History Recap / DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen

* PrecisionFStrike: Alt!Jackie actually manages to get away with the phrase "cock it up".

** To gather up "recruits", Cybus Industries uses a dummy company called [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion International Electromatics]].
** The overall design of the Cybus Cybermen in general seems to be a CallBack to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]], right down to their creepy electronic voices being very similar. One could almost consider this story a soft remake of that story.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Even though Lumic knows nothing about an alternate universe with its own Cybermen, the cyborgs he creates end up looking almost identical to them.

* CostumeEvolution: The Cybermen see their first major redesign since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]] 24 years prior. The design introduced here is far buffer and more armorlike, removes the "earmuff" look that had been in place since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]] way back in 1968 (instead featuring a more skull-like head), and restores the "teardrop" motif last seen in 1975's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]]. While the redesign is ostensibly meant to connect to the fact that this story is set in an alternate universe, it would be carried over to the original Mondasian Cybermen during the Creator/StevenMoffat era, before eventually being replaced in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver "Nightmare in Silver"]].

* {{Expy}}: Lumic and his Cybermen seem like the parallel world's equivalent to Davros and the Daleks just as much as they are to the Mondasian Cybermen.

** The normal-universe Cybermen are alien (though they started out identical to humans), and come from a planet called Mondas. In this universe, they're invented by some guy on Earth, and end up looking and being mostly the same. The Twelfth Doctor would [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls later indicate]] this is parallel evolution.

* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The TARDIS acts as one, and this worries the Doctor because this sort of thing doesn't happen anymore.

** The Doctor, when he looks at the Cybus film in secret and figures out exactly ''what'' is coming to crash the party.

* PatrioticFervor: In a hideously warped fashion. Lumic chooses his home country of Great Britain as the staging ground for the birth of his Cybermen, adamantly refusing about trying to sell it anywhere else.
* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Interestingly, while the Cybermen have historically been seen as an allegory for communism, the society that creates them in this story appears to be the opposite extreme. Parallel Britain appears to be an ultra-capitalist state in which almost every company is owned by MegaCorp Cybus Industries, which also operates through dummy companies. Cybus are heavily rumoured to be paying off the government to do as they say (though the President proves this not to be case), and while ordinary people must live under a curfew, the ultra-wealthy live above society on Zeppelins and continue to host lavish parties which influential figures including the President attend. In a deleted scene, Crane warns Jake that the media and even the police are owned by Cybus.

* RichBitch: Alt!Jackie Tyler chews out her husband for petty details, wears diamond-studded accessories, and withholds wages from well-meaning employees if they accidentally offend her. And since this is Jackie, she offends easily.

-->'''President:''' You made money by selling a health food drink to a sick world. Not quite the ordinary Joe you appear to be, are you?

* CostumeEvolution: The Cybermen see their first major redesign since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]] 24 years prior. The design introduced here is far buffer and more armorlike, removes the "earmuff" look that had been in place since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]] way back in 1968 (instead featuring a more skull-like head), and restores the "teardrop" motif last seen in 1975's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]]. While the redesign is obstinately meant to connect to the fact that this story is set in an alternate universe, it would be carried over to the original Mondasian Cybermen during the Creator/StevenMoffat era, before eventually being replaced in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver "Nightmare in Silver"]].

** During the scene in which she argues with Pete about her birthday banner displaying her true age (40), she called out to Rose, however her tone of voice is more the kind used on a pet, not a 20 year old woman, later in the episode it turns out that in this universe, Pete and Jackie sis not have a child, but did have a pet dog called Rose.

Written by Tom [=MacRae=], this episode takes some ideas from Marc Platt's AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts Spare Parts]]", for which Platt receives acknowledgement in the end credits.

** Mikey, fed up with his treatment by the Doctor and Rose, says "stay out of trouble and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion be the tin dog]]".

'''Mikey:''' No, it's a great kitchen.

In a laboratory, Dr Kendrick examines a humanoid metal form and declares, "It's alive", and his wheelchair-user boss, John Lumic (Roger Lloyd-Pack), expresses his pride in this achievement. However, Dr Kendrick warns him that they must tell the authorities in Geneva about their new development, as this is a new form of life. Lumic promptly orders his new creation to kill the doctor, which it does via electrocution. Lumic then tell his staff to set sail for Great Britain.

Pete meets the President of Great Britain at an airstrip as they await the landing of Lumic's zeppelin. They discuss Lumic and the amount of influence he has over British businesses. Pete admits Lumic is a brilliant man, but disagrees with the President's suspicions that he's insane.

