History Series / Warehouse13

** Myka, Claudia, and Mrs. Frederic are all shown to have sisters later in the show, despite never once even implying that they had sisters.

* BuxomIsBetter: In "Don't Hate the Player", apparently Fargo went ahead and gave Leena and Claudia cup-upgrades for his game.

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

* LighterAndSofter: When compared to... [[Wiki/SCPFoundation that other thing...]]

** Wiki/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.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: While this is often the case when dealing with a particularly nasty artifact and trying to undo its effects or save its victims, two particularly intense examples involve trying to locate and use Magellan's astrolabe at the start of season 4A and trying to find and use the Count of St. Germain's ring to restore the plague orchid at the end of season 4A. The first example literally has a time limit enforced (the astrolabe only turns back time for 24 hours), and while the danger facing the world (everything falling into chaos and disaster thanks to the destruction of [[spoiler:Pandora's Box]]) doesn't itself have a clock affixed to it, if the astrolabe is not used in time they will lose the opportunity to undo [[spoiler:the Warehouse exploding]] and stop the BigBad. The second example involves artifacts without a time-limit use themselves, but if the flower is not reconstituted in time, half of the world's population will die, and the stakes are emphasized both by an onscreen countdown clock during interstitial cuts and news reports on the crisis using real-world pandemic footage and a RealLife news anchor for versismilitude.

** Taken UpToEleven in season 2. Remember the quick ad spot where Artie, Pete, and Myka throw a football in the room which looks like M.C. Escher's ''Relativity'' lithograph (the crazy stairs one)? [[spoiler:That's an ''actual room'' in the Warehouse, specifically another vault.]]

** The doorknob artifact, first seen in "Past Imperfect" is this, taken UpToEleven. It burns through Jinks's ''purple-gloved'' hand when he finds it among a box full of other normal doorknobs (remember, the gloves are supposed to prevent this kind of thing). Later, in "The 40th Floor", Sally Stukowski uses it to torture a Regent, Theodora Stanton, whose skin starts melting after a few seconds with it on her hand. After Sally gets the information she wanted, she leaves the doorknob in Theodora's hands; after a few excruciating seconds, she goes up in flames.

* LightningCanDoAnything: Electrical surges can jack the power of most [[ArtifactOfDoom artifacts]] UpToEleven, though at least one could be disabled by a sufficiently powerful shock, namely the Spine of Saracen, seen in "Burnout".

* TalkativeLoon: Hugo Miller from "13.1". At least, the [[LiteralSplitPersonality part of him]] that's [[BrainUploading still attached to his body]]. Taken UpToEleven in "There's Always a Downside" when Pete and Claudia help him retrieve Bobby Fischer's marbles. He keeps rambling so often that Claudia has to constantly keep him in check; although it can be justified due to his nervousness with his nephew's life being in danger.

* NiceHat: Artie's straw hat in the first episode. Claudia apparently stole it sometime between seasons two and three, as she is seen wearing it in the season 3 premiere.

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

* HolyIsNotSafe: The dagger of Francis Borgia, who performed the first exorcism, can be used to separate good from evil. Besides the fact that to be used it has to be stabbed into the subject in question being exorcised, its abilities can be applied to breaking containment on something dangerous.[[spoiler: Evil Artie]] plans to use it to shatter an unbreakable container to unleash a global plague.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Myka becomes one to Pete in "The Big Snag," when the two of them get trapped in a 1940s detective novel, with Pete as the detective and Myka as his secretary. Myka however is better at being a detective and so ends up taking the lead on the investigation

** The dogtag artifact in "No Pain, No Gain" allows the user to essentially warp reality for a person, but only if they love the person in question; a fact which [[spoiler:saves Pete's life, as well as reveals his true feelings for Myka]].

* UnderTheMistletoe: In the season 2 Christmas episode "Secret Santa", 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 Joshua is trying to take it down...

* BlackBox: The artifacts.

* ProngsOfPoseidon: The Minoan Trident, shown in "Reset", the season 2 finale.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Shown in the season 2 finale, 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]]. In fact, it's referred to as "The ''first'' WeaponOfMassDestruction."

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Every time the team investigate evidence of someone having extraordinary powers, it turns out to be the result of an artfiact, even though this series is in the same universe as ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.

''Warehouse 13'' is part of the "Syfy-verse," existing in the same fictional universe as ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' and ''Series/{{Alphas}}''. Crossovers have happened, however, there is a case of YouLookFamiliar where some actors who play certain characters in one show guest-star as completely different characters on ''Warehouse 13''.

In many respects Creator/{{Syfy}}'s ''Warehouse 13'' (2009-2014) is 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]].

** One of the artifacts Artie uses to snap Pete out of his delusion in "Around the Bend" is the original studio master of the song ''Oye Como Va'' by Santana. Combined with an amplified Tesla blast from behind a car windshield, Pete's sanity is finally restored.

* MyLittlePanzer: Many of the artifacts in the warehouse are otherwise innocuous objects that became artifacts through extreme circumstances, including things that could be considered children's playthings. Among these are a bottomless can of sticky string a dodgeball that bludgeons people to death, a bracelet made from marionette strings that destroys its wearer's soul, pair of croquet balls that becomes lethal ricocheting projectiles, and a [[NoodleIncident set of jacks]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I like to think of it as America's attic." -- Artie]]

* TryNotToDie: In "Breakdown", Mrs. Frederic says this to Artie upon giving him permission to go after [=MacPherson=].
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Every episode in the third season and sometimes in the earlier ones. Most of the season 4 episodes so far play out this way as well, particularly after [[spoiler:Steve is revived]].

* UndercoverModel: Myka in "Age Before Beauty."

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Lots, real and imagined.

** [[TropeOverdosed Too many to count]] in "Mild Mannered" but this one sticks out because its one of the few ''not'' comic book related ones:

* ReusableLighterToss: The villain of the week in "Age Before Beauty" (s2e4) tosses a lighter to destroy some evidence.

The show starts out well, but in the third and fourth seasons, degenerates into a series of hyper-inflated, GodzillaThreshold or EvilVersusOblivion plots, where the stakes are so ridiculously high that it causes audience desensitisation and boredom, which may have contributed to the reason why it was cancelled. It is also very similar to Film/ReadyPlayerOne, in terms of being very heavily laced with memes, pop culture references, and StockShoutOuts; some of which are very funny and effective, while some are cringe-inducingly lame.

** In "Age Before Beauty", it turns out that 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).