Line #20 Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The cover of DWM 465, dated November 2013, features six of the actors who have played the Doctor on TV. (Creator/MattSmith is in the upper right hand corner.)]]
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4	->''"Adventures in space and time -- every four weeks!"''
5	-->-- '''Masthead promo''', since issue 450
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7	The longest running official [[TelevisionTieInMagazines Television Tie-In Magazine]] in the world, as declared by Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords,[[note]]An award the magazine received twice - initially in 2010, and again in 2016 as part of the celebrations for issue #500.[[/note]] ''Doctor Who Magazine'' started off as ''Doctor Who Weekly'' (it changed to a four-weekly schedule after 43 issues) back in ''1979'', and continued uninterrupted even throughout the Wilderness Years of 1989 to 2005.
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9	Originally published under the UK branch of Creator/MarvelComics, it is now published by Panini Comics, who absorbed Creator/MarvelUK in TheNineties.
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11	DWM is a lot more independent than most such mags, printing reviews that can be highly critical and happily criticising many of ''Series/DoctorWho''[='=]s poor past episodes. It has become very close to the production team and is very much a source for exclusives, especially episode titles.
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13	It regularly publishes specials, including Making Of guides for every season of the new series.
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15	It's also spawned a few spinoffs, including a short-lived poster magazine spotlighting the series' monsters; ''Doctor Who Classic Comics'', which mainly reprinted pre-DWM Doctor Who comics; and ''Doctor Who Insider'', for North American fans. The latest sister title was ''Magazine/DoctorWhoAdventures'', which originally launched in 2006, and was acquired by Panini in 2015; it was aimed at the show's kid fanbase, with a mix of in-character written activities, games, posters, short stories, episode recaps, and comics -- a format ''very'' similar to that of the earliest years of DWM.
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17	[[AC: The magazine has a lot of regular features:]]
18	* The Comic Strip: Part of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. Has featured all the Doctors at some point (the current Doctor has always starred whilst the show was being broadcast; during the 1989-1996 hiatus, the strip published Seventh Doctor comics until 1994, and then stories featuring various Doctors until the Eighth Doctor's run started). Its stories vary in length, content and creative style, much like the show itself. Aside from the regular companions, the comic has introduced a variety of new ones to the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}, such as Frobisher (a shape-shifting penguin), Izzy, and the rather forgotten Sharon, the first non-white companion (the {{Tie In Novel}}s also had non-white companions before the arrival of Mickey Smith). The majority of the strips are available in book compilations.
19	** Both Creator/GrantMorrison and Creator/AlanMoore have contributed strips. Although with Alan Moore, it was entirely a case of MoneyDearBoy, as he was convinced [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the show went downhill as soon as William Hartnell left]].
20	** Several Creator/BigFinish audio stories feature characters from the comics: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror "The Holy Terror"]] and "The Maltese Penguin" both star Frobisher; Izzy appears in an episode of "The Company Of Friends", an anthology pairing the Eighth Doctor with various companions from different continuities; the village of Stockbridge was the setting of a Fifth Doctor trilogy, with the middle story, "The Eternal Summer", featuring Maxwell Edison; and recurring villain Dogbolter appears in "The Maltese Penguin" and "The Quantum Possibility Engine". In addition, a couple of the Big Finish {{omake}} audios which came as free gifts with DWM also feature comic characters, with recurring villain Beep the Meep appearing in Sixth Doctor story "The Ratings War", and Shayde appearing in Fifth Doctor story "No Place Like Home". ''Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations'' takes things a step further, with {{audio adaptation}}s of "Doctor Who and the Iron Legion", the first comic strip story, and "Doctor Who and the Star Beast", Beep the Meep and Sharon's introductory story.
21	** When Creator/IDWPublishing had the licence for American ''Doctor Who'' comics, they released a ''Doctor Who Classics'' series of comics publishing the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' strip from the start, sometimes with the original black-and-white strips coloured. This was actually history repeating itself, as in the early 1990s Marvel UK had produced the above-mentioned ''Doctor Who Classic Comics'' title reprinting selected stories from the 1960s/70s ''TV Comics / Countdown'' strip.
22	** The issues published in 2023 contained the 14-part strip story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks Liberation of the Daleks]]", the longest story in the magazine's history. This was also notable for being, according to Creator/RussellTDavies, entirely in continuity with the TV series, beginning immediately after the Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration into the Fourteenth at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]] and ending with a scene leading in to [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed the 2023 ''Children In Need'' special]].
23	* The Time Team: Four fans watching all the episodes in order. The original team started in 1999; partly due to there not always being room and the show's sheer length, it took them a good decade to get through the classic series. The feature took a break after the TV Movie, then returned with a new team for the new series, who finished in 2017 with "The Rebel Flesh". There was a rule (occasionally broken) that the team couldn't discuss stuff they hadn't "seen".
24	** The feature returned in 2018 in a different format; it had a 12-strong pool of fans all born during the 1990s, and each Time Team, a few of them would watch three or four episodes from different eras with a common theme (such as Doctors' first episodes).
25	* The Matrix Databank. Originally a fairly straight FAQ column written by Andrew Pixley, it returned with a flippant approach, hosted by [[SdrawkcabName Sorvad]] (also credited with the occasional spoof news column "Space-Time Telegraph"). It used "guest presenters" (usually companions) for a while with various explanations as to Sorvad's location. This particular feature was quietly discontinued in 2008.
26	* The Letters Page (currently titled "Galaxy Forum"). One of the nice things for the older fans is the young ones writing in to express their liking, often of the classic series.
27	** Quick note - for the magazine, there is no distinction between classic and new: they are the same show.
28	* The Production Notes column, where the incumbent showrunner often dropped vague hints about future episodes (i.e. three words from the script).
29	** Both Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/ChrisChibnall had contributed to the column before taking over the TV show. There have also been contributions by Phil Collinson, Gareth Roberts and others.
30	** From 2013 through 2017, it developed into a Q&A column, with Moff answering fan queries (usually about production stuff but sometimes providing [[invoked]]WordOfGod answers to questions about the episodes).
31	* You Are Not Alone. Fan musings by Neil Harris.[[note]]"Neil Harris" is a pen name for Expanded Universe writer Jonathan Morris, who regularly contributed several other features to the magazine and used the pseudonym because he was "sick of seeing his own name over and over again"[[/note]] Follows on from other fan musings columns like Matt Jones's Fluid Links, and The Life And Times Of Jackie Jenkins (by Vanessa Bishop; "Jackie" was a fictional character).
32	** In 2013 replaced with Relative Dimensions by Jacqueline Rayner, which was more specifically about being a ''Doctor Who'' fan and a parent.
33	* The Gallifrey Guardian. ''Doctor Who'' news, including "Beyond The TARDIS", about what ''Who''-related people are doing outside the programme.
34	* Wotcha!, a humour page by "the Watcher", which previously existed as It's The End But..., also by the Watcher, and as mentioned above, The Space Time Telegraph by "Sorvad" (represented as a Dalek head on a human body). As the name of its previous incarnation suggests, this was the last page of the magazine, intended to end it on a lighthearted note. Following an unfortunate incident in 2017, "the Watcher" was sacked and this page was replaced by The Blogs of Doom, featuring in-universe blog posts from various characters in the show. Beginning in 2021, an infographic-based feature called "Sufficient Data" has taken this spot.
