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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Joe's fairly sarcastic to everyone he meets, though being impatient he usually only snarks once before getting mad. Jennifer gets a bit of this as well.

* [[Defictionalized]]: [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2257173&view=findpost&p=2484633 The Sunshine Motel]

* [[The End or Is It]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the last episode, Joe tosses the key in the room and closes it from outside, hoping the reset would put the key out of anyone's reach. At first it appears to work, but then the camera pans back to the hotel and the door opens on it's own, revealing the key.}}

* [[The End - Or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the last episode, Joe tosses the key in the room and closes it from outside, hoping the reset would put the key out of anyone's reach. At first it appears to work, but then the camera pans back to the hotel and the door opens on it's own, revealing the key.}}

* [[Eye Scream]]: The Glass Eye is a powerful weapon, but only if you stick it in one of your eye sockets. For someone with a full complement of eyes, that leaves just one option...

* [[Full Set Bonus]]: The point of the series. Even just a few objects can have powerful combined abilities.

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** When an Object enters the Room, it loses its powers and invulnerability. If they were all returned to the Room, the most likely outcome would be that nothing happens, besides the various collectors and trackers having to get new jobs.

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Anna, paired with [[Innocent Blue Eyes]].

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: The Scissors "rotate things." Joe [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway|isn't concerned]] when confronting the owner... until she sends him tumbling through the air with a twist of her wrist.

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: The Scissors "rotate things." Joe [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|isn't concerned]] when confronting the owner... until she sends him tumbling through the air with a twist of her wrist.

** So many Objects fall into this category, it's mind-boggling. The Pencil spawns pennies when you tap the eraser against a solid object, best "get rich" plan ever. The Bus Ticket drops you out of the sky outside of Gallup, NM from ''anywhere in the world'', no tumble lock door required, think about that. The Glasses stop combustion, The Flask lets you Vader Choke people, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and the Watch hardboils eggs.]] Any one of these can be twisted around ala [[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]] to achieve some pretty crazy things, even more so when [[Synchronization]] is in play.

* [[Heroic Neutral]]: Joe doesn't care so much about the fate of the objects so long as he gets his daughter back.

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* [[Physical God]]: Ruber believes he can become one if he brings all the Objects together.

* [[Pieces of God]]: Maybe.

* [[Plot Sensitive Snooping Skills]]: Much is made of the Objects' potential significance, what might happen if they're destroyed or reunited with the Room, and what happened in the Room. {{spoiler|Despite the Photo and especially the Eye, it's comparatively late in the story before anyone stops and considers whose Room it was.}}

* [[Plot-Sensitive Snooping Skills]]: Much is made of the Objects' potential significance, what might happen if they're destroyed or reunited with the Room, and what happened in the Room. {{spoiler|Despite the Photo and especially the Eye, it's comparatively late in the story before anyone stops and considers whose Room it was.}}

* [[Plot Tailored to The Party]]: Unsurprisingly, this happens a few times. The most notable example was {{spoiler|Joe and Kreutzfeld's trip to the Collector's vault. The vault's "combination" was actually three Objects (Key, Scissors and Clock). Each of these were used to remove or circumvent obstacles '''specifically''' designed with those Objects in mind.}}

* [[Portal Door]]: The key can create these.

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* [[Reset Button]]: How the Room behaves when accessed with the Key. Whenever a tumblerlock is opened with the Key, whatever changes were made to the Room are reset in the following ways: Objects are returned to where and how they were at the time of the Event, and non-Objects are seemingly deleted ({{spoiler|actually moved into another iteration of the Room, of which there's countless combinations}}). This is a big plot point, as Joe's daughter is left inside the Room during one of its resets, and the rest of the miniseries is Joe's attempts to learn how to get her back.

** The reset also acts as a [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: while the reset is usually used to {{spoiler|get an Object out of a safe, or separate it from a group of non-Objects, it's also used to get the fingerprint of one of the Collectors.}}

* [[Ret Gone]]: Room 10 of the Sunshine Motel was brought out of time and space {{spoiler|along with the person inside.}}

* [[Ret-Gone]]: Room 10 of the Sunshine Motel was brought out of time and space {{spoiler|along with the person inside.}}

* [[Secret War]]: Members of rival cabals have been known to fight over Objects, and according to [[Occult Detective|the Sood]] there have been full-out cabal ''wars'' in the past.

* [[Shout Out]]: Sort of hard to see, but when Joe {{spoiler|discovers proof of the Occupant, he talks to a librarian who says he appeared out of nowhere, claiming to be her husband, and he presented her with a photo of their wedding as proof. Similar to the sequence from [[Its a Wonderful Life]] when George runs up to Mary in Pottersville, screaming that they're married.}} [[Shout Out]]? Maybe...

* [[Shout-Out]]: Sort of hard to see, but when Joe {{spoiler|discovers proof of the Occupant, he talks to a librarian who says he appeared out of nowhere, claiming to be her husband, and he presented her with a photo of their wedding as proof. Similar to the sequence from [[Its a Wonderful Life]] when George runs up to Mary in Pottersville, screaming that they're married.}} [[Shout-Out]]? Maybe...

** The [[Noodle Incident]] behind the entire premise of the series bears a close resemblance to [[The Twilight Zone]] episode "And When the Sky Was Opened."

** ''[[The Holders Series]]'' may be inspired in part by this series.

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* [[Tragic Dream]]: Poor Kreutzfeld, he just wants to {{spoiler|bring his son back to life by ripping a hole in reality...}}

* [[Time Stands Still]]: ... for about ten seconds when you run the comb through your hair.

* [[~~Un Canceled~~]]: After five years, the Lost Room is coming back in the form of a comic continuation. Sadly, the product has since been placed on the backburner indefinitely.

* [[Uncanceled]]: After five years, the Lost Room is coming back in the form of a comic continuation. Sadly, the product has since been placed on the backburner indefinitely.

* [[Unperson]]: {{spoiler|1=The Occupant, formerly Eddie McCleister.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Kreutzfeld, who wants to recreate the Room 9 experiment to bring his son back to life.}}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: When the watch isn't with the knife, it can hard boil eggs.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: When the watch isn't with the knife, it can hard boil eggs.

** Although that particular object might actually be a ridiculous [[Stealth Pun|stealth]] [[Visual Pun|visual pun]]. Consider that a watched kettle never boils...does a watched clock?

*** Surely it's actually a watch-kettle? And it never has to boil...

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