History Recap / DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dalek Caan declares "NO MORE!" after seeing the truth about the Daleks in the Time Vortex. This phrase will be important by the 50th anniversary specials.

* TheUnreveal: We never do find out what it was that Ten wanted to say to Rose in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]'', but we can guess. Whatever it is, it makes Rose kiss him.

* CloningBlues: Averted: the Other Doctor doesn't angst about how he isn't "real" and even calls himself "The Doctor" because he technically is. Although Rose initially does, and he has to convince her of the fact.

* GratuitousGerman: The Daleks in Germany are speaking in German. It doesn't make much sense other than an excuse to have the Daleks speak the language of a certain regime [[ANaziByAnyOtherName they share similarities with]]. "[[AC:Exterminieren! Halt! Sonst werden wir Sie exterminieren! Sie sind jetzt ein Gefangener der Daleks!]]"

'''Mickey:''' [[AnythingThatMoves And that's enough hugging.]]

* ApocalypseHow: The Daleks threaten a ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 using their Reality Bomb. The device essentially dismantles the electrical field holding atoms together, and if it's sucessfully fired at full power in the Medusa Cascade then it will leak through the Cascade's rift into ''every single'' ParallelUniverse and AlternateDimension, so the sheltered Dalek fleet will be the only things left in ''all of reality''. It's revealed that the Reality Bomb's existence has already been causing a TimeyWimeyBall sort of WorldWreckingWave to negatively affect multiple universes and has even wiped out the Daleks and Cybermen inside the Void, although said wave's effects are stopped at the end.

** This:

'''The Doctor:''' Who invented that?! ''[beat]'' Someone called Osterhagen, I suppose...
** And this:

The one with the return of an [[StealthPun overcooked]][[note]]Okay, that was in poor taste...[[/note]] [[LargeHam ham]] among ''Who'' villains, the birth of [[FanNickname Handy]], and the one where Rose finally gets her happy ending. [[DownerEnding But Donna doesn't. And neither does the Doctor. Nor does her family.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Davros's scathing observation about how the Doctor forges his Companions into weapons to do the dirty work for him. Even more scathing and FridgeBrilliance when you remember the last Companion Davros encountered on-screen was Ace, she of "[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Dalek meets]] [[BatterUp baseball bat]]" fame.[[invoked]]

** Davros is seemingly killed again, [[JokerImmunity not that anyone]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice expects him]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar to stay dead]].

* CrisisCrossover: Ianto, Jack and Gwen from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Sarah Jane, Luke and Mr. Smith from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and Rose, Martha, Mickey and basically everyone connected to the show since RTD got hold of it all turn up. Even K9 gets to appear. ''Crisis of Infinite Doctors'', perhaps?

* DemotedToDragon: Davros. Despite being the original master of the Daleks and the Doctor's ArchEnemy, it's made clear that the Supreme Dalek is the one who's calling the shots, and Davros is in fact ''his'' minion.

** Davros being little more than a slave to the Daleks, and in fact being taken for a ride by Caan, could also be a similar nod to the post-Davros Dalek situation. Many fans lamented that after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis]]", the Daleks had become nothing more than thugs for Davros himself, although this was rectified in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance]]".

* DragonInChief: Inversion. The Doctor mocks Davros as the Daleks' "pet", and he is actually a prisoner, kept alive only to help them construct the Reality Bomb and will likely be exterminated once the plan is complete. He is not TheDragon in any meaningful sense, but nonetheless he is a minion serving as the ''de facto'' main antagonist.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Daleks are insane, murderous pepper pots. They do ''not'' have to translate their words into German before they come to kill you — they, at least, have the courtesy to do that.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dalek Caan declares "NO MORE!" after seeing the truth about the Daleks in the Time Vortex. This phrase will be important in the future.

* JustFollowingOrders: Martha is going to destroy the Earth. She says, "I'm a member of UNIT, and they gave me the Osterhagen Key. I've got to do my job. I'm sorry." Next scene, where is she? Near '''Nuremberg'''.

* MamaBear:
** Mess with Luke's life at your own peril; Sarah will go to ''any'' length — even killing — to save him.
** Don't lay a finger on Rose either: Jackie ''will'' hurt you.

** Of the Doctor's companions on Earth at this time who have faced the Fell Saltshakers, we know that Sarah Jane, Rose, Jack and Martha survived — and Donna too (minus her memories). What were the other 20th century Earth companions (many of whom were confirmed to be active as of the fourth series of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') doing? Although Harriet Jones's subwave network only sought out people who had the means to help contact the Doctor; presumably none of them did.

** A nod to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead The Unquiet Dead]]"; Gwen is a spatial genetic multiplicity of Gwyneth. (Basically, [[UncannyFamilyResemblance Uncanny Family Resemblance]], except, according to [[WordOfGod Word of God]], "It's not familial as we understand it. There's no blood tie. Spatial genetic multiplicity means an echo and repetition of physical traits across a Time Rift.")

