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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 [[
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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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* [[Big Bad]]: The Chief Designer.
* [[Blind Without Them]]: Edward can't see a thing without his glasses.
* [[
* [[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
* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: Edward is almost literally afraid of his own shadow.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]
* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]]: The ''Lumiére'''s bullets.
* [[
* [[Doomsday Device]]: The Gravity Engine
* [[Dressing
* [[Energy Beings]]: The Mercury Men.
* [[Extra Eyes]]: The Mercury engineers' suits have three eyeholes. Apparently the Mercury Men have an extra eye.
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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
* [[Jump Scare]]: {{spoiler|When the Mercury engineer appeared out of the darkness at the end of Episode 10.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The hero, Jack Yaeger.<ref> [[Word of God]] says that Jack Yaeger was named after Chuck Yeager, even though the last name is spelled differently.</ref>
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** The leader of the futuristic League is named Dr. Tomorrow.
* [[My Girl Back Home]]: Jack confides in Edward that he has a girl back home in Fairborn, Ohio. The Battery threatens her life later on.
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: Apparently this universe never heard of [
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Averted. It's specifically stated that turning off the engine won't fix the problem. It has to be reversed.
* [[Oblivious Janitor Cut]]: At least until the Mercury Men zap him.
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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
* [[Shock and Awe]]: The Mercury Men's main weapon.
* [[Shout
** In Episode 10, Edward gets a package from "[[Buck Rogers]]" (Yaeger) full of ''Lumiére'' bullets.
** 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
* [[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.
* [[White Collar Worker]]: Edward.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Captain Video]]'' meets ''[[The Outer Limits]]''.
* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]: Words to this effect are said by Edward, several times.
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