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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Edward Forsythe's "screw you" to Wexford at the end of "Kali Part 3".
--> '''Forsythe''': This is ''HMS I-Don't-Give-A-Crap''. If you happen to be an uptight amphibian martinete with a Napoleon Complex, please bugger off! Otherwise leave a message after the tone and will get back to you as soon as possible. Beeeeep!
--> '''Forsythe''': This is ''HMS I-Don't-Give-A-Crap''. If you happen to be an uptight amphibian martinete with a Napoleon Complex, please bugger off! Otherwise leave a message after the tone and will get back to you as soon as possible. Beeeeep!
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Edward Forsythe's epic "screw you" to Wexford at the end of "Kali Part 3".
--> '''Forsythe''': This is ''HMSI-Don't-Give-A-Crap''. I Don't Give A Crap''. If you happen to be an [[TakeThat uptight amphibian martinete martinete]] with a Napoleon Complex, NapoleonComplex, please bugger off! '''Bugger Off'''! Otherwise leave a message after the tone and will we'll get back to you as soon as possible. possible! Beeeeep!
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--> '''Forsythe''': This is ''HMS I-Don't-Give-A-Crap''. If you happen to be an uptight amphibian martinete with a Napoleon Complex, please bugger off! Otherwise leave a message after the tone and will get back to you as soon as possible. Beeeeep!
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** Tesla in that episode also qualifies. His plan was to create an elite class of Vampires that would slowly manifest over the course of the next 30 years, allowing him to be in a position where he could take over the world. After stopping the prematurely activated Vampires, Magnus seems to laugh the entire incident off completely after Tesla is accidentally rendered mortal along with them. Even though Tesla admits that this is an ''inconvenience'' in his world domination schemes at best.
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** Tesla in that episode also qualifies. His plan was to create an elite class of Vampires that would slowly manifest over the course of the next 30 years, allowing him to be in a position where he could take over the world. After stopping the prematurely activated Vampires, Magnus seems to laugh the entire incident off completely after Tesla is accidentally rendered mortal along with them. Even though Tesla admits that this is an ''inconvenience'' in his world domination schemes at best.
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** Kate mentions all of the priceless first editions are covered in wine stains because of Tesla.
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* ImmortalityImmorality: The Five often fall into this.
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** The Macri. It allows communication with Kali, extends its chosen host's life for ''centuries'' and its only "evil" act is that the host's physiology becomes so dependant on it, they will die soon afterwards.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Edward Forsythe. Various characters speculate that his motivation for controlling Big Bertha was to hold the world hostage, use her to dig for more oil, use the Macri to live for centuries, etc. As he's dying, he reveals to Magnus that that his sole intention throughout was to recreate Pangaea as a sanctuary for all the abnormals in the world.
--> '''Edward''': An ''Island of Dr Moreau''... but done ''properly''. You can't blame me for dreaming big?
--> '''Edward''': An ''Island of Dr Moreau''... but done ''properly''. You can't blame me for dreaming big?
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Without even saying a word, Tesla's introduction says ''everything'' about him. He casually strolls into Magnus' lecture, gets security to hand her note; informing her that some men are coming to kill her, to meet him outside... and ''[[ChivalrousPervert she looks hot]]''.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Without even saying a word, Tesla's introduction says ''everything'' about him. He casually strolls into Magnus' lecture, gets security to hand her a note; informing her that some men are coming to kill her, to meet him outside... and ''[[ChivalrousPervert she looks hot]]''.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Without even saying a word, Tesla's introduction says ''everything'' about him. He casually strolls into Magnus' lecture, gets security to hand her note that informs note; informing her that some men are coming to kill her, to meet him outside... and ''[[ChivalrousPervert she looks hot]]''.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Without even saying a word, Tesla's introduction says ''everything'' about him. He casually strolls into Magnus' lecture, hands gets security a to hand her note that informs her that some men are coming to kill her, to meet him outside... and ''[[ChivalrousPervert she looks hot]]''.
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* EvilIsSexy: Invoked during Tesla's toast in "Sleepers".
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* EvilIsSexy: Tesla's toast in "Sleepers".
--> '''Tesla''': Here's to those halycon days of bloodlust now gone... plus you gotta admit, vampires are just plain ''cool''.
--> '''Magnus''': ''Amen.''
--> '''Tesla''': Here's to those halycon days of bloodlust now gone... plus you gotta admit, vampires are just plain ''cool''.
--> '''Magnus''': ''Amen.''
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* FoeYayFoeYay: Frenquently lampshaded in-universe.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Vampires ([[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob with Trust-Funds]]) from "Sleepers". Even after Tesla devamps them again, we get no indication that they were punished for the murders they committed. Given that their parents are "Richer than God", is it really likely that they're going to see ''any'' serious jail-time?
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* KarmaHoudini: The Vampires ([[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob with Trust-Funds]]) from "Sleepers". Even after Tesla devamps them again, we get no indication that they were punished for the murders they committed. Given that committed, nor learn anything from the experience! We're never exactly made certain of how much of their parents are "Richer than God", is it really likely behaviour and actions were caused by becoming Vampires, with several indications being given that they're going they were already a bunch of spoilt, arrogant jerkasses to see ''any'' serious jail-time?begin with?!
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* KarmaHoudini: The Vampires ([[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob with Trust-Funds]]) from "Sleepers". Even after Tesla devamps them again, we get no indication that they were punished in ''any'' way for the murders they committed and given that their parents are "Richer than God", is it really likely that they're going to see ''any'' serious jail-time?
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* KarmaHoudini: The Vampires ([[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob with Trust-Funds]]) from "Sleepers". Even after Tesla devamps them again, we get no indication that they were punished in ''any'' way for the murders they committed and given committed. Given that their parents are "Richer than God", is it really likely that they're going to see ''any'' serious jail-time?
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** In "Next Tuesday", when confronted by a Vampire Squid, Magnus mutters "[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Hello, Beastie!]]".
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In "Bank Job" when someone thinks that Magnus' British accent is fake.
** As well as Magnus' [[TakeThatCritics subsequent mocking]] of him.
** As well as Magnus' [[TakeThatCritics subsequent mocking]] of him.
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** Druitt in the BadFuture depicted in ''Pavor Nocturnus'', where two weeks after the death of Magnus, [[DrivenToSuicide he decided]] to [[Telefrag teleport a nuke]] into the heart of Boston to [[TakingYouWithMe wipe out the infected.]]
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** Druitt in the BadFuture depicted in ''Pavor Nocturnus'', where two weeks after the death of Magnus, [[DrivenToSuicide he decided]] to [[Telefrag [[TeleFrag teleport a nuke]] into the heart of Boston to [[TakingYouWithMe wipe out the infected.]]
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Magnus
** TheLancer: Ashley initially. Later Will.
** TheSmartGuy: Henry
** TheBigGuy: He's even called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Big Guy]]''. Ashley as well.
** TheChick: Will.
** TheSixthRanger: Kate.
** TheHero: Magnus
** TheLancer: Ashley initially. Later Will.
** TheSmartGuy: Henry
** TheBigGuy: He's even called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Big Guy]]''. Ashley as well.
** TheChick: Will.
** TheSixthRanger: Kate.
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* NeverLiveItDown: No-one In-Universe, no-one lets Druitt forget that he was ''JackTheRipper'', even after its revealed he was BrainwashedAndCrazy at the time.''JackTheRipper''.
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'''Worth:''' About my amazing exploits! Never saw a penny for it, mind you. Stevenson, ''(laughs)'' selfish bugger.
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'''Worth:''' About my amazing exploits! Never saw a penny for it, mind you. Stevenson, ''(laughs)'' *''laughs''* selfish bugger.bugger!
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Justified; Magnus has been alive for over 100 years and probably half the world's leaders owe her a favor. When the newbie to the team asks if there is a health plan, Magnus says no. (Granted, the organisation is headed by probably the best doctor in the world with medical contacts in every corner of the globe, so it's entirely possible their health plan is simply "Dr Helen Magnus". Also, the Sanctuary has enough resources to purchase a lot of new medical equipment, and pay the taxes and upkeep costs for a castle. Given that they always get help for any injuries or illnesses that occur, possibly they don't have a designed health plan because they'd have to write "Covers anything. Like, anything at all that could or could not happen to anyone, human or otherwise."\\\
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** [[spoiler:Replaced by Kate Freelander.]]
* ActorAllusion: While discussing ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', the Big Guy mentions he likes Marcus; take a guess who Christopher Heyerdahl played in ''NewMoon''.
* ActorAllusion: While discussing ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', the Big Guy mentions he likes Marcus; take a guess who Christopher Heyerdahl played in ''NewMoon''.
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** [[spoiler:Replaced Replaced by Kate Freelander.]]
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* ActorAllusion: While discussing ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', the Big Guy mentions he likesMarcus; take a guess Marcus, who Christopher Heyerdahl played in ''NewMoon''.
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** OrWasItADream [[spoiler:She She brought the coat back with her.]]
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Most myths are true, anyways. Sadly, there is no such thing as a Kraken.[[hottip:*:There There are, however, vampire squids and a GiantSpider that lives on the ocean floor and can cause earthquakes.]]
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** In "Pavor Nocturnus", we learn that [[spoiler: Will TookALevelInBadass after the ZombieApocalypse started and is now a scarred, jaded leader of LaResistance. And Druitt went out by [[NukeEm teleporting a tactical nuke]] [[HeroicSacrifice into a zombie overrun area]].]]
** While all characters have their badass moments, Helen Magnus is the ultimate badass. Period. [[spoiler:She exploded a helicopter with a vampire squid and an amphibious scorpion fighting on it. Among other things.]]
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** While all characters have their badass moments, Helen Magnus is the ultimate badass.Period. [[spoiler:She exploded a helicopter with a vampire squid On several occasions the team has heard about threats to her while she was away, said some variation of "sucks to be them" and an amphibious scorpion fighting on it. Among other things.]]continued their business.
