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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Seventh Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 26:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight 2]] | '''3''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival 4]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks <<< Season 25]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Curse of Fenric




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->Written by Ian Briggs\\
Directed by Nicholas Mallett\\
'''Production code:''' 7M\\
'''Air dates:''' 25 October - 15 November 1989\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 4



'''Production code:''' 7M




Written by Ian Briggs. This four-episode serial first aired from October 25 to November 15, 1989.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Miss Hardaker says, "I know what girls who go to Maidens Point have in mind. You will never go near the place, neither of you." Not too hard to guess what it's referring to.
** Plus this conversation:
--->'''Ace:''' I didn't know you were married.\\
'''Kathleen:''' I've got a baby.\\
'''Ace:''' Yeah, I just thought that-\\
'''Kathleen:''' Well you can stop thinking it, all right?
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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'''Production code:''' 7M
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JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Doctor has to break a heart to save it.

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JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Doctor [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim has to break a heart to save it.
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* RadioSilence: Cmdr. Millington order not just radio silence, but for good measure he orders all radios on the base destroyed. Of course then things start getting bad, and just after Cpl Perkins reports he's destroyed all the radios, he's ordered to put them back together again.
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The one where the Doctor has to break a heart to save it.

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The JustForFun/{{The one where w|ith}}here the Doctor has to break a heart to save it.
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*** Contrast with the fact that the events of this story are because Fenric wasn't actually a [[IncrediblyLamePun Master of Chess]] when they first met.

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*** Contrast with the fact that the events of this story are because Fenric wasn't actually a [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} Master of Chess]] when they first met.
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* SheIsAllGrowUp: as Ace literally points out to the Doctor before using her feminine wiles to distract the Royal Marine Sergeant.

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* SheIsAllGrowUp: SheIsAllGrownUp: as Ace literally points out to the Doctor before using her feminine wiles to distract the Royal Marine Sergeant.
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* SheIsAllGrowUp: as Ace literally points out to the Doctor before using her feminine wiles to distract the Royal Marine Sergeant.
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* KillEmAll: Because it's not Series/DoctorWho if the bodies aren't piling up.

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* ArtisticLicenceSports: The Doctor has perplexed Fenric with a chess puzzle the being cannot solve. The solution is accidentally provided by Ace - the black and white pawns team up and work together! This is presented as a solution that Fenric, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood by his nature]], could not comprehend. In reality, it's a solution that nobody who understands chess could comprehend. [[note]]There are a few smart-alecks who have written chess-puzzles with the phrase: "Move one to mate" having the solution be "promote pawn to enemy's whatever, using said piece to mate me". This may or may not be legal in an actual game, and in either case is not used here.[[/note]]
** The Doctor all but confirms this. He defeated Fenric using chess puzzles the first time they met. It is implied that he cheated then as well, counting on Fenric not to realize that in the Doctor's case GoodIsNotNice, and more importantly [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Good's Going To Cheat Like Hell]].

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* ArtisticLicenceSports: The Doctor has perplexed Fenric with a chess puzzle the being cannot solve. The solution is accidentally provided by Ace - the black and white pawns team up and work together! This is presented as a solution that Fenric, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood by his nature]], could not comprehend. In reality, it's a solution that nobody who understands chess could comprehend. [[note]]There are a few smart-alecks who have written chess-puzzles with the phrase: "Move one to mate" having the solution be "promote pawn to enemy's whatever, using said piece to mate me". This may or may not be legal in an actual game, and in either case is not used here.[[/note]]
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[[/note]] The Doctor all but confirms this. He defeated Fenric using chess puzzles the first time they met. It is implied that he cheated then as well, counting on Fenric not to realize that in the Doctor's case GoodIsNotNice, and more importantly [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Good's Going To Cheat Like Hell]].



* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Played straight, then horribly subverted with Reverend Wainwright's death.