35	* The Christmas Quiz (compiled by the Watcher until his dismissal), an annual [[invoked]]NintendoHard quiz featuring anagrams, general knowledge and cryptic clues; since the show's return in 2005, most of the questions will often relate to that year's series.
36	* The Daft Dimension: Back in the eighties, nearly every Marvel UK magazine had a backup humour strip, usually by either Lew Stringer or Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett. ''DWM'''s was "Doctor Who?" by Quinn and Howett. Since then various strips have continued the tradition including "Nix View" by Nix, "Doctor Oho" by Leighton Noyes and "Doctor Whoah!" by Baxter. The current incarnation, since 2014, is "The Daft Dimension" ... by Lew Stringer.
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38	[[AC:The front covers are somewhat notable in their own right.]]
39	* "TV's No. 1 Hero!" was used during the Tenth Doctor's era, and had variations, as in "TV's No. 1 [[TheMaster Villain]]!"
40	** Notably, a letter following [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]] said how absolutely right it was that the issue covering this had the caption on a cover showing Martha.
41	* "[[ActorISTheTitleCharacter X Is The Doctor!]]" announcing a new Doctor.
42	** Rather infamously they misspelled Creator/PeterDavison's name as "Peter Davi'''d'''son" on the cover when they announced his taking on the role. They acknowledged this in DWM 389, the issue dedicated to [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]], where they finally wrote "Peter Davison is the Doctor!" [[AC:And so is David Tennant!]] on the cover correctly and pointed out they'd spelled his name right this time. They later admitted in DWM 400 that this is the one mistake they'll [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]].
43	** Exactly when the headline is used varies. For Creator/PeterDavison it was held back until his debut story aired; Creator/SylvesterMcCoy didn't get one; for Creator/PaulMcGann, Creator/ChristopherEccleston and Creator/DavidTennant as the Tenth Doctor it was as soon as the announcement was made; for Creator/ColinBaker[[note]]Although he's unique in that "regeneration" and "debut story" happened a week after each other rather than after a season break.[[/note]], Creator/MattSmith, Creator/PeterCapaldi, Creator/JodieWhittaker and David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor[[note]]Although he's unique in that "regeneration" and "announcement" are one and the same; Tennant's casting in the 2023 specials was announced before Whittaker regenerated, but his role as the Fourteenth Doctor kept top secret until the regeneration was broadcast.[[/note]] it was as soon as the regeneration occurred.
44	** DWM 403, the Christmas 2008 issue, had an obvious variation: "Creator/DavidMorrissey is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]!"
45	** DWM 454 announced the redesign of the Eighth Doctor for the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDASDarkEyesE1TheGreatWar Dark Eyes]]" with the variation "Creator/PaulMcGann is the '''[[DarkerAndEdgier Dark]]''' Doctor".
46	** For an interview with Creator/JohnHurt in DWM 496 on returning to the role of the War Doctor for Creator/BigFinish, the headline was "John Hurt is The War Doctor!".
47	** Creator/DavidBradley was given the headline for DWM 519 after being cast as the First Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]].
48	** DWM 549, following Series 12, gave the Fugitive Doctor her turn with the headline "Creator/JoMartin is the Doctor".
49	* For a redesign launch and to tie in with "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]" - a Dalek and Music/KylieMinogue. The latter in a gold strapless mini-dress.
50	* Not a true example: a joke cover of DWM 396 [[http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m25/TardisKid/DWM396.jpg was mocked up]] and released on their Website/{{Facebook}} page; the same way real ones are, featuring Creator/StevenMoffat in response to someone on the Outpost Gallifrey forums wondering if he'd be mentioned on the cover. Some posters took it for real.
51	* DWM 397 had every word on the cover replaced with "Bad Wolf" (effectively renaming the magazine "BAD WOLF BAD WOLF" for one issue) as per the ending of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]].
52	* DWM 400's cover is a DrosteImage by means of Creator/DavidTennant reading DWM 400.
53	* DWM 423 has MinimalisticCoverArt featuring only the logo and a time crack (giving the impression that the crack "ate" everything else on the cover) in anticipation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]".
54	* DWM 428 was a special issue about the SoapOpera elements of the series. The cover has a bright red logo and garish yellow screamer headlines, pastiching the magazine ''Inside Soap''. The gimmick was continued inside, with all the columns being renamed appropriately.
55	* DWM 442 is a pastiche of the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' cover from Christmas 1924, replacing the family with the Doctor, the Ponds, and the family from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]".
56	* DWM 474's cover features a CGI collage of various aliens from the first fifty years of the show, in celebration of that issue's user-conducted best-to-worst episode poll.
57	* DWM 481 continues the ''Radio Times'' Christmas pastiche theme, this time recreating RT's Christmas 1991 cover, but replacing the generic SantaClaus painting with Creator/NickFrost's Santa from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]".
58	* DWM 500 recreates the cover of ''Doctor Who Weekly'' #1, including the diamond logo, with Creator/PeterCapaldi in Creator/TomBaker's place.
59	* DWM 507 has a photo of {{superhero}} the Ghost and IntrepidReporter Lucy Fletcher from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]", with a version of the ''Series/LoisAndClark'' logo reading "Lucy & Grant".
60	* DWM 550 is mocked up to look like an 1890s edition of ''The Strand'' with a woodcut effect picture of the Doctor and Leela, referencing the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' pastiche "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" (since the theme of the issue was Season 14). As with many of the more divergent cover designs, the newsstand edition was sold in a polybag printed with a more conventional DWM cover.
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63	[[folder:The comic strip contains examples of:]]
64	* AbnormalAmmo: Shayde's guns fire psychic bullets, which are perpetually replenishing as long as someone provides him with the willpower to keep producing them.
65	* AbortedArc:
66	** When the TV series returned in 2005, the strip had to shift over to using the Ninth Doctor and Rose, meaning that companion Destrii's story was left unfinished. She was last seen in the strip walking off with the Eighth Doctor to new adventures.
67	*** What Destrii's original story would have been hasn't been revealed; when offered the Eighth-Ninth regeneration, the creative team initally wanted to have Destrii continue with the new Doctor, but editorial restrictions forbidding them from having any other companion for the Ninth but Rose they had meant they couldn't go through with it. They had a loophole, which meant they could have just featured the regeneration, but they felt that a proper regeneration meant they needed to show the consequences, so they reluctantly turned it down. This decision of course later allowed Steven Moffat to add the War Doctor in the narrative gap.
68	** Not the first time the strip's aborted its arc, either; writer Steve Moore dropped his plans for Abslom Daak after falling out with editor Alan [=McKenzie=] and leaving the strip. Daak later got brought back by other writers.
69	* AbsoluteXenophobe: [[spoiler:Danny]] in "The Blood of Azrael", [[spoiler: who wants to wipe out all alien life in the name of keeping humanity safe. The Doctor, however, suggests he just wants to satisfy his bloodlust]].
