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* MoveInTheFrozenTime: When [[spoiler: George Limb]] Limb escapes in the Cybermen’s faulty time machine, a leak in its works freezes the moment to a near-halt before [[spoiler: the damaged Cyber-command unit explodes]]. explodes. The Doctor, not entirely subject to the temporal anomaly, [[spoiler: manages to drag Ace to safety]].safety.
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* TechnologyUplift: Ace’s Doctor-repaired tape deck, as introduced in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]], Nemesis]]'', incorporates technology from Earth, Gallifrey and Alpha Centauri.
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'''Warning:''' Spoilers may be unmarked.
Published 1997; written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
In 1940, Chicago private investigator Cody [=McBride=], having relocated to London, sees a flaming object fall from the sky - with no explosion. Embedded in a blitzed house, he finds an eight foot silver sphere, which is taken into the care of military intelligence.
Back in his office, [=McBride=] finds the Doctor and Ace. Investigation of the link between the anachronistic technology and a series of murders lead them to retired civil servant George Limb, who seeks the Limehouse Lurker - a damaged Cyberleader.
The Doctor, [=McBride=] and Inspector Mullen investigate Peddler electronics - whose representative, the sinister Mr Wall, seems to be allied with the Cybermen. Meanwhile, a kidnapped Ace finds herself on Nazi-occupied Jersey - where the captured Le Mur Compound houses several hundred dormant Cybermen.
SS Captain Hartmann, on refusal of a Cyber-alliance, leads a charge on the Cybermen. A Doctor-reprogrammed Cyber-command unit, damaged in the crossfire, sets to explode. While Limb makes for the damaged Cyber-time machine, the Doctor, in the resultant briefly frozen time, manages to pull Ace back to the TARDIS.
Back in London, Mullen and [=McBride=], in the London sewers, find another dormant Cyber-army…
!!Tropes
*AlienInvasion: On an ill-fated time travel experiment, several thirtieth century Cybermen stranded in 1940 London, to swell their ranks, set about [[UnwillingRoboticisation Cyber-converting]] humans.
*AndIMustScream: On partial Cyber-conversion, [[spoiler: Colonel T.P. Potter (retired)]] briefly retains his identity.
*TheAssimilator: Stranded in 1940 London, a small team of Cybermen need to replenish their stock.
-->'''Cyberman:''' YOU BELONG TO US> YOU WILL BE LIKE US>
*AxeCrazy: The Limehouse Lurker, a bomb-damaged Cyberleader.
* BatterUp:
** In the Peddler warehouse laboratory, with Cody cornered by a Cyberman, Ace, with a gas barrel, whacks it on the handlebar.
** When Cybermats invade his bar, Mama takes up his baseball bat.
* BloodierAndGorier:
** A damage-crazed Cyberleader, with its biological parts vulnerable to earthly bacteria, needs a substitute fluid - so rips apart several people and smears itself with their blood and pulped flesh.
** A glimpse of the Cyber-[[YouWillBeAssimilated conversion]] [[MedicalHorror process]] actually makes a soldier vomit.
** A Cybergun erodes [[spoiler: Captain Hartmann’s]] hair; heavily blisters his skin, boils his left eye and melts off his ear.
*BloodKnight: Captain Hartmann.
*BewareTheNiceOnes: At an icily warning look in regard to Ace’s safety, [=McBride=] suspects this of the Doctor.
*{{BFG}}: Against the Cybermen, Captain Hartmann’s men use a Spandau machine gun. It isn’t totally ineffective.
*BigEater: In Mama’s bar, Ace finishes off Cody’s doughboy.
*TheBrigadier: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Major Lazonby. Adamant of Cyber-technology to be an earthly invention of Dr Peddler, Lazonby urges the Doctor, whom he takes for a spy, to help utilise it against the Nazis.
* BriefAccentImitation: Alone in Cody’s office, the Doctor, in analysis of a Cyber signalling device, gets into the investigative spirit with an edible cigarette.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Letsh shee what comes crawling out of the woodwoik, blue eyesh.
*BrokenTears: Ace, imprisoned on Nazi-occupied Jersey, through her cell wall, gets friendly with research engineer Sid Napley. When he’s dragged off for further torture, Ace breaks down.
*CallForward:
** [[spoiler: Installation in London’s sewers of a dormant Cyber-army]] anticipates The Invasion.
** During the Blitz, a piece of alien tech falls from the sky.
*ColdBloodedTorture: Used interrogatively by Jersey-stationed Nazis on the staff of the Le Muir facility.
*ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Wall’s Cybermen.