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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Played straight, then The Haemovores are repelled by faith, and thus are able to be fended off with symbols that represent it, from a cross to a Communist badge. This later gets horribly subverted with Reverend Wainwright's death.death, as UsefulNotes/WorldWarII had so badly shaken his faith in God that he could no longer rely on Christian iconography when he needed it the most.



* DarkerAndEdgier: Without question the darkest story of the Seventh Doctor's tenure.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Ancient One. He's the last survivor of an Earth that has been rendered lifeless due to overpollution and is quite sad when describing being the last living person on Earth. Furthermore, he expresses frustration to the Doctor when they meet, stating that he was grabbed by a time storm by Fenric and forced to follow Fenric's vase prison across Europe and placed himself into hibernation in order to avoid serving him, after finding out Fenric had no intention of sending him home. And he seems quite crestfallen at the fact that he's been summoned again, this time to destroy all life on Earth (a move that will eliminate his future). He arrives with the Doctor to stop Fenric and refuses to comply when ordered to kill Ace, who through pure chance is standing between him and Fenric and her faith. And once the Doctor breaks Ace's faith in him (which is keeping him from shoving her out of the way via invisible barrier), Ancient One promptly sacrifices his life to save humanity.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Without question the darkest story of the Seventh Doctor's tenure.
tenure, featuring vampiric BodyHorror monsters, a reverend rapidly losing his faith in God, a character designed as an allegory for Alan Turing with all the {{angst}} that comes with it (though here, homosexuality is replaced with physical disability), one of the most ruthless villains the Seventh Doctor has ever faced, and a climax that requires the Doctor to emotionally abuse Ace in order to save her life.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Ancient One. He's the last survivor of an Earth that has been rendered lifeless due to overpollution over-pollution and is quite sad when describing being the last living person on Earth. Furthermore, he expresses frustration to the Doctor when they meet, stating that he was grabbed by a time storm by Fenric and forced to follow Fenric's vase prison across Europe and placed himself into hibernation in order to avoid serving him, after finding out Fenric had no intention of sending him home. And he seems quite crestfallen at the fact that he's been summoned again, this time to destroy all life on Earth (a move that will eliminate his future). He arrives with the Doctor to stop Fenric and refuses to comply when ordered to kill Ace, who through pure chance is standing between him and Fenric and her faith. And once the Doctor breaks Ace's faith in him (which is keeping him from shoving her out of the way via invisible barrier), Ancient One promptly sacrifices his life to save humanity.



* EldritchAbomination: Fenric is supposed to have been something from the dawn of time, possibly even earlier.

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* EldritchAbomination: Fenric is supposed to have been something from the dawn of time, possibly even earlier. He is so powerful that the most the Doctor was able to do during his last (unseen) encounter with him was imprison him, and he only meets his end through events caused by his own abilities.



* ExpositionOfImmortality: Fenric makes a speech about how long he's been trapped in the bottle since “the Time Lord” confounded him with the ''"contest of traps."'' The Haemovores are all dressed in period costume appropriate to the time period they became Haemovores in. The Ancient One is a double subversion of this; it was brought back in time thousands of years by Fenric and has subsequently lived for a thousand years since following the flask to Maiden's Point from the Orient.

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* ExpositionOfImmortality: Fenric makes a speech about how long he's been trapped in the bottle since “the "the Time Lord” Lord" confounded him with the ''"contest of traps."'' The Haemovores are all dressed in period costume appropriate to the time period they became Haemovores in. The Ancient One is a double subversion of this; it was brought back in time thousands of years by Fenric and has subsequently lived for a thousand years since following the flask to Maiden's Point from the Orient.



* KneelBeforeZod

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* KneelBeforeZodKneelBeforeZod:



** The Doctor mentions that they'll be fine as long as Dr Judson doesn't realise that the Viking inscription is a logic puzzle. Ace reacts with horror - she's just told him that it is.

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** The Doctor mentions that they'll be fine as long as Dr Judson doesn't realise that the Viking inscription is a logic puzzle. Ace reacts with horror - -- she's just told him that it is.