70	* ActionGirl: Fey Truscott-Sade, 1930s British super-spy. Izzy too, after [[spoiler: the body swap]]. Even DarkActionGirl Destrii graviates towards this in her later appearances, risking her life to help others.
71	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Eight wasn't mostly legs in the TV Movie...
72	* AgentMulder: Maxwell (Max) Edison, a UFO spotter who becomes a long-standing friend of the Doctor's throughout his incarnations. He's central to Issue 500's "The Stockbridge Showdown".
73	* AlphaBitch: "Imaginary Enemies" introduces Veronica Stackmore, daughter of the Mayor of Leadworth, queen of Leadworth Primary School, and ringleader of the [[GirlPosse gang]] that teases Amelia Pond for her belief in [[NotSoImaginaryFriend the Raggedy Doctor]].
74	* AlternateContinuity:
75	** The later Seventh Doctor comics, until 1994, shared a continuity with the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures, featuring that novel series's darker characterisation of the Doctor, its older and tougher version of Ace, and its original companion Franchise/BerniceSummerfield. In 1994 a new editor who disliked being beholden to New Adventures continuity replaced the Seventh Doctor strips with a series of stories featuring various past versions of the Doctor (although one, featuring the Sixth Doctor, was heavily tied in to an earlier New Adventures-continuity story, and another, featuring the Third Doctor, brought in a New Adventures character). The last of these stories, which led into the first big story arc of the Eighth Doctor's comic strips, featured the Seventh Doctor and a younger "Survival"-era Ace, and ended with Ace being killed off, establishing most of the later strips as definitely not taking place in the New Adventures continuity, aside from "The Last Word", an NA anniversary story explicitly set in that continuity. However, it resulted in a couple of subsequent {{Continuity Snarl}}s, both internally with Tenth Doctor strip "The Betrothal of Sontar", which drew on the Sontaran origin in "Pureblood", which'd featured Bernice as companion, and externally with ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', which confirmed Ace was still alive.
76	** The strip hasn't really been concerned about whether or not it's in continuity with other branches of the Expanded Universe since then; on the one hand, "Doorway to Hell" gives a depiction of [[spoiler:the Delgado Master's death and regeneration]] that is completely different from that depicted in [[spoiler:the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Legacy of the Daleks'']], while on the other, "Monstrous Beauty" is the strip's contribution to the ''Time Lord Victorious'' multi-media event.
77	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted with, of all things, [[spoiler: the Daleks]], in "Children of the Revolution".
78	* AmazonBrigade: The Amazastians in "Green-Eyed Monster". Amazastians are the humanoid natives of Amazastia. All members of this race are stunningly attractive women with physical ages of eighteen to twenty, a fact which mystifies their own scientists. After victory in battles, they would always massage their bodies in scented oils. The Tenth Doctor enlists Amazastian mercenaries led by Phalia to rescue Rose Tyler from the acolytes of Iagnon on Iagnos. It is possible, however, that they are merely the product of [[FeverDreamEpisode a fever dream on Rose's part]].
79	* AmnesiacDissonance: Majenta has elements of this; she knows she used to be a criminal, and is fine with this, but she's occasionally shocked by evidence of how ''ruthless'' a criminal she was.
80	* AndTheAdventureContinues: Eight and Destrii got this ending due to the revival of the TV series and the executive decision that the Ninth Doctor comics should be strictly tied into TV continuity. TheBusCameBack for her in "The Stockbridge Showdown".
81	* ArcWords: "The Crimson Hand" in the Majenta arc. "What is buried in man?" in the psychic metal arc.
82	* ArmedWithCanon: The story "Change of Mind", which features the Third Doctor, Liz and UNIT, and is explicitly set after Liz's resignation, begins with a caption bluntly stating a date in 1971, establishing the strip's view at the time on the [[ContinuitySnarl UNIT dating controversy]].
83	* ArtShift:
84	** The ComicStrip/RupertBear parody in the Voyager arc, and the Doctor shifting between alternate universes in "The Glorious Dead".
85	** "The Stockbridge Showdown" in #500 is an art jam with many past artists on the strip contributing two-page spreads.
86	* AscendedFanboy: Fan''girls'' -- Izzy and Destrii, who both become the Doctor's companion. Izzy's into sci-fi, while Destrii prefers westerns and action shows.
87	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The fate of [[spoiler:Kroton the Cyberman.]]
88	* BadSanta: "Imaginary Enemies" features {{the Krampus}}, a member of the [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Trickster's]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Brigade]], who calls himself [[EvilTwin Santa's shadow]]. He has a black beard and dresses in a white Santa suit with red trim.
89	* BeastMan: Most notably, Josiah and Berakka Dogbolter, who look like humanoid frogs. Then there are Oblivion's nobles, who range the gamut from fish to pigs to cats, with Destrii and her mother both being fishwomen.
90	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Doctor's crossed paths with Myth/KingArthur and Myth/{{Merlin}} (Marvel's version, not their own future self), artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Spring-Heeled Jack, George Custer and Sitting Bull, Creator/WilliamShakespeare and Robert Greene, Ernest Shackleton, Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/{{Socrates}} and Creator/{{Plato}}, the Golem of Prague, pilot Amy Johnson, Erwin Rommel, Creator/HarryHoudini, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, and Creator/BruceLee. He also helped inspire the game of conkers.
91	** Abraham White helped nudge many of the inventors of the late 19th/early 20th centuries along - such as Alexander Bell, Nikolai Tesla, Rudolf Diesel and Henry Ford - inspired by an encounter with Thomas Edison.
92	** A number of historical celebrities, including Alan Turing and the Bronte sisters, had their minds copied into android bodies and taken into the future.
93	** The Doctor uncovers the truth behind the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate_Vampire Highgate Vampire]] in "The Highgate Horror".
94	** When talking about how certain rumours get started, the Doctor mentions never hearing the end of it after taking two princes to see the Eiffel Tower, possibly alluding to the Princes in the Tower.
95	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Fey.
96	* BigFatFuture: In "Welcome to Tickle Town", the Doctor and Clara arrive in the Tickle Town amusement park 300 years in the future. Clara comments on the size of most of the attendees, hoping that the entire human race doesn't evolve into size XXX-L. It turns out everyone is trapped in the park, unable to leave. "Lifers" are those who have given up hope, eat the munchies (laced with sedatives) and ride the rides all day, becoming obese blobs.
97	* TheBlank: Shayde, who has a black sphere for a head, and the faceless children from "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night".
98	* BombThrowingAnarchist: A mad anarchist named Ruckford is used as a stooge in an attempt to blow up Buckingham Palace in "The Crystal Throne".
99	* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Happy Deathday", the story marking the 35th anniversary of the show, parodies the concept of multi-Doctor teamups.
100	* TheBusCameBack: We finally find out what happened to Destrii after the Eighth Doctor, as well as many other strip-original companions, in [[MilestoneCelebration Issue 500]]'s "The Stockbridge Showdown".