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* BadFuture: [[spoiler:The The AncientKeeper in "Pavor Nocturnus" shows Helen a ZombieApocalypse caused accidentally by her WhoWantsToLiveForever attitude. [[FridgeLogic Seems like an awfully complex way to dissuade someone]] [[FridgeBrilliance until you realize he's mute.]] But then again, a few words of caution are like 1% as convincing as experiencing such horrors for yourself.]] attitude.
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* BatmanGambit: The season two episode [[spoiler:"Veritas"]], wherein [[spoiler:the big guy and his boss]] both play out an elaborate and highly convincing scheme [[spoiler: intended to make a corrupt Sanctuary employee believe that Magnus had gone mad and murdered her best friend. Self-induced madness was a cover to hide her thoughts from the telepaths, and she left amongst her things a file on the location of a powerful abnormal]] which served as bait to make the target of the gambit move as intended and get caught.
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* BatmanGambit: The season two episode [[spoiler:"Veritas"]], "Veritas", wherein [[spoiler:the the big guy and his boss]] both boss play out an elaborate and highly convincing scheme [[spoiler: intended to make a corrupt Sanctuary employee believe that Magnus had gone mad and murdered her best friend. Self-induced madness was a cover to hide her thoughts from the telepaths, and she left amongst her things a file on the location of a powerful abnormal]] abnormal which served as bait to make the target of the gambit move as intended and get caught.
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** NikolaTesla: NikolaTesla was [[MadScientist just plain old Nikola Tesla]]... Tesla]] until he became the first modern vampire. As of season 2 episode "Sleepers", [[spoiler:Tesla is no longer a vampire, [[FridgeBrilliance but is starting to display magnetic-based powers]]]]. [[spoiler: And now he's Later he loses his vampirism and gains electromagnetic powers, then regains it and becomes a vampire with magnetic powers.]]
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** "''[[DocumentaryEpisode Instinct]]''" has a variation on this. After the cameraman Zach, who has been filming the events of the episode gets killed by the second creature, Magnus turns off the camera. We then cut to the team back at the Sanctuary, with [[NoodleIncident no explanation]] of how they dealt with the second creature, what happened to the first creature trapped with the frozen embryos, how they got passed the incoming SWAT teams, etc...
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** "''[[DocumentaryEpisode Instinct]]''" has a variation on this. After the cameraman Zach, who has been filming the events of the episode gets killed by the second creature, Magnus turns off the camera. We then cut to the team back at the Sanctuary, with [[NoodleIncident no explanation]] of how they dealt with the second creature, what happened to the first creature trapped with the frozen embryos, how they got passed past the incoming SWAT teams, etc...
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* NoEnding: There's a season two episode in which Magnus and Will crash the helicopter down a borehole, and when not fighting the monster of the week, exhausted every possible method of escape and communication. At the end, the camera zooms away, with Will saying "Seriously, how are we going to get out of here?" The next episode implies they got out, but the event is not explained or even mentioned.
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* NoEnding: There's a season two episode in which Magnus and Will crash the helicopter down a borehole, and when not fighting the monster of the week, exhausted every possible method of escape and communication. At the end, the camera zooms away, with Will saying "Seriously, how are we going to get out of here?" The next episode implies they got out, but the event is not explained or even mentioned. mentioned.
** "''Instinct''" also have a variation on this. After the PointOfViewCharacter Zach, who has been filming the events of the episode gets killed by the second creature, Magnus turns off the camera. We then cut to the team back in the office, with [[NoodleIncident no explanation]] of how they dealt with the second creature, what happened to the first creature trapped with the frozen embryos, how they got passed the incoming SWAT teams, etc...
** "''Instinct''" also have a variation on this. After the PointOfViewCharacter Zach, who has been filming the events of the episode gets killed by the second creature, Magnus turns off the camera. We then cut to the team back in the office, with [[NoodleIncident no explanation]] of how they dealt with the second creature, what happened to the first creature trapped with the frozen embryos, how they got passed the incoming SWAT teams, etc...
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Helen in the series 4 premiere. [[spoiler: After time travelling to 1898, she angrily berates Past!Adam, earning his ire that she won't help him with his daughter's kidnapping (ironically, by his future-self). At the end of the episode she ends up in a confrontation with Future!Adam, only for him to fire a stray shot that accidentally ends up causing the death of his daughter ''anyway'', despite her being cured from her terminal illness. After her past self arrives at the crime scene, Past!Adam shows up and immediately blames Past!Magnus for his daughters death.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Helen in the series 4 premiere. [[spoiler: After time travelling to 1898, she angrily berates Past!Adam, earning his ire that she won't help him with his daughter's kidnapping (ironically, by his future-self). At the end of the episode she ends up in a confrontation with Future!Adam, only for him to fire a stray shot that accidentally ends up causing the death of his daughter ''anyway'', despite her being cured from her terminal illness. After her past self arrives at the crime scene, Past!Adam shows up and immediately blames Past!Magnus for his daughters death.]]
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->''"We protect the two dominant species of this planet from one another: humans and abnormals."''
'''''Sanctuary''''' is a TV series on the Sci-Fi channel that started as a WebVideo series. Notable primarily for its good writing despite a low, low budget, and for AmandaTapping as Doctor Helen Magnus, the immortal head of the Sanctuary in the title.
Yes, [[{{Series/Stargate SG-1}} that]] AmandaTapping.
The show follows Dr. Will Zimmerman and the other members of the Sanctuary, as [[FantasticNatureReserve they protect Abnormals]] (the "real" creatures that inspired the folklore, legends and myths about monsters and other supernatural weirdness, but that turn out not only to exist, but also to have a perfectly rational "scientific" explanation behind each one) and have adventures.
No relation to the [[Manga/{{Sanctuary}} manga, anime, and live action film of the same name]] about two Japanese survivors of the Khmer Rouge trying to remake their society in the roles of a politician and a {{Yakuza}}. Nor is it any relation to the place where [[LogansRun runners]] go.
There is now [[{{Characters/Sanctuary}} a character page]]. Feel free to add to it.
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!!''Sanctuary'' provides examples of
* ActionGirl
** Ashley
** Magnus is no slouch herself.
** [[spoiler:Replaced by Kate Freelander.]]
* ActorAllusion: While discussing ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', the Big Guy mentions he likes Marcus; take a guess who Christopher Heyerdahl played in ''NewMoon''.
* AffablyEvil
** Nikola Tesla.
** Later subverted with [[spoiler:John Druitt]] through his HeelFaceTurn.
* AllJustADream: See BadFuture below. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Let's just be glad that Magnus learned her lesson]].
** OrWasItADream [[spoiler:She brought the coat back with her.]]
* AllMythsAreTrue: Most myths are true, anyways. Sadly, there is no such thing as a Kraken. [[hottip:*:There are, however, vampire squids and a GiantSpider that lives on the ocean floor and can cause earthquakes.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Amanda Tapping answers questions on her {{Twitter}}.
* AncientConspiracy: The Cabal.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Ashley. Subverted with the Big Guy in Veritas.]]
* ApocalypticLog: Several times so far.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Justified; Magnus has been alive for over 100 years and probably half the world's leaders owe her a favor. When the newbie to the team asks if there is a health plan, Magnus says no. (Granted, the organisation is headed by probably the best doctor in the world with medical contacts in every corner of the globe, so it's entirely possible their health plan is simply "Dr Helen Magnus". Also, the Sanctuary has enough resources to purchase a lot of new medical equipment, and pay the taxes and upkeep costs for a castle. Given that they always get help for any injuries or illnesses that occur, possibly they don't have a designed health plan because they'd have to write "Covers anything. Like, anything at all that could or could not happen to anyone, human or otherwise."\\\
This is a critical component of the season 4 episode "Untouchables", when [[spoiler:the United Nations Security Council attache tries to blackmail Helen into stepping down from her position and turning the Sanctuary over to UN control by threatening to cut off her funds. She promptly tells him to take a flying leap, then reveals that she has money "hidden in places [the attache] doesn't even know exist" and that she [[GuileHero manipulated him into cutting them off for good so the Sanctuary could do its job independent of any kind of bureaucratic oversight]]]]. Whew!
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Standard issue fiction butchering of classifications. Magnus refers to humans and abnormals as the planet's "two dominant species," despite the fact that abnormals are shown to include creatures that range from superpowered humans, to rodent-like animals, to moving globs of ooze. Other episodes have Magnus referring to some creatures as separate "species of abnormals," that is to say that "abnormal" encompasses a ''type'' of species.
* [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Artistic License - Temporal Physics]]: (May be TimeyWimeyBall, but it doesn't involve causality or conventional time travel.) People who entered the temporal loop and grew old/died of old age stay old/[[DroppedABridgeOnHim dead]], while people who were born inside a temporal loop [[spoiler:vanish when the loop ends]] [[VoodooShark because they were never born]].
* AsideGlance: "I gotta admit, your Nubbins are pretty amazing." "Don't you just want to squeeze them?" Cue long stare into camera.
* AssShove: Helen Magnus has an uncanny ability to produce a gun at any given moment, which actress Amanda Tapping attributes to her "gun bum".
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Will's shtick. James Watson had it to StorybreakerPower levels. [[spoiler:Before he dies of old age, Watson indicates that Will has the potential to match him at this.]]
* BackFromTheDead: The entire cast at least once, Will twice. It isn't as bad as ''{{Stargate}}'' yet, but Amanda Tapping seems to have brought some bad habits with her.
* {{Badass}}
** John Druitt more than earns the title while taking on four [[SuperpoweredMooks Cabal operatives]] at once during the second part of the season 2 opener. He holds his own, displaying some impressive work with dual-wielded swords, [[spoiler:but is ultimately unsuccessful in deterring the operatives. He is however the first person to take on these superpowered operatives in close combat and survive. And his own superpower is being artificially nullified during the fight, because the operatives have that same power.]]
** In "Pavor Nocturnus", we learn that [[spoiler: Will TookALevelInBadass after the ZombieApocalypse started and is now a scarred, jaded leader of LaResistance. And Druitt went out by [[NukeEm teleporting a tactical nuke]] [[HeroicSacrifice into a zombie overrun area]].]]
** While all characters have their badass moments, Helen Magnus is the ultimate badass. Period. [[spoiler:She exploded a helicopter with a vampire squid and an amphibious scorpion fighting on it. Among other things.]]
