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* NiceHat: The Magician is never seen without his grey top hat: even when the only other thing he is wearing his his red long johns.
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Set in 1893. Marcus O'Riley and his partner The Magician are freelance explorers who specialize in the retrieval of folklore objects and are forced by a secret government agency to retrieve a powerful object from one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales, the Infinity Pistol. In order to find the Pistol, the two explorers must partner with a gorgeous Mexican artifact agent in order to find it before the warmongering Prussians do.
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Set in 1893. 1893, Marcus O'Riley and his partner The Magician are freelance explorers who specialize in the retrieval of folklore objects and are forced by a secret government agency to retrieve a powerful object from one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales, the Infinity Pistol. In order to find the Pistol, the two explorers must partner with a gorgeous Mexican artifact agent in order to find it before the warmongering Prussians do.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Marcus O'Riley's motivation for doing what he does is to finally earn his doctorate and because he believes the mystic artifacts he locates [[ItBelongsInAMuseum belong in museums]]. His partner Charles, on the other hand, is OnlyInItForTheMoney.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/TheBrothersGrimm were actually {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s who used collecting fol stories as a cover for locating and acquiring the magical artifacts described in those stories to keep them out of the wrong hands.
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* BottomlessMagazines: This is an explicit property of the Infinity Pistol: a magical gun that is enchanted to never run out of bullets.
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* LegendaryWeapon: The Infinity Pistol: a magical gun that never runs out of bullets. Most people only know of it from the story recorded by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and regard it as nothing more than a legend.
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* FanserviceExtra: The Magician demonstrates a card trick to a table full of lingerie clad prostitutes in the brothel.
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* ChasedByAngryNatives: Opens with Riley and the Magician being chased by an Eskimo warrior as they attempt to escape with skull of John the Baptist. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
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* NeverBareheaded: The Magician is never seen without his [[NiceHat grey top hat]]: even when the only other thing he is wearing his his red long johns.
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* BeardOfEvil: As befits an [[AristocatsAreEvil evil aristocrat]], the Prussian agent known as the Count sports a goatee.
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* BeardOfEvil: As befits an [[AristocatsAreEvil evil aristocrat]], the Prussian agent known as the Count sports a goatee.
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* ChainedHeat: Charles handcuffs himself to Agent Rodriguez when they are attempting to escape from the Count's home so she cannot run off with the compass. Needless to say, this makes the escape considerably more difficult.
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* TakeOffYourClothes: Inverted when Agent Rodriguez tells Charles to undo her dress. Charles comments that he usually like to get to know someone better first, but obliges; averting his eyes as he does so. However, reason she asked him to do so was that she was wearing a more practical outfit of pants, boots, shirt and vest under the gown, and she couldn't undo it herself because [[ChainedHeat Charles had handcuffed them together]].
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* MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack: An AbsurdlyHighstakesGame of poker is organized between representatives of Prussia, Mexico and the USA. The USA's stake is the territories it took off Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
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* FingerInTheBarrel: Agent Rodriguez defeats the Count by jamming a rock down the barrel of his steam gun when he's not looking. The backfire somehow causes the forces of Heaven to be unleashed on him.
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* MacGuffin: Everybody is searching for the Infinity Pistol: a magical gun that never needs reloading.
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* TheCavalry: When the heroes are pinned down by the Prussians, they are saved by the arrival of Tavington and his agents. There arrival is even accompanied by a bugle playing charge: seemingly coming from nowhere.
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* OfficerOHara: The copper who arrests Riley and the Magician at the brothel has what was probably intended to be an Irish accent, but quickly becomes WhatTheHellIsThatAccent
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Riley is sent to infiltrate a high stakes poker by posing as the American representative. The game is a winner-takes-all game of Texas hold 'em where the Mexican representative is wagering a boxcar of gold, the Prussian a shipment of high-tech rifles, and the American the territories the U.S. won in the Mexican–American War.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gentlemen_explorers.jpg]]
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* BoundAndGagged: When Charles and Burt come to rescue Agent Rodriguez they find her gagged and bound with an absurdly huge rope.
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* CovertGroupWithAMundaneFront: The mysterious agency that recruits Riley and the Magician gives them cover identities as agents of the US Postal Service. It is later shown that this is the standard cover for its agents.
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''Gentlemen Explorers'' (a.k.a. ''Young Gentlemen Explorers'') is a low-budget 2013 {{Steampunk}} movie.
Set in 1893. Marcus O'Riley and his partner The Magician are freelance explorers who specialize in the retrieval of folklore objects and are forced by a secret government agency to retrieve a powerful object from one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales, the Infinity Pistol. In order to find the Pistol, the two explorers must partner with a gorgeous Mexican artifact agent in order to find it before the warmongering Prussians do.
!!Tropes:
* AristocratsAreEvil: The wicked Prussian agent in charge of the mission to secure the Infinity Pistol is known only as the Count.
* CovertGroupWithAMundaneFront: The mysterious agency that recruits Riley and the Magician gives them cover identities as agents of the US Postal Service. It is later shown that this is the standard cover for its agents.
* DeathDealer: Early on, the Magician demonstrates the ChekhovsSkill of being able to throw playing cards with enough accuracy to shatter glass bottles. Later, he kills two Prussian guards by embedding cards in their throats.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Valley of Fire
-->'''The Magician:''' That sounds like a lovely place to take a vacation.
* JobTitle
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Set in 1893. Marcus O'Riley and his partner The Magician are freelance explorers who specialize in the retrieval of folklore objects and are forced by a secret government agency to retrieve a powerful object from one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales, the Infinity Pistol. In order to find the Pistol, the two explorers must partner with a gorgeous Mexican artifact agent in order to find it before the warmongering Prussians do.
!!Tropes:
* AristocratsAreEvil: The wicked Prussian agent in charge of the mission to secure the Infinity Pistol is known only as the Count.
* CovertGroupWithAMundaneFront: The mysterious agency that recruits Riley and the Magician gives them cover identities as agents of the US Postal Service. It is later shown that this is the standard cover for its agents.
* DeathDealer: Early on, the Magician demonstrates the ChekhovsSkill of being able to throw playing cards with enough accuracy to shatter glass bottles. Later, he kills two Prussian guards by embedding cards in their throats.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Valley of Fire
-->'''The Magician:''' That sounds like a lovely place to take a vacation.
* JobTitle
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