* OminousFog
* OneSteveLimit:

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* OminousFog
OminousFog: Fog is frequent in the story's setting, tying in with its GothicHorror angle, and Fenric himself manifests as a mysterious green gas.
* OneSteveLimit: OneSteveLimit:



* ShootTheDog / [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]] / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Doctor tells Fenric that he only took Ace in because he knew Fenric's curse was inside her, all while insulting Ace and making her cry. He had a good reason, but ''ouch''.

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* ShootTheDog / [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]] / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: ShootTheDog: The Doctor tells Fenric that he only took Ace in because he knew Fenric's curse was inside her, all while insulting Ace and making her cry. He had a good reason, but ''ouch''.



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* TheVirusTheVirus: Haemovores propogate by spreading themselves to humans like a viral plague.

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* TheXOfY
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Fenric is big on this trope; the moment he no longer requires the services of his army of Haemovores, he orders their destruction.

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* TheXOfY
TheXOfY: The final instance in the Classic Series, with the tradition not returning until the Revival Series episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] 16 years later.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Fenric is big on this trope; the moment he no longer requires the services of his army of Haemovores, he orders their destruction.destruction.
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* DirtForcefield: When the Doctor and Ace escape from the exploding ammunition store and dive for cover, the Doctor gets his hand muddy; then, moments later, he uses the same hand to dry Ace's tears, and it's clean.

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* OhCrap: The Doctor mentions that they'll be fine as long as Dr Judson doesn't realise that the Viking inscription is a logic puzzle. Ace reacts with horror - she's just told him that it is.

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
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The Doctor mentions that they'll be fine as long as Dr Judson doesn't realise that the Viking inscription is a logic puzzle. Ace reacts with horror - she's just told him that it is.is.
** In the last episode, the Doctor in turn is aghast when he discovers Ace unwittingly gave Fenric the solution to the chess puzzle.
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The Doctor tries to explain to Ace that he didn't mean what he said, but had to break Ace's faith in him to allow the Ancient One to act. He would have done anything not to hurt Ace, but he had to save her from the curse. On the shores of Maiden's Point, Ace wonders why she cannot stop hating Audrey, her mother, even though she loved her as a baby. Ace dives into the bay, no longer frightened of the water, and surfaces, liberated. The Doctor and Ace walk off, back to the TARDIS.

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The Doctor tries to explain to Ace that he didn't mean what he said, but had to break Ace's faith in him to allow the Ancient One to act. He would have done anything not to hurt Ace, but he had to save her from the curse. On the shores of Maiden's Point, Ace wonders why she cannot stop hating Audrey, her mother, even though she loved her as a baby. Ace dives into the bay, no longer frightened of the water, and surfaces, liberated. The Now truly able to be friends and with no more secrets between one another and no-one playing intergalactic games with either of them, the Doctor and Ace walk off, off back to the TARDIS.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Millington justifies using chemical [=WMDs=] on Germany or Russia on the grounds that it would end the war, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. The same reasoning was used in real life to justify the use of nuclear weapons on Japan.
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* OhCrap: The Doctor mentions that they'll be fine as long as Dr Judson doesn't realise that the Viking inscription is a logic puzzle. Ace reacts with horror - she's just told him that it is.
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Written by Ian Briggs. This serial first aired October 25-November 15, 1989.

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Written by Ian Briggs. This four-episode serial first aired from October 25-November 25 to November 15, 1989.
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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Or rather, Break Her Heart To Save The World, which doesn't make it any less [[TearJerker painful]].

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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Or rather, Break Her Heart To Save The World, which doesn't make it any less [[TearJerker painful]].painful]][[invoked]].
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Written by Ian Briggs. This serial first aired October 25, 1989.

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Written by Ian Briggs. This serial first aired October 25, 25-November 15, 1989.
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* FailedASpotCheck: The Doctor points at one of the runic inscriptions in the crypt, and asks Ace what's unusual about it. She deduces that it's written in an earlier alphabet, so that means it's older, but that's not what the Doctor was referring to -- she hadn't realised that it hadn't been there the last time they were in the crypt.


