History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho161TheButcherOfBrisbane

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Doctor bluffs his way past the cyborg buffalo guards at the Defence Ministery by calling up Greel and [[VoiceChangeling pretending to be Findecker]]. As he's desperate to contact his colleague, Greel gets the Icelandic Commissioner to order the guards to let him pass.

* CompellingVoice: Findecker tries to hypnotise the Doctor to no effect, but has better luck with Chops. Greel hynotises Nyssa to force her to accompany him to Reykjavik.

* CompellingVoice: Findecker tries to hypnotise the Doctor to know effect, but Greel has better luck with Nyssa to force her to accompany him to Reykjavik.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Played straight with Chops, a dingo-hybrid soldier that the Doctor befriends with food. Of course scientists still aren't sure if dingos are dogs or their own species, and some have been domesticated.

* ExactTimeToFailure: The RobotMaid self destruct timer.

* YouCantFightFate: The Doctor mentions he knows what happens to Magnus Greel, but he can't change the order of events, just minimize the damage.

* TheConstant: Tegan starts to freak out after recognizing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Windmill,_Brisbane old windmill]] and realizing from the surrounding terrain that she's standing in a devastated future Brisbane.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Doctor bluffs his way past the cyborg buffalo guards at the Defence Ministery by calling up Greel and [[VoiceChangling pretending to be Findecker]]. As he's desperate to contact his colleague, Greel gets the Icelandic Commissioner to order the guards to let him pass.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Doctor bluff his way past the cyborg buffalo guards at the Defence Ministery by calling up Greel and pretending to be Findecker. As he's desperate to contact his colleague, Greel gets the Icelandic Commissioner to order the guards to let him pass.

* BeastMan: Sergeant Chops, a cyborg dingo soldier.

* DeliciousDistraction: The Doctor distracts Chops with a box of chocolate drops while he rewires Chops cyborg brain.

* SpaceStation: The Correspondants Club, where the [[VoiceOfTheResistance Earth Free Media]] operate from, is a space station in Earth's orbit.

* {{Teleportation}}: Trans-mat bracelets.

* SpaceStation: The Correspondants Club, where the [[VoiceOfTheResistance Free Earth Media]] operate from, is a space station in Earth's orbit.

* ForbiddenZone: The Brisbane Death Zone, which makes it a convenient hiding place for a MadScientistLaboratory conducting secret and illegal experiments.

* BeastMan: Chops, a cyborg dingo soldier.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Doctor bluff his way past the buffalo guards at the Defence Ministery by calling up Greel and pretending to be Findecker. As he's desperate to contact his colleague, he gets the Icelandic Commissioner to order him to be let in.

* EvilerThanThou: At the end Magnus flees in Findecker's Time Cabinet in the end with Mr. Sin, and the Doctor has to allow him.

* FieryCoverUp: Findecker has his secret laboratories rigged with a SelfDestructMechanism. This backfires when Greel hears of an explosion in the Brisbane Dead Zone and thinks Findecker has been killed and all their work has been destroyed; he suffers a VillainousBreakdown in public.
* ForbiddenZone: The Brisbane Death Zone, which makes it a convenient hiding place for a MadScientistLaboratory.

* HeroicSacrifice: When the Doctor is attacked by dingo cyborgs, he comes up with a method to kill them but it would kill Chops as well. Chops gladly grabs the device off him and uses it to save his "Chiefie".

* HeroicSacrifice: Chops bonds with the Doctor rather quickly after he feeds him some chocolates, and afterwards gladly gives his life for his "Chiefie".

* ObligatoryJoke: Findecker makes the "hanging around somewhere" joke after the Doctor is subject to UnwillingSuspension.

* RapidAging: What happens to everyone sent through the Time Chambers, with their bodies (dead or dying) dumped onto a frozen mountain three years in the past.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Justice Minister Greel magnanimously commutes Ragnar Crezzen's death sentence to hard labour for life in the outer colonies. In truth, he and other such prisoners are used as raw material for Findecker's time travel experiments.

* TheStarscream: Greel has been secretly recruiting his own cyborg PraetorianGuard to dispose of Commissioner Duplessis. Unfortunately he survives the attack and Greel is forced to defect to the Icelandic Alliance.
* StartOfDarkness: Magnus wasn't always a complete villain, but due to the story's events he turns mad and escapes to the past.

