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* EnfanteTerrible / RealityWarper: Childeric is trying to groom one. It works... [[GoneHorriblyRight FAR too well]].
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* [[spoiler: EnfanteTerrible / RealityWarper: RealityWarper]]: Childeric is trying to groom one. It works... [[GoneHorriblyRight FAR too well]].
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* DesignatedVillain: The High Priest and the bastard brother. Not only Childeric but everybody before them in the GenerationXerox
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* DesignatedVillain: InUniverse even: The High Priest and the bastard brother. Not only Childeric but everybody before them in the GenerationXerox
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* ShoutOut: When Pepin addresses his people, it seems very much like TheLifeOfBrian
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* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler: Childeric's son in the vault]]
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* DesignatedVillain: Childeric claims because he's deformed he is on InUniverse
** [[InvertedTrope His mother thinks he's not villainous enough though]] [[InsaneTrollLogic and THAT is his problem]].
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* DesignatedVillain: The High Priest and the bastard brother. Not only Childericclaims because he's deformed he is on InUniverse
** [[InvertedTrope His mother thinks he's not villainous enough though]] [[InsaneTrollLogic and THAT is his problem]].but everybody before them in the GenerationXerox
* DesignatedVillain: The High Priest and the bastard brother. Not only Childeric
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* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision B Strike]]: [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Alright, you evil old bitch!]]
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* DoomMagnet: The Tardis' tendency to do this gets lampshaded.
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* AdiposeRex: The former queen
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* AdiposeRex: The former queenempress
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Well not kinky per se, but the former empress says back in [[NostalgiaFilter her day]] they REALLY knew how to torture.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: All of the [[spoiler: bibles end ''exactly'' on the last page]]. ItMakesSenseInContext
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* ClarkesThirdLaw
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* {{Existentialism}}: Frobisher says heaven doesn't exist and this brings Peppin down.
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* {{Egopolis}}: As soon as a new emperor is crowned, his people convert all the old statues into images of him.
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* TheGrotesque: Childeric, Pepin's evil brother who plots to overthrow him. [[spoiler: He appears to be the villain of this story, but isn't.]]
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* TheGrotesque: Childeric, Pepin's evil brother who plots to overthrow him. InsaneTrollLogic: As an emperor, Peppin is supposedly invincible so [[spoiler: He appears to be the villain of this story, but isn't.]]ritual assasination attempt is done with blanks]] because it wouldn't work anyway.
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* TheGrotesque: Childeric, Pepin's evil brother who plots to overthrow him. [[spoiler: He appears to be the villain of this story, but isn't.]]
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* TongueTrauma: In order to mute Childeric's ward
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* EverygthingIsBetterWithPenguins: Frobisher
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* {{Narrator}}: The scribe actually narrates a ''lot'' of the characters do
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* DesignatedVillain: Childeric claims because he's deformed he is on InUniverse
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* BurnTheWitch: Heretics.
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* EyeScream: If you don't pledge your allegiance to the latest God Emperor ''one'' eye is gouged out so you can watch yourself be burned at the stake.
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* GodEmperor: Though they're not immortal
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It's also StevenMoffat's favourite Sixth Doctor episode in all of ''DoctorWho''.
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* BlatantLies: The [[DoctorWhoDoctors Sixth Doctor]]: "The TARDIS like her master has her ego under control."
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The Doctor and companion [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins Frobisher]] travel to a mysterious castle on an unknown world, in an unknown time period. The castle is in uproar as the god-king has just died, and his son is set to take the throne. His deformed, evil bastard brother secretly plots to seize the throne for himself, plotting with the High Priest of their religion to do so. Nobody is actually surprised about any of it, this is how it happens every time...
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[[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins
The WorldOfSnark is inhabited by people whose entire lives revolve around rituals. The old king had ritualistically married his pretty wife, ritualistically conceived a do-good son and
Upon arriving in the middle of the ceremony, the Doctor and Frobisher are instantly [[MistakenForGods mistaken for]] the Holy Big Talking Monochromatic Bird and his companion who brings with him every colour of the rainbow. The new king, who's really very confused about the whole deal, becomes even more confused when the coronation fails to give him actual god-like powers. He's too nice of a chap to pretend he's divine, so he promptly abdicates and tells the people to assassinate him for blasphemy. They won't listen, though, and he's forced to accept his new role. The new king's wife begins with the ritualistic torturing and mocking of the old queen (who's not in the mood), while the high priest goes off the ritualistically conspire against the new king together with the evil half-brother.
While Frobisher stays with the king (after observing the ritualistic assassination attempt), the Doctor soon finds out that the old scribe's books are all written in the same handwriting. Even the ones dating back to previous dynasties. What's more, each king's life ends exactly on the final line of the final page of each book.
