History Characters / Warehouse13

* FakeGuestStar: In Season One, she's credited a guest star after her appearance in episode four.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Before the Warehouse he used to work as a [=NSA=] codebreaker, but he was was imprisoned trading secrets to the USSR. In truth he was trading "trinkets" to get his relatives back in Russia released from the Gulag. When he found out what those trinkets did (they were Artifacts) he turned himself in. Mrs. Frederic recruited him to give a chance to redeem himself and got his espionage charge expunged. He had to change his name though to protect himself from the Soviets. He makes it clear if the team ever gets caught in Russia, the others would be yelled at and then sent on plane, while he'd be locked up to rot.

* {{The Chessmaster}}: H.G. Wells' mentor Catarunga was 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 a back door to the Warehouse as a chess game. The game was set up with the 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]].

* TheAtoner: For season three.

* BigBad: Of season two.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: mostly in Season 2
* HeelFaceTurn: In season three. And as of the season 4 premiere, Artie is finally convinced.
* HeroicSacrifice: At least until [[spoiler:the season 4 premiere, where it's averted.]]

* HumanPopsicle: When she was an agent for Warehouse 12, she voluntarily asked to be bronzed, hoping to wake up to a better world. In a flashback in "3...2...1", there is a brief glimpse of her as this. She remains in this state until [=MacPherson=] de-bronzes her in the season 1 finale.

* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: H.G. Wells developed this opinion of humanity, and sought to use the Minoan trident in the season 2 finale 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 in the season 3 finale, prompting a HeroicSacrifice]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Part of her 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 season 2 finale, when it's revealed that was [[ThePlan all part of the plan]].

* OmnicidalManiac: As it turns out in the season 2 finale, not quite omnicidal; she couldn't bring herself to kill Myka, which makes her give up on her plan to destroy the world.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Subverted; 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]].

* BigBad: Of season 3.

* AffablyEvil: 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. [[spoiler: As of Season 3, she's quite firmly on the side of the angels]]

!Creator/HGWells(Creator/JaimeMurray)

* 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.)
** She showed her chops at the end of "Don't Hate The Player" as well.

** [[spoiler:EnemyWithin: The Brother Adrian of the new timeline never really existed. He's a manifestation of Artie's subconscious, the evil of the astrolabe given form. The most evil thing Artie could do would be to reverse the effect and create a world without hope, so that is what it drives him to do.]]

* [[spoiler:AncientKeeper: We initially think that the guardian of the Warehouse is Artie. We later find out it's her.]]
* BeehiveHairdo
* BlackBossLady
* [[spoiler:CameBackWrong]]: Sort of. In the season 4 premiere, after [[spoiler:Artie hits the ResetButton to save the Warehouse]], she shows him her graying hair, suspecting him of having done something.

* TheHandler / MysteriousEmployer: She is this at first.

!Jane [[spoiler:Lattimer]] (Kate Mulgrew)

%% * ActionMom

!Professor Bennett Sutton/[[spoiler: The Count of St. Germain]] (Creator/JamesMarsters)

!Charlotte Dupres/[[spoiler: The Countess of St. Germain]] (Polly Walker)

!Artie Nielsen [[spoiler:/ Weisfelt]] (Creator/SaulRubinek)

%% * BlondGuysAreEvil

* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler: As of Season 4; she officially retires from adventuring to become a crime lab scientist and settles down with a civilian and his daughter.]]

* BiTheWay: Never confirmed, but her relationship with H.G had heavy romantic undertones. Confirmed by the actresses themselves.

* {{Chessmaster}}: Of a literal sort, as shown in "Elements". 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 re-set board, she's also on-board for having this be her role.

* {{Chessmaster}}: H.G. Wells' mentor Catarunga was 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 a back door to the Warehouse as a chess game. The game was set up with the 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]].

* HelloNurse: She's fairly hot, although other than [=McPherson=] mentioning it once, it is never brought up, and she doesn't seem to be conscious of it herself either.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She was hired for this purpose, actually. Since Artie was being all HeroicBSOD over Leena's head Mrs Fredericks called her in to help him deal with it. She runs the inn and provides a sounding board for Artie when needed. The one thing Leena did that she can't is determine an artifact's origin.

[[folder:Warehouse Agents]]

* TheSpock: Possibly, arguably, but invoked by Pete in the Season 3 premiere. Steve, for his part, plays along with a Vulcan hand-gesture.