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* AGodAmI: the Great One's desire
* KneelBeforeZod: the Great One tormenting the Doctor in part 5
* MagiciansAreWizards: Clegg
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Huath, the Queen spider, is Old Irish for "fear".
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Huath, the Queen spider, is Old Irish for "fear".
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* WelcomeBackTraitor: Although Yates doesn't rejoin [=UNIT=], Sarah and the Doctor are very trusting of him despite [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs that nasty "Golden Age" business]].
* WhatTheHellHero: K'Anpo does this, controversially, but the Doctor did provoke the whole mess by stealing the crystal, and his reaction to getting Professor Clegg killed is pretty cold.
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* WelcomeBackTraitor: Although Yates doesn't rejoin [=UNIT=], Sarah and the Doctor are very trusting of him despite [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs that nasty "Golden Age" business]].
* WhatTheHellHero: K'Anpo does this, controversially, but the Doctor did provoke the whole mess by stealing the crystal, and his reaction to getting Professor Clegg killed is pretty cold.
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* BackForTheFinale: Mike returns to redeem himself after getting booted out of UNIT for his betrayl in Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
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''Is that fear I can feel in your mind? You are not accustomed to feeling frightened, are you Doctor? You are very wise to be afraid of '''me'''!''
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->'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart:''' Thank you. That makes everything quite clear.
->'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart:''' Thank you. That makes everything quite clear.
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-->'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart:''' Thank you. That makes everything quite clear.
-->'''Sarah Jane Smith:''' This is the abbot of-- no, it's Cho-je. I mean, it looks like Cho-je -- but it's really K'anpo Rinpoche ... I think.
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''All praise to the Great One!''
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* LoadBearingBoss: Crossed with MadeOfExplodium. [[spoiler: When The Great One dies, her underground lair explodes, which brings down half the mountain it's beneath. beneath.
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Sarah Jane visits her friend Mike Yates at a crypto-Buddhist retreat in the English countryside. Some of them have apparently been skipping meditation lessons to hang out in the basement and summon ENORMOUS FREAKING SPIDERS from Metebelis III, a world ruled by the terrifying things. As if enormous spiders weren't bad enough, these are ''enormous telepathic '''mind-controlling''' spiders'', and one of them takes over a Buddhist and turns him into a spider-puppet. Naturally, they have designs on our world; but their chief aim at the moment is the recapture of a blue crystal prism thingy. Conveniently enough, the Doctor has just received one in the mail! Maybe he gets the TropeCo catalog. [[hottip:*:Actually it's been sent back by Jo Grant, who he gave it to back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]".]]
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Sarah Jane visits her friend Mike Yates at a crypto-Buddhist retreat in the English countryside. Some of them have apparently been skipping meditation lessons to hang out in the basement and summon ENORMOUS FREAKING SPIDERS from Metebelis III, a world ruled by the terrifying things. As if enormous spiders weren't bad enough, these are ''enormous telepathic '''mind-controlling''' spiders'', and one of them takes over a Buddhist and turns him into a spider-puppet. Naturally, they have designs on our world; but their chief aim at the moment is the recapture of a blue crystal prism thingy. Conveniently enough, the Doctor has just received one in the mail! Maybe he gets the TropeCo catalog. [[hottip:*:Actually it's been sent back by It's from Jo Grant, who he gave it to back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]".]]
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* FamousLastWords: "[[TearJerker Tears, "Tears, Sarah Jane? Don't cry. While there's life, there's...]]"
** Made even sadder, now that all three actors involved in that scene have passed away."
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the expanded universe, the trip back to Earth while the Doctor was dying from radiation poisoning took '''TEN. YEARS.'''
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: While the [[SpecialEffectFailure execution may leave something to be desired]], still... a ''planet'' full of '''GIANT MUTHAFUGGING SPIDERS?!'''
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* LostColony: the human colony on Metebelis III.
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* LoadBearingBoss: Crossed with MadeOfExplodium. [[spoiler: When The Great One dies, her underground lair explodes, which brings down half the mountain it's beneath. [[JustifiedTrope Semi-justified]] in that she'd just increased her mental powers [[BeyondTheImpossible to infinity]], which presumably requires a lot of energy that has to go somewhere.]]
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* ComboPlatterPowers: When the spiders possess people, they give them PsychicPowers and the ability to [[ShockAndAwe shoot bolts of lightning from their hands]]. [[RetroactiveRecognition Three years later]], these seemingly unrelated abilities [[StarWars would come together again]]...
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: While the [[SpecialEffectFailure execution may leave something to be desired]], still... a ''plaent'' full of '''GIANT MUTHAFUGGING SPIDERS?!'''
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: While the [[SpecialEffectFailure execution may leave something to be desired]], still... a ''plaent'' full of '''GIANT MUTHAFUGGING SPIDERS?!'''
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* FlowersForAlgernon: Tommy. Unusually for this trope, there's no sign that Tommy loses his newfound intelligence at the end.
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* CerberusRetcon / HarsherInHindsight: In the expanded universe, the trip back to Earth while the Doctor was dying from radiation poisoning took '''TEN. YEARS.'''
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* FamousLastWords: "[[TearJerker Tears, Sarah Jane? Don't cry. While there's life, there's...]]"
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* Main/BadassNormal: Sgt. Benton. The mind-thrown lightning bolts instantly kill normal humans, and seriously inconvenience the Doctor. Benton takes two to the chest, and shakes it off with enough wherewithal to bring the car around.
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