* BadassLongcoat: See above. Invoked in "Normandy" where Druitt explains the reason for joining the Nazis was... the outfit (cue the leather longcoat).
* BadFuture: [[spoiler:The AncientKeeper in "Pavor Nocturnus" shows Helen a ZombieApocalypse caused accidentally by her WhoWantsToLiveForever attitude. [[FridgeLogic Seems like an awfully complex way to dissuade someone]] [[FridgeBrilliance until you realize he's mute.]] But then again, a few words of caution are like 1% as convincing as experiencing such horrors for yourself.]]
* BadHabits: "Trail of Blood".
* BaldOfAwesome: John Druitt
* BaldOfEvil: Druitt, again.
* BatmanGambit: The season two episode [[spoiler:"Veritas"]], wherein [[spoiler:the big guy and his boss]] both play out an elaborate and highly convincing scheme [[spoiler: intended to make a corrupt Sanctuary employee believe that Magnus had gone mad and murdered her best friend. Self-induced madness was a cover to hide her thoughts from the telepaths, and she left amongst her things a file on the location of a powerful abnormal]] which served as bait to make the target of the gambit move as intended and get caught.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: All over the place, what with the various long-lived characters.
** NikolaTesla: [[MadScientist just plain old Nikola Tesla]]... until he became the first modern vampire. As of season 2 episode "Sleepers", [[spoiler:Tesla is no longer a vampire, [[FridgeBrilliance but is starting to display magnetic-based powers]]]]. [[spoiler: And now he's a vampire with magnetic powers.]]
** SherlockHolmes: Sort of. Actually James Watson, but he claims that Holmes was based on him, and he insisted his name, if it was used, be given to a sidekick.
** WilliamHowardTaft had a short presidency because he couldn't keep from reverting to his "true form".
** [[ElvisLives Elvis isn't dead]], he just... [[TheUnreveal never mind.]]
* BetterThanSex: The food at Alfredo's is ''just that good''.
* BigBad: The Cabal in Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2. Adam Worth in Season 3.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Magnus:]] "I haven't been kissed like that in a very long time."
* BlueScreen: Most of the time, the only non-CGI things on screen are the actors, the clothes on their backs, and the chairs they sit on. The show completely dispenses with building sets and simply uses blue screen backgrounds, even for relatively "normal" locations like Magnus's office. This also makes ''Sanctuary'' one of the cheapest sci-fi programs on TV.
* BluffTheImpostor: How Magnus finally defeats the creature that had been picking off passengers of a downed plane.
* BottleEpisode: Due to the low budget of the show, there are many episodes that feature only a [[MinimalistCast part of the main cast]] in a limited location and maybe one or two guest stars. Examples include "Requiem", "Instinct", "Next Tuesday", "Bank Job" and others.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
** [[spoiler:Ashley at the end of the first season, which continues into the second season.]]
** [[spoiler:The Big Guy gets hit with this in season 4, having had his brain permanently altered by an abnormal telepath to turn him into a human-hating extremist.]]
* BrokenMasquerade: In the season 3 finale, multiple characters discuss the growing possibility of this trope, and whether or not it would be a good thing. [[spoiler:And as of the end of the episode, it looks likely to happen, as huge armies of abnormals from Hollow Earth invade the surface.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Tesla, sort of. He loses his vampire powers, but the bio-electric powers he possessed as a vampire seems to have been kept to an extent, turning him into a living magnet.]]
* CatchPhrase: Magnus has "Dear God."
* {{Chickification}}: Will Zimmerman is a rare male example. He's a brilliant forensic investigator, an emotionally tough, tenacious maverick willing to find the truth at any price... in the pilot. In subsequent episodes, he becomes the DesignatedVictim, losing his glasses and (frequently) 50% of his pilot IQ and personality in the process, [[EstrogenBrigadeBait as well as gaining tighter clothes and lots of hair product.]] As of the fourth season premiere, he seems to be getting better.
* ChekhovsGun: Done as with many speculative fiction shows, but a particularly textbook example is present in season 2, episode 4, with a crane controller.
* ClingyCostume: Taking a note from ''{{Spider-Man}}'', two episodes have a character in a superhero suit that they couldn't take off. Will even asks him about wastes.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: As mentioned above, the suit in question was an abnormal entity that shaped itself like a superhero suit so it could bond to a host. It would grant them superhuman abilities, but feed on their live energy in return.
* ConflictBall: Will and Magnus are butting heads a lot more in season 4. Even accounting for stressful situations, it was never this bad.
* TheConscience: Will for Helen. She specifically tells him that she needs him to be this for her.
* ConspicuousCG
* CurseCutShort:
--> '''Declan:''' You obnoxious piece of--
* DeadlineNews: Once so far, taking up most of an episode as the protagonists try to protect the reporters while making sure their news will never leak.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the cast at various points, but Will and Tesla most consistently.
* {{Dedication}}: "[[WW2 Normandy]]" is to all men and women who serve in the armed forces.
* DefenceMechanismSuperpower: The boy from the pilot episode; Henry, maybe.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: Anyone with Source Blood; many of the abnormals.
* DisposableSexWorker: What clues Magnus in to Druitt's return.
* DistressedDude: Happens with surprising regularity, especially to Will.
* DividedWeFall: Wexford, you are ''not'' helping.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Early in the second season, Big Guy claims to be cast out by his own people, but says that doesn't mean he shouldn't honor their ways. In "Fragments", [[spoiler:when all of Magnus's medicine fails, he employs a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that brings a patient back from the brink]]. And in Veritas, [[spoiler:he comes back from "the dead". Will finds this out after seeing that the slab across his tomb had been moved]].
* DontComeAKnockin: In "Wingman", Henry and his girlfriend are in a van, rocking the hell out of it... while trying to wire a cell phone recording into the speaker system.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Poor [[spoiler: Watson]]
* DualWielding: John Druitt
* DyingAsYourself
** [[spoiler:Ashley recognizes that the Cabal's programming is going to take over again in a moment, and choses to go the HeroicSacrifice route instead.]]
** [[spoiler:Druitt momentarily looks like he's going to this at the end of "Haunted".]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Big Bertha is said to be able to create earthquakes. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a hell of a lot more powerful, supposedly having shattered the Pangaea super-continent and made the Biblical floods. When the idiots running the Sanctuary network decide to ignore Magnus and attack her, she hits back Old Testament style.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Tesla]] in the two part first season finale.
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:What turned Druitt into JackTheRipper.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Druit seemed to be working for the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], though he was really working against them from within, or something (he did kill Hitler after all), because "I know evil when I see it."]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Might be the psychological trauma, but one of Magnus' fellow hostages in Episode 4.4, "Monsoon", becomes very attracted to her.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Seems to be a large part of the Cabal's activities.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Between the revelations and remembrances about times she worked for the French Resistance, sailed on the ''Titanic'' and had sex with the man who became JackTheRipper, ''Sanctuary'' wants you to know Helen Magnus has lived through her 159+ years on this Earth.
* {{Expy}}: Magnus and her group was originally formed under the auspices of the British government to handle an extra-normal threat that only people with their special talents could tackle. [[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Yes, that]] ''[[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen does]]'' [[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen sound familiar.]]
* ExtranormalInstitute
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade
* FanDisservice: You would think Magnus's first real nude scene (well, as nude as a show on [=SyFy=] can get) would be more enticing. [[spoiler:Not when she's forcibly stripped naked by men in biohazard suits and then hosed down because they think she's a zombie.]]
* {{Fanservice}}
** Will and Magnus spend a good part of "Next Tuesday" soaking wet.
** Clara having to get naked in order to turn invisible. Also could fall under FetishFuel.
** Kali. (At least the human avatar of her.)
* FantasticNatureReserve: The premise.
* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Ashley]] gets them. But since they're a vampiric trait, Tesla has them too.
* FightClubbing: The Cabal's underground abnormal fight network.
* FlyingBrick: The Adjuster's symbiotic suit grants this.
* FoeYay
** Magnus and Tesla. Magnus and Druitt. Druitt and Tesla. Druitt and Watson. Members of the Five seem to have ''a lot'' of subtext going.
** Tesla and Foss, who spend an awful lot of time arguing like and old married couple.
* ForgottenFallenFriend
** Persistently averted with [[spoiler:Ashley]]. Nearly every single episode of the second season has Magnus dealing with it in some way or another.
** Unfortunately upheld with [[spoiler:Clara]], though. To be fair, Will ''does'' mention her in "Next Tuesday", and [[spoiler:he knew her for only a few weeks, while Ashley was Magnus's daughter,]] so naturally her death is going to have somewhat less impact.
* ForScience: Both the Cabal ''and'' Magnus. And Tesla. [[spoiler:Aside from his famous real-life work, he tries to design a weapon to disable but not kill Ashley and the other brainwashed super-abnormal Cabal operatives, even though he thinks it's an impossible task, because he's not ''sure'' it's impossible, and just ''has'' to find out for himself. He doesn't really care about saving the Sanctuary, he's just doing it to see if he can.]]
* FutureBadass: Will Zimmerman in Pavor Nocturnus.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Tesla's vampires in "Sleepers".
* GenreSavvy: Tesla at times.
* GeniusBruiser: The Big Guy
* GiantEnemyCrab / GiantSpider: [[spoiler:Big Bertha, a.k.a. ''Kali, Hindu Goddess of Destruction''.]]
* GollumMadeMeDoIt / JekyllAndHyde: Adam Worth, [[spoiler:a scientist who almost made the Five into the Six,]] inspired [[TheStrangeCaseOfDoctorJekyllAndMrHyde the novel]]. Both sides are aware of each other. Neither side likes Magnus...
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Wexford and the unbelievers.
* GuileHero: In season 4, Helen Magnus, with the help of Will Zimmerman, [[spoiler:manipulates the ''United Nations Security Council'' -- not to mention the governments of most of the free world -- into cutting the Sanctuary off for good, so they can maneuver independently of government bureaucracy]]. This is not surprising, as she has made an absolute career out of this sort of thing. She keeps this up throughout the Season, while more and more of her plans are revealed, culminating in [[spoiler: the creation of a new, hidden Sanctuary at the end of the Season]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Druitt near the end of season 1]].
