History Series / TheLibrarians2014

* CanadaEh:
** In "And Santa's Midnight Run", the team have to get a plane from a Canadian airport. The man at the desk says "eh" at the end of his sentences. This is funnier as Lindy Booth is in fact Canadian.
** Averted during "And the Fangs of Death". Despite being in a Canadian military base, none of the soldiers follow any stereotypically Canadian behaviour.

%% ZeroContextExample: * BrickJoke: "Ninjas? In Oklahoma?"

** Also used in the Dorian Gray episode, with literal jaywalking - "Drug overdose, binge drinking, walking into traffic."

* BadassBoast: Jenkins when [[spoiler:Prospero enters the library]]: "I usually resist playing this card - at least in supernatural circles - [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith do you... know who I am]]?" When [[spoiler:Moriarty]] manages to reason his way through, if not identifying him as [[spoiler:Sir Galahad]] ''specifically'', at least successfully landing in the ballpark of [[spoiler:"former Knight of the Round Table"]], Jenkins clarifies his point: [[spoiler:"I've been threatened, tortured, and bullied, bothered, grilled, menaced long since before you two were even a glimmer in your writer's ink pot."]]

---> '''Eve:''' ''(to Jenkins)'' I've gone into the field with experienced soldiers with a good plan, good Intel, and still come home with nothing but dog tags.

* EpisodeTitleCard: The show's main title always has the episode title appear under it - "THE LIBRARIANS" appears first, with the second part (e.g. "and the Apple of Discord") materializing below a moment later.

* FighterMageThief: The [=LITs=] - Stone, Cassandra, and Ezekiel, in order. Stone is a down-to-earth brawler (who also has an IQ of 190), Cassandra is a brainy-focused scholar with the ability (and interest) to understand magic better than the other two, and Ezekiel is a professional thief who has great skill with tech.

*** [[TheDevil A contract-demon]], Mephistopheles, [[spoiler:although Baird manages to use LoopholeAbuse to [[BroughtDownToNormal make him human]]]] (Episode 2x06 "And the Infernal Contract").

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The team is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of Librarian candidates - the Serpent Brotherhood was able to kill every other one in the ''world'' in the first episode, saving them for last because they weren't smart enough to realize they were putting this trope into effect.

* TruerToTheText: When the Librarians encounter Frankenstein's Monster as a Fictional in "And the Broken Staff," Ezekiel - only familiar with the character via movies and pop culture - expects him to be slow-witted and afraid of fire. He learns the hard way that the Monster is characterized quite differently in the original novel that the Fictional was summoned out of. (Oddly, this is not true for pretty much any other Fictional who appears over the course of the season.)

* BadassBoast: Jenkins when [[spoiler:Prospero enters the library]]: "I usually resist playing this card - at least in supernatural circles - [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith do you... know who I am]]?" When [[spoiler:Moriarty]] manages to reason his way through, if not identifying him as [[spoiler:Sir Galahad]] ''specifically'', at least successfully landing in the ballpark of [[spoiler:"former Knight of the Round Table"]], Jenkins clarifies his point: [[spoiler:"I've been threatened, tortured, and bullied, bothered, grilled, menaced long since before you two were even a glimmer in your writer's ink pot."]]

* BiggerOnTheInside: The inside of the library exists in its own demiplane and is "as big as it needs to be".

* BrickJoke: "Ninjas? In Oklahoma?"

--> '''Eve: To [=LITs=]''' It wasn't your fault. You did good, all of you, but sometimes, you just lose.
--> '''Eve: To Jenkins''' I've gone into the field with experienced soldiers with a good plan, good Intel, and still come home with nothing but dog tags.

** Stone briefly alludes to the plot of the first movie during "And the Loom of Fate" when speaking of the previous Librarian who faked his own death.

* DealWithTheDevil: Exactly the plot in "And the Infernal Contract". And the devil isn't above LoopholeAbuse.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Dulaque has an agent of the Eastern Dragons steal a great treasure from underneath their noses, leading blame to be pointed at the Western Dragons, in order to wake the dragons and cause worldwide destruction.]]

* HighSchoolReunion: "And the Reunion of Evil" is initially framed as this, until we learn that [[spoiler:they are all Jotunheim, frost giants disguising themselves as humans]].

* HowWeGotHere: "And the SelfFulfillingProphecy."

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title begins with "And," designed to be read in conjunction with the series title as "The Librarians and _______."

* LastSecondWordSwap: A alternate Ezekiel claims that Baird was like a mother to him and she responds "That's mathematically im...probable". [[note]]In the first season, the actors playing them were 19 and 41 respectively, so it would be very possible[[/note]]

* MagicalParticleAccelerator: A literal example, where a physics student builds a ridiculously small particle accelerator (as in, it fits on a small push cart instead of being the size of a building) that works despite the fact that it really shouldn't. She explains that the equations came to her one day, and she used them to design the accelerator. Cassandra realizes that the accelerator functions mostly through magic and [[spoiler:is powering the summoning circle at Wexler College]].

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Every time the [=LITs=] need to get access to a place where it's strange for them to go, they just need to state they're "The Librarians" and the listener makes some logical leap that expalins why they're there, though it doesn't always work and on one occasion the person realizes after the fact that it doesn't make sense. It's not clear if this is simply TheMasquarade at work or some form of magic until RunningGag in Season 3 when Stone asks if it ''always'' works for Carsen. It's revealed that [[spoiler:the phrase is an incantation, "a bit of white magic," that when said correctly has the desired effect, confirming it to be outright magic.]]