*ContinuityNod:
**Held as a suspect spy by Major Lazonby, the Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield hypnotically]] [[JediMindTrick persuades]] a guard not to check for authorised prisoner transference.
*ElectronicEyes: [[spoiler: Wall]] has had his eyes replaced by camera lenses.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
** The owner and barman of Mama’s American Bar is known only as Mama.
** Underworld informer Sharkey.
*FauxAffablyEvil: PlayedForHorror with Captain Hartmann, whose geniality abruptly vanishes, revealing a coldly vicious sadism.
*ForScience: [[spoiler: George Limb]], who idealises humanity’s advancement by Cyber-technology, resigns himself to alliance with the Jersey-stationed Nazis sitting on it.
*FriendOnTheForce: Initially [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Chief Inspector Patrick Mullen impatiently wary of Cody [=McBride=]’s operation, although they later ally against the Cybermen.
*FunPersonified: In the London Underground, the Doctor, with a stick of rhubarb, conducts several Blitz-shelterers in a sing-along.
*GenkiGirl: Ace’s impudent, jovial enthusiasm is in full force.
*GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Doctor sings an irreverent war song - although merely hums its anatomically themed lyric.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Hitler - ta ta ta -tum turn tummm!
* GentleGiant: Mama.
*GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Despite her tomboyishness, Ace’s TARDIS bedroom houses a cuddly dinosaur.
*HardboiledDetective: World-weary, case-hardened Cody.
*HeelFaceBrainwashing: The Doctor [[spoiler: reprogrammes the dormant Cybermen to turn on the Nazis]].
*HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: George Limb]], having tried, with UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, to alert Britain to the Nazi menace, is latterly resigned to collaboration, in hope of world-advancing Cyber-technology, with the Jersey-stationed Nazis.
*HeKnowsTooMuch: Dr Peddler, on refusal of assistance to Cyber-collaborator Wall.
*MechanicalAnimals: The Cybermats, being mechanically augmented such local wildlife as squirrels, serve as living tools.
*MoveInTheFrozenTime: When [[spoiler: George Limb]] escapes in the Cybermen’s faulty time machine, a leak in its works freezes the moment to a near-halt before [[spoiler: the damaged Cyber-command unit explodes]]. The Doctor, not entirely subject to the temporal anomaly, [[spoiler: manages to drag Ace to safety]].
*MythologyGag: Electronic engineer Dr Peddler seems to be named after Cybermen co-creator Kit Pedler.
*OldSoldier:
** Colonel T.P. Potter (retired) takes a regimented approach to his ARP Warden duties.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Colonel Schott, a UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne veteran who, of the blood-crazed fanaticism of the SS, is rather weary.
* ProductPlacement: [[DownPlayedTrope Downplayed]]. Hearing a captive caretaker not to have eaten for three days, Ace finds in her pocket a Cadbury’s Creme Egg.
*RobotDog: A Cyber-command unit, a squat, four-legged mobile console, is reprogrammed by the Doctor, who addresses it thus.
*StartingANewLife:
**To evade his underworld enemies, Chicago private investigator Cody [=McBride=] set up office in London, England.
** Beneath a train bridge, Mama runs an American-style bar.
*ScaryBlackMan: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Mama, who, while equipped with a baseball bat in case of unruly patrons, is quite amiable, and seems actually to hate violence.
*SequelEpisode: Or rather prequel episode - here, we see [[spoiler: installation in the London sewers of]] the [[The Invasion Cyber-invasion force]].
*ShoutOut:
** A serial-killing crazed Cyberleader, in allusion to Peter Ackroyd’s ''The Limehouse Golem'', is dubbed the Limehouse Lurker.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[Series/DadsArmy Don’t panic, Captain]].
*TheStoolPigeon: Sharkey, referred to as such, is a professional informer.
*StupidJetpackHitler:
** Major Lazonby hopes to [[InvertedTrope invert]] this with Cyber-armour for British troops.
** Captain Hartmann wants a Cyber-Nazi alliance.
*TheSwarm: In response to a transmitter pickpocketed by Sharkey from the Doctor, numerous Cybermats rise from a floor drain in Mama’s bar.
*TechnologyPorn: The might of the Cybermen’s mechanical workings is conveyed in precise detail.
*TechnologyUplift: Ace’s Doctor-repaired tape deck, as introduced in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]], incorporates technology from Earth, Gallifrey and Alpha Centauri.
*ThoseWackyNazis: Decidedly [[AvertedTrope averted]]; particularly with Captain Hartmann, a coldly sadistic professional brute.