* HeroicSacrifice
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] in the second season opener. [[spoiler:She overcomes her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing just long enough to blow up herself and the last of the SuperpoweredMooks, preventing said mook from tearing Magnus's head off]].]]
** John Druitt in the 2nd season episode "Haunted". [[spoiler:To save Magnus and the others, he gives up his well-being and freedom to re-contain an evil force that had left him and infected the Sanctuary.]]
** Jimmy in "Penance" after revealing that he killed Kate's father. He chooses to give himself up to the episode's villain while holding a bomb in order to allow Magnus to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath save the wounded Kate]].
** Edward Forsythe, whose ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney attitude changes after he realizes he's dying. He chooses to stay aboard his yacht, letting Magnus and the crew escape on a boat, putting the ship between Wexford and [[GiantSpider Big Bertha]]. He sends Wexford a hilarious "screw you" message before the latter orders the yacht destroyed.
* HeroicWillpower: Zimmerman, repeatedly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tesla and Jack the Ripper.
* HistoricalInjoke: Magnus has been around a ''long'' time, so naturally she gets into this. Among other things, she was on the ''Titanic'' and was pulled into a lifeboat by Molly Brown.
-->'''Magnus:''' There ''is'' such a thing as "before my time"!\\
'''Will:''' ''(skeptical look)''
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Though time travel isn't involved, "Normandy" reveals that Druitt killed Hitler about a year before D-Day, but they just used body doubles after that.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Tesla accidentally "devamps" himself with his own devamper weapon, powered by his own body no less. That'll teach you to make a weapon with a business end on both sides.
* HollywoodNerd: Henry
* HumanPopsicle: The Vampire Queen. [[OhCrap And her Court.]]
* HyperAwareness: Will. We get a little special effect that highlights the details that he notices to draw his conclusions, à la ''{{Psych}}'', but this effect isn't used as much later on.
* IdenticalGrandson: Will's grandfather as seen in "Normandy". [[spoiler:It doesn't end well.]]
* IDoNotDrinkWine: Subverted. Tesla loves wine (it doesn't affect him though) to the point that he empties out Magnus' wine cellar in the season 2 premiere. And in season 3 when working on the Hollow Earth Map. And gets a start on it after being fired from SCIU.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Repeatedly, but it [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive never works]].
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight
** When Zimmerman attempts to rescue a friend from the experiment mentioned under PlayingWithSyringes. Possible subversion, as Zimmerman was also under the influence of the experiment.
** [[spoiler: Magnus attempts this on Ashley to break the Cabal's mind control. She fails the first time, but it works the second. Too bad Ashley's solution was to [[HeroicSacrifice kill herself]].]]
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Strictly speaking, Zimmerman never said to the murderer pretending to be the murder victim's friend that the victim's body was stuffed in a washing machine.
* InSpiteOfANail: Magnus and Adam alter several key events after time traveling back to Victorian England [[spoiler:(Jack the Ripper gets an extra kill and Adam's daughter dies from falling debris instead of disease, among others)]], but the present is apparently unchanged.
* InsufferableGenius: Tesla
* InvisibleStreaker
** Nigel as the inspiration for the Invisible Man has this of course.
** Clara inherited the same power.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: [[{{Series/Stargate SG-1}} Michael Shanks]] guest starring in the episode "Penance".
* JackTheRipper: Much discussed concerning Druitt.
* {{Jerkass}}: Nikola Tesla
* KilledOffForReal
** [[spoiler:Ashley and Clara.]]
** In the season 4 finale, [[spoiler:The Big Guy]] follows suit, in what amounts to a HeroicSacrifice.
* KillEmAll: That's one way to end a mid-season finale: kill your main cast off. Granted, they get revived, but it's a hell of a way to go.
* KillerRabbit: The Nubbins. [[NightmareFuel Oh god, the Nubbins.]]
* LamarckWasRight: The Source Blood must be pretty potent stuff indeed if it can alter a person's gametes. Well, it activates ''latent'' abnormal genes in otherwise normal humans, so it's not so much altering as it is triggering. Add in the fact that trace amounts of Source Blood may have been in Dr. Magnus' body when she was carrying Ashley and... yeah.
* LampshadeHanging: "This is so IndianaJones!"
* LargeHam: NOBODY HIJACKS NIKOLA TESLA!
* LotusEaterMachine: ZigZagged in "Out of the Blue", [[spoiler:it's a therapy meant to help them recover from a psychworm's venom that has this effect.]]
* LoveIsInTheAir: The "Nubbins" episode.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:John Druitt]], Ashley's father. It comes out pretty quickly, though. Faster in the webisodes. It's said in the [[spoiler:first episode there]]. [[spoiler:Gives a reason for her monster hunting in the second.]]
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Appears at the end of "Hero", although it's defintely a case of StylisticSuck as the characters are all reading a comic written by the episode's [[spoiler:now depowered]] [[AscendedFanboy superhero]].
* MementoMacGuffin: In "Firewall", two of Magnus' birthday presents from her father turn out to combine into [[spoiler:what seems to be a scale-model of a mysterious, futuristic city.]]
* MercyKill
** Done to infectees in "Pavor Nocturnus"
** In "Bank job," it would have been so much more awesome for stargate fans if [[spoiler: the victim of the MonsteroftheWeek had been played by Siler instead of Walter]] Although to be fair, it was plenty awesome as is, and using [[spoiler: Siler]] probably would have been too much of a LevelBreaker. But still.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Tesla's assistant in "Normandy".]]
* MrFanservice: The entire episode featuring a guest appearance by Michael Shanks, wearing leather and sporting stubble.
* MuggingTheMonster
** In "For King and Country", Helen pays a girl to lead her to Druitt. When they get there, the girl and and her cronies try to rob Helen. She disarms the girl and takes the rest of them hostage in about a second.
** Lampshaded in another episode, when Will and his date are taken hostage. Will realizes that they meant to capture Helen, and laughs at the very idea of them trying to kidnap Helen Magnus.
* MundaneUtility: Will is turning into a lizard-creature and gains the ability to crawl on walls. Henry's reaction is priceless (slightly paraphrased): "Cool. Now go change some lightbulbs."
* MusicalEpisode: "Fugue". Justified in that the episode involves Abby being infected with a parasitic being, one of the symptoms thereof being that she can only hear and speak in certain frequencies, thus she communicates with others in song, and since the parasite makes her deaf to regular speaking, duets are not uncommon. Even parasite-Abby [[VillainSong gets one]], which is probably the best. At one point Magnus has a conference and imagines, or not, that everyone is reporting to her via a song as well.
* {{Mutants}}: Called "abnormals".
* NaiveNewcomer: Will
* NeverFoundTheBody
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] teleports with the shield up, leading everyone but Magnus to believe she's dead. She spends an episode searching for ways she could be alive, before eventually accepting that she truly didn't survive. According to {{Word of God}} she really is dead.
** Ditto [[spoiler:Ranna of Hollow Earth]], who is presumed dead after the destruction of Praxis. {{Word of God}} is mum so far.
* NippleAndDimed: Apparently, it's not okay for a TV show to put nipples on [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]], but it is okay to show [[SceneryGorn the shredded bodies of hundreds of said mermaids]] -- arguably, not being a mammal, "Sally" has no real use for nipples. And if that's true, then she also has no need for [[NonMammalMammaries breasts]].
* NoEnding: There's a season two episode in which Magnus and Will crash the helicopter down a borehole, and when not fighting the monster of the week, exhausted every possible method of escape and communication. At the end, the camera zooms away, with Will saying "Seriously, how are we going to get out of here?" The next episode implies they got out, but the event is not explained or even mentioned.
* NoImmortalInertia: [[spoiler:Watson]] in the season one finale.
* NotUsingTheZWord: In "Pavor Nocturnus", a blatant ZombieApocalypse episode, they go to great lengths to avoid calling the zombies what they obviously are. Instead, the characters say "the outbreak" or "the infection" and refer to the creatures themselves as "pale-faces" or just "them".
* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:Helen and Nikola]] in the season four finale.
* OddlySmallOrganization: There are at the start of the series six Sanctuaries over the world, and presumably more than five staff members work at the main one, but they get 99% of the screentime. Occasionally we see staff from the London Sanctuary, which was run by James Watson until his death at the end of season 1. The second season shows almost all of the heads of the Sanctuary network.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dr Magnus, though to a lesser degree and with a heavy biology bent; being over a hundred years old, she's had quite a bit of time to study.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: [[{{JustifiedTrope}} Justified]]. Dr Magnus was born during the reign of QueenVicky, and has supposedly lived in America for a century, therefore one would expect the character's accent to shift somewhat. Lampshaded in "Bank Job", when one of the hostages calls Magnus' British accent fake and she changes it to an American one to mock him.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Nikola Tesla
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Henry
* PersonOfMassDestruction: The Morrigan
* PlayingWithSyringes: One of the Cabal's more heinous experiments, creating SuperSoldiers and having them ''fight to the death'' to determine which methods of improvement work best.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: The season one finale. Deliberately designed that way by [[spoiler:Magnus' father]].
* POVCam: Most of the episode "Metamorphosis" takes place from Will's POV.
* PowerPerversionPotential
** Clara, who has invisibility powers and uses them to sex up Will.
** Tesla uses his magnetic powers to unbutton an FBI agent's blouse. Will stops him before he can do any more than the top button.
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 159 Years Old]]: Dr Magnus used to date Jack the Ripper; she's 157 years old at the start of the series. For that matter, Tesla, Watson, and Jack the Ripper are also all older than they look for various reasons. The only member of the Five that isn't (The Invisible Man) is dead with a grown up granddaughter. Magnus' father is even older, and probably in his 180s-190s or so.
** [[spoiler:She's now 250+, thanks to TheSlowPath.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Tesla and Henry.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Figures that the big lizard-guy is the one spoiling for a fight. It's [[HumansAreBastards with good reason]], but ''still''.