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* MeaningfulEcho: Reverend Wainwright recites from St Paul's letter to the Corinthians, but breaks off before the last word: "Love". "Love", we later find, is also the code word that would cause the Ultima machine to self-destruct, releasing enough chemical toxin to destroy a city.

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* NoodleIncident: The Doctor imprisoned Fenric around the 3rd century after tricking him in a Game of Chess. It's not revealed exactly what happened.

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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
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The Doctor imprisoned Fenric around the 3rd century after tricking him in a Game of Chess. It's not revealed exactly what happened.



*** Millington and Judson's past and the incident where Judson was crippled. There are hints that Judson's accident that crippled him involved Millington in some shape or fashion, but it's never expanded upon except for Judson usage of it to guilt Millington to continue with their scheme that they are working on. This is actually expanded on on the novelisation where Millington accidentally broke Judson's back during a rugby game in their school days.
*** Depending on how you look at it, the story Ace tells Kathleen about a haunted house in Perivale can be seen as one. Originally, Curse Of Fenric was was supposed to open season 26 and lead directly into Ghost Light (the original planned finale). But behind the scenes issues led to the story order being changed and Ghost Light airing before Curse of Fenric. So, it either can be taken that Ace is talking about her previous adventure in Ghost Light or that Ghost Light was not the only haunted mansion Ace and Doctor had an adventure in prior to Curse of Fenric.

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*** ** Millington and Judson's past and the incident where Judson was crippled. There are hints that Judson's accident that crippled him involved Millington in some shape or fashion, but it's never expanded upon except for Judson usage of it to guilt Millington to continue with their scheme that they are working on. This is actually expanded on on the novelisation where Millington accidentally broke Judson's back during a rugby game in their school days.
*** ** Depending on how you look at it, the story Ace tells Kathleen about a haunted house in Perivale can be seen as one. Originally, Curse Of Fenric was was supposed to open season 26 and lead directly into Ghost Light (the original planned finale). But behind the scenes issues led to the story order being changed and Ghost Light airing before Curse of Fenric. So, it either can be taken that Ace is talking about her previous adventure in Ghost Light or that Ghost Light was not the only haunted mansion Ace and Doctor had an adventure in prior to Curse of Fenric. Fenric.
** The Doctor has previously been in the Naval Cipher Room in Berlin, for long enough to have gained a knowledge of what's in the files.

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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Kathleen mentions "Frank" and Ace asks if that's her boyfriend. Kathleen is slightly insulted by the implication that she might have had a child out of wedlock, but Ace really didn't mean anything bad; it just wouldn't have been a big deal to her.



* ExpositionOfImmortality: Fenric makes a speech about how long he's been trapped in the bottle since El-Doktar confounded him with the ''"contest of traps."'' The Haemovores are all dressed in period costume appropriate to the time period they became Haemovores in. Ingiger (the Ancient One) is a double subversion of this; it was brought back in time thousands of years by Fenric and has subsequently lived for a thousand years since following the flask to Maiden's Point from the Orient.

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* ExpositionOfImmortality: Fenric makes a speech about how long he's been trapped in the bottle since El-Doktar “the Time Lord” confounded him with the ''"contest of traps."'' The Haemovores are all dressed in period costume appropriate to the time period they became Haemovores in. Ingiger (the The Ancient One) One is a double subversion of this; it was brought back in time thousands of years by Fenric and has subsequently lived for a thousand years since following the flask to Maiden's Point from the Orient.



* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse; Kathleen mentions "Frank" and Ace asks if that's her boyfriend. Kathleen is slightly insulted by the implication that she might have had a child out of wedlock, but Ace really didn't mean anything bad; it just wouldn't have been a big deal to her.
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Written by Ian Briggs. This serial first aired October 25, 1989.

