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3->''"Break, damn you! Break! You've never had a spanner like this thrown in you! Chew on me till your teeth crack. Grind me up till your gears lock. I'm the nail in your tyre, the potato jammed in your exhaust pipe, the treacle poured in your petrol tank. I'm the banana peel beneath your foot, the joker that ruins your straight flush, the coin that always comes up heads and the gun you didn't know was loaded. I am the '''Doctor'''!"''
4-->-- '''The Eighth Doctor''', ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresCameraObscura Camera Obscura]]''
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6After [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor the Seventh Doctor]]'s part in the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures came to an end in 1997, [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Books picked up the licence to produce new ''Series/DoctorWho'' literature from Virgin Publishing. Realising Virgin had the right idea, BBC decided to have an honest crack at it, moving on from [[TheChessmaster wiley ol' McCoy]] onto the [[TheNthDoctor newly regenerated]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Paul McGann]].
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8Running from 1997 to 2005, a series of 74 novels revolving around the exploits of [[Characters/DoctorWhoEighthDoctor the Eighth Doctor]] and his companions were published. These books, commonly referred to as the [=EDAs=], were notable for fleshing out the character of the Eighth Doctor after his short run in the television movie, for having a very compelling cast of characters, and for having several interconnected [[StoryArc Story Arcs]].
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10The tone of the novels is a bit DarkerAndEdgier and more mature than the television series (usually not as "edgy" as the New Adventures, but arguably "deeper"). NoHuggingNoKissing is averted, [[BloodierAndGorier people get hurt]], [[BlackAndGreyMorality the "right thing" is often not cut and dried]], [[HoYay the Doctor happily snogs his male companion]] [[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresDominion just because he feels like it]], and [[HotterAndSexier there's a quite a bit of sex]], albeit not explicit.
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12Aside from the 74 novels, several audio plays also take place in this range's continuity: "Bounty", "Dead Time" and "The People's Temple" (collected as "Earth And Beyond") by BBC audio, and "Fitz's Story" by Creator/BigFinish.
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14The title "''New'' Eighth Doctor Adventures" was also used for several series of AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio dramas starring the Eighth Doctor. To prevent a ContinuitySnarl between Eight's adventures in the novels and in their own audio ranges, Big Finish explicitly references the novels as adventures that happened to an alternate version of Eight in a different timeline (though with a few exceptions, and the occasional FlashSideways).
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16As with the Virgin Books, a companion range featuring the previous Doctors (i.e. One through Seven) was published alongside the Eighth Doctor novels, doing much the same thing. This line was called the slightly-more-clunky "Literature/PastDoctorAdventures" (as opposed to the "[[Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures Missing Adventures]]" that Virgin had called their similar line).
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18[[Characters/EighthDoctorAdventures Has a character page]]. Please keep most of the character-specific tropes there.
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20Now also has the beginnings of a [[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventures recaps page]]. Please help to fill it in.
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28* AbhorrentAdmirer: ''The Fall of Yquatine'' has Fitz deal with one of these as a coworker at a pub: a much older woman, who also has a "flat, predatory face" and a mouth so big as to scare him, who wears tacky, revealing clothing which wouldn't even really suit a younger woman. She has a crush on him, to the point of touching his arse on the sly and getting jealous when he chats up an attractive customer around his age. However, this trope is subverted in that he's obviously trying to make an effort to be nice to her as a coworker, and she's just "an ageing and lonely woman".
29* ActorAllusion: The Doctor is referred to as a "[[Film/WithnailAndI ponce]]" a couple times. Particularly notable in ''The Fall of Yquatine'', in which it seems to happen just for the sake of having him be called a ponce, possibly demonstrating the enduring popularity of ''Film/WithnailAndI'' amongst drunken humans throughout time and space.
30--> The Doctor hurried through the marketplace, dodging people and beings, haring round corners, knocking over a pallet of fruit, stopping to apologise and then having to run away from the irate vendor, falling over a small child who burst out crying, standing on the toe of a very old and irate Draconian, getting called a ponce by a group of drunken humans, generally causing total chaos wherever he went, but getting absolutely nowhere in finding Compassion. (p. 30-31)
31* ACupAngst: Trix [=MacMillan=]. Her breasts aren't big enough for her to have what you'd call cleavage. This only seems to bother her when she's feeling especially self-conscious, though.
32* AdaptationalSexuality: This series marked the first time that the Doctor was portrayed as having some degree of sexual interest in people of the same gender, traces of which carried over to ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'' and, shortly afterwards, to the television series proper.
33* AfterActionPatchUp: Somehow the Doctor [[RealMenGetShot very often]] suffers wounds, [[ShirtlessScene almost always on his torso]], that are just bad enough to apparently require someone to help patch him up (if possible; sometimes he's alone), but not bad enough to require anyone with actual first aid knowledge or constitute FanDisservice. It's really too bad the series isn't televised...
34* TheAllegedCar: The Doctor's Trabant in ''Father Time''. He brought it all the way from UsefulNotes/EastGermany to England! Nobody knows why...
35* AlternateUniverse: Several.
36* AmbiguousDisorder: Erasmus in ''Timeless'' is a GentleGiant who's generally perceived as having something wrong with him, but basically all it amounts to is being naive enough to think his ward, who [[OlderThanTheyLook looks]] and generally [[ImmortalImmaturity acts]] about eight years old, [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime has good ideas]]. Besides that, he's articulate and responsible enough to seem basically normal. It seems that there's just something a little childish about his mannerisms, although you could say the same thing about the Doctor.
37* AmnesiacHero: Eight, much like in the TV Movie and in Big Finish, spends a good deal of his stories with some kind of amnesia. He's constantly finding new and exciting ways to lose his memory.
38* AncientConspiracy: Spoofed in ''Trading Futures'':
39-->"The conspiracy theorists had been saying it for decades - there was a group of people, small enough to fit round a table, who were the secret masters of the world.\
40"Cosgrove knew of at least nine organizations, of which six were still active, who thought it was them."
41* AndTheAdventureContinues: After spending the entire novel haphazardly tying up the series' leftover plot threads, the final book ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' ends just as the Doctor and friends finally set off to confront the MonsterOfTheWeek.
42* AnimalMotifs
43** The Doctor is repeatedly compared to a cat, possibly because CatsHaveNineLives, or some sort of allusion to the ability of a cat to land on its feet, or because cats are [[CatsAreMagic mysterious]] and [[CuteKitten cuddly]] at the same time. He's represented by a stray cat in ''Seeing I'' and [[GoingNative goes native]] among the tigers in ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers''.
44** Apparently, Sabbath is some sort of canid; he's compared at one point to a mastiff, and at another point Anji, talking about how he's an ineffective, annoying villain, compares him to [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]].
45** Trix's green eyes are repeatedly described as "catlike".
46** In "Fear Itself," Fitz and the Doctor are asked what animals they think they are most like. Fitz says he is a dog, "probably a golden retriever," while the Doctor thinks of himself as a unicorn.