* ResetButton: At the end of [[spoiler:"Pavor Nocturnus".]] At first it seems that it was AllJustADream, but Helen keeps the coat that she picked up in the ZombieApocalypse future -- the Guardian threw her forward in time, then brought her back.
* RetGone: The unfortunate fate of the majority of the residents in Carentan. A time dilation bubble surrounding the city has to be neutralized, lest it expand far enough to tear the Earth apart due to the violent temporal shift. Inside the bubble, where a single day had been compressed down to six years from their point of view, three generations of people were born. Reversing the time dilation had the effect of negating their existence, as well as everything created in it.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Nubbins, which turn out to be {{Killer Rabbit}}s.
* RightBehindMe: Will pulls this on Kate in season three.
* ShoutOut
** In episode 8, "Edward", the title character draws monsters. He has a sheaf of drawings; they include one of an [[{{Series/Stargate SG-1}} Unas]] and one of a [[Series/StargateAtlantis Wraith]].
** Will quotes [[Film/DieHard John [=McClain=] ]] when [[AirVentPassageway crawling through the air ducts]] in "Haunted".
** Two separate Shout Outs to ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' in "Firewall". One doubles as an ActorAllusion for Christopher Heyerdahl (mentioned above). The other (Will saying "Twilight is amazing!") seems more like a TakeThat.
** In "Firewall", Henry shouts "What in the name of Sweet Sidney Crosby is going on!" Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal for Canada in the 2010 Men's Olympic Hockey Gold Medal game.
** In Season 3, when Will and Henry are investigating stories of other werewolves, the power goes out as Magnus and Tesla are studying the city. Upon requesting Tesla to do something, he replies "What am I, a house elf?" to which she replies "Thank you, [[Literature/HarryPotter Dobby!]]"
** In the Season 3 episode "Awakening", the Vampire sigils where Magnus and Tesla are my be slightly familiar to fans of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls''. One of them is the ''{{Oblivion}}'' Sigil.
** In "Hero", the Adjuster lies to Will about how he got his powers by telling him a story that's a mashup of various well-known heroes' origin stories. When Will relates it to Henry later, Henry gets every one of the references and laughs at Will for missing them.
* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler:After travelling back in time with Adam Worth, Magnus has to get back to the future via this method.]] At the end of Season 4, it turns out that, [[spoiler:being Magnus, rather than taking the supposed century of vacation, she uses the time to set up an elaborate BatmanGambit to further her goals in the present, and secure the future of the Sanctuary.]]
* SpoilerOpening
** Subverted. The opening to "Eulogy" still features [[spoiler:Ashley]] like the first season opening did, implying that the character will be brought back after the HeroicSacrifice. And then the episode ends with [[spoiler:Magnus having to accept that Ashley is, in fact, [[KilledOffForReal really dead]], and the next episode's opening is completely redone, replacing the trio with a quintet.]]
** Season 3 seems to play straight into this though, the shot of the team removes [[spoiler:big guy]] and instead features [[spoiler:Druitt]]
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: In "Normandy", during the final attack on the underground bunker that holds the fire elemental.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution
** [[spoiler:Adam in "Pax Romana". Will hesitates to shoot him, and is scolded by Adam for it. He is then immediately shot by Helen]].
** In "Normandy", Watson asks Druitt why he can't just kill Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:John actually killed him nine months ago, but the Nazis are using his body double to run the Reich and are perfectly happy with it]]. OhCrap.
* StupidJetpackHitler: The Nazis had an Abnormal-hunting division. They managed to collect a weather machine and a living fire elemental, which would have ruined the invasion at Normandy if not for Magnus and her merry band of vampire-enhanced humans.
* SuperWeight
** Type 0: Ordinary people, Will Zimmermann, Declan [=McRae=]
** Type 1: Kate Freelander
** Type 2: Helen Magnus, Ashley Magnus, James Watson, Adam Worth, Big Guy
** Type 3: John Druitt, Nikola Tesla, Nigel Griffin, Henry, Superabnormals ([[spoiler:Ashley Magnus]])
** Type 4: The Avatars (Kali/Big Bertha, Kanaan)
** Type 5: The Guardian
* TheSymbiote: The Adjuster's suit is a rare benevolent example.
* TakingYouWithMe
** Future!Will's response to being bitten by zombies is to attack as many of them as he can head-on, with a side order of LastStand / YouShallNotPass.
** Jimmy does this in "Penance".
** [[spoiler:Druitt]] in "Haunted".
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] literally takes the last cabal super-soldier with her to death.
* TakeThat: When Adam Worth boasts about how he had a book, ''Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde'', written about him, Magnus replies with:
-->'''Magnus:''' Stop glorifying yourself! It was a book written in three days high on cocaine.\\
'''Worth:''' About my amazing exploits! Never saw a penny for it, mind you. Stevenson, ''(laughs)'' selfish bugger.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Once as of this writing, with a [[ClosedCircle plane crashed in the mountains]] and an illusion-generating monstrosity loose. Probably the only work ever to include a GenreSavvy RedHerringMole -- he's self-aware and attempts to avert DeathByGenreSavvy. [[spoiler:The monster is ultimately detected through BluffTheImpostor.]]
* TimeIsDangerous: A time bubble allows people to enter, but violently destroys anything attempting to leave. Time inside bubble runs six years to each day outside, result in three-year periods of no sunlight. Naturally, this is not good for a self-contained ecosystem. Furthermore, if the bubble had expanded too far, the time differential between the different parts of the Earth would have destroyed the planet. [[spoiler:Will and Magnus manage to reverse it, but at the cost of [[RetGone ret-goning]] everyone born inside the bubble.]]
* ThreePointLanding: Will in "Kali, Part III".
* UnfazedEveryman: Will, sort of. He's the only main character who was introduced to the existence of abnormals during the run of the show.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:James Watson]] dies at the end of the second episode he's in. In a subversion however, his character is then developed in subsequent flashback episodes.
* WeHelpTheHelpless
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Subverted. While at first Ashley is convinced the "adorable" Nubbins are the prey of a more monstrous-looking creature encountered in the same episode, the reverse ends up being also true when there's enough Nubbins, and the Nubbins quickly become a major threat.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Normandy" is set during the Second World War and ends with Battle of Normandy.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:After [[KilledOffForReal Ashley's death]], Magnus goes looking for a way to remove her immortality. It... [[ZombieApocalypse doesn't]] [[BadFuture end]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt well]]. Thank God for the AncientKeeper]].
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Played with in End of Nights pt. II. [[spoiler:While reluctance to put down Ashley is reasonable, the really do try to kill the Cabal soldiers, and fail only because they don't have the magic gun. Once they do, Helen Magnus kills three of them very casually.]]
* WomenInRefrigerators: [[spoiler:Clara in the second season opener.]]
* WorldHalfEmpty / TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Pavor Nocturnus"
* YearInsideHourOutside: The time dilation bubble around Carentan had a ratio of six years inside to each day outside. The resulting difference meant that their daily cycle was stretched over the same period: three years of daylight and three years of night.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Played straight and inverted in "Chimera". Physical stress in the simulation manifests in the real world, but likewise, an adrenaline shot in the real world gives Helen momentary SuperStrength inside the simulation.
* YourVampiresSuck
* ZombieApocalypse
** "Pavor Nocturnus" to a T.
** Oh, and [[spoiler:the Mayans were wiped out by an early ZombieApocalypse. Presumably those zombies ran out of humans to eat and eventually died, due to populations being more isolated than they are now.]]
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->''"We protect the two dominant species of this planet from one another: humans and abnormals."''
'''''Sanctuary''''' is a TV series on the Sci-Fi channel that started as a WebVideo series. Notable primarily for its good writing despite a low, low budget, and for AmandaTapping as Doctor Helen Magnus, the immortal head of the Sanctuary in the title.
Yes, [[{{Series/Stargate SG-1}} that]] AmandaTapping.
The show follows Dr. Will Zimmerman and the other members of the Sanctuary, as [[FantasticNatureReserve they protect Abnormals]] (the "real" creatures that inspired the folklore, legends and myths about monsters and other supernatural weirdness, but that turn out not only to exist, but also to have a perfectly rational "scientific" explanation behind each one) and have adventures.
No relation to the [[Manga/{{Sanctuary}} manga, anime, and live action film of the same name]] about two Japanese survivors of the Khmer Rouge trying to remake their society in the roles of a politician and a {{Yakuza}}. Nor is it any relation to the place where [[LogansRun runners]] go.
There is now [[{{Characters/Sanctuary}} a character page]]. Feel free to add to it.
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!!''Sanctuary'' provides examples of
* ActionGirl
** Ashley
** Magnus is no slouch herself.
** [[spoiler:Replaced by Kate Freelander.]]
* ActorAllusion: While discussing ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', the Big Guy mentions he likes Marcus; take a guess who Christopher Heyerdahl played in ''NewMoon''.
* AffablyEvil
** Nikola Tesla.
** Later subverted with [[spoiler:John Druitt]] through his HeelFaceTurn.
* AllJustADream: See BadFuture below. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Let's just be glad that Magnus learned her lesson]].
** OrWasItADream [[spoiler:She brought the coat back with her.]]
* AllMythsAreTrue: Most myths are true, anyways. Sadly, there is no such thing as a Kraken. [[hottip:*:There are, however, vampire squids and a GiantSpider that lives on the ocean floor and can cause earthquakes.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Amanda Tapping answers questions on her {{Twitter}}.
* AncientConspiracy: The Cabal.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Ashley. Subverted with the Big Guy in Veritas.]]
* ApocalypticLog: Several times so far.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Justified; Magnus has been alive for over 100 years and probably half the world's leaders owe her a favor. When the newbie to the team asks if there is a health plan, Magnus says no. (Granted, the organisation is headed by probably the best doctor in the world with medical contacts in every corner of the globe, so it's entirely possible their health plan is simply "Dr Helen Magnus". Also, the Sanctuary has enough resources to purchase a lot of new medical equipment, and pay the taxes and upkeep costs for a castle. Given that they always get help for any injuries or illnesses that occur, possibly they don't have a designed health plan because they'd have to write "Covers anything. Like, anything at all that could or could not happen to anyone, human or otherwise."\\\
This is a critical component of the season 4 episode "Untouchables", when [[spoiler:the United Nations Security Council attache tries to blackmail Helen into stepping down from her position and turning the Sanctuary over to UN control by threatening to cut off her funds. She promptly tells him to take a flying leap, then reveals that she has money "hidden in places [the attache] doesn't even know exist" and that she [[GuileHero manipulated him into cutting them off for good so the Sanctuary could do its job independent of any kind of bureaucratic oversight]]]]. Whew!
