History Recap / DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani

* KillEmAll: Literally, only two characters survive this story - Peri and a single secondary character. [[spoiler:The android copy of Salateem may have survived as well, although it's debatable whether it counts.]] At least the Doctor [[TheNthDoctor could get better]].

* {{Fanservice}}: The Doctor's moving death scene is somewhat undermined by the [[MaleGaze excellent view]] the audience get of Peri's trembling cleavage.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: ''Everyone shown onscreen'' in the serial dies ([[TheNthDoctor The Doctor]], [[IGotBetter of course, gets better]]) with the exception of Peri and the company head's female assistant. They are, not coincidentally, the two only female characters in the serial.

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[[caption-width-right:310:{{TheBodyguard}} And I... will always love you..]]

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Landing on the planet of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and new companion Peri go out of the TARDIS to wander around a [[strike:BBCQuarry]] very, very exotic alien planet and quickly ''(more or less in this order)'' find themselves under attack from random people, contract a nasty rash, get captured, jailed, and then shot.[[hottip:*:In retrospect, the Doctor also seems to be taking the leaving of Turlough and the loss of Kamelion from the last episode rather well. Though this troper is just wondering if this subsequent serial just never gave the Doctor the chance to let it all sink in. It's also possible that there was enough time between the last adventure and this one offscreen that the Doctor slowly got over it... but when Kamelion was gone for almost his entire time on the TARDIS, one wonders if he even mourned the silver abomination.]] Luckily, as it turns out, the Doctor and Peri that were shot were actually ''[[{{Superfriends}} android duplicates]]'' rather than the real thing. The real Doctor and Peri, on the other hand, now find themselves "guests" of the mysterious Sharaz Jek, who hangs out in the lower caverns wearing a black-and-white jumpsuit and a ''PhantomOfTheOpera''-style mask.

Peri and the Doctor compare their rashes; a more senior "guest" of Jek's sees this, and smugly tells them that they are now suffering a slow and painful death at the hands of 'spectrox toxaemia' - said to be incredibly lethal. Before a cure can be found, the Doctor and Peri are separated - with the Doctor being kidnapped by Stotz and his gang (for interrogation at Androzani Major) until he goes {{MacGyver}} on his captors, steals their ship and nearly crashes it on the way back to save Peri in one of the most [[Awesome/DoctorWho totally awesome scenes]] in ''DoctorWho''.[[hottip:*:No, seriously. If you are not on your feet cheering after the Doctor's "not gonna let you stop me now!" bit at the end of Part 3, you are not human.]]

