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Edward Borman, a lowly government office drone, finds himself trapped when the deadly Mercury Men seize his office building as a staging ground for their nefarious plot. Aided by a daring aerospace engineer from a mysterious organization known as The League, Edward must stop the invaders and their doomsday device, the Gravity Engine.
''The Mercury Men'' is an indie sci-fi web serial recently picked up and hosted by the [[Syfy]] network. Filmed in black and white, it combines elements of [[
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* [[Adventurer Outfit]]: Jack Yaeger wears the standard [[Raygun Gothic]] version.
* [[Aliens Never Invented the Wheel]]: Apparently, the Mercury Men have sophisticated technology; they can transport between worlds and manipulate gravity. But going from planet to planet via chemical-propelled rockets is something new and threatening to them.
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* [[Blind Without Them]]: Edward can't see a thing without his glasses.
* [[Brain In a Jar]]: The "Batteries".
* [[Brick Joke]]: Grace’s {{spoiler|form still needs stamping}} eight episodes later. The final fate of the brain-in-a-jar probably counts too.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: It looks like the ''Lumiére'' might actually be this in the 10th episode [[Cliff Hanger]].
* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: Done silently but forcefully by Jack to Edward.
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* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]
* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]]: The ''Lumiére'''s bullets.
* [[
* [[Doomsday Device]]: The Gravity Engine
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Edward's idea for getting Jack near the Gravity Engine.
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* [[Hologram]]: Jack uses a hologram of a Mercury man to distract a sniper.
* [[Humanoid Aliens]]: The Mercury Men, also called "the first men" in the series, are humanoid in appearance, but are taller, thinner and stoop (supposedly because of Earth's greater gravity). They are also composed of [[Hard Light]] and apparently have a [[Third Eye]].
* [[Humans Are Special]]: At least according to Dr. Tomorrow.
* [[Infinite Ammo]]: Averted/subverted. Although The League’s zap-gun-of-choice - the ''Lumiére'' - resembles a modified six-shot revolver, so at first glance this trope appears to be played straight, the blueprints on The Mercury Men website reveal that each of the six glowing ''mercury pin'' bullets is good for 24 shots, for a total of ''144 energy blasts per full reload!'' Finite yeah, but still -- Gene Autry, eat your heart out! It does, however, seem to run out at the most inconvenient times.
* [[It May Help You on Your Quest]]: Jack gives Edward his gun at the end of Episode 9, [[Chekhov's Gun|implying he'll need it later]].
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* [[Playing Possum]]: Edward and Grace pretend to be dead as a Mercury Man walks by.
* [[Ray Gun]]: Jack's pistol, the ''Lumiére'', fires "mercury pin" bullets, made of [[Hard Light]]. Apparently it is the only thing that can kill the Mercury Men.
* [[Raygun Gothic]]: Much of the serial evokes this genre. The hero himself, Jack Yaeger, is dressed as a typical Raygun Gothic pilot: Bomber jacket, flight cap and goggles, jodhpurs and jackboots, and carrying a raygun.
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: Jack has to do this to the Gravity Engine - with Edward's help - to put the moon back in its proper orbit.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: The story is set in the mid-[[The Seventies|Seventies]]. But the lighting - and the monsters - looks like ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' ([[The Sixties]]), Edward's and Grace's outfits look [[The Fifties|Fifties]]-ish, and Jack's outfit evokes [[The Thirties]]. And it mixes [[
* [[Shock and Awe]]: The Mercury Men's main weapon.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A visual one in Episode six, where Dr. Tomorrow [[The Outer Limits|controls the transmission]].
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** The two named league agents are [[The Right Stuff|Yaeger and Glenn]].
* [[Space Base]]: The abandoned Mercury Men's base on Mercury.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Two-Fisted Tales]]
* [[Weird Moon]]: The Mercury Men try to {{spoiler|pull the Moon down to crash into the Earth}}, and almost succeed. Strangely, there are none of the resultant tidal quakes, flooding and other disasters that should have happened in such an event.
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