Line #74 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho123TheCompanyOfFriends


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Each medium featuring the Eighth Doctor collides. [[BroadStrokes It's gonna take ages to sort out the canon now.]]]]
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4	Four one-parters starring several companions and associates of the Eighth Doctor from various different mediums[[note]]Specifically Bernice Summerfield from the ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures New Adventures]]'' novel "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheDyingDays The Dying Days]]", Fitz Kreiner from the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novels, Izzy Sinclair from the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics, and Mary Shelly - who will go on to travel with him in later ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' works;[[/note]] to give them ADayInTheLimelight.
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6	!Benny's Story
7	Professor Franchise/BerniceSummerfield has been hired to excavate a deserted coal mine on a distant planet. She finds a TARDIS key. Guess whose? Yes, the Eighth Doctor turns up--but he's not the one Benny's sponsor is after.
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9	* AristocratsAreEvil: The Countess, though she thinks she is helping the TARDIS.
10	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
11	--> '''The Doctor''': Why should I help you? You nearly wrecked my TARDIS, you unleashed a carnivorous interdimensional... You've done a lot of bad stuff. I'm not even sure I like you very much.
12	* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Doctor warns Bernice for a Lion, though he then says "Sort of" and describes it's green and has more fangs.
13	* CallBack: Benny gives us an ExpositionDump how she met the [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy Seventh Doctor]], the planet Heaven, met his [[Creator/PaulMcGann regeneration]] and how she met [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors Ice Warriors]].
14	* ContinuityNod: IMC Mining Robots are used from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]].
15	* EldritchAbomination: There is a 5th dimensional being coming through cracks in the universe due to a device attached to its console. And it wishes to devour all life (aside from the Doctor)
16	* FountainOfYouth: The TARDIS is slowly degrading, and parts of it (on the inside) have this effect.
17	* InvisibleMonsters: The Doctor can't see the creature in the Tardis, but everybody else can.
18	* KillerRobot: The IMC Mining Robots double as these.
19	* LivingShip: Emphasis is put on how the TARDIS is alive. And a ''she''.
20	* NoodleIncident:
21	--> '''Benny''': This isn't the first time I've been trapped in a slowly collapsing bubble of reality. Hell, it's not even been the second.
22	* ShoutOut: When they are drawn back in time, the Doctor says it is very ''[[Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''.
23	* StableTimeLoop: The Doctor getting sent into the past and dropping his TARDIS Key leads to it being found in the future and drawing him there.
24	* TemptingFate:
25	--> '''The Doctor''': We're safe.
26	--> '''Bernice''': [[LampshadeHanging Hundreds of years old and he's never learned about tempting fate]].
27	* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The 5th Dimensional "Vortex Shark" spat the Doctor out and left the time bubble, in the end.
28	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Countess really thinks she is helping the TARDIS in trying to separate its telepathic link with the Doctor.
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30	!Fitz's Story
31	Alien Defence Industries, Ltd., has a celebrity spokesperson: the Doctor. Or, rather, a poor simulacrum of the Doctor. Not amused, the Doctor turns up to put a stop to it. While he's being captured, Fitz convinces the media that he's the brains of the operation.
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33	* BumblingSidekick: Fitz claims the Doctor was this to him and he was using ObfuscatingStupidity.
34	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Subverted. Hellan Femor first seems like this but turns out to be trying to help Entusso but couldn't contact the Doctor.
35	* CrazyPrepared: The Doctor's plan for what Fitz has to do to free him, by the above trope.
36	* FakeUltimateHero: Fitz is set up as one at the end.
37	* GoToAlias: Fitz claims the Doctor's "real name" is John Smith.
38	* {{Infomercial}}: The ADI advert the story starts out with. Presented by ... [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness the Doctor]]?
39	* TheMole: Gastan.
40	* MonsterProtectionRacket: The Doctor and Fitz think the ADI is one of these.
41	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Gastan.
42	* WeaksauceWeakness: Carbolic substances are this to the natives of Skoraka Prime.
43	* WinkDing: Fitz at the end.
44	* YouNoTakeCandle: Gastan the cleaner.
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46	!Izzy's Story
47	Izzy persuades the Doctor to take her back to her childhood, so she can get a super-rare comic.
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49	* BigNo: When [[NoNameGiven The Man]] unmasks Courtmaster Cruel.
50	** Izzy lets one out as well when she finds out that SamusIsAGirl.
51	* DramaticUnmask: For Courtmaster Cruel at the end of Aggrotron #55, which would be revealed in #56.
