TheXFiles'', with a generous side helping of {{Steampunk}}. Their standard sidearm StunGuns are called Tesla's (actually created by Tesla) and utilize vacuum tubes in their design. The emphasis here is also almost entirely on magic; free energy devices are not mentioned, which is a marked divergence from warehouses of this type that are believed to exist by RealLife [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theorists]].

''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.

* 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]].

* {{Noir Episode}}: "The Big Snag".

** "Secret Santa", which aired between seasons 2 and 3, involves a BadassSanta and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming between Artie and his estranged father.

* RealityRetcon:
** H.G. Wells was/is a woman and Warehouse agent, as revealed in her first appearance in "Time Will Tell".

** The episodes "Duped" and "Fractures" give various alternative interpretations of Lewis Carroll's stories. Artie says in "Duped" that the author's publicized writings were Warehouse fabrications to hide the truth about the mirror. "Fractures" reveals that the descriptions of the characters in the stories, particularly the Mad Hatter and the hookah-smoking caterpillar, were references to artifacts which existed along with the mirror.

** In "Reset", [[Film/StarTrek Captain Robau]] actually says the words "Prime Directive".

There have been 12 prior incarnations of the Warehouse that stretches back into Ancient Egypt. The Warehouse itself has a [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Omniscient Council Of Vagueness]], between its Agents, Caretaker and Regents, but there are individuals who have an eye on unlocking its secrets for their own means. 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.

** Parodied in "No Pain, No Gain" when Steve borrows the Prius to help Artie on a search (specifically mentioned as borrowing her Prius C, not borrowing her car as people normally talk). He points out some of the features, only for Artie to snap at how useless they are in their current task.

** Parodied in "No Pain, No Gain" when Steve borrows the Prius to help Artie on a search. He points out some of the features, only for Artie to snap at how useless they are in their current task.

** In "Savage Seduction" Steve gets in on the act and takes time out of the episode to brag about his car.

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

* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The original marquee from the Strand theater which, when triggered, produces a several chorus lines of tapdancing showgirls and compels anyone in the vicinity to dance along to "42nd Street" until they die from exhaustion. Appropriately, Artie uses Busby Berkeley's drinking flask and the original pan from Tin Pan Alley to deactivate the artifact.

** By the time season 4 starts, everyone is painfully aware that the usage of artifacts often have dire consequences. One of the first questions Myka asks Artie regarding [=MacPherson=]'s watch is "What's the downside?" Only [[spoiler:Artie]] finds out exactly what it is.

* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: In "Merge With Caution", Pete and Myka are hit by a FreakyFridayFlip, so he takes the opportunity. GenreSavvy Myka immediately calls him on it when they phone each other.

** At one point, Claudia tells Jinks [[RuPaulsDragRace "Chante, you stay!"]]

** It seems, as of season 2, that all of the Regents can do this. [[MarkSheppard Valda]] certainly can. Called attention to in that Taka, a non-regent agent seen in "Beyond Our Control", is shown walking into the very same room that [[MarkSheppard Valda]] just teleported into.

* SomeoneHasToDie: [[MarkSheppard Valda]] sacrifices himself to fulfill this trope in "Buried".