47* ArcWords: The word 'interference' crops up quite often. Obviously, in the book ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresInterferenceBookOne Interference]]'' it's taken up to eleven, but the word floats around quite a bit, especially in the books leading up to ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheShadowsOfAvalon The Shadows of Avalon]]'' and ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheAncestorCell The Ancestor Cell]]''. This is somewhat notable because, if one watches the Classic Series, particularly the Tom Baker era, 'interference' pops up a bit as well, though probably in that case unintentionally.
48* ArmedWithCanon: Some writers take thinly-veiled, snarky potshots at each other, which can get really hilarious.
49* ArtificialHuman: ''Interference'' introduces a whole society of these. When one of them dies, a new copy is created based on what those who knew them remember about them. (Side-effects include [[CreativeSterility infertility]].)
50* AscendedFanboy:
51** Fitz is more into fantasy and spy fiction than sci-fi, but it seems he won't turn his nose up at any fiction more interesting than regular existence. He's also very GenreSavvy, especially in his first appearance, where he's all but a FourthWallObserver (he comments on which act it would be if the story were a play). It's still not quite a straight example, though, as it turns out [[CowardlyLion he's pretty damn scared of the kind of stuff he likes reading about in real life.]]
52* AscendedFanfic: Portia da Costa's erotic fiction novel The Stranger sees her heroine having lots and lots of sex with an amnesiac hero who's a blatant {{Expy}} of the Eighth Doctor (or just Creator/PaulMcGann himself, given the flashback with the ''Film/WithnailAndI'' slash) - the last EDA [[ShoutOut namechecks this book's main character]] in a list of the Doctor's offscreen 'companions'.
53* AuthorAppeal: Kate Orman is known for making the Doctor suffer. She also often has him avert LimitedWardrobe. And Lloyd Rose is known for making him suffer ''even worse''.
54* BadassLongcoat: [[EnigmaticMinion Sabbath]] wears a loose, grey, military-style overcoat, like Napoleon wears. It's ironic, because he thinks the military is absurd. (Since he was choosing his clothes to convey anti-authoritarian irony back in the 18th century, that might just make him the first hipster.) Not everyone is impressed; Anji considers it "stupid" and "embarrassing" and guesses that, like his name, he "thinks it's cool". He occasionally pulls various weapons out of it.
55* BadFuture: The Time War arc (not to be confused with the Last Great Time War in the 21st-century TV series), which has the Time Lords fighting a HopelessWar against a mysterious enemy in the future and dominates the first half of the series.
56* BedlamHouse: Subverted in ''The Sleep of Reason'', in which Mausolus House ''looks'' like Bedlam House, but is actually run by a very caring and progressive doctor (well, for 1904; he's specifically contrasted with the previous governor, who believed the House's purpose was simply to keep the inmates away from normal folk). In 2004, it's been rebuilt as the Retreat, a proper modern care home.
57* BigEater: Both Fitz and the Doctor, although it's portrayed in different ways. There's no particular reason Fitz stays rail-thin despite consuming enough fat and sugar for a small army, but it's implied that stuffing your face with no consequences is a perk of being a Time Lord. Anji finds it all somewhat distressing.
58* BiggerOnTheInside:
59** Sabbath turns up wearing a suit which is bigger on the inside. [[PaperThinDisguise It functions surprisingly well as a disguise]], proving that although he's maybe twice the Doctor's size, he also just might have twice the Doctor's brainpower. Not only is it slimming, it allows him to unexpectedly pull out a gun.
60** The Doctor, on the other hand, states that his pockets aren't magically bigger on the inside, he's just taken out the lining so that the entire lining of his jacket is effectively one big pocket.
61* BigDamnKiss: The Doctor gets a few with his companions. Fitz is very surprised when the Doctor snogs him; (dark) Sam actually puts some effort into the seduction, which involves a sensual massage and a very happily purring Eight being her, quote, "back-rub slut".
62* {{Biodata}}: It's a recurrent theme in the novels, especially the ones involving Faction Paradox, where it serves as a sci-fi counterpart to BloodMagic.
63* BlackEyesOfEvil: A sign of possession by some kind of alien superweapon in ''The Fall of Yquataine''.
64* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Sam, Anji, and Compassion, respectively, and their personalities contrast interestingly. Sam is too emotional and [[TheIdealist idealistic]], while Compassion is too [[EmotionlessGirl cold]] and [[TheCynic cynical]]. Anji, the brunette, is more balanced.
65* BloodierAndGorier: Quite a lot. The Doctor is injured in probably a majority of the books, sometimes in ways that would [[GoodThingYouCanHeal kill a normal person]].
66* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', surviving Time Lord Marnal is completely devoted to the Time Lord ideals of non-interference, to the extent that he even rejects the idea that the Doctor is right to interfere to save humanity from becoming slaves or food for invading aliens because Marnal considers that it might be ‘good’ for the human race to have such a common purpose.
67* BrainyBrunette: Anji Kapoor is a genius or very close to it when it comes to economics, to the point of seeming to be [[BollywoodNerd a bit of a nerd]] when you get her started on the topic.
68* BreakTheCutie: Eight gets both mentally and physically broken quite a few times over. Notable instances involve [[spoiler: losing a heart]], experiencing Fitz' emotions, and one unfortunate encounter with a meathook.
69* BriefAccentImitation: Fitz and Trix both make a bit of a habit of it, although Trix sometimes takes it to unsettling excess. Even Sabbath gets in on the fun. In ''The Domino Effect'', he puts on a fake UpperClassTwit accent just to be sarcastic,[[note]]which must require a pretty good grasp of the distinction between regular upper class and twitlike upper class, since he did go to [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Cambridge]]...[[/note]] and in ''The Last Resort'' he does an odd accent for no reason at all:
70--> "Hi matey. Fancy a chip?"
71* BringMyBrownPants: Fitz once either pissed himself or came very close when trying to rescue the Doctor from the living personification of FutureMeScaresMe, or possibly just the Doctor's own paradoxical and terrifying future self, in what he describes as a "surrealist hell". True to this trope, he was quite happy about the fact he was too soaked for anyone to notice.
72* BulletCatch: In the Third Doctor section of "Interference", I.M. Foreman catches a bullet fired at him in his teeth, claiming that he learned how to do that when he saw the trick on Earth; Sarah Jane Smith points out that nobody ''really'' catches bullets in their teeth, but Foreman simply muses that this explains why it took him so long to learn it.
73* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', the Doctor observes that he is “tied up by some git with a grudge every single week”.
74* CannotTellFictionFromReality: In one of the books, there's a footnote that mentions that due to traumatic events that also caused him to lose his memory, the Doctor went a bit ''extra''-batty for a while and started getting [[UnderwearOfPower weird ideas about underwear]] from Franchise/{{Superman}}, and ''[[BlackComedy suicidal depression]]'' from tragic soap operas.
75* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Anji, toward Fitz. She once fantasized about hitting him with a chair, and is often annoyed by his [[FishOutOfTemporalWater old-fashioned opinions and mannerisms]]. However, he's sort of her [[TheNotLoveInterest Not Love Interest]], whom she cares about just as much as she would about a love interest;[[note]]They don't have much {{UST}}, and it's all on his part.[[/note]] she's just as grief-stricken, if not ''more'', over his apparent impending [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom doom]] as she was about the death of her boyfriend of five years. His opinion of her, however, seems to be less conflicted.
76* CartwrightCurse: Fitz, the poor dope. The Doctor tends toward this with the few love interests he has, but [[spoiler:it was subverted in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'': Scarlette [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] just because [[LoveCannotOvercome she knew he should leave]]]].
77* CasualKink: Fitz doesn't stop at casually coming out to the reader, he also makes what seems like a semi-sincere crack implying this trope:
78-->‘Fitz,’ Anji hissed. ‘Are you telling me you really [[InnocentFanserviceGirl don’t mind trotting around starkers]] [[GoGoEnslavement in a collar and lead]]?’\
79He grinned. ‘Are you kidding?’
80* CharacterFilibuster: In ''Sometime Never'', after a couple pages of building up to it by talking in paragraphs, Sabbath talks for almost four whole pages. And it's not clear if the Doctor was even listening until he responds.
81* ChildrenRaiseYou: Where do all these little blond Time Moppets come from, anyway? [[spoiler:The Doctor seems to be too ObliviousToLove for the matchmaking element of the trope to really work out. In Anji's case, Chloe seems to actually realize that as the adopted daughter of a slightly lonely and troubled businesswoman, she's supposed to help her find a love interest, so she wanders off and gets escorted home by an eligible bachelor who Anji ends up engaged to.]]
82* ComicBookFantasyCasting: One of the novels introduces a new incarnation of the Doctor's old companion Romana, who the author modelled on Creator/LouiseBrooks.
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85* DenserAndWackier: In relation to the TV series: more {{Talking Animal}}s, more breaches of the laws of physics for cheap tricks, more UsefulNotes/{{McDonalds}}es in AncientEgypt, more {{Badass Normal}}s who do things that seem like they [[AWizardDidIt should involve a wizard somewhere]], more RuleOfFunny, and far, far more MetaFiction. Yet it still manages to be ''at least'' as serious, in other ways, as the TV series.
86* DependingOnTheWriter: The major details are maintained, but some fluctuate wildly depending on who the author is. For example, Stephen Cole and Orman-Blum disagree ''severely'' on Fitz's height, Lance Parkin has {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s of everyone, Sabbath's portrayal and stature[[note]]His height is sometimes described as unremarkable. Sometimes he's taller than the Doctor. It was once implied that the Doctor is taller than Fitz. They are all sometimes described as tall. The Doctor is 5'8". It's confusing.[[/note]] shift from book to book, and everything gets [[HoYay gayer]] when Paul Magrs is writing.
87* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: Fitz has assembled a collection of parallel universe Beatles records, including "Feel the Love", their Live Aid song.
88* DistressedDude: The Doctor ends up captured and often [[BoundAndGagged tied up]] in most of the books, sometimes more than once per book[[note]]especially if Lloyd Rose is writing[[/note]]. He often seems to enjoy getting the chance to [[IShallTauntYou annoy]] [[PityTheKidnapper someone]]. And he almost always [[EscapeArtist gets himself out of his own predicaments]], although sometimes with a bit of help. This happens to Fitz, too, although since he's less badass, he's less likely to save his own ass.
89* DitzyGenius: The Doctor.
90* DreamingTheTruth: The Obverse!Doctor. [[MindScrew Or maybe not.]]
91* DrunkenSong: One novel has Fitz waking up on a bench, trying to reconstruct what he did last night:
92-->The last thing he remembered was joining in a singsong with a group of drunken tourists at Il-Eruk's Tavern. He'd sung the song about the turnip fish.
93* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Between Fitz and the Doctor, although canon never really confirms their relationship as more than a close, affectionate friendship with some occasional one-sided fantasizing on Fitz's part. Anji has at least noticed the HoYay a bit and comments on it, and in ''Timeless'' a OneShotCharacter decides that out of Trix, Anji, or Fitz, at least one of them must be shagging the Doctor, and if he had to guess, Fitz is the most likely by far.
94* EvilMeScaresMe: Father Kreiner scares Fitz.
95* EvilSoundsDeep: Sabbath's voice has been described as a "low rumble" and a "resonant bass".
96* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Just... a lot. Deconstructed in ''Timeless'', where [[spoiler:Chloe thinks it's okay to chuck out people's alternate selves so that there can exist one copy who has a nice life. Other characters disagree.]]
97* ExtremeOmnisexual: Fitz ogles a surprisingly large range of things that move, including thirteen-year-old girls (he [[ImGoingToHellForThis cut it out]] in both cases after discovering their age), [[LikesOlderWomen women more than twenty years older than him]], [[HoYay the Doctor]]... He's shagged {{Human Alien}}s and a woman possibly [[TinyGuyHugeGirl a whole foot taller than him]], and has a TemporaryLoveInterest or GirlOfTheWeek in almost every book. And [[{{Fetish}} he apparently got off]] on being stripped and collared by [[TalkingAnimal space poodles]]. He's implied to be bi beyond his crush on the Doctor, too.
98* FaceHeelTurn: Romana, over several appearances, is shown to have been changed for the worse by getting involved in Gallifreyan politics.
99* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: For a while, it seemed like there are three constants in the [=EDA=]s: Fitz will [[OffTheWagon always smoke]], the Doctor will always have [[TraumaInducedAmnesia amnesia]], and Anji will [[YouCantGoHomeAgain never get back home]]. [[spoiler:But eventually the Doctor gets Anji home. And then she comes back, mostly for [[NotLoveInterest Fitz]]. And then the Doctor gets her home again. And in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', the Doctor seems to be regaining his memories. But Fitz will always smoke.]]
100* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Despite this being cited as one of the reasons the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures were halted, there are times when the [=EDAs=] get at least as bad.
101* TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower: ''Sometimes Never...'' presents a TimeTravelRescue scenario for the missing princes.
102* FateWorseThanDeath: Becoming TARDIS breeding stock, being vaporized into the Time Vortex, turning into a monster with a clock for a face, madness-inducing brain slugs... etc., etc., and so forth.
103* FictionalDocument: A fictional document plays a major role in the plot of ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen''.
104* FirstGrayHair: In ''Camera Obscura'' or earlier, the Doctor notices he's got some grey; Fitz is startled to notice that Anji seems to have some grey hairs in ''The Last Resort''; and by ''Timeless'', Fitz has started obviously greying.
105* FisherKing: In ''The Crooked World'', the Doctor and his companions inadvertently become this when they arrive on a world populated entirely by cartoon animals, soon realising that their presence is introducing new concepts as the original natives break out of their old routines and even become capable of killing each other. [[spoiler:It is established at the end of the novel that the world was originally created when a young girl crash-landed on the initially blank planet in an escape pod, her childish perceptions of old cartoons shaping the world around her before she finally died]].