* WorldWreckingWave: {{Exaggerated}} by the Reality Bomb's threat level: if activated at full power, the Bomb will unleash a wavelength that will dismantle everything within range down to a subatomic level. And the wavelength will continue until it's wiped out everything within the observable universe except for everything onboard the Dalek Crucible, then it will break through a space-time rift into every parallel universe and alternate dimension until [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 the Daleks are all that's left in ANY reality]].

* GratuitousGerman: "[[AC:Exterminieren! Halt! Sonst werden wir Sie exterminieren! Sie sind jetzt ein Gefangener der Daleks!]]"

-->'''Davros''': The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun. But ''this'' is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people, and you fashion them into weapons. Behold your Children of Time transformed into murderers! I made the Daleks, Doctor. [[NotSoDifferent You made this]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Davros is back, and he's been to the [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]] Emporium since his accident with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Bostock]].]]

* BigNo: Martha shouts one when she is transported to the ''Crucible'' right before she can use the Osterhagen Key to activate the nuclear warheads, moments after she intended to do so when she heard the Supreme Dalek activate the plan to send her to the Vault to be with Davros and the Doctor.

The Doctor's friends haven't given up yet. Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie ''will'' use Sarah Jane's [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Veran necklace]] (which contains a crystallised ''nova explosion'') to blow up the Crucible (including themselves) if Davros doesn't stop. Similarly, Martha Jones ''will'' use the Osterhagen key to activate a doomsday device that will blow up the Earth (including herself) and put everyone out of their misery ''and'' leaving Davros stuck with just 26 planets: not enough to power up his reality bomb. Unfortunately, these threats work well with Davros' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, as Davros accuses the Doctor of being a TechnicalPacifist while turning his friends into tools of violence. The Doctor remembers all the people who died to save his life during the New Series. Regardless of all that, the Doctor's friends' plans come to naught, as they are immediately zapped to the Vault by the Daleks.

Donna stopped it! Even though she used to not even be able to change a plug, Davros' lightning triggered the ''other'' half of the metacrisis: when she activated the energy in the hand, part of her became filled with Time Lord essence. Now in possession of an active Time Lord mind, she's able to come up with Dalek-disabling solutions lightning fast with a huge surge of techno-babble. So that's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod what the Ood were talking about]]!

* BreakTheCutie: The Universe really hates Ten. Davros' BreakingSpeech was bordering on MindRape, reminding the Doctor of all the people who have died for him and accusing him of creating soldiers out of his companions.

* VillainHasAPoint: Davros' scathing observation about how the Doctor forges his Companions into weapons to do the dirty work for him. Even more scathing and FridgeBrilliance when you remember the last Companion Davros encountered on-screen was Ace, she of "[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Dalek meets]] [[BatterUp baseball bat]]" fame.[[invoked]]

** Of the Doctor's companions on Earth at this time who have faced the Fell Saltshakers, we know that Sarah Jane, Rose, Jack and Martha survived — and Donna too (minus her memories). What were the other 20th century Earth companions (many of whom were confirmed to be active as of the fourth series of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') doing?

The Doctor, Jack, Rose and Donna are surrounded by Daleks in the Crucible and step out of the TARDIS to face them. Donna is distracted by the sound of a heartbeat, and gets stuck inside the TARDIS. The Daleks open up a trap door and the TARDIS gets flushed into the core of the Crucible. Donna is trapped in the burning TARDIS. She looks over at the hand and reaches out to touch it. The jar bursts, and the hand is enveloped in a golden light that seems to be forming... a new body! It's the Doctor!

Back on the Crucible, Davros gives the Doctor a briefing on their plan. Apparently all the 27 planets combined form a "reality bomb" that can dissolve every form of matter. Davros gets really excited and [[ChewingTheScenery chews on every available piece of scenery]]. But the Doctor realises that Davros isn't remotely in charge of his creatures any more. He was taken out of the Time War by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Dalek Caan]], who stared into Time itself, neatly mirroring [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays the way Rose saved the Doctor from the Daleks once]]. However, Dalek Caan didn't have a Time Lord around to take Time itself away again, and he went ''completely mad'' in the process. Davros is now little more than the Daleks' "pet": a source of DNA cells to rebuild the Dalek race, and locked in the basement by his own offspring. Anyway, Davros explains that the 27 stolen planets form a compression field which can be released as a wave with the power to cancel out the electrical energy of atoms, reducing all matter into dust and ''then'' turning the dust into atoms and the atoms into nothing. The resulting "reality bomb" has the potential to keep travelling forever across all universe and even creep its way into ''parallel universes'', destroying all life and matter in existence, until only the Daleks remain.