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Standard issue fiction butchering of classifications. Magnus refers to humans and abnormals as the planet's "two dominant species," despite the fact that abnormals are shown to include creatures that range from superpowered humans, to rodent-like animals, to moving globs of ooze. Other episodes have Magnus referring to some creatures as separate "species of abnormals," that is to say that "abnormal" encompasses a ''type'' of species.
* [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Artistic License - Temporal Physics]]: (May be TimeyWimeyBall, but it doesn't involve causality or conventional time travel.) People who entered the temporal loop and grew old/died of old age stay old/[[DroppedABridgeOnHim dead]], while people who were born inside a temporal loop [[spoiler:vanish when the loop ends]] [[VoodooShark because they were never born]].
* AsideGlance: "I gotta admit, your Nubbins are pretty amazing." "Don't you just want to squeeze them?" Cue long stare into camera.
* AssShove: Helen Magnus has an uncanny ability to produce a gun at any given moment, which actress Amanda Tapping attributes to her "gun bum".
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Will's shtick. James Watson had it to StorybreakerPower levels. [[spoiler:Before he dies of old age, Watson indicates that Will has the potential to match him at this.]]
* BackFromTheDead: The entire cast at least once, Will twice. It isn't as bad as ''{{Stargate}}'' yet, but Amanda Tapping seems to have brought some bad habits with her.
* {{Badass}}
** John Druitt more than earns the title while taking on four [[SuperpoweredMooks Cabal operatives]] at once during the second part of the season 2 opener. He holds his own, displaying some impressive work with dual-wielded swords, [[spoiler:but is ultimately unsuccessful in deterring the operatives. He is however the first person to take on these superpowered operatives in close combat and survive. And his own superpower is being artificially nullified during the fight, because the operatives have that same power.]]
** In "Pavor Nocturnus", we learn that [[spoiler: Will TookALevelInBadass after the ZombieApocalypse started and is now a scarred, jaded leader of LaResistance. And Druitt went out by [[NukeEm teleporting a tactical nuke]] [[HeroicSacrifice into a zombie overrun area]].]]
** While all characters have their badass moments, Helen Magnus is the ultimate badass. Period. [[spoiler:She exploded a helicopter with a vampire squid and an amphibious scorpion fighting on it. Among other things.]]
* BadassLongcoat: See above. Invoked in "Normandy" where Druitt explains the reason for joining the Nazis was... the outfit (cue the leather longcoat).
* BadFuture: [[spoiler:The AncientKeeper in "Pavor Nocturnus" shows Helen a ZombieApocalypse caused accidentally by her WhoWantsToLiveForever attitude. [[FridgeLogic Seems like an awfully complex way to dissuade someone]] [[FridgeBrilliance until you realize he's mute.]] But then again, a few words of caution are like 1% as convincing as experiencing such horrors for yourself.]]
* BadHabits: "Trail of Blood".
* BaldOfAwesome: John Druitt
* BaldOfEvil: Druitt, again.
* BatmanGambit: The season two episode [[spoiler:"Veritas"]], wherein [[spoiler:the big guy and his boss]] both play out an elaborate and highly convincing scheme [[spoiler: intended to make a corrupt Sanctuary employee believe that Magnus had gone mad and murdered her best friend. Self-induced madness was a cover to hide her thoughts from the telepaths, and she left amongst her things a file on the location of a powerful abnormal]] which served as bait to make the target of the gambit move as intended and get caught.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: All over the place, what with the various long-lived characters.
** NikolaTesla: [[MadScientist just plain old Nikola Tesla]]... until he became the first modern vampire. As of season 2 episode "Sleepers", [[spoiler:Tesla is no longer a vampire, [[FridgeBrilliance but is starting to display magnetic-based powers]]]]. [[spoiler: And now he's a vampire with magnetic powers.]]
** SherlockHolmes: Sort of. Actually James Watson, but he claims that Holmes was based on him, and he insisted his name, if it was used, be given to a sidekick.
** WilliamHowardTaft had a short presidency because he couldn't keep from reverting to his "true form".
** [[ElvisLives Elvis isn't dead]], he just... [[TheUnreveal never mind.]]
* BetterThanSex: The food at Alfredo's is ''just that good''.
* BigBad: The Cabal in Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2. Adam Worth in Season 3.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Magnus:]] "I haven't been kissed like that in a very long time."
* BlueScreen: Most of the time, the only non-CGI things on screen are the actors, the clothes on their backs, and the chairs they sit on. The show completely dispenses with building sets and simply uses blue screen backgrounds, even for relatively "normal" locations like Magnus's office. This also makes ''Sanctuary'' one of the cheapest sci-fi programs on TV.
* BluffTheImpostor: How Magnus finally defeats the creature that had been picking off passengers of a downed plane.
* BottleEpisode: Due to the low budget of the show, there are many episodes that feature only a [[MinimalistCast part of the main cast]] in a limited location and maybe one or two guest stars. Examples include "Requiem", "Instinct", "Next Tuesday", "Bank Job" and others.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
** [[spoiler:Ashley at the end of the first season, which continues into the second season.]]
** [[spoiler:The Big Guy gets hit with this in season 4, having had his brain permanently altered by an abnormal telepath to turn him into a human-hating extremist.]]
* BrokenMasquerade: In the season 3 finale, multiple characters discuss the growing possibility of this trope, and whether or not it would be a good thing. [[spoiler:And as of the end of the episode, it looks likely to happen, as huge armies of abnormals from Hollow Earth invade the surface.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Tesla, sort of. He loses his vampire powers, but the bio-electric powers he possessed as a vampire seems to have been kept to an extent, turning him into a living magnet.]]
* CatchPhrase: Magnus has "Dear God."
* {{Chickification}}: Will Zimmerman is a rare male example. He's a brilliant forensic investigator, an emotionally tough, tenacious maverick willing to find the truth at any price... in the pilot. In subsequent episodes, he becomes the DesignatedVictim, losing his glasses and (frequently) 50% of his pilot IQ and personality in the process, [[EstrogenBrigadeBait as well as gaining tighter clothes and lots of hair product.]] As of the fourth season premiere, he seems to be getting better.
* ChekhovsGun: Done as with many speculative fiction shows, but a particularly textbook example is present in season 2, episode 4, with a crane controller.
* ClingyCostume: Taking a note from ''{{Spider-Man}}'', two episodes have a character in a superhero suit that they couldn't take off. Will even asks him about wastes.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: As mentioned above, the suit in question was an abnormal entity that shaped itself like a superhero suit so it could bond to a host. It would grant them superhuman abilities, but feed on their live energy in return.
* ConflictBall: Will and Magnus are butting heads a lot more in season 4. Even accounting for stressful situations, it was never this bad.
* TheConscience: Will for Helen. She specifically tells him that she needs him to be this for her.
* ConspicuousCG
* CurseCutShort:
--> '''Declan:''' You obnoxious piece of--
* DeadlineNews: Once so far, taking up most of an episode as the protagonists try to protect the reporters while making sure their news will never leak.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the cast at various points, but Will and Tesla most consistently.
* {{Dedication}}: "[[WW2 Normandy]]" is to all men and women who serve in the armed forces.
* DefenceMechanismSuperpower: The boy from the pilot episode; Henry, maybe.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: Anyone with Source Blood; many of the abnormals.
* DisposableSexWorker: What clues Magnus in to Druitt's return.
* DistressedDude: Happens with surprising regularity, especially to Will.
* DividedWeFall: Wexford, you are ''not'' helping.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Early in the second season, Big Guy claims to be cast out by his own people, but says that doesn't mean he shouldn't honor their ways. In "Fragments", [[spoiler:when all of Magnus's medicine fails, he employs a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that brings a patient back from the brink]]. And in Veritas, [[spoiler:he comes back from "the dead". Will finds this out after seeing that the slab across his tomb had been moved]].
* DontComeAKnockin: In "Wingman", Henry and his girlfriend are in a van, rocking the hell out of it... while trying to wire a cell phone recording into the speaker system.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Poor [[spoiler: Watson]]
* DualWielding: John Druitt
* DyingAsYourself
** [[spoiler:Ashley recognizes that the Cabal's programming is going to take over again in a moment, and choses to go the HeroicSacrifice route instead.]]
** [[spoiler:Druitt momentarily looks like he's going to this at the end of "Haunted".]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Big Bertha is said to be able to create earthquakes. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a hell of a lot more powerful, supposedly having shattered the Pangaea super-continent and made the Biblical floods. When the idiots running the Sanctuary network decide to ignore Magnus and attack her, she hits back Old Testament style.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Tesla]] in the two part first season finale.
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:What turned Druitt into JackTheRipper.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Druit seemed to be working for the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], though he was really working against them from within, or something (he did kill Hitler after all), because "I know evil when I see it."]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Might be the psychological trauma, but one of Magnus' fellow hostages in Episode 4.4, "Monsoon", becomes very attracted to her.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Seems to be a large part of the Cabal's activities.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Between the revelations and remembrances about times she worked for the French Resistance, sailed on the ''Titanic'' and had sex with the man who became JackTheRipper, ''Sanctuary'' wants you to know Helen Magnus has lived through her 159+ years on this Earth.
* {{Expy}}: Magnus and her group was originally formed under the auspices of the British government to handle an extra-normal threat that only people with their special talents could tackle. [[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Yes, that]] ''[[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen does]]'' [[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen sound familiar.]]
* ExtranormalInstitute
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade
* FanDisservice: You would think Magnus's first real nude scene (well, as nude as a show on [=SyFy=] can get) would be more enticing. [[spoiler:Not when she's forcibly stripped naked by men in biohazard suits and then hosed down because they think she's a zombie.]]