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* ArtisticLicenceSports: The Doctor has perplexed Fenric with a chess puzzle the being cannot solve. The solution is accidentally provided by Ace - the black and white pawns team up and work together! This is presented as a solution that Fenric, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood by his nature]], could not comprehend. In reality, it's a solution that nobody who understands chess could comprehend. [[note]]There are a few smart-alecs who have written chess-puzzles with the phrase: "Move one to mate" having the solution be "promote pawn to enemy's whatever, using said piece to mate me". This may or may not be legal in a actual game, and in either case is not used here.[[/note]]

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* ArtisticLicenceSports: The Doctor has perplexed Fenric with a chess puzzle the being cannot solve. The solution is accidentally provided by Ace - the black and white pawns team up and work together! This is presented as a solution that Fenric, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood by his nature]], could not comprehend. In reality, it's a solution that nobody who understands chess could comprehend. [[note]]There are a few smart-alecs smart-alecks who have written chess-puzzles with the phrase: "Move one to mate" having the solution be "promote pawn to enemy's whatever, using said piece to mate me". This may or may not be legal in a an actual game, and in either case is not used here.[[/note]]



* BoobyTrap: Commander Millington booby traps his chess set. Ace and the Doctor set off a gas grenade, which Doctor defeats by placing a wastepaper basket on top of it. Ace then comments that it was lucky that he used a gas grenade, and if it had been her, she would placed a couple of sticks of dynamite under the table. With sudden realization, Ace and the Doctor both then look under the table and bolt. A few seconds later, the table blows up.

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* BoobyTrap: Commander Millington booby traps his chess set. Ace and the Doctor set off a gas grenade, which Doctor defeats by placing a wastepaper basket on top of it. Ace then comments that it was lucky that he used a gas grenade, and if it had been her, she would have placed a couple of sticks of dynamite under the table.table instead. With sudden realization, Ace and the Doctor both then look under the table and bolt. A few seconds later, the table blows up.



* CutPhoneLines: Commander Millington orders the phone lines cut to isolate the naval base. Unfortunately once the job is done they urgently need reinforcements.

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* CutPhoneLines: Commander Millington orders the phone lines cut to isolate the naval base. Unfortunately Unfortunately, once the job is done done, they urgently need reinforcements.



* DarkIsNotEvil: The Ancient One. He's the last survivor of an Earth that has been rendered lifeless due to overpollution and is quite sad when describing being the last living person on Earth. Furthermore, he expresses frustration to the Doctor when they meet, stating that he was grabbed by a time storm by Fenric and forced to follow Fenric's vase prison across Europe and placed himself into hibernation in order to avoid serving him, after finding out Fenric had no intention of sending him home. And he seems quite crestfallen at the fact that he's been summoned again, this time to destroy all life on Earth (a move that will eliminate his future). He arrives with the Doctor to stop Fenric and refuses to comply when ordered to kill Ace, who through pure chance is standing between him and Fenric and her faith. And once the Doctor breaks Ace's faith in him (which is keeping him from shoving her out of the way via invisible barrier), Ancient One promotely sacrifices his life to save humanity.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Ancient One. He's the last survivor of an Earth that has been rendered lifeless due to overpollution and is quite sad when describing being the last living person on Earth. Furthermore, he expresses frustration to the Doctor when they meet, stating that he was grabbed by a time storm by Fenric and forced to follow Fenric's vase prison across Europe and placed himself into hibernation in order to avoid serving him, after finding out Fenric had no intention of sending him home. And he seems quite crestfallen at the fact that he's been summoned again, this time to destroy all life on Earth (a move that will eliminate his future). He arrives with the Doctor to stop Fenric and refuses to comply when ordered to kill Ace, who through pure chance is standing between him and Fenric and her faith. And once the Doctor breaks Ace's faith in him (which is keeping him from shoving her out of the way via invisible barrier), Ancient One promotely promptly sacrifices his life to save humanity.