106* {{Foreshadowing}}: Around the end of the run and the time when the new series was being announced, the Ninth Doctor was getting mentions and small cameos.
107* ForgetsToEat: The Doctor has a bit of a habit of this. Mostly when he's {{angst}}ing, but also when he's [[ForScience doing science]]. Fitz once brought three meals a day to his door when he was locked away angsting. For four days. They all went uneaten. Somewhat justified by the fact that as a Time Lord he apparently needs to eat less than a normal human being.
108* FriendToAllChildren: Fitz Kreiner -- DeadpanSnarker, chain-smokes, has PermaStubble, is a LovableSexManiac or at best a ChivalrousPervert... you know the type. Also, in one story, happily gets a job working at a home for kids who mostly have special needs (or are at least about as screwed-up [[BrokenHero as he is]]), and in another becomes a good friend and confidant to a thirteen-year-old prostitute-in-training (who thinks he's "very sweet"). And he's very empathetic toward the MysticalWaif in ''Timeless''. Apparently he's terrified by the merest possibility of having kids of his own, though.
109* FunetikAksent: Often used when Fitz is doing a BriefAccentImitation. Otherwise, generally averted.
110* FutureMeScaresMe: Grandfather Paradox is the personification of this trope.
111-->The Grandfather was his future self. He was everyone's future self... He was what you swore you'd never become when you were an adventurous youth, and he was always watching, waiting to strike.
112* FuturisticPyramid: ''Parallel 59'' features a futuristic UncannyVillage where many of the buildings are pyramids. Fitz is constantly reminded of ancient Egypt, but all the planet's other residents are [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight used to them]].
113-->[...]the pyramids rising over the skyline. Like a nice clean Egypt. Mystery. Power.\
114The girl yawns, it makes me smile. The pyramids are here to reassure, not to inspire. To the Homeplaneters, they're mundane, just the way dwellings are built. None of the resonances or associations they have for me are flitting through her mind, I can tell.
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117* GeekPhysique: Fitz is described as looking like he's [[NoodlePeople made of pipecleaners]]. He's quite into SpeculativeFiction, particularly ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and once dubbed a sea monster "[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]", although his characterization generally isn't overtly geeky.
118* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Fitz smokes, because it was much more common in his era. He quickly catches on that it's an evil trope and tries to cut down after a while. In one of the books, Sabbath is smoking a cigar for some reason; the GoodSmokingEvilSmoking page says this means he must be evil, a self-important jerk, or UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.
119* HappilyAdopted: The Doctor and his adopted daughter in ''Father Time''. [[spoiler:She still ends up running away from home, though.]]
120* HappinessInSlavery: ''The Taking of Planet 5'' expands a bit on the idea of the TARDIS as the Doctor's 'servant' when the Doctor reveals that he deliberately created a range of new controls to bypass the traditional need for a telepathic link. In practical terms, he avoided forming such a link with the ship because that would have made it easier for the Time Lords to find him when he and Susan first left Gallifrey, but on a personal level this decision meant that the Doctor wasn't imposing his will on the TARDIS, but giving it a degree of freedom during their travels. In-narrative, this attitude allowed the Doctor's ship to help convince a group of [=TARDISes=] from the Doctor's personal future that he could be trusted to give them their freedom if they wished it after helping him deal with the current crisis.
121* HappyEndingOverride: ''Genocide'' sees Jo Grant return, albeit middle-aged, divorced and working two jobs while living in a two-bedroom house in Hackney. Creator/RussellTDavies threw this out the window when he brought her back for ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor Death of the Doctor]]" in favour of a more optimistic outcome.
122* HealingFactor: As the novels are a bit BloodierAndGorier than the TV series, it's much more evident that the Doctor has a certain degree of this. The Doctor regrows a tooth at one point. He walks on a severely broken leg, is severely stabbed, gets shot full of buckshot, has one of his hearts ripped out, etc., and always gets better with a minimum of fuss and no medical attention.
123* HeartTrauma: The Doctor loses one of his hearts. Long story short, it's not much fun for him; until he is able to grow a new one (long story), he even loses some of his more subtle advantages over humans, such as his respiratory bypass system and his ability to metabolise certain drugs before they can affect him.
124* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Sabbath]], of course ending in RedemptionEqualsDeath.
125* HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: having to destroy Gallifrey (for the first time)]], the Doctor went through one that took a hundred years on Earth to recover from.
126* HighTimesFuture: Humorously played with in ''Alien Bodies'': Sam Jones, in the near future and surrounded by aliens, focuses on a cigarette packet as a "normal" thing. Then she notices it says "CLOUD NINE -- The original cannabis cigarette". As smoked by UNISYC troopers. When she mentions the one time she got stoned, the future soldier the cigarettes belong to replies, "One time? Are you ''sure'' you're human?"
127* HistoricalDomainCharacter: ''Endgame'' seems to mostly use it as an excuse for gratuitous InfoDump. ''The Turing Test'' features [[CharacterTitle Alan Turing]], Joseph Heller, and Creator/{{Graham Greene|Author}}, and ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' features Creator/NoelCoward. Oh, and ''The Domino Effect'' reintroduces an AlternateUniverse version of a previously seen HistoricalDomainCharacter, to fairly sad and touching effect, and then [[spoiler:more or less [[ShootTheShaggyDog Shoots The Shaggy Dog]] at the end]].
128* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: In an alternate timeline witnessed in the novel "Reckless Engineering", the year 2003 has become the year 160 following the Cleansing, a devastating event in 1843 when Time mysteriously accelerated across several dimensions, causing every living thing on Earth to age forty years in seconds. As a result, all adults and most animals withered and aged, children grew to adulthood almost at once, and the babies and other children under five years old who found themselves in adult bodies became capable only of breeding and feeding, with their descendants now being known as the Wilde Kinder, or Wildren, subhuman cannibals little better than animals. When the Doctor arrives in this reality, humanity has regressed to more primitive dwellings with most groups restricted to vegetarianism due to the lack of any alternative source of food, society having turned to religion to explain such a devastating event as God's will as the human race was 'reborn in innocence'.
129* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: In ''Anachrophobia'', the Doctor [[spoiler:defeats the Clock-Faced People after he is infected by one of them, allowing him to use their ability to manipulate time to go back into his own past and set a trap that will allow him to stop them in his present without actually changing history]].
130* HotterAndSexier: A bit. Eight's half-naked makeout session with Sam is ''damned'' hot, for one.
131* HouseHusband: The Doctor takes on this role in ''Father Time'' (though as a single adoptive father, not as a husband).
132* HowUnscientific[=/=]ScienceFantasy: Some books, such as ''Vampire Science'', introduce seemingly fantastical elements with a sufficiently sci-fi explanation. Paul Magrs' books tend to take a MagicalRealism approach to plots which are passably sci-fi. ''City of the Dead'' features distinctly more fantasy (water nymphs! summoning rituals!) than science fiction. ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' is also very fantasy-ish, and suggests that the sudden profusion of fantasy elements has something to do with the absence of Time Lords or the general progression of the universe or something like that, and the Doctor is sort of a relic of an outdated genre.
133* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: In ''Hope'', the Doctor is asked to investigate a series of brutal murders on the planet Endpoint in the far future, the local humans having evolved various new features ranging from a more aggressive attitude to new glands to help them cope with the more toxic environment. When the Doctor catches the killers, he learns that [[spoiler:they are humans of the type he's more familiar with, who have been in stasis for millennia, the Doctor pondering the irony that it took these men to inspire fear in "one of the most fearless places the Doctor had ever known"]].
134* HurtComfortFic: Although not strictly fanfiction (although given how many [[PromotedFanboy fans there were]] [[RunningTheAsylum writing the novels]], the line between fanfiction and not did start to blur at times), more than a few of the novels in this range seemed to involve something very nasty happening to one of the characters at some point -- the Doctor or Fitz were popular candidates -- from which both their physical and emotional wounds would need to be nursed back to health by the others. Generally, if the name 'Kate Orman' appeared on the front cover, you could be assured of at least one chapter of this nature showing up at some point.
135* HydePlaysJekyll: During ''The Ancestor Cell'', the Doctor pretends to have already succumbed to the Paradox biodata virus while facing Grandfather Paradox, the future version of him who ''did'' succumb to the virus (thanks to the TARDIS protecting the Doctor's timeline at the moment of infection, the Grandfather is more in tune with the infected timeline).
136* IAmWho: The Doctor, after losing his memory [[spoiler:after the destruction of Gallifrey]].
137* IAteWhat: ''Timeless'' has Fitz doing this with a chunk of "cheese" he found in Anji's flat, which had been abandoned for months anyway. She says she didn't have any cheese, and he is understandably perturbed.
138* IKissYourHand: In one of the novels, the Doctor does this as an oddly casual greeting:
139-->The Doctor took Fitz's hand, kissed it delicately, then shoved him aside. "Now, out of my way!"
140* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: [[spoiler:Sabbath often falls victim to this; while intelligent enough to be a ManipulativeBastard who initially gets the Doctor to eliminate his enemies for him, his alleged ‘business associates’ have manipulated him- actually, two different versions of Sabbath were manipulated by two different parties in two different timelines, no less- into developing flawed ideas about how Time works so that he can manipulate the space/time continuum on their behalf to create a universe better suited to their own agenda rather than Sabbath’s desires to benefit humanity]].
141* IncrediblyLamePun: Fitz and the Doctor are both occasionally guilty of these, and, probably unsurprisingly, Fitz's name makes him a bit of a PhraseCatcher for bad puns.
142* IndyPloy: The Doctor's favourite strategy. From ''Coldheart'':
143-->‘I never have a plan. Plans can go wrong. That’s why the villain never wins – villains always have a plan.’
144* InnocentBigot: Invoked in the alternate timeline depicted in ''The Domino Effect'', as the world has evolved into a far more isolated culture due to the lack of computers and associated advances in communications. As a result, most people see nothing wrong with talking about the Asian Anji as though she isn’t right in front of them or telling her that she’ll have to go to another compartment in a train because people won’t like her smell. Anji soon resigns herself to the treatment until they can regain the TARDIS and leave this timeline.
145* IntelligentGerbil: The inhabitants of Dogworld in ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen''.
146* ItRunsInTheFamily: There's a reason Fitz's family is like this. But that's not a reason for why he's sometimes a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
147* KaleidoscopeEyes:
148** The Doctor apparently has eyes like this, although they really are usually blue (and the descriptions aren't usually this overwrought).
149-->[...] his eyes were something else again. As he strode towards her, they glittered, seeming to change colour from moment to moment – first an honest brown of earth and nature, then a peaceful green of inner strength and eternal hope, then finally a piercing electric blue.
150** Sabbath's eyes can be brown, green, or black.
151* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:In ''Father Time'', the Doctor's adopted daughter Miranda turns out to be really his biological daughter from the future.]]
152* TheKlutz: Fitz.
153* KudzuPlot: [[spoiler:Plotlines are often set on the backburner to be addressed later, some more than others. And some of them still aren't resolved at the end of the series. For example, between ''Father Time'' and a brief CallBack in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', it's apparent that the Doctor is Miranda's biological father and eventually becomes TheEmperor of [[GalacticSuperpower the entire universe]]... it's left unclear when and how this happens.]]
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156* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:Fitz and Trix get together at the beginning of ''The Gallifrey Chronicles''. But the rest of the book focuses heavily on their relationship, so it's not an JustForFun/{{egregious}} case of this.]]
157* LateArrivalSpoiler: Fitz ends up [[ReplacementGoldfish replaced with a clone]]; the Doctor gets TraumaInducedAmnesia and spends about a hundred years WalkingTheEarth.
158* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In ''The Taking of Planet 5'', the Doctor provides an example that's similar to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s "Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday," alluding to the time slot in which the show aired when there was a show.
159-->The Doctor shrugged. ‘There was a time when it always seemed to be Saturday when I was on Earth, and the children’s programmes were excellent, if my memory doesn’t cheat.’ He made folding motions with his hand and muttered something that sounded to Fitz like ‘robots in disguise’.
160* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Fitz, with the [=TARDIS's=] aid and apparent blessing, spends a lot of time keeping the Doctor from remembering what happened before the Earth Arc.
161* LukeIAmYourFather: Invoked and suggested; a line in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' suggests that rogue Time Lord Marnal is actually the father of the Master, as he mentions how his son visited him during the 1970s (a time when the Master was briefly stuck on Earth along with the Doctor after stealing his dematerialisation circuit).
162* MultipleChoicePast:
163** ''Unnatural History'' suggests that the Doctor's many contradictory origins - being loomed, having parents, being half-human, coming from the 49th century, etc. - could all be true.
164** In ''Sometime Never'', [[spoiler:one of the Council of Eight, a group of antagonistic beings who resemble the eight Doctors, absorbs the Doctor's personality and flees in a timeship with the Doctor's granddaughter Zezanne, their memories scrambled by recent events. If you take the view (popular at the time but contradicted later) that Gallifrey is RetGone, this provides an alternate origin for the First Doctor and Susan]].
165* MundaneUtility: Sabbath's use of the technology that makes the TARDIS BiggerOnTheInside to... create clothing that makes him look slimmer.
166* MusclesAreMeaningless: The Doctor can easily carry a grown man around, has threatened one of his companions with the fact he could break any bone in said companion's body (he was really stressed out at the time), and once stabbed a guy with his thumb. He's 5'8", "slight", and "bony".
167* MysticalWaif: In ''Timeless'', ticking off a surprising number of the trope's boxes for a character who doesn't even appear much: pure, kind, mysterious, [[LastOfHisKind last of her kind]] to within a small margin of error, ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, menaced and manipulated by the baddies, highly plot-relevant powers, and something about crystals.
168* MythArc: Concerning [[spoiler:a future "War in Heaven" between the Time Lords and an unknown enemy, and the implications for the rest of the universe when the Time Lords lose]].