* {{Fanservice}}
** Will and Magnus spend a good part of "Next Tuesday" soaking wet.
** Clara having to get naked in order to turn invisible. Also could fall under FetishFuel.
** Kali. (At least the human avatar of her.)
* FantasticNatureReserve: The premise.
* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Ashley]] gets them. But since they're a vampiric trait, Tesla has them too.
* FightClubbing: The Cabal's underground abnormal fight network.
* FlyingBrick: The Adjuster's symbiotic suit grants this.
* FoeYay
** Magnus and Tesla. Magnus and Druitt. Druitt and Tesla. Druitt and Watson. Members of the Five seem to have ''a lot'' of subtext going.
** Tesla and Foss, who spend an awful lot of time arguing like and old married couple.
* ForgottenFallenFriend
** Persistently averted with [[spoiler:Ashley]]. Nearly every single episode of the second season has Magnus dealing with it in some way or another.
** Unfortunately upheld with [[spoiler:Clara]], though. To be fair, Will ''does'' mention her in "Next Tuesday", and [[spoiler:he knew her for only a few weeks, while Ashley was Magnus's daughter,]] so naturally her death is going to have somewhat less impact.
* ForScience: Both the Cabal ''and'' Magnus. And Tesla. [[spoiler:Aside from his famous real-life work, he tries to design a weapon to disable but not kill Ashley and the other brainwashed super-abnormal Cabal operatives, even though he thinks it's an impossible task, because he's not ''sure'' it's impossible, and just ''has'' to find out for himself. He doesn't really care about saving the Sanctuary, he's just doing it to see if he can.]]
* FutureBadass: Will Zimmerman in Pavor Nocturnus.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Tesla's vampires in "Sleepers".
* GenreSavvy: Tesla at times.
* GeniusBruiser: The Big Guy
* GiantEnemyCrab / GiantSpider: [[spoiler:Big Bertha, a.k.a. ''Kali, Hindu Goddess of Destruction''.]]
* GollumMadeMeDoIt / JekyllAndHyde: Adam Worth, [[spoiler:a scientist who almost made the Five into the Six,]] inspired [[TheStrangeCaseOfDoctorJekyllAndMrHyde the novel]]. Both sides are aware of each other. Neither side likes Magnus...
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Wexford and the unbelievers.
* GuileHero: In season 4, Helen Magnus, with the help of Will Zimmerman, [[spoiler:manipulates the ''United Nations Security Council'' -- not to mention the governments of most of the free world -- into cutting the Sanctuary off for good, so they can maneuver independently of government bureaucracy]]. This is not surprising, as she has made an absolute career out of this sort of thing. She keeps this up throughout the Season, while more and more of her plans are revealed, culminating in [[spoiler: the creation of a new, hidden Sanctuary at the end of the Season]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Druitt near the end of season 1]].
* HeroicSacrifice
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] in the second season opener. [[spoiler:She overcomes her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing just long enough to blow up herself and the last of the SuperpoweredMooks, preventing said mook from tearing Magnus's head off]].]]
** John Druitt in the 2nd season episode "Haunted". [[spoiler:To save Magnus and the others, he gives up his well-being and freedom to re-contain an evil force that had left him and infected the Sanctuary.]]
** Jimmy in "Penance" after revealing that he killed Kate's father. He chooses to give himself up to the episode's villain while holding a bomb in order to allow Magnus to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath save the wounded Kate]].
** Edward Forsythe, whose ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney attitude changes after he realizes he's dying. He chooses to stay aboard his yacht, letting Magnus and the crew escape on a boat, putting the ship between Wexford and [[GiantSpider Big Bertha]]. He sends Wexford a hilarious "screw you" message before the latter orders the yacht destroyed.
* HeroicWillpower: Zimmerman, repeatedly.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tesla and Jack the Ripper.
* HistoricalInjoke: Magnus has been around a ''long'' time, so naturally she gets into this. Among other things, she was on the ''Titanic'' and was pulled into a lifeboat by Molly Brown.
-->'''Magnus:''' There ''is'' such a thing as "before my time"!\\
'''Will:''' ''(skeptical look)''
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Though time travel isn't involved, "Normandy" reveals that Druitt killed Hitler about a year before D-Day, but they just used body doubles after that.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Tesla accidentally "devamps" himself with his own devamper weapon, powered by his own body no less. That'll teach you to make a weapon with a business end on both sides.
* HollywoodNerd: Henry
* HumanPopsicle: The Vampire Queen. [[OhCrap And her Court.]]
* HyperAwareness: Will. We get a little special effect that highlights the details that he notices to draw his conclusions, à la ''{{Psych}}'', but this effect isn't used as much later on.
* IdenticalGrandson: Will's grandfather as seen in "Normandy". [[spoiler:It doesn't end well.]]
* IDoNotDrinkWine: Subverted. Tesla loves wine (it doesn't affect him though) to the point that he empties out Magnus' wine cellar in the season 2 premiere. And in season 3 when working on the Hollow Earth Map. And gets a start on it after being fired from SCIU.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Repeatedly, but it [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive never works]].
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight
** When Zimmerman attempts to rescue a friend from the experiment mentioned under PlayingWithSyringes. Possible subversion, as Zimmerman was also under the influence of the experiment.
** [[spoiler: Magnus attempts this on Ashley to break the Cabal's mind control. She fails the first time, but it works the second. Too bad Ashley's solution was to [[HeroicSacrifice kill herself]].]]
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Strictly speaking, Zimmerman never said to the murderer pretending to be the murder victim's friend that the victim's body was stuffed in a washing machine.
* InSpiteOfANail: Magnus and Adam alter several key events after time traveling back to Victorian England [[spoiler:(Jack the Ripper gets an extra kill and Adam's daughter dies from falling debris instead of disease, among others)]], but the present is apparently unchanged.
* InsufferableGenius: Tesla
* InvisibleStreaker
** Nigel as the inspiration for the Invisible Man has this of course.
** Clara inherited the same power.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: [[{{Series/Stargate SG-1}} Michael Shanks]] guest starring in the episode "Penance".
* JackTheRipper: Much discussed concerning Druitt.
* {{Jerkass}}: Nikola Tesla
* KilledOffForReal
** [[spoiler:Ashley and Clara.]]
** In the season 4 finale, [[spoiler:The Big Guy]] follows suit, in what amounts to a HeroicSacrifice.
* KillEmAll: That's one way to end a mid-season finale: kill your main cast off. Granted, they get revived, but it's a hell of a way to go.
* KillerRabbit: The Nubbins. [[NightmareFuel Oh god, the Nubbins.]]
* LamarckWasRight: The Source Blood must be pretty potent stuff indeed if it can alter a person's gametes. Well, it activates ''latent'' abnormal genes in otherwise normal humans, so it's not so much altering as it is triggering. Add in the fact that trace amounts of Source Blood may have been in Dr. Magnus' body when she was carrying Ashley and... yeah.
* LampshadeHanging: "This is so IndianaJones!"
* LargeHam: NOBODY HIJACKS NIKOLA TESLA!
* LotusEaterMachine: ZigZagged in "Out of the Blue", [[spoiler:it's a therapy meant to help them recover from a psychworm's venom that has this effect.]]
* LoveIsInTheAir: The "Nubbins" episode.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:John Druitt]], Ashley's father. It comes out pretty quickly, though. Faster in the webisodes. It's said in the [[spoiler:first episode there]]. [[spoiler:Gives a reason for her monster hunting in the second.]]
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Appears at the end of "Hero", although it's defintely a case of StylisticSuck as the characters are all reading a comic written by the episode's [[spoiler:now depowered]] [[AscendedFanboy superhero]].
* MementoMacGuffin: In "Firewall", two of Magnus' birthday presents from her father turn out to combine into [[spoiler:what seems to be a scale-model of a mysterious, futuristic city.]]
* MercyKill
** Done to infectees in "Pavor Nocturnus"
** In "Bank job," it would have been so much more awesome for stargate fans if [[spoiler: the victim of the MonsteroftheWeek had been played by Siler instead of Walter]] Although to be fair, it was plenty awesome as is, and using [[spoiler: Siler]] probably would have been too much of a LevelBreaker. But still.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Tesla's assistant in "Normandy".]]
* MrFanservice: The entire episode featuring a guest appearance by Michael Shanks, wearing leather and sporting stubble.
* MuggingTheMonster
** In "For King and Country", Helen pays a girl to lead her to Druitt. When they get there, the girl and and her cronies try to rob Helen. She disarms the girl and takes the rest of them hostage in about a second.
** Lampshaded in another episode, when Will and his date are taken hostage. Will realizes that they meant to capture Helen, and laughs at the very idea of them trying to kidnap Helen Magnus.
* MundaneUtility: Will is turning into a lizard-creature and gains the ability to crawl on walls. Henry's reaction is priceless (slightly paraphrased): "Cool. Now go change some lightbulbs."
* MusicalEpisode: "Fugue". Justified in that the episode involves Abby being infected with a parasitic being, one of the symptoms thereof being that she can only hear and speak in certain frequencies, thus she communicates with others in song, and since the parasite makes her deaf to regular speaking, duets are not uncommon. Even parasite-Abby [[VillainSong gets one]], which is probably the best. At one point Magnus has a conference and imagines, or not, that everyone is reporting to her via a song as well.
* {{Mutants}}: Called "abnormals".
* NaiveNewcomer: Will
* NeverFoundTheBody
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] teleports with the shield up, leading everyone but Magnus to believe she's dead. She spends an episode searching for ways she could be alive, before eventually accepting that she truly didn't survive. According to {{Word of God}} she really is dead.
** Ditto [[spoiler:Ranna of Hollow Earth]], who is presumed dead after the destruction of Praxis. {{Word of God}} is mum so far.
* NippleAndDimed: Apparently, it's not okay for a TV show to put nipples on [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]], but it is okay to show [[SceneryGorn the shredded bodies of hundreds of said mermaids]] -- arguably, not being a mammal, "Sally" has no real use for nipples. And if that's true, then she also has no need for [[NonMammalMammaries breasts]].