101	* BusesAreForFreaks: In the Tenth Doctor story "Bus Stop". The Doctor borrows a random commuter's phone, sonics it, and starts yelling instructions to Martha, who's on Mars in the distant future. The commuter just wonders why the weirdos always have to sit next to him.
102	* CallBack: "The Mark of Mandragora" is a direct sequel to the TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora The Masque of Mandragora]]", which ended with a sequel hook suggesting that the Mandragora Helix would attack Earth again in the late 20th century.
103	* CanonImmigrant: For "Change of Mind", Kate Orman brought in Hamlet Macbeth, from her [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures New Adventure]] ''The Left-Handed Hummingbird'', this being in the period when the strip and [=NAs=] still shared a continuity.
104	* CaptainErsatz: Chief Inspector Hayes in the Twelfth Doctor's seventies arc is blatantly based on Inspector Jack Regan from ''Series/TheSweeney'', even being drawn at times to look like John Thaw.
105	* CastFullOfGay: The Eighth Doctor travels with lesbian companion Izzy and bisexual, very androgynous companion Fey.
106	* CerebusRetcon: The titular villain of the Twelfth Doctor story "The Phantom Piper" is an EldritchAbomination AnthropomorphicPersonification of war. In the Second Doctor TV story "The Moonbase", a delirious Jamie believed that a Cyberman threatening him was "the Phantom Piper", in the context of that story implied to be some kind of [=MacCrimmon=] clan {{Psychopomp}}. The comic story, however, gives it a much darker implication.
107	* CerebusSyndrome: The comics started out as very episodic, but starting with Steve Parkhouse's Fifth Doctor strips began to be linked together into lengthy {{Story Arc}}s. When the TV series was revived in 2005, the comic strip went back to episodic stories that could easily fit between TV episodes, but later returned to long arcs, beginning with the comics published during 2009 when only a few TV specials were shown.
108	* ChainmailBikini: Worn by the Amazastians (who are all stunningly attractive women with physical ages of eighteen to twenty) in "The Green-Eyed Monster".
109	* ChangelingFantasy: Subverted with Izzy, [[GeneHunting who, after learning she was adopted, rejected her adoptive parents]], fantasising that her real parents were alien royalty. Eventually, she outgrew the fantasy and reconciled with her adoptive parents.
110	* TheChessmaster: The Seventh and Eighth Doctors, the Master, the Threshold, Destrii's uncle Jodafra...
111	* ChristmasEpisode: "The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop", "Imaginary Enemies", "Be Forgot".
112	* CityInABottle:
113	** The Denossus spaceport in "Land of the Blind", which turns out to have been [[spoiler:drawn into the Time Vortex by the Vortexians]].
114	** Tickle Town in "Welcome to Tickle Town". Founder Tobias Tickle thought a nuclear war was inevitible and so sealed off his amusement park on its opening day - trapping the patrons - and teleported it deep underground. However, the war never happened.
115	* CityNoir: New Old Detroit in "The Deep Hereafter".
116	* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "The Blood of Azrael", [[EvilMask Azrael's mask]] contains the memories and powers of the OmnicidalManiac Azrael, waiting for a host of a suitable mindset to continue his work. [[spoiler:Danny]] provides that host.
117	* ComicBookFantasyCasting:
118	** In "Change of Mind", the villainous MadScientist Professor Hardin is both physically based on, and named after, Creator/JerryHardin, best known as Deep Throat in ''Series/TheXFiles''.
119	** Long-running Eighth Doctor companion Izzy S was based, according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod, initially on the singer Louise Wener[[note]]From the BritPop band Sleeper[[/note]] and later on the actress Luisa Bradshaw-White.
120	** The Eighth Doctor strips also featured a [[spoiler: fake Ninth Doctor, in reality the Time Lord agent Shayde in disguise]], who was visually based on the Big Name Fan, spin-off actor-director, and now official Dalek voice artist Creator/NicholasBriggs.
121	** Leighton Woodrow, an [=MI6=] recurring character from that era of the comics, was closely based on Creator/LeoMcKern, specifically as he appeared when playing Number Two in ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}''.
122	** The War Doctor in ''The Clockwise War'' and ''Ambush'' is clearly modeled on on Creator/JohnHurt, who played his older self in the TV specials, as he appeared in his thirties.
123	** Frobisher's humanoid form in his Eighth Doctor reappearance is based on Creator/JamesGandolfini.
124	** In the Twelfth Doctor strips, Jess Collins was based on actress Mélissa Azombo, a big ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan who jumped at the chance to be in the comic, even doing a photo shoot as reference for artist David A. Roach. This ended up having unexpected resonance due to Azombo's mild resemblance to Pearl Mackie, who was cast shortly afterwards as the next TV companion, Bill.
125	** The Western-set story "The Parliament of Fear" uses a whole crew of western actors cast according to their stereotypical type casting in the genre. Vicious outlaw Seth Shelton is Creator/BruceDern, Native American tracker Joey Two Trees is Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, and comedy "old timer" Zeke is Creator/DenverPyle. Additionally, real African-American western lawman Bass Reeves is Creator/IdrisElba.
126	* ContinuityCavalcade:
127	** In the [[invoked]]MilestoneCelebration #500, "The Stockbridge Showdown" sees the return of Max Edison, Dogbolter, assorted monsters at Dogbolter's birthday party, Sharon, Chiyoku ("Child of Time"), Clutha ("Hunters of the Burning Stone"), Majenta, Destrii, St Justinian's Church ("Tides of Time"), a reference to Gus Goodman ("4-Dimensional Vistas"), Frobisher, and Izzy.
128	** The Twelfth Doctor storyline "The Clockwise War", which is something of a GrandFinale to a whole era of the strip, includes Gol Clutha again, Destrii's EvilUncle Jodafra, Hugo Wilding and the Lakes from the [=MI6=] arc, Totika and Marshall Reeves from "The Parliament of Fear", Matildus from "Matildus", and [[spoiler: Fey, the only DWM companion who wasn't in "Stockbridge Showdown" ... and who is now a baddie]].
129	* ContinuityPorn: "Emperor of the Daleks" is written solely in an attempt to explain what happened to Davros between "Revelation of the Daleks" and "Remembrance of the Daleks", and uses, as a key plot point in this, a "loose end" from a seventies Dalek TV story that hardly anybody thought needed to be tied up.
130	* ContinuitySnarl:
131	** Even when the strip started creating its own UNIT continuity, it developed a new dating problem. The 1990-1 story "The Mark of Mandragora" introduced a new major UNIT character Muriel Frost, in which she was depicted with the rank of Captain. By "Evening's Empire", published a few months later, she's become a Colonel -- except that "The Mark of Mandragora" was set, by implication, on Millennium Eve, and definitely after 1997, while "Evening's Empire" visually appears to be set at publication date (clothing fashions and vehicles, in particular).
132	** The whole "death of Ace" situation as described above under AlternateContinuity.
133	* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
134	** Josiah W. Dogbolter, Majenta Pryce.
135	** Abraham White, the creator of the Threshold. This is the man who DESTROYED OUTER SPACE just so that he could make a buck. That brings whole new meaning to the trope.
