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* [[Auction]]

* [[Bullet Time]]: Any time firearms are used. Strangely enough, this trope can be seen at numerous other times for purely dramatic effect while dealing with non-high speed events.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Allen is the physical example (He's the target when they tested the MILES gear, he gets stuffed in the magician's box, his battlebot gets totally humiliated twice). Ton is the Butt Monkey of Allen's jokes.

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Allen has his moments of hamming it up, usually on the way to an auction (at the beginning of an episode). He also tends to have the louder reactions upon finding something good in a unit.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Ton's transition lenses in the sun.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Ton let loose with one of these after blasting some old, broken-down television sets with a shotgun in one episode.

* [[Gun Nut]]: Ton. He's usually the first to fire any guns they find, all with a big grin on his face.

* [[Hustling the Mark]]: The guys pull this on a game table aficionado in a pool game on a Ford Mustang-shaped pool table. They trick him into thinking Ton doesn't know anything about pool. Turns out he's been playing most of his life and the guys get an extra grand for said pool table after Ton wins.

* [[Jerkass]]: At times, during the appraisal and the sell, the duo sometimes will come off as jerks to their potential buyers, sometimes to the point of bullying in order to get a better price. In one example, Allen threatens to "release" a rare duck decoy into a nearby body of water unless the appraiser/buyer agrees to the price laid out by Allen and Ton.

** YMMV on this one. Yeah, some of the negotiations can appear heated, but given how much the tensions go down after all is said and done, it can be inferred that it's a case of "nothing personal, just business."

** In addition, Allen and Ton run into more than a few bidders who like to be assholes around the auction.

** Not to mention while in Alaska the guys run into an AUCTIONEER who has it out for them because he doesn't like any "non-locals" getting units.

** Also, a few items ended up being worth less than the Hunters had initially hoped because of critical damage they hadn't noticed before (e.g. the shark cage). Generally, in these cases, the Hunters will take an offer just to make ''some'' money from it.

* [[Large Ham]]: Allen and Ton both have their moments. Ton especially when weaponry, or just things that go boom, are involved. Allen excites pretty easily if they find anything that's worth alot. Heck, even during the openings before the auction Allen likes to get revved up.

* [[Los Angeles]]: Allen and Ton are based in the greater L.A. area, and most of the auctions they attend are in the same general area.

** Even the trash itself can sometimes be valuable. One locker was full of metal carts that Allen and Ton sold to a scrap dealer for $500.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Many, but not all of, the auctioneers at the auctions. A few take this [[Up to Eleven]] by demonstrating this while announcing the rules for each auction, sometimes prompting Allen to ask how much coffee they had that morning.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Allen and Ton's reaction to finding a Victorian casket in one unit. As Allen explains in a cutaway, a dead body in an auctioned-off unit is one of three ways to lose a unit after you've bought it (the other two being drugs and illegal weapons). {{spoiler|Fortunately, the casket turns out to be empty - it was a temporary holding casket for dead bodies before they were buried in the ground.}}

* [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]]: Inverted in that we usually only see Allen and Ton's most successful finds. They've mentioned that 80% of their profit comes from 20% of the units they buy, and so only the most profitable units are actually filmed for the show.

** We do see a few "bust" units, though. The Hollywood episode has the duo purchase two units, and the first unit they check is basically worthless. Also, nine of the eleven containers purchased in the northern Texas episode are similarly worthless. (In all cases, though, the remaining units more than make up for the busts.)

* [[Recurring Character]]: Blaze. Also, a couple of the auctioneers for the California-based episodes.

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