The king decides that he really, really, ''really'' doesn't want to do
Meanwhile, the evil half-brother has a secret that's decidedly ''not'' tradition. He has a child, a young boy who's been kept alive for five years in the castle's deepest dungeons. The child was raised "pure", without language -- even his mother's tongue had been cut out during his birth. The child turns out to be a malicious God, intent on killing everyone it encounters. The Doctor is an unexpected factor in its plans, but -- as the child finds out -- isn't immune to MindRape. After violating the Doctor's memories, it goes off into the castle and starts murdering everything it can find... and looking for its father.
In the end, it turns out that the evil half-brother wasn't the child's father after all. It was the old scribe, whose punishment this
The Doctor tries to pretend that none of it
* CallBack: To [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "then you won't feel the bullets when we shoot you"]].
* ContinuityNod: The Sixth Doctor is still [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors opposed to fishing]].
* ContinuityNod: The Sixth Doctor is still [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors opposed to fishing]].
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The first 100 minutes.
* DownerEnding: The last 20...
* DownerEnding: The last 20...
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* DownerEnding: The last 20...[[spoiler: DownerEnding]]
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* TheGrotesque: Childeric, Pepin's evil brother who plots to overthrow him. [[spoiler: Appears to be the villain of this story, but isn't.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: One of the most ridiculous examples. The serial switches from a hilarious parody of stereotypical Shakespearean tragedy and suddenly becomes a [[spoiler: disturbing examination of destiny as the characters stare inevitable death in the face and a man's fractured mind is slowly torn apart before the Doctor and Frobisher's eyes.]]
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** The child also commits MindRape on the Doctor.
* MoodWhiplash: One of the mostridiculous examples.well-loved examples in BigFinish. The serial switches from a hilarious parody of stereotypical Shakespearean tragedy and suddenly becomes a [[spoiler: disturbing examination of destiny as the characters stare inevitable death in the face and a man's fractured mind is slowly torn apart before the Doctor and Frobisher's eyes.]]]]
* MoodWhiplash: One of the most
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-->'''High Priest:''' Now, your Majesty. It it by any chance........ '''''[[LargeHam THE THREE OF CLUBS?!!]]'''''
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-->'''High Priest:''' Now, your Majesty. It Is it by any chance........chance... '''''[[LargeHam THE THREE OF CLUBS?!!]]'''''
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* WhamLine: Are you my father?
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* WhamLine: Are "Are you my father?
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* YourHeadAsplode: The {{Enfante Terrible}}'s rampage during the climax, complete with an incredibly disturbing ''tearing sound.''
* [[spoiler: WorldLimitedToThePlot]]
* YourHeadAsplode: The {{Enfante Terrible}}'s rampage during the climax, complete with an incredibly disturbing ''tearing sound.''
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* MunaneMadeAwesome: Each God-King has to perform a miracle during their coronation. By the time the Doctor arrives, it's been pared down to a (rigged) card trick.
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* MunaneMadeAwesome: MundaneMadeAwesome: Each God-King has to perform a miracle during their coronation. By the time the Doctor arrives, it's been pared down to a (rigged) card trick.
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Sinkhole of a subjective trope. Opinions don\'t go in main pages
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* MoodWhiplash: One of the most ridiculous examples. The serial switches from a hilarious parody of stereotypical Shakespearean tragedy and suddenly becomes a [[spoiler: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel disturbing examination of destiny as the characters stare inevitable death in the face and a man's fractured mind is slowly torn apart before the Doctor and Frobisher's eyes.]]]]]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: The {{Enfante Terrible}}'s rampage during the climax, complete with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel incredibly disturbing]] ''[[HellIsThatNoise tearing sound]].''
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* YourHeadAsplode: The {{Enfante Terrible}}'s rampage during the climax, complete with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel incredibly disturbing]] ''[[HellIsThatNoise tearing sound]].disturbing ''tearing sound.''
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* TheGrotesque: Childeric, Pepin's evil brother who plots to overthrow him. [[spoiler: Appears to be the villain of this story, but isn't.]]
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* TheGrotesque: Childeric, Pepin's evil brother who plots to overthrow him. [[spoiler: Appears to be the villain of this story, but isn't.]]
* MunaneMadeAwesome: Each God-King has to perform a miracle during their coronation. By the time the Doctor arrives, it's been pared down to a (rigged) card trick.
-->'''High Priest:''' Now, your Majesty. It it by any chance........ '''''[[LargeHam THE THREE OF CLUBS?!!]]'''''
-->'''High Priest:''' Now, your Majesty. It it by any chance........ '''''[[LargeHam THE THREE OF CLUBS?!!]]'''''
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Each God-King has to perform a miracle during their coronation. By the time the Doctor arrives, it's been pared down to a (rigged) card trick.
-->'''High Priest:''' Now, your Majesty. It it by any chance........ '''''[[LargeHam THE THREE OF CLUBS?!!]]'''''
-->'''High Priest:''' Now, your Majesty. It it by any chance........ '''''[[LargeHam THE THREE OF CLUBS?!!]]'''''