136	* CosmicKeystone: The Event Synthesiser, which maintains the order of the cosmos; the Glory, keystone for the entire ''omniverse''.
137	* CowboyEpisode: "Wormwood" took place in a WildWest town on the moon (ItMakesSenseInContext).
138	* {{Crossover}}: Marvel had a way of bringing all of their licensed properties into the same, if not universe, then multiverse. One Marvel character, ComicBook/DeathsHead, is once thrown out of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' into the Doctor's TARDIS. And later thrown out of the TARDIS into ComicBook/FantasticFour's Four Freedoms Plaza.
139	* CrossThrough: The Threshold first appeared in the Past Doctor strips, kidnapping the companions of previous Doctors, before finally revealing themselves to the Seventh Doctor in "Ground Zero".
140	* CyanidePill: The [[BombThrowingAnarchists mad anarchist]] Ruckford uses a cyanide pill to commit suicide when he is captured by the Paternoster Street Gang after they foil his attempt to blow up Buckingham Palace in "The Crystal Throne".
141	* DarkActionGirl: Destrii. An exception to the norm, in that she starts a HeelFaceTurn.
142	* DarkIsNotEvil: Shayde.
143	* ADayInTheLimelight: In the magazine's early days, there was a back-up strip spotlighting monsters, villains, and other characters. A few times in the main comic, there have been Doctor-less strips spotlighting other characters, like "Unnatural Born Killers", a Kroton solo story; "Character Assassin", a [[VillainEpisode Master]] solo story; "Me and My Shadow", a Fey solo story; "Imaginary Enemies", a WholeEpisodeFlashback to Amy and Rory's childhood; and "The Crystal Throne", an adventure of the Paternoster Street Gang.
144	* DeadArtistsAreBetter: In "Interstellar Overdrive 2", the manager of a band plans to kill them all in a spaceship 'accident' so the record company can make a fortune reissuing new editions of their back catalogue.
145	* DecadentCourt: Oblivion's nobles.
146	* DeceptivelyCuteCritter: The comic strip continuity has recurring comedy villain Beep the Meep, an adorable big-eyed ball of fluff who just happens to be a [[KillerRabbit homicidally insane intergalactic war criminal]]. In his first appearance, he actively pretended to be a harmless AlienAmongUs, and he regularly uses his PuppyDogEyes on people who don't know him.
147	* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:In "The Blood of Azrael", Danny impersonates the long-deceased Azrael so he'll be blamed for the massacre Danny plans, averting suspicion.]]
148	* DisabilityImmunity: In "Sticks and Stones" being dyslexic made people immune to Monos' attack (which was transforming people into language).
149	* DramaticIrony: In the final scene of Clara's final story, she says that teachers don't need to be remembered, they just need to know they made a difference. The Doctor replies that he's sure Clara's pupils will never forget her, "I know ''I'' never will." This was published well after [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]], in which [[spoiler: he was mind-wiped of memories of her (he does recall the adventures they had, but not the things that made him, in the end, love her)]], aired. The Twelfth Doctor's televised GrandFinale [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] went on to [[spoiler: undo the mind wipe]], however.
150	* DruggedLipstick: In "The Broken Man", Amy Pond escapes from an [=MI6=] agent by kissing him with a drugged lipstick (implied to be a gift from River Song).
151	* EvilMeScaresMe: Happens to the Thirteenth Doctor ''twice'' in "Mistress of Chaos", in which she encounters two potential versions of herself, one pure Chaos and the other pure Order, but both devoid of morality or compassion.
152	* ExpandedUniverse: Part of the sizeable Series/DoctorWho one.
153	* ExpendableClone: Deconstructed in "Blood and Ice", in which the Twelfth Doctor and Clara encounter a previously unseen Clara splinter, for the first time since Clara created them in "The Name of the Doctor". Clara is suddenly hit with the realisation that she could have created a large number of young women solely that they would die for the Doctor. Things are resolved when the splinter survives, proving that not all of them had to sacrifice their lives.
154	* {{Expy}}: In "The Instruments of War", the bloodthirsty, ScaryShinyGlasses-wearing, podgy, and music-metaphor obsessed Nazi Bruckner is an Expy of the Major from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. [[spoiler:They also both turn out not to be human at the end, although Bruckner is an alien while the Major is a once-human cyborg.]]
155	* GirlPosse: Veronica has a pair of side-girls who act as her yes men in "Imaginary Enemies".
156	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Destrii's mother, the Matriax.
157	* {{Golem}}: The Doctor encounters the Golem of Prague in "The Broken Man".
158	* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Destrii]] does this to Izzy, hoping to take her place as the Eighth Doctor's companion. The result is that [[spoiler: due to both her and the Doctor believing her original body to have been destroyed, Izzy spends several stories in Destrii's body before she is mistaken for the real deal and kidnapped. From there, the Doctor learns Destrii is still alive in Izzy's body, but ultimately other forces undo the body swap. Izzy leaves the TARDIS after this and a reformed Destrii finally becomes his companion]].
159	* GulliverTieDown: Happens to the Doctor in "The Final Chapter".
160	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Half Nelson in "The Deep Hereafter". Fortunately for him, this is a case of WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody.
161	* HarsherInHindsight: Invoked in-universe. The ending of "Witch Hunt" has the Doctor tell Clara that neither her students nor he will ever forget her. This comic ran several months after the Series 9 finale "Hell Bent", in which [[spoiler: he ended up mind-wiped of memories of her; he ''does'' remember traveling with a woman named Clara but not how she looked, sounded, etc]]. ''Ouch.'' However, "Twice Upon a Time" (Twelve's GrandFinale) went on to turn this into HeartwarmingInHindsight in-universe by [[spoiler: having said memories restored shortly before he regenerated]].
162	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A fortunately-averted example. The villain of [[spoiler:"The Blood of Azrael"]] intends to wipe out all non-Terran life throughout history. Readers will be able to conclude, although he didn't know, that since there has been so much interference in the Whoniverse Earth's early history by aliens, he would probably end up erasing the human race, at least as he knew it, from history as well.
163	* {{Homage}}:
164	** "Once Upon a Time Lord" includes a three-page section homaging the ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'' strip, complete with its distinctive combination of headlines, illustrations with rhyming couplets, and prose for readers of increasing age and literacy.
165	** "The Deep Hereafter", homaging both Creator/RaymondChandler's detective stories and Creator/WillEisner's ''ComicBook/TheSpirit''.
166	* AHouseDivided: In one strip a group of minor villains that the Doctor has previously defeated gather together in a deserted space-station to plan a final attack that will finish him once and for all. One of them dies horribly, and as the others begin dying one by one afterward, it seems (to them, anyway) as if the Doctor has infiltrated their midst in disguise and is picking them off one by one. Finally, the last couple — paranoid that either one of them could be the Doctor in disguise — kill each other... and at that point, the Doctor arrives, not recognising any of them. Turns out the first death was just an accident with a faulty machine and the other deaths were just everyone picking each other off out of sheer paranoia.
