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* ShoutOut: Eddie uses the alias Jake Cutter, the name of the protagonist of the short-lived 80's adventure series ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey''.
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IUEO now so the name needs to be called cool in-story


* LargeHam: Eddie, when busted and forced to change his story, enjoys the role of [[AwesomeMcCoolname Jake Cutter]], rogue treasure hunter, just a little too much.

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* LargeHam: Eddie, when busted and forced to change his story, enjoys the role of [[AwesomeMcCoolname Jake Cutter]], Cutter, rogue treasure hunter, just a little too much.
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Pretty sure this was meant to reference Chekhovs Gun and not JustForFun.Chekovs Gun


* ChekovsGun: Dr Eldridge is holding a pickaxe when she gets dragged through the portal. When Cade gets rescued, he emerges from the portal with that pickaxe in hand, which he uses to kill Bishop.

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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Dr Eldridge is holding a pickaxe when she gets dragged through the portal. When Cade gets rescued, he emerges from the portal with that pickaxe in hand, which he uses to kill Bishop.
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* DismantledMcGuffin: The Hammer is broken into two pieces that have to be united to work properly. Apart, they only create random portals that trap people in a NegativeSpaceWedgie.

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* DismantledMcGuffin: DismantledMacGuffin: The Hammer is broken into two pieces that have to be united to work properly. Apart, they only create random portals that trap people in a NegativeSpaceWedgie.

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-->''Through the ancient North it shall pass,\\
Ship to ship the power of powers.\\
All strength to those who unearth it\\
Joined together will earth itself be consumed.''
--->'''Quatrain 17, Century 4'''



* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Bishop, the Gua agent in charge, tries beating information out of Eddie

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* AssholeVictim: Implied with Dr Eldridge, the doomed archeologist from the ColdOpen, who seems to relish the idea of rubbing her find in her doubters' noses right up until she gets sucked into a portal where she dies.
* ChekovsGun: Dr Eldridge is holding a pickaxe when she gets dragged through the portal. When Cade gets rescued, he emerges from the portal with that pickaxe in hand, which he uses to kill Bishop.
* DismantledMcGuffin: The Hammer is broken into two pieces that have to be united to work properly. Apart, they only create random portals that trap people in a NegativeSpaceWedgie.
* EvilBrit: Bishop, the dig supervisor. ''Of course'' he's a Gua.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Bishop, the Gua agent in charge, tries beating information out of EddieEddie.
* LargeHam: Eddie, when busted and forced to change his story, enjoys the role of [[AwesomeMcCoolname Jake Cutter]], rogue treasure hunter, just a little too much.



* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Cade gets blasted into a dimensional void. It's a totally hostile environment where he's in danger of freezing to death, for starters. The archaeologist in the beginning, who finds the Hammer, suffers the same fate. Fortunately, Eddie and Jordan find a way to rescue Cade.

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* NeckSnap: Bishop kills Spidell this way when he's found the hammer.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The Hammer was made by the Gua as an exploration device, but it was lost on Earth and used by the Vikings until it was broken in two and lost. Apparently the Gua couldn't just make another one.
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Cade gets blasted into a dimensional void. It's a totally hostile environment where he's in danger of freezing to death, for starters. The archaeologist in the beginning, who finds the Hammer, suffers the same fate. Fortunately, Eddie and Jordan find a way to rescue Cade.Cade.
* SpottingTheThread: Eddie's cover takes a hit when he can't answer a question about his cover identity's previous dig.
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Eddie and Jordan go undercover at an archaeological site looking for the mythical hammer of Thor, they suspect Gua involvement. Foster covertly discovers something important but then he is dragged into a strange portal.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Bishop, the Gua agent in charge, tries beating information out of Eddie
* MacGuffin: Thor's Hammer. In this incarnation, it's a RealityWarper that the Gua understandably want as a weapon.
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Cade gets blasted into a dimensional void. It's a totally hostile environment where he's in danger of freezing to death, for starters. The archaeologist in the beginning, who finds the Hammer, suffers the same fate. Fortunately, Eddie and Jordan find a way to rescue Cade.

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