History Leverage / TropesAToD

** In "The Studio Job," Hardison attempt to pass Eliot off as a country music star by providing a real-time auto-tune effect for him. He's horrified when he realizes it's not working, but it's okay: it turns out that Eliot doesn't need it.
** Of course, Christian Kane is a [[TheCastShowOff country recording artist]].

** The arc is returned to and brought to a satisfactory conclusion, with the sequel series, [[spoiler: in which Parker still runs the primary Leverage International team, with Eliot and Hardison and Sophie (back out of her attempt at retiring after Nate dies) while Hardison is actually running all of the other Leverage International teams at once, as well as using their funds to finance logistics support for international aid.]]

* AbortedArc: Several episodes through the first several seasons have Hardison planning to eventually run his own crew, and Nate pointing out skills he lacks (such as willingness to push his crew past their breaking points) or needs to improve on (such as don't coast on his skill and luck) before he can. After he is humbled in "the Gold Job" in season 4, this arc is dropped, and Season 5 has Nate groom Parker to be the new Mastermind instead.

--->'''Eliot''': "Hold a knife this way, it cuts through an onion. Hold a knife ''this'' way, it cuts through like eight {{Yakuza}} in four seconds. Screams, carnage..."

* AdultFear: Just watch Hardison during the climax of "The Rundown Job..."

* ActionFigureJustification: In "Soul Train" Carlton is trying to practice to audition to be on the show, but Will wants him to stay away, because he's hoping to land the hosting job, and is afraid Carlton will embarrass him.
--> '''Carlton:''' And they're going to give you the co-host job based on what? Your love of Don Cornelius dolls?
--> '''Will:''' It's not a doll, man, it's an action figure. And you got no business even being on the Soul Hyundai let alone the Soul Train.

-->'''Maid of Honor:''' You don't think it makes me look fat?\\

-->'''Hardison:''' "Is that music?"
-->'''Parker:''' (casually) "Oh, you hear that, too?"

-->'''Nate:''' Okay, people, Let's go steal a mountain.\\

--> '''Parker:''' I think I'm getting better at this! \\

-->'''Sophie''': "Now here's the hard part. We need to steal a general."\\

-->'''Eliot''': "Hold a knife this way, it cuts through an onion. Hold a knife ''this'' way, it cuts through like eight {{Yakuza}} in four seconds. Screams, carnage..."

-->'''Nate''': "Did you just kill a man with an appetizer?"
-->'''Eliot''': "I dunno, maybe."

-->'''Parker:''' What is it with women and shoes?\\

-->'''Eliot:''' Oh, she's dressed up as a nun for a ''con.''\\

--> '''Parker:''' "Oof. I'm so glad I don't live in the real world."

-->'''Hardison:''' Can we talk about what just happened?\\

-->'''Sophie:''' Parker, you're jealous.\\

-->'''Eliot:''' He tried to kill us!\\

-->'''Eliot''': [[ChefOfIron "Hold a knife this way, dice an onion.]] Hold a knife '''this''' way, slice through eight Yakuza in four seconds..."

:::She's gotten more confident in herself by "The 15 Minutes Job.":

-->'''Parker:''' I don't know how to get ''caught''.

-->'''Parker:''' Gimme three days of prep. It'd be like taking diamonds from the French National Bank.\\

--> '''Hardison''': "...Why am I looking away?"

-->'''Parker''': Who taught you how to drive?\\

-->'''Maggie:''' You know, people underestimate you, Eliot.\\

--> The "http" goes before the "www dot", right?

** In "The Homecoming Job," Sophie reveals that Congressman Jenkins lied about not knowing about their client's shooting in Iraq because he looked her straight in the eye when he said it, rather than at any other part of her anatomy. Apparently, the only time ''any'' man ''ever'' looks a woman in the eye is when he's making an effort to lie to her. Alternate explanations (e.g., he's StraightGay, [[{{Asexuality}} Asexual]], or just HappilyMarried) apparently do not exist.

* AccidentalMisnaming: TheMark in "The Bank Shot Job" is an arrogant corrupt judge who [[IOwnThisTown rules the town]]. He keeps calling the bank manager 'Fred' when his name is actually Frank, and has seemingly been doing so for years. This comes back to bite him at the end of the episode.

* AdventurerOutfit: Eliot wears one (of the Indiana Jones variety) while showing TheMark a supposed cocoa plantation in "The Boiler Room Job".

* AscendedFanboy: The team turns the TheMark into one to scam him in "The Very Big Bird Job".

** In "The Fairy Godparents Job", TheMark has a safe hidden behind a painting in his swanky apartment.

** TheMark in "The White Rabbit Job" has a dead second cousin that causes most of the conflict.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint:

* TheCon: And pretty much all related tropes. While the team's activities normally fall under TheCaper, they usually run TheCon as ''part'' of TheCaper.

** Parker is possibly the best thief on the planet but she has...quirks. Enough so that she spent an entire scene dressed as a nun in "The Beantown Bailout Job" -- and Eliot wasn't sure whether she was wearing it for a job or just being Parker. This borders on CrazyAwesome, in that it's implied in "The Inside Job" and elsewhere that her quirks are the result of her having been thieving as opposed to having a normal childhood.

** TheShill (Eliot or Nate normally plays this part.)

** In addition, WordofGod has stated on several occasions that Eliot frequently takes jobs offscreen for a certain Miranda Zero, as in ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency''. Creator/JohnRogers was one of the showrunners on the original failed TV pilot for GF.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Starting in season 2, UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} doubles for UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}. Really, really, really obvious when Portland's PGE Park is used in the "Three Strikes Job." However, the trope is averted starting in season 5, as the series' setting moves to Portland.

* BlackComedy: In "The Snow Job", Elliot and Hardison were tasked with using a dead body to fake a brain tumor patient by injecting hot wax into the head. The two argue over who has to do the disturbing deed, which falls to Hardison. Elliot follows up by telling him he has to inject the syringe all the way through the head.

* BigStore:
** The pilot is one example; so is "The Boost Job". Nate refers to the trope by name in "The Boiler Room Job".
** Inverted in "The Gone Fishin' Job" where the team makes a legit business look fake as bait for a mark looking for a way to launder money. They get a small gym cleared out during peak hours (except for one intense woman who keeps up with Parker on the exercise bike) so it looks like an operation set up to cover "fake" membership dues as a laundering set-up with no real customers. For an added twist, the list of fake members is just the names of all the people the mark had stolen money from; he doesn't even recognize their names.

** "The Boiler Room Job" takes it even further: the team sets up a BigStore full of civilian "actors" as part of the massive con they're running on the mark. An experienced con man himself the mark recognizes the con... but fails to recognize that every single one of the players involved are his own victims.

** The pipe wrench in the library in "The 10 Li'l Grifters Job."
** The Wurlitzer in "The Van Gogh Job."

* DelayedWire: The original con in "The Bottle Job."

** TheRoper (Sophie's usual role.)

** In the Leverage episode "The Double Blind Job", Parker, who often has trouble in social situations, can't quite bring herself to tell Hardison that she has feelings for him, and ends up blurting out "I have feelings for... pretzels." Unusually for this trope, Hardison knows exactly what she really means, and responds, "They're right here when you want them."