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** The strip hasn't really been concerned about keeping in continuity with other branches of the Expanded Universe since then; for example, "Doorway to Hell" gives a depiction of [[spoiler:the Delgado Master's death and regeneration]] that is completely different from that depicted in [[spoiler:the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Legacy of the Daleks''.]]

* ClothesMakeTheManiac[=/=]EvilMask: In "The Blood of Azrael", Azrael's mask contains the memories and powers of the OmnicidalManiac Azrael, waiting for a host of a suitable mindset to continue his work. [[spoiler:Danny]] provides that host.

* CerebusRetcon: The titular villain of the Twelfth Doctor story "The Phantom Piper" is an EldritchAbomination AnthropomorphicPersonification of war. In the Second Doctor TV story "The Moonbase", a delirious Jamie believed that a Cyberman threatening him was "the Phantom Piper", in the context of that story implied to be some kind of MacCrimmon family {{Psychopomp}}. The comic story, however, gives it a much darker implication.

** The Twelfth Doctor storyline "The Clockwise War", which looks set to be something of a GrandFinale to a whole era of the strip, so far includes Gol Clutha again, Destrii's EvilUncle Jodafra, Hugo Wilding and the Lakes from the [=MI6=] arc, Totika and Marshall Reeves from "The Parliament of Fear", Matildus from "Matildus", and [[spoiler: Fey, the only DWM companion who wasn't in "Stockbridge Showdown" ... and who is now a baddie]].

* Not a true example: a joke cover of DWM 396 [[http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m25/TardisKid/DWM396.jpg was mocked up]] and released on their Website/{{Facebook}} page; the same way real ones are, featuring Creator/StevenMoffat in response to someone on the Website/OutpostGallifrey forums wondering if he'd be mentioned on the cover. Some posters took it for real.

** Several Creator/BigFinish audio stories feature characters from the comics: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror "The Holy Terror"]] and "The Maltese Penguin" both star Frobisher; Izzy appears in an episode of "The Company Of Friends", an anthology pairing the Eighth Doctor with various comparisons from different continuities; the village of Stockbridge was the setting of a Fifth Doctor trilogy, with the middle story, "The Eternal Summer", featuring Maxwell Edison; and recurring villain Dogbolter appears in "The Maltese Penguin" and "The Quantum Possibility Engine". In addition, a couple of the Big Finish {{omake}} audios which came as free gifts with DWM also feature comic characters, with recurring villain Beep the Meep appearing in Sixth Doctor story "The Ratings War", and Shayde appearing in Fifth Doctor story "No Place Like Home". ''Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations'' takes things a step further, with {{audio adaptation}}s of "Doctor Who and the Iron Legion", the first comic strip story, and "Doctor Who and the Star Beast", Beep the Meep and Sharon's introductory story.

* MoeGreenSpecial: In "A Cold Day in Hell", which in general has an unusual level of graphic violence, an Ice Warrior gets a laser beam through the eye.

** The later Seventh Doctor comics, until 1994, shared a continuity with the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures, featuring that novel series's darker characterisation of the Doctor, its older and tougher version of Ace, and its original companion Franchise/BerniceSummerfield. In 1994 a new editor who disliked the New Adventures replaced the Seventh Doctor strips with a series of stories featuring various past versions of the Doctor (although one, featuring the Sixth Doctor, was heavily tied in to an earlier New Adventures-continuity story, and another, featuring the Third Doctor, brought in a New Adventures character). The last of these stories, which led into the first big story arc of the Eighth Doctor's comic strips, featured the Seventh Doctor and a younger "Survival"-era Ace, and ended with Ace being killed off, establishing most of the later strips as definitely not taking place in the New Adventures continuity, aside from "The Last Word", an NA anniversary story explicitly set in that continuity. However, it resulted in a couple of subsequent {{Continuity Snarl}}s, both internally with Tenth Doctor strip "The Betrothal of Sontar", which drew on the Sontaran origin in "Pureblood", which'd featured Bernice as companion, and externally with ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', which confirmed Ace was still alive.

* {{Homage}}: "The Deep Hereafter", homaging both Creator/RaymondChandler's detective stories and Creator/WillEisner's ''ComicBook/TheSpirit''.

** DWM 549, following Series 12, had the headline [[spoiler: "Jo Martin is the Doctor".]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Doctor's crossed paths with Myth/KingArthur and Myth/{{Merlin}} (Marvel's version, not his own future self), artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Spring-Heeled Jack, George Custer and Sitting Bull, Creator/WilliamShakespeare and Robert Greene, Ernest Shackleton, Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/{{Socrates}} and Creator/{{Plato}}, the Golem of Prague, pilot Amy Johnson, Erwin Rommel, Creator/HarryHoudini, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, and Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge. He also helped inspire the game of conkers.

** Leighton Woodrow, an [=MI6=] recurring character from that era of the comics, was closely based on Leo [=McKern=], specifically as he appeared when playing Number Two in ''Series/ThePrisoner''.

** Leighton Woodrow, an MI6 recurring character from that era of the comics, was closely based on Leo [=McKern=], specifically as he appeared when playing Number Two in ''Series/ThePrisoner''.

** The Twelfth Doctor storyline "The Clockwise War", which looks set to be something of a GrandFinale to a whole era of the strip, so far includes Gol Clutha again, Destrii's EvilUncle Jodafra, Hugo Wilding and the Lakes from the MI6 arc, Totika and Marshall Reeves from "The Parliament of Fear", Matildus from "Matildus", and [[spoiler: Fey, the only DWM companion who wasn't in "Stockbridge Showdown" ... and who is now a baddie]].

* DruggedLipstick: In "The Broken Man", Amy Pond escapes from an MI6 agent by kissing him with a drugged lipstick (implied to be a gift from River Song).

** Izzy, being a geek, does this a lot. In the first installment of "Fire & Brimstone", she starts off rhapsodising about these books she's reading featuring "[[Literature/{{Discworld}} this mad city called Ankh-Morpork]]" (the Doctor says he's ''been there'') and then, when they encounter the residents of the space station Icarus Falling, declares "[[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 Klaatu Bar]][[KlaatuBaradaNikto ada Nikto!]]" while flashing a [[Series/StarTrek Vulcan salute]].

* PettingZooPeople: Most notably, Josiah Dogbolter, who looks like a humanoid frog. Then there are Oblivion's nobles, who range the gamut from fish to pigs to cats, with Destrii and her mother both being fishwomen.

* ArmedWithCanon: The story "Change of Mind", which features the Third Doctor, Liz and UNIT, and is explicitly set after Liz's resignation, begins with a caption bluntly stating a date in the early 1970s, establishing the strip's view at the time on the [[ContinuitySnarl UNIT dating controversy]].

** One of the villains in "The Clockwise War" is a former member of an upper class dinner club at college, the members of which were noted to behave appallingly due to their entitlement, and who are introduced in a flashback as looking exactly like the Bullingdon Club. This particular member went on to be a politician, secretly retaining this attitude but disguising it as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. At this point there are a number of former Bullingdon members who might be getting targeted, but when Bill explains the popular perception of this sadist is someone who was really funny on a {{Panel Game}}, it pretty much points straight to UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson.