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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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* [[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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* [[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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