*TimeMaster: At a temporal leakage from the malfunctioning Cyber time machine, time slows to a near halt. The Doctor, however, just about manages to maintain his autonomy.
*TimeStandsStill: Or slows to a near-halt, due to a clapped out time machine.
*WouldHurtAChild: The Cybermen [[spoiler: convert a Blitz-sheltering baby]].
'''Warning:''' Spoilers may be unmarked.
Published 1997; written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
In 1940, Chicago private investigator Cody [=McBride=], having relocated to London, sees a flaming object fall from the sky - with no explosion. Embedded in a blitzed house, he finds an eight foot silver sphere, which is taken into the care of military intelligence.
Back in his office, [=McBride=] finds the Doctor and Ace. Investigation of the link between the anachronistic technology and a series of murders lead them to retired civil servant George Limb, who seeks the Limehouse Lurker - a damaged Cyberleader.
The Doctor, [=McBride=] and Inspector Mullen investigate Peddler electronics - whose representative, the sinister Mr Wall, seems to be allied with the Cybermen. Meanwhile, a kidnapped Ace finds herself on Nazi-occupied Jersey - where the captured Le Mur Compound houses several hundred dormant Cybermen.
SS Captain Hartmann, on refusal of a Cyber-alliance, leads a charge on the Cybermen. A Doctor-reprogrammed Cyber-command unit, damaged in the crossfire, sets to explode. While Limb makes for the damaged Cyber-time machine, the Doctor, in the resultant briefly frozen time, manages to pull Ace back to the TARDIS.
Back in London, Mullen and [=McBride=], in the London sewers, find another dormant Cyber-army…
!!Tropes
*AlienInvasion: On an ill-fated time travel experiment, several thirtieth century Cybermen stranded in 1940 London, to swell their ranks, set about [[UnwillingRoboticisation Cyber-converting]] humans.
*AndIMustScream: On partial Cyber-conversion, [[spoiler: Colonel T.P. Potter (retired)]] briefly retains his identity.
*TheAssimilator: Stranded in 1940 London, a small team of Cybermen need to replenish their stock.
-->'''Cyberman:''' YOU BELONG TO US> YOU WILL BE LIKE US>
*AxeCrazy: The Limehouse Lurker, a bomb-damaged Cyberleader.
* BatterUp:
** In the Peddler warehouse laboratory, with Cody cornered by a Cyberman, Ace, with a gas barrel, whacks it on the handlebar.
** When Cybermats invade his bar, Mama takes up his baseball bat.
* BloodierAndGorier:
** A damage-crazed Cyberleader, with its biological parts vulnerable to earthly bacteria, needs a substitute fluid - so rips apart several people and smears itself with their blood and pulped flesh.
** A glimpse of the Cyber-[[YouWillBeAssimilated conversion]] [[MedicalHorror process]] actually makes a soldier vomit.
** A Cybergun erodes [[spoiler: Captain Hartmann’s]] hair; heavily blisters his skin, boils his left eye and melts off his ear.
*BloodKnight: Captain Hartmann.
*BewareTheNiceOnes: At an icily warning look in regard to Ace’s safety, [=McBride=] suspects this of the Doctor.
*{{BFG}}: Against the Cybermen, Captain Hartmann’s men use a Spandau machine gun. It isn’t totally ineffective.
*BigEater: In Mama’s bar, Ace finishes off Cody’s doughboy.
*TheBrigadier: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Major Lazonby. Adamant of Cyber-technology to be an earthly invention of Dr Peddler, Lazonby urges the Doctor, whom he takes for a spy, to help utilise it against the Nazis.
* BriefAccentImitation: Alone in Cody’s office, the Doctor, in analysis of a Cyber signalling device, gets into the investigative spirit with an edible cigarette.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Letsh shee what comes crawling out of the woodwoik, blue eyesh.
*BrokenTears: Ace, imprisoned on Nazi-occupied Jersey, through her cell wall, gets friendly with research engineer Sid Napley. When he’s dragged off for further torture, Ace breaks down.
*CallForward:
** [[spoiler: Installation in London’s sewers of a dormant Cyber-army]] anticipates The Invasion.
** During the Blitz, a piece of alien tech falls from the sky.
*ColdBloodedTorture: Used interrogatively by Jersey-stationed Nazis on the staff of the Le Muir facility.
*ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Wall’s Cybermen.
*ContinuityNod:
**Held as a suspect spy by Major Lazonby, the Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield hypnotically]] [[JediMindTrick persuades]] a guard not to check for authorised prisoner transference.