167	* HumansAreBastards: "Children of the Revolution". Humans are rescued by [[spoiler:good Daleks, descendants of the humanised Daleks Alpha, Beta and Omega]]. Humans destroy [[spoiler:Daleks]]. As soon as you see the situation, you realise exactly how it's going to go wrong. You'll be right.
168	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "Bloodsport", a pair of alien hunters arrive on earth in search of sentient prey to hunt because the practice has been outlawed on their home world.
169	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: In "The Parliament of Fear", Seth gets a second EstablishingCharacterMoment immediately after callously shooting his horse, when he takes Bill hostage and makes a very thinly-veiled threat to rape her.
170	* ImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler:In "The Clockwise War" the Absence, revealed as the last of the Loshann, turns out to be a delusion created by Fey out of her guilt over her inability to save them.]]
171	* ImmediateSequel: The Fourteenth Doctor's comic debut "Liberation of the Daleks" serves as his post-regeneration story; as such, it begins mere seconds after the Doctor's regeneration on the cliff in the TV episode "The Power of the Doctor".
172	* ImmortalitySeeker: Astrolabus.
173	* ImmuneToMindControl: In the comic strip "The First", HistoricalDomainCharacter Ernest Shackleton is immune to the psychic paper. He mentions his wife once took him to see a music hall hypnotist, and that didn't work on him either.
174	* {{Interquel}}: "Emperor of the Daleks" attempts to fill in the gap between the TV stories "Revelation of the Daleks" and "Remembrance of the Daleks" from Davros's perspective. "Up Above the Gods" is an interquel within an interquel, as it takes place after part one of "Emperor of the Daleks", filling in what happened between the Sixth Doctor and Davros.
175	* InsanityImmunity: In "The Eye of Torment", Rudy Zoom is immune to the guilt-eating {{Emotion Eater}}s the Umbra, as he's so narcissistic and pampered that he has no negative emotions at all.
176	* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In "Interstellar Overdrive 2", Fluke pulls a raygun on one of his bandmates, only to find that the Doctor had removed the power pack from the gun after detecting a psychosis-inducing agent in the band's curry.
177	* JigsawPuzzlePlot: "The Blood of Azrael" draws on plot elements from across Scott Gray's run on the strip, [[InnocuouslyImportantEpisode many of which looked like they'd been wrapped up at the time]].
178	* KnightTemplar: The Vortexian Union is pledged to unify the galaxy's races, to bring harmony and order to all species, serving as their protectors - regardless of what the galaxy's races might have to say on the matter - and to that end, where they have jurisdiction, they will punish anything they see as threatening life or the public good. They don't believe in accidents, holding that all actions made by sentient life must be accountable. They do believe in the sanctity of all life, so they've decided not to use death sentences on those who break their laws, but their more serious punishments are essentially [[FateWorseThanDeath Fates Worse Than Death]].
179	* LateToTheTragedy: Parodied in "Death to the Doctor!", which ends with the Doctor and Martha arriving on a space station strewn with corpses, and the Doctor lamenting that he arrived too late to prevent whatever disaster happened from occuring. The entire previous section of the story depicted the cause of this: a gang of loser villains gathering to try to form a LegionOfDoom against the Doctor and all killing one another in paranoia that one of them might be him in disguise.
180	* MadArtist: The Necrotists are an artistic movement that believes murder to be the only true expression of creativity, using their victims' bodies to create their art. Their founder took it to a genocidal extreme, wiping out entire species to create his artworks.
181	* MaskOfPower: In "The Blood of Azrael", Azrael's mask contains the memories and reality-warping powers of the OmnicidalManiac Azrael, waiting for a host of a suitable mindset to continue his work.
182	* MasterOfIllusion: Astrolabus.
183	* MayContainEvil: The soft drink Goruda in "The Golden Ones" (actually a product of the Axons).
184	* MayItNeverHappenAgain: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine400To402Thinktwice Thinktwice]]", the Doctor infiltrates the titular inter-galactic prison which is being run by a {{mad doctor}}, who removes the inmates' memories of who they are until they're nothing more than moaning, braindead vegetables; feeding their minds to {{eldritch abomination}}s which grow impatient and go on the rampage. At the climax, the Doctor tells one of the prison staff that he has to ensure Thinktwice is closed down and that the inter-galactic authorities know what's happened so that the mad doctor can never repeat his crimes again.
185	* MoeGreeneSpecial: In "A Cold Day in Hell", which in general has an unusual level of graphic violence, an Ice Warrior gets a laser beam through the eye.
186	* MuggingTheMonster: Happens to, of all people, the Delgado Master in "Doorway to Hell". He isn't ready for a Doctor who is a lot older and more emotionally scarred than the Third, who has a lot less patience for his usual schtick of trying to gain divine power, killing people for lulz, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking using silly foreign-language aliases]].
187	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Hecto Shellac in "The Deep Hereafter". Six arms equals six guns.
188	* MusicalEpisode: "Planet Bollywood".
189	* TheMusicMeister: The Muse from "Planet Bollywood".
190	* NamedByTheAdaptation: When Scott Gray decided to feature the General from "Hell Bent" as a major supporting character in "The Clockwise War", he thought that she needed an actual name and asked Creator/StevenMoffat himself for one. Moffat suggested "Kenossium", which is a TheDanza[=/=]ThisIsMyNameOnForeign combo tip of the hat to Ken Bones, the actor who played the General's previous incarnation ("ossium" is Latin for "bones").
191	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Mary Anne Wesley in "Cuckoo" is strongly inspired by the real early-nineteenth-century palaeontologist Mary Anning.
192	* NoDialogueEpisode: "Onomatopoeia" is dialogue-free until the final pages.
193	* NoEndorHolocaust: In "Emperor of the Daleks", there's a throwaway line by the Doctor that the Thals have left Skaro, implying that they won't be there when it's destroyed in "Remembrance of the Daleks".
194	* NoFourthWall: "Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time", where the story's writer/artist meets the Fourth Doctor.
195	* NoirEpisode: "The Deep Hereafter"
196	* NoNameGiven: Izzy S. She claims the S stands for Someone/Somebody; in reality, it stands for Sinclair.
197	* NonMammalMammaries: Used as a plot point in "The Soul Garden". The fact that a [[PlantAliens Plant Alien]] has a torso with a bosom shape indicates [[spoiler:the brainwashed human mind used to give it consciousness fighting to break out]].
198	* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: "Dragon's Claw" has the Fourth Doctor use this to bluff his gun-wielding foe while he gets a door open with his Sonic Screwdriver. Justified, too, in that said foe was a man in 16th Century China with a 23rd Century-era blaster -- he wouldn't have known what a safety catch ''was''.
199	* OmnicidalManiac:
200	** [[spoiler:The Pariah.]]
201	** Azrael, founder of the Necrotists.
202	* OnlyOneName: Astrolabus, Destrii (Destriianatos), Shayde.
203	* OvertOperative: Fey, at least in her first appearance. While Fey Truscott-Sade is her real name, her identity as an agent of King George VI is a secret.
204	* PhlebotinumOverload: When the Warden of Thinktwice tries to use his memory-draining machine on the Doctor, the Doctor's centuries of experience make the entire machine violently explode.