* SkewedPriorities: Charlene can't help but always think about the budget, even in life-or-death situations. When the Serpent Brotherhood invades the Library in the pilot, she and Judson's spirit have to use their combined powers to cut it off from the world. Charlene's last words before that? Her resignation to the fact that Flynn won't be saving any receipts without her to prompt him. Even in Season 3, after Flynn and Eve find her on vacation, they nearly manage to convince her to return by claiming that Cassandra has expressed a wish to do the Library's accounting, nearly throwing Charlene into a panic. For reference, [[spoiler:Charlene used to be Judson's Guardian, making her a badass several thousand years old]].

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To TNT's ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', with an additional magic twist, expected since both shows are produced by Dean Devlin. They both even star Christian Kane playing a slightly similar role within the team.
** This series also has a lot in common with [=SyFy's=] ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}''. However it is [[SeriousBusiness very important]] in some areas of the internet not to refer to it as a rip off, as the films did technically come first. Doesn't change the similarities. [[note]]Eve is very Myka, Ezekiel makes a good Claudia, Jenkins is a more crotchety Arty. Stone and Cassandra both have aspects of Pete and Steve.[[/note]] John Rogers actually acknowledges this, and specifically mentions that they removed the artifact hunt element BECAUSE it would be too similar.

* TemptingFate:
--> '''Eve''': "I want all three of you together in a place that is safe and boring!"
* TheEndIsNigh: What Jenkins says to Eve at the end of "And the Rule of Three"

* WellIntentionedExtremist: DOSA want to stop magic harming everyone too. Unfortunately, they are much more militaristic and believe that the Librarians are terrorists.

* WeirdnessCensor: The campus of Wexler College seems to be full of it. The sample student, Mindy, believes that 1 in 5 students and teachers transferring in the middle of the night is totally normal, as are warts that give you screaming nightmares.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "And the Loom of Fate", Dulaque kills [[spoiler:Lamia]] as a blood sacrifice to open the portal to the Loom.

* HollywoodGameDesign: Averted in [[spoiler:''The Librarians and the Point of Salvation''. The video game the Librarians become trapped in works remarkably like an ''actual'' video game, with scripted events caused by triggers in the environments, obscure pipe puzzles, and incorporates no-clipping and rocket-jumping into the plot]].

** The Apple of Discord turns everyone who touches it into the worst version of themselves. A RunningGag throughout the episode is how they cannot let ''Jones'' get his hands on it. It turns out that he's [[spoiler:completely immune, because he's ''already'' the worst version of himself]].

** In "And the Final Curtain", the Library's room of time machines includes [[Series/DoctorWho a blue police box]] and [[Film/BackToTheFuture a DeLorean]].

* PowerWalk: Done twice, but never played entirely straight.
** Done by Eve and the Librarians in "And The Image Of Image" as they arrive at the club Effigy [[spoiler:and then promptly ruined by Cassandra when she loses her balance on her high heels, all in slow-motion]].
** In "And The Tears Of A Clown" as they arrive at a carnival and they've get out a car in slow-motion.[[spoiler:.. disguised as clowns.]]

* NumberObsession: Cassandra is a synesthete who can perform complex math formulas in her head. When under the influence of the Apple of Disord, Flynn tries to divert her with a Logic Bomb by asking her to calculate pi to the last digit, but she laughs him off, telling him she's not some computer he can just shut down. Stone has more success when he asks her about Eulers's Number and suggests the solution is "3", which causes her to pass out when she realizes what he said. Stone tells Flynn that Cass had been writing notes about it that he'd noticed, suggesting she was obsessed with Euler's Number.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: Played with; when Cassandra is corrupted by the Apple of Discord, she simply slips out of her dress to [[BareYourMidriff reveal a tiny undershirt]] and tight shorts.

** If Cassandra isn't a sweet, cute and slightly off-kilter girl, things are ''bad''. If Cassandra decides to [[BareYourMidriff show up with a bare midriff]] and monologue about how [[ItAmusedMe 'practical applications are more fun than theories']] as she [[ApocalypseHow starts off with a viable method of causing mass death and destruction]]...then DontAskJustRun.

* '''Ezekiel Jones''' (John Harlan Kim), a young consummate thief who can hack an NSA computer as easily as he can steal a Fabergé egg.
* '''Cassandra Cillian''' (Lindy Booth), a brilliant scientist and mathematician who possesses a trace of magic.
* '''Jacob Stone''' (Christian Kane), polymath, linguist, expert in architecture, art, art history, archaeology and world cultures of the past and present, and other fields like bar fighting.

They're shephereded by Eve Baird (Creator/RebeccaRomijn) as their new Guardian, and together they hunt down mysterious artifacts and magical phenomenon to SaveTheWorld every week - twice before Friday.

The series had a four-issue comic miniseries published by Creator/DynamiteComics, and a series of tie-in novels (''and the Lost Lamp'' in 2016, ''and the Mother Goose Chase'' in 2017, ''and the Pot of GOld'' in 2019). The show itself was cancelled in 2018 after four seasons.

''The Librarians'' is a Creator/{{TNT}} series that acts as a continuation of ''Film/TheLibrarian'' films. In addition to the return of Creator/NoahWyle (albeit initially only in a recurring role), Creator/BobNewhart, and Creator/JaneCurtin in the first episode, there are four new characters who are recruited to work for the Library, headed by Eve Baird (Creator/RebeccaRomijn). Together, they SaveTheWorld every week. Twice before Friday.

Cancelled after 4 seasons in 2018.