52	* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Derek O'Dell has taken the persona of Courtmaster Cruel in the 51st century to impose justice.
53	* KangarooCourt: Courtmaster Cruel has to do this with every criminal he judges, even kidnapping juries to try them.
54	* LargeHam: The Maaaaaa'''''aaaa''aaaa'''n!"
55	---> '''The Man''': I shall [=RETUUUUUUUUUUUUrrrrrrrrrn=]!
56	* LighterAndSofter: The Doctor is employed by Izzy to go get her a mint edition of "[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Courtmaster Cruel]]" which had been retracted a week after it came out, so she can find out what the CliffHanger resolves. They're beset upon by mindwiping [[TheMenInBlack suits]], which they trace to a ''real life'' Courtmaster Cruel, which turns out to NOT be a real life Courtmaster Cruel but rather a YourMindMakesItReal RealityWarper writer who hated his plot twist.
57	* LoonyFan: Izzy and Derek O'Dell who adopts Cruel's persona.
58	* TheMenInBlack: "The suits" that barge into the comicbook store.
59	* TheReveal: Courtmaster Cruel is a girl.
60	* ShoutOut: Izzy's opening monologue is a direct parody of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', in which she pokes fun at the TARDIS for not having a [[Franchise/StarTrek holodeck]].
61	** Courtmaster Cruel is a parody version of ComicBook/JudgeDredd.
62	* ThereWasADoor: What the Doctor tells the Suits when they smash the newsagent's window.
63	* ViewerGenderConfusion[=/=]SamusIsAGirl: Invoked by Izzy when she discovers that Courtmaster Cruel is a girl.
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65	!Mary's Story
66	On a summer night in 1816, Mary Shelley meets the Doctor.
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68	* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Mary says she should travel with the Doctor because of this but he says she still has a choice.
69	* CameBackWrong: The future Doctor.
70	* CaptainObvious: The Doctor saying Byron's clothes look [[ShapedLikeItself Byronic.]]
71	* CallBack: This entire segment is one to "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho072TerrorFirma Terror Firma]]" where the Doctor mentioned he travelled with Mary Shelley. Samson and Gemma are mentioned as well.
72	* CallForward: The TARDIS being regenerated from a small green crystal will again happen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise of the Cybermen]]".
73	* ContinuityPorn: When the Doctor is rambling inside of the TARDIS he mentions Charley, Destrii, and Compassion - that's companions from [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]], ''[[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Doctor Who Magazine]]'' and the ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' respectively. This is also the only story to [[ContinuitySnarl directly mention all three Eighth Doctor continuities.]]
74	* ContinuitySnarl:
75	** More than a decade after this story was released, the TV series produced "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]", which featured Mary meeting the Thirteenth Doctor, apparently for the first time. That story takes place on the same night as this one and, for bonus points in the Big Finish Mary Shelley stakes, also features her encountering [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho153TheSilverTurk a Cyberman]].
76	*** A line cut from the ''Lost Stories'' audio ''Return of the Cybermen'' had the Time Lord emissary tell the Fourth Doctor that Mary Shelley eventually traveling with him was undone by the Last Great Time War, to reconcile her Big Finish appearances with the Thirteenth Doctor era. Ironically, the dialogue about all the changes made by the Time War was cut because the writer felt it was too much ContinuityPorn.
77	* GreatOffscreenWar: It is implied the future Eighth Doctor is from the Time War.
78	* HaveWeMetYet: The future Eighth Doctor knows who Mary Shelley is, having travelled with her for years. She is then met by the past Eighth Doctor, from his perspective his first meeting with her.
79	* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: The future Eighth Doctor sends a distress signal which the earlier Eighth Doctor picks up, enabling him to heal his future self and TARDIS.
80	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: It's Mary Shelley.
81	* HistoricalInJoke: The Doctor's entire bout of madness seems to be an inspiration for Frankenstein the novel.
82	* IAmNotShazam: Invoked and mocked when the Doctor says Frankenstein is the name of the Monster, not the Doctor, as his mutated future self calls himself Frankenstein.
83	* IHatePastMe[=/=]OtherMeAnnoysMe: To say the two Eighth Doctors don't get along is ''understating it''.
84	* LightningCanDoAnything: It is used to bring the future Doctor back to life.
85	* MythologyGag: The entire scene where the Doctor is brought back with lightning reads like a direct page from ''Frankenstein'' including a "HE'S ALIVE!" (Though that is just from the movies)
86	* TimeyWimeyBall: As Mary Shelley tells the Doctor "You do lead the most extraordinary and contrary life." His reply-"I know, it's more fun that way!"

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