* Main/AntiVillain: Sharaz Jek.
* Main/AlasPoorVillain
* Main/BastardUnderstudy: Morgus is overthrown [[spoiler:by his secretary!]]
* Main/BeneathTheEarth
* Main/BreakingTheFourthWall: Morgus addresses the camera directly on occasion. This was a result of the actor misinterpreting the stage directions, but his soliloquising gives the character an air of Shakespearian villainy.
* Main/CliffHanger: The endings of Part One and Part Three are considered among the best in the show's history.
* Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive: Morgus, and HOW!
* Main/CowTools: Sharaz Jek has lots of them, one of which he uses to [[spoiler:kill Morgus]].
* Main/CrapsackWorld
* Main/CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The episode 3 cliffhanger. Made better when you realize that he's fighting off his impending regeneration as well as the poison, and that he's yelling at ''himself'' as much as Stotz.
* Main/DeadlyGas: Stotz is providing Sharaz Jek with gas weapons, among other things, which prove to be a major advantage over the army.
* Main/DiedInYourArmsTonight: Sharaz Jek dies in the arms of one of his androids; The Doctor dies in Peri's arms.
* Main/DramaticUnmask
* Main/ElaborateUndergroundBase: Just how did Sharaz Jek furnish his place, anyway?
* Main/EnsembleDarkhorse: Sharaz Jek is one of the most well known one-off characters in the entire series.
* Main/EvilVersusEvil: The only relatively sane and decent character is Chellak, and even he's willing to send a guy to certain death just to cover up an embarrassment.
* Main/{{Fanservice}}: The Doctor's moving death scene is somewhat undermined by the [[MaleGaze excellent view]] the audience get of Peri's trembling cleavage.
* Main/FateWorseThanDeath: According to actor PeterDavison, death would be preferable to turning into Colin Baker. We assume he's joking.
** He was. The two actors are friends.
* Main/FindTheCure
* Main/FloatingAdviceReminder: As the Doctor lies dying, his companions' heads float around encouraging him to regenerate... and then the Master's head shows up and tells him to give up and die.
* Main/{{Foreshadowing}}: Shortly before that, the Doctor notes that it "feels different this time." Perhaps a warning of a regeneration about to go awry and foist upon us the horrors of Six's characterization?
* Main/GadgeteerGenius: For once, the Doctor's not the only one - Sharaz Jek has his android creations.
* Main/HeroicSacrifice: The Doctor
* Main/HolographicTerminal
* Main/IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* Main/InstantSedation
* Main/ItWasHisSled: Every male character dies.
* Main/JamesBondage: Like his Third and Fourth incarnations, the Fifth Doctor gets kidnapped in this story, and chained and blindfolded.
* Main/KillEmAll: Literally, only two characters survive this story - Peri and a single secondary character. [[spoiler:The android copy of Salateem may have survived as well, although it's debatable whether it counts.]] At least the Doctor [[TheNthDoctor could get better]].
* Main/LargeHam: Sharaz Jek and Morgus are almost Shakespearean in their furious ranting and scheming asides, respectively.
* Main/TheMadHatter:

* Main/MagicAntidote
* Main/MechaMooks
* Main/PeopleInRubberSuits: The ridiculously fake monster, which as usual is overlit instead of being kept in shadow.
* Main/NobleDemon: Sharaz Jek treats his prisoners like guests and doesn't do harm to people who haven't wronged him first.
* Main/NoBloodForPhlebotinum
* Main/NotQuiteDead
* Main/RedemptionEqualsDeath: Sharaz Jek.
* Main/RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Jek's robotic doubles are amazingly articulate when it comes to expressing emotions.
* Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Sharaz Jek has started the whole war simply to get revenge on Morgus.
* Main/SpannerInTheWorks: Unusually, the Doctor's role in the story is limited to frantically attempting to get him and Peri out alive. His mere presence, however, inadvertently causes the entire messed-up Androzani society to implode. The Doctor brings down a corrupt government ''accidentally''.
* Main/SpiceOfLife: Spectrox
* Main/StalkerWithACrush: Sharaz Jek, sorta, without the Stalking bit, technically.
* Main/TearJerker: In spite of Peri's boobs, this Troper cried heavily during the regeneration scene.
* Main/WeHaveReserves: Even though he leads the army into a trap, Sharaz Jek is overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers.
* Main/WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Guess who.
* Main/TheXOfY

* Main/BreakingTheFourthWall: Morgus addresses the camera directly on occasion.

* Main/NobleDemon: Sharaz Jek treats his prisoners like guests and doesn't do harm people who haven't wronged him first.

* Main/AntiVillain: Sharaz Jek

* Main/DesignatedVillain: Sharaz Jek isn't the main antagonist. Morgus is.

* Main/FloatingAdviceReminder: As the Doctor lies dying, his companions' heads float around encouraging him to regenerate. (And then the Master's head shows up and tells him to give up and die.)

* Main/GadgeteerGenius: For once, the Doctor's not the only one: Sharaz Jek and his android creations.
* Main/HeroicSacrifice: the Doctor

* Main/RedemptionEqualsDeath: Sharaz Jek

* Main/Foreshadowing: Shortly before that, the Doctor notes that it "feels different this time." Perhaps a warning of a regeneration about to go awry and foist upon us the horrors of Six's characterization?

-->-- '''The Sixth Doctor''''s first lines ever spoken, right before taking a nice big bite of ham.

* Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Sharaz Jek has started the whole war simply to get revenge on Morgus.