* NoEnding: There's a season two episode in which Magnus and Will crash the helicopter down a borehole, and when not fighting the monster of the week, exhausted every possible method of escape and communication. At the end, the camera zooms away, with Will saying "Seriously, how are we going to get out of here?" The next episode implies they got out, but the event is not explained or even mentioned.
* NoImmortalInertia: [[spoiler:Watson]] in the season one finale.
* NotUsingTheZWord: In "Pavor Nocturnus", a blatant ZombieApocalypse episode, they go to great lengths to avoid calling the zombies what they obviously are. Instead, the characters say "the outbreak" or "the infection" and refer to the creatures themselves as "pale-faces" or just "them".
* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:Helen and Nikola]] in the season four finale.
* OddlySmallOrganization: There are at the start of the series six Sanctuaries over the world, and presumably more than five staff members work at the main one, but they get 99% of the screentime. Occasionally we see staff from the London Sanctuary, which was run by James Watson until his death at the end of season 1. The second season shows almost all of the heads of the Sanctuary network.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dr Magnus, though to a lesser degree and with a heavy biology bent; being over a hundred years old, she's had quite a bit of time to study.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: [[{{JustifiedTrope}} Justified]]. Dr Magnus was born during the reign of QueenVicky, and has supposedly lived in America for a century, therefore one would expect the character's accent to shift somewhat. Lampshaded in "Bank Job", when one of the hostages calls Magnus' British accent fake and she changes it to an American one to mock him.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Nikola Tesla
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Henry
* PersonOfMassDestruction: The Morrigan
* PlayingWithSyringes: One of the Cabal's more heinous experiments, creating SuperSoldiers and having them ''fight to the death'' to determine which methods of improvement work best.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: The season one finale. Deliberately designed that way by [[spoiler:Magnus' father]].
* POVCam: Most of the episode "Metamorphosis" takes place from Will's POV.
* PowerPerversionPotential
** Clara, who has invisibility powers and uses them to sex up Will.
** Tesla uses his magnetic powers to unbutton an FBI agent's blouse. Will stops him before he can do any more than the top button.
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 159 Years Old]]: Dr Magnus used to date Jack the Ripper; she's 157 years old at the start of the series. For that matter, Tesla, Watson, and Jack the Ripper are also all older than they look for various reasons. The only member of the Five that isn't (The Invisible Man) is dead with a grown up granddaughter. Magnus' father is even older, and probably in his 180s-190s or so.
** [[spoiler:She's now 250+, thanks to TheSlowPath.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Tesla and Henry.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Figures that the big lizard-guy is the one spoiling for a fight. It's [[HumansAreBastards with good reason]], but ''still''.
* ResetButton: At the end of [[spoiler:"Pavor Nocturnus".]] At first it seems that it was AllJustADream, but Helen keeps the coat that she picked up in the ZombieApocalypse future -- the Guardian threw her forward in time, then brought her back.
* RetGone: The unfortunate fate of the majority of the residents in Carentan. A time dilation bubble surrounding the city has to be neutralized, lest it expand far enough to tear the Earth apart due to the violent temporal shift. Inside the bubble, where a single day had been compressed down to six years from their point of view, three generations of people were born. Reversing the time dilation had the effect of negating their existence, as well as everything created in it.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Nubbins, which turn out to be {{Killer Rabbit}}s.
* RightBehindMe: Will pulls this on Kate in season three.
* ShoutOut
** In episode 8, "Edward", the title character draws monsters. He has a sheaf of drawings; they include one of an [[{{Series/Stargate SG-1}} Unas]] and one of a [[Series/StargateAtlantis Wraith]].
** Will quotes [[Film/DieHard John [=McClain=] ]] when [[AirVentPassageway crawling through the air ducts]] in "Haunted".
** Two separate Shout Outs to ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' in "Firewall". One doubles as an ActorAllusion for Christopher Heyerdahl (mentioned above). The other (Will saying "Twilight is amazing!") seems more like a TakeThat.
** In "Firewall", Henry shouts "What in the name of Sweet Sidney Crosby is going on!" Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal for Canada in the 2010 Men's Olympic Hockey Gold Medal game.
** In Season 3, when Will and Henry are investigating stories of other werewolves, the power goes out as Magnus and Tesla are studying the city. Upon requesting Tesla to do something, he replies "What am I, a house elf?" to which she replies "Thank you, [[Literature/HarryPotter Dobby!]]"
** In the Season 3 episode "Awakening", the Vampire sigils where Magnus and Tesla are my be slightly familiar to fans of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls''. One of them is the ''{{Oblivion}}'' Sigil.
** In "Hero", the Adjuster lies to Will about how he got his powers by telling him a story that's a mashup of various well-known heroes' origin stories. When Will relates it to Henry later, Henry gets every one of the references and laughs at Will for missing them.
* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler:After travelling back in time with Adam Worth, Magnus has to get back to the future via this method.]] At the end of Season 4, it turns out that, [[spoiler:being Magnus, rather than taking the supposed century of vacation, she uses the time to set up an elaborate BatmanGambit to further her goals in the present, and secure the future of the Sanctuary.]]
* SpoilerOpening
** Subverted. The opening to "Eulogy" still features [[spoiler:Ashley]] like the first season opening did, implying that the character will be brought back after the HeroicSacrifice. And then the episode ends with [[spoiler:Magnus having to accept that Ashley is, in fact, [[KilledOffForReal really dead]], and the next episode's opening is completely redone, replacing the trio with a quintet.]]
** Season 3 seems to play straight into this though, the shot of the team removes [[spoiler:big guy]] and instead features [[spoiler:Druitt]]
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: In "Normandy", during the final attack on the underground bunker that holds the fire elemental.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution
** [[spoiler:Adam in "Pax Romana". Will hesitates to shoot him, and is scolded by Adam for it. He is then immediately shot by Helen]].
** In "Normandy", Watson asks Druitt why he can't just kill Hitler. It turns out that [[spoiler:John actually killed him nine months ago, but the Nazis are using his body double to run the Reich and are perfectly happy with it]]. OhCrap.
* StupidJetpackHitler: The Nazis had an Abnormal-hunting division. They managed to collect a weather machine and a living fire elemental, which would have ruined the invasion at Normandy if not for Magnus and her merry band of vampire-enhanced humans.
* SuperWeight
** Type 0: Ordinary people, Will Zimmermann, Declan [=McRae=]
** Type 1: Kate Freelander
** Type 2: Helen Magnus, Ashley Magnus, James Watson, Adam Worth, Big Guy
** Type 3: John Druitt, Nikola Tesla, Nigel Griffin, Henry, Superabnormals ([[spoiler:Ashley Magnus]])
** Type 4: The Avatars (Kali/Big Bertha, Kanaan)
** Type 5: The Guardian
* TheSymbiote: The Adjuster's suit is a rare benevolent example.
* TakingYouWithMe
** Future!Will's response to being bitten by zombies is to attack as many of them as he can head-on, with a side order of LastStand / YouShallNotPass.
** Jimmy does this in "Penance".
** [[spoiler:Druitt]] in "Haunted".
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] literally takes the last cabal super-soldier with her to death.
* TakeThat: When Adam Worth boasts about how he had a book, ''Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde'', written about him, Magnus replies with:
-->'''Magnus:''' Stop glorifying yourself! It was a book written in three days high on cocaine.\\
'''Worth:''' About my amazing exploits! Never saw a penny for it, mind you. Stevenson, ''(laughs)'' selfish bugger.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Once as of this writing, with a [[ClosedCircle plane crashed in the mountains]] and an illusion-generating monstrosity loose. Probably the only work ever to include a GenreSavvy RedHerringMole -- he's self-aware and attempts to avert DeathByGenreSavvy. [[spoiler:The monster is ultimately detected through BluffTheImpostor.]]
* TimeIsDangerous: A time bubble allows people to enter, but violently destroys anything attempting to leave. Time inside bubble runs six years to each day outside, result in three-year periods of no sunlight. Naturally, this is not good for a self-contained ecosystem. Furthermore, if the bubble had expanded too far, the time differential between the different parts of the Earth would have destroyed the planet. [[spoiler:Will and Magnus manage to reverse it, but at the cost of [[RetGone ret-goning]] everyone born inside the bubble.]]
* ThreePointLanding: Will in "Kali, Part III".
* UnfazedEveryman: Will, sort of. He's the only main character who was introduced to the existence of abnormals during the run of the show.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:James Watson]] dies at the end of the second episode he's in. In a subversion however, his character is then developed in subsequent flashback episodes.
* WeHelpTheHelpless
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Subverted. While at first Ashley is convinced the "adorable" Nubbins are the prey of a more monstrous-looking creature encountered in the same episode, the reverse ends up being also true when there's enough Nubbins, and the Nubbins quickly become a major threat.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Normandy" is set during the Second World War and ends with Battle of Normandy.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:After [[KilledOffForReal Ashley's death]], Magnus goes looking for a way to remove her immortality. It... [[ZombieApocalypse doesn't]] [[BadFuture end]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt well]]. Thank God for the AncientKeeper]].
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Played with in End of Nights pt. II. [[spoiler:While reluctance to put down Ashley is reasonable, the really do try to kill the Cabal soldiers, and fail only because they don't have the magic gun. Once they do, Helen Magnus kills three of them very casually.]]
* WomenInRefrigerators: [[spoiler:Clara in the second season opener.]]
* WorldHalfEmpty / TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Pavor Nocturnus"
* YearInsideHourOutside: The time dilation bubble around Carentan had a ratio of six years inside to each day outside. The resulting difference meant that their daily cycle was stretched over the same period: three years of daylight and three years of night.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Played straight and inverted in "Chimera". Physical stress in the simulation manifests in the real world, but likewise, an adrenaline shot in the real world gives Helen momentary SuperStrength inside the simulation.
* YourVampiresSuck
* ZombieApocalypse
** "Pavor Nocturnus" to a T.
** Oh, and [[spoiler:the Mayans were wiped out by an early ZombieApocalypse. Presumably those zombies ran out of humans to eat and eventually died, due to populations being more isolated than they are now.]]
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