*ElectronicEyes: [[spoiler: Wall]] has had his eyes replaced by camera lenses.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
** The owner and barman of Mama’s American Bar is known only as Mama.
** Underworld informer Sharkey.
*FauxAffablyEvil: PlayedForHorror with Captain Hartmann, whose geniality abruptly vanishes, revealing a coldly vicious sadism.
*ForScience: [[spoiler: George Limb]], who idealises humanity’s advancement by Cyber-technology, resigns himself to alliance with the Jersey-stationed Nazis sitting on it.
*FriendOnTheForce: Initially [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Chief Inspector Patrick Mullen impatiently wary of Cody [=McBride=]’s operation, although they later ally against the Cybermen.
*FunPersonified: In the London Underground, the Doctor, with a stick of rhubarb, conducts several Blitz-shelterers in a sing-along.
*GenkiGirl: Ace’s impudent, jovial enthusiasm is in full force.
*GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Doctor sings an irreverent war song - although merely hums its anatomically themed lyric.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Hitler - ta ta ta -tum turn tummm!
* GentleGiant: Mama.
*GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Despite her tomboyishness, Ace’s TARDIS bedroom houses a cuddly dinosaur.
*HardboiledDetective: World-weary, case-hardened Cody.
*HeelFaceBrainwashing: The Doctor [[spoiler: reprogrammes the dormant Cybermen to turn on the Nazis]].
*HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: George Limb]], having tried, with UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, to alert Britain to the Nazi menace, is latterly resigned to collaboration, in hope of world-advancing Cyber-technology, with the Jersey-stationed Nazis.
*HeKnowsTooMuch: Dr Peddler, on refusal of assistance to Cyber-collaborator Wall.
*MechanicalAnimals: The Cybermats, being mechanically augmented such local wildlife as squirrels, serve as living tools.
*MoveInTheFrozenTime: When [[spoiler: George Limb]] escapes in the Cybermen’s faulty time machine, a leak in its works freezes the moment to a near-halt before [[spoiler: the damaged Cyber-command unit explodes]]. The Doctor, not entirely subject to the temporal anomaly, [[spoiler: manages to drag Ace to safety]].
*MythologyGag: Electronic engineer Dr Peddler seems to be named after Cybermen co-creator Kit Pedler.
*OldSoldier:
** Colonel T.P. Potter (retired) takes a regimented approach to his ARP Warden duties.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Colonel Schott, a UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne veteran who, of the blood-crazed fanaticism of the SS, is rather weary.
* ProductPlacement: [[DownPlayedTrope Downplayed]]. Hearing a captive caretaker not to have eaten for three days, Ace finds in her pocket a Cadbury’s Creme Egg.
*RobotDog: A Cyber-command unit, a squat, four-legged mobile console, is reprogrammed by the Doctor, who addresses it thus.
*StartingANewLife:
**To evade his underworld enemies, Chicago private investigator Cody [=McBride=] set up office in London, England.
** Beneath a train bridge, Mama runs an American-style bar.
*ScaryBlackMan: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Mama, who, while equipped with a baseball bat in case of unruly patrons, is quite amiable, and seems actually to hate violence.
*SequelEpisode: Or rather prequel episode - here, we see [[spoiler: installation in the London sewers of]] the [[The Invasion Cyber-invasion force]].
*ShoutOut:
** A serial-killing crazed Cyberleader, in allusion to Peter Ackroyd’s ''The Limehouse Golem'', is dubbed the Limehouse Lurker.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[Series/DadsArmy Don’t panic, Captain]].
*TheStoolPigeon: Sharkey, referred to as such, is a professional informer.
*StupidJetpackHitler:
** Major Lazonby hopes to [[InvertedTrope invert]] this with Cyber-armour for British troops.
** Captain Hartmann wants a Cyber-Nazi alliance.
*TheSwarm: In response to a transmitter pickpocketed by Sharkey from the Doctor, numerous Cybermats rise from a floor drain in Mama’s bar.
*TechnologyPorn: The might of the Cybermen’s mechanical workings is conveyed in precise detail.
*TechnologyUplift: Ace’s Doctor-repaired tape deck, as introduced in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]], incorporates technology from Earth, Gallifrey and Alpha Centauri.
*ThoseWackyNazis: Decidedly [[AvertedTrope averted]]; particularly with Captain Hartmann, a coldly sadistic professional brute.
*TimeMaster: At a temporal leakage from the malfunctioning Cyber time machine, time slows to a near halt. The Doctor, however, just about manages to maintain his autonomy.
*TimeStandsStill: Or slows to a near-halt, due to a clapped out time machine.
*WouldHurtAChild: The Cybermen [[spoiler: convert a Blitz-sheltering baby]].
