History Series / Warehouse13

* JerkassHasAPoint: The recruitment/justification pitch of two major villains [[spoiler:(McPhearson and Walter Sykes)]] centers around the idea that the Regents are [[NotSoDifferent arrogant and immoral]] for locking away artifacts which could be of great benefit to humanity. Mrs. Frederick is at times [[ShootTheDog ruthless and megalomaniacal]], to the point where her behaviour [[spoiler:motivated Steve to enter Walter Sykes' employ, which eventually led to his death.]]

%%* UnfortunateName: Pete lampshades bringing in a new agent by the name of Jinks in the season 3 premiere. %%How is it lampshaded?

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

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.

* UnfortunateName: Pete lampshades bringing in a new agent by the name of Jinks in the season 3 premiere.

* InfantImmortality: The pet variation. When [[spoiler:the Warehouse is destroyed]] in the season 3 finale, Trailer the dog is shown to have survived in the following season opener. Mind you, Trailer almost exclusively [[spoiler:lives at the Warehouse]], and the speed at which he returns suggests he must have been nearby when it went up.

* 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:
** In "Mild Mannered", Artie sees visions of [[spoiler:[=MacPherson=] after he is killed by H.G. Wells]], which he suspects is a result of the Phoenix.
** In "We All Fall Down", Pete sees visions of [[spoiler:Leena]], which leads him to H.G. Wells's research on the dagger artifact.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Artifacts -- once they're neutralized, everyone who was affected by them instantly goes back to normal. Doesn't always hold true, especially when there's more than one artifact.

* ReverseMole: As revealed in the season 3 finale, [[spoiler:Jinks. His firing was part of an elaborate ruse to figure out Sykes' endgame]].

'''Myka:''' (''exasperated'') [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar What is it with men and their balls?]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Multiple:
** 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!
** From "13.1" When Pete sees board games in the computer lab: "Looks like he played with himself a lot".
** From "Reset":
--> '''Artie:''' Sorry. I thought, you know, handling some ancient spears would trigger a notion, but...\\
'''Claudia:''' Well, I'm sorry to interrupt you while you're handling your ancient spear.
** This scene from "No Pain, No Gain":
--> '''Myka:''' Mozart's ''Magic Flute''! You know opera?\\
'''Mike:''' Yeah. Don't tell my teammates, cause, you never know.\\
'''Pete:''' Hey! Can we get going? Uhh, you can play Mike's magic flute later.\\
'''Myka:''' (''to Mike'') I have to go kill him now, so I'm just gonna...

* OneHundredAndEight: How many years the Warehouse's light bulbs last, as Claudia finds out in "Regrets". TruthInTelevision, as there are a number of existing light bulbs from that time period that still work. See the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light Centennial Light]], which has been running for ''109 years'' thanks to its low wattage, near-continuous use, and dedicated power supply.

*** He was signing off as Kirk as early as Season 1 episode 8.wor

** Also [[ReconstructedTrope Reconstructed]] in the form of Deb's boss in "Endless Wonder." He doesn't come across as a villain, or even someone who is entirely uninterested in altruism and moral considerations - it's just that he's clearly ''more'' interested in making money than in either of those things. As Pete points out, putting the bottom line first is kind of his job.

--> '''Pete''': Next thing you know, Tattoo's covered in molten lava?
--> '''Witness''': Yeah, how the heck...
--> '''Pete''': Global Warming

* BoundAndGagged:

** In "Mild Mannered", one scene at the end has the camera pans to Charlie Atlas' pants. Careful observation of the panning sequence will reveal that the Warehouse also possesses what appears to be WonderWoman's lasso, the Penguin's umbrella, ComicBook/GreenArrow's bow and... Thor's Hammer.

* BiTheWay: H.G. Wells, explicitly. It's strongly implied that Myka has romantic feelings for her, despite having a history of heterosexual relationships. The actresses have said they played it this way.

--> '''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.

** 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."
** The most egregious example is with Saul Rubinek who plays Artie in ''Warehouse 13''. He also appeared in a season 1 episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' as Dr. Carlson, a biologist who makes a connection with the Artifact.
** Brent Spiner has appeared as different characters in both ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' and ''Warehouse 13'', with his appearances taking place ''after'' the crossover was established. To clarify: the fifth episode of the first season of ''Alphas'' (which aired along with season 3 of ''Warehouse 13'') features Dr. Calder, establishing the crossover. Four episodes later, Brent Spiner appears as Dr. Kerns, an Alpha with sonar abilities, [[spoiler: who is killed at the end of the episode]]. Then in the fourth season of ''Warehouse 13'', Brent Spiner plays the recurring character Brother Adrian.

* ConspicuousCG: The CG effects can be ''really'' bad at times, but seems to be improving a bit from the third season onwards.

* UnpredictableResults: They are very careful when it comes to mixing effects from different artifacts. Their individual abilities are known, but it takes some guess work to figure out how one would interact with another, such as the Studi 54 disco ball and Lewis Carrol's mirror.

** On the other hand, they do exercise caution. Artifacts are stored in a way that they won't activate, away from ones they'd clash with, and the super dangerous ones are quarantined. The agents know not to touch them, and the Warehouse itself is isolated enough that civilians won't wonder into it.

** In the season 4 episode "The Ones You Love", we see a flashback to [[spoiler: Artie doing all the things Brother Adrian is supposed to have done, including using Harriet Tubman's thimble to appear to the others as Brother Adrian (rather than the other way around, which was how it was presented at the time), once he learns the enemy he unleashed by using the astolabe is himself.]]

* GrailInTheGarbage: The show's whole premise, more or less. What's better, the grail actually exists in this universe, as implied by Artie in "Age Before Beauty".

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

** Not an alien spy, but he did make a Clock/Bust artifact that forces people to listen to Beethoven's work, going up in number and also up in volume untill they go deaf. He made an artifact and as did Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Tubman, H. G. Wells, Alice Liddell, and on and on.

* FantasticNuke: A tile from the British House of Commons which absorbed the concentrated explosive force of ''the entire German Luftwaffe'' is used in an attempt to destroy the Warehouse. It's later clarified to actually contain the [[ThePowerOfHate concentrated hatred]] of the entire Nazi regime, which is why is was so absurdly powerful. Gandhi's cloak (an item of pure peace) is used in attempt to disarm it before they realize it must be used on the person who armed it, and do so successfully.

* TaxonomicTermConfusion: In "An Evil Within", Myka mentions her phobia of anything with tentacles, such as octopi, squids, and jellyfish. However, she lumps them all under the category of cnidarians. While Cnidaria does include jellyfish, octopi and squids belong to an entirely different phylum - Mollusca. The monsters generated by the episode's artifact drew heavy inspiration from Creator/HPLovecraft, which makes mentioning cnidarians and not [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods cephalopods]] even more bizarre.