* FrozenFashionSense: The sequences where the haemovores rise up to feast on the living display everything from Elizabethan doublets to eighteenth century seawool. Justified, as they've all been holed up since they were turned, and haven't exactly had a chance to nip down to the shops and pick up something more trendy.

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* FrozenFashionSense: The sequences where the haemovores rise up to feast on the living display everything from Elizabethan doublets to eighteenth century seawool. Justified, as they've all been holed up since they were turned, turned and haven't exactly had a chance to nip down to the shops and pick up something more trendy.trendier.



* HauntedTechnology: When translating the viking inscription, the ULTIMA Machine is suddenly [[ItWontTurnOff mysteriously unstoppable]].

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* HauntedTechnology: When translating the viking Viking inscription, the ULTIMA Machine is suddenly [[ItWontTurnOff mysteriously unstoppable]].



* ImmuneToBullets: Bullets slow the Haemovores down, but can't kill them.
* InsaneAdmiral: Commander Millington is insanely paranoid about the Soviets. Once things really hits the fan, he isolates the base so no one can countermand his orders, and joyfully attempts to help Fenric spread his destruction across the world.

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* ImmuneToBullets: Bullets slow the Haemovores down, down but can't kill them.
* InsaneAdmiral: Commander Millington is insanely paranoid about the Soviets. Once things really hits hit the fan, he isolates the base so no one can countermand his orders, and joyfully attempts to help Fenric spread his destruction across the world.



* LukeIAmYourFather: Ace realises that Kathleen is her grandmother and the baby is her mother.

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* LukeIAmYourFather: Ace realises that Kathleen is her grandmother grandmother, and the baby is her mother.



** Ironically, had the Doctor just told Ace he had successfully turned the Ancient One against Fenric, he could have simply have gotten Ace to rush to his side on the other side of the room. Effectively letting the Ancient One grab Fenric and kill him without traumatizing Ace.

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** Ironically, had the Doctor just told Ace he had successfully turned the Ancient One against Fenric, he could have simply have gotten Ace to rush to his side on the other side of the room. Effectively letting the Ancient One grab Fenric and kill him without traumatizing Ace.



*** Depending on how you look at it, the story Ace tells Kathleen about a haunted house in Perivale can be seen as one. Originally, Curse Of Fenric was was supposed to open season 26 and lead directly into Ghost Light (the original planned finale). But behind the scenes issues led to the story order being changed and Ghost Light airing before Curse of Fenric. So it either can be taken that Ace is talking about her previous adventure in Ghost Light or that Ghost Light was not the only haunted mansion Ace and Doctor had an adventure in prior to Curse of Fenric.

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*** Depending on how you look at it, the story Ace tells Kathleen about a haunted house in Perivale can be seen as one. Originally, Curse Of Fenric was was supposed to open season 26 and lead directly into Ghost Light (the original planned finale). But behind the scenes issues led to the story order being changed and Ghost Light airing before Curse of Fenric. So So, it either can be taken that Ace is talking about her previous adventure in Ghost Light or that Ghost Light was not the only haunted mansion Ace and Doctor had an adventure in prior to Curse of Fenric.



** Also applies to Audrey. Of course the baby with the same name as Ace's mother turns out to actually ''be'' Ace's mother.

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** Also applies to Audrey. Of course course, the baby with the same name as Ace's mother turns out to actually ''be'' Ace's mother.



** Ace only exists as the result of a stable time loop: she befriends her grandmother as a young woman, and when disaster strikes sends her to a specific address in London with Ace's infant mother.

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** Ace only exists as the result of a stable time loop: she befriends her grandmother as a young woman, and and, when disaster strikes strikes, sends her to a specific address in London with Ace's infant mother.



* SwitchToEnglish: The Russian soldiers' first scene has them speaking Russian with subtitles, then their leader says "From now on, we speak only English", and they do.

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* SwitchToEnglish: The Russian soldiers' first scene has them speaking Russian with subtitles, then their leader says says, "From now on, we speak only English", and they do.
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* FingerlessGloves: Judson wears them.

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