Mickey has been left to his own devices and explores the parallel London on his own, where he learns of a curfew from a soldier at a checkpoint. He comes across Waterton Street and knocks on the door of Number 1. Immediately, a woman's voice calls out angrily and the door opens to reveal Rita-Anne Smith, his blind grandmother who, like Pete, is still alive in this universe and still very much a firebrand. Mickey is unable to speak at first, while Rita-Anne rants angrily that she will not be disappeared like the other people, but manages to stammer out a few words that stops the angry old woman in her flow. She is delighted to see her grandson, whom she calls Ricky for some reason, and immediately starts slapping him for apparently taking off and leaving her not knowing anything. Mickey notices the carpet on the stairs behind her, the one he was supposed to fix in his own universe but forgot to, and tearfully remarks that she'll fall and break her neck if it isn't fixed. Rita-Anne chides him for thinking himself useless and invites him in for a nice cup of tea to settle down, but Mickey is then suddenly abducted from Rita's doorstep by two people in a blue van. The people in question are Jake, the man we saw from the junkyard, and another woman, Mrs. Moore. Jake is furious at Mickey for getting in touch with his family and putting them at risk, and they tell him about what they've found out about Cybus, although he and Mrs. Moore also seem to think Mickey's name is Ricky.

Lumic makes a presentation to the President about his proposal: cybernetic exoskeletons that can house a preserved human brain. The President doesn't approve of Lumic's project, finding the whole thing obscene, and leaves while ignoring Lumic's protests. After he leaves, Pete tries to put a good face on it but Lumic wants England, his home, to be his new birthplace. After Pete leaves, Lumic contacts Crane, who is at a lab in Battersea Power Station where he has grafted [=EarPods=] onto the homeless men. Crane demonstrates that they obey everything he orders them to do thanks to the earpieces, and gives the men basic instructions, which they all robotically obey. On Lumic's orders, Crane sends them into a neighbouring chamber to be operated on. Loud screams ring out, which Mr. Crane promptly drowns out by playing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Tight Fit.

* MoodWhiplash: The TARDIS has crashed, completely dead and gone. The Doctor's saying they could've landed anywhere, somewhere outside all normal concepts... and Mickey pokes his head out of the door and asks if he means London.

In a laboratory, Dr Kendrick examines a humanoid metal form and declares, "It's alive", and his wheelchair-user boss, John Lumic (Roger Lloyd-Pack), expresses his pride in this achievement. However, Dr Kendrick warns him that they must tell the authorities in Geneva about their new development, as this is a new form of life. Lumic orders his new creation to kill the doctor, which it does via electrocution. Lumic then tell his staff to set sail for Great Britain.

Mr. Crane and his men go to a scrapyard where a bunch of homeless men are congregated, and lures most of them into the back of the truck with the promise of free food. One of the men, Jake Simmonds, tries to warn them that they won't be coming back, as Lumic has apparently been having homeless people abducted on a regular basis for the last few months, to no avail. As Jake films them discreetly, he hears screams coming from inside the truck as the homeless men are subdued by Mr. Crane's men and restrained.

Lumic makes a presentation to the President about his proposal: cybernetic exoskeletons that can house a preserved human brain. The President doesn't approve of Lumic's project, finding the whole thing obscene, and leaves, ignoring Lumic's protests. After he leaves, Pete tries to put a good face on it but Lumic wants England, his home, to be his new birthplace. After Pete leaves, Lumic contacts Crane, who is at a lab in Battersea Power Station where he has grafted [=EarPods=] onto the homeless men. Crane demonstrates that they obey everything he orders them to do thanks to the earpieces, and gives the men basic instructions, which they all robotically obey. On Lumic's orders, Crane sends them into a neighbouring chamber to be operated on. Loud screams ring out, which Mr. Crane promptly drowns out by playing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Tight Fit.

Outside the manor, Ricky and the Preachers look on as the converted men march out of the lorry. Meanwhile, the Doctor infiltrates Pete's office and peruses the Cybus Industries files, discovering Lumic's presentation to the President. The name "Cybus" and the emphasis on cybernetics and brains clicks in his mind and he realises...these are Cybermen that Lumic is creating.

* CallBack: During the first half of the episode, the Doctor wants nothing more than to escape from the alternate universe. The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno last time]] he was in a parallel universe, it [[EarthShatteringKaboom did not end well at all]].

** The overall design of the Cybermen in general seems to be a CallBack to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]], right down to their creepy electronic voices. One could almost consider this story a soft remake of that story.

* {{Expy}}: Lumic and his Cybermen seem like the parallel world's equivalent to Davros and the Daleks.

** The normal-universe Cybermen are alien, from a planet called Mondas. In this universe they're invented by a guy on Earth, somehow looking and being mostly the same.

* MegaCorp: In this parallel Earth, Cybus Industries owns practically every major company in the country.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Mrs. Moore's suggestion for why Mickey and Ricky look the same is that either they're clones, or Ricky's father had a bike.

