History Leverage / TropesJToM

* KickTheDog: The wealthy guy who stole a heart destined for a teenaged boy. Nate gives him [[Film/CitizenKane a snow globe]] instead.

* MeetCute: Implied in the pilot that Nate and Sophie had one -- that ended with him shooting her. And her shooting him.

* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Invoked in "The Future Job" when Elliot walks in on the phony psychic's control room and his lackey is there feeding him information.

** And another one, courtesy of "The Rundown Job". How? [[spoiler: "The Rundown Job" has Parker, Elliot and Hardison taking on a terrorist attack that's using the Spanish Flu Virus. This is really driven home, because the last episode was a "Parker Makes a Friend" episode, and this one is deadly serious. Hardison says very early in the episode that this is way out of their league]].
* MookHorrorShow: The "Elliot vs. the dirty cops" scene in "The Morning After Job" is presented this way.

** In "The Top Hat Job" Parker, Hardison, and Elliot try to get into the private food company. Nate, being GenreSavvy, knows this is a bad idea and even a simple scouting job will be doomed. Turns out the company has ex-Special Forces as security and state-of-the-art protection for all the food patents. Elliot couldn't even get past the lobby before they were smoked out.

** In "The Cross My Heart Job", the team does without earbuds, lockpicks, money and Hardison's laptop. They make do with walkie-talkies, a desktop and whatever else they can lift or steal.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: It's not uncommon for the crew to start investigating a mark on behalf of a single victim, only for said mark to be operating on a larger scale. However, the series tends to shy away from the team attempting to SaveTheWorld.

* MythArc: There's one introduced in the season 3 premiere, where the team is essentially blackmailed into trying to [[spoiler:find a way to take down the world's most feared criminal banker in six months]].

* MartialMedic: Played straight in "The Bank Shot Job" -- Eliot is the only member of the group whose job regularly involves violence so it stands to reason that he's the one who's going to know what to do with a gunshot wound.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Elliot's [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] tend to be of the defensive rather than offensive variety.

* TheMurderAfter: "The Morning After Job" centers around the team convincing a mark that this has happened.

* MetalDetectorCheckpoint: In "The Lost Heir Job," a corrupt lawyer is delayed by Hardison stuffing him full of keys in all of his various pockets before he can enter the court house security check.

* KeepTheReward: The Leverage team work like this, doing jobs where all the profit goes to their clients. Somewhat justified in that their first job (a vengeance gig against the guy who tried to screw them) made them filthy stinking rich.
** Plus, Hardison is a Wall Street-level genius at shuffling money around.
** Averted, however, when Tara filled in for the absent Sophie -- she very specifically demanded her cut of the take each week (it was implied she assumed the "we give the money away" thing was part of the con at first before realizing the team were dead serious about their work).
** Well, not ALL the profits...the pilot implies they take a bit from the marks, to cover expenses.
*** Its an "alternative revenue stream." Basically they steal money when they can from the mark and as a result, never have to charge the client.
*** There's a good chance that whenever they go up against a large business, Hardison repeats what he did in the "Nigerian Job" and further pads their income.

* KarmaHoudini: Sophie conned the team into taking on a job that involved going after Nate's old boss Ian Blackpoole by convincing all of them that it was in order to avenge Nate's son. Then, when the team finds out that it was all so that Sophie could get the Second David to increase the value of the one she had already stolen, Nate confronts her. She avoids censure by pointing out that Nate uses their cons to avenge the death of his son.
** In "The San Lorenzo Job" [[PresidentEvil President]] Edwin Ribera gets to retire peacefully and use the corrupt political system to seize Damien Moreau's assets for himself as part of a deal he makes with Nate to have Moreau arrested. Ribera was highly corrupt in the time he was president; he had opponents and dissidents arrested and murdered regularly, but there is no indication that he will suffer any reprisal and will instead have a cushy retirement. The only real punishment he got was a very difficult campaign that he lost and was warned to retire else "running this country would be a pain in the ass".

** It is implied that Hardison arranged for Parker's jury duty on Nate's orders- presumably to help her develop some social skills.

** Subverted in that breaking the camera causes security to investigate, where Hardison's hacking would have left them blissfully unaware.

* MsFanservice: If someone's going to be in a fetish-y position, it'll almost always be Parker. However, as demonstrated by several episodes, such as “The Snow Job,” Sophie is more than capable of filling this role.

* MidlifeCrisisCar: Nate's Tesla Roadster.

*** There's a good chance that whenever they go up against a large business, Nate repeats what he did in the "Nigerian Job" and further pads their income.

** Also in "The Second David Job" Sophie mentions that chance tends to bend itself to Nates plans after [[spoiler:Maggie]] says the plan will never work.

'''Eliot:''' That's military aircraft contractors. They used to stamp their logo on their choppers and we'd have to file them off before we -- [[LastSecondWordSwap went]] [[BlatantLies fishin'.]]\\

'''Eliot:''' For...fish...

* MuggingTheMonster:
** In "The Bottle Job" a LoanShark targets Nate's favorite pub after its owner had borrowed money from him. The shark does this after the funeral of the original owner while the wake was still happening.
** In "The Top Hat Job" Parker, Hardison, and Elliot try to get into the private food company. Nate, being GenreSavvy, knows this is a bad idea and even a simple scouting job will be doomed. Turns out the company has ex-Special Forces as security and state-of-the-art protection for all the food patents. Elliot couldn't even get past the lobby before they were smoked out.

* LawEnforcementInc: IYS, the insurance agency that Nate worked for, seems to be this in part--if he can go after Sophie with a gun instead of having to call the local cops, well...

* LetsSplitUpGang: At the end of "the First David Job", the team splits up to lay low for six months.([[PuttingTheBandBackTogether they barely manage three before meeting up with each other again by coincidence]]).

* LetThereBeSnow: "The Ho Ho Ho Job".
* LightningBruiser: Eliot
* LikeASonToMe: Well, niece, actually. Nate goes back a long ways with John [=McRory=], so his daughter Cora is like a niece to him. That also means that [[MySisterIsOffLimits she's off-limits.]]

* LoanShark: Doyle, TheMark from "The Bottle Job."
** Also, Jimmy Ford.

* LockedRoomMystery: "The 10 Li'l Grifters Job."

* [[LoveAtFirstPunch Love at First Gunshot]]: Sophie and Nate's first chronological meeting involves Nate interrupting Sophie as she tries to steal a painting. Their eyes meet, a quick smile, then she puts a bullet in his shoulder. The instant she turns around, he pops one of his own into her behind. She is ''pissed.''

* [[LukeYouAreMyFather Luke You Were My Father]]: [[spoiler: a dying industrialist gives his fortune to a charity because its operator is his long-lost daughter. He didn't tell her the truth because he didn't want her to hate him for (accidentally) abandoning her and her mother.]]

* [[LoveAtFirstPunch Love at First Gunshot]]: Sophie and Nate's first chronological meeting involves Nate interrupting Sophie as she tries to steal a painting. Their eyes meet, a quick smile, then they shoot each other.

* MedicationTampering: In "The Miracle Job", the crew induces a panic attack in the mark by replacing his anti-anxiety medication with pills that are a mix of caffeine and dexamphetamine.