Line #13 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho155ArmyofDeath


1	[[Creator/PaulMcGann The Doctor]] and [[Creator/MaryShelley Mary Shelley]] visit the frontier world of Draxine, where the tenth generation of human settlers have flourished for centuries. Though two great cities were once standing, the city of Garrak fell victim to an insidious cult and was promptly obliterated from the map.
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3	Now, years later when they were all but forgotten, they rear their heads again, and brings along an Army of Death.
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5	!!Army of Death contains examples of the following tropes:
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7	* AdmiringTheAbomination: Mary is curious as to how the Doctor could ''not'' be reviled to seeing all this death and carnage and the creatures that spawn forth from it.
8	* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Mary writes of an other worldly man she loves, someone who just ''appeared'' in her life. Percy Shelley.
9	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Karnex and Nia in the end.
10	* BlatantLies: "This is not an attack, it's a military training exercise."
11	* BookEnds: The story starts out and ends with Mary Shelley writing in her journal, but where she has some discomfort about the Doctor at first, towards the end she has sussed him out and she writes more positively.
12	* CallBack: When Vallan mentions Sherla assassinated former President Garrak and it was broadcast on TV, the Doctor mentioned [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin he once did the very same thing, and was innocent]].
13	** The Doctor gets a couple of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks Radiation Drugs]]. (They're also actual drugs this time, [[MythologyGag gloves]])
14	** The Doctor mentions he once had [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetofTheSpiders a hover car]] with [[MythologyGag a great license plate]].
15	** The Doctor mentions the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers Plutonian Tax collectors]] are among the worst he knows.
16	** Mary refers to [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho153TheSilverTurk the Cybermen]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho154TheWitchfromtheWell witches]].
17	* CallForward: The Doctor plans to implement his brain into a machine, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead someone else takes his place in lieu of him risking his death in the upload]]. The Doctor even says "There is another way!"
18	* CameBackWrong: Karnex.
19	* TheCavalry: The Hover Sentries, nee, the ''Flybots'' come and save the Doctor, Mary and Nia. [[SubvertedTrope Only to get a retreat command 30 seconds later, leaving them]]. [[PlayedWithTrope They later return in Stronghaven to actually save the Doctor again]].
20	* DeadpanSnarker: The Doctor is on a roll in this story.
21	* DemBones:
22	--> Bones... Moving bones!?
23	* {{Determinator}}: TheUndead will keep going even in form of limbs, or lobbed off skulls towards their goal.
24	* DistressedDude: The Doctor tries to fast talk his way out of getting kidnapped by a hover sentry, but is the only one out of four to get taken prisoner.
25	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Doctor laments how people never get creative with names for devices, like the InUniverse "Hover sentries".
26	* FusionDance: Karnex manages to reform himself using the bodies of many who perished, and asserts his will over the creature.
27	* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Husband]]: Mary, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho154TheWitchfromtheWell again]], gets mistaken for the Doctor's wife.
28	* ImmuneToBullets: Literally namedropped.
29	* InfraredXrayCamera: The soldiers are equipped with these, but they obviously can't detect the skeletal warriors because they emit no heat signature.
30	* LastVillainStand: The original Karnex and his second in command stand their ground against DemBones, which are returning to them. They courteously let the Doctor and companions escape [[spoiler:because they weren't ''the real villains'']].
31	* MindControl: Beyond death.
32	* NonIndicativeName: The Doctor claimed this of [[NoodleIncident planet Mayhem]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He wasn't right]].
33	* PresidentEvil: President Vallan became President through ... less than savoury means.
34	* RoboSpeak: The Hover Sentries.
35	* SoiledCityOnAHill: Garrak.

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