205	* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Sharon.
206	* PosthumousNarration: Johnny Seaview in "The Deep Hereafter".
207	* PrivateEyeMonologue: Johnny Seaview provides one that serves as the narration in "The Deep Hereafter".
208	* PsychoSidekick: Destrii, for the Eighth Doctor. A mild aversion, in that the Doctor's trying to get her to play nice with others. (Although her arc was aborted, we learn he at least partially succeeded in "The Stockbridge Showdown".)
209	* TheQuincyPunk: "Ravens" involves a gang of devil-worshipping Goths plotting a human sacrifice. Creator/AndrewCartmel actually apologised for this in the 2016 TPB collection that includes the story.
210	* RapeAsDrama: Almost certainly happens [[RapeDiscretionShot off-panel]] to Ace in "Evening's Empire". The final panels have her traumatisedly stripping the petals off a flower from Alex's pocket universe, which looks like a blatant VisualPun for what Alex did to her.
211	* RealityWarper: Astrolabus, at least when it comes to his pocket reality; Oblivion's Horde, who can reshape reality around an entire planet.
212	** The Crimson Hand are also able to do this as well to the Universe, but not without consequences.
213	* RealWorldEpisode: "TV Action!", where Eighth and Izzy travel to our reality and team up with actor Creator/TomBaker (the Fourth Doctor).
214	* RecurringLocation: In a non-video game example, the strip has two unique recurring locations: the sleepy English village of Stockbridge, and the alien world of Cornucopia.
215	* RedHerringTwist: [[spoiler:In "The Glorious Dead" it turns out the real contenders for the position of [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse controller of the Glory]] aren't the Doctor and Master but Kroton and Sato.]]
216	* {{Retcon}}: In "Doorway to Hell", [[spoiler:the Delgado Master's regeneration uses the visual effects of the revival series' regeneration, rather than any of the original series' regenerations.]]
217	* ReunionShow: One of the ways the strip marks anniversaries:
218	** The strip marked the 25th anniversary of the show with "Planet of the Dead" (not to be confused with the Tenth Doctor TV episode of the same title), in which the Seventh Doctor meets all his predecessors and several companions. Subverted, since all of them are actually evil shape-changing aliens.
219	** Issue 250's "A Life of Matter and Death" brings back many of the comic's characters in a battle inside the TARDIS's mind.
220	** "Happy Deathday", commemorating the 35th anniversary of ''Series/DoctorWho'', pits the (then-)Eight Doctors against a LegionOfDoom of their greatest villains.
221	** Issue 500's "The Stockbridge Showdown" sees the Twelfth Doctor team up with almost all of the strip's original companions (aside from Fey).
222	* ReversePolarity: [[ContinuityNod 'Reverse the polarity of the electron flow']], in "The Golden Ones".
223	* RoyallyScrewedUp: The royal family of Oblivion, including Destrii, falls under the "They're Just Nuts" category.
224	* ShootTheRope: In "The Parliament of Fear", the Doctor and Bass Reaves come charging in on horseback to the camp where Bill has been taken. Bass uses the a rifle to shoot the rope that is holding Bill trussed to a totem pole; while still mounted and at the gallop.
225	* ShoutOut:
226	** Dr Ivan Asimoff, whose name is a shout-out to sci-fi author Creator/IsaacAsimov.
227	** In "Exodus/Revelation/Genesis", all the mad scientists are named after characters played in sci-fi or horror films by Creator/BorisKarloff. The Doctor lampshades this by pointing out that one of them, Kraal, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting looks like him]]. Their security man Krogh is named after, and looks like, the policeman in ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'', played by Creator/LionelAtwill.
228	** In "Echoes of the Mogor", all of the Foreign Hazard Duty SpaceMarines are named after real-world creators associated with the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise.
229	** In "The Good Soldier", which is set around a diner and gas station in Nevada in 1954, the gas station is branded [[Characters/MCUCompanies Roxxon]], an evil oil company in the Marvel Universe.
230	** In "The Curse of the Scarab", the human villain, a film director called Seth Rakoff, is named after Alvin Rakoff, a prominent BBC director who subsequently moved to Hollywood.
231	** In "Endgame", there is a reference to "Old Mrs. Parkhouse", which is a shout-out to Steve Parkhouse, the earlier writer on the strip who created the setting and characters revisited in the story. The Toymaker's main human minion is named "Marwood", which is the AllThereInTheScript name of "I", the character played by Eighth Doctor actor Creator/PaulMcGann in ''Film/WithnailAndI''. The Toymaker refers to having beaten "[[Literature/CasinoRoyale Le Chiffre]]" at baccarat.
232	** Izzy, being a geek, does this a lot. In the first installment of "Fire & Brimstone", she starts off rhapsodising about these books she's reading featuring "[[Literature/{{Discworld}} this mad city called Ankh-Morpork]]" (the Doctor says he's ''been there'') and then, when they encounter the residents of the space station Icarus Falling, declares "[[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 Klaatu Bar]][[KlaatuBaradaNikto ada Nikto!]]" while flashing a [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan salute]].
233	* SpaceMarines: Several stories feature them. The most significant are the Foreign Hazard Duty (FHD) who appear in various stories by Creator/DanAbnett, a futuristic human special forces team conceived as a far-future "space" analogy to UNIT.
234	* StoryArc: Numerous. Voyager, the Threshold, the return of the Master, [[spoiler:Izzy's bodyswap]], the Crimson Hand, the Child of Time, the psychic metal saga, the Twelfth Doctor getting stuck in '70s London, the Dreamspace arc...
235	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
236	--> '''Alan Barnes: ''' Despite the occasionally trippy ambience of the finished piece, I’d like to stress that we in no way got ripped to the tits on jazz cigarettes, then turned off the [=McGann=] film to watch ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' and dodgy 1930s talking dog shorts instead. (That would have been irresponsible and ''utterly wrong''.)
237	* TakeThat:
238	** In “The Age of Chaos”, the Doctor’s party come across a creature that takes on the form of their worst fears. Frobisher sees a penguin-eating monster, Carf the knight sees an UndignifiedDeath, and the Doctor sees Michael Aspel, presenting ''This is Your Life''.
239	** The villain of "Evening's Empire" is a repugnant, misogynistic, nerdy serial rapist who abducts random women to an alternate universe to be his slavegirls. Said universe is explicitly based on his genre-fiction reading, and is an unsubtle parody of the notoriously misogynistic BDSM-themed ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' series.
240	** "The Warkeeper's Crown" has a malevolent, bloodthirsty group of Warrior Race aliens abduct the Brigadier and attempt to abduct Mike Yates. However, they abduct a different Mike Yates, a ludicrous, unpleasant little man who was an unsuccessful far-right-wing politician and ends up allying with the aliens. In reality, Creator/RichardFranklin, who played the UNIT Mike Yates on TV, has had an unsuccessful political career with a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing fringe parties. Though when the strip's writer, Alan Barnes, [[https://mobile.twitter.com/senrab_nala/status/1299753270047576069 was asked on Twitter]] which party Yates was meant to be, Barnes commented he was just an Independent and Wardleswick Immigration Concern was just him and his Mum.
