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** Izzy lets one out as well when she finds out that SamusIsAGirl.


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* LighterAndSofter: The Doctor is employed by Izzy to go get her a mint edition of "[[JudgeDredd Courtmaster Cruel]]" which had been retracted a week after it came out, so she can find out what the CliffHanger resolves. They're beset upon by mindwiping [[TheMenInBlack suits]], which they trace to a ''real life'' Courtmaster Cruel, which turns out to NOT be a real life Courtmaster Cruel but rather a YourMindMakesItReal RealityWarper writer who hated his plot twist.
** [[CaptainObvious It's a bit of a silly story]].
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* TheMenInBlack: "The suits" that barge into the comicbook store.

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* BigNo: When [[NoNameGiven The Man]] unmasks Courtmaster Cruel.




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** Courtmaster Cruel is a parody version of [[Franchise/JudgeDredd Judge Dredd]].
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* ShiftingTheBurdenOfProof: In Courtmaster Cruel's people are Not Innocent until proven Innocent.
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** ViewerGenderConfusion / SamusIsAGirl
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* ShoutOut: Izzy gives some to Series/StarTrek, asking why the TARDIS doesn't have a holodeck.
** Izzy's opening monologue is a direct parody of [[Film/Trainspotting Trainspotting]].

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* ShoutOut: Izzy gives some to Series/StarTrek, asking why the TARDIS doesn't have a holodeck.
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Izzy's opening monologue is a direct parody of [[Film/Trainspotting Trainspotting]].
[[Film/TrainSpotting Trainspotting]] in which she pokes fun at the TARDIS for not having a [[Series/StarTrek holodeck]].
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** Izzy's opening monologue is a direct parody of [[Film/Trainspotting Trainspotting]].
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* FakeUltimateHero: Fitz is set up as one at the end.
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* Infomercial: The ADI advert the story starts out with. Presented by ... [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness the Doctor]]?

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* Infomercial: {{Infomercial}}: The ADI advert the story starts out with. Presented by ... [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness the Doctor]]?
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* TheMole: Gastan.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Gastan.
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* CrazyPrepared: The Doctor's plan for what Fitz has to do to free him, by the above trope.
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* GoToAlias: Fitz claims the Doctor's "real name" is John Smith.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Gastan the cleaner.
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* MonsterProtectionRacket: The Doctor and Fitz think the ADI is one of these.
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* Infomercial: The ADI advert the story starts out with. Presented by ... [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness the Doctor]]?
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
--> '''The Doctor''': Why should I help you? You nearly wrecked my TARDIS, you unleashed a carnivorous interdimensional... You've done a lot of bad stuff. I'm not even sure I like you very much.



* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The Doctor getting sent into the past and dropping his TARDIS Key leads to it being found in the future and drawing him there.]]

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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The The Doctor getting sent into the past and dropping his TARDIS Key leads to it being found in the future and drawing him there.]]




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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The 5th Dimensional "Vortex Shark" spat the Doctor out and left the time bubble, in the end.
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* EldritchAbomination: There is a 5th dimensional being coming through cracks in the universe due to a device attached to its console. And it wishes to devour all life (Aside from the Doctor)

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* CallBack: Bernice gives us an ExpositionDump how she met the [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy Seventh Doctor]], the planet Heaven, met his [[Creator/PaulMcGann regeneration]] and how she met [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors Ice Warriors]].

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* CallBack: Bernice Benny gives us an ExpositionDump how she met the [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy Seventh Doctor]], the planet Heaven, met his [[Creator/PaulMcGann regeneration]] and how she met [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors Ice Warriors]].


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* InvisibleMonsters: The Doctor can't see the "lions" in the Jungle but Benny can.


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* NoodleIncident:
--> '''Benny''': This isn't the first time I've been trapped in a slowly collapsing bubble of reality. Hell it's not even been the second.
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* FountainOfYouth: The TARDIS is slowly degrading, and parts of it (on the inside) have this effect.
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Doctor warns Bernice for a Lion, though he then says "Sort of" and describes it's green and has more fangs.

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* KillerRobot: The IMC Mining Robots double as these.




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* TemptingFate:
--> '''The Doctor''': We're safe.
--> '''Bernice''': [[LampshadeHanging Hundreds of years old and he's never learned about tempting fate]].
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* LivingShip: Emphasis is put on how the TARDIS is alive. And a ''she''.
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Four one-parters.

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Four one-parters.
one-parters starring people the Doctor associates or has associated with, but haven't travelled with him as a companion to give them a DayInTheLimeLight.
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* CallBack: Bernice gives us an ExpositionDump how she met the [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy Seventh Doctor]], the planet Heaven, met his [[Creator/PaulMcGann regeneration]] and how she met [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors Ice Warriors]].

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* ContinuityNod: IMC Mining Robots are used from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]].




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* WeaksauceWeakness: Carbolic substances are this to the natives of Skoraka Prime.



* KangarooCourt: Courtmaster Cruel has to do this with every criminal he judges, even kidnapping juries to try them.




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* ShoutOut: Izzy gives some to Series/StarTrek, asking why the TARDIS doesn't have a holodeck.



* GreatOffscreenWar: It is implied the future Eighth Doctor is from the Time War.



* IAmNotShazam: Averted and mocked when the Doctor says Frankenstein is the name of the Monster, not the Doctor, as his mutated future self calls himself Frankenstein.
* LightningCanDoAnything: It is used to bring the future Doctor back to life.

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* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: The future Eighth Doctor sends a distress signal which the earlier Eighth Doctor picks up, enabling him to heal his future self and TARDIS.
* IAmNotShazam: Averted and mocked Mocked when the Doctor says Frankenstein is the name of the Monster, not the Doctor, as his mutated future self calls himself Frankenstein.
Frankenstein.
* LightningCanDoAnything: It is used to bring the future Doctor back to life.
* TimeyWimeyBall: As Mary Shelly tells the Doctor "You do lead the most extraordinary and contrary
life." His reply-"I know, it's more fun that way!"
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The Doctor getting sent into the past and dropping his TARDIS Key leads to it being found in the future and drawing him there.

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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The Doctor getting sent into the past and dropping his TARDIS Key leads to it being found in the future and drawing him there.
there.]]
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The Doctor getting sent into the past and dropping his TARDIS Key leads to it being found in the future and drawing him there.



* BumblingSidekick: Fitz claims the Doctor was this to him and he was using ObfuscatingStupidity.



* DramaticUnmask: For Courtmaster Cruel at the end of Aggrotron #55, which would be revealed in #56.
* TheReveal: Courtmaster Cruel is [[spoiler:a girl.]]



On a summer night in 1816, Mary Shelley meets the Doctor.

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On a summer night in 1816, Mary Shelley meets the Doctor.Doctor.

* HaveWeMetYet: The future Eighth Doctor knows who Mary Shelley is, having travelled with her for years. She is then met by the past Eighth Doctor, from his perspective his first meeting with her.
* IAmNotShazam: Averted and mocked when the Doctor says Frankenstein is the name of the Monster, not the Doctor, as his mutated future self calls himself Frankenstein.
* LightningCanDoAnything: It is used to bring the future Doctor back to life.

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