History FanFic / AHero

* {{Angrish}}: Sec's fourth attempt at DwarfFortress is described as "''UNINTELLIGIBLE SOUNDS OF INTENSE RAGE.''" Italics and caps included in story. Justified as, well, [[DeathWorld It's]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Dwarf]] [[CrapsackWorld Fortress.]]

** Sec attempts to play ''DwarfFortress''...and somehow manages to trash ''69 fortresses in a few minutes.''

* HumanityIsInfectious: Zig-zagged all over the place. On one hand, Dalek Sec now has human emotions. However, it's because of his attempt at hybridization in "Daleks in Manhattan," but he's also trying to work through those feelings. And while he's trying to examine human culture... it doesn't always go quite as simply as some of the more iconic examples of this trope. See also, DwarfFortress or his reaction to {{Avatar}}. But on the other OTHER hand, he views humans as a great species because HumansAreWarriors. See below for more clarification.

** The only video game we've seen him play is DwarfFortress. ''Not'' succeeding is practically the point of the game; so does that mean that he's succeeding in a game where the only option is failure?

** Sec is shown playing an unnamed game, but WordOfGod and clues, plus the rage and anger it invokes, shows that the game is DwarfFortress.

* BeyondTheImpossible: The Dalek Inquisitor General's "facts" eventually reached this level on the forums.

*** Another race is [[spoiler: the Cybermen.]] They end their meetings with the traditional [[BattlestarGalactica Cylon]] CatchPhrase, "By Your Command."

** [[DoctorWho The Doctor's here now, as well.]]

** Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on [[{{Imageboards}} "Always Angry, All the Time"]] which is the battle cry of one of their homegrown (original) [[Warhammer40K Space Marine Chapters,]] the Angry Marines.

* ExactWords: Kyubey, but that's nothing new. Sec also mentions to Madoka that Walpurgisnacht will devastate "The Area." What she hears is "Destroy the city." What ''he'' means is "Annihilate the entire star system.

* FridgeBrilliance: The Mind (AKA, the Incubators) is a/are being(s) entirely devoid of emotion and totally dedicated to its/their logical goal of surviving [[spoiler: so of course the freaking Cybermen would ally themselves with them]].
** The People, an intergalactic {{Dystopia}} based on NineteenEightyFour are allied with The Mind, who wish to extend the life of the universe. Think about it.

** Subverted with Dalek Sec, and the subversion is justified: increased age means more combat experience, so having survived a very long time is a badge of honor for him. Also, he wants to restore his race eventually, and given his first attempts to create Dalek Embryos (in Daleks in Manhattan) and his first attempt at making a casing (chapter two of this story), he's probably gonna be around for a while...

Well, [[KilledOffForReal yeah.]] [[IGotBetter But he's here now.]]

** And earlier we have Sec vs. [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Krimehild]] [[PhysicalGod Gretchen]]. Thankfully, he [[IGotBetter gets better.]]]]

* IGotBetter: Sec, obviously. Absolutely no indication of ''how'' he managed to survive is given, or how he managed to get his casing back, or how his [[HalfHumanHybrid previous condition]] was negated. Lampshaded at once, with Sec promptly deciding that he doesn't want to know how he managed to survive.
** [[spoiler: In chapter four, the Doctor claims that when Amy rebooted the universe at the end of series six, it accidentally brought back everything that had ever died. Most of it died again, like it did in the original timeline, but Sec was somehow thrust into the Void, where he eventually wound up in the PMM universe. WordOfGod states that the reason why the Doctor and Sec were able to get to the PMM universe is because someone came here during the ''first'' time war.]]
*** [[WordOfGod To clarify:]] [[spoiler: When Amy rebooted the universe, ''everything'' that had been killed was brought back to life, and everything that was supposed to die, died. Sec...didn't, and instead fell through the Void, connecting both universes with a Time Space stream, which allowed The Doctor to come here. [[OhCrap As well as other things.]]]]

In his investigations of temporal space, he meets one [[TimeTraveler Homura]] [[TheStoic Akemi,]] and, hopefully, they can finally fix this GroundHogDayLoop that she's stuck in.

** A more in-universe example is Madoka [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome successfully convincing Dalek Sec to spare someone]].

** Guess who shows up in chapter five...

* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: One of the members of the Coalition is called "The People". WordOfGod has it that "They call themselves "The People" for the same reason an opressive dictatorship calls itself "The People's Democratic Republic of X"".

** The entire CurbStompBattle against Uhrmann is a shout out to the {{Bolo}} series.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The revelation that ''Puella Magi'' do not age causes much FridgeHorror for Madoka.

[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=190449 Now on Spacebattles! This is the first thread, now closed.]][[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=6603831 This is the location of the second thread.]]

** He has also stated that he'd like to get more PMM characters and elements in on the action, with a little less focus on the DoctorWho side of the crossover.

*** One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak.
** Another race is [[spoiler: the Cybermen.]] They end their meetings with the traditional [[BattlestarGalactica Cylon]] CatchPhrase, "By Your Command."

* NoodleIncident: Kyouko ''somehow''managed to piss off the Matriarch of ''every single Puella Magi gang in Tokyo''. WordOfGod has it that the incident in mention invlolved [[NoodleImplements a sports car, a house, 4 cases of gasoil, 5 pots of boiling coffee, a slinky, 2 boxes full of Grief Seeds, an incubator drone, a van, a briefcase full of money of unscrupulous origins, a maid outfit and cheese.]]

** The author, on the Spacebattles Forums, have stated that Daleks can do deadpan, but only one way: ''' ''LOUD-LY!'' ''' The original post had the word in greatly increased font size.

* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: One of the members of the Coalition is called "The People". WordOfGod has it that "They call themselves "The People" for the same reason an opressive dictatorship calls itself "The People's Democratic Republic of X".

** Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on [[{{Imageboards}} "Always Angry, All the Time!"]] which is the battle cry of one of their homegrown (original) [[Warhammer40K Space Marine Chapters,]] the Angry Marines.
** One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak.

** Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on [[4Chan "Always Angry, All the Time!"]] which is the battle cry of one of their homegrown (original) [[Warhammer40K Space Marine Chapters,]] the Angry Marines.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original idea for the story had Sec appear on [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Mid-childa]].

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: the ones in charge of the PMM plan.

* CosmicPlaything: Dalek Sec is absolutely convinced that the universe (or at least some god-like entity)is actively screwing with him. He isn't happy about it. [[UnstoppableRage At]] [[HairTriggerTemper all.]]

** And the possibly non-canon story of the Dalek Inquisitor General, a pre-Time War Dalek, getting teleported onto a ship occupied by the 2010 Daleks, and ''shredding them like a tank through wax paper.''

** Sayaka seems to be chanelling [[FateStayNight Shirou Emiya]] at times.