History Trivia / Leverage

* OnSetInjury: Creator/ChristianKane shows up in "The Inside Job" with a bandage over his nose, due to an on-set injury. The writers decided that it fit his character of Eliot Spencer as "The Hitter", and that they'd already agreed that the audience only saw 1:3 of the Leverage team's adventures, so they wouldn't need to film a scene to explain the injury.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://leverage.wikia.com/wiki/Leverage_wiki Leverage Wiki]]: One of two ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' wikis.

* DiagnosisOfGod: Parker is autistic, but this was only confirmed by the writers and presented as an AmbiguousDisorder in the show itself.

* NamesTheSame:
** [[WebVideo/JimQuisition Jim]] '''[[MemeticMutation Fucking]]''' [[WebVideo/JimQuisition Sterling, (Son)]], anyone?
** There's an Elliot Spencer in {{Film/Hellraiser}}, though that one is better known as Pinhead.

* QuoteSource:
** BatmanGambit

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: John Rogers acknowledges several times in the commentaries that the show came along at the exact right time, with America reeling from its economic meltdown and having a ton of resentment toward the big corporations that let it happen. So it was able to become a quite pertinent revenge fantasy.

* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/WilWheaton's hacker character calls himself "Chaos", which may be a nod to [[WebVideo/TheGuild the Axis of Anarchy]], and is nicknamed "[[Franchise/StarTrek Kobayashi Maru]]" by the government.
*** In "The Last Dam Job" he asks Hardison to arrange for Sophie to dress up as [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Counselor Troi]], which Hardison thinks is [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels wrong on so many levels]].
*** Combined with CelebrityParadox in the TieInNovel ''The Con Job'': Hardison runs into Chaos at [=ComicCon=] International; Chaos brags about how he scored an invite to a party with several ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' cast members... including Creator/WilWheaton. One wonder what would have happened if Chaos and Wheaton had met...
** In "The Studio Job" Eliot (Christian Kane) becomes a minor country music star (playing "Thinking of You" a song from Kane's album ''The House Rules''), basically a CaptainErsatz of his younger self called "Kenneth Crane" (The actor's initials reversed with a rhyming last name). There's even a fan site set up called "Craniak." Fans of Christian Kane's music career are often called "Kaniacs". Most Kaniacs are female, and Eliot as Crane garners mostly female fans. Borders on CelebrityParadox or perhaps NoCelebritiesWereHarmed.
** Nate spends the majority of "The 10 Lil Grifters Job" trapped in an office while the rest of the team plays detective for him, just like [[Series/ANeroWolfeMystery Nero Wolfe]]. The episode passes up the opportunity to have Nate dress as Archie Goodwin for the costume party, but makes up for it by instead having him go as Series/ElleryQueen, one of the best-known TV roles played by Timothy Hutton's father Jim Hutton.
** In that same episode, one of [[TheCon the mark's]] employees calls him a vampire, and says he wants to put a literal stake through his heart. While talking to Eliot, i.e. Lindsey from ''Series/{{Angel}}'', who has some experience with vampires.
** In "The Reunion Job", Hardison guesses that Eliot was the quarterback in high school. Ironic that it is Aldis Hodge who plays star high school QB Ray "Voodoo" Tatum in ''Series/FridayNightLights''.
** Saul Rubinek plays an executive at [[Series/{{Warehouse 13}} Bering]] Aerospace, likely accidental given that "The Nigerian Job" aired a year before ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}''. However, [[spoiler:in season four, he gets a minion named Latimer. WordOfGod says it was unintentional, though.]]
*** Also, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration he tells the hero they don't have the amorality required to shoot him.]]
** Creator/JonathanFrakes directed "The First Contact Job" (and plenty of other episodes). Eliot's alias in that episode is "[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Willie Riker]]," though WordOfGod says that this one was unintentional, since the Riker reference was written into the episode before Frakes was brought on to direct.
** Nate's backstory of getting divorced after his son's death brings to mind Timothy Hutton's most famous role in ''Film/OrdinaryPeople''.
*** Also, Tom Skerritt was chosen to play Nate's father due to his having been the first choice to play Hutton's father in that film, which he turned down.
** In "The Order 23 Job", Hardison mentions [[TheCon the Mark's]] social interactions with "the guys from Enron", prompting Eliot to say "I hate those guys". [[Creator/ChristianKane Christian Kane]] played an Enron employee in the CBS television movie "The Crooked E".

** Not to mention ''Series/{{Hustle}}'', the closest to an AcrossThePondCounterpart to this show.

** Not to mention ''Series/{{Hustle}}''... although ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' lacks the JustLikeRobinHood element that all the others listed have.

* DiagnosisOfGod: Parker has Asperger syndrome, but this was only confirmed by the writers and presented as an AmbiguousDisorder in the show itself.

** In that same episode, one of TheMark's employees calls him a vampire, and says he wants to put a literal stake through his heart. While talking to Eliot, i.e. Lindsey from ''Series/{{Angel}}'', who has some experience with vampires.

** In "The Order 23 Job", Hardison mentions [[TheMark the Mark's]] social interactions with "the guys from Enron", prompting Eliot to say "I hate those guys". [[Creator/ChristianKane Christian Kane]] played an Enron employee in the CBS television movie "The Crooked E".

** The writers had an idea for a RearWindowHomage episode, where TheMark is the "Witness" and everything he sees is just the crew conning him. Sadly, it was deemed too technically difficult to execute, although they did to a different RearWindowHomage with [[Recap/LeverageS05E08TheBrokenWingJob The Broken Wing Job]]

** In "The Gimme a K Street Job" Nate was originally supposed to be the one flummoxed by dealing with a congressman who couldn't be influenced to turn against TheMark while Eliot had an easy job with his one and teased Nate for his failures. This was changed because while the writers and director thought the idea was funny, they felt there would be more emotion behind Eliot getting stuck and experiencing a moral quandary, and then learning from how Nate resolved it.