--> --The Fifth Doctor, reminiscing on how hard it is to try and keep his travels straight.

--> --The Sixth Doctor's first lines ever spoken, right before taking a nice big bite of ham.

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* Main/TheStarscream: Morgus is overthrown [[spoiler:by his secretary!]]

* Main/TheXOfY
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* Main/WeWillUseMicrosInTheFuture: As befits an independent small businessman of the 1980s, Jek uses a BBC Micro to run his operation.

-->The Fifth Doctor, reminiscing on how hard it is to try and keep his travels straight.

-->The Sixth Doctor's first lines ever spoken, right before taking a nice big bite of ham.

* Main/EvilVersusEvil: The only relatively sane and decent character is Chellak, and even he's willing to send a guy to certain death just to cover up an embarassment.

* Main/TearJerker:In spite of Peri's boobs, this Troper cried heavily during the regeneration scene.

Peri and the Doctor compare their rashes; a more senior "guest" of Jek's sees this, and smugly tells them that they are now suffering a slow and painful death at the hands of 'spectrox toxaemia' - said to be incredibly lethal. Before a cure can be found, the Doctor and Peri are separated - with the Doctor being kidnapped by Stolz and his gang (for interrogation at Androzani Major) until he goes {{MacGyver}} on his captors, steals their ship and nearly crashes it on the way back to save Peri in one of the most [[Awesome/DoctorWho totally awesome scenes]] in ''DoctorWho''.[[hottip:*:No, seriously. If you are not on your feet cheering after the Doctor's "not gonna let you stop me now!" bit at the end of Part 3, you are not human.]]

* Main/CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The episode 3 cliffhanger. Made better when you realize that he's fighting off his impending regeneration as well as the poison, and that he's yelling at ''himself'' as much as Stolz.

->'''The Doctor:''' ''"Change, my dear. And it seems on a moment too soon."''

Peri and the Doctor compare their rashes; a more senior "guest" of Jek's sees this, and smugly tells them that they are now suffering a slow and painful death at the hands of 'spectrox toxaemia' - said to be incredibly lethal. Before a cure can be found, the Doctor and Peri are separated - with the Doctor being kidnapped by Stolz and his gang (for interrogation at Androzani Major) until he goes {{MacGyver}} on his captors, steals their ship and nearly crashes it on the way back to save Peri in one of the most [[{{Awesome}}/DoctorWho totally awesome scenes]] in ''DoctorWho''.[[hottip:*:No, seriously. If you are not on your feet cheering after the Doctor's "not gonna let you stop me now!" bit at the end of Part 3, you are not human.]]

Peri and the Doctor compare their rashes; a more senior "guest" of Jek's sees this, and smugly tells them that they are now suffering a slow and painful death at the hands of 'spectrox toxaemia' - said to be incredibly lethal. Before a cure can be found, the Doctor and Peri are separated - with the Doctor being kidnapped by Stolz and his gang (for interrogation at Androzani Major) until he goes {{MacGyver}} on his captors, steals their ship and nearly crashes it on the way back to save Peri in one of the most [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome/DoctorWho totally awesome scenes]] in ''DoctorWho''.[[hottip:*:No, seriously. If you are not on your feet cheering after the Doctor's "not gonna let you stop me now!" bit at the end of Part 3, you are not human.]]

Peri and the Doctor compare their rashes; a more senior "guest" of Jek's sees this, and smugly tells them that they are now suffering a slow and painful death at the hands of 'spectrox toxaemia' - said to be incredibly lethal. Before a cure can be found, the Doctor and Peri are separated - with the Doctor being kidnapped by Stolz and his gang (for interrogation at Androzani Major) until he goes {{MacGyver}} on his captors, steals their ship and nearly crashes it on the way back to save Peri in one of the most [[CrowningMoment/DoctorWho totally awesome scenes]] in ''DoctorWho''.[[hottip:*:No, seriously. If you are not on your feet cheering after the Doctor's "not gonna let you stop me now!" bit at the end of Part 3, you are not human.]]