The Mercury Men: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: Edward is almost literally afraid of his own shadow.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]

* [[Diesel Punk]]: Mixing Sixties Sci-fi themes with Thirties-style [[Raygun Gothic]].

* [[Doomsday Device]]: The Gravity Engine

* [[Energy Beings]]: The Mercury Men.

* [[Extra Eyes]]: The Mercury engineers' suits have three eyeholes. Apparently the Mercury Men have an extra 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.

* [[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>