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** [[DidDoTheResearch Which is based] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident on a real life incident]].

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** [[DidDoTheResearch Which is based] based]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident on a real life incident]].
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* DemonicPosession: The Elder Gods can do this to humans.

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* DemonicPosession: DemonicPossession: The Elder Gods can do this to humans.

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Ace and Hex land in 1980, during WorldWarIII. .... Oh dear. Even ''worse'' news.

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Ace and Hex land in 1980, during WorldWarIII. .... Oh dear. Even ''worse'' news.
news. But, when the world is heading straight for complete and utter fallout, there is something far worse that decides the fate of mankind.


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* ToBeContinued: Ace and Hex enter the story with a white TARDIS, and exit in a black one, with two other people. Ending in a blatant SequelHook.
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** Hex missing two other people in the TARDIS.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter / SadisticChoice: Ace and Hex have to make a decision. Leave, and leave the other behind, or stay and let the other leave. The right answer is; both stay. So both can go.
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* {{Hologram}}: A recording of the Doctor when the right conditions have been met.
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** Hex quite literally calls out to ''Film/GroundhogDay''.

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** Hex at one point mentions [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive Antartica]].



* EvilGloating: Peggy and Albert to Ace and Hex when they figure a way out.



* EquivalentExchange: In order for Peggy and Albert to escape they need Ace and Hex.



* ResetButton: ... ish. Time reverses at one point.

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* ReadTheFreakingManual: Peggy and Albert have been following the instructions on the radio to the letter for hundreds of years. Ace suggests to Hex they should do the ''opposite''. Seeing as the voice is the Doctor's.
* ResetButton: ... ish. Time reverses at one point. repeatedly in the PocketDimension.


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* YearInsideHourOutside
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: LET THERE BE LIGHT


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** Hex still holds a grudge against the Doctor for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho139ProjectDestiny not telling him about his mother]].
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The Elder gods. But ''especially'' Moloch.
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* ToThePain:
--> We can make you feel the pain of burning to death from the strength of a nuclear explosion a hundred times... a thousand times over and over again...
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* PocketDimension: Pocket Timeline, but still. Constitutes about 5 miles around the house.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters:
--> '''Ace''': You make him (The Doctor) sound like a monster..
--> '''Hex''': Sometimes he gets so close to the monsters it's [[NotSoDifferent hard to keep them apart]].
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* BatmanGambit: The Doctor claims he's stopped the Elder Gods. They decide to move their consciousness towards the future to see if he ''has''. They end up in human bodies without their powers.
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* DemonicPosession: The Elder Gods can do this to humans.
* EldritchAbomination: The Elder Gods.



* XRaySparks: The Nuclear blast that hits causes the people hit by it to see their own skeletal structure through their flesh first. Then comes the ''heat blast''.

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* XRaySparks: The Nuclear blast that hits causes the people hit by it to see their own skeletal structure through their flesh first. Then comes the ''heat blast''.blast''.
* YouAreTooLate: InvertedTrope, ''the Doctor'' pulls this on the Elder Gods.
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* MutuallyAssuredDestruction: A false alarm triggers the Russians into firing unto innocent people, which would kickstart a global nuclear war.
** [[DidDoTheResearch Which is based] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident on a real life incident]].
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** The TARDIS that the Doctor uses to get to Peggy and Albert is [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho151TheDoomsdayQuatrain black]].


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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNb54rwDQJM The Volga Boat Men]] song is used in the background for when the Russians enter the scene.
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* AnachronicOrder: The second part starts off with the Doctor, prior to Ace and Hex's involvement.


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* GoToAlias: Doctor John Smith, par for the course.
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* AlternateTimeline: It's 1980, and the Russiand and the West are involved in World War III, and it's nuclear. Also, Vladimir Kryuchkov is the Russian president and not Gorbachev.

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* AlternateTimeline: It's 1980, and the Russiand Russians and the West are involved in World War III, and [[ILoveNuclearPower it's nuclear.nuclear]]. Also, Vladimir Kryuchkov is the Russian president and not Gorbachev.

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Ace and Hex land in 1980, a little while after WorldWarIII. .... Oh dear. Even ''worse'' news.

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Ace and Hex land in 1980, a little while after during WorldWarIII. .... Oh dear. Even ''worse'' news.



* ILoveNuclearPower



* ILoveNuclearPower

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* ILoveNuclearPowerOutOfTimeOutOfMind: Peggy and Albert don't act any different, despite being stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop where they're cursed to die from radiation poisoning every 10 days for over a 100 years.
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* WhamLine:
--> '''The Doctor''': Find out what it feels like the way a human feels it, find it the way to suffer the way a human does it, find out what it's like ''to die''.
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* GroundhogDayLoop
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* FailedASpotCheck: Ace and Hex are in a basement after a fallout for 9 days, with Peggy and Albert, but only after noticing it shouldn't be working (because of batteries) does the radio stop working.


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* ResetButton: ... ish. Time reverses at one point.
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* NukeEm: Russia to the UK.
* ILoveNuclearPower
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Namedropped by Hex.
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* BlindedByTheLight: Ace looks at the bomb strike, and sees his arm (XRaySparks 's skeleton more like) and he loses his sight.
** TemporaryBlindness


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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Peggy asks Hex if he and Ace are ... ? He replies "No. She'd have me for breakfast."
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* ShoutOut: Albert mentions the reason why he remembered Vladimir Kryuchkov's name so well is because he sounds like a [[Series/JamesBond James Bond]] villain.

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* ShoutOut: Albert mentions the reason why he remembered Vladimir Kryuchkov's name so well is because he sounds like a [[Series/JamesBond James Bond]] villain.villain.
* XRaySparks: The Nuclear blast that hits causes the people hit by it to see their own skeletal structure through their flesh first. Then comes the ''heat blast''.

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* AlternateTimeline: It's 1980, and the Russiand and the West are involved in World War III, and it's nuclear. Also, Vladimir Kryuchkov is the Russian president and not Gorbachev.



* DeadpanSnarker: Hex is on form, especially in the ColdOpen.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Hex is on form, especially in the ColdOpen.ColdOpen.
* ShoutOut: Albert mentions the reason why he remembered Vladimir Kryuchkov's name so well is because he sounds like a [[Series/JamesBond James Bond]] villain.

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* CallBack: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis The Cloister bell]] goes off.\

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* CallBack: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis The Cloister bell]] goes off.\


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* ContinuityNod: Ace mentions having a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks baseball bat]] in her bedroom, if Hex continues being so snarky.
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A great tremendous noise [[GoodMorningCrono wakes up Hex!]] (Like a Steam engine giving birth.) the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Cloister bell rings]]! (Bad news!) And ... he's not responding to it. Which means he's not in the TARDIS, so Hex and Ace are by themselves. (Worse news!)


Ace and Hex land in 1980, a little while after WorldWarIII. .... Oh dear. Even ''worse'' news.

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!! Protect and Survive has examples of the following tropes:

* CallBack: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis The Cloister bell]] goes off.\
* ColdOpen: The TARDIS in bad form! The Cloister bell ringing... And where's the Doctor!?
* DeadpanSnarker: Hex is on form, especially in the ColdOpen.

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