Line #13 Creator/PaulCornell


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3	Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer. He got the chance to become a PromotedFanboy when he was asked to write for the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures''. Among his contributions to the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse was Literature/BerniceSummerfield, an EnsembleDarkhorse who spun off into her own series. He also wrote ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'', a (in retrospect) AlternateContinuity web-based animated series in which (he claims) the Doctor and the Master are totally doin' it. Since ''Series/DoctorWho'''s return, he has written two stories for it: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]] and the two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]], an adaptation of one of his ''New Adventures'' books.
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5	He has also written for comics including ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'', the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" story arc in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'', ''ComicBook/SaucerCountry'' and ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman And Robin]]'', and has written ''Pulse'', a well-received medical horror pilot for [=BBC3=]. In the Creator/DCComics' ComicBook/{{New 52}}, he kicked off the new ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' and ''ComicBook/DemonKnights''. In 2017, he announced his "retirement" from working on projects not owned by him. [[TenMinuteRetirement He has since continued contributing to Doctor Who]], writing a novel, a comic and a series of short stories.
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7	!!Works by Paul Cornell with their own trope pages include:
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9	* ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing''
10	* ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13''
11	* ''ComicBook/DemonKnights''
12	* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoFourDoctors''
13	* ''ComicBook/IWalkWithMonsters''
14	* ''ComicBook/KnightAndSquire''
15	* ''ComicBook/SaucerCountry''
16	* ''ComicBook/WisdomRudimentsOfWisdom''
17	* ''ComicBook/Wolverine2014''
18	* ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'' (and wrote its {{Novelization}})
19	* Literature/ShadowPolice
20	* Five installments in the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures series, including:
21	** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTimewyrmRevelation Timewyrm: Revelation]]''
22	** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLoveAndWar Love and War]]''
23	** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]''
24	[[/index]]
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26	!!He and his work are known for these tropes:
27	* CreatorThumbprint: Owls, family ties, anti-racism, BodyHorror, ThePowerOfFriendship, homoerotica and UsefulNotes/{{cricket}}.
28	* DeusAngstMachina: His ''Series/DoctorWho'' fiction in particular tends to, as he described it, take characters that you care about and put them through hell.
29	* EvilTwin: Pete Cornell. In fact, a typo in ''The DC Comics Encyclopedia'' which achieved MemeticMutation status.
30	* PromotedFanboy: From a mild-mannered ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic writer to running one of the biggest LongRunners in comics, all in the span of two decades. Quite the promotion.

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