-->'''Mr. Crane:''' ''(nervously)'' It's just hard to resist.\\
'''Lumic:''' ''Resist.''

-->'''Ricky:''' Somethin' wrong with that?\\

The Doctor and Rose arrive at the Tyler estate, where they see limos dropping off guests. Rose realizes it's her mother's birthday, and she still loves parties even in a parallel universe. The Doctor comments that they do have psychic paper, which gives them a ways in. One scene cut later, the Doctor and Rose are entering the party as waiters, with Rose being very much annoyed that the Doctor couldn't use the psychic paper so they could be invited celebrities. Rose is annoyed at posing as a waitress, but the Doctor remarks that the staff will know everything and be more forthcoming and unobtrusive than guests. This pays off when Lucy, one of the other waitresses, points out the President of Great Britain to the Doctor. Rose is shocked by the whole thing, and the fact that Pete and Jackie have a dog named Rose instead of a daughter (something the Doctor can't resist being amused by), but is happy that they have each other.

Past, future... where HAVEN'T we been yet, in the new series? How about... [[AlternateUniverse ANOTHER UNIVERSE!]]

The TARDIS falls into a parallel universe where Rose's dad isn't dead, Rose was never born[[labelnote:*]]But is, for some reason, a Yorkshire Terrier.[[/labelnote]], Mickey's grandmother never died, everybody wears earpods and there are, for some undetermined reason, zeppelins everywhere.

And they have a power problem. The TARDIS will only run off power from its home universe, which they are not in. So it's a good thing the Doctor finds a little power crystal that can recharge itself with the right kind of energy ([[HandWave don't ask]]); now all they have to do is relax for 24 hours while it does its thing. Surely they can stay out of trouble for one day, right?

If you thought they would for even the ''slightest'' moment, you are reading the wrong recap.

Right on cue, despite the Doctor warning about not interfering with anything, Mickey and Rose run off to find out what's different about where they are, besides the earpods and the zeppelins and the President of Britain and everything.

Rose and the Doctor crash Rose's mum's birthday party. Mickey runs into Ricky, his parallel self, and Ricky is not very happy about it. And just to drive it home, if the title hadn't tipped you off, we get the first new series appearance of everyone's favourite army of steel soldiers, as newly-created Cybermen show up at the party and kill several people before surrounding the Doctor and Rose. The Doctor tries to surrender, but the Cybermen will not back down. Cliffhanger ending.

The TARDIS falls into a parallel universe where Rose's dad isn't dead, Rose was never born[[labelnote:*]]But is, for some reason, a dog.[[/labelnote]], Mickey's grandmother never died, everybody wears earpods and there are, for some undetermined reason, zeppelins everywhere.

-->'''John Lumic:''' I suppose a remark about "crashing the party" would be appropriate at this point, sir!

* OhCrap: At the cliffhanger, the Doctor gets a good one when he realises the Cybermen aren't going to let them surrender.

* LaResistance: The Preachers, run by Ricky, Mickey's alternate-universe self.

* KickTheSonOfABitch[=/=]PayEvilUntoEvil: The President denying Lumic the ability to use his technology to save his own life? Harsh. Being electrocuted to death by a Cyberman? Worse.

[[caption-width-right:350:...[[ThereWasADoor I suppose a remark about "crashing the party" would be appropriate at this point, sir!]]...]]

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: The Doctor warns Rose that this world's Pete Tyler isn't actually her father, but both she and Mickey head off to find their parallel Earth loved ones anyway. Both the alternate versions of Rose's parents seem to [[InTheBlood subconsciously]] ''[[InTheBlood know]]'' [[InTheBlood of their relation]] when they interact with her, without having any conscious knowledge of who she is. Rose has to be dissuaded from going back to save "her mum" from death by the Doctor reminding her the doppelganger isn't her mother.

'''Rose:''' You're in charge of the psychic paper. We could have been guests, celebrities, Sir Doctor, Dame Rose. We end up serving. I had enough of this back home.\\

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: The Doctor warns Rose that this world's Pete Tyler isn't actually her father, but both she and Mickey head off to find their parallel Earth loved ones anyway.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Rose's reaction when the Doctor casually mentions he's been talking to another waitress by the name of Lucy. Naturally, he doesn't notice.

Written by Tom [=MacRae=], this episode was adapted in part from Marc Platt's AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts Spare Parts]]".

** The overall design of the Cybermen in general seems to be a CallBack to ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]'', right down to their creepy electronic voices. One could almost consider this story a soft remake of that story.

* EvilBrit: Joh inn Lumic is identified in a newscast as British.

-->'''John Lumic:''' And how do you expect to do that ''from beyond the grave?''