169* MythologyGag: In ''The Fall of Yquantine'', Fitz mentions having worked at [[Film/WithnailAndI "the Mother Black Cap in Camden Town in the sixties."]]
170* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Talking poodles strip the TARDIS crew naked and fit them with dog collars. The Doctor plays along, Fitz is amused, and Anji is utterly humiliated.
171* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Occasionally applies to [[SirSwearsALot Fitz's]] cursing. In ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheBlueAngel The Blue Angel]]'' the Doctor is said to have "swore profusely" at one point, which is a bit shocking considering the fact later books have him say "[[GoshdangItToHeck sugarmice]]" rather than swear or specifically note that the only reason he's using fairly mild vulgarity ("arse" and "wankerish") is that Fitz is a bad influence.
172* NeuroVault: The Amnesia Arc ends with the revelation that [[spoiler:the Doctor's amnesia was caused by downloading the ''entire Time Lord matrix'' into his mind, thereby enabling Gallifrey to be restored from backup at a future date]].
173* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' has No Celebrities Were Harmed versions of Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, Creator/GeorgeLucas, and Creator/RayHarryhausen. (And the actual Creator/NoelCoward.)
174* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: Anji has clearly had it up to here with people who want to know about the wonders of the mysterious Orient. In UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain, conforming to social expectations by wearing a sari seems to help, but she has some hangups about her heritage and doesn't like it. And Fitz's lower-middle-class accent is also a bit of a problem.
175* NoHuggingNoKissing: Thrown right out the window. This book series was the first ''Series/DoctorWho'' franchise to show a romantic and rather sexual Doctor (after Eight's first BigDamnKiss in the TV movie). Aside from snogging his companions with some frequency, it's very strongly hinted that he dated UsefulNotes/AlanTuring.
176* ObliviousAdoption: Inverted with Miranda. Everyone who sees her and the Doctor think they look [[StrongFamilyResemblance very, very similar]], and they're the only two of their species around, but she's just his adopted daughter and as they see it that's all there is to it. [[spoiler:She's implied to be his KidFromTheFuture.]]
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179* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: In ''Sometime Never...'', and a paragon of vagueness and sitting-aroundness. They also [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering bicker a bit]].
180* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: At least two villains have made disparaging remarks about the Doctor's apparent sexuality (he's [[TheDandy rather dandyish]], and whether this has anything to do with his sexuality is his own affair). He always handles it with complete savoir-faire: in one book, a villain shouts "Queer!" at him and then beats him up for good measure, and he shags the guy's wife, which was almost certainly not intended as a TakeThat but would have been a pretty awesome one if it was. He endeavored to convince a {{Mook}} who'd called him a "poof" [[ClipboardOfAuthority that he was a cop and would write him up for discrimination]], and [[CuttingTheKnot when that didn't work]] he poked him in the ear with his pencil and shoved him off a boat. So, homophobes take warning: the Doctor bashes back.
181** Generally averted when it comes to Anji: the bad guys might brainwash her and kick her around and whatever else, but have not been noticed to say anything about her ethnicity, even though various minor characters sometimes do. Also, despite the fact that Sabbath, one of only a scant few recurring villains, is from the 18th century, he also usually averts this trope.[[note]]Maybe he's learned something from people picking on his weight all the time, maybe he's just [[{{Ubermensch}} above all that]] the same way he's above having hair, or maybe the fact his closest known relationship was with a LittleMissBadass from a remote Polynesian tribe made him less bigoted than the average 18th-century bloke.[[/note]] There is one instance where he tells Anji to [[YouGetMeCoffee go put the kettle on]]. Like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_lb_gorilla the proverbial 800-lb gorilla]], he gets away with it even though she's seething.
182* PopCulturedBadass: Almost everyone. Fitz has been known to reference Creator/HPLovecraft, Film/JamesBond, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and he's very into music, particularly from TheFifties and TheSixties. He also has a CutSong (yes, you didn't think that happened in books) that just listed a bunch of SpoilingShoutOut moments, designed to [[TakeThatAudience irritate people who skipped to the end of the last book]]. The Doctor apparently likes ''ComicBook/XMen'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', not to mention a scene where he [[WaxingLyrical starts quoting "All Along the Watchtower"]]. Anji makes some odd reference in almost every book, and seems to have given up on caring whether some FishOutOfTemporalWater gets it. And even Sabbath makes a [[NotSoAboveItAll rather hilarious]] reference to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' in ''The Infinity Race''.
183* PragmaticAdaptation: In the audio play ''The Company of Friends (Fitz's Story)'', the only story to date from another medium to take place within EDA continuity, Anji spends the whole adventure sleeping off a strong drink in the TARDIS so the story can focus on the Doctor/Fitz team.
184* PungeonMaster: Fitz, the Doctor, and everyone who's introduced to Fitz.
185* ARareSentence: ''Trading Futures'' features the following exchange;
186-->'''Fitz Kriener''': Hey, I just saved the Earth from a race of invincible would-be time-travelling space rhinos.
187-->'''Doctor''': In all of the history of the English language, I doubt that sentence has ever been spoken before. Well done. For the last few minutes, it's been nothing but "Doctor, help!", "Doctor, look out!", "Doctor, they've got us pinned down", "We're not going to make it". I'd begun to think I would never hear an original sentiment expressed again.
188* RearWindowWitness: Fitz, in ''Timeless'', witnesses a woman being brutally attacked while snooping through the window of her house. Shaking and horrified, he [[CowardlyLion works up the courage]] to go into the house, and finds [[spoiler:seemingly the same woman, denying that anything happened. Hmm...]]
189* RunningGag: Probably an accidental example, but in ''Eater of Wasps'', ''Timeless'', and ''The Sleep of Reason'', a OneShotCharacter gets in a car with Fitz and is lucky to survive [[DrivesLikeCrazy his driving]] intact. Even though it's probably a coincidence, it works out like this trope because it happens [[RuleOfThree just enough times]] to be kind of funny.
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191[[folder: S-U]]
192* SadClown: Fitz. Hardly ever stops cracking jokes, to the point people get mildly annoyed on principle. He was born in London four years prior to the beginning of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and is [[ButNotTooForeign half-German]], for which he was [[KidsAreCruel severely bullied]]. By the time he turned eighteen, [[ParentalAbandonment his father was dead and his mum was insane]]. In the first novel he appears in, he's told a joke he makes about his own {{angst}}y {{backstory}} is DudeNotFunny. He also tends to make jokes when he's [[CowardlyLion nervous]] about things like aliens that want to eat his face. The more nervous he gets, the worse the jokes.
193* SarcasmBlind: The Doctor, which occasionally produces odd interactions with the fact that he has one or two {{Deadpan Snarker}}s traveling with him basically at all times.
194* SecretStabWound: In ''Fear Itself'', the Doctor does this after getting more or less harpooned in the stomach while on a space station because [[TheyWouldCutYouUp he doesn't trust any of the medical staff around to help him]]. He buttons up his frock coat and Fitz performs some very basic first aid on him when they're back in their cabin.
