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%%* FakeUltimateHero: It's too bad he's never been out of England.



* GentlemanAdventurer: Rupert upholds this reputation.
** FakeUltimateHero: It's too bad he's never been out of England.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The scorpion creatures.

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%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The scorpion creatures.



* HowWeGotHere: To the ColdOpen.

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* WeakWilled: The drones.

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* WizardBeard: The Scorpion King sports one.

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** The scorpions have names given to them by the Scorpion King. One is Kranlee which might be for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Lord Cranleigh]] and the other one is called Teegana which means "Mouth on Legs" in the Scorpion King's native language.

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** The scorpions have names given to them by the Scorpion King. One is Kranlee which might be for a reference to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Lord Cranleigh]] and the other one is called Teegana Teegarana which means "Mouth on Legs" in the Scorpion King's native language."native language".



** [[spoiler: Adric is fond of spiders, mentioning that his people have a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle particular affinity with them]]]].



** The Doctor mentions Iris Wildthyme to Nyssa, whom she is aware of after once spending [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsExcelisDawns Christmas with her, Tegan, Adric and the Doctor]].



* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: The elderly Adric casually mentions that all the sleeping Cybermen on Briggs' freighter were eaten by the scorpion people a long time ago]].



* HeroicSacrifice: Rupert shoves off the last two Grandparents off of Star so that the rest will be able to return to Victorian London.

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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Hundreds of years with only scorpion people to talk to has not exactly done wonders for the Scorpion King's sanity. He genuinely believes that tossing the Doctor into a pit with his pet monster is "a bit of fun" and his desperate attempts to get Nyssa to be his bride are decidedly unhinged.
* HeroicSacrifice: Rupert shoves off the last two Grandparents off of Star so that the rest others will be able to return to Victorian London.



* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: The Grandparents are hurling insults at Rupert during the ImprovisedWeapon scene, like "Pest!" "Mammal!" and "Fat!" the last one has him going "Oy!"
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: The Scorpion King is an old man with a PsychicLink commanding an army of arachnids (Scorpions and spiders alike)
* MythologyGag: [[Characters/IrisWildthyme Iris Wildthyme]] is mentioned as being around, but the Doctor [[AbhorrentAdmirer really doesn't want to]].

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: The Grandparents are hurling insults at Rupert during the ImprovisedWeapon scene, like "Pest!" "Mammal!" and "Fat!" the last one has him going "Oy!"
"Oi!"
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: The Scorpion King is an old man with a PsychicLink commanding an army of arachnids (Scorpions and spiders alike)
alike).
* MythologyGag: [[Characters/IrisWildthyme Iris Wildthyme]] is mentioned as being around, around in Victorian London, but the Doctor [[AbhorrentAdmirer really doesn't want to]].to meet up with her under any circumstances]].



* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Scorpion King/The Boy That Time Forgot is Adric.]]

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Adric makes up for his misdeeds by performing one last Block Transfer Computation, getting the TARDIS back to the Doctor and exhausting his life force in the process]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Scorpion King/The Boy That Time Forgot is Adric.]]Adric]].


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:If Adric used Block Transfer Computation to transport both himself and Briggs' freighter into the bubble universe, then what was the "asteroid" that crashed to earth and killed the dinosaurs?]]

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