Held at gunpoint by Mickey, a completely astounded Davros demands to know why Dalek Caan didn't forsee this. To his horror, the Doctor and Caan reveal he ''did'', given that someone has been manipulating events to bring him and Donna together; Caan admits it, but insists he only ensured what was meant to happen did. [[VillainousBreakdown A furious Davros]] angrily accuses Caan of betraying the Daleks; Caan retorts he saw the Daleks for the monsters they are and moved to stop them once and for all. As they get into the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone decides that even without their reality bomb, the Dalek empire is still a monstrous threat against the universe, so he tampers with the Crucible's control's panel to unleash a lethal energy feedback that blows up ''all'' the Daleks, to the utter horror of the original Doctor, who ''really'' doesn't like to be reminded of what he did in the Time War. The Doctor offers Davros a chance to be saved, but Davros chooses to stay behind and die ([[JokerImmunity though it]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice doesn't]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar last]]) on the exploding Crucible, bitterly cursing the Doctor and naming him "[[{{Hypocrite}} The destroyer of worlds!]]"

In the TARDIS, Doctor-Donna is starting to exhibit some problems, as her behaviour becomes hyperactive and she literally can't stop talking or focus on a single matter. This leads to the most SadisticChoice the Doctor's ever had to make. Donna's Time Lord brain is overloading her human body, which, as the Doctor solemnly explains, is the reason why there never has been a human/Time Lord fusion before. Either [[YourHeadAsplode her head asplode]], or the Doctor wipes her memories of everything she's done with him going back to her first appearance. The Doctor knows there's only one option to save Donna's life. She begs and pleads, but the Doctor takes her into his arms and gently wipes her memories. She can never remember who she was, or anything about the Doctor, or she'll ''burn up''. She goes back to the way she used to be, and she can never know about how much she saved the universe or how amazing she was. The Doctor takes her home, where she turns into her old self... her ''old'' old self, loud and crass... And [[FridgeHorror someone's going to have to tell her that she's missed two full years, and that her fiancée and her father are dead]], that is, if the memory-wiping was thorough enough to blank out that much. The Doctor tells Donna's mother to be ''nice'' to her for a change, bids Wilf farewell and steps out of their lives. (For now.)[[invoked]]

--->'''Martha:''' If I use [the Osterhagen Key], they detonate and Earth gets ripped apart.\\

* BittersweetEnding: Rose and the Doctor are finally reunited, but he has to watch her fall in the arms of another man (his clone no less!) and leave her behind forever. Donna saved not only the entire Earth (and the other 26 planets) but all of ''creation'', but can't remember or else she'll burn up. So she has no idea how important she is, and the Doctor's on his own again. Sarah Jane points out to the Doctor that he has many friends who who love him, quite a few of whom remain on Earth, in the main universe, and with their memories intact. The Doctor then goes to travel alone.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: The show finally gets its last bit of mileage out of the Doctor's lost hand. It's now turned into a full sized copy of himself and so it absolutely cannot turn up again.

* DisneyDeath: The Doctor was mortally wounded in the last episode, and not only did he regenerate, he didn't have to change his appearance.

* HybridPower: The Doctor undergoes a "biological meta-crisis" in which he uses regeneration energy to form a clone which has some of Donna's personality. More importantly, the same process gives Donna the Doctor's mental prowess, which, combined with her "gut instinct" as a human, makes her a hypergenius capable of things even the Doctor would never think to do. Unfortunately, the human-Time Lord meta-crisis proves to be unstable, and would kill her if she didn't have her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erased]].

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: PlayedWith. The Doctor can't just wipe Donna's memories of his consciousness; he has to wipe ''all'' of her memories of him and their travels together. If she ever remembers anything about him, she would end up remembering everything and would die.

** Specifically: After the Ninth Doctor's heartfelt goodbye and regeneration, the very first thing the Tenth Doctor does is puzzle over his new teeth. After saying goodbye to Rose for what he believes to be the last time, the Doctor turns around to find a certain angry bride in the TARDIS. And after they defeat the Master but Martha walks away, he sets the TARDIS in flight again — only to smash into the ''Titanic''.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Davros tries to pull this one on the Doctor; he makes Daleks and the Doctor makes Companions. Both of them are soldiers.
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Davros shouts this when the Reality Bomb is ready and all of his enemies are defeated.

-->'''Davros:''' You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons... behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor, you made this.

* SuicideByCop: Dalek Caan's prophecies were just a ruse to create a situation where his entire race (and Davros) were completely exterminated as he had finally realized that the universe would be a ''much'' better place without them around.

->''"But every night, Doctor, when it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky, and think of you."''

** There has never been a being that's half-human/half-Time Lord before. [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Never ever ever]], and the Doctor ''certainly'' isn't one.
*** Although it should be noted that even ''if'' he was telling the truth there (and the canonicity and accuracy of that statement have been hotly debated), the original Doctor isn't the same kind of fusion Handy is.

* NotSoDifferent: Davros tries to pull this one on the Doctor; he makes Daleks and the Doctor makes Companions. Both of them are soldiers.