195* SecurityCling: In ''Timeless'', Fitz [[BigDamnHeroes showed up in the nick of time]] to try to help rescue a woman (whom he'd been trying to impress) from [[spoiler:her [[DomesticAbuser abusive boyfriend]] from an AlternateUniverse who just tried to kill her]]. She turns out to be more in need of a hug than a rescue, though.
196-->‘Fitz “Danger” Kreiner,’ she said softly, ‘do you think you could shut up and just hold me, please?’
197* SelfStitching: The Doctor once pops his own dislocated shoulder back in. He's not even alone; Fitz is right there being concerned about it.
198* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Subverted by Fitz and the Doctor. The Doctor seems like the "sensitive type" whereas Fitz is more of an average bloke, but the Doctor is actually TheStoic and Fitz is much more open about his feelings. ''Fear Itself'' overtly juxtaposes their outward demeanors in this department: they're trying to mingle and get to know people on a spaceship, so the Doctor ends up [[WineIsClassy sipping wine]] and waltzing at a fancy party while Fitz drinks beer and hangs out with blue-collar types and dances to more rock-type-music. And then it's followed by some ActionHero heroics by the Doctor and Fitz fussing over his [[RealMenGetShot resulting injuries]] like a [[TeamMom mother hen]].
199* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Theoretically impossible, or, more accurately, just an ''extremely bad'' idea, so the Doctor has to keep reminding people not to even try it.
200* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Fitz plays guitar and wants to be a rock star some day. He also smokes thirty a day, gets quite drunk quite often and occasionally gets extremely drunk, tried laudanum once or twice, and has an [[ChivalrousPervert active love life]].
201* ShipTease: Between Eight and Sam and between Eight and Fitz, frequently in the same ''paragraph''. Sam has a particular talent for getting the Doctor naked (sometimes even on purpose) and subsequently completely failing to get into his trousers. Eight gets in a good snog with both of them, but he's an absolute MasterOfTheMixedMessage.
202* ShootTheBullet: The Doctor does this in ''Trading Futures'', managing to shoot bullets fired from a rifle out of thin air with only a standard handgun.
203* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Trix falls in love with Fitz because he's honest and trustworthy. The degree to which these particular positive traits are only relative to the fact she's a bit of a FemmeFatale and a MasterOfDisguise to boot is debatable, but he is indeed caring, sensitive, and dependable. He's also a consummate DeadpanSnarker, a ManChild to the point of getting on her nerves, and a ChivalrousPervert, but all told, he is indeed a good man.
204* SlapYourselfAwake: The Doctor gets a bit carried away with this in ''The Deadstone Memorial'', causing Trix to ask him if he's [[CovertPervert enjoying it or something]].
205* SlippingAMickey: In ''Timeless'', the Doctor gives everyone else on the TARDIS drugged hot cocoa just because he has to pilot the TARDIS through the Big Bang and he's not sure it'll make it, and he doesn't want his companions freaking out about it because they'd get in the way and he doesn't want to put them through that. Also, if they don't make it, he doesn't want them to die scared. Still... it's a bit of a dick move.
206* TheSlowPath: Both Father Kreiner and the Earth Arc. ''The Sleep of Reason'' contains a rather sensible and convenient solution to this.
207* SmallNameBigEgo: In ''Hope'' the killers the Doctor is hunting on the planet Endpoint in the far future are revealed to be [[spoiler:a group of humans cryogenically frozen for centuries, who are attacking the evolved residents of Endpoint to find a way to artificially duplicate their biological advantages. They consider themselves the true heirs of humanity, but the Doctor denounces them as little more than thugs who lack the imagination and initiative of the Endpointers; when their base is attacked, the compound leader immediately assumes that humanity's enemies have come for them, but the Doctor counters that they don't ''have'' enemies in that sense and the attack is only to stop the murders rather than anyone wanting to kill the humans because they're humans]].
208* SpaceshipGirl: Ultra-advanced [=TARDISes=] from the future could use their chameleon circuits to take human form. The one we meet appears as an attractive young woman (in an amusing ContinuityNod we're told she was once stuck as a 1960s policewoman). The Doctor's cyborg companion Compassion later takes on characteristics of the TARDIS and became the prototype for the class.
209* StacysMom: In ''Father Time'', the Doctor's adopted daughter has a friend who {{squick}}s her with constant comments about the Doctor being "gorgeous" and "hunky". The fact he's wealthy and brings them homemade lemonade probably doesn't hurt.
210* StealthHiBye: It's a bit of a bad habit for the Doctor. Aside from him, this trope is apparently easier the less probable it seems. The narrator constantly belabors the point that Sabbath is ''holy crap so huge'', especially when he employs improbable sneaking abilities to suddenly show up while you're not looking. Even aside from when he could teleport in ''The Last Resort''.
211* StoryArc: Apart from the series-long character arcs, the series can be divided up as:
212** The "War in Heaven", as the Doctor learns of a future [[BadFuture Time War]] between the Time Lords and [[EldritchAbomination an unnamed "Enemy"]], and contends with the mysterious [[TemporalParadox Faction Paradox]].
213** The "Earth Arc", in which, following the Doctor's derailing of the war, he spends a century literally WalkingTheEarth (but [[CreatorProvincialism mostly Britain]]).
214** The "Sabbath Arc", where the Doctor meets with [[EnigmaticMinion Sabbath]] and tries to stop his [[TheManBehindTheMan benefactors]], who are trying to get a stranglehold on all of space and time.
215** Epilogue, as not long after the above was resolved, a new series was green lit, and most novels attempted to resolve the ongoing [[CharacterDevelopment character]] and [[MythArc myth]] arcs.
216* StrongFamilyResemblance: The Doctor and Miranda, his adopted daughter/[[spoiler:KidFromTheFuture]] in ''Father Time''.
217-->If he hadn’t known she was adopted, he’d never have guessed. She looked just like her stepfather – same height, they stood the same way, very upright. They had the same blue eyes and pale skin. The Doctor also had that same unnerving stare. Miranda could look into his eyes and it was as if she was staring into his soul.
218* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Caused primarily by time travel. [[spoiler:The Doctor is reunited with his daughter Miranda when she's caught up to his [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld apparent age]] and seems to have more grey hair than he does.]]
219* SwitchingPOV: Usually, the perspective is third person, but sometimes some or all of the characters use first person. In ''Parallel 59'', only Fitz uses first person because he's writing a diary. But even in third person, FirstPersonSmartass-type editorializing often comes through, even to the point of interjections. The Doctor's narration is surprisingly [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] at times.
220* TakingTheBullet: In ''Legacy of the Daleks'', David Campbell is killed when the Master tries to shoot the Doctor and he leaps in the path of the bullets
221* TalkingAnimal: There are talking poodles in ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen''.
