History Leverage / TropesJToM

-->'''Nate:''' [to camera, ''Series/TheOffice'' style] What does she mean not enough foreplay?! ''I love foreplay!''

* KnifeNut: Eliot. He's also a chef when he's not killing people.
--> '''Eliot:''' Hold a knife like this (normally), cuts through an onion. Hold a knife like this (switches to a backhand grip), cuts through, like, eight yakuza in four seconds. Screams, blood, carnage. People are like knives. Everything's in context.

** After Nate criticizes TheMark for his business practices in "The 15 Minutes Job":

%% * LoanShark: Doyle, TheMark from "The Bottle Job."

* MissionBriefing: Done OnceAnEpisode to describe TheMark and his various evil activities using fancy slideshows, Unusual in that it's [[MissionControl Hardison]] who does it instead of Nate, the team's leader. Usually, everyone butts in with their own comments or the character who actually knows what they're talking about takes over the briefing.

* LandmarkSale: In "The Three Strikes Job", Nate poses as a real estate developer planning to build a baseball stadium to con a corrupt mayor. This requires him to make it look like an actual team was planning to move to the stadium.

* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles: Season one was both set and filmed there.

** No love for Tara? This troper must cite “The Bottle Job” for her hooker-ish cover.
--> '''Tara:''' (hikes skirt, sticks out chest, pouts lip) “My name’s Trish and I’m lonely…” ''walks with swining hips''

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: The team's modus operandi.

* MissingEpisode: TNT pulled "The Mile High Job," which was set on a plane and devoted much of its comedy to making fun of water landings after the Miracle on the Hudson. The episode was later aired in its original form after the media frenzy had died down.
* MissionBriefing: Done OnceAnEpisode to describe TheMark and his various evil activities using fancy slideshows, unusual in that it's [[MissionControl Hardison]] who does it instead of Nate, the team's leader. Usually, everyone butts in with their own comments or the character who actually knows what they're talking about takes over the briefing.

* KarmaHoudini: 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 and he had opponents and dissidents arrested and murdered regularly, but there is no indication that he will suffer any reprisal beyond the loss of his political power - and since his corruption was well known to the public while he was in office, the fact that he voluntarily concedes the election means he'll likely get a boost to his public image to go with his cushy retirement.

--> '''Hardison''': He takes getting shot very lightly.

--> '''Eliot''': YOU DON'T THROW CROWBARS AT PEOPLE!!!

--> '''Eliot''': I GOT HIT BY A CAR!!!\\

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Parker destroys the weaponized Spanish flu virus in "The Rundown Job" by burning it with a small blowtorch as it sprays out of the briefcase.]]

** Not to mention getting hit full-force in the head by a carnival ride and still getting back up and beating up the guy responsible.

--'''Archie:''' The thing to remember, son, is that nobody ever cuts the cake 'til somebody ''tells'' them to cut the cake.

* LesbianCop: Detective Grayson, a RecurringCharacter who appeared in three episodes.

* MundaneSolution: In "The Reunion Job", when, Eliot, Hardison, and Parker sneak onto a supply dock, and notice a webcam stationed at the container they were trying to get to. Hardison was prepared to hack the webcam through his phone to disable it, but then Eliot simply disables the cam by flinging a rock at it.

* TheManMakesTheWeapon: Eliot, most notably in "The Wedding Job." He disarms a man holding a huge knife, using a whisk. He then kills the man with an appetizer and a tray.

** In "The Top Hat Job" Parker, Hardison, and Eliot 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. Eliot couldn't even get past the lobby before they were smoked out.