241	** "The Stockbridge Showdown" has Josiah Dogbolter, the story's BigBad, standing against publicly owned media, believing that a tiny ultra-wealthy elite should control mass media (referencing the anti-BBC campaign by the tycoons of British media, most notably Rupert Murdoch). It also has a very unflattering caricature of British Prime Minister UsefulNotes/DavidCameron as an obsequious condom-headed alien at Dogbolter's birthday party, thanking Dogbolter for helping him win the last election. (The condom head was a deliberate ShoutOut to Steve Bell's newspaper comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{If}}'', which does the same thing.)
242	** One of the villains in "The Clockwise War" is a former member of an upper class dinner club at college, the members of which were noted to behave appallingly due to their entitlement, and who are introduced in a flashback as looking exactly like the Bullingdon Club. This particular member went on to be a politician, secretly retaining this attitude but disguising it as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. At this point there are a number of former Bullingdon members who might be getting targeted, but when Bill explains the popular perception of this sadist is someone who was really funny on a {{Panel Game}}, it pretty much points straight to UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson. (Although the actual appearance of the character is more like ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Sebastian Shaw.) Suitably the name of the villain is Alexander Truscott and Boris Johnson's actual first name is Alexander, though he prefers to use Boris to help his lovable bumbler image.
243	* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "TV Action!" the Eighth Doctor and Izzy travel to our reality. Here they encounter Tom Baker, who had played the Fourth Doctor, who defeats that month's alien by merely talking to him and rambling endlessly.
244	* TenLittleMurderVictims: "Tooth and Claw" plays this straight; "Death to the Doctor!" subverts it, with there being no hidden killer.
245	* ThievesGuild: In "The Cornucopia Caper", Cornucopia is ruled by an alliance of criminal guilds, each one responsible for a different area of criminal activity: thievery, kidnapping, blackmail, hijacking, etc.
246	* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: In "Instruments of War", the 12th Doctor enters Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's tent, flashing his psychic paper and announcing himself as Dr. Johann Schmidt, the German version of his GoToAlias of 'Dr. John Smith'. As it happens, Rommel is one of the people strong-minded enough to resist the psychic paper's effect, but enough weird stuff is going on that a madman waving an empty wallet in his face barely registers.
247	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler: Walter in "Be Forgot" is being tormented by a monster that kills the Doctor and friends when they investigate... only for it to be revealed they're very much alive on the next page. What's tormenting Walter is a creation of his psychosis, born of his isolation and guilt over not being there when his mother died.]]
248	* TookALevelInBadass: The psychic metal powered galactic conquerors in "{{Comicbook/Hunters of the Burning Stone}}" are [[spoiler:the Tribe of Gum. Yes, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild that]]'' Tribe of Gum]].
249	* {{Transplant}}: ComicBook/DeathsHead appears in the ''Doctor Who'' universe's time vortex after falling sideways through time from ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' UK comic via [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Unicron]]-aligned time technology during a failed attempt to catch some Decepticon bounties. In turn, the Seventh Doctor shrinks Death's Head down from Cybertronian size to human size and gives him a trip in the TARDIS to the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, which would become his new permanent home to this day.
250	* TrashTheSet: ''Ground Zero'' has the Seventh Doctor's TARDIS interior partially exploding and disintegrating as the Doctor and Susan break into the realm of the Lobri, making way for the new interior in the TV Movie.
251	* TrojanPrisoner: In "The Futurists" this is used to infiltrate an ancient Roman military camp. {{Lampshaded}} when the Doctor remarks that it's a tired old trick, but there had to be a time when it was new enough to work.
252	* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler:The Pariah and Abraham White, Fey and Shayde.]]
253	* {{Uberwald}}:
254	** In "Exodus/ Revelation/ Genesis", the Doctor is confronted with a group of mad scientists in a creepy old castle, in a society with a distinct central European aesthetic, and has to determine which of them is plotting with a group of Cybermen, whose resonances with ''Frankenstein'' are played up.
255	** In "Universal Monsters", the Doctor arrives in a village where the people live in fear of the mad scientist in the castle and the monsters he creates.
256	* WardensAreEvil: The Chief Warden of Thinktwice (a space prison) is cut from the same cloth as [[Literature/HarryPotter Umbridge]]. He claims to be 'rehabilitating' his 'residents' by wiping their memories, but doesn't bat an eyelid if his machine fries their brains or drives them to suicide.
257	* WholeCostumeReference: In the early-70s-set "The Highgate Vampire", Clara's blue minidress, tights, platform boots and fun-fur coat are copied from Jo's costume in the TV story "The Three Doctors". According to WordOfGod, the idea was that Jo left the ensemble in the TARDIS wardrobe.
258	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: In part four of "The Clockwise War", the Twelfth Doctor tells his allies about his history in the Time War with their current adversary.
259	* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: In "The Deep Hereafter", Half Nelson is literally HalfTheManHeUsedToBe following a transmat accident. He is still a viable threat to the Doctor.
260	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Samurai Katsura Sato.
261	* TheWitchHunter: In "Witch Hunt", Clara is dressed as a witch for Halloween when she is transported through time to TheCavalierYears where she runs afoul of Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins.
262	* WomanScorned: The TARDIS gets this in "Pay the Piper"/"The Blood of Azrael". Apparently, being sold off to save Clara didn't sit well with her. Unfortunately, someone takes advantage...
263	* WretchedHive: In "The Cornucopia Caper", the Doctor visits Cornucopia, an entire planet ruled by an alliance of different criminal guilds.
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267	* AllThereInTheManual: In issue 560, Creator/RussellTDavies wrote up some fake ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' listings to give additional context to the ''Doctor Who'' scene in his 2021 period drama ''Series/ItsASin'': It's the filming of a fictional Seventh Doctor serial named "Regression of the Daleks" in which the Daleks get hold of a crystal that causes the Doctor to degenerate back into the Sixth and Fifth while Ace gets a new boyfriend who turns out to be a young Davros.
268	* DoubleSidedBook: The 1994 Summer Special issue was a BookEnds-themed issue about the beginning and ending of the classic series presented this way. One side was "The Genesis of Doctor Who", with a cover picture from the VHS release of "An Unearthly Child"; a transcript of Creator/WilliamHartnell's ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs'' interview; an interview with Virginia Wetherall (Dyoni in "The Daleks"); articles about the show's origins and the original title sequence; a fact file on "An Unearthly Child" (or "100,000 BC", as ''DWM'' insisted on calling it at the time); and a comic strip featuring First, Vicki and Steven. The other side was "The Destiny of Doctor Who", with a cover picture from the VHS release of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]"; interviews with Creator/SylvesterMcCoy and Creator/LisaBowerman (not yet Franchise/BerniceSummerfield, but Karra in "Survival"); articles about eighties visual effects and the [=McCoy=] title sequence; a fact file on "Survival"; and a comic strip featuring Seventh and Benny that was a direct sequel to the First Doctor one.
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