222* TheTeamNormal: Fitz, while Compassion [[spoiler:is a TARDIS]]. But you could say, since Fitz is [[spoiler:an ArtificialHuman with [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway an assortment of massively lame barely-superhuman abilities]]]], Trix and Anji fit this role better when they're onboard the TARDIS. Anji in particular has the surrounded-by-weirdos attitude often typical of a Team Normal, and it's actually possible (thanks to Trix's MultipleChoicePast) that she's the only completely normal human who's been on the team since Sam left.
223** Given the AlternateSelf weirdness involved with Sam, it's possible Anji is the only completely normal human companion in the [=EDAs=] period.
224* TheTeaser: The first chapter of any given book is generally something thrilling, spooky, and/or cryptic that won't make much sense until later, and the main protagonists usually don't appear in it.
225* ThereIsAnother: Fitz mentions it by name in ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'', when the Doctor realizes Iris has a TARDIS, so he's likely not the LastOfHisKind.
226* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: Anji and Trix's stock-tips arrangement, with Trix collecting stock market prices from the future and leaving them with Anji when they visit the presence.
227* {{Transplant}}: Iris Wildthyme was originally a Time Lord [[WritingAroundTrademarks in all but name]] from some MagicalRealism novels by Paul Magrs. When Magrs began writing for the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}, he transplanted Iris into it as the Doctor's NewOldFlame.
228** Iris was later spun ''back'' off by Magrs and Big Finish into a new line of audio adventures and novels which have since gone right back to writing around the ''Doctor Who'' trademarks.
229* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed the events of ''The Ancestor Cell'']], the Doctor suffers from this; [[spoiler:ultimately subverted when it is revealed that the Doctor actually erased his own memory on purpose as part of a plan to restore the Time Lords by downloading the contents of the Matrix into his subconscious]].
230* TrenchcoatBrigade: Fitz. He smokes, wears a leather coat most of the time and a trench coat some of the time, swears more than basically anyone he knows, has PermaStubble (because he's bad at shaving), and is a lower-middle-class Londoner and a [[GuileHero Guile]] {{Sidekick}}. He's also basically quite sweet and sensitive, but most characters, upon first meeting him, distrust him.
231* TroubledFetalPosition: The Doctor does this, while rocking back and forth, in one of the novels, during a conversation about the imminent destruction of the multiverse and the fact the few remaining survivors of his own species have dubbed him "the Blessed Destroyer", [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed for reasons]] [[TraumaInducedAmnesia he just barely remembers]]. It probably doesn't help his state of mind that he also just had something close to a near-death experience.
232* TwistedAnkle: Fitz twists his ankle quite badly at least twice in the series. Once he later manages to get himself [[OnlyAFleshWound shot in the same leg]], which results in a [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect cute girl tending to his wound]] ''and'' the Doctor [[BridalCarry carrying him around]], so it turns out pretty well for him. In general, delay-causing injuries happen a lot; even though it'd take more than a mere twisted ankle to slow the Doctor down, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he tends to get shot, stabbed, and squashed a lot]]. Oddly, female characters are less likely to be incapacitated by random injuries, although falling about {{fainting}} for plot-related reasons is likely.
233* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The books tend to immediately split the TARDIS crew up and alternate between the Doctor and the others as the story progresses. It's rare for them to stick together for even half the plot.
234* UnexpectedCharacter: It’s safe to assume that no reader expected [[spoiler:K9 to return to the Doctor’s life]] in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles''.
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237* VillainsBlendInBetter: There are quite a few instances of Sabbath managing to insinuate himself behind the scenes while the Doctor is still having trouble keeping on top of things.
238* WalkingTheEarth: The Doctor, during the Earth Arc. And by Earth, [[CreatorProvincialism I mostly mean England]], but we are later told he also became a sailor in the South Seas and traveled through China and Thailand.
239** There are shades of the WanderingJew as well, since it doesn't seem like he particularly wants to be traveling around alone like this.
240* WeirdAside: Fitz sometimes casually brings up his DarkAndTroubledPast without fully realizing it's awkward, then tries to pass it off [[SadClown as a joke]]. Anji eventually stops giving a damn whether people in the future or the past understand her TurnOfTheMillennium [[ShoutOut references]], causing them to come across like this. And the Doctor has a tendency to namedrop improbably; in a modern-day setting, he might suddenly start talking about his dear old friend Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
241* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' opens up a number of plot threads which never get resolved [[spoiler:(especially Trix's criminal record and whoever Fitz is talking about in that song)]], and {{lampshade}}s the fact it's not going to bother telling you a damn thing about how Anji is doing with Chloe.
242* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Sometimes explored in relation to the Doctor, actually, and [[spoiler:it's a thing with Fitz after ''Interference'', particularly in ''Earth World''.]]
243* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Fitz, in ''The Banquo Legacy'', tried doing a German accent, which could easily be mistaken for Scottish. It lasts for one hilarious line before [[OohMeAccentsSlipping slipping]]:
244-->‘Ach,’ said Kreiner, ‘always ye haff mishaps. Again and again. Time after time.’
245* WhatWouldXDo: A chapter in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', in which Trix finds herself facing an alien invasion on her own, is titled "WWDWD?"
246* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: [[spoiler: Let's just say the TV revival wasn't the first to pull the Doctor blowing up Gallifrey trick.]]
247* WildCard: Sabbath tends to do a lot of becoming mortal enemies with everyone he allies himself with and shifting his goals because of it.
248* WritingAroundTrademarks: A Grace Holloway {{expy}}, some thinly-veiled Daleks...
249* YouAreFat: The Doctor knows that if you want to upset a human, just tell them their weight variance is above the norm. Actually, Sabbath tends to be unfazed.
250* YouCannotKillAnIdea: A group of Time Lords (the Celestis) take this concept literally, and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence convert themselves into ideas]] for this very reason. Unfortunately for them, a later book reveals that the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} also contains creatures which ''can'' kill -- and eat -- ideas.
251* YourSizeMayVary:
252** The Doctor is often described as tall, but on occasion, such as in ''Seeing I'' when Sam's friends say they [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller expected him to be taller]], he's suggested to be not all that tall actually. In some books, Fitz is described as tall whereas the Doctor isn't, implying Fitz is taller than the Doctor. However, in ''Vanishing Point'', Fitz seems to find it remarkable that a girl who's about 6'6" is "tall enough to look down even at" the Doctor, implying the Doctor is probably taller than Fitz.
253** Sabbath is initially described as not especially tall, but some of the books seem to suggest he's borderline freakishly tall.
254* YouWatchTooMuchX: The Doctor gets accused of watching too much TV in ''The Taking of Planet Five''.
255-->‘I’d prefer reptiles: eighty-seventh-century Earth Reptiles with transforming T.rex time machines.’ His face lit up.''[...]''\
256‘Someone,’ Compassion said, ‘has been watching too much Saturday-morning TV.’\
257The Doctor shrugged. ‘There was a time when it always seemed to be Saturday when I was on Earth, and the children’s programmes were excellent, if my memory doesn’t cheat.’ He made folding motions with his hand and muttered something that sounded to Fitz like ‘[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} robots in disguise]]’. The Doctor grinned, disarmingly. ‘My third childhood is showing.’
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