* {{Unperson}}: Nyssa and Turlough are recruited as spies because they don't exist on Earth, and have no identity tags.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Someone that Turlough describes as "Not looking very young" and whose voice is withered and raspy, says he's only ''23''.

* SecretWeapon: Greel has promised the Supreme Alliance of Eastern States the secret of time travel, which he hopes to gain from Findecker's primitive experiments.

A future time, a court in trial, Ragnar Crezzen is accused and tried under 5 [[KangarooCourt minutes]] for the murder of Dr. Sa Yy Findecker. He's sentenced to forced labour whilst in reality he's sent to the [[AFateWorseThanDeath Time Chambers]] of the very man he's supposedly killed.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: The Doctor knows Findecker and his horrible atrocities he's committed, but can't help but appreciate his genius.
* AfterTheEnd: There's only bits of Earth left that are habitable, in Oceania, because of a new Ice Age.

** Both a CallBack and a CallForward. The Doctor mentions Time Agents, the same ones first talked about in Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang, but we won't meet any until ''much'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild later]].
** The title itself is a call back to "Talons", as the Fourth Doctor calls Greel the "Butcher of Brisbane" in proving he knows who he truly is. The reference in that episode to the Doctor being at the final battle of Reykjavik is expanded on here as that battle takes place, though we don't get to actually see the past Doctor doing his bit.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: When stuck in a blizzard, Nyssa and Turlough find a body. Turlough wishes to leave it, Nyssa tries and save the person.
%%* CompellingVoice: Findecker has one.
* DeadlyEuphemism:
--> '''Findecker''': The Doctor's ... ''HANGING AROUND SOMEWHERE''
* EarlyBirdCameo: Mr. Sin appears in the last bits of the story in a minor capacity, going on to have a larger role in "Talons".
* EvilerThanThou: Magnus overtakes Findecker's Time Cabinet in the end with Mr. Sin, and the Doctor has to allow him.

%%* LifeDrinker: Findecker, with his Time Chambers.
* LoveInterestTraitor: From Magnus' perspective, this is what Nyssa ends up being.
* [[GirlFriday Man Friday]]: Turlough poses as this for Nyssa.
* TheMole: Stranded in time for three years, Nyssa and Turlough spend a year training with the Alliance to infiltrate Greel's operations as spies. Nyssa ends up being his betrothed.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Towards the end of the story the Doctor mentions he's ''out there'' fighting with freedom fighters, but doesn't mention which incarnation or why.
* NoNameGiven: The "old man" Nyssa and Turlough meet.
* PragmaticHero: Turlough takes clothes off of a dead body in order to keep warm in a blizzard. He defends himself as "being practical".

%%* SpaceStation: In Earth's orbit.
* StableTimeLoop: Poor Ragan, going back in time to die just to fill his role in history.

* ThatManIsDead: Ragan implores Findecker to send him back to the past to see Sasha, one last time. Findecker instead feeds on him, and sends him into the past
%%* TimeTravel: A somewhat primitive form.

* CompellingVoice: Findecker has one.

* LifeDrinker: Findecker, with his Time Chambers.

* SpaceStation: In Earth's orbit.

* TimeTravel: A somewhat primitive form.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Someone that Turlough describes as "Not looking very young" and who's voice is withered and raspy, says he's only ''23''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Very subtly. Tegan's frustration with the Doctor seemingly picking and choosing to allow villains to escape and innocent people to die to preserve time without an explanation that goes beyond "this is how it has to be" is an early sign of the feelings that will cause her to eventually leave the TARDIS in "Ressurection of the Daleks".

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: The Doctor literally jingles a bunch of keys in front of a mutant.

** The title itself is a call back to "Talons", as the Fourth Doctor calls Greel the "Butcher of Brisbane" in proving he knows who he truly is. The reference in that episode to The Doctor being at the final battle of Reykjavik is expanded on here as that battle takes place, though we don't get to actually see the past Doctor doing his bit.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Very subtly. Tegan's frustration with The Doctor seemingly picking and choosing to allow villains to escape and innocent people to die to preserve time without an explanation that goes beyond "this is how it has to be" is an early sign of the feelings that will cause her to eventually leave the TARDIS in "Ressurection of the Daleks".

* WhatTheHellHero: Tegan calls out The Doctor for both constantly interfering in events as well as deliberately ''not'' interfering, ostensibly to preserve the Web of Time, but since he refuses to explain himself, Tegan has no way of knowing the difference.